The Alaska daily empire., 1915-08-10

.Ai, v Jtn1A'EA < 9 f-~ -'- -.i -r-e' D 1. q. , @ @ e e o c Q @ e Q q e q WAR st0gLioHTa 2 6 @ 6 Q t @ 6 q Q 0 c Q c g c Q Professor Irving Fisher of Yalo says: "The cost of the war in money and in life scarcely counts in tho long run. Wars real tragedy lies not ln wrecked cathedrals, filled gracon or eutted treasury boxes. It lies in emp. tied cradies-emptied cradles of Che coming generation. It Is quality ralh- CT than quantity of men that should be held precious"
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 A Rome special says the Pope has confidential information from the apostolic delegate at Constantinoplo, that tho forcing of the Dardanellos is enevitable, and that that the Turks are determined to massacre al tho Christians when the Allies occupy Constantinople. The Pope has ap- pealed to Emperors William and Franz Josepr whom he will hild responsible. Red Cross statistics show S,sS10OO killed. wounded aud made prisoners during the first six months of the European war, of whom 2,146,0OO are estimated as killed, 1,15O,OOO serious ly wounded, s.7S1OoO slightly wound ed and l,7S3,OOO prisoners. Of the B. SS1 .OOO total, 2.797O0O were Teutonic Allies and 6,oS4,OOO French Britiah and Russian.
 The German federal council has is- sued an order regulating the prices for necesaarles. especially gain and fodder It provides severe punish ment to dealers who unduly increase prices of or withhold articles of food. The German empire is divided into four districts instead of S2 depart ments. where prices vary according to local conditions.
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 The daily cost now to the nations at war is estimated at S42.254, ,25O; total cost to April l, 1915. at S1O.OOO.- 900, ,0OO and for the first year at S15.- GOO. O.OOO.OOO. which if paid in gold would weigh 52,SOO,OOO pounds; the total production of the worlds gold for 500 years past is but S8,OOOOOO pounds.
 Kaiser William is quoted as declar- ing that Germany could not negotiate with her enemies at Warsaw and Ca lais had been captured With Gener- als Won Hindenburg and von Fall1en- hayn the Kaiser has drawn the final plans to put an end to the war, which must terminate before Christmas.
 The Italian government will make large purchases Of American meat and grain. not only sufficient to supply her army and navy until July S1. 1916. but also for the use of the general population. The purpose is to discour- age speculation which is proceeding on a large scale.
 General Botha at a banquet at Cape Town declared that maps had been discovered recasting the chart of Africa on the basis of a peace pact to be concluded in Rome in 1916. The whole of Africa South of the equator was mapped Greater Germany.
 The death rate among the wound ed on the Western front is nearly % per cent, as against 22 per cent. in the Crimean war. The London Lan- cet says the high rate is due to con- ditions such as trench fighting. which result in a large number of injuries from shell and shrapnel
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 Switzerland special says on account of the shortage of leather the German government is encouraging the manu- facture of wooden sabots and to set an example officials use the new foot wear. Children are now allowed to go to school barefooted
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 Glenn Curtiss is building 32 aero. planes of the American type and sev- eral larger machines called Zeppelin destoyers" for Great Britain. He is building two machines of the latter type for Russia and four for Italy
 Correspondence from Peterhead, in Scotland, says one German submarine was sunk recently by a British gun boat disguised as a trawler. and an- other by a British submarine which followed in the wake of some trawl- CTS.
 Since the beginning of the war the Iron Cross has been conferred on S44.794 persons. Up to the end of March the cost of manufacturing the crosses was SSOOOOO.
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 Confiscation of the 1915 vegetable crop, including peas, lentils. and beans has been ordered by Austria to pre- vent speculation and the unwarrant- ably high prices.
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 MRS. DORA DILLON
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 Mrs. Dora Dillow. the widow of inc