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The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post. [volume] (Seward, Alaska) 1917-1918, 1917-09-17
OUR EAGLE OR WLHELMS

One of two birds is to have dust ON Its back and lose
GREAT many feathers 1t viii be the German eagle on
the American eagle One or the other will be ON ITS back
and lit is bit early in the young life of the American eagle
fort to wave its aons mpoteny and detected IN defeat
This eagle has had some narrow escapes but 1t al
ways has been able scream after the event. and we think
that it has scream or so remaining for uJterance We
have an idea that the American eagle intends, determines
and wills to win.
We cannot think of the United States in the collapse
of defeat 1t does not sound plausible 1t does not have
the appearance of possibility the aspect of rational
ity. We are not tribute payers We have had many
shameful and dsgraceu experiences but we have yet to
know what the yoke is like We have not been dragged at
any nations chariot whee.
We have had humiliation but we have not had this
humiliation and it seems unreasonable that at this pre-
else time when we are larger richer and stronger than
we ever were before we should accept unnecessary eX
periences.
For such reasons as these have an idea that the
American nation win not accept defeat and that it is not
necessary for it to accept defeat
We know that such an idea would be regarded in Ger
many as preposterouS but are convinced that it is
true as the word of God There can be defeat for the
American republic Some day, when it is ivy grown and
crumbng it may accept the pains of the yanquished and
the taxes of the conquered but that time has not come
vet and shall not come for centuries shall not be brought
about by any breed the human has produced yet
not by burned sight. If that be slang make the most
of Tx.
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HEAVY GUNS FOR THE SAMIIES

Fortunately for the United States army that IS to
90 into action in France next spring British and French
heavy GUN arsenas will have by then surplus of output
If the United States had to depend its own output OF
heavy guns its armies would into action about 1919
Its forces at present have only 600 guns fit for service at
the front The Allies have heavy guns by the tens OF
thousands 1t is said that in the Messnes BATTLE which
was on small front, the British packed in $500 heavy
GUNS The number in the new offensive was much great
En- The cannon stood almost literally timber to imber
i'm rows extending back several miles No such big gun
organization can be created in the United States on an
adequate SCALE for at least year and probably more,
whereas the Allies have to wind up the war in 1913 to
avoid ruin to themselves Only two plants in the United
States have facilities for big gun manufacture. The
French government has however offered to turn over for
use of the United States forces it's surplus Of big guns
and by the time the "Amexes" grow sufficiently to take
their place at the front more will be available 1t seems
too as if the wise policy would be for Washington to ar
range to get as much heavy artillery from Britain and
France as they can spare saving transport overseas Of
the guns and munitions Secretary Baker has asked an
of $2OOOOOOOOO for heavy artillery how
ever and arming is to proceed with utmost vigor-To-
ronto Mail and Empire.
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The Seward News Company
GEORGE PHELPS
Booksellers, NewsdeaIers and StatiOners

81 a.rns his tusty craese, and things are looking CORY
8 first our starry flag arose, by war-wom soldiers
greeted Unces met all kinds Of foes and never been
uercaJed For when he draws his shining blade defeat
must never dim it, and though in carnage he may wade
he'll always 90 the limit That's what his shining sword
is for to knock foeman silly and this will be wrist
tap war write that down, Kaiser Willie Oh thereIl be
grief in German lands and dark and gloomy weather
now Uncle Sam splits his hands, and cracks his heels
sogether-Wat Mason.
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THE FIGHTER

Our Uncle Sam is slow to fight no warike bluff he
tenders he first makes sure that he is right then he busts
his best suspenders So oath is he to mix in scraps he
is so mild fellow that Bill and other bOnehead chaps
imagined he is yellow "Well sink his Ships" said Kai-
ser Bill we drown his gents and ladies; he is too lady
like to kill or start in raising hades" But when our
Uncle sees that peace won't doveta well with glory, he
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New-York tribune., 1917-12-09

nails torn out. their hair pulled out by
the roots, and nameless outrages per-
petrated in order TO extract incrlm-
mating information. Soon deportation
began. It was declared that the pur-
pose Of the government was simply to
remove the Armenian population IN the
western part Of Asia Minor from the
war zone and from the neighborhood
of the main railroads to the Mesopo-
tamian plain, where they would have
no chance fo- plotting and where the
government could supervise and at the
same time provide for them, but 1t soon
became manifest that destruction and
not deportation was the real object.
The usual method was TO name day
on which all the Armenian population
of town or village must vacate and
proceed By rail to their appointed des-
tination, but long before the day ar
rived gendarmes would ride at mid
night into the towns and villages. set
Ufe 10 houses, OEutf luc ptOpic OAb a.
once. rob and loot and assault, and
put to death, as occasion might arise.
Women were abducted aud outraged.
children were scattered and kidnapped
and many old people put TO death in
the early stages of the deportation.
The victims Of the deportation were
mostly old men, women and children.
The terrified crowds were hurried to
the railroad stations, forced 70 pay
their own fare, if any money had been
left 20 them. or driven along the high
ways on foot if they had none. Babies
were born in indescribable conditions
and many of them flung from the cars,
while their mothers, often insane with
grief. leaped after them. Along the
highways tens of thousands were being
driven from every town and village
quickly spending what little money
they had, and then left to perish by the
wayside, or, what was more merclful
shot or stabbed to death by the gen
darmcs.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-09
The Hun in armenia

for transportation on the railroad in
order to avoid the whip and club Of the
gendsrmes If they had to 90 sfoot.
Needless to say, our little hospital %
fifty beds was packed 70 the limit. We
were already caring for Turkish SOL
diers. but took in as many Of the moro
desperately sick Of the refugees as We
could. SIX hundred people crowded into
our little hospital garden daily for
bread and soup.
In desperation the Turkish governor
went to Constantinople, in hopes OF
obtaining permission to send the
people to their homes, but with dia-
bolical cleyerness the officials OF Konia
plotted in his absence, and one day the
larger part Of that great crowd OF ffty
. thousand was driven of on foot with
whip and cudgel, with curses and kicks
and blows. Women in labor were thrown
on the tops Of baggage carts and rushed
OF into the plains about the city, where
numbers perished, and the rest were
thrown into the crowded cars and hur-
ried away.
But all OF this was mild in COM
parison with what happened beyond.
The people who survived the early
days Of the deportation had TO travel
through mountains infested with wild
Kurdish tribes, who fell upon the
helpless exiles and robbed, outraged
and murdered TO their hearts con-
tent. Probably not 10 per cent
Of the people who were officially
"deported" ever reached Nesopotamis,
and those who did perished rapidly
from starvation. When the British
prisoners from Kut-el-Amsra came TO
Konia I asked one of the officers il he
saw any Armenians in Mesopotami& As
he came through. YES he said,
plenty Of them, but only dead Ar
menians."
New-York tribune., 1917-12-09
Took Care of
700 Wounded

We Americans in ConstantlnOple had
very busy days. / was already IN charge
Of the French and British hospitals IN
tho city. comprising about 100 beds,
and soon a portion of the great bar
racks al Tashkushna was put under the
American Red Cross. New workers
came from Beirut and eventually the
American Red Cross took care of about
ZOO wounded all the time. IL is gener-
allv supposed that the Dardanelles cam
paign was an entire failure, and so 1t
was from the standpoint of capturing
Constantinople and putting Turkey out
Of the war. But not 50 from the stand
point of weakening the Turkish army.
The Turkish losses more than doubled
those of the French and British. A
careful estimate showed the number OF
killed. crippled and missing as at least
half q million.
Mr.. Morgenthau, the American Am
bassador. was a tower of strength IN
those days. Time after time he foiled
the Turkish and German officials IN
their plots for oppression or reprisal
upon the British and French citizens
living in Constantinople. Once, when
the tide seemed to be turning against
the Turks, and the straits were IN serl-
Gus danger, Elmer Pacha was all for
gathering up all the French and
English men in the city and putting
them on the bows of the transports
which were carrying the Turkish troops
to the Dardanelles. But our yigilant
ambassador was able TO frustrate this
by arguments and entreaties, and
finally in truly Oriental fashion the
Turks made a bargain TO limit IL to
fifty men, and these were merely
escorted to the theatre Of war by the
first secretary of our embassy and a
few days later all brought safely home.
But to return TO the Armenians.
simultaneously with the second phase
of the Dardanelles campaign procla-
nation was issued permitting military
commanders TO deport the civilian pop
ulation from one part of the empire
to another a. military necessity"
might arise. Soon il became evident
that this apparently harmless manGuyre
was the death warrant of the Ar
menian nation. Arrests Of prominent
Armenans in all cities OF the empire
followed. Men were thrown into prison
and their houses searched for arms,
and a general accusation Of secret plot
ting against the empire made against
all Armenians.
An expert on torture visited the pris-
ons in the neighborhood OF Constan-
tinople. Men were burned, their finger
New-York tribune., 1917-12-09

keep him fearless, Haunting death
daily, week IN and week out. till the
Great Adventure claims him.
The feeling still persists everywhere
that. even apart from fighting, flying
is terribly dangerous. Ia reality It is
almost safe. OF course, there is dam
ger in every mechanical contrivance
of a mechanical breakdown; motor
trouble or some weakness developing
But, il there are no guns below, that
can be remedied very simply by land
ing at the first sign Of trouble.
Sometimes, of course. II may be diff
cult TO find a safe and smooth land
ing place; but at the front. II one has
a fair height, he can always manage
to volplane to one Of the airdromes.
Even in the fighting planes, which with
their small wing spread depend TO the
greatest possible extent on their engine
power to keep them up, good pilot
can glide four feet for each foot that
he drops-that is, If he is a mile high
he can travel four miles to md a land
ing place. And the direction Of the
wind is also factor.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-09
Girls of American
School Taken Away

The girls were taken from the Amer.
lean school in Talas; about eighty OF
them gathered into a large house ~
Cesarea, put under military guard, and
fed on bread and water, while daily
threats were made against them and
offset by invitations of liberty and
comfort If they would forsake thc.I
faith and consent 20 become wives OF
Turks. But the noble band Of young
women stood faithful, and after weeks
Of imprisonment and persecution tho
officials were so impressed by their
steadfastness and perhaps alarmed by
the spread OF disease and death among
them that they released them all and
permitted the survivors to serve as
free Christian women in the Turkish
hospitals.
Month after month this horrible de-
pOrtation continued, while all the time
the Anglo-French forces thundered Al
the very gates of the empire. We
Americans in Constantinople went
through every phase Of hope and de-
spair during those terrible days. VIC
longed for the deliverer TO break
through and crush the maleyolent
power that was bringing a whole nation
10 destruction. But as week after week
dragged by our hopes sank lower and
lower. and suddenly toward the end OF
1913 the British mysteriously disap-
reared from the peninsula on misty
night in December, and we realized the
sad truth that the Dardanelles cam
paign had come 70 an end and that
there was no dcliversnce for the Ar
menians.
when 7 arrived in Konia there was
vast encampment, for the most part
without tents. of about fifty thousand
Armenian exiles in the fields about the
railroad station. The governor Of konis
Djella Bey, was a Turk Of the better
sort, and he had done his best to arrest
the deportation. care for the people and
ta obtain an order from Constantlnoplc
permitting their return. lie allowed US
10 20 freely among the refugees and
distribute food and money TO the limit
of our ability. The condition Of the
people was wretched beyond descrip-
tion. Wealthy merchants and business
men, preachers, professors, doctors, law
yers, men in every walk Of life, women
handsomely dressed in Paris gowns
side by side with rough peasants from
the villages all crowded together on
the hot. dusty fields. with the Oriental
sun pouring upon them by day and the
cold dews Of the high interior plateau
settling upon them at night. Friend
less and desolate bands Of Armenians
wandered ID and down the streets car
rying what remained TO them Of rugs
lace. jewelry and other possessions, en-
deavoring to sell them for bread anC
New-York tribune., 1917-12-09
Then America
Entered the War

Then came our own entrance INTO the
war, with the consequent rupture or
relations with Turkey. Many mission
stations were abandoned, their prop
crty taken over By the Turks, and 10
seemed for a while as II our own work
in Konia was also doomed. Where
Americans had 20 leave Swiss mission
aries and their agents took their places,
and American money can still be sent
through Switzerland into Turkey to
feed the surviving thousands.
American missionary and educational
work in Turkey commenced eighty-hve
years ago. and has survived the trc-
mendous political changes that have
overwhelmed the country for nearly a
century. It has lived through previous
crises OF war, famine and misery, be-
sides enduring the constant hostility
aud opposition Of Turkish oficisls in
times OF peace. This is not the time
for us as a nation 10 abandon our re-
sponsibillty in Turkey.
The German control Of Turkey is ABB
solute. The Ottoman gold Is in Berlin,
and Turkey is flooded with paper notes
backed by German promises 10 pay sew
eral years after the conclusion of peace.
And yet the shrewd German is not
yet ready TO colonize in Turkey. No
colonists have come TO the fruitful
Anatolian plains, and no manufacture
ing or commercial enterprises other
than those strictly military have been
started. So Germany is not quite
ready to regard Turkey as her own,
dearly as she covets her, and the Turks
themselves say that some fine day the
Germans will fold their tonts and ST.
lently steal away, leaving them to the
mercy OF their enemies!
New-York tribune., 1917-12-09
French Honor the
Fallen Boelke

When it was learned that the great
German Ace had been brought down
and Was buried close behind the Ger
man lines, many French pilots started
out with wreaths Of .wcrs to pay
honor % lc.r fallen foe. As they
crossed the lines the German antl-air-
craft guns sent up their usual shrap-
tel. The planes few on amid the
bursts until above the grave and then
silll under FIRE. began TO drop their
wreathg.
Immediately the firing ceased, and
he pilots went through the same cere-
monies o. with one Of our own dead;
they would swoop down TO within lew
hundred feet Of the ground, "wailing".
their motors. and then chandai soar
vpward-into the clouds. More than
a dozen plots paid this tribute, ana
al were permitted 10 return unmO-
lssted 90 their airdromcs. The guns
"a not open fire again till they had
eappeared. The next time they
!S0sssd the lines the battle went on as
before
All enemy airmen receive this dis
uhguished consideration. Men who are
KILLED in other ranks are usually hidden
N the nearest hole. only the identhca.
uon tag and valuablcs being removed
% be sent 90 the government and re-
turned through 10 10 relatives. But
With the airmen 10 is different Nheh
ne fallen aviator rs a German there IS
New-York tribune., 1917-12-09
Americans Distribute
$5,000,00O Relief

And the last two years has been a
time of triumph for American MIS-
sions backed up by American charity
which is unique in history. The Ar
menisn relief committee organized in
New York has during the past two
years sent out and caused 20 be dis
trbuted not less than s5,0OO,000. In
Konia about 10000 Armenians were
eventually permitted TO remain. For
a while we Americans were the subject
of attack. Our hospital was closed and
our patients carried out before our
eyes. | myself was under arrest three
times by the Turkish police on the
ground that was not an American, but
an Armenian masquerading as an
American citizen. My passport was
taken from me and sent TO Constantl-
nople and for five months | was "A
man without country"
There was no permission Tor an
orphanage, so we had 10 keep the chill
dren in the houses of Greeks, some-
times in the homes Of other refugees,
or with Armenians who had not been
deported. We were able 10 feed and
clothe the children and even give them
a little education, which afterwsrd we
had TO stop. A woman whose husband
had been Killed was taken in the early
DAYS and with her three children driven
off in a cart to a village on the plain.
when halfway there the driver de-
manded money, of which she had none,
and then threw her and the three chill
dren out into the road, turned around
and drove back to the city. They were
several hours walk from the city. To
return was dangerous; TO 60 on into
the unknown plain was impossible. SO
the mother decided on the first, and
when night asll she started back with
her three cf4dren, but they soon tired.
So. leaving one behind. leading one by
the hand and carrying the third, shs
went about mile, left her with the
little girl who was walking, returned
for the child left behind in the first
place and came back again. She At last
arrived at our hospital in the early
dawn with her three children, half dead
with fear and exhaustion. One day q
large bundle of rugs was brought to
Konia by friendly employe on the
railroad and left IN the baggage room
until nightfall Then il was opened,
and from the folds Of the rugs there
emerged a hlack-eyed Armenian girl OF
fourteen years, rescued from her Turk
ish abductors, and she also Joined our
orphan band.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-09
By DR.. WiIfred M. Post

Dr.. Wdfred ". Post, author Of
this article, toGs assistant SURGEON
and superintendent of the Amer'-
can Hospital at Konia QcOniun'),
in Asia Minor, Turkey, for many
veqrs. The article is, in fact, a
report TO the board Of trustees Of
the hospital. Of rhich Allison
Dodd, of Bloomfield, ". Jp IS
president, and James VI. SPeers,
Of 345 Fifth Arenue, New York
Ciiy, IS treasurer.
The importance Of the Amer7-
can and European hospitals an
Asia Minor car hardly be over
estimated. They are substantially
the only places ichere high grade
surgical assistance can be OBJ
tanned in the ichole country, and
their surgeons are knol0n for
uHdreds Of miles.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-09
Germans Dazzle
Young Turks

When arrived in Constantinople
Thanksgiving Day, 1914, the city and
empire were in ferment. A holy
war had been preached, and the pros
pect held out by German agents before
the dazzled eyes of the Young Turk
party was that of united Mahometan
empire Of 250,000,00O souls, led by and
presided over by Turkey, which should
be the one great dominating power Of
the Orient, while Germany was to be
the only power Of Importance in the
West. This was no idle hope, but a
definite promise made to the Turkish
leaders by the Germans, and the vision
of a great empire like that of Tanner
lanes is still floating before their eyes.
All went we'll with the Christians for
a while. Armenians and Greeks were
drafted into the regular army. The
Christian communities paid their war
taxes and otherwise demonstrated their
loyalty, and we hoped that Moslem
fanaticism would find no reason for
manifesting itself. For few months
the Armenians were singularly ex-
empt, but, with the advance of the Rus
sian armies into the eastern provinces
Of Turkey in Asia the situation
changed.
Following upon the Russian advance
came the great Dardanelles campaign
which with its heavy toll upon the
Turkish army only served to increase
the general suspicion and hatred of the
Christian nstionalities living in the
empire.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-09
Height May Save
a Wounded Pilot

There is safety in height, too. in more
than one way. especially for the fight
ing pilot In a combat 1t say 1900
feet pilot can fall 10000 feet with
his plane completely out of control
and still make his escape. II he Loser
consciousness during the fight from n
wound the value Of height is still
greater, for he has chance to revive
during the downward rush. as James
Hall did, and so save himself. The
terrific speed of his fall. the change.
Of atmosphere, the sudden pressure on
his ear drums, the effect on the heart.
and the rush Of wind all help TO re.
vive him. The higher he is when the
New-York tribune., 1917-12-09

that brings most of the volunteers into
the air service. Every man who is in
il has shown the steel in his nature
somehow, but they are Of the most
varying types and experience. Look at
the list Of the Americans flying Tor
France:
One was editor OF a syndicate Of
newspapers before he took to the air.
One was a dancing star. There was a
millionaire whose escapades had fur
nished much copy to the newspapers,
but did little else. One man Is an
author - fairly well known. One
entered the service Of France within
twenty-eight days after he received his
honorable discharge from the United
States navy. There are two racing auto
drivers registered A. A. A. men-and
three lawyers. There are boys who
have come straight from school; some
direct, but more by way OF the Foreign