Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-02-27 | Page 39 | War Oddities

I War Oddities I Ignatz Luftschitz of Austria has seven n s sons sons ns two sons-in-law sons and a grandson at the front T Two o of his sons have been killed in battle According to statistics prepared by Dr Grunwald of Vienna the AustrIa Austrian Aus- Aus trian trIa infantry has fired cartridges and the artillery shells since the beginning or of the war Austria has made an arrangement with Petrograd by which books bools can be forwarded the Germ German n pris prisoners ners of war in Russia to dispel the he monotony of their confinement by reading The Prager prints some of the war news headlines from New York newspapers and makes sarcastic comments comments comments com com- ments thereon The The price of sugar was recently in increased increased increased in- in creased 25 per cent ent I in Hungary Julius Gutfreund of the medical faculty faculty faculty fac in hi Prague has returned home after being a prisoner of war In Serbia for more than a y year ar A Russian military commission composed of five Ive officers of high rank Is is' on its way to Rumania to deliver to the king the uniform of a Russian honorary colonel coronel r While a German deserter was being taken to the railroad station in Heidelberg Heidelberg Heidel Heidel- berg he broke away from his guard and tried to escape Three shots were fired the last of which penetrated his b brain Hind Hindenburg a drama in three acts has had its first performance In Ber Ber- lin un It deals with the Russian campaign campaign cam cam- camI I and is causing much enthusiasm A German the theatre tie has been opened in Lute Lille Goethe Goethe's is the attraction Bernhard Kellermann novelist and correspondent of the Berlin on the west front has been seriously illas ill illas as a result of exposure In the trenches but is now recovering The city of Dresden has bought hOgs in iii Serbia and arrangements arrangements arrange arrange- ments have been made by other German German German Ger Ger- man man cities to obtain a similar number It is believed this will wiIl relieve to some extent the famine in ill lard A large force of German railroad J of officials r- r has arrived In Serbia t td to re reorganize reorganize reorganize re- re organize the railway system of that country Women carpenters have made their appearance in Mayence 1 where they I I are taking th the place of their husbands and brothers at the front Seventeen Berlin BerUn professors have beep been called to the University of Stam- Stam boni in Turkey with a view a-view view to b bringing bring bring- ing ing it into the first rank of educational educational l institutions in in Europe Europ LONDON Nearly Nearly of at the Great Western railroad or 82 per cent have either enlisted In the army or been attested for military service PARIS Holland Holland has established a hospital In Paris with several eminent eminent emi emi- nent Dutch su surgeons on the starr aff BORDEAUX When BORDEAUX When Italian reservists reservists reservists re re- re- re from American cities disembarked disembarked barked from the liner Uner Touraine French enthusiasts met thorn them with a brass band LONDON Every Every single man in the village of ot Great Ormes Ormesby by near Yarmouth Yarmouth Yar Yar- mouth is either serving in the army or navy or has been attested for ser ser- vic vice vica