The Alaska daily empire., 1918-04-18

on the floor of the New York Stock
 Exchange one day last week just be- | fore opening. Traders cheered this declaration. It semed to work, for
 there were no short sales and when
 the flood of western liquidation had
 passed the market started to do bet | ter.
 NEW YORK: Stockholm copy right special in the New York World says the German people have given up virtually last ounce of gold to country. Reichsbank had in vaults
 on Jan. 1, 1918, O,00O,O00
 marks in gold, twice as much as at | outbreak of war More than l. 0,000,000 marks in gold was shipped abroad to bolster up Ger
 many's credit and that of her al 1 lies. Private securities issued last
 year were $286,5SO, ,OOO, nearly dou-
 ble that of 1916. Twenty-nine new
 aeroplane factories were built or
 building in 1917 alone. All stock transactions are made on cash bas- is. Banks deposits at beginning of
 this year were: more than double figure shown at outbreak of war.
 NEW YORK: Canvass of gar
 bage pails in New York City dis closes that families with servants are worst offenders in food waste, throwing away A pounds of edi-
 ble food including 1s pound of breadstuffs each day. On East side food waste is .0017 pound per fam fly per day West of Central Park
 163 families wasted POT pounds of
 food value at $21.68 on one day
 Estimated city's food waste is 20% less than in 1917 when $15, ,945, 900
 of food was sent to garbage dumps.
 About one-third of this was bread and one-sixth meat.
 NEW YORK: Henry P. Davison
 declared in Paris: Americans should stop thinking of self, dismiss
 all consciousness of sacrifice, and go to work with a new will. Person. ally, I feel like lowing on my knees
 to every Frenchman and Britisher II meet Time is the es- sence. Only soldiers can stop Ger
 many, and only America can furnish them in adequate numbers to match | the German reserves. And remem- Der that for the American people to have these soldiers in Europe, sac rifices of every character must be LONDON: Charles H. Grasty claims that undoubtedly linden burg started out not only to seize | the Nord railway at Amiens and separate the French and the Brit ish, but also to cut off the British on the north so that they could not ] fall back on the Channel ports and | their lines of communication. The success of these plans might enable | the Germans to take Paris and beat the French army at leisure. Off, cers arriving from the north in Paris say: "The Germans are get | ting the quintessence of hell rom the British said one. German i soldiers came up locked arm in farm, A alking over dead bodies into
 popis nk British fire.'
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 NEW ttG..,t -..s sgatenant Colon
 el, Hunter of the British Army, who is in New York on special service, says Great Britain has over 5000 900 persons occupied in war work, 5000. .O0O of whom are volunteers.
 Conscription, he says. produced only about 3O0,000 men.
 WASH. House leaders predict that first two years of war will cost the United States $5O,OOO, 900, 900.
 War Departments estimate of ST. 732, 100000 for fiscal year 1919, starting next July, is taken to indi- cate that war bill for second year of the struggle will at least equal s25, ,0O0, 1000. 1000.
 WASH: Steel mills have been
 notified by the Emergency Fleet Corporation thai they must make lup 50,0O0-ton shortage of steel at
 Hog Island shipyard during April
 Fifth keel has been laid at that yard.