The Alaska daily empire., 1919-06-14
EUROPE UNREST WILL CEASE WHEN
 PEACE IS SIGNED
Corporal A. c. Fisher, of Royal Engineers. Gives Interesting Sketch of
 War Side|ights

| As soon as the work of the Peace
 Conference has been completed
 peace declared and the Nations in
 volved in the struggle given a chance to settle down. the unrest which
 exists in Europe at this time will cease" Corporal A. c. Fisher, of the
 Royal Engineers, who is the guest Of Father Guy D. Christian and Mrs
 Christian at the Deanery, believes This unrest. caused by the strain under which they. have been existing since the war began will end, in Eng ! land, at least, feel sure, when peace is finally reached.
 "The strain under which the people of England have been living has been | intense. Lack of food, loss of life I from air raids and the continual 1 anxiety they feel for those at the front has undermined normal con ditions. People are making money. but they are unable to buy food Those in the Army are served better | meals, ordinarily, than civilians can procure"
 Corporal Fisher, who, though far beyond the draft age was the first man to leave Thane after the United States entered the war, left in July. 1917, and enlisted in the Royal En- gineers at Vancouver. With his company he left Vancouver for Mont | real then crossed the Atlantic in the ''Welchman" by the Northern route He entered camp at Sandwich at the Port of Mystery"
 "The Port of Mystery the English base of supplies for the troops in France is one of the most interesting places developed by the war. It is It Peterborough, the name a cor ruption of the Roman Rutupaie, the last place in England occupied by he Romans. It was located on a river which had been blocked to anything but barges until it was lredged and the principal base of supplies for England was constructed by the Royal Engineers. There the ,cross the Channel, and trains with tanks, ammunition and supplies left here continually crossed on the ferries, and left the French port for he front. It's location and construc- ion was not made public until after
 he armistice was signed"
 Mr. Fisher was then sent to France
 n the field telegraph service and liter spending some time there was transferred to the marine section If the Royal Engineers.
 "The Royal Engineers" MT. Fisher explained, had between 4000 and5,- 200 vessels, including barges, floating electric stations, tugs. floating der ricks, cranes and so on.
 "They had control of the ports ,f Calais and Dunkirk, which they had leased from the French" In the marine section of the Roy Il Engineers, Mr. Fisher was one of ten shipmasters who would take new ships from the various ship yards in England, on their maiden
 ,oyage, then turn them over to their
 permanent crews. His last ship was
 he Crete Glass;" one of the first
 concrete ships built by the Vickers Company.
 MT. Fisher had little to tell about lis own experiences. He said much
 n praise of his branch of the ser
 ice, the people of France and Eng
 and and especially of the city of Dunkirk. His most prized souvenir ,f the war is a map of Dunkirk which )ears a red dot indicating every ,lace Hun projectile had hit. The nap is fairly peppered with red dots, md 1t carries the information that Dunkirk has undergone 214 bom- 5ardments, during which 1t was hit with 7,514 projectiles resulting in the leath of 233 civilians and the wound
 ng of 336 civilians. The town has von many decorations, the Military -ross from King George, the Croix de 1uerre, as well as a number of oth DTS.
 "I was in Dunkirk during five bom- oardments. three of them air raids. ,ne a sea bombardment and one a and bombardment. During one raid my boat was being loaded by mem oers of the Chinese Labor Corps. When the bombardment began. the chinamen ran under freight car for protection. One of the next shells hit the car and killed twenty-five Chinese One boat was deluged with them"
 Mr Fisher praised greatly the Am erican Red Cross, the Salvation Army. the Church (of England) Army and the Knights of Columbus. The Y. M c. A. both American and British, is in great disfavor with soldiers and sailors, he said. The British Y. M. c. A. made profit of 100000 pounds during three years of the war, MT. Fisher declared.
 "The report that the Y. M. c. A. would sell tobacco which had cards inside packages saying that it was donated. is true" MT. Fisher said.
 Besides his map of Dunkirk, MT. Fisher prizes highly, among his war