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DINED III MIDST
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COPENHAGEN, Feb. 19—(Corres
pondence of the Associated Press) —
^low a number of wnr correspondents
received their baptism of fire while
at a feast with French officers In a
hotel at Rhelms. Is described by a
representative of the Polltiken, who
writes:
"Here we received our baptism of
fire, and we received It during a feast.
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•The (Occasion may be termed epic.
It was so Impressive nnd remarkable
that none of those who were present
is likely to forget it.
“It seemed that to sit down to such
a feast at a moment when France was
involved in this terrible war of peo
ples, was nothing short of being a
criminal Insult to mankind.
"We had arrived too late from
Kpernay to take a look at the city
before luncheon, and for this reason
we were Immediately taken to the
hotel.
"An odd spectacle greeted my eyes
ns I stepped from the automobile. The
entire front of the hotel building had
been wrecked by shells. I asked the
hotel servant when this had been
done. He replied: ‘The day before
yesterday, sir.”
“One would have thought this sort
of thing would have caused one’s splr
i's to go down a little. Nothing of
the sort happened. We had brought
with us some of the good cheer of
the troops in the field, and noticed
that the inhabitants of Rheims moved
about in a rather careless manner.
“So we sat down and enjoyed the
very excellent luncheon. The big
windows of the dining room looked
upon the square where a little while
before the German shells had landed.
There was nothing to Insure us a
gainst one of the German iron greet
ings breaking on us with explosive
fervor. Possibly many of us thought
of this, but conversation soon became
animated. Some of the officers pres
ent hud just returned from the trench
es and were full of stories regarding
their experiences.
"Bordeaux wine was followed by
champagne. And why not-conslder
ing that the latter is the product of
the country we were In. So we
drank and forgot all about the Ger
mans and their guns.
"The last glnss had not been filled
when a shell exploded under one of
the windows of the dining room. A
correspondent got up, raised his glnss
nnd made a speech fob the republic
and the French officers who had ac
companied us, beginning: 'Gentlemen
and colleagues: the shot just now re
minds us of our duty • *
"The speech ended. We went to
the window to see what damage the
shell had done. Our hostess smiled,
saying: It exploded two hundred
yards from here!’
"Just then came n shrapnel.
“'That's a little nearer,’ said the
woman. ‘About one hundred yards.’ ,
A third shell came, and when the
noise of the explosion was over, we
heard a house collapse with a mighty
crouching sound.
The hostess was a little graver
now. ‘Gentlemen,’ she said apolo
getically, 'I have done everything pos
sible to keep It a secret that you would
be here today, but I am beginning to
believe that the enemy has learned
of it nevertheless.’
“The luncheon ended with a cheer
for the 'pluckiest hotel in the coun
try,' which In spite of the bombard
ment had not closed its doors for a
single day.”
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Today's news In today's Daily Times
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STOCKHOLDERS MEETING
The annual meeting of the stock- {
holdere of the Golden Ragle Mining
Company will be held nt the offices of
the Company in Cordova, Alaska, Sat
urday, February 20, 1916, at 8 p. m., ,
for the purpose of electing officers and
the transaction of such other business
as may properly come before said
meeting.
J. V. DYDICK, President.
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Associated Press
Telegraphic Reports
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Of special Interest to Alaskans Is
the announcement contained In a re
cent Issue of The Nation's Itusslness.
that the Chicago Association of Com
merce is giving serious attention to
the proposition to set the clock nhead
one hour in order to secure an extra
hour of daylight at the end of the
working day. There is the possibility
that the question will be considered
at the convention of the Chamber of
Commerce of the United States, which
Is in session today at Washington,
I). C., in which event there will be at
'east one delegate present who will be
able to speak interestingly on the sub
)ect. C.eorge C. Hazelet president of
Ilie Cordova Chnmeber. has been dele
gated to represent that body at the
intiona! capital, and his long residence
n the North, where the regulation of
docks to suit conditions is a sour
ivruftii uimuui, rmiiltfM Illin LO laKt* |
in active part In the discussion.
Some persons, we are Informed by
lie organ of the national commercial
tody, are disposed to treat this pro
posal lightly and make It a subject of
•idlcule. Nevertheless the Sixth In
ernatlonal Congress of Chambers of
Commerce, which met ii Paris last
fune, passed a resolution looking to an
nternational understanding In favor
>f saving daylight at least during the
uimmer months, and such an impor
ant body as the Chicago Association
las discussed the question at length.
On the one hand. It Is urged that the
plan would involve disturbance of
lustom and business conditions which
■annot be measured in advance. It
s said also that the same object could
je obtained by a general agreement to
dart work one hour earlier, and that
he arbitrary change in the clock
would l>e insufficient and .that people
would still begin and end work at the
lame time by the sun.
On the other hand, it is claimed
hat thousands cross the Atlantic
?very year and have the clock ad
vanced or retarded every day of the
voyage without serious Inconvenience.
It is therefore urged that the plan
would prove effective, and that where
in eight-hour day prevails, there
would remain at the close of the work
iig day four or five hours nearly half
i working day—before sunset for
Healthful recreation.
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NICE 10 HOLD USUAL
NICE, Jnn. 19—(Correspondence of
the Associated Press)—Notwithstand
ing the absence this winter of the cus
tomary throng of Germans and Aus
trians who come to Nice for the sea
son, as well as hundreds of Ameri
cans. there have seldom been more
people here than at present. But
it is a different throng.
The big hotels are closed, as are
the smart shops that sued to attract
the season's visitors and their money,
and almost all of the gay places. The
well-dressed, fashionable patrons of
the resort are gone; in their places
have come the ragged refugees from
all over Europe.
The Nice known to Americans has
all but vanished, and the dingy, ugly
commercial eastern side of the city
hns become congested with thousands
of soldiers recuperating from their
wounds and illness, and with other
thousands of civilians who have been
driven from their homes in Belgium
and the Franco-Betgian Frontier.
The soldiers in their uniforms of
chasseurs, dragoons and Turcos lend
the only splotch of color to the other
wise dull and drub city, and Nice's
ordinary occupation of making merry
has become that of watching for war
bulletins. Inside the newspaper of
fices are posted photographs of innny
tie, decorated with flowers,
of the citizens who have fallen in bat
Ntce will have its usual carnival,
but it will be subdued, with little
money wasted. Already people are
at work upon the wicker frame of
another King Carnival, who will wear
a German helmet with upturned mous
taches. and who will be burned with
the usual ceremony at the beginning
of Lent. ,
DYING MOTHER’S SON
VISITS HER FROM FRONT
LONDON, Jan. 19—(Correspondence
of the Associated Press)—An instance
of the human qualities of Ix>rd Kitch
ener Is relnled in Sunderland, where
a soldier was sent front the front
at the government’s expense to nt
tend his dying mother.
The womnn's one desire was to see
her five sons, who were all in the
army. Pour of them were in the
English (mining cantps and obtained
leave of absence through the offices
of the Salvation Army. But tite
mother longed to see the> youngest
one, who was serving In Plunders. Lord
Kitchener was communicated with.
The lad thereupon received a seven
days furlough, with rations ancL. xe
pense money, and arrived in^mp to
see his mother before she died!*
SHOULD PRAY NOT KNIT
FOR SOLDIERS, IN CHURCH
LONDON, Jan. 19—(Correspondence
of the Associated Press)—"People
do not go to church to nit, but to
tae part in the service," said the aetj
retary of the ArohblsMfc^of'ftriher
bury in reply to a question which has
been put to almost every parson in
England by patriotic women. In or
der that the work for the men in
kahki might not be relaxed, it was
proposed that the women be permitted
to knit during sermon time.
"People go to church to pray, sing,
listen to the lessons and the sermon,”
continued the secretary. "If noth
ing is going on, they had better be
on their knees praying for the sol
diers on the battlefields and for them
selves.”
ZONES OF SILENCE
II SCIENTIFIC STUDY
GENEVA, Jan. 19—(Correspondence
of the Associated Press)—Scientists
are endeavoring to explain the pecul
iar phenomena by which the artillery
fire of the armies fighting near the
Swiss border can be plainly heard in
the Bernese Alps, while between there
are zones of silence fully twenty
five miles wide.
The cannonading in Southern Al
sace can be heard with great distinct
ness near the frontier on the Swiss
side, then for some distance is can
not be heard at all, while on the Jung
frau and other peaks it is so plain
that it seems to come from some point
luisiuf im? ironuer.
Dr. Quereanln,* of Zurich, a noted
physicist, has given considerable
study to these zones of silence, but
as yet has found no good reason for
them.
y. M.C.fl. ESTBUSHES
LUNCH ICONS AT THONT
LONDON, Jan. 19—(Correspondence
of the Associated Press)—At the sug
gestion of Princess Victoria, the Young
Men’s Christian Association, which has
been active in various ways at the
battle fronts, is perparing to extend
its work, and to establish co-ealled
"free lunch counters” mounted on
wagons that can be drawn from point
to point.
Steaming hot tea and eoffoe and ra
tions of soup will be dealt out to
soldiers tramping to and from the
trenches, and special efforts will be
anade to furnish the soldiers who have
been slightly wounded but still are
able to walk and thus enn get to tin
wagons.
It is expected that a lunch wagon
can safely be stationed at cross-roads
at a reasonable distance In the real
of the tiring line, and that much um>
be done to restore the vitality of the
men that has been lowered by tin
rigors of winter weather.
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