The Alaska daily empire., 1915-08-28
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 The Boston Globe quotes ex-Mayor Nathan Matthews. who has returned from his mission to England. as say ing "Grcat Britain has curbed the submarine menace of the Germans. All classes of society arc now with the government England has just begun to flight. Russia's shortage of munitions has cost the Allies a year or more of war" lt is said Great Britain has spread not loss than 1900 miles of steel nets in which to snare torpedoes and submarines; practical. ly every navigable channel in British waters has these snarers. lt is now doubted if 1 per cent of England's imports has been destroyed by sub marines. With nets and fast motor boats. the English expect to master the undersea raiders completely Eng land is also turning out submarines probably as fast and perhaps faster than Germany. England's ammunition supply will not reach the maximum for months 250O.OO0 perhaps would be a safe estimate of the English vol unteers. She will have to have twice that number before the end; 90 per cent. of the undergraduates in the great universities have volunteered. In the labor classes volunteering runs from 25 to 8S per cent
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 The New York American has a re- port from South Bethlehem that the Bethlehem Steel Co.,, is shipping 20.- 900 to S0.OOO shells a day and will soon very largely increase the ship ments. Schwab is looking around for available buildings for the expansion of his plant The engineering depart. ment is three years ahead with its plans for expansion. Three new build ings, employing more than a thousand hands, have recently been added for the manufacture of high explosive shells. It is said that the Bethlehem Company has invested $i0,0OO,0O0 in solid securities and still has $16,0OO,- 900 in cash. Checks for millions are continually arriving and one for $12- 100000 was recently received. It is said that much of the S20,OOO,OOO in gold just imported by Morgan will ultimately reach the Bethlehem cof fers. Another S75.OO0,OOO contract with Russia has been made On the English contracts, about 25 per cent is paid down, half when Che work is completed and the remainder when the material is at port for shipment Late contracts call for high explosive shells. All contracts are firm.
 The establishment of factories for the spinning Of the down of missiles as a substitute for cotton, not only for the manufacture of clothing but for war use. is urged in an article published by the Neueste Nachrich' ten of Leipsig. The article is regard ed in Paris as shedding light upon the urgent need in Germany for cot ton as base for smokeless powder
 A Washington special says that fif teen submarines. parts of which were made by the Bethlehem Steel Com pany and put together in shipyards at Montreal. crossed the Atlantic un. der their own power and are now do. ing duty in the North Sea and the Oar. danelles. All this was accomplished in a little more than four months from the time the order for the sub- marines was given.
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 Jane Addams says she was told by Ia French war officer that French soldiers are given absinthe before a charge. by a German lieutenant that German troops are given drug for mula containing sulphuric ether. and by an oxford professor that his son and his nephew were given rum to stimulate them to bayonet work
 Henry Ford says: thousands of cars were sought (from mel by each of the warning nations, but all were denied and similar requests will con tinue to be denied If other Ameri cans aid the war with the products of their industry I am sorry for them as Americans and as men. ] am sor- ry for America because of them"