THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
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THE GERMAN COLONIES
Pronouncement by Arthur .1.
Balfour, British secretary of state
for foreign affairs, that Germany's
colonies will not be returned to her
after the war revives in Australia
and New Zealand animated dis
cussion of the lufure of all the
islands in the Pacific south of the
equatoi.
Whatever conclusion is reached
by the Allies at the -peace confer
ence as to the disposition of Ger
man Now Guinea and of German
Samoa, not to mention the Mar
shall, Caroline and Padrone groups,1
it is generally admitted, says an
Associated Press correspondent,
writing from Sydney, that an en
tire recasting: of the various ad
ministrations of the British islands i
is needed to develop their potential
wealth, afford security for trade'
and ensure adequate defense. j
It is believed that a federation
of all the British archipelago under
a central authority having it’s seat
of government at the most conven
ient center will eventuate.
Thus, in effect a new' state would
be created wihch might be called
the British Pacific Federation and
might be administered by a gover
nor-general or high commissioner.
Such a governor-general or high
commissioner would not be con
cerned with the local governmental
affairs of any particular group, but
with the federation as a whole. He
might be assisted by a council of
appointed officials, representatives
elected by each island group, and
trade commissioners representing
Great Britain, Australia, New Zea
land and Canada. Local legislatures
would, under such a scheme as this,
have as large a measure of self
government as compatible with the
proportion of whites to South Sea
islanders and Asiatics, incapable at
present of self-government.
It is pointed out here, however,
that if the British islands are fed
erated, means of communication be
tween them must he provided in
order that their administration and
general welfare may obtain. Ex
isting steamer services radiate from
Sydney in Australia and Auckland
in New Zealand, but groups served
by any one line have no connecting
link with adjacent islands served
by other lines, or with China and
India, save by way of Sydney.
Attention is called to the now
well konwn fact that just prior to
the war Germany was engaged in
linking up her Pacific island poss
essions with the East with a view
to a monopoly of the copra trade;
and it is argued from this that if
there should be a comprehensive
British steamship service with
Singapore at one end and New Zea
land at the other, ensuring a eor
tinuous supply of Asiatic labor for
the islands it would greatly con
tribute to the material benefit of
the proposed federation.
Not only will German New Guina
or Kaiser Wilhelm land, and Ger
man Somott be disposed of at the
peace table but the exceedingly
valuable phu-s, hate is\nd, Naura,
th" Gfn-an Eulomons, the Bismark
Ar hipelago, the Marshalls, Caro
lines and Ladrones
.' NTERTA1N1NCJ THE BOYS
‘7he ^alai1 de Glace in Paris,
which t! .« Y, M. C. A. has opened
' 3 an amusen ent place for Ameri
can and Alli~d soldiers, is hidden
j among till; trees in the Champs
' Klysees ami had loner been one of
the world-famous skating rinks. It
was opened in October and is going
to be a life-saver to the lonely boy
who has no money to spend in ex
pensive music halls. The theater
in this palace seats 1,1500 and every
afternoon and every night there is
“something doing ” And it is open
: to ail.
The tired French Poilu, the Brit
' ish Tommy', the Polish Legionnaire,
the Greek, anybody on the Allied
side can walk up to the counter
and refresh his hungry body with
' hot soup and salad and sandwiches,
alongside of the American boy. The
shows are absolutely free to all men
and women in the uniforms of the
Allied nations.
The weekly program is made up
of two professional boxing mutches
a week; two vaudeville shows given
by Broadway’s best talent, Chic
ago's latest hits and Frisco’s popu
lar teams; one religious evening, be
ginning with movies, and one night
a week of informal talks and inter
esting lectures about France. The
j audience at these educational nights
; is phenomenal, proving that our
| soldiers want to learn about this
wonderful country in wrhich they
fought.
The. Palais de Glace is under the
direction of .Dr. Thomas W. Graham
j of Minneapolis, Minn., and Miss
i Elizabeth Gilman of Baltimore, Md.
t who runs the canteen with the
assistance of four other American
' girls in the uniform of the V. M.
C. A
WAR PUTS y. $.
L ON FIRM OASIS
i
1 WASHINGTON', I). C.—Reorgan
, ization of the navy’s hydrographic
i office during the war so as to make
it largely independent of foreign
sources of information is shown in
j the annual report of Rear Admiral
| Seaton Sehroeder, chief of the office
J which is maintained to supply
. marine maps and charts and all
sorts of scientific sailing advice
' to the navy and merchant marine,
j “Our entry into the war made it
an absolute sine quanon,” Admiral
! Sehroeder said, “and although the
| final result cannot be immediately
; achieved of covering the more re
mote untravuled seas with our
charts, the office hits been defin
, itely brought to a position of inde
j pendence and self support. And
j that position will of necessity be
maintained from now on.
Owing to the war, the only sur
. veys now being carried on are
around Guam, in the Gulf of Fon
;seca, and near Guantanamo. Sub
marine operations, the report said,
have added slightly to the sum total
|of hydrographical information.
The finest New Year celebration
; in the world is in Japan and Ohina,
where before the clock strikes mid
i night on New Year’s Eve, every
! debt and account must be paid. No
• good Chinaman or Jap ever thinks
: of entering the new year with an
| unpaid bill. Would that we might
I emulate that form of celebration.
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HAVE BAD TIME
COPENHAGEN.—Romance was
intermingled with tragedy in the
trying days when the foreign col
onies were attempting to get per
mission to leave Russia. Arrests,
searches and threats of execution
were relieved by marriages between
men of the Entente powers and
Russian women.
The Bolsheviki government would
not grant Russian citizens permits
to go abroad- Consequently for
eign men who hoped to leave Rus
sia shortly could not hope to see
their sweethearts for an indefinite
period, possibly never, if they left
them in starving, disrputed Russia,
where food is denied to persons
not regarded as “class-conscious
workmen” and all persons not in
sypmpathy with Bolshevism are
dispossessed.
Many officials of the French and
British colonies married in the last
trying days of their stay in Moscow
and Pctrograd, but the wedding of
Captain W. I,. Hicks, military aide
to Bruce Cockhart, the British dip
lomatic representative in Moscow,
was accomplished in the face of
greater obstacles perhaps, than
those of other Entente citizens who
managed to marry between jail
sentences and searches.
( aptain Hicks was one of the
french anil English officials who!
were held as prisoners in the Amer-:
ican consulate general at Moscow.
He was engaged to marry Madame
Melinina, hut dared not leave the
American premises to marry her.!
Most of his official associates were i
in prison charged with conra-revo- )
lutionary activity and in danger of I
execution. Russian priests refused j
to perform the ceremony in the j
American consulate, as the ortho
dox church requires that marriages
be celebrated in church.
Major Allen Warded, of the
American Red Cross, who was look4
in**- after the interests of foreign
prisoners, interceded with Bolshe
vik officials, but Peters, the head
of the commission for the supres
sion of contra-revolution, was firm
in his refusal to grant Captain
Hicks immunity if he left the
American property and walked into
the Russian church which stood in
an adjoining court. When the hour
for the departure of the British
officials from Moscow approached
the situation became desperate.
Finally one of the Lettish women
who was guarding Captain Hicks
became interested in his plight and
telephoned to Peters, addressing
him in the Lettish tongue. Her ap
peal was heeded. She assumed re-1
sponsibility for the delivery of the
English officer at the train which
was to carry him out of Russia.
A priest was hastily engaged and !
the party stopped in an orthodox
church on the way to the station,'
where the ceremony was performed
just half an hour before the bride
and groom started for England.
FRANCE INTERESTED IN
OUR JUVENILE COURt!
DENVER.—England and France I
may send social missions to the
United States for the study of juv
enile court practices under a plan j
suggested by Judge Ben B. Lindsey,'
of the juvenile court of Denver.'
Judge Lindsey proposed the inter-'
change of workers while he was in
France.
The adoption of the plan is prac-1
lically assured according to word
received by the judge, and Madam
oiselle Bertillon, daughter of the
noted French criminologist, author
of an identification system of that
name, is expected to come from
France- Judge Lindsey intends to
send Miss Josephine Roche, an offi
cer of his court, to France in re
turn. She will be attached to a
French court and Madamoiselle Ber
t.illon will be made an officer of
the juvenile court here.
Madamoiselle Bertillon’s visit to
Denver is made possible by Countess
Jacques de Bryas, who raised a
fund in Paris to pay the expenses
of her trip.
BOUNDARY CONTEST
BROUGHT TO CLOSE
EL FASO, Tex.—The taking of
testimony in the New Mexico-Texas
boundary case, which began six
years ago, ender here in December.
The transcript of the testimony
which covers about 6,000 type
written sheets, is to be sent to the
clerk of the United States supreme
co /ft at Washington, D. C- Attor
neys estimate that it will be nec
essary to make thirty-six copies of
the testimony before it is ready
for submission to the Court.
The case resulted from the shift
ing of the Rio Grande between
Anthony, N. M., and El Paso. The
river had been named as the orig
inal boundary line. Several thous
and acres of land are in dispute,
and both states have granted titles
to them, in many cases to different
claimants.
The Elephant Butte dam now
has stabilized the line of the Rio
Grande.
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Allred, Mrs. Clara
Budow, A1
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Blair, Roy
Brooker, Ed
Bennett, J. F.
Ball, I. B.
Brown, Erie
Burns, R. E.
Coutts, W .r.
Calderhead, R. W.
Campbell, N. J.
Coghill, W. A.
Cooney, M. .T.
Doner, Frank
Diven, R. J.
Douse, Fred
Davis, Harry
Ekeland, Alf
Funk, A. B. ^
Fisher, Joe
Flower, J. H.
Foster, Steve
Gagnon, Wm.
Haslem, H. G.
Hagan, James
Hill, L. W.
Hagen, Hans
Hoey, Andy
Gray, E. B.
Gilcher, W. H.
Hyland, Mike
Isabel, L. C.
Irvine, A. J.
Johnson, A. G. ’ . '
Jones, Frank
Jacobsen, J. C.
Julian. W. J.
Johnson, Joseph
Jepson, Peter
Joseph, H. B.
Roland, Knut
Ketooroky, John A.
l*aughlin, E. L.
Lund, E. E.
Lehr, Q. P.
Myers, R. R.
Moore, Frank B.
Miles, J. H.
McDonald, R. S.
Martin, G. S.
Morris, R. C.
Nash, Martin
O'Keefe, Larry
Parks, S. E.
Pennington, G. W
Palfy, Paul
Packer, W. L.
Ryan, W. A.
Rosburg, Herman
Roth, Andy
Rodigkeit, Wm.
Schmidt, Carl
Schaeffer, M. A.
Slippern, J. A.
Simson, Lipman
Scott, J. H.
Rellander, C. J.
Stone, A. J.
Schmidt, Pete
Smith, Chas.
Southworth, R. G.
Spira, Frank
Thompson, Theodore
Toussaint, J G. K
Tyler, M. V.
Taylor, Wm. J.
Van Orsdel, J. C.
Williams, E. A.
Waechter, R. I.
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GROCERS
In 1849, the late German kaiser’s
grandfather, Prince William of
Prussia, was wandering incognito
through some of the provinces of
the Rhine. He was at that time
very unpopular, owing to his atti
tude toward the Berlin revolution
of 1849, and therefore had little
thought of ever coming to the
throne.
At Mayence a gypsy woman of
fered to tell his fortune and ad
dressed him as “Imperial Majesty.”
Not a little amused, the prince
asked, “ ‘Inmepriat Majesty,’ and of
what empire, pray?”
“Of the new German Empire,”
was the reply.
He inquired: “When is this em
pire to be formed?”
The gypsy took a piece of paper
and wrote on it the year 1849
Then she placed the same figures
in a column beneath:
1849
1
8
1871
In 1871 the empire began!
“How long am I to rule over this!
empire?” asked the prince.
The gypsy repeated the mathe- j
matical operation again, taking the;
number 1871 and adding the same
figures in column:
1871
1
8
7
1
1888
In 1888 he passed away.
Then the prince asked: “How long
■ is this empire to last?”
J And the gypsy, taking the fig
ures 1888, and repeating the same
; operation:
1888
8
8
obtaining the result 1913
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