THINKS GERMANS MORE
DANGEROUS NOW THAN EVER
The following story was written by
W. Beach Thomas, war correspondent
of the London Dally Mail, and appear
ed recently in the Mail under the above
caption.
NORTH OK FRANCE—We all know
the Germans have been long preparing
for war—at any rate, for thirty years
They made their principal preparations
with excess of theory, and to the end of
a short sharp campaign.
These Intentions have to some extent
gone by the board, but the mark of
the campaign at tin- moment is not so
much the partial failure of the past
aims and ideas of the Germans as their
amazing versatility in meeting and
acknowledging conditions that had not
been anticipated.
It seems to me quite beyond question
tluit the German staff is facing witli
dellborato determination a long war, for
which ne.w methods and forces must
be prepared.
We know that special instruments are
being continually invented and manu
factured, from the new celluloid tents
for tlie motor drivers to tin* special
drainage spades for trenches or the
'•cleaning essences” for the men.
In spite of doctrinaire militarists,
who have sent thousands to their j
graves with quite useless generosity,
the Germans give proof daily of that
ready versatility which has proved a
prime cause of their success in com
merce..
A few months ago infantry were re
garded as slave squadrons, as a con
crete filling for trenches, as food for
cannon. Today many of tin- German
infantry have broken the shackles of
generations of theory. They still chiefly
roly, as well they may. on tin- number
of their machine guns, but the numbel
■*f German sharpshooters is very large
Individual men shoot with as much
skill and courage its they spy. They use
the weather and the incidental features
of the country with Hue adaptability.
They have fought will In open i.ril-'i
Indeed, the great war machine a model
among scientific destructors, is content
to learn from events and from the
enemy, not least from the British. The
theorists vanish.
So much must he said, not in tlie de
sire of commending the cnemv, but for
the sake of a clear view of the situa
tion. Germany has sufficient confi
dence in her resources to fare the pros
pect of a long war, and the length can
only he abbreviated by matching Ger
man arrangements with at least equal
preparations in men and in material
and by acquiring as large a confident !
in the prospect of a. continued war.
We have a new sort of enemv to fight
an enemy that lias learned its own
weaknesses and its enemy’s strength,
and no longer banks cn the knockout
blow The German who bides himself
in the houghs of a scrub oak and picks
off a careless Tommy in a trench .100 j
yards olT is not the same sort of enemy ,
as did the goose-step through Brussels j
in August. He has learned.
Tile (lifTculty of any prophet * as to i
the length of the war In any quarter i
of France or Belgium lies in the fact |
that a new militarj art is being dail*
perfected by all those engaged, and the
most adaptable will best succeed.
In this war every one is a learner,
anti the Germans are certain!,* not l he
most backward learners. It had never
been proved how for trenches could
become-may I say residents!” How
far the* could be made artillery proof,
and how far impregnable h* wire ert
tanglements. A domestic point which
no military authority had considered
, is how long they cun remain sanitary
Man* of the trenches will strike a
guest as almost charming. When there
is plenty of straw anti the stove then'
are always four to each Belgium hat
tery burns freely, and tin enemv’s
artillery is remote, and savor* soup is
being distributed, tin- trenches seems t"
' <>u an almost Arcadian home, even in
j frost.
But the worst of a trench ap it
from all questions of attack anil
fense—is that the longer you live in P
the worse it becomes. The Germans
have certainly retreated in some pla. . s
because tiiey had made their awn
trenches untenable: they were "them
selves their own fever and pain.”
One might Imagine a state of war in
which victory went not to the stoutest
or cleverest, but to the cleanest.
Hitherto the Germans have certain I :>
■suffered most In their fight against n
•sanitation of many sorts. The state;
of the wounded and prisoners proves it
But the Germans are people wl -
learn. They have built and are luiild
trenches ns fine and sanitao and as
well regulated as their wonderful:
municipal flats. At some centers I lu x
now possess underground barracks al
most cities, which are perfectlx proof
|against bombs, and as far as ma\ In
i against tlie fevers that accompany dirt
In tin- British trenches there is le-w
|almost a standardized sxsti-m of "hark
j "fiices," which are progressive. The
kilehens are the most perfect archill- t
jural feat of the whole establishment,
and are joined to the trem-hes In I■■ urtI>
proof corridors.
I xvniihl emphasise litis net to suggest
any great British superiority, lint to
impress the fact that this excel!. ... .
must lie maintained.
A handy stoxe. a good digging t
waterproof hoof, a washing s, > ,
max hax'e as crucial an inflttnrie. on
rtiis or that part of the campaign is a
nexv mortar or cycle gun or canal It..at
Tlic energy shown hv the German tia
1 ion into details of tliis sort, and idle a
niui h minuter details, has iieeome x.-i
aPI>arent in the last few weeks.
’ l.et us make the competition led ■ .a,
tu trifles
100 TONS OF FLOx.»R
Bread only 6c. North **ole Bakery
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ALASKA NOTES
(From our Bxchanges.)
The Susitn.i Transportation company
Captain Omar J. Humphery, manager,
has let a contract for a 70-foot stern -
wheel steamboat anti two barges, to be j
used in carrying construction material |
• and supplies for tho Alaska govern
meat railway from Knik up the Sustina
tn the Matanuska river.
News comes from Valdez that the]
murderers of the men killed near Cop-]
per Center more than a year ago had ■
layen captured at Denver. The mur
der whs known UK the Willow crock 1
murder. A detective named McGuire
lias been working on the case for some
time. Ho went. Outside and it is sup
Pi sad that ho succeeded in getting the
men he was after.
!
Caught In the ntaelstream of an nvu
lancho of snow while hunting ptarmi
gan in Granite IJasin, a half mile from
live Red Mill, off the Perseverance road, j
Ivor Holmrpiist, a Finn, 32 years old,
was buried beneath tho snow a thous
and feet from where tho «n<Jo struck
him. and when Ids body was rescued
life was extinct. Tho accident hap
pened at 3.30 o'clock on the afternoon
"f .Tan 20. William niomqulNt, who
was with ilolmqulst, was hurled down
a coulee for some distance, hut escaped
with but fow scratches, He reached
•funnau at r. o'clock and gave the alarm.
Information cornea from Fort Gibbon
to th° effPct ‘hat tho land telegraph
lino between Kultng and St. Michael
has been abandoned, and in the future
all business for the west will be relayed
by tho radio station at Nnlato, says
•ho Fairbanks Times. For years tho
officers in charge of the military tele
. graph system on the lower river have
recommended the abandonment of the
'no. owing t„ the great expense of
keeping it i„ repair, but the war de
partment never acted on the recom
mendation. A short time ago. during
leaty storms on the lower river,
•he line was so badly broken in a. num
ber of place, that it was decided that
h would bo cheaper to abandon it and
handle tho business by wireless than
to rebuild it.
George JIurtardT’Th^ Tacoma poli
tician who raised considerable money
In Seward. Valdes and Cordova, and
who arrested Juneau and taken back
to Cordova or, the charge of obtaining
money under false Pretenses, was dis
missed at Cordova, where he repaid tho
different person, *300 which he bor
rowed, and most of which was not due
for several months. The people of
Seward who had also loaned him money
requested his arrest on a similar charge
to that which caused 11is return in Cor
dova. and lie is now in the westward
city for a hearing.
That a campaign for prohibition is
: under way in Juneau is indicated
| i’rthiliitlon iiturature used in the States
during tile recent elections lias reached
ilio local headquarters of the Woman's
I Christian Temperance I'nion, and five
or six billboards in the eity have been
rented for Hie display of the matter,
The prohibition movement is headed by
the fjev. ,r. ]!. Stevens, pastor of the
First Presbyterian church, and the W.
C. T. F. is going to make an active light
for the presentation of a wet and dry
issue to 'he voters, It Is asserted
Compiled statistics show lliaf there
are about J00 buildings occupied it
• Seward, which lias a population of tioo.
Within iho past ten days a half dozen
now business houses have opened, in
cluding a paint and paper-shop, a sec
ond-hand store, a contracting firm, tai
lor simp and messenger serv ice, candy
store, and cafe. Thera is not a vacant
cabin or house in the town
Marshal Iirenneman received n wire
reecnth from Cordova that Wlllian
Pyne had been arrested there on n
warrant issued by Commissioner Love
charging theft of X'. S. mall.
The mail whicli was rifled was con
tained in a mailsack made up at the
Qranito mine and was enroute to Val
dez on the gasoline launch "Waif.
Pyne was a member of the crew of the
launch and is accused of opening a
letter containing a money order be
longing to Peter Hansen, which he was
sending to the Hcandinavian-American
bank at Seattle, lie will lie brought
to Valdez on the Alameda and given
a hearing In tho commissioner's court.
A number of miners who hav e spent
the winter in Valdez are leaving for
the interior copper country as a re
port has reached here that employ
ment can lie secured there owing to a
number of properties having starled up
again doing development work.
Hr. K. Lester Jones, deputy commis
sioner of fisheries, has been elevated
to the position of superintendent of the
coast and geodetic survey, succeeding
Otto If. Tittmnnn, who Is retiring from
office after 48 years in the gov
S
eminent service.
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One uf the must daring ruhbei iet
i imt we ever heard of was pulled oil ii
i Wrangell recently when burglars u
[t*ieii the store of Captain Jeuks ,iiu
i' arried away the safe.
j The output of the Vermont Marble
!company from their quarries in Suuth
j eastern Alaska is to he greatly ilicr* is
ed and a force of — -">0 men will f<*
steadily employed. The output i
lie increased to BOO,000 ettliie feet uti
| nually. The Alaska marble 1ms 1 *■•>
j pronounced the finest in tin* world with
tile exception of tin* finest grades n
Italy.
FAMILY IS
MURDERED
IN CANADA
MONTHKAf. tiue. Mis Kobcii \ m
Limy. W Wo of a lielglttn reservist imw
in Europe, and tier three eliildreu were
found strangled to death at their home
here today There is .lew i" t In*
murderer.
The police, who broke in the doors o(
tile house, found the woman and in r
children in hod
Apparently they hnd been dead i u
two days, and the police thought the
attack had boon made upon t'u*m
they slept.
FLOUR IS CHEAP.
Bread only 6c. North Pole Bakery
and Anvil Bakery.
Strictly fresh eggs $1.25 per dozen
at Prosser's Harness Shop. Prone
Black 5.
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