The Alaska daily empire., 1918-01-04
CALL FOR HELP
 BEING ANSWERED
 BY JUNE:AUITES
Continued from Page One)

called upon to contribute to various
 government needs and to help if
 nance the government with our say
 ings, we still have something to spare for such an urgent call as
 has been sent out from the stricken Canadian city.
 Never was help more badly need ed; and small donations from all those who can afford to give them, will relieve in measure the great
 suffering caused by the greatest
 disaster ever known on the American
 continent, and probably greater in
 resulting suffering than any single happening of the great war.
 "The committee in charge of this
 work for Juneau has undertaken to
 raise the sum of $500. It is small amount and should be obtained
 without any difficulty. The Red Cross of America has undertaken to exericse jurisdiction over the work of raising funds and all mounts collected will be remitted trough the Red Cross. Contribu- tions should be paid at the B. M. Behrends Bank and designated Hali-
 fax Relief Fund
 "The amount of $500 must be raised before January 10th If you nave not already contributed to this
 cause, may we ask you, in the name of humanity, to give whatever con
 tl'bution you can; and to give at once The names of all contribu- tors and the amounts contributed will be published from day to day in the newspapers of Juneau.
 "very respectfully,
 "H. l.. FAULKNER, GEORGE HN WHITNEY, Committee Halifax Relief" Some More Details
 Papers arriving from the East give accounts of the terrible disas- ter from eye witnesses. In some cases whole families were wiped
 out; and in one school, every child
 was killed. The explosion occurred about nine o'clock in the morning, just as the children had assembled in the various schools of the city, In one large school in the Richmond district, which is nearest the place nearly one hundred children were partially or totally blinded for life. At one point on Citadel Hill one housand soldiers were injured, many of them permanently.
 Damage To City
 In addition to the relief which is
 necessary for the injured and home less, the damage to the town, docks, terminals, shipyards, etc, must be repaired at once. This is imperative and military necessity, and is as necessary to the success of the
 United States in the war as it is
 to that of the British Empire. Can
 ada and the United States are prac- tically one for the prosecution or the war. Halifax is probably the
 greatest and most important military
 and naval sea post in all America
 at present; and practically all theI
 soldiers leaving from the United States for France, either sail from
 Halifax or call there en route. Great
 terminals and docks have been built
 by the Canadian government. Ships
 are being built in the great ship
 yards of Halifax to replace those of |'the United Kingdom, the United States and other countries. whose
 shipping has been disappearing as result of the submarine warfare. Many Are Homeless
 Thousands of homes of workmeni employed in the Navy Yard, on the
 docks and terminals and in the ship
 yards, were destroyed: and it is just
 as much in the interest of the Unit
 ed States that this material damage
 be repaired at once as it would be
 to replace a regiment which had
 been wiped out in France.
 It was estimated. few days af-
 ter the explosion, that one million panes of glass of all sizes would