The Ketchikan miner., 1915-03-04
FROM MONDAYS DAILY
INTERESTING LETTER TELLING OF EFFECTS OF WAR
 IN GREAT BRITAIN

ing man, which So aptly describes con ditions on the other side of the At lantic, that we present it verbatim:
 'While the war has brought ruin to some, it means huge fortunes to many others. Every arsenal dock yard, shipyard and factory is work ing day and night turning out arms of all kinds, clothing, boots, and the hundred and one other things neces- sary for the proper equipment of our troops and navy. and as the official statement says we have three million men under arms, exclusive of India and the colonies, it takes a lot to keep them in trim and keep the i'm mense amount of ammunition neces- sary on its way to the battlefront. Tine men employed in connection with the above are having the time Of their lives as far as wages are con- cerned, many of them making as high as $35.00 per week, which is big figure here. Then. contracts for mil. lions of pounds worth of stuff have been sent to the United States. so that while it is a bad job for many, some people will make a lot of money. Our expenditure at present over the was is over ten million dollars day.
 '.London is full of companies of ing in every direction and being drilled ready to go to the front. They are a fine looking lot of chaps. London is dark at night and all lights have to be extinguished even in the street cars and other vehicles when crossing the Thames or any of the bridges. and powerful search. lights are streaming over the sky on the lookout for German Zeppelins with which their official papers threaten to wreck London We have guns in every direction waiting for 1hehi, anu dioo Soou Ileet ol ouI oWu airships. It is quite possible that they will make the attempt and if so will probably kill lot of people and smash up property, but if they do, SOME of them will never get back to Germany again.
 'While I am writing I can hear the National Guard which is being formed for home defense being drill ed, and on the flat roof in front of my office building 1 can see naval men and special constables who are in charge of the searchlight and gun practicing the use of both. Barbed wire entanglements are being put around every opening from the roof to the cable offices, which are in this building. All telegraph, cable and postoffice have to be guarded day and night as do waterworks, rail way bridges, as we have thousands of enemies in our midst who should have been informed or shipped over to Germany when the war started, but unfortunately we have some pro Germans in our government who like to deal with the Germans with kid gloves, don't like to hurt their feel ings, thousands of them are employ. cd while many of our own countrymcn nre out of work
 ''Terrific fighting is now going on more particularly in Poland with mans who attack with masses of men in close formation and are simply mown down by machine guns and rifle fire, they are making frantic efforts to get Warsaw, but I think they will fail to do so, but with all their huge losses. the Germans seem able to pour up more men to the front. I feel certain the Allies will win in the end. but Germany holds nearly the whole of Belgium, big lump of France and of Poland and it g going to take terrific fighting and loss of life to drive her forces back into Germany. She has prac tically wiped out Belgium, a part of France and Poland, there is no half measures with her; it $ war all the time. Cities, towns villages and the whole country has been wrecked. the destruction of property has been simply awful. Since the war started huge number of men have lost their lives and hundreds of thous- ands have been wounded and crip- pied and if the war continues during this year as many think it will, at the least ten on twelve million of the finest manhood of the nations, taking part in the war will be prac- tically wiped out and it will take the world generation to recover the loss and 1t will bring ruin and mis-