The daily Alaskan., 1918-02-20

SIssonne and that of Marchias the rig orous treatment with which you have threatened them, I give my word of honor to remit to his majesty the Emperor William, should the war come to Rn end withodt intentional damage being caused to my residence or to these two communes, the neces- sary sum to complete the amount of 500,OO0 francs imposed by you upon SissOnne.
 As a sovereign prince. wish to deal in this matter with the sovereign who, during 15 years, called me his friend and has decorated me with the Order of the Knight of the Black Eagle.
 My conscience and my dignity place me above fear. as also my per sonal will shall elevate rie above re- gret; but should you destroy the Chateau de Narchais, which is one Of the centers of universal science ana charity, should you reserve to this archaeological and historical gem the treatment you have given to the Ca- thedral of Relms-when no reprehen- sIble action has been committed there -the whole world will judge be- tween you and myself.
 "I tender to your excellency the ex- preSsion of my high regard.
 ALBERT, Sovereign Prince of Mon aco." -' "-''
 peportatlons and Forced Labor.
 Until the present war the whole civ lllzed world has boasted of Its advance In humanity. This advance has been marked In many fields, and in none had greater progress been made than in the protection to be given to the private citizen in m invaded country. AS far back as 1868, in the "Instruc- tons for the Government Of Armies of the United States in the Field, the United States declared:
 "23. Private citizens are no longer murdered, enslaved, or carried oh to distant parts, and the inorenslVe in- dIyidual Is as little disturbed in his private relations as the commander of the hostile troops can afore 10 grant in the overruling demands or vigorous war.
 "24. The almost universal rule In remote times was, and continues to De with barbar6us armies, that the prl- vate individual of the hostile country Is destined to suffer every priVation of liberty and protection, and every disruption of family ties. Protection was. and still Is with unclvlltzed peo- pie, the exception"
 ReVersion to sarbarism.
 These declarations were made in the midst of our Civil war-One Of the worlds flercest conflicts. A half-cen- tury later. after more than oo years or progress. the German government has gone back to the methods used by 'barbarous armies" and "unciV- Ilizad people." It has deliberately adopted the policy of depOrting men and women, boys and girls, and or forcing them to work for their cap tors: 1t has even compelled them to make yrms and munitions for use against their allies and their own neSh and blood
 No other act of the German govern ment has aroused such horror and de- testation throughout the civilized world. Thousands of helpless men and women. boys and girls, have been enslaved. Families have been broken up, Girls have been carried on to work-or worse-in strange lana, and their relatives have not known where they have been taken, or What their fate has been.
 This system of forced labor and de- portatiOn embraced the whole Of Bel glum Poland and the occupied lands of France.
 Whltloek's Story of Horrors.
 Tn less moving phrases, but In dead ly corroboratlOn. the continuation or the report of Minister WhitlOck says:
 "The rage, the terror, and despair excited by this measure all over Bel gium were beyond anything We had witnessed since the day the Germans poured into Brussels. The delegates of the commission for relief In Bel | pIum. returning tn Brussels, told the most d'Str"SS'"c' "t""'"s .'hn scenes