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The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-12-21
LABOR FEDERATION
 AFTER DURLES0N

should have a like beneficial result. They are urging moreover that when the government is looking to labor for 50 much of sacrifice it is no tino to be hampering the legi- tin ate organization of labor, feder- al or otherwise.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-12-21
AUSTRIA MAKES
 WAR THREAT

min. He intimated that a formal offer of peace would be made em-
 o,,ying the joint proposals of the Central Powers.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-12-21

PARIS, Dec. 2O.-Greek soldiers have joined the allied forces in the fighting in Macedonia according to dispatches reaching this city from that front.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-12-21

Scott who is returning to this coun- try from Paris Whither he had gone as a representative of the United States at the inter-allicd confer ence, was enthusiastic in his praise Of the skill and courage displayed by the scamen in driving of the submarine before she could attack the liner.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-12-21
SAYS SUBMARINE
 WARFARE HAS FAILED

BERLIN, Dec. 20-That the German troops have captured eight thousand four hundred Italian pri- aouers in addition to those already taken and reported is the official statement Of the war office here to- day.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-12-21

ous prosecution if the offenders are caught.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-12-21

Let ps estimate on sour Job WorA
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-12-21
REVEALS CRAFT OF
 CHICAGO PACKERS

torn aft and that the secrecy which by custom has shrouded the activ- ities of the War Department will be disregarded except in a few in stances. Many Senators are SCOT ing the Shipping Board for it's fail ure to complete the Governments shipbuilding program which they denounce as inexcusable and may lead to national disaster.
 No. les. than Soldier in the trenches When duty calls we should respond-Your duty-Join the 1918 Red Cross.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-12-21

SEATTLE, Dec. 20.-The butch CTS strike effecting practically all
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-12-21

Fur garments made and repaired 1t the Nome Tailoring Company.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-12-21
WE CAN DO TT.

Peoples Laundry wash every thing except the Baby.
 ". J. WILLIAMSON, Prop.
 eAaa4@xurzsa~a@A------. Closing out Xmas goods. Largo Stock useful presents at HOLTS.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-12-21

RaviOlis, Italian style every Evening at Modini's B. o. T. Cafe.
The daily Nome industrial worker., 1917-12-21

You'll get it right in the Worker.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-16
lHlzERn SR/7IsH -F1RONT BEFORE THE ATTACK.
IyIIJI Z/rH7 or BR/7ISH ADVANCE.
Mmm POSITION AF7ER GERHzAW COUNTER OFFENSIVE

sources threatened the independence OF
the world.
The settled purpose Of the Allies
against Napoleon in the closing phase was
to restore the boundaries of France Of
1889, and this was substantially done at
the Congress Of Vienna. To-day the
Allies fighting Germany are resolved to
defeat Germany, to abolish the German
menace to world independence and there
after to restore Germany to the boun-
daries of the time which preceded the be-
ginning Of her onrush against Europe,
namely, the boundaries of 1870. 1t is the
purpose of the Allies to take from Ger
many and her Austrian and Bulgarian
allies Belgium, Alsace-Lorraine, Serbia
and Rumania, precisely as those who
fought Napoleon took from France Bel
gium, Holland, Italy, Spain and various
other conquests. The Allies seek to re-
store Serbia and Belgium, to give
Serbia that seacoast which she con-
auered for herself in 1912. They seek in
addition to give to Italy the Trentine and
Trieste districts, which are inhabited by
Italian-speaking people. These things are
all essential to the main purpose of the
Allies. They are founded upon justice
and they represent the bases of perma-
nent peace. Each setlB TO redress a
wrong which, unredressed, threatens the
safety and liberty of the world. In addi-
ton. there is the problem of Poland, the
solution of which waits upon Russian
fortunes, but if ultimate justice is to be
done demands the liberation Of the Poles
of Prussia. Such other purposes as the
Allies may cherish separately-ltalian
aspirations on the eastern shore Of Dal-
malta; Serbian claims upon Bosnia and
Herzegovina, which are based upon racial
grounds; Rumanian longings for Transyl-
vania. which arc equally justifed-may
be said to be conditions of victory rather
than safety.
The irreducible minimum Of safety in
Europe and in the world, as itnow seems,
is the restoration Of Belgium and Serbia,
the retrocession of Alsace-Lorraine and
the cession Of Trieste and the Trentino.
Rather than make these concessions Ger
many will fight through next year and the
New-York tribune., 1917-12-16

But for the arrival of that army the Allies
must wait, and during the period in which
they are waiting they will unquestionably
have to face the fercest German attack of
the war.
Moreover. it seems to me that wise
policy would dictate that the Allies should
wait next year and in the main carry on
a defensive war, because there is the OBJ
yious danger Of complete prostration of
France if France has to undergo another
bleeding like that of Verdun. Germany
cannot afford the losses which she would
have to bear singly when they are bal
anced by losses on the other side divided
between the French and the British. This
would mean a rate of attrition for her
which would be murderous. But since
France has lost proportionately almost as
heavily as Germany, the German can
exchange casualties with France safely.
America Canno. Help Till 1919
The cardinal principle of German mill
tary operations now must be to complete
the attack upon Italy-that is, to open so
deep wound that Italy may bleed to
death, as Russia did, and then turn her
attention TO France. The Italian condi-
tions are such that France and Great Brit
ain will have TO maintain troops in
Northern Italy, as they have to maintain
troops at Salonica, and this will be
grave handicap upon the Western front.
There should be no mistaking the fact
in the United States that che detection Of
Russia has totally changed the whole situa-
ton in that it has supplied Germany with
q strategic reserve, that it has reinvigo-
rated the war spirit of the nation, and
that with newly acquired resources OF guns
and materials, captured from the Rus
slams, Germany is now able TO strike one
more blow before we can possibly become
an effective force on the Western front.
During next summer We shall have some
hundreds of thousands Of troops in France.
We shall have a certain number of divi-
sions upon the firing line. We shall have
many more divisions behind the firing
line, getting their training, but we shall
be unable TO take over any considerable
portion Of the German assault next year
precisely AZ the British were not able
New-York tribune., 1917-12-16

Allies. Nor does there seem to me any
reason to doubt that the French and the
British can bear what will be the ultimate
German assault, made possible by Russia's
revolution and the release of some hun
dreds of thousands of German troops to
constitute a new German strategic re-
serve. Somewhere between half million
and three-quarters of million troops
have been released for the Western field,
and with her usual wisdom Germany is
preparing to use this new reserve for one
more attack, rather upon the spirit of her
enemies than merely upon their trenches.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-16
Allied Aims Clear

The discussion of war aims goes on
steadily, despite President Wilson's wise
words that we must win the war first,
that this is the major duty and the major
necessity. have steadfastly believed that
all discussion Of peace aims is of small
value while the war remains to be won,
and that when it has been won then alone
will it be time to debate frontiers and ter
ritorial claims on the basis of facts as
they then arc. Moreover, it has seemed
and seems to me that large portion of
the demand for statement of peace aims
by the Allies is either due to ignorance or
induced by a German campaign to divide
the Allies. II seems to me perfectly clear
that the war aims of the Allies are known
and understood by all Allied publics.
This war is exactly like the war
that Europe fought against Napoleon. 1t
is a war TO prevent the domination first
Of Europe and then of the world by a
single nation, which has deliberately and
consciously sought world supremacy.
Europe in arms against Napoleon after
many years of combat recognized tha;
there could be no permanent peace until
France was restored, not to the limits of
1907 or 1911, but to the limits Of 1889
the year which preceded the French rush
out beyond the boundaries of the old
monarchy. 1t was the just and accurate
recognition of the countries in arms
against France. that while France con
trolled Holland, Belgium, Italy and Spain
she had an almost inexhaustible reservoir
for her armies and by her size and re-
New-York tribune., 1917-12-16
German Purpose Clear

In my judgment, the Allies may be COM
PEELED to stand on the defensive through
cut the whole Of next year, while every
sign points to a renewal of the German
effort TO achieve decision in advance Of
the arrival Of the main masses Of the
United States armies German policy is
clear. At the beginning of the war Ger
many attacked France in the hope Of
destroying France before either England
or Russia could come to the assistance Of
the French. She failed, owing to the skill
with which French armies were handled
and the devotion with which the French
soldier fought. Thereafter Germany turned
her attention to Russia, seeking to dispose
Of Russia before France and England
could come TO Russia's assistance. This
Germany did accomplish, breaking down
the Russian national existence and elimi-
mating Russia as a factor in the war by
the great campaign which began at the
Dunsjec and ended at wilma in the sum
msr Of 1915. In the winter of 1915 Ger
many turned 70 France again and sought
10 dispose Of her before Britain could
arrive Again she failed in this. To-day,
With Austrian help. she has undertaken TO
crush Italy with the troops which have
been released from the Eastern front.
Il is necessary 10 understand the Ger
man purpose. Ludendorf expressed IT
very clearly the other day when he sad
that in modern war-that is, in con-
test between whole peoples-a military
decision on the battlefield is unlikely. The
real victory is attained by the wearing out
Of the will and the spirit Of the weaker
nation by the stronger. This has hap
pened in Russia. This the Germans hope
"ill happen in Italy.
Now, We have 10 consider the posi-
Ouity that the Germans will pause III their
attack upon Italy at the moment when
'eey have forced the Italians back upon
NC Adige, If this time comes, They may
nope and expect that such defeat will
's'ak The spirit Of italy aud that the di'
'A'srso"p within tAe SaVoy InoDaIeAy
New-York tribune., 1917-12-16

Rather more than year ago, IN my
cu,Sav article, l expressed the opinion
,h.t the war would last at least four
~, The recent progress Of events sat
,ss.s me that we are to sec a struggle at
,.+ FIVE wears long, and th1t no decision
!, likely during 1918, nor until such time
=, the United States can put million OF
man on European soil, with proper provi-
dan for maintaining this number on the
firing line
The conviction that the war will 60 at
last FIVE years rests upon the change in
III. situation resulting from the complete
disappearance Of Russia from the battle
line. Allied victory in four years was
conditioned upon the mutual efforts Of
France, Britain, Russia and Italy, all
operating at full power against the Cen
trsl Powers. There was a remote posi-
blity that decision in favor Of the Allies
might have been foreshadowed in the mill
tary events Of 1917 had Russia maintained
thi, year the pace she set last year. There
was a possibility of q decision next year
as long as Russian armies were able
and wiling to hold their place and thus
retain German and Austrian forces before
them. But now Russia has disappeared,
Runania must disappear, and the war be-
comes q contest between two groups Of
powers, comparatively equal in numbers,
and will remain so until the United States
is able to break the deadlock by supplying
sufficient numbers to give her allies the
numerical superiority permanently.
The first effect Of the Russian detection
must be recognized in the events which
have taken place in Northern Italy and in
Northern France. The Russian collapse
has provided Germany with strategic
reserve which has been lacking to her
ever since her failure before Verdun.
This strategic reserve has enabled her TO
take the offensive in Italy and to carry on
a counter offensive before Cambrai-both
of them more considerable offensive efforts
than have been made by the Germans in
nearly two years
New-York tribune., 1917-12-16
The Kaiser's Last Chance

The element Of time remains with the
Allies. Not only do the European enemies
of Germany possess an equal number OF
men. but they have behind them the re-
sources and man-power of the United
States. which, now that Russia has disap-
neared. are the greatest Of all countries
in the war. If the Germans fail to achieve
= decision, if they fail TO accentuate the
war.weariness in France sufficiently to
hiring the French TO separate peace by
tbcir offensive of next year, they VIII be
n q far worse state than at any moment
during the war, because they VIII have
used up that strategic reserve suppned Dy
tho Russian detection, and they VIII have
no reserve at the moment when the Amer
;.,r army is taking its place, at least a
.,;l;on strong. on The Western battle i'he'
New-York tribune., 1917-12-16

All this is clear TO the Germans and has
been revealed in their frantic campaigns
for peace hitherto. They are now to make
one more desperate campaign for victo-
rious peace. Russia has supplied them
with the resources Of men, and Italy ard
Russia with the resources of guns, MUM
tions and supplies. The object Of the
next campaign is France. The salvation
Of France will rest, in part at least, upon
our own country and upon Great Britain.
II we get the men TO France in time, and
if there is no mistaking in France our
determination and our will and our grow
ing efficiency, the new German campaign
will be as great failure as that Of the
Marne and Of Verdun. But for the time
being the word is with Germany. She
will probably take che offensive, and she
will stake her last resources in men ana
munitions upon an offensive designed 70
break the spirit first Of France and then
Of the French allies.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-16

to take over any portion of the German
assault upon Verdun between February
and July, 1916.
1t does not seem to me that these facts
warrant any pessimism, although we are
certain to have a period of depression
growing out of the apparent inexhausti-
bility Of German resources and the in
evitable local successes Of German arms,
such as the recent Cambria episode and
The more considerable success in Northern
Italy. Germany is compelled again to
make tremendous efforts and to gamble on
an immediate decision with new assets to
avoid that defeat which is inevitable when
American numbers restore the balance de-
stroyed by the Russian detection. French,
British and Italian numbers are equal or
superior 10 the present German forces,
but they are not largely superior. The
morale of the French and British troops
is equal to that of the Germans. The
morale of the Italian troops as a whole is
plainly inferior to the German and per-
haps equal to the Austrian. But French
and British numbers are not sufficient to
bring a decision in the field next year.
They will never be sufficient TO do this.
The real decisive thrust Of the war must
come from the United States, and can
come only when the United States has
sufficient numbers at the front to deliver
a great blow. 1t took Great Britain two
years to train its citizen army and get 1t
TO France. It will not take us any less.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-16
A War Of Spirits

We are entering a new phase OF the
war. The campaign Of 1918 will begin
with a very clear perception on the part
of all general staffs-enemies and Allies
alike-that the decision of the war Will
rest with the nations whose spirit endures
most steadfast, and that the real defeat
may conc not in Waterloo or a Sedan,
but in collapse behind the lines, such as
has destroyed the great Russian forces
during the present year. 1t is rather a
question now whether the German spirit
or the Anglo -French-American spirit is the
first TO weaken, and il is a moral certainty
that if our troops arrive in France m tune
the ultimate advantage must be with lhe
New-York tribune., 1917-12-16
A Desperate Final Drive

In the course of the present year Ger
many has captured an enormous amount
Of war material from the Russians and an
equally vast amount from the Italians.
She has added greatly to her stocks of
munitions and of guns. All these re-
sources will enable her to make a desperate
final drive against France this winter or
next spring, while the Austrian troops
viii suffice TO hold the gains in Italy, to
check Sarrail's army in the Balkans and
probably to supply certain Austrian, Ger
man and Hungarian divisions of picked
troops for the Western campaign.
The population of France, Italy and
Great Britain, including the British white
colonies, is about equal to that of the Cen
tral Powers, without Turkey, while the
native troops of British and French colonies
about Offset Turkish numbers. But the
Italians can use only a minor percentage
Of their numbers on their present front,
and are unlikely now to consent to the
transfer of Italian troops to France, while
the French and the British are hand-
capped by the necessity of sending many
Of their troops to save Italy.
All things considered, it seems to me
certain that the next campaign will see
Germany on the offensive on the Western
front, where all military authorities, Ger
man and Allied alike, agree the war will
be won and lost. British numbers have
not yet begun to decline absolutely. The
British will be able to hold their own front
and 10 take over portion Of the burden
of meeting the German attack upon the
French, but they will not be able, in my
Judgment, to carry on any considerable
operation like the Somme, owing to the
pressure that will be brought upon the
French. In other words, France, having
suffered as she has, will quite justly de-
uand that when she is attacked, whether
it be about Rheims, or about Verdun, or
about Nancy, British armies be sent
to the danger point to bear a portion of
the loss. Nothing is less likely than that
the French will consent to bear another
Verdun sacrifice alone.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-16
Are Fighting
To Prevent World
Domination by
the German
Nation
Copyright lel7-The Tribune Associations

following year. Rather than give Trieste
up, Austria will continue the war. II
does not seem to me that any American
can fail TO support an Allied purpose
which seeks to provide safety in Europe
and in the world by restoring Belgium 10
the Belgians, France to the French, and
giving Italy the residue Of her ancient
patrimony. Nor does it seem to me that
American public sentiment can agree 10
the sacrifice of Serbia and Rumania.
The question of German colonies, the
question Of economic alliances, the ques-
tions of world trade and world commerce.
belong to the peace conference which
must follow the war It does not seem
to me incompatible with Allied purposes
that there should be a remaking of the
map of Africa. 1t does not seem TO me
outside Of the possibilities that France
and Belgium should consent to make sac
rifces in Central Africa, provided France
and Belgium are restored to their natural
limits in Europe (and by the natural
limits of France / mean the boundaries
that preceded the Franco-Prussian WAR;.
The question Of Turkey in Asia is ques-
ton for an international congress. But
the simple fact is that if Germany is per
mitted to retain Belgium and Alsace-
Lorraine, if Austria is permitted to retain
the Trentino and the Isonzo gate to Italy.
il Serbia is destroyed by its partition be-
tween Austria and Bulgaria, there can be
no hope or prospect of anything beyond
truce. We shall have one more Of those
phases such as marked the interludes in
the wars of Louis XIV and OF Napoleon.
We shall leave predatory state with
portion Of the plunder, with an appetite
for more plunder and belief that what
wss missed in this war may be achieved
in the next.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-16
Germany Proposes to Crush the French
Nation in a Last Desperate Often
sive Before American Troops
Can Come to the
Rescue
By FRANK H. SIMONDS
Author of "The World War; "They Shall Not Pass"

viii follow the lines Of the disntegration
in the Romanoff empire and that domestic
revolution and disorder will bring Italy
to a separate peace, as they have brought
Russia.
In such a case it is certain that the
next German operation will be directed
against the French. France has borne the
greatest burden Of the war. French man
power has suffered more than that Of any
other Allied country, and nearly as much
in proportion to French population as
Germany. There is an unmistakable war
WEAKNESS in France, and the Germans
seem to be planning and preparing an at
tack upon France to follow the termina-
tion of their Italian campaign. The pur-
pose of this attack will be to dispose Of
the French before the United States can
bring its troops up. Such an attack
would have been impossible had Russia
held its lines, because Germany possessed
no reserves sufficient for such task. She
did not even possess the reserves neces-
sary for the Italian adventure until the
collapse of the Russians brought an end
to all danger on the Eastern front.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-16
The Napoleonic Example

In the case Of Louis XIV the closing
wears of his wars saw a number Of severe
defeats. The war was carried TO French
soil, and in the strictly military sense
there was no absolute decision. The spirit
of the Allies broke down when the greater
peril had been abolished. The early con-
quests Of Louis were largely taken from
him, but France remained substantially
intact. What was destroyed was the
French will to dominate Europe. From
the effort France fell back exhausted and
marched ineluctably toward her revolution,
with all that it meant for the liberalizing
of France and of Europe. When the Reyo-
luton and the Napoleon spasm were over
France as a peril to European indepen-
dence ceased to exist. and France became
in the old diplomatic language good"
European.
1t seems to me that some such result
may not impossibly follow this war. The
detection of Russia makes it unlikely
next year, at least, that Allied armies will
enter Germany. Allied resources in
money and in food, and eventual resources
in manhood when we get ready, are SO
much greater than. Germany's that from
a war protracted into 1919 Germany must
emerge more exhausted than any one Of
her three greater foes. Even though her
armies still maintain their positions be-
hind the Scheldt and the Meuse, the ex-
haustion of Germany will be such that she
will be unable to maintain her place or
regain her place in the world in the next
generation.