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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1914.
COBB AND KITCHENER.
Lord Kitchener denies the Cobb in
terview in the Saturday Evening Post.
Cobb, says Cobb, got over into Ger
many. Then he returned to England
where, as his story goes, he talked
for 40 minutes with Kitchener. He
seems to have told the head of the
English army considerably more than
Kitchener told him. He quoted Kitch
ener to a considerable length, how-1
ever. Kitchener now repudiates the j
interview. He says he saw Mr. Cobb
but did not utter the remarks attrib
uted to him. Kitchener hates pub
licity If he gave the interview which
he now refuses to father, it is one
of the very few which he ever gave
out.
Cobb, like so many of the sentence
makers who are writing for some of
the magazines, dearly loves to thrust
himself in front of his story Like a
political orator, he becomes hypnotiz
ed by his own rounding periods. This
is the case with many of the ‘‘news
writers” for the magazines. Fact of
ten is sidetracked by beautiful rhet
oric. It makes “good reading” to be
sure, but it often lacks in the essen
tials of what it purports to be, name
ly, history.
The Cobb interview with Lord
Kitchener was interesting and as a
piece of literary fiction it may de
serve its niche in contemporary fame,
but as a precipitate of injustice it is
miles distant from the well defined
neutrality injunction of President.
Wilson.
How often have we seen the hun
gry magazine writers painting ecstat
ic pictures of saviors, common-weal
workers, panacean movements and
social nostrums, only to learn a few
days, weeks or months later that they
were creatures of the commonest
clay and easily subject to breakage.
And breakage has followed with such
rapidity that only a few of these
painted idols are left. In the last 20
years literally hundreds of these have
been set up, lime-lighted for a few
months, then dimmed by a new
galaxy.
The same is true on the other side
of the shield—the muekraker’s side.
Corporations, captains of industry,
public officials and public policies
have been pilloried, drawn and quai
tered and buried beneath magazine
,made tombstones; later on, the pub
lic has discovered that the battling
was all against an imaginary enemy.
But the sob-sisters and mud-brethren
have careened along the highway of
faddism at one cent a word quite un
mindful of the cleanly reputations
they have ruined, or of the silly ex
citement, hatred and envy they have
aroused in the public mind. Each
month there is a new crop of nos
trums, idols and victims, but the pub
lic, becoming wiser and wiser, does
not now respond to the hysterical
clamor as it used to. People are seek
ing facts. They are more sober.
They are thinking more for them
selves. Pre-digested conclusions are
not so generally swallowed without
examination.
Mr. Irving Cobb may or may not
be guilty of some of these misdemean
ors. We are using the Kitchener case
merely to illustrate a rhetorical ca
rousal that is passing.—Tacoma News.
HI8 H0PE8 ARE FALLACIOUS.
A Chicago Inventor claims to have
produced a steel so hard and strong
that even the biggest of cannon can
not penetrate or crush It with their
missiles. And such steel, he asserts,
if used in the construction of forts,
will make their taking impossible and
so put an end to war.
His argument is difficult to follow,
even admitting the impregnability of
his forts, but why admit it—why not
use the plausible assumption that the
shells of the besieging enemy will al
so be made of the new steel? Ip that
case the impregnable forts Unques
tionably will be battered down, for
any material in rapid motion can de
stroy the same material at rest.
The Chicago man has simply re
vived the ancient puzzle—what would
happen if an irresistible force were
applied to an Immovable body? War
will be ended, if ever, by changes
V
In the minds of men, not by changes
in their implements, either of offense
or defense.—Ex.
TERRIfiCBATTLE
RAGINUN POLAND
(Continued from page 1.)
til land operations drive the fleet to
sea. Under cover of fogs a few ships
may reach the coast of England or
Scotland. The property damage at
Scarborough was not great.
War’s Cost To Russia.
PARIS, Dec. 26.—According to a
Petrograd dispatch to the Havas Ag
ency, the Russian minister of finance,
in a report appended to the 1915
Budget, estimates the cost of the war
to Russia up to the end of October,
old style calendar (Nov. 13) as 1,
795.000. 000 rubles, ($892,500,000 )
The expenses have been met by the
various issues of short-time bonds.
Treasury notes and loans totaling 1,
850.000. 000 rubles ($925,000,000.) Fur
ther issues, both interior and foreign,
will be made as the circumstances re
quire.
Told To Husband Shells.
PARIS, Dec. 26.—According to the
Temps, a German document has been
found in a village in the Department
of the Aisne, recommending that
economy be observed in the use of
projectiles for the artillery.
The reason for this recommenda
tion, it is stated, is that the German
ammunition factories, even when
working at full force, are unahle to
supply indefinite amounts of ammu
nition for the army.
England To Buy Less.
LONDON, Dec. 26.—The opinion
prevails in certain well-informed cir
cles that the purchase in London
from America of war supplies is at its
height. England has been buying a
great deal of machinery for the man
ufacture of khaki, shoes, blankets,
and other war supplies, from rifles
to aeroplanes.
In 90 days it is expected that the
shop capacity will be so increased
that England will be much more in
dependent of America than at the
present time.
No London Unemployed.
LONDON, Dec. 26.—The war has
resulted in a boom for the shipping
industry of Great Britain, and no
where has this been felt more than
at London. The port of London has
never been busier, and a notice just
posted by the Association of Master
Lightermen appeals to ship owner?
and manufacturers to do everything
in their power to obtain the prompt
discharge of cargoes as a measure of
relief for the unusual congestion of
traffic.
An unprecedented demand for
barges is noted by the trade jour
nals, due to the large number need
ed for military purposes, as well as
to the immense arrivals of sugar,
lumber and foodstuffs. More than 50.
000 tons of sugar await wharfage
in the Thames, and more is arriving
daily from Java, Mauritius, and
America.
Part of the revenue to shipowne-s
from increased freights has gone in
to increased expenses. War insur
ance has been heavy; the cost of
coal and stores is higher and the
wages of seamen have advanced by
leaps and bounds. Alien seamen have
had to go from all British ships, and
a considerable proportion of the Brit
ish seamen have been taken for war
duty. The best of those who remain
can practically command their own
price.
In London it is noted that since
the war began dock labor has been
fully employed for the first time In
years. About 1,500 London dock la
borers have been taken to France for
work in unloading transports. A No
vember report from the port of Lon
don authority says:
"Casual labor has ceased to exist
in this city, and our observation of
labor generally in the East End of
London is that, with few exceptions,
there is no distress caused by lack
of work."
750,000 Captive In Russia.
LONDON, Dec. 26.—One small
squad of Russian soldiers is serving
as the guard for 100,000 Austrian and
German prisoners, whose prison walls
consist of 4,000 miles of frozen
steppes separating them from the
borders of their own countries.
These prisoners are interned at
Semipalatinek on the Irtish river,
near the borders of western Mongo
lia. The prisoners were brought by
rail to Omsk, where they were em
barked on steamboats for the thou
sand-mile trip down the Irtish river
to Semipalatinek. Here splendid
quarters were found in the big bar
racks erected for the mobilization of
the Russian army and unoccupied
since Its departure for the front.
Every morning at 8 o’clock the
prisoners are released from the bar
racks nad permitted to wander about
at will. When they depart in the
morning they are told that unless
they report at the barracks at night
fall they will be locked out, and at
this time of the year in that bleak
counry this would mean certain detah,
as there are practically no places
where they could obtain shelter. The
freedom of the prisoners during the
day is absolute, even to the extent
of accepting employment from local
coal mining companies.
One of the handicaps to the de
velopment of southeastern Siberia is
the lack of roads, and it is likely that
the Russian war department will be
asked to put these prisoners to road
making. They have within their
ranks not only the necessary manual
laborers, but the equally important
engineering staff to plan and super
vise the work.
The problem of caring for the Ger
man and Austrian prisoners in Rus
sia is already becoming acute as the
number increases, and the Russian
government will probably welcome
any plan which will enable the pris
oners to be self-supporting.
An attache of the Rusisan govern
ment now in London who left Petro
grad only last week states that ne
was informed by an official of the
department of the interior, which has
charge of the maintenance of the
prisoners, that there are now in Rus
sia, exclusive of the Germans re
ported as captured in the operations
now under way in North Poland,
750,000 Austrian and German prison
ers of war. Of this number only 200,
000 are Germans. The remainder are
Austrians, and most of them were
captured during the campaign in Ga
licia.
Says Russians Have Failed.
LONDON, Dec. 26.—Major Morant,
the military critic of the Berlin Tage
blatt, announces that the Russian war
plan has completely failed. He says
thilt modern warfare requires tha,t
the operations of great armies shall
be carried out In accordance with
plans carefully prepared beforehand,
and adds that "the Moltke genius
has been preserved in a series of
plans.”
He remarks that Field Marshal von
Moltke was always able to adapt him
self to altered circumstances and con
tends that Moltke’s influence is re-1
vealed in the German leadership in
Poland
The Major asserts that Russia con
ceived no plan of her own until the
end of the fourth month of war, and,
according to him, this plan was of
absolutely no avail, for it was not
evolved by a master mind. The con
sequence is, he states, that the Rus
sian armies have had to dance to the
tune set by the superior German strat
egists.
Major Morant informs his readers
that up to the present time the Ger
mans and Austrians have taken 400,
000 unwounded Russian prisoners,
that on a low estimate 400,000 Rus
sian soldiers have been killed or
wounded, and that about 300,000 Rus
sian prisoners have been sent home
ill, owing to the unsanitary conditions
of the armies.
One German general, van Janson,
it appears, calculates that the full
war strength of the Russian army is
about 2,400,000 men, while Gen. von
Blume estimates the full war strength
of the Rusisan field and reserve for
mations at 3,600,000 men.
Gen. Morant is inclined to believe
the latter estimate more correct, and
he’ points out that even if this be the
case, the Russians have already lost
33 per cent, of their fighting forces.
Weather Report.
Valdez, Dec. 25, 1914.
Barometric pressure .29,850
Temperature at 5 p m. 0
Maximum temperature . 14
Minimum temperature . 4
Mean temperature . 5
Partly cloudy air, wind northeast
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WEATHER BULLETIN.
Valdez, Alaska, Dec. 26, 1914. .
STATION Above Below Snow,
Donnelly . 18 8
McCallum . 16 12
Paxson's .. 22 16
Hogan . 16 12
Gulkana . 30 12
Copper Center .... 33 12
Tonstna . 20 ; 20
Teikhell . 15 25
Beaver Dam . 12 .23
Summit . i 19 35
Wortman'a . 80 18
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Compiled from the official tide tc ■
bles issued by the Coast and Geodet
ic Survey. The time for high and
low water is for the Port of Valdez
and is Valdez time. Immediately fol
lowing the time of high and low wa
ter is given the height of the tide
in feet and tenths:
Saturday, Dec. 26.
' High tide 7:28 a. m„ 8.1; 8:50 p.
m., 5.6.
Low tide 12:51 a. m„ 3.3; 2:51 p.
m., 2.0.
Sunday, Dec. 27.
High tide 8:14 a. m., 8.4; 10:52 p.
m., 6.2.
Low tide 1:46 a. m., 3.8; 3:43 p.
m., 1.3.
Monday, Dec. 28.
High tide 9:00 a. m., 8.7; 10:52
p. m, 6.2.
Low tide 2:43 a. m., 4.0; 4:28 p.
m„ 0.7.
Tuesday, Dec. 29.
High tide 9:42 a. m„ 9.0; 11:35 p.
m„ 6.4.
Low tide 3:33 a. m„ 4:07 p. m.|
Low tide 3:33 a. m., 4.1; 4:07 p.
m., 0.1.
Wednesday, Dec. 30.
High tide 10:23 a. m., 9.3.
Low tide 4:18 a. m., 4.0; 5:43 p.
m., 0.3.
Thursday, Dec. 31.
High tide 12:12 a. m., 6.7; 11:02
a. in., 9.6.
Low tide 4:59 a. m., 3.9; 6:18 p.
in., 0.6.
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