Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
for entry as second class mail matter, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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BEHIND THE GERMAN LINES
Business, in the peace time sense
of the word, virtually is dead in
Germany, asserts Sergeant Vuillemst
who, with several comrades, recently
escaped from a prisoner of war
camp in Germany and made their
way back to France.
According to the sergeant’s story,
countless stores in Germany were
closed and empty and everything
that is being manufactured is for
war purposes and the state.
The meat ration he said was 250
grams, one-half pound per week, to
which was added one-tenth of a
pound of grease or fat. Sugar and
coffee were only dimly remembeerd
luxuries. The beer was virtually
undrinkable, and the people were
living on potatoes and beets. The
bread is said to be indigestible.
Leather had almost entirely dis
appeared, and the soldiers at home
and many civilians wore wooden
soled shoes almost conclusively. Sol
diers home on furlough were no
longer permitted to spend all their
time with their families, but must
work part time in the factories.
The morale of the civil and mili
tary population, according to Viul
lement, is maintained by the con
tinual spreading of stories about
an alleged “desperate situation in
France” and German victories, which
are loudly proclaimed by the ringing
of bells not yet seized for ammuni
tion purposes.
FORTUNATE AMERICANS
Fortunate the Americans in this
land of plenty who can- find day
after day some hardship to endure,
says the Territorial Food Adminis
trator. Happy the “wheatless-till
harvest” citizens.
Let those who have murmured
over mixed breads read this bill of
fare:
Breakfast—Acorn coffee, two slic
es of bread made of rye, sawdust
and potato flour.
Dinner—Soup with a small piece
of tough beef, coarse turnips and
no potatoes.
Supper—Soup again with two
slices of bread.
This represents the fare of 1 IS
American prisoners in Germany,
according to a Canadian soldier re
cently escaped from a German
prison. These men were captured
in a trench raid last October and
since then had been marched many
miles on these rations.
Our men, said the Canadian who
talked with them, had not received
parcels of food like other soldiers.
As a result of their treatment they
were thin, weak and mentally dazed.
In this condition they had been ex
hibited from village to village as
a proof that the American army
could not stand against trained Ger
man soldiers.
In the lines and behind the lines
America is giving daily proof that
she can stand against any amount of
German training. There is no bet
ter evidence of this fighting spirit
than the continued response to the
Food Admnistration’s wheat saving
campaign. The hotel men led off,
pledging 500 hotels all over the
country; the hotels in Arkansas and
hundreds elsewhere followed; then
the dining cars and clubs came in.
Entire counties have given up their
holdings of flour and two states,
Idaho and Texas, pledged their will
ingness to give up wheat if neces
sary. Total abstainers clubs have
been formed in Ohio, and from a
Florida town came the wheatless
pledge “Until we whip the kaiser.”
The General Federation of Women’s
clubs meeting in Little Rock, Arkan
sas, pledged each delegate to go
home and enlist in the wheatless
ranks and twenty million members
of the federation,
j If days and weeks and even
months to come are wheatless, let
no whiner call himself an American.
In this world of heroic suffering,
fortunate the Americans who can
find some hardship to endure.
ITALIANS ARE WORRIED
OVER FUTURE OF MONEY
ROME.—“To keep war capital oc
cupied after the war is at once the
greatest probkm and the greatest
danger of our tomorrow, when the
war is over, says the newspaper
Popolo Romana." At present we
have enormous sums in circulation
because of money invested in war
'industries. We should now begin
to devise plans to keep this fluid
money working, to make sure that
Italy will not be subjected to the
process known as dumping, a pro
• cess which destroys home industry,
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RAINCOATS .$15.00
HEAVY, STRONG, CLOTH COVERED RUBBER
COATS .$9.50
SLICKERS in 94 *•*<! Full Lengths. .$4.00
MEN’S WATERPROOF CLOTH CAPS.$1.00
LADIES’ WATERPROOF RAINCOATS $17 50
CHILDREN’S RAINCOATS, Schoolbag and Cap to match, $5.00
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MEN’S SHOETACS, In All tho Leading Brands,.$4.50 up
CHILDREN’S AND LADIES’ SHOEPACS.$3.75
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SIMSOIN’S
GERMAN AC1I0N
IN FINLAND MW
WASHINGTON.—Germany's ac
tivities in Finland and the Aland
Islands are causing fears among the
northern European neutrals that a
“middle Sea of the North” is con
templated by the autocratic Central
Powers as an adjunct to their ag
gressive plans for an economic and
military alliance against the world
under the name of “Mittel-Europa.”
“The results obtained by the Ger
mans in the Russian Baltic states
give the neutral northern countries
much room for after thought,” de
clares Dr. Jur. C. Asche, the Scan
linavian economist, in an article
received here in official despatches.
“The operations of the Germans in
the Baltic provinces may have con
. sequences which no peace congress
! ever will have power to efface.
“The Germans desire to connect
Finland in an economic way with
Middle Europe. Finland is a coun
| try of raw materials. If Germany
J becomes master of the Baltic, and
Finland becomes an independent
state with economic connections with
Middle Europe, Russia’s wish to ex
tend toward the west is probably
| once for all made impossible.
“In order for Russia to get on
her feet again, she must find an
\ outlet for her natural riches, and
1 when she has no way open to the
I west, she must get there by aid of
the Middle European group, espe
| cially Germany, and by aid of Scan
i dinavia. In this way, an interchange
of trade between Scandinavia, the
Middle European group, and Russia
and the entire Mohammedan world
would be possible, and not simply
a future dream.
I “With regard to Norway, it is
not out of the question that this
country will have to consider serious
; ly whether she will not have to lean
more to the east and south thar
j now is the case.”
Bearing on the same subject ;s
an abstract from Affarsvarlden, a
leading Swedish trade journal:
“Germany’s actions on Aland and
in Finland, and the inclusion of Fin
land in the German protected states,
is a very serious thing for the
economic life and tne whole future
of Sweden,” it says. “Finland and
i possibly Russia under German eeon
j omic and political control are a
menace to Sweden greater than any
before. There are already indica
tions to show that Germany is ex
tending here new influence as far
north as Spitzbergen.
“If Finland forms an economic
i
union with GermEyiy, which, for
anyone who knows Germany, will
mean only that Finland becomes a
German vassal state, this will have
a great influence on the Swedish
I export market for timber, wood
pulp, paper, etc., in which Sweden
has heretofore competed with Fin
land.
“The economic future of Sweden
, has been greatly shadowed by the
events of the last few’ weeks,
i Whether it w’ill have any political
influence remains to be seen.
! “The Frankfurter (Germany) Zei
tung says with regard to the Ger
man occupation of Aland that it
has, of course, a far greater politi
cal than military character.
:
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OVER RETURNS
BUENOS AIRES.—Only 21 citi
zens of the United States registered
for the municipal elections in Bue
! nos Aires under the new law which
I gives the vote to foreigners in muni
cipal elections. The census of 1914
showed that there were 3,449 Amer
icans in the Argentine Republic. It
is estimated that this number has
doubled since the war began and
that most of them are living in
Buenos Aires.
The newspapers commented un
favorably on the fact that, of the
120,000 foreigners in the city who
were entitled to vote, only 13,615
registered and said this showed that
they had no interest in the city be
yond making as much money as
possible and then returning to their
native countries. The papers argued
from this that the foreigner’s col
laboration in the city government
could never be depended upon,
j The census of 1914 showed that
| there were nearly as many aliens
in Buenos Aires as natives, 777,845
foreigners and 797.669 natives. In
order to give this great foreign pop
ulation a voice in the city govern
ment a law was passed recently ex
tending the vote to aliens who were
married to Argentine women, or
who had children born in Argentina,
or who paid a specified amount of
house rent. This included nearly
j all the married foreigners in the
' city. Unmarried foreigners were
I entitled to the vote if they paid as
much as fifty pesos a year in taxes.
The nationalities most largely
i represented in the registration were
i Italians, 6,447; Spaniards, 5.004;
French 508; Russians, 481; Uru
guayans, 377; Germans, 195; Eng
; glish 144.
On e of the newspapers in com
menting unfavorably on this re
jection of the ballot by the foreign
! ers, said it was an “inexplicable
social phenomenon.”
AMERICAN AERO CLUB
HONORS FRENCH AIRMEN
PARIS—The foreign service com
mittee of the Aero Club of America
has awarded to Lieutenant .lean
Chaput, who was one of the lead
ing aces of the French flying corps,
the gold medal of the organisation.
Lieutenant Chaput, who had brought
down sixteen planes including one
“drachen” or German “sausage”
balloon, was killed recently. The
medal has been forwarded to his
family.
The foreign service committee,
I whose headquarters are here, have
awarded thirty-two medals alto
gether; fourteen to Americans; two
to Italians; twelve to Frenchmen;
one to a Belgian; two to Britishers;
and one to a Canadian.
CALIFORNIANS URGED
TO BEWARE OF FIRES
i -
, SAN FRANCISCO. — Huntsmen
and anglers are being appealed tc
by the various forestry officials to
; be particularly careful about their
camp fires, cigars, pipes, cigarettes,
and any otAer agencies from which
1 there is danger of fire. According
to these officials sportsmen undoubt
edly are responsible for a propor
tion of the preventable fires, in view
of the great war, they are urged to
use every effort to keep destruction
to ration an army of 30,000 soldiers
I down to a minimum,
j According to the local district
forester, during 1917 enough wheat
in California alone was destroyed
for a whole year.
_
When meatpackers and hotel men
boast of tons of meat saved or
meatless days it is time for every
private citizen to tally his pounds
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