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10 THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER" 13, 1914." UN IVERSITY AN D COLLEGE News and Reviews From the Campuses of the Leading Institu- V ' tions at Home and Abroad. ' Ilecd College. RKED COLLEGE students and mem bers of the acuity are , tb hear T. C. Elliott, of Walla Walla, t aaemly next Tuesday In the chapel at 11 o'clock on the subject Fur Trade of the Columbia Kiiver Before 181 1." Mr. Elliott la a grad uate of Amherst college and la inter eated In the development and early his tory of the northwest. Ilia daughter, Minn Dorothy Elliott. Is In the aopho-j mure' claos at Heed. ' - The women of the college ate selling holly, which is growing on the campus.! for Christmas' wreaths. The proceeds' are to go toward some worthy fund, which has not yet been announced. Miss Virginia MeKenale Is In charge ot th workers and Miss Minerva Thlessen Is receiving orders which the girl will fill. A number of, them have slready been' soliciting orders with some succes. The wreaths are soJd for 75 cents. 1 and $1.25, and the holly by the pound is 65 centa. ,The third annual Christmas concert will -be given by the Reed college chorua next Thursday evening in jthe cbafel. . The chorus Js composed of 43 students who. have, been coached i by Howard Barlow, me tis rlater. There will also be some selec tldns by the male quartet. The pro gram is In charge of Max Pearson j President William T. Foster will leave Portland on December 19 for southern California to speak before rnnvanilnn of the Southern Califor nia State Teachers' association, which meets at Los Angeles December 21-24. The average age of the freshmen class has been computed to be 19 years ; and 4'months. . ' Th extension lectures for the week sre: "China snd the War." by Dr. Ken neth B. Latourette. at the central! li brary Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock;. 'The Beauty of the City. As It, Is and As It Might Be." for the students of civil government in the Wgli schools, at the library. Friday after noon at S o'clock; "Kaust Its -Philos ophy and Poetry." by Jasper J. Btahl. in the library Friday evening at 8 o'clock; "I There One Fundamental irnrm f Matter?" "Transmutation of Elements." "Evolution and Unity; in Matter," in the'bloloalcal lecture room .v. rni Mnnilav. Tuesdav and Thnr1v nftfrnoons at 3 o'clock. . A modern dancing class Is hel.J in the men's social room every Friday evening to teach the latest steps to the students who dance. The lessons ar given free to the students who care to learn them, under the g-uldancs of Paul rtlttenberg. Other students who also 'assist are Miss Mary Brownlie. Miss Emma DuBrllle and Charles Lar- President William T. Foster will be the resper' speaker this afternoon at 4 o'clock In the college chapel. 'Ilia subject will be "Mud and Music"; , Oregon Agricultural Collojce. ', The new home economics building of the Oregon Agricultural college .was formally i opened last Saturday. (The faculty,-and students-of the domestic science and art departments enter tained -the public during the afternoon and the Home Economics club received students end faculty In the evening. During the roception .domestic science and domestic art were conducted in the numerous, laboratories by students In the various sections. In the food laboratories baking was carried on by students of each of the four classes and of the special vocational course. Recipes for making the various ar . tides of food prepared were om; the bulletin board and every process of the operation was carried on In view of the public. The success of the work thus conducted under public observa tion was so marked that Dean Calvin, tinder wliose supervision it was j car ; rled on, received many compliments from the visitors In attendance. J The factors of economy, sanitation , and V .... 1 L. 1 .l.tlkllUw r. .'......1 Intn "the public demonstration, and? the thoroughness with which they were handled speaks well for the future Or- egon homes.' . i A conference" of Pacific coast'hortl- West of Oregon to meet at the Agrl . cultural college early in December to .'. devise legislation providing for uni form inspection of horticultural prod ucts. Representatives were in attend ance from Washington. rOregdn' and California and the horticultural com ' missioners of these states contributed r-n- Call for Volunteers To Help in the Work of TKe American Red Cross Everybody has entered in to the spirit of the Red Cross Relief Work. The Daugh ters of the American Revo lution are giving hours and "whole days of their time. Club women are sacrificing their pleasures, and even the younger: girls and school children are helping in their spare hours, to work for this most charitable movement. Jn our Free Sewing Room on the Fifth Floor, all materials are fur nished by the Daughters of the American Revolu tion, for bandages, cloth ing and knitting, and ma chines are at the command of volunteers. r ..-,-: .. .... : . I Even; if ; you can't spend m6re than half an hour at a time, , it will be appreciated. Every little bit counts." L .All.' work '"is neutral if or the- relief .of ;all- European . sufferers alike. Everybody is welcome, and urged f to come and sew in" our "large! , .'11. , - . weu-vcnuiatea riitn Jfloor Sewing Room, . -,; --i "'; .? V v .." -. '- : . " ' ' ' : -; " CnercMSMVM TrWit Cl to the discussion. Joint committees representing the states and the vari ous phases of horticultural industry were- appointed with instructions to draft uniform measures for the west ern fruit growing states. These meas ures placed as much emphasis on In spection withUn the state as upon In spection -of products from other states. The whole aim of this uniform legis lation is to ; provide inspection thor ough enough to - protect growers against the introduction and spread of insect and disease Dests with as little interference with natural trade as Is consistent with the purpose sought. It is believed that this legis lation will be enacted by the legisla tures of all the states affected and that It may later be extended to in clude all the fruit growing states. ; t'uiveralty of Washington. The first national magazine to ba printed on the presses of he Univer sity of Washington will appear in Feb ruary when the first issue of the Matrix: comes out This magazine is the national publication of Theta Sis ma Phi. the women's national journal ism sorority.: It will be edited and managed by the active members of Washington Alpha chapter of the so rority and will be circulated among other chapters and journalism classes tnroughout the country. . The campus organization of the T. W. C. A. at the University of Wash ington raised $115 in its recent pub licity campaign. The fund will go toward the furtherance of missionary work in Japan. The women students have turned their attention to crew .and basket ball. Three interclass rowincr contests were held December 7. 9 and 12. This closes the rowing season until spring. wnen tne women will be given an op portunity to turn out in shells In stead Of the barces -which thev have been using. - - . Home economics students at the University of Washington have an op portunity for practical experience of fered to them in respect to the Uni versity Commons, which is in the old condemned California building, left from the A.-Y.-P. exposition. In the commons, which is run in cafeteria style, each girl in the home economics department takes her turn at buying food, planning meals, and preparing different parts of the meals. She also serves behind the counter one day. This enables her to get prac tical experience which she would need in obtaining positions in lunch rooms, tea rooms and such places after grad uation. If the state legislature gives the university the new home econom ics building for which it is asking, the commons will be moved to a sec tion of this building. Cheer will be brought to the hearts of many poor children living near the campus of the University of Washing ton on December 17 when the Sopho more Girls' club will distribute pres ents in the gymnasium during the afternoon. A" real 'Santa Claus will preside over the affair and ' the oc casion . will Include in its celebration games, nuts," candy, and a brightly decorated Christmas tree. Each mem ber of the club will take charge of one child and see that he or she re ceives a present costing not over 25 cents, and ; thoroughly enjoys1 himself durinr the afternoon. The names of the children will be obtained through the Associated Charities. Harvard. Discussing the annual Phi Beta Kappa elections at Harvard The Crimson comments thus: "No longer is 'C referred to as a gentleman's mark. The day when a student may settle himself snugly into the chair of complacent mediocrity and let the world wag, is past. Men In college have come more and more to realize that after all, their real object in com ing to college is to work." " The clothing collection which Phil ips Brooks House took recently was the largest ever received. In the lot were 76 suits of clothes, 12 overcoats, and 121 pairs of shoes. The greater part of the clothing will be given the charities which are relieving the sit uation in Europe. Oxford. Oxford has been hit hard by the present war. Only 1388 students are in attendance and of this number fully half have joined the Officers' training corps. Of the 547 freshmen. 30 per cent are Rhodes scholars from the United States and British colonies. With this loss . of . attendance the academic and more especially the fi nancial, prospect of th. colleges is dark. Most, if not all of the colleges will find themselves in difficulty over their tuition charges. The loss to the llMlvna.lli. J. J . . r""j ' inimeaiaie . and over whelming, and what economics it is proposed to effec t by. .reductions in the number and payment of examine and in other minor ways will be quite IU5UHU-IDIH to meet tne strain. Yale. Director Chittenden. board of trustees of the Sheffield Sci entific school, has made public his re port for the year ending July 81, 1914, -.vu biiuws xunas ana assets now valued at more .than 83.000,000. Pro ductive funds of the trustees have been drawn upon for three extraor- J fu'jwjuca. uver 9x4,000 was uevoiea xo tne vurchajiA trw Lynne. Conn., of about 1000 acres of land, which will ultimately h. with an adjoining tract of 160 acres for the development of a summer t-mp oi surveying; a piece- of prop erty adjoining the Hammond Mining and Metallurgical laboratory has been, purchased for $10,000 and $23,000 was Used for payments made necessary by wiuiiicnun or me Electrical en gineering laboratory. , Dartmouth. Dr. Toyoklchl Ivenacn of v -vv City opened the series of smoke talks arranged by the executive committee of the Dartmouth College club, with rciure on Tiie European War and the Far East," last evening. The list contains nine men. and the series will extend through the Saturday nights of March. Among the other speakers " appear on we schedule are John Kendrick Bangs, Senator W. P. Dil lingham of Vermont, Strickland Gilll lan. Paul O. Redlngton. '00, of North fork, Calif., Will Hutchins of New York City. Phidelah Ricw.. rh.ri r Fiarlong pf, Boston and 'Henry J. HadC iieio, m acior. . i --Two classes in English for the ben efit f the Poles working In the mills of the International Paper company at Wilder have been established through the educational committee of the Christian association. Princeton. ! ' " Dean Howard McClinahsn. at th- universltyr faculty, expects to sail for Europe in xne early part of -this month, . in . order to makn tint Kotui Investigations of the condition of Bel gian war victima -and the best way of relieving - mem. The trip has been i - - made possible- by' friend of the uni Iversity, who have felt that relief work could be made more effective -If more aeiimie mrormauon were in nana. ;- - In response to an appeal made by Cambridge university, Princeton has recently shipped to Cambridge 29 boxey of clothing, containing a total of 4582 garments. In addition to tha clothing, the alumni have contributed and forwarded $1651. The "Directory of Living Gradu ates of Princeton, which will soon be placed on sale, contains a total of 10, 367 names, classified as follows: grad uates, 7041; non-graduates, 2652; re cipient of post-graduate degrees (not Including graduates of Princeton), .674. University pt PennsylvimUu -A letter , was received on Nevember 26 from H. V. Hall, leader of the Si berian expedition of the University of Pennsylvania museum.' The letter -was written more , than two months ago, and was forwarded with much diffi culty through the war lines. The ex pedition left civilisation two months ago, and since that time has been emong the natives of the Arctic Eth nological specimens have been gath ered and as soon as conditions permit they will be shipped to the university. In an" effort to delve further Into Egyptian history and to add to Its collection of specimens, the University of Pennsylvania has dispatched an exploring party to Egypt, under the leadership of Dr. Clarence S. Fisher, curator of the Egyptian setldn of the institution. ' t Dr. Fisher formerly was connected with Harvard university, and has spent ten years in Egyptian excava tion. Under tils leadership the Harvard-Boston .museum 'uncovered the oldest known pyramid, that of Kha Be, a king of the third dynasty. University of Michigan. Professor. H. C. Adams, of the Uni versity of Michigan, has returned from China. He was called there one year ago to devise an accounting system for the railroada which the govern ment had taken over. He will resume his work In the department of polit ical economy next semester. Technology. The senior class at the Institute of Technology held ita annual dinner at the Westminster hotel December 3. Special features in the way of unique stunts were in the program of the evening. ' Amherst. A fund f $60,000 has been turned over to Amherst college by the alum ni council. The disposal of the in come from this sum is to be deter mined by action of the trustees and the council; University of Virginia. " President Edwin A, Alderman of the University of Virginia has announced a gift of $10,000 to the university by a Union veteran of the Civil war. The donor, who wishes his name withheld, had given this as a student loan fund. He requests that it be named In honor of General Robert B. Lee. Hamilton College. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of - Columbia university. Dr. John Battel, of Columbia, and Professor Eu gene Wambaugh, of the Harvard law .faculty, will lecture in January at Hamilton on the European war. Goucher College. Qoudier college, has .received a pledge from the General Education board of New York of $250,000, pay able on or' before 1922. The condi tion of the pledge la that the college raises an additional amount of $750, 000 by April 1. 1917. This $1,000,000 will form a supplementary endowment fund to be used for endowment pur poses only. " '. Barnard College. The four affiliated religious and philanthropic organizations' of Barnard college the Young Women's Chris tion Association, Church club, Craigle club and College Settlements associa tion are continuing their work this year under the directorship of Miss Mary A. Patchin. All of the organiza tions are cooperating in the prepara tion of bandages and other supplies for soldiers in the European war. About . 30 of the- college girls are working this year as volunteers In the College Settlement, the Union Set tlement, and In afternoon coaching classes in one of the public schools of New York. . ' Vassar College. Professor Lucy Textor, of the his tory - department of Vassar, gave a lecture recently to the college on the "Menace of the Slav." Miss Textor maintained there was no menace of the Slav in view of Russia's past his tory and present policies. Vassar has accepted a challenge from Mt. Holyoke college for a tri angular debate with Mt. Holyoke and Wellesley .this year. . Oberlin College. In his annual report to the trustees. President Klpg reviews; the gifts , to the institution during the current year as follows: "I am now authorized to announce that the beautiful adminls-; tration building n earing completion is the gift of Jacob D. Cox: of Cleveland in memory of his father. General Ja cob D. Cox, of the class of 1851.. The building is to be further enriched and its memory and character emphasized by a painting, the work and gift of Kenyon Cox, another .son of General Cox, which is to go over a memorial bronze tablet in the lobby. Kenyon Cox has also designed 1 this tablet and the working out of his design has been committed to a pupil of Saint Gau- dens. . The administration building will cost approximately $70,000 and, ac cording to the plans of Cass Gilbert of New York City, retained ; by the trustees aa consulting ' architect in connection with the future growth of the . college, the administration build ing will ultimately be connected with the chapel by an-arcade and cloister. It. is a great pleasure to add that a special gift of $7600 from an anony rnons New York donor makes possible an appropriate and satisfactory fur nishing of the interior. "The extensive improvements in ac cordance with the plans of - Mr. Gil bert and Frederick Law Olmsted of Boston that have been so long under way on the central college campus are now - practically completed. - The en tire expense of this work, amounting to approximately $26,000, has been borne by Charles M. Hall of Niagara Falls. Two trustees, Dr. Dudley P. Allen and aJohn L. Severance of Cleveland., have pledged $25,000' each toward the new art building, to cost $125,000. . Illinois Wesleyan. In celebration of r the founding - of Illinois Wesleyan university, four presidents of the university, the fac ulty. a host of alumni and the student body took part in .. exercises today. - The . program of ; the - celebration opened at Amie ; chapel, where Presi dent Theodore Kemp, D. D., Introduced three living ex -presidents . ot the nnl versity. For the , first time in - the history of the institution, all living heads of the university gathered for Founders'. Day. . 4 'Bishop Samuel Fellows 1 off Chicago, who - la . known throughout the reli gious centers of the. United States, served as president of-Wesleyan from 1873 to 1876. and during his iterra the law school was organized, (and the non-resident and graduate scjioola es tablished. Bishop Fellows la now in the reformed Episcopal cburqh, ; which movement he entered two years ago. - : One ot Bishop Fellows' Istudents, Dr.. William H. Wilder, later became president of Wesleyan, serving from 1888 to. 1897, i J 1 The third honored guest was Dr. Edgar M. Smith, who succeeded Dr. Wilder, serving as president from 1897 to .1905, when he resigned toi again take up pastoral work. i Mount Holyoke College. Students at ; Mt Holyoke) college have completed, an organization for carrying on war relief work. LA mem ber of the faculty, aided toy 4 member of the class of 1916, and two assist ants from each class are ii charge. More than 1000 articles of sedpnd hand clothing have been contributed and the girls are gathering after idiriner in a number of the halls "to. Sew lipon new articles. ,, '. r ; I Wellesley College, The Wellesley Benlor f class bas voted against - giving a senior j prom enade - this year. The tnoiey s that would have been spent on I this oc casion will be given to the war relief fund. Miss Margaret Weed bf , Stam ford, Conn.,; proposed ' this plin i to the class, although -the penior , pf-omenade committee had made all arrangements for' the dance, which was to have been given In February. ' f General Educational News. In - the .course of her lect'uj-e r before the New England MontessorlS associa tion . Mrs. Marietta Johnson, of the School of Organic education! in " Ala bama, made some interesting? remarks about education in general. She said In part: . "No requirements should (be made for entrance into any school. Not What do you know? but "What do you needrAahould be the quetion'and the school' should supply that need. Why not obey the law of thei develop ment of the child and provide an en vironment to which the entire organ ism will respond wholesomelyT It is the business of adults to kriow what is the right environment ancj to pro vide it. Children are too immature, inexperienced and ignorant (to know what is best for them, therefore their desires should not always be followed. Adults who are in the buslnesjs of rais ing children should know whit is best that is. what is in harmonyjwith the nature of the child and provide an environment to which, he vfill react wholesomely. "We should consider thet doer of more Importance than the thjng done. Emphasis upon the acquisition of knowledge instead pf the development of the Individual has resulted; often in the - sacrifice of soundness jot body. Intelligence of mind and sweetness of spirit, for the mere, accumulation of facts. If the occupations .nd exer cises provided are in harmony 'with the demands of the chUd's nature, the entire organism, body, mind -and spir it; .will cooperate lh healthful ao tivity." f: '' j, ' The Carnegie Foundation I for the Advancement of Teaching' lias since its establishment paid i allowances amounting te $2,551,000 to 48 pro fessors and 11 widows of professors, representing 12 seats ' kit. learning throughout the country, according to Dr. Henry 8. Prttchett, president of the foundation, at the ninth i annual meeting of the board of trustees. 3 Judge Calls Him "The Prize Liar Couldn't Recognize Sis Porta r Wife or Photograph Showing mm To gather. ' " w I . , j ' " ; Chicago, Dec. 12. It is Cameron F. Brown's nature to lie. So accustomed lias he become to it that he teould. not deviate Into the strange path! of truth even- when arraigned under! oath In Municipal Judge Sabath's court. Aa a result he not only was held to the grand jury in $5000 bonds I for big amy, but was cted on a charge of perjury. ; i j j Brown was arrested on fcoraplaint DEVELOPMENTS IN PORULAR SCIENCE The German 42-centimeter howitzer is over 26 feet long and fires a shell over a yard long. The guns - have jo be transported by rail as is indicated in this drawing. Each gun is carried on a steel . frame work supported between two trucks. The rear truck shown at the left) has a traveling crane which swings the projectile from the ammunition car (not shown here) into the breech" of the gun. The gun itself and its carriage rest on a chassis shown In the 'center of the diagram.. 'At the firing point a concrete platform has to be built s in order to support and steady -the I enormous mass of the gun. The car at the right carries the gunners. The gun is genertilly fired from a distance by electricity. v The Explosive in Shells. SHELLS of every size and descrtp tion ,are being hurled so freely, and in such great numbers by all the parties to (the great war that the public has assumed that almost any kind of an explosive can be used in them, although something known as a - "high explosive", is generally as sumed, which ! to- most people means some form of nitroglycerine compound. That thia la not the case., and that the explosives used; in modern shells are of a - special character such as cannot be obtained commercially is explained by an ordnance expert in the Scientif ic: American; who ' has tho following to say in the course of a detailed article- that explains - and illustrates many types, of projectiles about which we read so, much: i - "Few .commercial explosives are suitable for. shell fillers on account of ' being unable to withstand the shock of discharge, deteriorating in long storage, being hygroscopic, ex uding nitroglycerine, reacting on the walls or .projectiles, -etc. Picric acid or its salts, either alone or mixed with substances intended to make them less sensitive or -to Improve the chemical reaction on explosion are most com monly used. To this class belong Eng lish lyddite, Japanese shimose, and French melinite. The principal ob jection to picric acid Is its tendency to form sensitive salts when in con tact with metals, and care is therefore taken to keep It from the walls of the shells by protective coatings of as phaltum paints, papier mache cartons, etc Trinitrotoluol, derived from cer tain by-products of the gas works, although lens . powerful than picric acid. Is coming Into common use, as it is an almost ideal explosive from a military standpoint. It is manufac tured extensively in Germany, and probably is being used largely by that country In the present war" Blasting-Barbed Wire ?L's, Defenses. T.HE obstruction " to-the advance of an attacking -body of soldiers, both -foot and horse, caused by well placed - barbed wire entanglements. Is most , effective, and although many plana have been tried by different mil of his first wife, Mrs. Margaret Brown. Wlthrhim the police found Mrs. Eva Sneider, a widow, wnom he married a week ago. "I don't know that woman at all," Brown testified, when v put on the stand in his own defense, v Mrs. Brown handed Judge Sabath a picture of herself and Brown. "Don't you recognise this picture?" "No, I never saw It before." "Whew!" exclaimed Judge Sabatl. "I have listened to some 40,000 cases, but this man Is the prize liar among all I have run across." GERMANY'S LOSSES IN AIR Paris, Dec.! .12. Computing the German aerial losses as near as pos sible, it is figured that the Germans have lost seven Zeppelins and- 62 aeroplanes with 86 officers, and at present the Germans do not ' possess more than 26 i airships and 287 aero planes all told. 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The method adopt ed by the French army, and which is typical, is described, along with sev eral others, in the Scientific American as follows: "The French Instructions for the re moval of barbed wire obstacles def initely call for the use of explosives. For this purpose long rods of melinite are fastened in bundles of three to' a pole 16 feet long, three inchea wide, and 1 inches thick. At the end of the pole Is a collar which projects for ward eight inchjs. and Into which the end of a second pole Is fitted. If the extent of the explosion is to be more than the length of a single pole. Each pole has a wooden head of almost conical form, with a steel cap and two little wooden wheels five inches in di ameter. The pole is pushed straight into the maze of barbed wire-or along the ground beneath It. Thanks to its form and to the little wheels with which the head is provided, it glides in easily enough." If necessary, another pole Is fitted into the collar of that already In the network of wire. The charge is ignited by means of a fuse connected with the last bundle of mel inite in the pole. Each pole supports 99 bundles or packages of explosive, equivalent to about six pounds of mel inite per meter (3.2S feet), and Is car ried by two men. A single pole will blow open - passage about IS feet wide." - Lighting the Christmas Tree. CHRISTMAS trees are usually young growth of spruce or balsam, al though evergreen trees are sometimes used. As these trees are very resinous they are easily ignited "by lighted can dles suspended from their branches. Once a twig is ignited the entire tree flares into a sudden blase which Is difficult to extinguish. For- this rea Bound by Oath to Scuttle Their Ship Xrtuialan Kan, Arriving Some From Brazil Says Karlsruhe Crew Will Hot Surrender if Caught. New Orleans. Dec. 12. Officers and crew of the German cruiser Karlsruhe have sworn to sink -their vessel rather than surrender if cornered by hostile warships, asserts Charles T. Tooraen. a chemist of Baton Rouge, Lr4 who was a passenger on the steamer Van Dyck, which fell a prize to the com. merce destroyed October Tooraen, who arrived here from Para, Brazil, said he learned of the Germans' In tention from members of the crew. Tooraen said he was landed at Para from the German steamer .Asuncion, with the passengers and - crews of five 'vessels captured by the German warship late In October. TWO GAR LOADS Newest 191 5 Models $ 1 Will Secure Yours for Christmas Delivery W)Z Pionn t1QQ CO I! 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The lights can be snapped on and off as desired. , In this way the Christmas tree is a thing of. beauty and a joy throughout the holiday sea son, without the danger of fire. New York Subway Carries Billions. IN the past ten" pears. New York City's . first subway has carried more" than 2.000,000,000 of passengers. This subway was 10 years rfld last montn, and up to June 30, 1914. had carried a grand total of 2,332.401.395 passengers, an average of more than 233,000,000 passengers per annum. The total operating revenue for the same period was $120,084,198. and the op erating expenses and taxes $49,549,845. The rental paid to the city "amounted to $20,421,069. England to Back Russian Treasury Ores Britain Arras gas to Discount Huge Bum for the Czar TJndar Pro posed Financial AgYaemeat. London. Dec 12. Great Britain has reached an agreement with the Rus sian government whereby tha former, in consideration of a shipment of $40. 000,000 from Russia to England, will arrange with the Bank of England to discount under guarantee of the Brit ish government a further amount of $60,000,000 in Russian treasury bills. The rate of discount will be on the basis of the rate at which Great Brit ain has been able to borrow for its own needs. The $40,000,000 will be applied by Russia to providing exchange for Anglo-Russian trade. The $60,000,000 will be used to pay coupons on the Russian external debts which are pay able in London, and for financing Rus sian purchases in Great Britain, or where Great Britain Is .unable to sup ply the article required and orders consequently have to be placed in Can da aor the United States. BARS 'MERRY CHRISTMAS' New York. Dec 12. Not even the words "Merry Christmas" may be written on packages of supplies sent to the starving Belgians. - The Ameri can commission for relief in Belgium announced that the placing by donors of an inscription of any kind inside or outside the package might subject the entire consignment to confiscation by officials suspicious of a military code message. PUJU Pianos $OVV $750 822 $435 Usual (MICA Player QC(i P3JU Pianos pU3t in Player Grands want to par tb full amoant. and irwrrr icciuvut ivh tuaae itir aim: Writ .w and e will send ron fnll ,r Wahlnstn. Buy -now and bae - . f sUfa-f Ion. ahv tbf ul rnaranW for TELLS OF BATTLE IN GLANDERS Letter to the . French Vice Consul in Nev York 'Gets by the Censors, BUT 81 UNWOUNDED MEN Ot 3000 la Charge of Q.rmaaa, TBI 1 Survive, Writes Officer From Bavaria. ' isew York, Dec. 13i Illuminating the bare, details passeil . by the' cen sorship bureaus of tle French and English war offices, tltire has ome a vivid glimpse of the t&rrlble carriage of the battle in Flanrtara In a letter received yesterday by Henri Didot, the Frenc h vice consul in Near ork. from Vlscomte ChrlsUan de Slgny. lieutenant In :the itgecond French regiment, which- tells;! 4f the r prac tical annihilation of his regiment' in a charge against the f ierman breast works, j -.. .. .- ? ,; The writer f the lotter, who was one of a mere handful to escape un wounded, is confined in a -German prison camp in-Bavaria. Entire Regiment .Wiled Out. - "Our ' regiment numbered 3000 nicked mnn ' ' iL-rftti. v i n , n-. t a gu-v '! u.a u I in, o(t i a A , - i . i . . . ... " .;imrB m (jfroan itottiuons with inferior numbei sj We' :iarged. W I K-U M.l.t. L. .hi I . .... maiea ranks,-thinned i by tho awful ajiiucrjr ure. w nenv a count was laaen only . 78 1 men. '. the flower of inia wonderful regimanf. . were left nuT.t-, jt. uiese, tun were Hveriy nil.... . .ft nmiinfihl I f v. r m . . i mAnrilni t V. A K.rn...! ft. . . . ia .. . . . .'- 1 .1 VII J-l . - ft 14 I Jf I1U1II1WI were Daaty wounded. All thoe not pnysicaily incapacitated were taken prisoners by the Germans. . v .... ri ju i . . . . i . . ... muei.iiiK concentration, carno ana we aiiwrr Hie cruciest irOffltntuy our 'piun. Many oi mis c-nmraaes are menc w bat became -"of -those whom we lert wounded on the . battlefield viua oniy Knows, i none iriry were curea-ror-ny tne Red trroH. 1 Uniont iu myneii in&i i were one I inose niH.rn, niui naicea cornscfc which lay on the rield after the Charge. 1 think I would be far better faff titan now. i ne carnage of; t"!)e vharte and Datlle was too terrible to put into mere words. It is absolutely berond urai npuun. Ana .. wnen tne ' minxs uinrni. - pernsps even-iKS severe, one realise what -kind on war It being brought -home to FreirJ-hir en. trhttng in the defense of tbe.lhU-ouiitry.' - "War a lerribleJMcnster.'' T hardly dare hope ' tiie t-t'.iis let ter Will ever reach the -civilised world but we are permlttei " to write oc caslonally to our frieilds and I must put into words, noweVer empty, my jeenngs ana my aestfriniioit or tne csvenia wnicn resuiifaaiii me masting oi iii8 ures. careers. iniuion or so many of my dear comrade and orotner orricers. irwr iius war--, is a terrible monster." . , m. uioot was at ajiiors to explain to the reporter how- tee - lei tor. which ne naa received viar me tiucrnsey v nannn ixiev, iiua eacapeu tne ang "There is no ouestion about its showing the -conditions of the battle field, he said. "All details ar ling carefully guarded by; -Hie-war" ot-part ments. I am' Rib at any rsie that mv friend escaped wtrh hlavlifc-. but it is Heldom fndeed that we icceive from any sources siKh icallstlc ac counts of the fighting.'' - Itussitt Hailing Xew Annleat jjopennagen.- iec a. A private Swedish message reports that the Russians are energetically ralflng new armies, riving- errec-lal -attention to the raising of a iiimin.r. of first class modern service corps. aefc Street a 1 I II II II II II I II pot. v 7 IB II II II III - lleserlntlna. or. I H-ll II II II III H ulDDed is " I Irllll II II III - - " " r " '