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Far-famed Alaska coal will undergo
the severest commercial tests in Ta
coma within a few days. A shipment
of coke from the Alaska coal has been
received and will be tried out in the
Puget Sound Iron & Steel works plant
as to its practicability for foundry
uses.
The coke is from coal shipped from
the Chichaloon district in the Matanus
ka fields on the government railroad
in Alaska to the Wilkeson Coal &
Coke Company for coking in the com
pany’s big ovens at Wilkeson. This is
said to be the first attempt to coke the
coal on a scale sufficient to test its
value for this purpose. The coking has
been done by Supt. Joseph Lee of the
Wilkeson Coal & Coke company, and
those who have seen the coke and who
can pass as judges, say it is a very
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good grade of coke and they are ex
pecting satisfactory results from the
tests which are soon to be made in
Tacoma.
The Alaska coal fields were exam
ined by the United States government
in 1912. The first steaming tests were
made on the battleship Maryland and
the coal proved to be 98 per cent as
efficient as the Pocohontas coal of
West Virginia.—Tacoma News.
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STIFF FIGHTING
(United Press Staff Correspondence)
WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES AT
VERDUN. Feb. 21.—Two years ago to
day the crown prince launched his
great assault on Verdun that was to
bring about the quick termination of
the war and to establish the undying
prestige of the house of Hohenzollern
Today, almost unknown to the world
public at large, the battle fires of Ver
dun are still burning with a degree of
intensity that is costing thousands of
lives every month both to the Ger
mans and the French alike.
Paradoxical as it may seem, Ver
dun, which has already been assigned
to an imperishable place in history as
one of the greatest military victories
of the French race, is still a raging
battle. It has become, indeed, a verit
able endless, perpetual battle as
though the great battle fires lighted
there just two years ago this morning
by the crown prince were of such an
all-consuming immensity and all-en
during intensity that, like some great
volcanic eruption, years will be re
quired before they burn down to dead
ashes and tranquillity.
The official communiques both of
the French and the German general
staff fail to give any idea of the fact
that Verdun is still an open, raging
battle. "But the staffs themselves
know it, and above all the soldier who
lives through the endless days and
nights of this never ending hell knows
it.
As a French victory, Verdun is a
closed incident for all time to come
but as an open battle it will probably
endure till the end of the war. With
a stubborness, a tenacity and a useless
ness explainable only by the idiosyn
cracies of German psychology, the Ger
man general staff still continues to
make Verdun an ever increasing cem
etery for the flower of the German
army and the hopes of Hohenaollern
ism.
Verdun became a definite, incontest
able French victory on October 24 and
December 15, 1917, when in two mag
njficient attacks, the French took back
Forts Douaumont and Vaux and placed
Verdun once and for all time our of
danger. Yet the Germans could not
give up. There was nothing to gain,
but they kept the battle fires burning,
and burning fiercely. Now they broke
out on the left bank of the Meuse and
now on the right.
In another magnificient effort to
quench them once and for all time to
come General Detain on August 20,
1917, launched his great joint atta k
on both sides of the Meuse throwing
the Germans back onto the positions
occupied by them before the crown
prince launched his first wave of as
sault at 4 o’clock in the morning just
two ye>rs ago today. After {his, there
was less reason than ever for the!
Germans to continue the battle.
And yet they continued it, alternate j
ly keeping the battle flames burning j
first on one side of the Meuse and then
on the other, feeding into them more
and more of their ever diminishing e!
fectives.
Again on November 25, in another
brilliant and successful attack, De-'
tain’s poilus endeavored to convince
the adversary of the uselessness of
the struggle. The attack put the Ger
man farther away than ever from the
possibility of ever realizing the slight
est progress against Verdun, and yet
'they continue the effort and the sacri
fice.
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DOCTOR TELLS EXPERINCE
AS PRISONER IN AUSTRIA
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ROME, Eeb. 20 (by mail).—“The al
lies can win this war only by holding
on, by the exertion of economic pres
sure on the central empires and by
rigid economy at home" is the opinion
of Dr. Massimo Pantaleoni of the Ital
ian army, who has just been ex
changed after twenty months as a
prisoner in Austria and Hungary. Dr.
Pantaleoni, although Italian by birth
has many relatives in the United
States.
“The secret of winning the war,”
said Dr. Pantaleoni, “remains in the
blockade and in the allies at home ex
ercising the greatest economy but so
organizing that economy in the way of
limitation of consumption of foods and
fuels and clothes that people will not
be compelled to lose several hours of
their time each day searching for coal,
or bread, or such articles.
“It is like passing from darkness in
to daylght on leaving Austria, w'here
the stores are empty of all useful ar
ticles, cloth slols at about the equiva
lent of $26 a yard, where leather stioes
sell for 120 kronen the pair, where
there is no sugar at all for sale, where
the bread rate for the civil popula
tion is two and a half ounces for each
person per day, where the fat ration
is one quarter of an ounce and where
potatoes sell for twenty cents a pound
instead of two cents a pound before
the war.
“In Austria mortality has increased
very much since a year ago because of
poor or no nourishment leading to
rheumatism and dysentry, and when
people die there are no coffins in
which to bury them. Instead, their
shrouds and good clothes are replaced
by rags and in these they are buried.
“Living conditions have not been im
proved by the taking of Rumania.
“While in Hungary attending Ital
ian prisoners, who had been sent as
far away as possible from the Isonzo
front so that they could not escape and
go home, Rumanians told me civil con
ditions had been such in Rumania that
the fields had not been worked and
therefore the crops had b^en poor.
“As regards the entrance of the
united States into the war, both Ger
mans and Austrians said the effec
tive result would be more in money
and materials furnished than in fight
ing units, due to difficulties of troop
transportation. They say that it is
hardly worth while attempting to cap
ture or destroy enemy artillery be
cause new cannon will be forthcoming
from the United States.
“The Austrian people have been in
different about the war for a long
time. They want peace, any kind of a
peace, and the longer the war lasts
the less they have to keep the war go
ing. The Germans are still possessed
of the monomania of domination, of
wishing to grab all they see, to take,
take, take; but time is sure to bring j
them to their knees, to cut down their
fighting materials, while that of the al
lies keeps on growing, and this is why
I maintain that the allies must win if
they resist, if they exert economic
pressure on themselves, and refuse to
patch up a peace.
"The Germans now are seriously
afraid of the English and French, be
came they realize their superiority in
fighting materials.
“All that has been said about the
ill-treatment of the prisoners is true.
They are so poorly fed that if they fall
ill they are sure to die, as their bodies
have no resisting power. Most of their
illnesses are in the intestines or of a
bronichial nature leading to tubercu
losts. Their t'o*d consists, in the
camps, of soup made of beets in the
proportion of one half pound a day for
each man, with sometimes a potato
and two ounces of meat once a week.
In the hospital of Sigmundsherberg
[ where I served, a hospital arranged
for 3,000 men, the death roll has riser
from one man every two days to three
and four a day.
I “Prisoners put on government work
| last about two months. The phrase
j ‘prisoners' step’ has passed into the
! language, so feebly d_p the gangs shuf
fie along, without power to lift their
feet from the ground. Also, the Aus
trian soldiers are very cruel, shooting
, or bayoneting prisoners for the slight
! est infraction of rules.”
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS
In the Probate Court for the Territory
of Alaska, Third Division, Cordova
Precinct, at Cordova.
In the matter of the estate.of Erma
Bell Walker, deceased. No. 118.
The undersigned Administrator of
the Estate of Erma Bell Walker, de
ceased, hereby gives notice, that all
persons having claims against said
Estate are admonished and {required
to present the same with the proper
vouchers to the undersigned Admin
trator of said Estate, or to the Judge
of tne above named Probate Court, at
Cordova, Alaska.
Dated at Cordova, Alaska, this 13th
day of Mqrch, 1918.
D. W. WALKER,
Administrator of the Estate -of Erma
Bell Walker, Deceased.
First publication March 14, 1918.
Last publication April 18. 191&
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