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HRITISH ALREADY WORKING Ol T A
SCHEME TO RE IT RN THE SOLDIERS
TO PRIVATE LIFE WHEN WAR IS OVER.
LONDON. Aug.t>— Although the end of the wat
may he far distant, plans for demobolizing British army'
when the proper time arrives, are well unuel May. In*,
military authorities, acting in conjunction with the Min
istry of Labor, are perfecting the scheme by which tin
soldiers will he returned to civil life with the utmost c-'
erity. and at a camp not far from London there has a'
readv Iteen a rehearsal oi the methods to lie adopted to'
dispersing the men.
“Big as was the job to get men into the army," sai
an officer engaged in the work, “it will be a bigger job u
get them out of it- But the country may he sure that every
thing will he done to enable tht? soldiers to reach then
homes and get employment with the minimum of friction.
The scheme is far-reaching- The authorities have ha*
to consider not only the situation at home but also how
the plan will fit in with the convenience of France, Italy
and the overseas dominions, and with transport facilities
from Salonica, Mesopotania, Palestine and from othei
parts of the world. How long it will take to demobilize the
millions of troops is a question to which even those occu
pied in the task are not prepared to give a definite reply.
Eighteen dispersal depots are to l>e established in Eng
-land, Scotland and Wales. Every step has bden worked
out in detail. Before the men in France are ordered home.
thev will be .assembled in the order of the districts from
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which thev come, so that all may be sent in a body direct
to the dispersal depot closest to the locality from which
they joined the army. Each man will take with him his en
tire kit, including his arms and personal equipment, steel
helmet and box respirator. Previously he will have been
deprived of his ammunition
On reaching the dispersal stations the men will hand
oved their equipment. Everything must be given up ex
cept the uniform which the soldier is wearing, and Ids
great coat, although the coat must be returned after the
month’s furlough to which each man will be entitled He
will be permitted to retain his uniform.
The soldier will pass through several huts before he is
sent on furlough. In one he will be given a protection cer
tificate. containing all particulars regarding his regiment,
length of service and destination. In another he will be giv
-en an advance on the pay still due him, ad postoffice mon
ey orders inthree equal installments for the remainder.
On application, the soldier will be presented with an
“out of work” insurance policy, valid for a year. This will
entitle him to receive a fixed sum for a definite period
from a postoffice, if unemployed.
Finally the men will be grouped in different huts, ac
cording to the locality to which they are sent- Railroad
tickets already will have been made out. Then will come
entrainment, and the start for home
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WAR BRINGS OUT THE GOOD OLD .
-WAY OF GREETING THE NEWS.
LONDON, Aug. G— The war has resorted some of
the old time romance to the business of news'gathering
from places that Americans might regard as the far ends
of the world. When the American settles down in his easy
Unsinkable
chair at night and lets his eye run casually down the col
umn and date lines of the far corners of the world he does
not always realize what an effort it often costs to lay be
fore him the news of these far places.
Take some of The Associated Press despatches from
Jassv, the capital .of Rumania, for an example. Things
were going pretty bad for litle Kuniama last lviarcn. iiie
Bolsheviki had turned tilings topsy turvy in Russia and
King Ferdinand’s country was left alone on the eastern
front to face the hordes of Germany and Austria. Rurna
nia was quarreling with the Bolsheviki over the disposit
ion of Russian troops which had been on the Russian front.
There were serious possibilities for Rumania in the situat
ion. . f
There was an Associated Press correspondent in Jassy
but the only way of geting news out was by the way of
Odessa, where the Bolsheviki held s\\a\. C'onimunition
with Odessa by wire was impossible and no trains were
running as bridges were destroyed. 1
The Rumanian government was sending Colonel Jose
ph Boyle formerly of the Canadian Army from Jassy to
Odessa in an airplane with a peace treaty and when Col
onel Boyle flew 200 miles over the mountains he carried
not only the treaty but dispatches from The Associated
Press correspondent for for warding to the United States.
That is how some of the news started on its way from
Jassy, through Russia Finland and Sweden to London and
finally to America. t f j
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STORMY WEATHER FOR NEXT FALL.
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NEW ORLEANS, Aug. (J— Natives, whites and ne
-ros, of the Louisiana and Mississippi Gulf coast sections
irofess to see in the presence this summer of certain
needs of mosquitoes a sure sign of stormy weather .next
’fall. Whether the storms will he violent or mild the .mo
-quito “informants” apparently do not indicate.
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PREDICTS OVERTHROW OF BOLSHIVIKI
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LONDON, Aug. (>— Conviction that the Bolsheviki
government of Russia would inevitably be overthrown
and that a new Russian government would, first of all,
ake steps to pay Russia’s foreign debt, was expressed by
Dr. David Soskice at a recent meeting of the holders of
Russian bonds here. Dr. Soskice is confidential secretary
to former Premier Kerensky of Russia.
He declared that it would require an immense 'amount
of capital to reconstruct the great industrian and agri
eultureal fabric of Russia. Russia he said, can <tnly find
that capital in England and America. - >
('. Birch Crisp, banker, said he believed the majority
of the people of Russia would embrace the first;a oppo»~
tunity to set themselves right with the rest of the civilizer jd
world. ' , * )
The chairman of the meeting said it was almost .im
possible to ascertain the amount of Russia’s debt. Accord
ing to information received by the London Stock -Kv
change, it amounted, on January 1, 1917, to about 3,3f>8,
900,000. lbs. Of this he said the direct loans made by tihe
state probably would amount to 1,100.090,000. lbs. In ad
dition there were twelve municipal loans issued by niu e
principal Russian cities. To the amount of 20,000,000.1bi s.
It was not clear whether these figui-es included the wa. r
advances made to Russia by the Allied nations. This wa«
unofficially stated to aggregate from 400,000,000 to 8(X-V
000,000. lbs.
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AUSTRIAN PEASANTS LOSE FLOUR I *
NEW YORY, Aug. 6— So great it the shortage rfi1
flour in Austria that the government has been empowered
to take the peasants the supplies which were to clover their*
own requirements, says a Vienna dispatclj to ;the Berlin
Tageblatt, a copy of which has been received &ere. <j
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