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Show AliislT FIELD GLASSES Paris, Jan. 7. Tho Germans have already begun to replace their shortage short-age of men with nn increased number of weapons, says La Liberte. According Accord-ing to this report, a few of the men are armed with deadly non-recoiling I automatic rifles, capable of firing ten shots before they are recharged. Ma-l Ma-l chine guns concealed in invisible concrete con-crete shelters replace an entire company. com-pany. The French officers also are impressed im-pressed with the profusion with which field glasses have been distributed. They now form part of the equipment of nearly every captured German private. pri-vate. Germans In Asia. London, Jan. S, 3:18 a. m. A dispatch dis-patch to the Dally Mail from Athens says : ThG railway from Berlin to Constantinople Constan-tinople has been open since the middle of December. Large numbers of Germans Ger-mans have arrived in Asia Minor and bought up the whole of the Adana cotton cot-ton crop and half of the previous crop, which the Turks had been unable un-able to export. Not much of the cotton cot-ton has 'been moved as yet, however, because the railway is choked with ammunition and arms going to Turkey. Tur-key. Thee3ources of Turkey are being be-ing methodically tapped, notably the great copper mine at Arghana, near Diarbekr, In Asiatic Turkey. n |