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The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-12-16
NAVAL BASE AT P0LA IN HANDS
 OF AMERICANS
(The Associated PreSS)

AMSTERDAM, Dec. 13.-The Amer. ican squadron stationed in the Adri. atic arrived at Pola today and are now in complete possession of that place. Pola was formerly the main Austrian naval base.
 In recognition of the possession of Pola by the American fleet the Jugo. Slav warships in the harbor hoisted the American flag and saluted.
 The possession of this harbol gives the allies one of the finest fleet anchorages in the world, the harbor being ample enough to hold the entire Adriatic fleet.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-12-16
SHIPPING HAS
 BEEN RELEASED
lThe Associated Pressl

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.-The ma rine shipping of the trade routes was increased by over eight hundred thousand tons today when the army service released to the shipping board number of vessels that have been used as transports.
 These vessels will be released by the shipping board to their owners to be placed back on the trade routes, relieving congested condition in the merchant marine caused by the yes. sels of large tonnage being used by the government.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-12-16
AMERICAN NAVY WILL BE HOME
 DURING MONTH
(The Associated Press)

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13-Secretary of the Navy Daniels announced today that every capital ship of the Amer ican navy now stationed in European waters would be home this month, Iheir arrival at New York being eX- pected about the 23rd. The dread naught squadron will be included in the returning fleet
 Light cruisers, it is expected, will remain in European waters for polic- ing purposes. Shortly after the ar rival of the squadrons in American waters a naval review will be held to celebrate their safe return.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-12-16
WILL OPERATE
 ON AMERICAN

Returning travellers from the Hot Springs district state that Andrew Ness, the former we'll known Gold stream mining man, who has been in the Hot Springs district for the past few years, is at the present time preparing to work his ground on American creek.
 Ness has conducted operations on his claim for a few seasons and has secured good results, His plant fyJ next season will be enlarged and he expects to take out a good sized dump for the spring cleanup.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-12-16
ENGLAND WANTS NATIVE CHIEFS
 QUIT GERMANY
(The Associated Press)

LONDON, Dec. 12.-Thc colonial office has published what they desig- nate the white book" in which is made statements to the native chiefs of the former German colonies, charging the executive German of. ficers with extreme cruelties in their handling of the natives.
 The colonies, which are now under British rule, are being urged to re. main as the wards of Great Britain, who promises that no recurrence of the conditions under the German policy will be had.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-12-16
ENTER
 RUSSIAN CITY
(The Associated Press)

PARIS. Dec. 13.-A large detach. ment of French marines entered the city of Odessa, on the Black. sea, and have assumed complete control ,f that port.
 The sea soldiers received a COT. dial welcome from the people and were hailed as deliverers.
 The fortressed city of Sebastopol has been entirely cleared of German troops, who during their occupancy, caused much disorder. The evacua. tion of this city was accomplished in short ttime when it became known that troops of the allies were on their way to occupy it.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-12-16
CABLE OFFICER
 IS ROW NAMED
(The Associated PreSs)

NEW YORK, Dec. 13.-PoStmaster- General Burleson today appointed President Carlton, of the Western Un- ion telegraph, to take charge of all the marine cable systems in the United States.
 The action of the postmastergen- eral shows that it is the intention the marine telegraph connections with Europe for the convenience of transmitting the conference news and to enable the President to be in con. stant touch with America.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-12-16
INFLUENZA IS
 NOT OVER YET
(The Associated Press)

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12--Surgeon- General Blue, of the public health service, has issued a warning to the entire nation cautioning them on the influenza epidemic.
 The influenza in the United States Is not over and the surgeon-general advises the citizens to take all pre- cautions. He advises the closing of schools and all public places on the first sign of the diseases appearance. Masks should be worn at the first indication of coughing and sneezing.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-12-16
ARMISTICE WAS
 GOOD MEDICINE
(The Associated Press)

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.--Surgeon. General Ireland announces that the news of the signing of the armistice was the best tonic for the invalided men that he ever saw.
 Before the armistice was signed there were over two thousand Ameri. cans in the French hospitals who were suffering from shell shock. When the news was received that the armistice had been signed all of them recovered immediately thru the expression of the joy at the victory.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-12-16
TO
 BE CANDIDATE

Last evening George Hutchinson, cashier of the First National bank announced his candidacy for treasur- CT of the school board, which office has been vacant for some time.
 The election to fill the position will be held tomorrow at the city hall and all qualified voters of the town of Fairbanks may cast bal. lot. MT Hutchinson's announcement will be received by the FairbapKs taxpayers as good news, for they all know him and have confidence that he will fill the office acceptably
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-12-16
LAST MEMBER ESKIMO TRIBE
 PASSES AWAY
(The Associated Press)

NEW YORK, Dec. 13.-Mene Peary Wallace died at Pelham Manor to- day from pneumonia after an illness of only a few days at the age of thirty-one.
 The deceased was the last remain. ing member of the Eskimo family that Commodore Robert Peary brot from Smith sound in 1900 in the at. tempt to acclimate the race.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-12-16
SHORT SEAS(N
 IS ANN!OUlTED
(The Associated Press)

lIne ASSOCIdlCu PTtSSJ I
 CHICAGO, Dec. 12.-Announceme. is made of the length of the playing season of the American baseball league for the year 1919. The sea son will be a shorter one that any previous year, but 40 games appear ing on the schedule.
 It is planned to have the season open on May first. The closing date will not be announced until the full schedule. has been arranged. It is likely that the same clubs as last year will make up the league.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-12-16
BOARD
 HAS RESIGNED
1.-The Associated Press)

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13. - The members of the cotton committee of the war trade board have tendered their resignations and at the same time recommended that the regula. tions governing the cotton industry and shipping be revoked.
 The resignations were accepted and the suggestions acted upon. The present maximum price of cotton fab rics, which was fixed by the board, will be allowed to expire on the last day of December.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-12-16
NEW ARRIVAL
 IN FAIRBANKS

At thes home of Mrs. Harry r karstens on lower First avenue a daughter was born to Mir and Mrs. l.. R. Gillette last evening at 8:45 o'clock, The newcomer at birth weighed fourteen pounds. At latest reports from those in attend ance both mother and daughter are doing we'll
 MT. and Mrs Gillette are to be congratulated on the new addition to their family as it is the heaviest baby that has ever been born in Fail banks.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-12-16
REVENUE BILL HAS BEEN READ
(The Associated Press)

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.-The read; ing of the entire text of the wal revenue bill was finished by the sen ate today and the senate will begin its work tomorrow on some of the disputed features which congressman objected to being incorporated. Chair man Simmons gelieves that the early passage of the bill is assured.
 Senator LaFollette, of Wisconsin, in his minority report urged that a high CT rate on income and excess war profits should be made in order to raise more revenue.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-12-16
HOLLAIiD WILL
 BE GIVEN COAL
(The Associated PreSS)

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.-The war trade board has agreed to allow Hol- iand to purchase one hundred thou sand tons of coal for its own use. The only stipulation to the sale is that Dutch ships must be used in transporting it across the Atlantic.
 The provision concerning the ship. agreement because of the shortage of tonnage in American shipping, what is now available is being used in transporting troops home from the front.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-12-16
FIVE BI[LION
 IN BOND ISSUE
(The Associated Press)

WASHINGTON, Dec 12.-Secre. tary of the Treasury McAdoo has informed the house ways and means committee that over five billion dol lars of bonds have been issued this year to finance the government.
 The money was used in the vari- ous war enterprises and for the financing of undertakings and loans to foreign nations.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-12-16
WILL DISCUSS PACKING REGULATIONS IN WEEK
(The Associated Press)

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13-The hear ings on the bill for the regulation of the packing industries has been set for December nineteenth. At that time 1t is believed that the proposi- tion of government control for the packing industries will have more support.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-12-16
KAISER FEARS
 ASSASSINATION
(The Associated Press)

LONDON, Dec. 13.-It is reported that several score of former detec- tives of Potsdam have been retained by the kaiser as personal body guard and that they are in constant attendance upon him.
 The kaiser appears to be in constant fear of assassination and has constantly in his possession a small revolver with which to protect himself.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-12-16
RAISE
 HAS BEEN MADE
(The Associated Press)

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13. - The house today passed the bill providing for an increase of salary for the dis trict court judges and the judges for the court of claims.
 The districts affected by the raise are one hundred and thirty-two in number and the increase of pay is S1,5O0 over what is being received at the present time.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-12-16
RUSSIAN ENVOY HAS
 ARRIVED IN NEW YORK
(The Associated Press)

NEW YORK, Dec. 13.-M. Match. irin, the envoy to America from the new state of Northern Russia, arrived in this city today and will, within a short time present his credentials at the capital city
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-12-16
MARCH GIVEN
 HONOR MEDAL
(The Associated Press)

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.-On the recommendation of General J. J. Pershing General P. c. March has been awarded the distinguished ser. vice medal by congress-
 During his service abroad General March employed his services with such good results that the American commander considered the award of the service medal fitting recogni. tion.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-12-16
INFLUENZA IN
 SAMOAN ISLES
(The Associated Press)

PAGO.PAGO, American Samoa, Dec. 13.-Influcnza in the most virulent form is raging in Western Samoa and already five hundred deaths in Apia have resulted from the ravages of the disease.
 Governor Foyer has installed strict quarantine in the American possessions against the rest of the territory, no one being permitted to travel outside of a given boundary.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-12-16
WILSON WILL
 BE A CITIZEN
(The Associated PresS)

PARIS, Dec. 13.-The municipal council of the city of Paris votd to confer upon President Wilson the title of citizen of Paris.
 The conferring of the title $ a high honor which has been grnted to only a few persons in the world, and then only for some distinguished service.
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-12-16
RECEIVING HIS
 SHARE OF CONGRATULATIoN

J. J. Buckley, of the N. C. account lg staff, is receiving the congratula. Sns of his many fgrend, the or sS being the. receipt of the o,us thaa son was born to hir' D., Co.t. tle. The message state" :,
 rivalI n doipc ~ad the new ar
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-12-16
0AN Az GREETING GREETING Of FRANCE BE
 ENTHUSIASTIC
(The Associated Press)

 PARIS, Dec. 12.-~The rad,ca, so. clallsts' which comprise the largest part Of tho chamber of deputies, have issued an appeal to the citizens or France to give President Wilson an enthusiastic welcome The appeal sets forth the friendly relations that have always existed between the two nations and states that the welcome should be great as deep debt of gratitude is due the Americans.
 -E- J. L. White, of Olnes, is in town for short stay.
 R. P. Cosgrove. the Happy miner, returned home yesterday.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-10
A New Musical Composer

In his account of the Philharmonic
Concert on Friday MIR. Vernon paid
tribute to the power and vitality of a
new symphony, written by twenty-one-
year-old Swiss composer. 1t was heard
here for the first time in America, for
the fourth time anywhere
1t was written nearly sixteen years
ago. That is what it means to be mu-
sical composer Of the highest type. One
must wait
Last spring the Society of Friends of
Music gave an entire concert of the
works of this new composer, Mr.. Ernest
Bloch. 1t was, if we mistake not, the
first time that an orchestral concert of
almost wholly new works, from an all
most wholly unknown composer, had been
given in America.
Mr.. Ernest Bloch has written operas
as we'll. One of them was given some
years ago at the Opera Comiquc, in
Paris. 1t was acclaimed by the friends
CT modern music as work of great orig
inality and power. 1t is extremely
modern"
Perhaps when it is done with the pro-
duction Of such masterpieces as "Lodo-
letta," "Marouf" and the like, tie Met
ropolitan, with its present great financial
success, might give New York an oppor-
tunity to hear Mr.. Bloch's "Macbeth."
New-York tribune., 1918-03-10
that across the death zone the American
flag first swept swapping from a Cana
dian bayonet.
A Concrete Cargo Fleet

We present in this issue careful re-
view of the possibilities of large fleet
of concrete cargo boats
There have been grave doubts as to
the feasibility of this type of ship con-
struction. 1t is new. Marine engineers
and ship designers have been almost
unanimously against it. 1t is the old
story.
Engineers Of standing have investi-
gated and are now ready to put their
regulations behind the innovation. A
4,500-ton ship will be launched in San
Francisco next week Three or four
others are under construction.
A 600-ton craft has crossed and re-
crossed the North Sea.
We have an almost unlimited supply
Of concrete. The boats could be built
on almost any shore. They require no
heavy expenditure for yards"
They would engage no labor that
could now be employed on steel or wood
en- ships
We could add 500 concrete cargo
UOdtS W our present. pIOuUCI OIL SHIPS
between two and three million tons. We
could very nearly double with these
boats the present prospect from steel
construction.
1t is solely as an emergency meas
ure that the concrete fleet is urged 1t
might prove a permanent addition to
ship types.
But the ship need is here Congress
and the Shipping Board ought not to
waste another month in testing out the
new boat San Francisco, and if the re-
suits are satisfactory begin this cargo
fleet at once
1t might mean a tremendous gain.
While we are pouring out billions for
munitions it seems worth the gamble
to risk fifty or a hundred millions to
get boats enough to land these NUM-
tions in France
New-York tribune., 1918-03-10
The Russian Tilsit

Lenine tried to make head against
German militarism with phrase. Now,
cuffed, kicked, plundered and outraged,
he tries to invent another phrase to cover
over his humiliation.
eve have concluded another Tilst
peace" he says. eve shall yet arise to
victory, even as Germany, after Tilsit
attained deliverance from Napoleon"
In 1907 Prussia yielded to overwhelrl-
ing military force. Her territory was
completely overrun. She succumbcd
from exhaustion. When Russia, her ally,
was defeated at Friedland her last hope
of resistance vanished
But the Russian Tisit of 1918 does
not represent a necessary submission to
an all-powerful invader. Russia's plight
was not desperate, in a military sense
She had lost but a small fraction of her
territory She had powerful allies,
ready to help her. For nearly two years
she had held the enemy at bay Since
the great retreat of 1915 she had actu-
ally recovered ground in Volhynia and
had again penetrated into Galicia and
Bukowina. Her armies were fully equal
to the task of meeting any forces which
Germany and Austria-H Hungary could
spare for use on the Eastern front. .
Then suddenly the revolution dis
armed. 1t disorganized and disbandcd its
veteran troops. 1t set up deluded ideal
Of international determination, ground
ing it's own weapons and appealing for a
peace without penalties to the fellow
feeling Of the German and Austro- Hun
garian proletariats. There never could
have been Russian Tilsit in 1913 ex-
cept for the grotesquc and paranoiac
self betrayal which Lenine himself
staged at Brcst-Litovsk.
And how about the war Of liberation
which is to follow cnslavcment? Prussia
was freed in 1913 because Napoleon
overreached himself in the campaign for
Moscow. Had he stopped at Smoensk the
history of Eastern Europe might have
been very different Does Lenine expect
William II to repeat Napoleon's blunder
by trying to send a Grand Army to
Pcking and Toxic? That is desperate
hope.
Another thing. Prussia was able to
take advantage Of the Moscow d4baclc,
because her people had been aroused,
after Tilsit, to a keen sense Of national
ity. Koerner, t'ichte, Stein, Scharnhorst,
Cnescnau and other great leaders in
epired them with burning patriotism.
which replaced the fashionable, languid
intcrnationalism by which even Goethe
had been affected. Can Lenine and his
New-York tribune., 1918-03-10
Breakfast in Bed

. Is it a lingering I'.!ritancal instinct
which makes American stomachs revolt
at the thought Of breakfast in bed? Is
it too comfortable, too pleasant, too luxu-
rious to be quite moral? There lies an
interesting speculation. Puritanism has
declined rapidly in this land Of freedom
and the "movies,' yet a plenty of it sticks
around picking up a dry crumb of tribute
here and there. Very possibly stomachs.
those most sensitive and temperamental
of organs, have retained more of the an
cient prejudice than souls or eyes.
At any rate the instinct against the
bedside breakfast is still strong with US.
One good American after another breaks
away from the instinct and succumbs to
the Establishments Of the bedside tray.
The aroma of efIeteness still clings to tho
practice. 1t has no call for the husky
American man who always shifted at the
mention of tea and viewed the wrist
watch as the last word in effeminacy.
Appetite for breakfast, for an American
breakfast, was inconccivable in bed; not
only a tub, but exercise and a dining
room, a full start on fresh day, were a
necessary foundation for fruit, cereal,
bacon, eggs, Coffee rolls.
In England and Europe stomachs have
long lived by quite another rule. So was
it made exceedingly clear in poetry con.
test in "The Westminster Gazette" A
prize Of one guinea was offered for a
poem called "Brcakfast in Bed" and the
replies were endless. They came from
the trenches, cries Of longing and regret:
Breakfast in Bed! I do not know
OF anything that's half so topping.
Peace" an Gun -boated sea" and the
League of Peace" among The wars
goals, but topped them all with cream,
and oatmeal and toast and butter and
jam served in bed. The thing was
hymned as the ideal of rich and poor, the
last reward of the pure in heart APP
parently the labor leader who will prom
Use breakfasts in bed to his constituents
can count on every vote in the British
Isles.
Will the war bridge this chasm? Will
breakfast in bed seep into the hearts and
minds of our soldiers in France--even
though they have precious little chance
Of practising the faith in the trenches? :?
We shall have to await the advent of the
international mind to find out The in
ternational stomach may follow in it's
train. AnG, again it may not
New-York tribune., 1918-03-10
"A Free Route to India"-
What 1t Means

If any shadows of question as to Ger
many's wild dreams of world power re-
NAMED they must have been dissipated
by the terse announcement from the
semi-official Wolff Bureau in Berlin:
eve have acquired a direct free route
via Russia to Persia and Afghanistan"
The curtain is now drawn back on
Germany's immediate aims. She feels
that her position in the West is fairly
impregnable, at any rate in no danger
She has, or soon will have, Russia,
practically all of Russia, in her grasp.
The enterprise to Bagdad and the
Indian Ocean was checked. But that
has merely deviated her route.
The astounding collapse of Russia,
Germanys undreamed of success in the
quarter which at the beginning of the
war she most deeply feared, has opened
up vistas which the most imaginative of
Pan-Germanists would have regarded
four years ago as little better than
seductive mirage.
The German alliance with the Turk
and the Mahometan will now begin to
bear fruit! With the hundred and fifty
millions of Russia under her heel, with
a route opened to the back door of
India, with her submarines blockading
the Mediterranean, with the difficulty of
England's sending considerable army
to the East, she feels assurance that
there is now no hindrance toward her
next and vaster enterprise.
India is her goal.
With ''free route" for her arms, an
Indian uprising is probably the next on
her programme. One does not need to
read far back into history to imagine
something of what this might mean.
This is not to say that such a result
could be achieved next month or this
year Or even next year. But every
month of the appalling inability Of the
United States, through lack of ships, to
make effective its vast resources to help
IN forcing OSClSlOu Oll luS w COtCl IL
front makes nearer the realization Of
Germany's dream.
In the face of this situation we bal
ance and bubble over the question OF
engaging the active aid of Japan.
That nation alone has the equipment,
the organization, the men, actively to
oppose the advance of Germany into
the East It alone at this time can offer
any effective check to the Mahometan
hordes which Germany may rouse to aid
in her assault, upon India.
The only other possibility is China.
Japan has intimated her willingness to
invite China to cooperate in the defence
of Siberia. China could be an aid. It
is in no sense a first class power.
Is it to be our policy to make Japan
at this time an ally or give it a rebuff?
It is now in reality world war. The
pawns in danger are no longer in
Europe.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-10
Our Other Army

Every night they come through fsom
Ottawa-the American casualties among
the Canadian overseas forces-usually
late, SO that the newspapers do not dis
play them very prominently. Bald as
these lists are, they have a certain
sombre eloquence.
Thn Jones, Petaluma Cal, killed.
James Smith, Watertown. n. Y, killed
Thomas Robinson, Detroit, Mich, gasscd.
Samuel Brown, Dallas, Tex, missing.
Presumably there Is a record some
where Of all the Americans who have
given their lives or sacrificed their free
dom with the Canadian armies Many
more than 10000 men from the United
states have enlisted under the Mar
Leaf. In the aggregate their casualties
far exceed all those announced from
Washington and even now they are run
ming ag heavy as our own.
Our own? They are our own. Rest
iess men, roycrs, adventurous spirits
these volunteers from the States have
been called. Even so. But they remain
ideaiistg every one, some perhaps un-
conscious Of 1t, and most Of them hope
lcssly inarticuIate. They saw the issue
before we did, and without much fuss or
feathers took their places along the from
tier Of civilization.
Now that we are at Last steaming hot
in the battle and have begun to count our
dead, do not let us forget those quiet
pioneers who have fought for us for
nearly four years. Do not let us forget