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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-19
led in Luck; Then Got Unbalanced and Reckless
Huge Blum er
Ended Hope of
Victory

mously dangerous, just as the Monte.
and the iron-clad Merrimac sprang snd
denly into being in our own Civil W.
Sir Percy Scott was laughed at h, -.
naval bureaucrats. But he was r;oh.
Within two or three years he saw ~.
British battleships shepherded IN ha.
of refuge about the Shetland IsIaIS.
whence they issued only under II.
closest guard of sweepers and des,ro,
ers. But in his widest speculations !.
had never prophesied the developmer.
of a U-boat which SHOULD carry e.i,oh
guns for surface fighting purposes and
should not only patrol the British lelo.
and the coasts Of France and SDain Nv.
should cross and recross the Ausnhc
with ease. That submarine Will, =
base at Kiel or Wilhelmshaven sbonla
sink merchant ships off Barnegat Bay or
the Virginia Capes seemed as incred;blo
in 1914 as that German coast guns
should lombard Edinburgh or London
Germany, therefore, found herself
possessed in the U-boat Of more than on
equivalent in offensive sea power for
what she had lost in her marooned sur.
face navy Until experience began II
furnish the enemy surface fleets with an
adequate defence the submarine made
life miserable for them The appearanc.
of single U-boat in the Egean Sea in
the spring of 1915 compelled the with.
drawal of the Allied warships which were
cooperating in the attack on the Darda-
nelles forts. From 1915 to 1918 Allied
operations in the Near East were greatly
hampered by the submarine threat
French and British military effort was
thereby localized to Belgium and France
where Germany needed most to localize
it. The incidental warfare on Allied
shipping was also grave strain on Al.
lied commerce and transportation.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-19
The Growing
Error

This was the monumental Diunder Of
German strategy. The United States
was, in fact, capable of being converted
within a short time into the most power
full military. nation in the world. But
the infatuated German High Command
couldn't see that. A competent general
staff should have known that the unre
stricted submarine campaign was. from
the military point Of view. only piece
of window dressing. It could not bring
victory. And dragging the United
States by the ears into the war was
bound to make victory for Germany an
impossibhty
Germany had the war nearly won IN
January, 1917. Her long streak Of good
fortune was about to eliminate in the
Russian revolution But she was drums
with success. She forgot caution. SIZE
sacrificed substance to shadow. Less
than ever did she comprehend the world
about her or the true objects Of her own
strategy. She could no longer under
stand the great poet Of her era Of N
tellectual clarity and modesty:
'Nicht einen sab ich fr0hich enden
"Auf den NIT INNER vollen Uanden
Die Gotter hire Gabcn streuen.'
III never saw any one come to happy
end on whom the gods showered Their
gifts from heapod-up hands "
Germany should have sent to the mad
house the leaders who wanted. in the
winter Of 19f6-1917. to run amucN
with the submarine Instead. she a'
claimed them as military geniuses thus
writing her own doom.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-19
A Diplomats
I esfinOny

IN his recent book, Ambassador Nor
penthau's Story the clear sighted
American envoy in Constantinople saws
of the escape of the Goeben and the
Breslau: II have often speculated on
what would have happened if the Eng
hsh battle-crusers which pursued the
Breslau and the Goeben up to the mouth
OF the Dardanelles had not been too gen
tlemanly 10 violate international law.
suppose they had entered the straits, at
tackled the German cruisers in the Mar
mora and sunk them. They could have
done this, and, knowing all that we
know now, such an action would have
been justified. Not improbably the de-
struction would have kept Turkey out
Of the war For the arrival of these
cruisers made it inevitable that Tur
hey when the proper time came, should
ION her forces with Germany. With
them the Turkish navy became strong
er than the Russian Black Sea fleet, and
thus made 1t certain that Russia could
make no attack on Constantinoplc."
Germany in the fret weeks Of the war
thus was able to close definitely to the
Allies the warm water route to Russia
The preservation Of communications
with Russia was the primary strategic
object II the Entente. Could they keen
TURKEY neutral or eventually buy, ca
Jole or force her INTO opening the Oar
dapelles, Great Britain, France and Rus
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-19
East From
Still Fluid

There could be no genuine deadlock on
the Eastern front. The necessary solid
ity on the part of the defence was lack
ing on that side. The enormously superb
or German artillery could breach the en-
envy lines at any point and then restore
relatively open warfare. The heaviest
Allied artillery concentrations in France
and Belgium made only dents here and
there in the German defences. But, re-
lying chiefly on their heavy guns, the
Germans could clear hostile territory in
the East with almost as much ease as in
the days before the intervention of rigid
postional warfare.
In still another important develop
ment of modern war fortune was kind
to the Germans. They had built great
hopes on the Zeppelin. 1t disappointed
them; for the drigible as a weapon of
offence was one of the absolute failures
of the war But the U-boat surpassed
all expectations. 1t was exploited to an
extent which revolutionizcd warfare at
sea. 1t was one Of the greatest military
finds of the war, quito lassng in eff
fectiveness the Skoda howitzer and the
iifty-mile supercannon, and easily rival
ling in destructiveness the bombing air
plane.
Within week from the outbreak of
hostilltics the German navy was practi-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-19
King Constantine of Greece

have the effect Of immobilizing war on
the West front for more than three
years. But the Germans were to benefit
from this immobilization much more
largely than the Allies. The change
came just as the Germans were ready to
drop the offensive in the West and to go
east to recover the territory which Aus
tria-Hungary had lost to the Russians.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-19
Sir Edward Crews
DeIuSiOnS

Sir Edward Grey, an amable pacifist
and compromiser, was completely out
of touch with the realities of Balkan
politics. He did not understand the
fierce passions, jealousies and hatreds of
the Balkan peoples. He tried to deal
with Ferdinand of Bulgaria as if that
worthy were, as he claimed to be,
good European.
Greece was an ally of Serbia, the two
countries having just finished success
full war against Turkey and successful
war against Bulgaria. Venizelos, the
greatest Of the statesmen of modern
Greece, was in power at Athens The
Allies wanted to enlist Greece in the
Dardanelles enterprise and offered her
liberal compensations. Venizelos was
an ardent friend of the Entente But
when it came to realizing Greek aid
Allied diplomacy fell between the two
stools of Greek ambitions and Italian
ambitions. 1t also encountered, without
understanding it, the yelled hostility of
King ConStantine--a pro-German at
heart, who was to develop more and
more into a malignant enemy of the
Entente and as faithful a. tool of Berlin
as was his former arch enemy, the Gar
of the Bulgars.
1T is a curious circumstance that the
Allies were to suffer enormously in
Greece as well as in Russia from distaF
politics. Constantine's policy was
shaped by his wife's relationship to the
German Kaiser She was the Kaiser's
sister. SO Constantine considered him
self Hohenzollern by marriage. In
that role he did not scrupe to sacrifice
the interests of Greece on the family
altar
The Empress of Russia was a Hessian
princess, and her great influence in the
court at Petrograd kept alive
pro-German cabal, which remained in
reasonable communication with Berlin.
betrayed military secrets and INSTRUCTED
the delivery of supplies to the armies.
In 1916 Sturmer, the Russian Prime
Minister, tricked Rumania into declar
ing war and then abandoned her to the
Germans
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-19

Sla could reasonably expect TO Oofeat
Germany and Austria-Hungary without
aid from Italy or the United States.
But, like pure windfall, Constanti-
nople dropped early in August 1914, into
German hands, In the Sea of Marmora
the two fugitive German cruisers be-
came of more value to Germany than
all the rest of Germany's High Seas
fleet. They alone of all Won Tirpitz's
surface navy were to prove themselves
a profitable military Investment.
COnsfantinOpie's
Value
To the Allies in 1914, 1915 and 1916
possession Of Constantinople would have
more than offset the loss of territory
they had suffered in Belgium and North
ern France. The Entente strategists
could not see this at first, and never saw
it clearly enough. They refrained from
entering the straits in 1914. The next
year they made half-hearted effort to
enter them and failed ingloriously,
when, with little better management,
SuNSSoo was III oiSlC' NC1 ihoily tfCiu HCi
breath while the Dardanelles forts were
attacked by the Allied fleets in Febru-
airy and March, 1915. But again fortune
was more than liberal to the Germans.
The Gallipoli campaign went down to
history as a tragic Allied disaster At
ter that Bulgaria joined the Central
Powers, Serbia was conquered and a
free corridor was opened through the
Balkans from Berlin to Constantinople
Russa's isolation, except on the Arctic
Ocean side and through far-off Vladvos-
tok, was clinched and Russias exhaus-
ton as military power was assured.
Everywhere in the Near East events
continued to play steadily into Ger
many's hand. Sir Edward Grey had
been the ruling spirit in the London
conferences which had tried to
straighten out affairs in the Balkans
after the first Balkan war. The net
result of these negotiations had been
to create the burlesque state of Albania
and put William of WED, burlesque
monarch, on its throne. They had also
forced the second Balkan war which
ended with Bugaria's collapse and the
Of
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protected.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-03-04
HARBOR WORKERS ARE OUT AGAIN
 IN NEW YORK CITY
Have Resumed Their Strike and Demand 30 Per Cent. Increase in Wages and Eight
 Hour Day.

NEW YORK, March 4.-The strike of 16,000 harbor workers and boat
 men, which halted in January by a request of President Wilson for sub hitting the demands to the Federal
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-03-04
PRESIDENT SIGNS TWO BILLS.

WASHINGTON, March 3,-Presi- dent Wilson has signed the bill val idating and authorizing the ad- justment of over $2,500, 100000 in war contracts, and $33, 100000 har- bor appropriation bill.
 The best cup of coffee in town, at the Alaska Grill.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-03-04
AN INSPECTION
 OF PACIFIC COAST
 BY WAR OFFICIALS

WASHINGTON. March 4.-Secre- tary Newton D. Baker of the War Department, and General Peyton c March, the chief of staff for Persh ing, will leave Sunday on tour ot inspection of the Pacific Coast and the Mexican border. The tentative itinerary includes a visit to Camp Lewis, near Tacoma.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-03-04
NOTICE TO VOTERS.

The registration books for Quali- fled voters of the City of Juneau. Territory of Alaska, for the year nineteen hundred and nineteen (1919), are now open in the City Clerks Office in the City Hall. and will remain open until Saturday. March 29th, 1919, at the hour of five o'clock p. m. of said day. All persons desiring to vote at the reg ular election to be held April 1st, 1919, should register, as persons not registered will not be permitted to vote.
 Dated at Juneau, Alaska, Febru- ary 21st, 1919.
 A. B. COLE,
 Registration Officer.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-03-04
COPPER SURPLUS IN
 GOVERNMENT HANDS
 IS TO BE SOLD
Copper Producers Association Has Been Given the Task of Get ting Rid of the Sur
 plus Stock.

NEW YORK, March 4.-The Cop per Producers Association will mar ket for the Government the surplus copper held by the latter for per iod not to exceed 15 months.
 The price of 15 cents per pound is expected to prevail The Govern, ment's surplus is 14O,OO0,0OO pounds.
 The producers will be allowed the cost of selling from the proceeds of the sale under a tentative agreement with the Government.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-03-04
BIG LINER GOES
 ASHORE DRIVEN BY
 GREAT PACK OF ICE

ST. JOHNS, N. B., March 4.-The Furness line steamer Appenine, bound for Liverpool from here, was driven ashore at Wireless Point by an ice pack.
 The ice jam blocks the entire coast and nothing can be done towards re- leasing the vessel until the wind makes an opening in the ice floes.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-03-04
ALL INDICTMENTS TO BE DISMISSED
 AGAINST NOLAN

SAN FRANCISCO, March 4.-Su- perior Judge Dunne has dismissed the indictments against Ed ward Nolan, the co-defendant of Thomas Mooney, on the charge grow ing out of the bomb outrages in San Francisco. He was the first of the bomb defendants to be indicted and is to be cleared of all of the charges brought against him.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-03-04
NAVAL LOSSES OF GREAT BRITAIN
 WERE HEAVIEST

LONDON, March 4-Reuters' News Agency says the Allied Naval losses during the war aggregated 803,0O0 tons, of which 5OO,OO0 tons were from Great Britain. He said the Central Powers lost 35O,OO0 tons exclusive Of the tonnage surrendered under the terms of the armistice.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-03-04

WANTED - Position at once, laundry or hotel. Reliable. F., Empire.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-03-04
MARTIAL LAW IN
 MADRID RESCINDED
 BY GOVERNMENT

MADRID, March 4-Martial law las been rescindcd All of the strikers and others arrested here and n Barcelona have been released. The city is entirely free of the rioting hat marked the trouble over the ris- ng prices of food, and the Govern ment troops are in charge of the sit uation.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-03-04
All Wool Is Economy
Better have H im y0Mr clothes

N TEXT time you buy clothes matter where you go, VI ask if they re al-wool Don't be put off without
 plain answer The clothier may say: You know me;
 you know wouldn't sell you anything that wasn't all right but that doesn't the question: he say yes, can't te perhaps whether alwoo he may think IS; maybe he doesn't know.
 There's only way of knowing what you getting clothes this spring. aside from chemical of the fabrics; and that way buy goods that guaranteed by the maker to be a-wool and all the rest that goes with 1t.
 We offer you Hart Schafner Marx clothes because the makers dare take positive ground the quality question; they don't dodge they don't keep sient they positive their statement and in their ac You depend them; and '. <, l4za *Al Ix11aa
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-03-04
REPRESENTATIVE AND
 MRS. MOON RENT HOME

Representative and Mrs. John Noon have rented house at 315 Franklin Street, and will keep house during the session there. They were former ly at the Zynda Hotel.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-03-04
TRUMAN NEWBERRY WILL TAKE SEAT
 IN NEXT CONGRESS

WASHINGTON, March 4. The Democratic Senators have withdrawn objections to the credentials of Tru- man Newberry, of Michigan, whose election was contested by Henry Ford Newberry is assured of his seat at the next session of Congress. The matter may be made the subject of an investigation.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-03-04
MOSTLY AMERICAN CAPITAL.

WASHINGTON, March 4.-Cana- lahas eleven automobile plants, mostly operated by American capital. During 1918 automobiles to the val ue of $3,692,524 were exported from Canada.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-03-04
NOTICE OF SALE.

NOTICE OF SALE.
 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the undersigned will receive bids until March 31. 1919, at noon, for the purchase of the site, plant, machinery and supplies of the James Box & Lumber Company, Bankrupt, situated at Suloia Bay, Division Number One, Alaska. All bids sub ject to the confirmation of the Court Inventory on application.
 V. A. PAINE,
 Trustee of the Estate of James
 Box & Lumber Company.
 Bankrup, 20. Box 834.
 Juneau, Alaska.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-03-04

Labor Board, has been resumed and shipping is virtually paralyzed.
 The strikers are demanding 30 per cent. wage increase and an eight hour working schedule.
The Alaska daily empire., 1919-03-04
NEW YORK PERSONAL TAX.

NEW YORK, March 4.-Commit- tee of New York Legislature IS planning personal income tax on wages as low as $500 a year fol single men and $1200 for married men,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-03
STATE POLICE IN
Sc STATIONS
Twenty Men Enlisted For the
Force During This
Week

Fifty-siX sub
stations, the larS-
est number the
State Police De-
p a + t m e MT has
been able to es-
ia blish since the
outbreak of the
war, are now in OPP
Grafton through
out the State. OF
this number eight
have been made
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-03
Amber Held Under
$4,000 On New Charges
of Exiting" His Checks

Philadelphia. Sept. 9.-Three dis
tinCt operations whereby Charles q.
Amber, State Insurance Commits
sioner during the Brum baugh ad-
m!nistration, is alleged to have ap-
piled $4,000 of the funds of the
defunct Pittsburgh Life and Trust
Company of which he was trustee.
to the account of the Ambler-Dav.I
Contracting Company, were testified
to yesterday at the hearing of the
former State official on a number of
charges developed during the inves-
tigation of the North Penn Bank
crash.
At the conclusion of the hearing
which contemplated all the charg1a
against Amber, he was held in total
bail of $4,000 by Magistrate Pen
mock. The former Insurance Com.
missioner had previously been under
$4,000 bail for the hearing uh
charges of misdemeanor and con-
spiracy. Just prior to the proceed
ings he was arrested on additional
charges of embezzlement and lend
ing moneys of a trust fund.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-03
Mark Sullivan Goes
Even Armour Better
on Cheap Clothing

Chicago. Sept. 3.-Mark Sullivan,
former editor of Golfers, is much
impressed with the economics of
Chicago millionaires on clothing. Yet
he can teach Mr.. Armour something.
He writes in the Tribune:
Excepting one suit, I have not
q piece of wooden clothing in my
possession that is less than five
years old. When one of my suits
begins to look worn I take it or
send it to a tailor I know in Union
Square, New York. l tell MIN to
turn it inside out. He turns it in
side out. puts a new lining in it and
sends me home the equivalent of a
new suit for a cost that is less than
third of the price of Il new suit.
Senator Medill Mccormick, of
Illinois, sent trunkful of clothes
to this tailor and had them turned.
He tells me that his experience is
the same as my own-that these
turned clothes, originally bought be-
fore the war began, are better in
quality and appearance than any
new clothes he can buy now at any
price.
Senator Calder, of New York,
has had several of his suits turned
by this same tailor. 1 told Frank
Vanderlip of my experience and
showed him some of my turned suits,
and he asked me the tailor's name
and address.
II am wearing to-day and have
been wearing for the last month, a
pair of shoes that l bought in Bos-
ton while l was a student at Har-
ward, more than seventeen years
ago. They have been resoled five
times"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-03

ing farmers institutes, so that wom-
en- will be given greater opportunity
to participate in them. Another
change will look to general discus
sion of the problems of each district.
Hitherto there seems to have been
too much general talk and too little
of vital interest to each individual
farmer in attendance. The farmers
institutes held in Lackawanna coun-
ty are believed to have done much
good, but ii has long been felt that
they can be made more useful and
there is qualification over the fact
that more comprehensive plans are
to be followed hereafter.
Scranton Men Here Represen-
tative Fred c. Ehrhardt and Regis
ter Thomas Benyon, of Scranton,
were here to-day.
Registration Lively. - According
to word received at the State Capitol
the registration in Philadelphia yes
terday did not approach the first
days figures, but there were many
lively incidents connected with it.
Some charges against policemen may
be made.
Local Cases Up.-Local cases are
being heard at Scranton to-day by
Public Service Commissioners.
Christy, of the Pittsburgh Gazette
Times. was a Capitol visitor.
Schools Rcopen.-In spite of some
intimations that there might not be
reopenings at some of the schools
throughout the State owing to the
scarcity of teachers reports coming
here are very favorable.
Visited Snydcr.-Governor Sproul
was the guest of Auditor General
Charles A. Snyder at Pottsville yes
terday, on his way to Danville to at
tend the homecoming celebration.
McKenty Upheld.-The board of
inspectors of the Eastern Peniten-
tiary have upheld Warden r. j. Nc
Kenty in formal action following an
investigation.
Ask Court to Sit The PhiladeI-
phia city authorities will ask the Su-
preme Court to sit in special session
TO hear the city loan suit. 1t is claim
ed that it is holding up operations.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-09-03
Lift Hungarian Ban
Except For War Material

Washington. Sept. practically
all restrictions against trade with
Hungary were lifted by the War
Trade Board. 1t was announced
that licenses for the export of Ameri-
can-made goods to that country
would be issued freely on all COM
modities except those of a strictly
military nature, and that imports
to the United States would be prac-
tically unrestricted. Articles which
cannot be shipped to Hungary in
Ciude:
Aircraft, armor plate, armored
motor cars, arms fall kinds in
Guiding machine guns, barbed wire,
camp equipment, military clothing
electric appliances suitable to mill
tary use. explosives designed 'pri-
martly for use in war. field glasses,
range finders, gun mounts and mill
taiy wagons, implements and appa-
ratus designed exclusively for the
manufacture of implements of war.
mines, projectiles, searchlights and
wireless telegraph materials