The Alaska daily empire., 1915-12-01

NEWS AND VIEWS|
 OF THE WAR
 The chemiker zeltung. a leading chemistry journal, says that as a re- suit of the discovery by a young Ger man bacterlologist, while serving in the trenches fiat" microbe has been l found containing cells with pure | bland oil. produced by fermentation process The microbe acting on a solution of beet sugar produces fer ment on yeast which contains IT per cent. of fat. 49 per cent. hydrocar- bons and 31 per cent of albumen. on is very nutritious, and can also be used as lubricant. The organism supplements the work of another used In transforming sugar to albumen. By these two agents, according to Ger man science. abundant beet sugar crops can readily be transformed in. to vast quantities of new foods which will supplement Germanys dwindling stores of natural products Arrange ments are being made for turning out the new product on large scale.
 In the Boston Globe Herbert Cor ey writes from Paris that in that city and vicinity there are now 400 hospitals, containing an aggregate of 45.OOo beds. On Champs Elysees. the handsome Grand Palais is now hospital containing 1.4OO beds. aud 2- GOO outpahents visit It's surgeons every day for treatment; since the be- ginning of the war 65,OOO wounded men have been treated there. In the Pasteur Institute at Garches, stalls built for blooded chargers of Napol- con are in possession of 240 cast-off army horses, being utilized to pro- duce serum. The institute manufactures enough serum to inoculate 10000 men daily, and keeps enough on hand to inoculate 500.000 men. The Pharmac- ie Centrale has sent out drugs since the beginning of war which IS oati- mated to have cost $10000o,0o0; It dispatches 70 tons each day for the use of the army.
 Former Premier venizelos. blending in the Chamber of Deputies for the entarance of Greece into the war on the side of the Allies, seid; we are saddened by the thought that tomor- ow we shall be aolnge, without friends or allies. in the face of formidable enemy. Your policy has rendered our national ideals impossible, and ln serving lnvoluntarily a German politi- cal group we are exposed to the dan ger of aiding Bulgarian aspirations and the growth of Turkish power. Why not take part today in war which tomorrow will be ineyitable?"
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 Ian Malcomb, NJ. P, in book en- titled "war Pictures Behind the lines" relates Q conversation he had with the crown prince of Germany at Berlin in January, 1914. The con- versation as reproduced from Mall combs diary reads fin part as fol- lows:
 Crown Prince After all. you Brit lsh people ought to be better friends with Germany than you are.
 Mr. Malcom-sir, we are always ready to be friends. but to all ouh oyertures your chancellor replies with invarlable snub.
 Crown PrInce-How can we trust you whilst you are allied with the French or Russians? With us togeth- CT we could divide Europe and keep the peace of the world forever.
 Mir. Malcom-But who would pro- pose to do that under our existing treaties2 arelc
 Crown Prince-You could shut your eyes and let us take the French col onies. First of all, we want them.
 The interview closed by my maiS- ing the trlte remark that nowadays nobody wanted war; which injured victors and vanquished, to which the Crown Prince vigorously replied: T beg your pardon, want war. want to have a smack. at those French swine as soon as ever I cur"
 Capt. Watson, of the famous canad- ian Nineteenth Rifles of Winnipeg who has just returned to recuperate from serious wound received while on duty in the northern part of France describes pathetic scenes he witness ed. The captain told of the death of sergt. Becken. He said:
 About noon he came along to the trench where was lying gassed. couldn't speak and I saw he was chok- ing to death. He wanted to say some thing but he couldn't get 1t out. Then he dropped on the grass beside me dead
 "It is the most terrible of deaths. Every man slain by gas dies in horri' ble agony: every death is a human tragedy; and there have been thou sands upon thousands of such deaths along the great battle line where the allies and Germans are drawn up in Western Europe"