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Niemen River Is One of the
Strong Links in Russian Aid
_
WA CU IW'TAV r\ n m x « . . . .
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Sept. 9.—At
tempts at passage of the Nieman river
have figured in the war dispatcher
almost from the outbreak ■ f hostili I
ties, and the banks of this strean
have formed one of the most contested
lines in the east. As the struggling
German and Russian armies swayea
backward and forward, the Nieman has
been crossed and re-crossed, and the
Teuton invaders arc still fighting tj
put its line behind them, a descrip
tion of the Niemen, which has won a
place in history as the most stubbo* il
ly defended waterway in the world
war, has just been given out by the
National Geographic society. It reads
as follows:
“The Niemen river, through its mid
dle course, builds one of the strong
links in th e western line of Russian
defense. From Grodno fortress to
the stronghold of Kovno, it continues
the powerful secondary line of de
sense of Brest-Litvsk. Tilsit, the
great troops and munitions center for
the German campaign in the northeast,
is upon the Niemen, and from here the
German invasion of Courland was
based.
“At the beginning of the war, the
whole lower line of the Niemen was
I passed by the invading Russian armies,
I which swept on westward to Koenigs
' burg, the capital of East Prussia. The
Russians passed this line a second
■' time, and a third time, captured and
' destroyed Memel, the first Baltic por.
of the Niemen. The lower course of
> the Niemen is now far behind the Ger
• man lines; Kovno, the powerful Rus
i sian fortress to the north of its middle
course, has fallen and a German army
i now occupies Grodno, the fortress at
! the southern termination of this line
’ The Niemen rises in the center of
the Russian government of Minsk, the
- sources of the river being almost du !
i south of Dpenaburg. It flows, with
‘ many turns and bends, west to Grodno,
> where it turns north and pursues an
f irregular course to Kovno. From Kov
" no, the river turns northwest; enters
e East Prussia; takes its sluggish course
’- over the lowlands of Tilsit, and emp
t. ties into the Baltic Sea through the
e Kurisches Haff and through canal to
s Memel. Its total length is 490 miles,
|he greater part of it in Russia. It has
| a drainage basin of 34,950 square
i miles.
“The river enjoyed great commer
vial importance during peace times.
Enormous quantities of timber, cut in
the dense White Russian forests, were
i floated down the river to Memel, and i
: heavy shipments of grain from Russia
• and from Poland were made down its i
course. It was navigable for larg?
! boats as far as Grodno. There is lit
1 , tie or no current in the river; its
1 1
I whole fall from its source to the sea
, being only 580 feet. The lowlands
j from Tilsit are protected against
' . floods by a careful system of dikes.
I The banks along most of the river's
• ( course are low and often flanked by
' marshes. The commercial importance
*' of the Niemen for ,as the Germans call
their part of it, the Memel) has been
)•
largely increased by a number of
2 canals.”
i
BRITISH WILL FIGHT
: GERMftN GUS WITH FIRE
6 LONDON, Sept. 11—The British ar
■’ my plans to fight the German gas at
b tacks with fire. This is the scheme
THE AMERICUS DAILY TIMES-RECORDER
recommended by a committee of in
ventors headed by Sir Hiram Maxim,
who has designed a simple apparatus
which the government is now testing.
The object of the apparatus is to
cause large and rapidly spreading fires
by means of specially designed in
cendiary bombs thrown in the path of
the advancing gas at a distance of
several hundred yards. By this means,
since the heating of the air must cause
.an upward current, it is expected to
drive the gas up out of harm's way.
Sir Hiram’s explanation of the
scheme is as follows:
"The German gas at one atmosphere
of pressure is two and a half times as
heavy as air. In escaping into the air
it very quickly becomes mixed with
a large quantity of air, so that by the
time it reaches our trenches it is, as
a rule, less than 1 per cent, heavier
than the surrounding air; that it, it
is extremely light, as compared with
the air, but it is quite strong enough
to prove fatal. In most cases we find
the air that has only one-thousandth
part of chlorine is the one that has
done the most harm.
i “It occurred to me some months
ago that if a fire could be produced
between the gas and our trenches,
the rapid upward movement of the air
would take the chlorine along with it,
and this is true. The bombs that 1
first made were to be thrown by hand,
but it was found that, in order to be
thrown any distance, they had to be
made quite small, and, moreover, they
could not be thrown as far a, the offi
cers wished to throw them. I de
livered 100 to the government for ex
perimental purposes. A few of these
have been tested, and it was found that
the fire should be greater and farther
away, so I have designed a very much
simpler and larger form. The firm in ■
London which proposes to make them
has designed a machine for throwing
them with great accuracy a distance
of 300 yards, which will be quite
enough. By this means a fire of any
size may be produced and if the fire is
large enough the gases must be dissi
pated; it cannot be otherwise.
“The first bombs I designed involved
the use of petrol, but it was thought
that the consumption would be so large
that here migh be a shortage. I have
therefore been experimenting, and
am now in possession of a liquid that
does just as well and only costs half
as much, while the supply of it is un
limited.”
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LAR PAGE.
BULGARIA BORROWING
FROM GERMAN BANKS
BERLIN, Sept. 11.—Dr. T. Stoyan
off, director of the public debt admin
istration of Bulgaria, who is now in
Berlin and has arranged here for a
loan of $50,000,000 with German and
Austrian banks, says that the Bulgar
ian National Bank now has a larger
gold stock than ever before. It am
ounts to $12,000,000, besides nearly
$6,000,000 in silver.
The currency of the country, how
ever, is at a discount of about 25 per
cent, in trade with the outside world
but Dr. Stoyanoff attributes this, not
to any unsound financial or banking I
conditions, but to the fact that Bui-'
garia is now unable to find export
markets. It cannot sell its agricul
tural products abroad, because the :
markets of Germany and Austria are ’
closed throughout the Serbian block- '
ade of the Danube in one direction; ,
while in the other, namely, byway of i
the Mediterranean, Bulgaria's only’s
seaport, Dedeagatch, is closely block-' v
aded by the English. From inj . J
year’s crops the country will have
about 800,000 tons of wheat and rye
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 191?
. ... . _ utr
fo r export and about 200,000 tons of
Indian corn. Dr. Stoyonoff evidently
hopes that Austria and Germany will
open up the Danube in order to get
Bulgaria’s surplus grain.
WOMEN HIRED IN TALKING
MACHINE PLANT; MEN STRIKE
BRIGEPORT, Conn., Sept. 11—Em
ployes of the American Graphophone
company, 100 o r more, struck today
for an eight-hour day. 20 per cent, in
crease in wages, adjustment of a wage
cut on piece work a year ago, and cor
rection of a condition due to the em
ployment at less wages of about 400 B
women at less wages, in places of g
men.
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