The Alaska daily empire., 1914-12-16
ECCLESIASTICAL TARGETS.
after it is mined.

Tn this highly upodate and technical war the most distinctive features has been the pronounced and efficient activity artillery This very mechanical demonstrated vulnerable masonry how esental safety fence to burrow trenches It also has put double premium anything conspicuous the landscape for of observation signalling auxiliary to the avators, and conversely purposes of destruction giving distant or as lessenng the enemys observing power.
 AS very natural consequence type of edi6ce has been the particular victim It escape nathesS in bygone fcs But today is sharply exposed both destruction and desecraon Once able itself to extend sanctuary the church building defenceess sake if that sake codes with the incident purpose the struggle If either the way be nviolabity ranks whit above that of a certain celebrated scrap of paper
 Thence the repeated damage done to cathedral Rheims after it's centuries of immunity Further rreparabe tos haowed wood and glass to be inferred from current admission by the Berlin office that terrific havoc wrought by artillery Rheims but aYoabe because positions taken by the French Already the damage Rheims is estimated at S20000000 and cannonadng still in progress
 The cathedral Antwerp the grace of whose spire won te admiration of Napoleon escaped damage danger partly by preaangement but mainly because the range military necessity never engued it. had come to weigh definitely the scale of the siege religion architecture would have had to accept heir Os the of the shattered little churches the suburbs of the city Also the of many parish sanctuaes scattered through Flanders and northern France
 So also Poland whose Catholic primae reported as having expressed the Vatican his sorrowfu but indgna witnessing the steepe flock systematically and deucvey employed signal towers stations and range finders.
 Both sides to the struggle have by now felt themselves com peed privileged by wars egencs show complete caous ness regards ecclesiastical rgetshough there bel difference of opinion who began has done the of it. Nothing must in the slightest degree obsruct the military path view Better fact exans partisan that all the stone and plaster Europe be razed than that the
 life of grenadier fighting the alessena victory bel wasted.
 All of which entirely logical Here is no room for sent mentality. And possibly also the Being whom the spires pointed would much prefer the crumbng of the masonry the wanton destruction of single refugee conscp The epsods of these damaged temples simply achieve two end of thef grimmest bits of in history.
 Each of these combatan batterng Gods house with up tilted howzer had first with uped invoked Him in exclusive partnership Boston News Bureau.
 Russia has called for another corporas guard numbering
 million all told The dispatches not say whether they necessary the 1osem insurgents Russian to look after the Germans that have not been slain battle
 Representative Smith Maryland is having hard time in his efforts at giving Southeastern Alaska Canada in the inter est of world peace His last effort the form of joint reso on quietly shelved without fuss being made Well he broke into print and that is something for statesmen
 Workmens compensation under the State Insurance Fund proving cheaper than calculated the outset years prem un rates will therefore be substantially This is evil denty strong proof of efficiency in the initial administration the new system
 Brodway is busy thoroughfare but think how it would be crowded if all the actors who claim to from there could get back.