The Cordova Daily Times
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i 1 1KI > i i V. \, ALASKA, Till PSHAW MAY IH17. Ro'
AMERICAN SOLDIERS Ad
A high Gorman military officer was reported last week as
saying that no American army could help the allies in the pres
ent war, and as further saying that in our Civil war five hun
dred thousand men were lost because neither side had, at the
beginning of the conflict a trained, disciplined army.
Still Germany learned many valuable lessons from that
war of ours. One was to mass cavalry and make it a distinct BC
division of the army, the same as the infantry and artillery: —
another was the adoption of Grant’s idea of keeping all thei
armies in a great war so disposed as to prevent the reinforce j
ment of any particular army that was being assailed.
When the war closed and the grand review of the victorious oi
armies of the republic was held in Washington, a distinguished
British officer watched as hour after hour the ranks of the men
in blue swept past those who were reviewing the long proces
sion. Then, when it was over, he declared that Europe had bet- —
ter dressed armies and armies where the little details of disci
pline were more carefully observed, but that there was no army j
in the world that, in all essentials of fighting men, compared |
with the grand army of the republic. cr
Again, when France, Germany, Great Britain, Japan and in
the* l uited States sent detachments from their respective armies
to Peking to suppress the Boxer uprising, another British oi'li- _
cer said: “For three or four days the American detachment j
was the ridicule of all the others. They marched in irregular
ranks—like civilians rather than soldiers; they were careless
in their attire and seemed more like a mob than a detail of
trained soldiers. But one morning early, the Boxers in heavy
force attacked our front, their immediate assault being directed
against the American contingent. F
i m(*II we wuuesseu a iruiisiuuunium. 1 imsi* carvioss men
were all in perfect alignment; their steps changed from those °
of men to those of tigers; at intervals of three or four minutes —
they dropped upon one knee and, taking swift aim, fired their
volleys; then up and on again, and at about the fourth or fifth
volley the enemy threw down their arms and precipitately fled;
and then after giving one cheer of triumph, those men dropped j
back into their old careless ways as though nothing had hap 1
pened. There was no more discounting of the American com
mand on that march. ’ ’ <’
The one thing the German critic cannot understand is that >'
American soldiei’s have some attributes peculiar to themselves
done. These are partially, at least, hereditary.
It required nearly three hundred years to clear the wilder
ness between the Atlantic and the Pacific. All the way the van
of the great army of occupation moved on against extraordin
ary hardships and dangers. They moved, so to speak, with a
hiblo in one hand and a rifle in the other. In the rude homes
on the frontier the mothers of each succeeding generation, hav
ing given up the innocent longings that come to a woman’s g
heart, toiled on, nCTo was woman’s fearless eye
Lit by her deep love’s truth.”
Those three hundred years of danger and toil and hardship
had their effect. The American people are not quite like any c
other people, but when duty calls they respond nobly. And
should there be a call for a division or a corps or an army to go 1
to Europe, the soldiers comprising the contingent might not
iqion their arrival there compare in many things with the Euro
pean troops. But should they be called to the battle line, the
account they will make of themselves will forever silence all
criticism of them.
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THOSE WOODEN SHIPS
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Many sanguine editors see the rehabilitation of the Ameri- "
can merchant marine through the fleet of wooden ships which
1 he government has started to build to stand off the German
submarines and carry food and munitions of war to the allies.
Only in one way can they be of any use in restoring our f
merchant marine, and that is in the cheapness of the fuel used.
As we understand the plans, they are to be motor boats—to the
other craft what the automobile is to the lumber wagon.
As such they may be a commencement, especially if our
great merchants and manufacturers will get together and build o
and supply department stores in foreign ports, and not become
impatient over small profits for the first few years. Otherwise _
the wooden ships will avail little in building up the merchant
marine. P
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SEND THE FREIGHT IN SQUADRONS
The British have sent a million or two of men and millions
of tons of freight across the straits to France during the past
two and a halt years, and the work has never even been oh
structed for an hour by the submarines.
The reason is that those waters have been patrolled con
stantly by gunboats and destroyers. We fail to see why this
does not suggest the way to send freight from American ports
to England and France.
Send the freight in squadrons of steamers convoyed and
surrounded by destroyers, the destroyers having orders to sink
any submarine on sight. The English could agree to keep tin
sea, outside the terminal port, cleared of mines; and this done,
it would be a bold submarine that would dare assail our
commerce.
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Last week tin- Germans wadded up Von Bethnmnn-Holl
weg’s speech and shot it at the Russians. This week American
and French aviators with the allied forces in France are drop
ping into the German array a wadded up translation into Ger
man of President Wilson’s war declaration. If they are going
to abandon projectile and shrapnel for the printed word the
United States might begin mobilizing its editors, of which there
are many, prolific in both the heavy and the lighter stuff. A
mobilized American editorial broadside into the German ranks
should be at least momentarily disconcerting.
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Von Hindenberg would recoup bis reputation on his old ]
stamping ground, but he should not be surprised to find a dif
ferent spirit in the Russian army.
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1° ^u' doubtful credit of the U-boats it must be said they
show no partiality.
MRS. V. P. ABBOTT lj|
PUBLIC STENOGRAPHER
id,or Hotel Cordova. H |
E. F. MEDLEY.
attorney and Counsellor at Law. IB
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WM. A. HESSE | 1
Mining Engineer. '•
O. s. Mineral Sum yot, 3 i
II. S. Deputy Surveyor. 3
X 13. CORDOVA, ALASKA ll
DR. W. H. CHASE 1
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON |
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Drug Store. Residence, MB
Alaskan Hotel
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PHYSICAN AND SURGEON. .
Office and Residence Cordova " —
moral Hospital (Ostiauder Build ™
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DENTAL OFFICES
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hone 200. Cordova,
O. Box 1 St*. Alaska.
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JUNEAU,ALASKA
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Civil and Mining Engineers.
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Feet and commodiuua steamers eai’.r w between Seattle, Ketch
Ikan. Wrangell. Juneau, Skao • /. t-id -a, . . rr, Seward
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Sail from Cordova se\ ■ n da\ - lalai.
I In* freighters Cordova, i.atoia■ . >)itni an, Valdoz
and Eureka also make regular tri)>-.
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