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The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-11

cheers of their friends and relatives, accompanied for miles by every gas boat on Gastineau Channel loaded with friends and relatives, and with every whistle on the Channel bidding them farewell the steamer Peterson, with the members of the draft on board, slowly steamed out of the Channel and headed North for Fort Seward.
 Yesterday was the day of the draft ed men and no other body of men has ever received such an ovation at any time in the history of Alaska. Everyone in Juneau and from Doug las and Treadwell, that could pos sibly get away, was out to do honor to those leaving for the Fort for training.
 Early in the morning the business houses of the city started decorating and by four o'clock, when they all closed, the buildings in the down town section were a mass of color, The weather was perfect which add ed greatly to the occasion.
 Promptly at four o'clock the Par ade started from the A. B. Hall and and was finally formed at the Dream Theatre Led by Color Sergeant G, K. Gilbert, with Sergeant R. R. Young and Quartermaster Sergeant M. s. Perkins, of the Juneau Home Guards, followed by the Gastineau Channel
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-11
AUSTRIANS' RIGHT TO FISH ON SOUND
 WILL BE TESTED
THOMAS RIGGS, JR. | CHARLES E. DAVIDSON.

OLYMPIA, May Legal test of whether naturalized Austrians may continue to fish commercially in Pu- get Sound while their country is an active enemy of the United States is to be made through mandamus action c. w. Howard of Bellingham intends to bring in the Supreme Fish Commissioner. E.
 Darwin has been in consultation with the Attorney-Generars depart ment on the subject and Howard is also in Olympia preparing his ac- tion, in which he will represent Bel lingham canneries.
 Under recent ruding of the At torney-General, Commissioner Darwin barred the Austrians from fishing in Sound waters. as enemy aliens. They are still permitted in Alaska and State authorities have no objection to that An effort is now being made to show that shutting out the Aus | trians will diminish the food fish supply needed in war time, as a means of influencing Federal action | in favor of the aliens
 Darwin is prepared for this with his office reports showing the issu- ance of 4O1 more licenses up to April 23 this year than had been is- sued for the corresponding period
 last year The total last year was 7,34l licenses and pack of 100000 cases of salmon
 This year. with more fishermen working than ever before, the total pack will not amount to much more than 150000 cases as 1t Is an off sea son for the salmon run.
 Another point urged by Darwin as one of direct importance in war is that the Austrians are constantly fishing the water around the Sound defense forts and are in position to gain a great deal of information sif they could do no damage. The boats they use are of the same general type as the trawlers used for the destruc. tion of mines in the North Sea. .
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-11
Notice to Creditors.

In the Probate Court, Before N. L.. Burton, U. s. Commissioner and Ex-officio Probate Judge, for Ju- neau Precinct, Territory of Alaska. In the mater of the estate of Gladys
 Humpheries, Deceased.
 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN. that I was on the 18th day of April A. D. 1918, by the U. s. Commis- sioner, Ex-ofiicio Probate Judge. Ju- neau Precinct, Juneau, Alaska. duly and regularly appointed adminis- trator of the estate of Gladys Hum- pheries, deceased, and I have ta- ken the oath of office and letters of Administration have been issued to me; 4ts.,R. 7. THEREFORE all persons having claims against the said Estate are hereby required to present them to me at my office at Juneau. Alas ka, with the proper vouchers with in six months from the date of this notice.
 A. H. HUMPHREYS.
 Administrator.
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National leaque
Coast International leauue

Coast International League At Portland nd-Portland 9, Aberdeen At Seattle-Seattle II, Spokane 3. At Tacoma 9, Vancouver '.
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will be as your brothers instead of now. We are in this war to fin ish and the last Serbian man will shed his blood on the field of battle before the German Nation will be able to say, We have won,'" he concluded
 The men who are in Juneau from the Westward are V. M Radovich T. Scepanovich, M. Vujoich, M. Liv- naich, s. Perisich, V,. Milanovich, and M. Asonovich. The two who will go from Juneau are V. Rakocevich and B. Draskovich.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-11
Weather Was Perfect and Whole of Channel Towns Turned Out for the
 Farewell.
IMPRESSIVE CEREMONY
The Whistles in the Harbor and the Tells of PeO- pie Mingled in a
 Salute.

Last night as the sun sank slowly to rest in the golden West, the mem bers of the first Alaskan draft con tingent to the National Army left the Juneau dock on their way to their training post at Fort Seward
 Sped on their way by the ringing
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-11
HONOR FLAG ON WAY

Gov. Riggs this morning received a telegram from MT. Lynch. chair man of the 18th District congratulat- ing him on the showing made by Alaska and saying that the Honor Flag with one blue star had been sent North yesterday.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-11
Proclamation

Alaska has exceeded her quota of cnlistments in the military service.
 Alaska has exceeded her quota of purchase of Liberty Bonds.
 Alaska stands among the first. if not the first, in the purchase of War Saving and Thrift Stamps.
 Alaska has responded nobly to- every war call sounded.
 The people of Alaska are gener ous and true Americans. irrespective )f the nationality of their birth.
 We are proud to be called Alas kans.
 We are now called upon once more to give, to give to that great est of all charities-THE AMERI CAN RED CROSS.
 We arc called upon to give that our boys, our Alaska boys now in France, and in the future, may be looked after tenderly and efficiently in sicknes and in health; that in he field they may have those com forts not provided by military au- thority; that when wounded OF ill they may have devoted to them the l highest surgical skill obtainable, in hospitals modern in all their appli- ances; that the dying hours of those dear boys who are to give up their 1 lives for you and fer mo, for your children and my children, may be quieted and comforted, and that for those who are captured there may be supplied sustenance and methods of communication with their famil- ies and loved ones;
 That, The families of soldiers and sailors may receive helping hand in case of sicknes or need; That, The hearts of the poor peas ants of France, Belgium, Italy and Serbia may be gladdened by timely assistance in the upbuilding of homes devastated by contending ar mics;
 That, The crippled may be help ed to useful life;
 That, The little children left in the wake of "Kultur," abandoned tortured maimed and disfgured nay be named cared for and final Iy returned to their country to be. come helpful citizens;
 That, Our Flag may continue tc
 tand for right, for faith, for hope for charity;
 JR., Governor of the Territory oi Alaska, do hereby proclaim week beginning on Monday, May 20, as RED CROSS WEEK
 md Saturday, May 25th, as
 ALASKA'S RED CROSS DAY
 ,nd do hereby call upon all loyal men, women and children in tho Territory toward raising funds fol he American Red Cros and more particularly on ALASKA'S REF CROSS DAY do I call upon our cit izens, as far in as possible, to ob serve the day as a Territorial holi lay. wherein the efforts of all shal be directed toward raising our pro portion of the national subscription of $100,000,0 900.
 call upon all organizations throughout the Territory, commerce. al, political and social, the Boy Scouts. the churches, the lodges, tho Home Guard, to bend every effort iI this direction. More particularly call upon the women for to them be longs primarily the honor of tho !, Red Cross.
 The minimum sum of $4O,O0O i. fixed as the amount to be raised iI the Territory. Chapter and sub
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-11
BASEBALL
YESTERDAYS SCORES

American League At New York-Detroit ,, New York 5 At Boston-Boston 4, St. Louis 1. At Philadelphia - Chicago 5, Phila delphia 3. At Washington 8, Cleye land 2.
 National League At Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh 4. New York 2. tH At St Louis-Cincinna 5, St. Louis f.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-11
First One Issued by New Governor in Which He Reviews the Work
 of AIaSkanS.
HAVE NOBLY RESPONDED
Funds Are Needed for the Welfare of "0ur Boys in France' and for
 the Helpless

The first proclamation issued by Gov. Thomas Riggs, Jr, reviews the fact that Alaskans have nobly re- is as follows:
 TERRITORY OF ALASKA
 Governors Office
 Juneau
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PIONEERS BOARD MEETING

The Board of Trustees of the Pion- eers Home this morning held a meet ing with Gov. Thomas Riggs Jr., and matters pertaining to the wei fare of the Home and the Pioneers of Alaska were discussed.
The Alaska daily empire., 1918-05-11
INSECT PESTS ARE CAUSING LOSSES
 TO FOOD DEPOTS

LONDON, May 9.-lnsect pests caused a greater loss in the food supplies of the United Kingdom last year than did the German U-boat. according to the estimate of the Board of Agriculture.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-27

raise the question Of Schleswig- Holstein,
while Prussia knows that she must lose
Posen and Alsace- Lorraine.
Her financial position deserves separate
treatment. Shut up as she is, Germany has
been able to float paper to the value Of
S30,000,000 daily throughout the whole
period of the war. This paper is held ex-
cluaively by Germans, and if it loses value,
as it will. when peace is signed and an in
ternational exchange is set up, German in
vestors alone will suffer. The knowledge
of this depresses the commercial magnates,
who we're as close to the Kaiser in past
years as were the Junkcrs themselves. Ger
many knows that every money and invest
mcnt market in the world is closed against
her, whereas the credit of the Allies is
pooled and depends on the assets of this
whole planet, the rapidly diminishing
area Of Prussan despotism.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-27
Hopelessly Outnumbered, Failing at
Every Point, the Foe
Is Baffled
By HILAIRE BELLOC
Author of Elements Of the Great Bra Most D,tnabed
Military Critic

attacked and we're broken by Gouraud
east of Rheims on July Is, and we are
fairly sure that these fifteen divisions
represented more than 100000 men. We
are still more confident that they repre-
sented something like 10000 infantry.
or at any rate we'll over $4,000. Even
the ten divisions Immediately in reserve
behind these fifteen, whose role it was
after the expected rupture of the French
line to come up between the attacking
divisions and continue the rapid advance
upon Chalons, probably upon the same
scale, stood for something like 15O,-
600 men, of whom 10000 were infantry.
counting in the special new reserves to
create which drafts had been made upon
the regiments along the line.
To-day these figures no longer apply.
The average strength of the German in
fantry division in the west is certainly
not 5000, and probably is not much more
than 5000. No less than TWENTY-FIVE d.
visions have disappeared altogether
is, they have been broken up to fill the
gaps left by their fellows, and time and
again we learn through prisoners, or
captured papers, or other means that
particular units which did famous work
in the past and therefore used especial
effort in covering this retreat have been
reduced to skeletons. For instance, the
Sixth Division, the most famous of those
which attacked Verdun two and one.half
years ago, had when it received it's last
hammering this month not 1000 infan-
try present against our attack. 7 could
name Guard divisions of which the de-
pletion is equally severe. 1t is true that
these figures have been taken after a
series of very severe actions and before
the units have time to retire and become
rested and recruited, but they are such
figures as were quite unknown before the
present phase of the war.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-27
II ospital Returns and
Boys of Eighteen

To recruit losses so enormous there
is a wholly insufficient supply of men,
nothing but hospital returns and class
1920 boys of eighteen, nearly a quarter of
whom are still under eighteen, and who
number on paper 100000, but who in
numbers actually used are very much less.
Indeed, the experiment Of putting them
on the front line had already been tried
earlier in the course of the present enemy
defeat and had partially broken down.
and | believe we possess an order of the
enemy Higher Command saying that they
had for the moment been withdrawn.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-27
Propaganda That Turned Out
Il To Be a Boomerang

These facts are obviously affecting the
minds especially of the civilian people
For the propaganda by which the autocracy
instigated the German nations to this war
was like boomerang-it returns to strike
its authors. Every man, woman and child
was bred on the slogan dominion or down
tail'-thc inference being "dominon." I"
Dominion is now manifestly impossible. Sc
that there remains for the popular imagina-
ton just-downfall. Never in the history
of the world has there been such moral
and material concentration among men as
tins overwhelming economic, military.
financial and naval combined force which
cruahcs German Kaiscrdom from every
side. Countries remote as Napal or ths
Argentine contribute of their kind. and
wisely. We must secure among nations 4
respect for justice and order. If mankind
thus united for the first time, fails 70 a.,
sert its authority, if one recalcitran,
power can challenge a judgment so CON
sldered and so universal. then what hone
Is there for subsequent peace amony men ,
ihH human race. when thus empanellcd a.
jury having thus agreed on verdict
must carry out the sentence or djssolve
forever the reign Of law,
New-York tribune., 1918-10-27

effort for any army. Let me explain.
When you have a sufficiency of men you
hold a particular line WITH say, 100
units, and in reserve at various parts
behind the line, distributed all along the
length, say fifty units. Your sufIiciency
of men permits you to adopt this dispo-
sition, and as the units on the fighting
line are used up you withdraw them for
recruiting and repose and replace them
by units taken from the reserve These
units, kept in reserve, are conveyed to
the line by the shortest route of COM
munications. They relieve other units
standing Immediately in front of them
Again, if sudden pressure is brought to
the right of your line you meet it by
drawing from the reserve which stands
wight behind the right end; then if sud
denly the enemy transfers his pressure
to the left you meet it by bringing up
the reserve standing Immediately behind
the units Of the left. But when your re-
serve of men is low and your numbers
insufficient, then your call to relieve
New-York tribune., 1918-10-27

tired unit, to meet sudden pressure
at any point, involves bringing men from
great distances to the point in question.
You have not enough men to stand every
where behind the front line The re-
serves are sparsely scattered groups
placed at a few points. Every case of
sudden call involves long journeys to the
front and up and down the line.
That was precisely our difficulty dur
ing the great enemy attacks of March
and April last. The enemy compelled
our dwindling reserves to travel at most
cxhausting speed up and down along
the line, with bad lateral communica-
tions, and the strain on the strength of
the French and British armies was in
creasngly severe, at one moment peril
ously severe. For instance, hardly had
the Germans ended the great attack at
the front at Amiens on April when,
four days later, they launched an attack
far north against the Lys front, nearly
sixty miles away on straight line and
more than one hundred miles by the
New-York tribune., 1918-10-27
\ Plan Abandoned Under
"A Stern Necessity

We saw this clearly the other day when
the British second army, supported on
the left by French and Belgian troops,
advanced so rapidly into Flanders. The
complete breach Of the temporary Ger
man defences was organized between
Lys near Menin and the sea at Westende
and led within three days to the evacua
ton of the whole Lille salient. Until that
moment it was obvious that the most
necessary line upon which the Germans
certainly depended for retirement had
for bastions at either end the extremely
strong position Of Lille and the still
stronger position of Metz. Lille was not
abandoned as part of the plant was
abandoned under necessity, and the loss
necessarily involved further retirements
to the north across the Belgian plain.
How true this is those best know who
have seen what | cannot reproduce here
the scheme of defence organized by the
enemy around Lille 1t has been thor
oughly reconnoitred and photogra phed
from the air for many months past, and
it was by far the strongest of the recent
field works organized by the enemy
stronger even than that sector of the
Hndenburg line in front of Cambria,
which is the next strongest piece of work
established during the last four years
by the enemy in France; and giving up
such a system meant an unexpected, COM
New-York tribune., 1918-10-27

This depletion of numbers, which must
be the constant theme for the present
moment, governs to-day the whole war
and has had two indirect effects of the
highest consequence, quite apart from the
effect of weakening the mere numerical
strength of the line to be held.
The first Of these effects is the diff
Guilty of giving the proper rest to d-
visions retired from the line We have
cases in which units withdrawn for re-
pose were compelled in the same week
to reenter the front. The old rule Of
retiring a division when it had lost from
fifth to quarter Of its fighting
strength Of infantry no longer applies.
German divisions are retired when the
Higher Command is compelled to retire
them, not before, and they are contin-
ually thrown in again after grossly in
sufficient repose and grossly insufficient
recruitment
The second indirect effect of this de-
pletion in numbers is the necessity of
perpetual movement, most eXhausting
New-York tribune., 1918-10-27
Cerman Casualties Greatly
~ Outnumber Those of Allies

Eut obviously there is here fa,acy.
The British army only fought at maxi
mum strength during the last two years.
In 1917 alone the casualties were 100000.
This year they will be 100000. In the
German army, driven to battle for four
wears first on the cast and then on the
west the admitted casualties cannot be
fewer than 100000 and the not wastaoe
must be 100000 at the very least There
remains, doubtless, formidable force for
use on the shortened line. But it is not
hale the prospective Allied concentration.
AZ this point there enters the factor OF
morale. The Allies fought for justice:
Germany nights only for success. The man
who wants justice fights on even if he
roses. The man who only cares about sue
cess falls down under failure. Look at
New-York tribune., 1918-10-27

Western front may be roughly estimated
thus:
France, 3,5OOO0O; Britain, $500, 900; u.
S. A.. 100000; Belgium and Portugal, 5oO,-
900; total, 12,5Oo,OOO
do not suggest that all these men will
be fighting at the same time. And l am
still assuming that Italy is occupied else
where. But here you have evidence of un-
limited reserves-what President Wilson
calls military supremacy''-and the Amer
lcan item is put at Minimum
What has Germany to show? The United
Kingdom has enlisted one man in seven Of
total population. I see no reason to believe
that Germany has done more than this
She has had to maintain industrial output
unaided by any considerable volume of i'm
ports Let us give her, then a total of 1O,-
100000 men for this war. How many has
she lefto
Britain and her Empire have raised s.
$4,000 fighting men. Among these there
are 100000 casualties, of which about L.
100000, or 40 per cent, are killed. Sub
tracting 100000 natives, many employed
on labor it looks as if the total for casu-
alties IN the British forces was one-third
the men engaged. On this reckoning the
German losses are 3,5O00OO
New-York tribune., 1918-10-27
Ouch a Rapid Change
~ Cannot Be Effective

Such line stretches from the Dutch
frontier near Liege to junction with
the present line in front of Nancy,
a little more than $50 miles in length
whereas the present extension line
even after recent retreats, is more
than 25O miles, and with all convolu-
tions much more than $50. Neverthe-
less, the enemy won't adopt that short
est line, and this for many reasons
In the first place, he couldn't fall back
to it with sufficient rapidity. Retirement
from the neighborhood of Lille to Liege
would be about 100 miles, even in
straight line. The number of men and
the amount of material to be moved quite
prohibit the rapid change in the face Of
the tremendous pressure the German line
is suffering. Again, to adopt such a
short line would put essential productive
centres like Westphalia, great coal field
and steel works, and the vital Rhine
bridges at Cologne and Coblentz under
such severe bombing from the air at
short range that it would probably dis
remaining enemy defences.
Again, there is no lateral line of COM
rlunication in the sector across the east
eyr part of Ardennes, which would be 4
permanent peril. To be more accurate.
it couldn't hold. A much more probable
Inc, though it saves but little actual
nnleage-less than a fifth-would be the
line of the Scheldt, formidable line as
far as Termonde; then line to Den
der, covering Brussels; thence across the
plain around Namur and so down the
Meuse to Charleroi, striking the Meusc
somewhere above Namur. Such line
would be very great advantage against
The present offensive tactics of the Allies
1T would be water line along much
more than half its length, and it is this
line which most students of the present
situation regard as the probable rallying
line of his retirement 1t is not more
than a suggestion, but if the readers
look at any large map Of Belgium thev
cal. see its advantages. The gorge of
the Meuse above Namur is easily capable
CT defence with reduced forces, though
Cor supplies there are very bad commu-
n,catlons behind it, and the upper Meusc
though similarly suffering from lack of
communications behind it, continues to
be an excellent water line TO a point
where the enemy now stands
New-York tribune., 1918-10-27
Iun Factories Are
IL Falling Down

Now, very considerable superiority
of material is against him. and it is es-
sential to meet this superiority as best
he can. He fails to meet it sufficiently,
and he fails to meet it because, for some
reason, factories are not giving the out
put which they were few months ago.
The thing may be due to the combing out
of men to the necessities of the line, or
it may be due to labor troubles or the
physical condition produced by the long
blockade, or some dearth in necessary
war material Again you have this final
factor: the numbers and conditions of
the enemy divisions.
AZ short time ago as last April, per-
haps even up to the month Of June, though
TINS is doubtful, when you discovered
certain number of German divisions on
the Western front, it was safe to multi
ply the number by $4,000 to obtain the
total enemy present and multiply by
''Vo0 to obtain the total infantry. This
was especially the case when he was at
'acAlng; for instance: fifteen divisions