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Newspaper
Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1915
Page
10
An audience on December 19 with Yuan Shikai’s son Ti Yen, a Buddhist monk, discussed central Buddhist principles and the monk’s health. Ti Yen agreed to uphold the Buddhist faith and to use his best efforts to promote it while serving the country.
A fragment from Shanghai notes foreign powers monopolizing peace enforcement beyond Chinese jurisdiction. It mentions the city’s winter pleasantness and foggy streets, and hints at punishments for offences with policemen detained for confinement during custody.
Christiania Norway December reports show prices for all paper products rising 30 to 40 percent with ongoing increases. Some grades like blue paper cannot be produced due to dye shortages, while central valleys echo major lumber districts. Pine and evergreen forests supply raw materials but war pressures push cellulose costs from 40 to 70 per ton, impacting production and pricing.
Basel reports the Swiss government has insured over 1.25 million dollars against damage from air raids. Valuable paintings tapestries and art objects have been moved from museums and private homes to cellars since German bombers dropped on Chaux-de-Fonds. Basel residents monitor air raid routes and patrols as French and German forces maneuver along the Rhine toward Belfort.
Nancy France December 10 eighty young girls from Pont a Mousson Gerbevillers and other regions exile here to learn domestic economy on 15 cents a day They shop at the market learn value and uses of purchases and also design cut and sew Prefect Mirman says the training will help children face the future while soldiers fight.
A reader criticizes Senator McLean and the Connecticut deer law, arguing deer meat is the only value to farmers facing the law. The letter mocks the earlier open letter about deer management and laments the farmer’s ability to obtain venison. The exchange continues as readers debate the law’s merit and impact.
A farmer laments deer harm to crops yet argues deer are God’s creatures. He notes trespassers shoot deer on farms, damage fences, and take produce, questioning who should bear the burden of feeding the table. Brafford Springs, Dec. 6.
London December meeting of the Royal Sanitary Institute debated whether a wartime drop in births is a calamity or a blessing. Sir John Cockburn urged government incentives to raise birth rates and tax relief for child-rearing, while Dr. Dunlop predicted further birth-rate declines and warned of poverty and higher death rates unless births fall sharply now.
On a moonlit night at Camp Dodge near the powder reservation of Remington Arms, guards McCarthy and Maloney confront an intruder who is revealed not to be a human foe but a full grown buck deer. The animal charges the guards, who flee and suffer abrasions and lost equipment in the scramble. The incident becomes the talk of the factory.
London December 19 The most rapidly promoted man in the British army is Lieutenant Colonel W F Austin of the 11th Reserve Battalion Cheshire Regiment. He enlisted as a private on August 30 1814 with little militia experience and rose through the ranks to captain and adjutant, then to company commander and battalion adjutant, finally commanding a regiment after eleven months.
Seoul Korea Dec 10 The big industrial exhibition organized by the Japanese government closed yesterday after drawing 900000 visitors The general impression is that both Korean and Japanese have opened to vast hidden wealth awaiting exploitation in Korea and that a great impetus has been given to industrial and commercial initiative
In London on December 10 Sir James Willcocks resigned the command of the Indian Corps on the western front for personal reasons. An lieutenant general since 1908 he was senior to Sir Douglas Haig until Haig became a full general last November. General Smith-Dorrien also left the front months ago for reasons not disclosed. Henry H. Fletcher, U S ambassador to Chile, is expected to be named ambassador to Mexico.
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