The Alaska daily empire., 1915-09-24

| ter of the Dardanelles. That power at present is Great Britain. The Rus sian government has already twice sounded the British government as to It's intentions.
 A wounded Australian officer. who has reached Alexandria from Gallipoli, planes the rising sun for the failure of the Allies to gain @ great success in the "Anzac" zone. Two more hours of darkness. he says. would have enabled the Allies to cover 600 yards of ground which separated the troops from Sari Blar hin, generally known as hin 971. Once this hill was in the Allies hands the Turkish com munication would have been cut.
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 Trotting and steeplechase races probably will be resumed in Germany in the near future. Government sane tion. which the racing interests have been endeavoring to obtain for some time. is expected this week. If the government grants the permission for trotting meet, the first since the war began, will be held at Mariendorf near Berlin which will be followed by a steeplechase meet, at Karlhorst
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 Rudyard Kipling. just returned from the western fighting front, says. "The French country is a place where there is not one young or middle aged man who is not at the post of duty as- signed by the military authorities" Trenches, he says. are built and drain ed as if France realized the war was going to continue for five years.
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 Novoe vremya of Petrograd, com. menting on the Czar's assumption of command of the Russian armies, says; "Our insolent foe has now received a worthy answer to his projects. The Russian emperor has placed himself at the head of the military forces and hopes of the Germans for peace are turned to dust and ashes"
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 Charles W. Eliot president emeritus of Harvard University, says: q have nothing to say about peace in Europe, except that it would be, under pres ent conditions O horrible calamity to the human race, because it would car ry into the future the wrongs and evils which make the actual war inevitable" A. Piatt Andrews, former assistant secretary Of the Treasury who has just returned from France, says: "The United States must become one of the Allies. if we wish to preserve our dignity. Germany has no respect for us and neither have the other na- tnons. This is because of the policy we have adopted on our foreign re- lations"
 Premier viviana. in the French Chamber of Deputies said recently: Put the question of peace before the country and it would be blown to nothing. Not until heroic Belgium has been freed. or until we have re- taken Alsace and Lorraine could there be mischievous diversion among us."
 The Russian Czar says: Peasants speak to me in affectionate terms and every day I receive from several of them addresses saying hold firm for we are all behind the" France can count on my immovable will to strug- gle on until complete victory is fi- nally achieved"
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 The New York Worlds correspond ent at Berlin says that the Germans scoff at rumors of peace as coming from Germany. characterlzing such stories as American fantasy or Eng fish fabrioations."
 An Amsterdam special says that rue mors that Admiral von Tirpitz, the German minister of marine intends to resign are inventions.
 The population of Arras, France. which was 26.oOO before the war has now dwindled to less than LOGO.
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