The Alaska daily empire., 1915-12-06
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 A Paris special to the World sayI that a device known as the conai fuse. consisting of a diving proiectile as effectively destructive under th' water as the shell of six-inch guI is on land-a missile which can b' fixed to a shell or a bomb. goes dowr 30 feet and wrecks an within 100 feel has swept tho German submarine from British waters.
 John Redmond. Irish Nationalist leader, says the attempt of lrishmer Of Parliamentary age to emigrate tc America was due to the belief that conscription has been enacted "Thai of course. is no excuse" he says "lt is very cowardly of them to try and emigrate"
 A Stockholm dispatch says that the German protected cruiser Frauenlob a sister ship of the Undine, has been torpedoed off the coast of Sweden ten days ago. Both vessels were protect ed cruisers. with a displacement of 2672 tons and a complement of 275 men.
 The Rotterdam Courant says that the German losses from Oct 10 to Nov 9 in dead. wounded and missing were 7s.8S6. The total Prussian loss es to date have been 2,OS9,454 not in- cluding 2SO Bavarian, 29S Wurtem- burg. 2SO Saxon and 30 navy lists and lists of officers lost fighting with the Turks.
 A Rotterdam dispatch says that a class war arising from food riots is springing up in Berlin and other bis German cities The poor complain that well.to-do housewives, though be- ing able to afford butter, are buying up stocks of gargerine. leaving none for the workers.
 The American Association of Com. merce & Trade. Berlin. reports that in Berlin mother and six children live on S64SO a month which in. cludes S21.6O for rent
 
 Great Britain has adopted a plan for insuring the property of the poor against aircraft raids 12 cents will insure s125 for l2 months; the maxi mum value of insurable property is $S75; business will be transacted in the postoffice department.
 The third Austrian war loan has been pronounced a failure The banks of Budapest subscribed only 15O,0OO. O0O francs CS80.O0O.0O0l. The small savings Of the people are said to be exhausted. Emperor Francis Joseph will be asked to subscribe for $6OO.- 900 out of his immense fortune.
 7S,OOO British officers and men were removed from Gallipoli peninsula be- tween April 20 and Oct 2Oh an ac- count Of sickness.
 Two weeks of Bulgarian action in Serbia have brought about a change in the Roumanian public opinion that l6 months of interventionist propa- ganda has failed to do" M- Filipesco leader of the Roumanian concerva- lives is quoted. "The Bulgarians' con- duct has shown our people the dan ger which threatens them"
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 A Rome dispatch declares that the Austro-Germans are preparing new offensive against the Suez canal. The British have flooded the land around the canal. leaving their Qualifications just standing out of the water, the de- lenders being supplied with provisions by row boats
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 A considerable portion or tne SWlsa army will be sent home from the frontiers on Nov. 17, as the govern. ment has been convinced that no dan ger of territorial violations on O large scale by belligerents now exists.
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 A Perograd dispatch says that let. ters that have come into the posses sion of the Russian government show that the Germans have made a prac- tice of holding Russian prisoners as shields in O battle.