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JEWELER AND WATCHMAKER
KENDRICK BUILDING FIRST'STREET
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WE ARE SPECIALISTS IN. FINE CAKES AND PASTRY
FOR
Parties and Receptions
MAKERS OF THE FAMOUS ."CREAM LOAF” BREAD
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beds, mattresses anil canvas goods of all kinds, tents and
shovels, kitchenware, furniture, stoves, etc. We also
carry a full line of mirrors—plate glass and plain.
THE NORTHERN BLOCK
First Street
Copper River
& Northwestern Ry.
FOUR TRAINS A'FEKLY BETWEEN
CHITINA AND KENNECOTT
Leave Cordova, Second Street Depot, on Mon
days, Thursdays and Saturdays.
Leave Chitina for Cordova Sundays, Tuesdays
days, Thursdays and Fridays.
Leave Chitina for Ke^'^ecoL. Sundays, Tues
days and Fridays.
Leave Kenneott for ChitLia Mondays, Wednes
days, Thursdays a^d Saturdays.
The above schedule jubject to change with
out notice.
Dining Car in Connection WitlT all Regular
Passenger Trains Between Cordova and Chitina.
Freight received and delivered at Cordova
W half from 9 a. m. to 5 p. in., except Sundays.
Tickets on sale at Second Street Depot
office, one hour before departure of trains.
CALEB CORSER, W. E. BROWN,
Superintendent. Agt. Cordova Wharf
R. K. BROWN, Jr., Ticket Agent.
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Prophylaxis and Pyorrhea.
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Mining Engineer,
U. S. Mineral Surveyor,
U. S. Deputy Surveyor.
BOX 13 CORDOVA, ALASKA
DR. W. H. CHASE
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
Office over Cordova Drug Store.
Calls May be Left at Cordova
Drug Store. Residence,
Alaskan Hotel
DR. W. W. COUNCIL
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Office and Residence: Cordova.
General Hospital (Ostrander Build
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Phones—Residence 115; office 132
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JUNEAU, ALASKA
Glasses Fitted. Lenses Ground
. HUBBELL & WALLER
Civil and Mining Engineers.
U. S. Mineral and Deputy Land^ur
veyors for Alaska.
1102 L. C. SMITH BLDG., SEATTLE
WILLIAM PALLISTER, M.D.
Specialist in the treatment of
diseases and deformities of the
eye, ear, nose and throat; glasses
fitted.
JUNEAU GENERAL HOSPITAL
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SMITH & McCONAGHY
I PLUMBERS AND STEAM FITTERS
Cor. Front and B Streets
Office Open Evenings.
E. F MEDLEY
Attorney and Counsellor at Law.
Room 1.
Adams Block CORDOVA, ALASKA
FRANK H. FOSTER
Attorney at Law
Room 1 Alaskan Hotel
FIRE!
A resident of Cordova had a
small fire in his house the other
; day. It was extinguished by the
family at a loss of $160.00. The
| next day he insured through us.
I The cost of his insurance for
three years was less than his
loss at this trifling fire. Are
you, Mr. Property Owner, going
to wait until you have had a fire
before protecting yourself from
loss ?
Any person wishing to build
can secure a fine residential or
business lot in Cordova from us
on exceptionally liberal terms.
Five hundred lots listed.
REAL ESTATE
INSURANCE
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SURETY BONDS
CORDOVA ABSTRACT and
REALTY COMPANY
ROOM 1, ADAMS BUILDING.
BELGIANS FORCED
TO AID GERMANS
Kaiser’s Officers Showed Open
Disregard of Interna
tional Law.
WORKMEN SEIZED AS SLAVES
—
Cardinal Mercier Moved to Bitter Con- i
demnation of Acts of German Au
thorities Which Aroused Detes
tation of Christendom.
Contrary to rules laid down by
lie Hague convention, and all prin
ciples of civilized warfare. Herman
authorities forced Belgians In aid
them in the prosecution of the war.
I hr committee on public informa
tion gives the facts concerning
these atrocious deeds in a pamphlet
recently made public, from which we
take I he folio wing:
October 12. 1Et1.r>, tin* Gorman author
ities took a long step In the develop
ment of their policy of forcing the 11<>l- j
giuus to aid them In prosecuting tlic j
war. The decree of that date reveal*
the matter and openly discloses a con- j
tempt for international law.
"Article 1. Whoever, without reason,
refuses to undertake or to continue 1
work suitable to his occupation, and In
the execution of which the military
administration is interested, such work
being ordered by one or more of ttu
military commanders, will he liable to
Imprisonment not exceeding one year.
He may also be transported to Ger
many.
"In voking Belgian laws or even in
ternational conventions to the con
trary, can, tn no case, justify the re
fusal to work.
"Article 2. Any person who by force,
threats, persuasion, or oilier means
attempts to influence another to refuse
work as pointed out in Article 1. Is
liable to the punishment of imprison
ment not exceeding live years.
"Article Whoever knowingly by
means, of aid given or in any other way
abets a punishable refusal to work.
will tie liable to a maximum fine of
10,000 marks, and in addition may in*
condemned to a year’s imprisonment.
“If communes or associations have
rendered themselves guilty of such an
offense the heads of the communes will
lie punished.
"Article 4. In addition to the penal
ties stated in Articles 1 and 3, the Ger
man authorities may, in case of need,
impose on communes, where without
reason, work has been refused, a fine
or other coercive police measures.
“W!ls present decree comes into
force immediately.
“Her Etappainspekteur,
“VON UNGER.
“Generalleutnant.
“Ghent, October 1'J. 1915.”
“Slavery,” Said Cardinal Mercier.
Cardinal 31order’s brief comment is
as follows: “The injustice and arbi
trariness of this decree exceed all that
< nuM lie Imagined. Forced labor, col
li rtive penalties and arbitrary punish
ments, all are there. It is slavery, nei
ther more nor less.”
Ordinal 3Iercfor was In error, for
the German authorities were able to
imagine a much more terrible measure.
In October, 1916, when the need for
: n I'ditionn! labor supply in Germany
had become urgent, the German gov
ernment established the system of
forced labor aud deportation which
has aroused the detestation of CKris
tendom. The reader will not he misled
by the clumsy effort of the German au
thorities to mask the real purpose of
the decree.
"I. I’eople able to work may be |
compelled to work even outside the!
place where they live, in case they
have to apply to the charity of others
for the support of themselves or their
dependents on account of gambling,
drunkenness, loafing, unemployment or
idleness.
“II. Every Inhabitant of the country
is bound to render assistance in case
of accident or general danger, and also
to give help In case of public calami
ties ns far as he can, even outside the
place where he lives; in case of refu
sal lie inuy lie compelled by force.
“III. Anyone called upon to work,
under Articles 1 or II. who shall re
fuse the work, or to continue at the
work assigned him, will incur the pen
alty of imprisonment up to three years
and of a fine up to 10.000 murks, or
one or othei of*these penalties, unless
a severer penalty is provided for by
the laws in force.
•‘if the refusal to work lists been
made in concert or in agreement with
several persons, each accomplice wiii
lie sentenced, as if lie were a ring
leader, to at least a week's imprison- j
meat.
• IV. Tile German military author!- i
ties and military courts will enforce I
the proper execution of this decree.
“THE QUARTERMASTER GEN- i
ERAL. SA LIRERZ W EIG.
“Great Headquarters, 3d October,
1916,”
Military Rulers Responsible.
The responsibility for this atrocious
program rests upon the military rulers
of Germany, who had labored so zea!
ottsly to iufect the army and the
people with the principles of ruthless
ness. It Is significant that the decree
of October 3, 1916, followed hard upon
the elevation of Hindenburg to the su
preme command with Ludendorf as his
chief of staff. In his long report of |
January 16, 1917, Minister Whitlock !
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*»ys: (On file In state depart meat.)
"Then. In August. Von Hindenhurg
wti" appointed to the supreme com
mand. He Is said to have criticized
Von Hissing's policy as too mild; there
was a quarrel; Von Hissing went to
Berlin to protest, threatened to resign,
hut did not. He returned, and a Ger
man official here said that Belgium
would now lie subjected to a more ter
rible regime—would learn what war
was. The prophecy has been vindicat
ed. Recently I was told that the dras
tic measures are really of Ludendorf's
Inspiration; I do not know. Many Ger
man officers say so."
If Von Bissing had opposed the pol
icy of deportation when his own Judg
ment was overruled, he consented to
become the “devil's advocate" and dc- I
fended the system in public. Espe
cially Instructive Is the following con
versation reported by Mr. F. Wal
eott:
"I went to Belgium to investigate
conditions, and while there I had op
portunity ... to talk one day with
Governor General Von Hissing, who
died three or four weeks ago. a man
seventy-two or seventy-three years
old. a man steeped in the ‘system,’
born and bred to the hardening of th*
heart which ttint philosophy develops.
There ought to he some new word
coined for the process that a man's
heart undergoes when it becomes
steeped in that system.
“1 said to him. ‘Governor, what are
you going to do If England and France
stop giving these people money to pur
chase food?’
Von Bissing Relied on Starvation.
"He said, ‘We have got that all
worked out and have had It worked
out for weeks, because we have ex
pected this system to break down at
any time.’
“He went on to say. ‘Starvation will
grip these people in thirty to sixty
days. Starvation is a compelling force,
and we would use that force to compel
the Belgian workingmen, many of
them very skilled, to go to Germany
to replace the Germans, so that they
could go to the front and fight against
the English and the French.’
“ 'As fast as our railway transpor
tation could carry them, we would
transport thousands of others that
would he tit for agricultural work
across Europe down into southeastern
Europe, into Mesopotamia, where we
have huge, splendid irrigation works
All that land needs is water and it
will blossom like the rose.
“‘The weak remaining, the old and
the young, we would concentrate nppo
site the firing line, and put firing
sounds hack of them and force them
through that lino, so that tin* English
and French could take eare of their
own people.'
"it was a perfectly simple, direct
frank reasoning. It meant that the
German government would use tiny
force In the destruction of any people
not its own to further its own ends."—
Frederick C. Walcott, in National Geo
graphical Magazine, May, 1917.
A brief general view of the character
of the deportations can perhaps be
gained hest from the report of Minis
ter Whitlock.
"The deportations began in October
in the Etape, at Ghent, and at Bruges,
as my brief telegrams indicated. The
policy spread; the rich industrial dis
tricts of Haiuautl. the mines and steel
works about Charleroi were next at
tacked; now they tire seizing men in
Brabant, even in' Brussels, despite
some indications and even predictions
of the civil authorities that the policy
was about to be abandoned.
fThe etapes were the parts of Bel
gium under martial law, and included
the province of western Flanders, part
of eastern Flanders, and the region
of Tournai. The remainder of the oc
cupied part Belgium was under
civil government.!
Pitiable and Distressing Scene.
“During the last fortnight men have
been impressed here in Brussels, but
their seizures here are made evidently
with much greater care than in the
provinces, with more regard for the
appearances. There was no public an
nouncement of the intention to deport,
but suddenly about ten days ago cer
tain men in towns whose names are
on the list of chomeurs received sum
mons notifying them to report at one
of the railway stations on a given day ;
penalties were fixed for failure to re
spond to the summons and there was
printed on the card an offer of employ
ment by the German government, ei
ther in Germany or Belgium. On the
first day out of about 1.500 men or
dered to present themselves at the
Gave du Midi about 750 responded.
These were examined by German phy
sicians and 300 were taken. There
was no disorder, a large force of
mounted Uhlans keeping hack the
crowds and barring access to the sta
tion to all but those who had been
summoned to appear. The commis
sion for relief in Belgium had secured
permission to give to each deported
man a loaf of bread, and some of the
communes provided warm clothing for
those who had none and in addition a
small financial allowance. As by one
of the Ironies of life tlie winter lias
fteen more excessively cold than Bel
glum has ever known it, and while
many of those who presented them
selves were adequately protected
against the cold, many of them were
without overcoats. The men shiv
ering from cold and fear, the parting
from weeping wives and children, the
harriers of brutal Uhlans, all ihis
made the scene a pitiable and dis
tressing OIK.
“It was understood that the seizures
would continue here in Brussels, but
on Thursday last, a bitter cold day.
those that had been convoked were
sent home without examination. It is
Supposed that the severe weather has
moved t lie Germans to postpone the
deportation."
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WELCOME SOLDIER BOIS
(By Associated Press)
EL PASO. Tex.. Feb. 8—In a little
brick cottage on the Fort niiss street
car line, which has been converted into
a soldiers club, the war service board
has been holding entertainments for
the soldiers of the border district and
cavalry division hert£ Almost every
night this little, five room house is
crowded to the doors with men in
olive drab uniform of service. Danc
ing, music, a program of recitations*
rnd children's folk dancing make up
these informal programs which are
given for the men from the different
regiments on the border.
The war service board and its sub
committees act as hosts at these par
ties for the enlisted men. The cot
tage was rented as a temporary club
for the soldiers pending the completion
of the permanent soldier club which
will be ready for opening by March 1
JAPANESE PICTURE BRIDES
IN GREATER NUMBERS
(By Associated Press)
HONOLULU, T. H„ Jan 19—By
Mail)—During the last year 5.71&
aliens entered the territory of Hawaii,
according to figures given out by the
federal immigration office. There*
were 4,161 Japanese admitted and 557
Chinese.
The total number of aliens is an in
crease of 1,139 over last year. Of the
Japanese, 985 were “picture brides"
sent here by Japanese matrimonial
agencies. A total number of 2,77i*
Filipinos not classed as aliens, were
admitted. Of these 525 preceeded t >
the mainland and 716 returned to their
island homes.
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Peace talk hath its victories for
Gerinany no less renowned than war
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