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The Alaska Weekly Post
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By
GATEWAY PUBLISHING COMPANY. (Inr.) j
Elmer A. Friend, Editor
Harry V. Hoben, President Frank L. Ballaine, Sec.
Kate red as eecoad-claae mattar September 1. 1916. at the Poet Office at Seward. Alaska.
under Act of March ». 1H79.
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F0RK1GN HORN Bl YING l. S. BONDS.
WASHINGTON. Sept., 20— Americas foreign bora
population immigrants withm the last generation, aru
Germans particularly poured out their savings tor iiberr
bonds of the third loan more generously, in considerate
of their limited financial; ty, than native citizens.
l ms is indicated by a 1. asurj report estimations o
citizens of 3S foreign nationalities ;it S711, 437,000, m
nearly IS >em nt of the S4, l7l>, 000,000 total of the third
loan.
The tuimiter of bond buyers was estimated at 7.0(!i,
000. or II per cent of the total of 17.000.000 on the roll oi
subscriliers, and the average subscription among the fore
ign speabmg population was calcinated at $105. Hetmans
made the biggest record of all nationalities.
Subscriptions actually reported and tabulated by
nationalities amounted to $5 7, 700,000, but it was esti
mated this sum represented o lly about 55 per cent of the
total, muc'.i ot which was included in the big stream o'
general subscriptions without designation of the subscrib
er's nationality.
This record was cited by the Treasury today in sut
port of ciaims of enthusiastic patriotism apparent among
the nation’s foreign born citizens during past loan cam
paigns. In nearly every city and town having many recent
immigrants, seiung committees already have been formed
in picparaiion for the fourth loan campaign which will
open September 28. This organization work is supervised
oy a section of the Treasury’s loan bureau , directed by
Hans Kieg, an American oi German descent, who speaks
more than a dozen languages.
After the Germans, the Italians, Poles, Bohemians
and Jews turned in the greatest amount ol subscriptions.
The .Jewish record, however, is believed to be insufficient
ly represented by the $16,737,000 reported.
By nationalities, subscriptions included the following:
German, $87,21)5,000; Italian, $52,247,000; Polish, $37,
583.000; Bohemian, $31,750,000; Jewish, & 16,737,550;
Hungarian, $8,246,000 Greek, $6,107,000; Portugese, $1,
711,000; Slovenian, $1,569,000; Syrian, $910,000; Belgium,
$875,000; Armenian, $393,000: English, $337,000; Chinese,
$285,000: Rumania, $272,000; Albanian, $230,000; Swiss,
$220,000; Finnish, $191,000; Croatian, $153,000; Serbian,
$142,000; Fkranian, $129,000 Assyrian, $90,000 Hollan
dish. $80,000; Scandinavian, $72,000; Lettish, $40,000; Jap
anese, 328,000; Ruthenian, $13,000; Seotish, $5,000; Bul
garian, $2,000.
WERE FORCED TO WEEP.
i.RKlUTOW ENGLAND. Sept 20— Several hum!
\ d passengers on the station waiting for trains yesterday
t .v observed to be weeping bitterly, for quite an hour,
file e: use was eventually found to be from two pints of
•tear gas” which had leaked from carboy and which had
permeated the atmosphere of the whole station.
JAPAN TO HAVE AVIATION CORPS.
TOKIO, Sept., 20— Realizing her comparative weak
ness in avaition as? compared with other great nations,
Uipan will exert every effort to increase the efficiency of
*r flying corps.
The Military Aviation Association has decided to
organize an aviation corps for actual warfare in the cour
se of next vear.
ROUNDING UP ENGLISH SLACKERS.
DUBLIN, Sept., 20— The rounding up of the English
slackers who came to Ireland to escape conscription is pro
ceeding thoroughly, but has not produced anything like
the number of men that most people imagined to be avail
aide. Estimates running as high as 80,000 were at one time
current, but the best opinion now fixes the number at one
fifth of that figure.
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NEW LIFE IN DEAD
CITY OF BAGDAD
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LONDON, Sept., 20— British,
March, 1017,— a city dead to the
world, governed by the bribe gath
ering Turks and their store- keep
ing German advisers, a link in the
liuu dream of world domination
through the Berlin-to-Bagdad rail
way.
i>agdad, July, 101&— a city alive
witn a stream of humanity passing
through its gates, its disease cen
ters parcticaliy eliminated, its peo
ple happy and content under the
rule of its deliverers,
1 his is the result of a little over a
years occupation of Bagdad by the
British forces.
W hen the city was captured by
die British on March 11, 1917, the
military authorities found a com
munity infested with contagious
diseases, with an inadequate water
supply, the people themselves luke
warm in the interest of the British
for their own welfare.
All this has been changed within
the last year. A police force has
been organized, also a fire brigade.
The water supply has been ex
tended. Electric street lights have
bin'll installed. Schools have been I
erected and mosques have been re
paired. The streets are flushed
daily and sanitary squads are making
it a healthy town to live in. Mar
kets have been opened, assuring a
continual supply of food.
And most of all, the community’s
attitude toward the British has
changed to that of good will and
trust. They are co-operating in all
civic works, and openly express their
preference to the rule of their de
liveries, rather than go hack to
Turkish misrule.
What has been accomplished in
Bagdad is being accomplished in
the other cities in the hands of the
allied forces. They are making
friends of the population and inci4
dentally ringing down the certain
on Germany’s hopes to control Mes
opotamia of ter the war.
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August 1 to $7 from Fairbanks to
Nenana and $12 from Nenana to Fair-1
banks; round trip, $17.60.
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