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The daily Alaskan., 1918-05-17
STILL HUNGER
 WITH DRUGS

E Amsterdam, May F.-"To bear hunger without at the same time suffering from headache Or any other indisposition is very difficult for most people" reads the open ing sentence of a significant adver-
 tisement inserted in Sundays Tag lische Rundschau of Berlin by a Berlin chemical firm, praising 8 newly invented drug, which, tho not forming 8 substitute for the m nimum daily sustence, is an ex ellelt preparation for stilling premature hunger and "enables one to hold out until the next meal time" g..
The daily Alaskan., 1918-05-17
PEOPLE FEAR
 MILITARY RULE

Amsterdam, Friday.-Martial law, according to advice which has been race'yed here, has been proclaimed at Odessa by the Austrian mili- tary commandant at the request of the German government.
 Street fighting has been ire quent in Kiev, and Austrian pa tlols are in the streets endeaVor- ing 70 maintain order day and night Thousands of persons are fleeing from the city fearing that there ma be a general uprising, in which event the military authorl- ties might not be over particular IS to whom they punished.
The daily Alaskan., 1918-05-17
SAYS MEN KILLED IN BAT
 TILE SURE OF SALVATION

Chicago May 17.-Men who dle cu the tattlefied, whether they are protesting Christians or not, will De saved, Dr. John Thompson secretary of the City Missionary and Church Extension society, told the Methodist ministers at a convention held in this city.
 Those men are in my opinion as truly dying for mankind as dta Jesus Cnrlst." he said.
The daily Alaskan., 1918-05-17

With American Army inl France Friday.-Troops from the newly organized American army have ar rived in France and ere now with in the zone occupied by the Brit ish forces in northern France.
 The new troops are completing their training in the area occupied by the Allied troops which is block ing the path of the Germans to the English channel ports.
 The American troops referred 10 as new American army are forces being brigaded and trained with the British troops, which will prob ably be on the Flanders battle front.
The daily Alaskan., 1918-05-17
MUST BE END OE.
 WAR

Philadelphia, May 17.-Ex- Presi- dent Taft in an address which he mode at convention of the League to Enforce Peace, pleaded that an army of five million men must De raised and in subStantiation of his plea said, Tt is war to the death. We should set our faces in a stern manner and our efforts should be as unloading towards but one end to ihe war, and that must be un- questioned victory"
The daily Alaskan., 1918-05-17
5,5O0,OOO PAIRS SHOES ARE
 NEEDED

Washington, May 1.-The Quar- termaster Generals Department has awarded contracts for the manufac- ture uf 3.5OO,0O0 pairs of metallic fastened field shoes for overseas us. The average price of the sue, assful bidders was approximate Iy SITS Der pair.
 - Contracts have also been awarded fer the manufacture of 2.OOO,O00 pails of field welt shoes for Un- i'sd States and overseas service, the average price being approximate y $50.
The daily Alaskan., 1918-05-17

Everett, May 17.-Fifteen log gers who were engaged in 8 game of poker last night were rudely in terrupted when a lone bandit walk ed into the camp house and ordered them to throw up their hands.
 Fourteen of the men, although they thought the man bluffing, did not call his bluff, and throwing their cards on the floor threw up their hands, but John Jarnos who believed he had a cinch on the .oct. refused to obey the command
The daily Alaskan., 1918-05-17
AIRPLANES FAIL TO
 GET THROUGH TO CITY

Paris, May 17.-German aero planes dropped bombs in the suburbs of Daconi yesterday after noon. but failed to break through to the city proper.
The daily Alaskan., 1918-05-17
FLEET ,.
 BACK AT KIEL

Geneva, May IT. - A dispatch from Hamburg received today says that the entire German Baltic fleet with the exception of few light cruisers was recalled last week to the KieI canal where an important naval force of the Germans is be- ing concentrated.
The daily Alaskan., 1918-05-17

Washington, May 17.--oDa hun drei and six casualties, including 21 killd or died. of wounds, 72 wounded and the balance missing is reported from France today to the War Office,
The daily Alaskan., 1918-05-17

Washington, May 16. - The Fed cral shipping Board today order con tracts let for two hundred more wooden ships with a total of forty seven hundred tons.
 Charles Schwab, chairman of the Federal Shipping Board announced today thst ships asgregating ton mage to the amount of ten thOus-
The daily Alaskan., 1918-05-17
l,5OO,OOO MEN $ PROMISED BY
 END 1913

Paris. Friday. According to an article printed in ClemenceaL n psler, Homme Libre this morning. u. |. United States Is said to hafs D .omisea to have one million. ff's hundred thousand fighting men iA France by the and of 1918.
The daily Alaskan., 1918-05-17
LOGGERS PLAYING POKER ARE HELD. UP BY BANDIT
 AND ARE ROBBED OF' POT

Of the highwayman, and was shot and instantly killed for resisting.
 After killing the man, the ban dit brushed the money that was on the table into sack and made his get away. Immediately the men who had been covered by the gun in the hands of the robber, some of them first obtaining pis- tols or rifles started in pursuit, but up to a late hour yesterday no trace of the murderer could be found. .,, q fsE @4Ns To
The daily Alaskan., 1918-05-17
GERMANY SAYS
 NJ VAR EXISTS

MUnteyideo, May 16.-The I'm perial German government has noti- fled Uruguay in response to re- quest from that country as to a definition as to the relations eX- istlas between the two countries, tLat it does not consider that a state of war exists.
The daily Alaskan., 1918-05-17

With British Army in France, Friday.-The Allies are still wait ing for Hindenberg to show his hand. There could be no more magnt ficent weather imagi$ble for fight ing than has favored the western front for the past forty eight
The daily Alaskan., 1918-05-17
GERMANY GIVES
 ASSURANCES? ?

Washington. Friday.-MoscOw dis patches received this morning by the United States Department of state said that Germany has given as sUra ice to the Soviet Government that German armies will advance no further into Russian territory.
The daily Alaskan., 1918-05-17
CASUALTIES
 ARE REPORTED

Washington, May 17.-1n his report to the war office yesterday. General Pershfug reported ninety one casualties to American soldiers in France. Twelve were killed or died of their wounds and fifty nine Were wounded. The balance are missing.
The daily Alaskan., 1918-05-17
Ideal Weather For Fighting
 Hindenberg Makes No Move

hours, but even this has brought no change in the military situa- uop.
 The delay is said to be an indica- tiou that the next German push will be one of great magnitude and of terrific fiercenesS.
The daily Alaskan., 1918-05-17
12 MEN LOSE LIVES IN
 AVIATION ACCIDENTS

w sh.ngton, Friday. - The ac- cidents happening On American aVIs ton 'iel6s for the last two weeks have cost the lives of twelve met. 8, according to announcement made by the aviation department this moru- ing.
The daily Alaskan., 1918-05-17
2OO WOODEN IOO CONCRETE
 SHIPS ARE CONTRACTED F0R

a.d tons were being placed in commission at the rate of one each day, and that he hopes to increase this to three each day next year.
 The Shipping Board today de cided to build one hundred, five thousand tons more of concrete ships, eight of which will be built on the Pacific coast.
The daily Alaskan., 1918-05-17
AMERICAN FLYER BAGS
 ANOTHER HUN AIRMAN

With American Army in France, Friday.-American aviators in the section northwest of Foul brought down another German aeroplane this morning.
The daily Alaskan., 1918-05-17
LATE REPORTS SAY BIG
 GUNS STILL POUNDING

London, Friday. - Late reports this afternoon from the French battlefronts state that the Ger man artillery fire is increasingly ac- tive from Locon to Hinges along the western side of the Flanders salient and between the forest at Nieppe and 8 point near Meterin on the northern salient.
The daily Alaskan., 1918-05-17

London, May 17.-secretary oi Fort :gn affairs Balfour declared to the British House of Commons in Q
 sI eech which he made on the floor today that Britain is prepared to consider peace proposals from the enemy provided that they are put
The daily Alaskan., 1918-05-17

Paris, Frtday.--Violent artillery fightinr in the region of Haiiles, which s situated southeast Of Amiens is reported late today by tne French war office.
The daily Alaskan., 1918-05-17
REAL PEACE PROPOSAL WOULD
 BE LISTENED ID BY BRITISH

forward by accredited persons ia a straightforward manner. of sny representative of any belligerea' country desires seriously to lay before 2s any proposals which a!r found 10 be serious." he said. we are ready to listen to them"
The daily Alaskan., 1918-05-17

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The daily Alaskan., 1918-05-17

Paris, Friday. - Announceme:s was today made of the fact thaS American troops had arrived in Nor thern France, in the zone occupies by the British forces. The ea" nouncement concludes with the statement that the relations sc' tween the British and American o'' ficers and soldiers were e1traoft' narily cordial.
The daily Alaskan., 1918-05-17
New American Army Being
 Battallioned With The British

They are not troops which have been detached, from Pershing's pre'' ent forces but are a part Of 8 neR movement of troops recently arri,. ed from the United States, wbi: :R <wele forecast by Premier Lloyd George a short time ago.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-17
What's In a Ships Name?

THE nomenclature of ships varies
l. with the nations involved. A writer
in "The New Statesman" (London) sug-
gests new scheme for England, writ
ing with tongue in cheek:
"a man told me the other day that in
Erasnus's lifetime there were two ships in
the British navy named after the sage.
This illustrates the gulf between two ages
as forcibly as anything could, and the ab-
sence, four centuries ago, of those closed
compartments that make modern society so
sectarian To-day it wLud be unimagna-
BILE. II is true that the French, who habitu-
ally pay more official respect to learning
and letters than we do, have called battle
ship Victor Hugo, and that the Italians
have run to q Dante AlighieY. But those
great men were dead before it happened,
and in this country even the dead are out
Of the question. The Law of closed COM
partments operates; you can have a ship
called after a dead sailor. but you cannot
have H. NJ. S. Shakespeare.
~ wish our old custom could be revived.
When you read an account now OF naval
occasion you read something like:
"'The feet left korbor at darn on
New-York tribune., 1918-11-17
british Labor S Faith
IL in President Wilson

English people also sincere and open
in their discussion of American affairs.
Some of them, belonging to the wealther
classes, are more impressed perhaps by
what they understand to be Republican
policy than by the policy which. they at
tribute to the Democratic party And on
this I may point out that the service of
American news to England is to-day
severely restricted in space both by cabling
facilities and by shortage of paper on the
other side. When you send US more wood
pulp We shall be able to thank you as you
deserve. But the outstanding feature in
the whole situation is the confidence of
British labor and liberalism in the Presi-
dent. At time when socialism is causing
anxiety throughout the world Mr.. Wilson's
impartial and lucid statement of the case
against the Central Powers has held in
check the extremists, who otherwise might
have made trouble Owing to his person
ality and to the overwhelming resources
of America in men and money President
Wilson to-day occupies larger place in
the British landscape than any American
President, previous to him, has ever occu-
pied during his term of Office. 1t was
only in after years that our people under
stood the monumental greatness Of George
New-York tribune., 1918-11-17

The Hansa merchants had been supply
ing Spain with grain, shipbuildng ma
terials and the munitions of war, to the
annoyance Of the Virgin Queen
Sir Francis Drake, having followed the
retreating Spanish ships to the mouth Of
the Tagus, seized sixty Hanseatic vesseis
with supplies for the enemy. They were
quite within their rights as neutrals. the,
Hansa towns asserted, and could not be ex~
pected' to abandon a lucrative trade.
Elizabeth listened, but kept both ships and
cargoes
Thus, with the beginning Of English sea
power Che Hansa towns suffered their first
serious setback in the race for the control
OF the worlds trade. The Thirty Years.
War, which cut the population of Germany
IN half and produced stagnation IN every
KIND of enterprise, did the rest
Always without material support or en-
couragement from the empire, in which. as
already noted, its place was not recognized
by law, the merchants of the Hansestic
towns by their wealth and ostentation had
drawn upon themselves the hatred of the
petty princes and mobiles, and in tine their
power declined to the vanishing point.
The end came as slowly, as imperceptibly
as the leagues rise to power. Thus of its
beginning and end there is nc record, of its
government the history is still sealed and
OF its gigantic commercial mechanism no
trace remains bearing the Hansa brand
Only the name survives, but perhaps tho
idea upon which it was founded stunned
for the moment by the catastrophe which
has befallen the German empire, still lives.
Ideas sometimes are immortal.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-17
Cponsors of the
y Movement

Che headquarters of the movement are
o.ated at the Belmont Hotel, where Mr..
LLOYD W. Mcdowell is public director. Four
,rsties are mainly responsible. These
srs the Sulgrave Institution, which main
lns the Washington Manor House in
yHthamptonshire, England; the American
Defence Society, the National Security
League and the National Committee OF
Patriotic Societies. The general chairman
i the Hon. Alton &. Parker, with whom arc
ssersted DR.. Charles W. Eliot, former
president Of Harvard University; the Hon.
Charles Evans Hughes, Governor Whitman
and the Hon. Charles S. Fairchild, who acts
as treasurer 1t will be remembered that
Colonel Roosevelt is honorary president of
the American Defence Society and that Mr..
Eihu Root holds this same position in the
National Security League. A number of
,M.ambassadors are taking part-that is,
James ". Gerard, David Jayne Hill and
Robert Bacon. The lists also contain the
distinguished name OF William Howard
Taft
Better feeling between the United States
and Great Britain has been fostered by the
lemaIkable succession of ambassadors who
asTe served this country in Loudon. Wher-
ever English is spoken names like James
Russell Lowell, Thomas r. Bayard, John
Hay Joseph II. Choate, Whiteiaw Reid and
New-York tribune., 1918-11-17
rman Democracy Only RETAINING of Hanseatic Fires

The name itself is first noted in the
Peace Of Stralsund, at the end Of the war
between the merchants and Waldemar of
Denmark, 1870, but even It's meaning is in
doubt. Existing towns anxious to be
part of the league, which in less than 100
years created fourteen new cities within all
area of $50 miles on the Baltic coast. But
when questioned as to the membership thc
chiefs Of the league replied that .'those
were Hansa towns which fought under its
banners"
In establishing is foreign branches the
Hansa traders cndeavorcd to enforce a com
munity life of monastic severity. A long
apprenticeship was required of the young
men, who were expected to master the
language and study the customs of the
people among whom they sojourned The
privileges Of settlement they eagerly
sought were never reciprocal. Ready the
year round to trade for goods or TO pay in
cash, merchants of the countries whose
protection they enjoyed were restricted to
New-York tribune., 1918-11-17
Friendship Between Two Great Na<
tons Will Be Marked by
Celebration

ing this l am not suggesting that Ameri-
cans should approve of the monarchical
principle or forget their own more logical
and democratic form of sovereignty. The
point is that behind the old symbols there
has developed new spirit.
Americans sometimes imagine that Eng
land with her shy and reserved air does
not mind very much what is said about
her, be it good or bad There never was
bigger deluson. To use your own phrase,
the British will be tickled to death over
this present business. While they attrib-
ute to Lord Bryce some share in the better
relations between the two countries, what
won their hearts was the visit of Colonel
Roosevelt to London. He was the first
American statesman of foremost rank who
had himself taken the trouble to travel
over territories for the government of
which Britain was responsible, and Ameri-
cans are completely mistaken if they think
anybody in England resented the comments
at the Guildhall, which wero made on our
Egyptian administration, by the ex-Presi-
dent. We took it as a most happy omen that he
thus felt himself at home and able to dis
cuss world problems as friend with friend.
Colonel Roosevelt has never ceased to put
in a word for England whenever opportu-
nifty occurred.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-17
By i. !. de Becker

TN week which must forever mark
an epoch in the history Of human
L progress, two events stand out strik-
ingy because Of their all-compclling
irsnatie interest, double climaxes in the
ansdrsTn-out world ragedy-Germany' 8
acknowledgement OF defeat and the igno-
minus fight Of William the Assassin into
holland Thus the curtain falls on the
Twilight Of Autocracy.7
But On the SANG stage, shroudcd in gloom
t'an which they cannot demand exclusive
nshs 70 sunshine, huddled backstage, IS
- mob from which fate shall cast the
aancters Of the epilogue. MebAnecht and
artn, the one pallid from long imprison-
a11 the other ready TO pour forth tor
saA rhetoric long suppressed; old Hin
aeisug, who, II medieval occnltism con-
aasd any truth, begins to feel the nails
uansrsd into his wooden efhgy; Max Of
o'asn- reactionaIy, wearing the disguise
ssh-sacrifcing patriotism; all are will
70 take leading roles, which may be
aaHred from them By such a pantaloon rs
"1oeryer, or super like Ebert
New-York tribune., 1918-11-17

Tuesday morning, under the command
OF Admiral Si" John Bilgewater IN the
flagship Battenberg. 1t consisted OF the
6attleships IncorrSgible, Umspeakable.
Indesc'sbabte, I,econceivabte, Horrible
and Abomirn5le; the battle cruisers Per-
nicioms, Atrocious and Momstroug: the
cruisers F'1ghtful and Ruthless, and the
destroyers Scorpion, Bacillus, Spider,
Eoraoig, Loathsonae, Vemomous and
Toad
But envisage the change. Suppose vnat,
instead Of this, we were to read such de-
scripton as this:
At 10.2 e. IN. the Germa,, feet qcnS
sighted, and at JO.s FIRE qoas opened bu
the John GalsDorthy, the Hall Cai7,c and
the Gilbert Murray. At 1910 the Ches-
terton was obserucd to hare q heouv list
and at 1920 she sank, her crew beino
taken of By the Herbert Spencer ard tin,
John Morley. MeanWhile the Yeats, tbc
Pi'iero and the Frederic Ho,7-;son had
been engaging the enemy at close q,,o,--
tors. At II 20 the Mrs. Humphrcq,
Ward bleao 1p, not before giving GOOD
account Of herself.
This seems to me great Improvement
New-York tribune., 1918-11-17

toms charges which were enforced against
their competitors.
For the Antwerp market this made q
clear gain OF 81 to the piece, and they
cleared an additional profit of 81 on each
piece exported undyed, which they dyed
and resold; and of their exports the Hansa
merchants managed to get two thirds un-
dyed. On this cloth alone the profits were
SCI 900 sterling at time when this sum
represented between thirty-six and forty
times its present purchasing power.
This was too much for Elizabeth, Eng
lands Virgin Queen, who felt that her
merchant adventurers were entitled to some
share OF the English export trade. Lord
Burleigh encouraged her to abrogate the
Hansa privileges, and Sir Thomas Gresham
founder of the London Exchange, pointed
out the need of upbuilding the English
mercantile marine.
There were long and bitter protests from
the Hansa towns. but in the long run, as
usual, Elizabeth had her way. Commercial
excommunication which the Hanseatc
League had resorted to to curb the grow
ing pride of Bremen, and which had caused
grass to grow in the business streets of
that Hansa town, was the final recourse
against England. It failed
New-York tribune., 1918-11-17

they sold finished goods at handsome
profit, and it was one of their little jokes
that they could buy fox skins from the
English for a gro&t and resell them the
tails for a guilder. Nowhere, i'll fact, did
the Hansa merchants prosper more than in
England. Special privileges were heaped
on their settlement, known as "the Steel
yard" which was retained until 1853, when
an English corporation paid s72,5OO to the
cities of Lubeck, Bremen and Hamburg for
this London factory, on which stands
the Cannon Street Station
What the Hansa did in England is typical
of what it did, or sought to do, wherever
toothold was obtained. Thus, in 1854, it
exported from London between January
and November $4,000 pieces of cloth, as
against 1,l0U exported by the English on
their own account. They paid an export
tax of threepence on each piece, while
other foreign merchants paid five shillings
and ninepence. They we're permitted also
70 do their own packing, thus avoiding Gus
New-York tribune., 1918-11-17
THE Only Competition Should
Il Be in Reasonableness

In the compliments which one naton
pays to another there is always an clc-
ment of camoufiage. But in the presenr
the sincerity of the tribute stands
out clear the day. 1t is not only
matter OF words and pictures and ana
thems. Momentous issues are being des
clded. AS long as we were all labornS
under the strain of war We had the strong-
est possible reasons for working harmos.
niously We knew what Germany would
do to US both if we fell asunder The
worst stress has been eased by peace. and
we need to be all the more careful to
maintain the former comradeship. Trade
rivalry and innumerable delicate questions
affecting the distribution of food and raw
materials might cause friction if ap-
preached by either party in an ungenerous
spirit. Officials are working at high press-
ure and are not always diplomatists IN
any country. We need to make it plain
that our two nations will not tolerate any
drifting apart. 1t is not question which
solely concerns departments in London
and Washington. Every one of us is involved
in it and IL is for the departments to do
our bidding. If there should be any mar
row-minded mandarin in Whitehall who
wants TO make himself conspicuous at the
expense of the United States, let him be
fired. The only competition should be in
reasonableness. From the Pacific Ocean to
the Rhine there is disturbance and blood
shed Democracies cannot afford to be
divided in days like these when anything
may happen among populations numbering
300,000000. Americans and British have
worked together, fought together bled to-
gether, died together. They have been foes
and they are now friends. AS friends
they must learn to live together.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-17
GLOW and Steady Growth
~ to Power

1t was a guild Of merchants which may
have originated in the Rhine Valley for
mutual protection against pirates by water
and thieves by land. Its organization was
secret, it. power was hidden its enterprise
was prodigious, and it soon embraced the
trade centres Of the north; established Its
agents wherever the opportunity TO barter
seemed promising and operated its own
fleets. Always It professed to be merely All
association Of traders, and the governing
body at Lubbock, even ut the height OF its
power, kept in It's statutes the statement
that in important matters 'the decision
rested not with the general council, but
with the people" Their banner bore this
deyfcc, "Freedom for the common mer~
chant ut home and abroad" and upon this
broad and elastic .ts+"-aWt. slowly and
cas.ss~sfy, q efsv ~ psvss.