MACHINE 6UNS TO
DISPLACE RIFLES
Military experts of Rotterdam think
it is probable the present war will see
the end of the rifle as the principal
W'eapon of infantry.
According to German agents in Hol
land, the German army is rapidly sub
stituting men with machine guns in
place of rifles. Infantry so armed, and
protected by concrete works arid wire
entanglements can hold off forces far
superior to them in numbers. The
tendency is to bring up main forces of
infantry only in emergencies.
At the beginning of the war Germany
was credited with having 50.000 ma
chine guns. Notwithstanding the loss
of many of these weapons, the fac
tories have been working day and night;
and it is now asserted that there are
100,000 of them in use.
A German agent in Rotterdam
said:
"A military science develops so rap
idly in times of actual war that thej
weapon of today is soon discarded and
something better taken up. The great-1
est asset Germany possesses is her
ability to see ahead and make today
the weapon of tomorrow.
‘With the enemy, the rifle is a sort
of fetish. The English are highly elated
because the war has shown that their
men can shoot stralghter and quicker
than the Germans. There is little cause
for triumph in this. A large part of
the time spent in training their troops
is spent in teaching them the con
struction and use of the rifle, while
our men are being taught how to
handle and serve the machine gun.
"The present war will see the end of
many things, as it has seen the birth
of many things, and although the rifle
may not disappear before peace is
signed, its doom as the principal arm
of infantry is sounded.
"Where is there any sound argument
against the gradual substitution of the
light machine gun for the rifle? After
all, a Maxium is merely an improved
automatic rifle with a water jjacket.
A man who could fire a kicking gun of
the period of 1815 could fire and carry
a Maxim with less effort. Are we not
told that in the old days the concen
trated fire on one side of an English
square emptied less than a score of
French saddles at effective range? One
modern machine gun would have wiped'
nut the whole squadron.
"Tn modern warfare, and particularly
in trench warfare, the soldier wrho can
fire a hundred shots to his opponents
five has ninety-five chances of coming
out unscathed. The German soldier
prefers the machine gun to the rifle:
it enables them to sit down confort
ably and squirt death at the foe as
water is squirted through a hose, and
it gives him that sense of superiority
and security which the possession of a
superior weapon always brings to the
fighting man."
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THE ANTIQUITY
UF ALASKA
Lung before California was more
than a myth, before the West's
greatest river, the Columbia, was dis
covered, before there was a United
States, Alaska had been partially ex
plored and settled. If Chinese records
are to be believed, the discovery of
Alaska antedates the journeys of the
Norsemen to Greenland and across the
Atlantic. Acording to these records, a
Chinese Buddhist priest traversed the
Alaskan shore in 493 A. D. In 1711 the
Cossacks of Russia were hunting sable
in Alaska. In 1724 Peter the Great with
his own hand wrote the instruction for
the expedition that led to the discovery
and exploration of Bering sea, and in
the following century Spanish, English
and French navigators again and again
headed for the Alaskan coast in a vain
effort to find the Northwest Passage
from the Pacific to the Atlantic. The
record of these explorations constitutes
a most important phase in the history
of America.
It is gratifying to learn that, coin
cident with the beginning of construc
tion on the government railway, Alaska
is to receive a practically complete li
brary covering its entire history from
tho Middle Ages to the present. .Tames
Wickersham, Alaska's territorial dele
gate in congress, with several asso
ciates, has collected from the libraries
of half a dozen European countries
every known work on early Alaska
explorations, substituting photographic
copies wen the original could not be
obtained. In addition this library has
been enriched by the addition of mod
ern books, of magazine and newspaper
articles until it comprises a perma
nent record of almost every printed
utterance of Alaska. To the future
historian this collection will bo fully
! as important as the Bancroft collection
has been to the students of Western
American history.
Great material developments are im
pending In Alaska. It is to be hoped
l that. In the quest of individual wealth,
j Alaskans old and new will not forget the
spiritual development that rounds out
a state’s well balanced life. And it is
to be hoped that Alaskans will remem
ber the maner in which the older com
monwealths of the United States have
squandered their most precious birth
rights, their school lands. Through an
act of congress the territory has been
given two sections in every township
for the support of its schools, plus one
section in each township of the Tanana
valley «for the support of an agricul
tural college and a school of mines,
nightly administered, this princely
gift should by and by make the Alaskan
schools the most highly endowed edu
cational institutions In the world.—
—Sunset Magazine.
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Though Germany’s great mercantile
fleet, the managers of which had made
elaborate plans for inaugurating the
Panama canal, is tied up by the war,
the new waterway is doing business in
excess of estimates for the first year
or two of operation; and part of this
unexpected traffic Is due to the very
catastrophe which has deprived the
canal of much that had been confi
dently counted on. Te Suez canal, In
the same way, has already lost an
enormous revenue by disappearance
from that trade route of German and
Austrian ships, normally amounting to
a million and one-half tons. The an- j
nual report for the calendar year 1914 j
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joyed new business that Is directly due
to a state of war which Involves Its j
best paying customers.
At Panama, much of the unlooked- j
for volume of traffic Is in war sup-'
nlies, but at Suez It has been even more'
strictly of a military character. The
report shows that all records have j
been broken for passengers sailing!
through the canal, 391,772. Needless to j
explain, most of the "passengers” were
soldiers. So, also, naval tonnage in ex-j
iraordlnarv volume compensated for a '
considerable part of the loss in met-'■
cantile tonnage. The total receipts
were more than $24,000,000, the fall
ing off being less than a million, as
compared to the year before, and less
than had beeen expected, ns the ac
count says.—World’s Work.
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