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TEXTOFTHE
ALLIES’ REPLY
The following is the text of the al
lies’ reply to President Wilson’s note
with respect to peace:
The allied governments have re
ceived the note which was delivered
to them in the name of the govern
ment of the United States on the 19th
of December ,1916. They have stud
ied it with the care imposed upon
them both by the exact realization
which they have of the gravity of the
hour and by the sincere friendship
which attaches them to the American
people.
In a general way they wish to de
clare that they pay tribute to the ele
vation of the sentiment with which
the American note is inspired and that
they associate themselves, with all
their hopes, with the project for the
creation of a league of nations to in
sure peace and justice throughout the
world. They recognize all the advant
ages of the cause of humanity and
civilization which the institution of in
ternational agreements, destined to
avoid violent conflicts between nations
would prevent — agreements which
must imply the sanctions necessary to
insure their execution, and thus to
prevent an apparent security from
only facilitating new aggressions.
But a discussion of future arrange
ments destined to insure an enduring
peace presupposes a satisfactory set
tlement of the actual conflict. The al
lies have as profound a desire as the
government of the United States to
terminate as soon as possible a war
for which the central empires are re
sponsible and which inflicts such cruel
sufferings upon humanity. But they
believe that it is impossible at the
present moment to attain a peace
which will assure them reparation,
restitution, and such guarantees to
which they are entitled by the ag
gression for which the responsibility
rests with the central powers, and of
which the principle itself tended to
ruin the security of Europe—a peace
which would, on the other hand, per
mit the establishment of the future of
European nations on a solid basis.
The allied nations are conscious that
they are not fighting for selfish inter
ests, but, above all, to safeguard the
independence of peoples, of right
and of humanity.
The allies are fully aware of the
losses and suffering which the war
causes to neutrals as well as to bel
ligerents, and they deplore them, but
they do not hold themselves respon
sible for them, having in no way
either willed or provoked this war;
and they strive to reduce these dam
ages in the measure compatible with
the inexorable exigencies of their
defense against the violence and the
wiles of the enemy.
It is with satisfaction, therefore,
that they take note of the declaration
that the American communication is
in nowise associated in its origin with
that of the central powers on the 18th
of December by the government of the
United States. They did not doubt,
moreover, the resolution of that gov
ernment to avoid even the appearance
of a support, even moral, of the auth
ors responsible for the war.
The allied governments believe that
they must protest in the most friendly
but in the most specific manner
against the assimilation, established
in the American note, between the two
groups of belligerents; this assimila
tion, based upon public declarations
by the central powers, is in direct op
position to the evidence, both as re
gards responsibility for the past and
as concerns guarantees for the future;
President Wilson, in mentioning it
certainly had no intention of associat
ing himself with it.
If there is a historical fact estab
lished at the present date, it is the
willful aggression of Germany and
Austria-Hungary to insure their hege
mony over Europe and their economic
domination over the world. Germany
proved by her declaraation of war, by
the immediate violation of Belgium
and Luxemburg, and by her manner
of conducting the war her simulating
contempt for all principles of human
ity and all respect for small states.
As the conflict developed, the attitude
of the central powers and their allies
has been a continual defiance of hu- j
manity and civilizaation.
Is it necessary to recall the horrors
which accompanied the invasion of
Belgium and of Serbia, the atrocious!
regime* imposed upon the invaded
countries, the massacre of hundreds of
thousands of inoffensive Armenians,
the barbarities perpetrated against
the population of Syria, the raids of
Zeppelins on open towns, the destruc
tion by submarines of passenger
steamers and of merchantmen even
under neutral flags, the cruel treat
ment inflicted upon prisoners of war,
the juridical murders of Miss Cavell,
of Captain Fryatt, the deportation
and the reduction to slavery of civil
populations, et cetera! The execution
of such a series of crimes, perpetrated
without any regard for universal re
probation, fully explains to President
Wilson the protest of the allies.
They consider that the note which
they sent to the United States in re
ply to the German note will be a re
sponse to the questions put by the
American government, and, according
to the exact words of the latter, “con
stitute a public declaration as to the
conditions upon which the war could
be terminated.”
President Wilson desires more: he
desires thaat the belligerent powers
openly affirm the objects which they
seek by continuing the war; the allies
experience no difficulty in replying to
this request. Their objects in the war
are well known; they have been form
ulated on many occasions by the chiefs
of their divers governments. Their
objects will not be made known in de
tail with all the equitable compensa
tion and indemnities for damages suf
fered until the hour of negotiations.
But the civilized world knows that
they imply, in all necessity and in the
first instance the restoraation of Bel
gium, of Serbia, and of Montenegro,
and the indemnities which are due
them; the evacuation of the invaded
territories of France, of Russia, and
of Rumania, with just reparation; the
reorganization of Europe, guaranteed
by a stable regime and founded as
much upon respect of nationalities and
full security and liberty of economic
development, which all nations, great
or small, possess, as upon territorial
conventions and international agree
ments, suitable to guarantee territor
ial and maritime frontiers against
unjustified attacks; the restitution of
provinces or territories wrested in the
past from the allies by force or
against the will of their populations;
the liberation of Italians, of Slavs, of
Rumanians, and of Tcheco-Slovaques
from foreign domination; the enfran
chisement of populations subject to
the bloody tyranny of the Turks; thej
expulsion from Europe of the Otto
man empire, decidedly alien to west
ern civilization. The intentions of
his majesty, the emperor of Russia,
regarding Poland have been clearly
indicated in the proclamation which he
has just addressed to his armies.
It goes without saying that if the
allies wish to liberate Europe from
the brutal covetousness of Prussian
militarism it never has been their de
sign, as has been alleged, to encom
man peoples and their political disap
pearance. That which they desire |
above all is to .insure a peace upon the
principles of liberty and justice, up<T, j
the inviolable f delity to intern itiomd ;
obligations with which the gjvevn-i
‘went of -he United States ha3 never!
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cease! to '>c inspired.
United in the pursuit of this su-.
preme object, the allies are deter
mined, individually and collectively, to
act with all their power and to consent
to all sacrifices to bring to a victorious
close a conflict upon which, they are
convinced, not only their own safety
and prosperity depend, but also the
future of civilization itself.
Pioneers of Alaska, Attention: Ig
gloos No. 15 will give asmoker at Ro
barts’ hall this evening. All mem
bers are requested to attend and each
member is privileged to invite one or
two friends. 417 COMMITTEE.
ANCHOR CLUB WHIST PARTY
at 8:15 Friday, Feb. 9. 412
In an issue of the Springfield, Mass.,
Republican, there appears an article
on Alaska, written by one Roger Fos
ter, a New York lawyer, in which the
limb of the law deals carelessly, to say
the least, with the brave pioneer wo
men of the northland. The article,
after telling of two alleged story tel
lers of interior Alaska, Paddy Mc
Night and Caribou Jack, says:
“The reminiscences by Jack and
Paddy, concerning the men and women
in Alaska in early times, all of whom
were identified by nicknames more
forcible than polite, although interest
ing, would be more in place in a vol
ume of Smollett or Rabelais than in a
family newspaper. The women had
been employed to dance with the min
ers at $1 a waltz, which sum and the
price of the drinks ordered were split
between the girl and the proprietor of
the dance hall. (In more than one
case a miner paid a woman her weight
in gold duly balanced on the scales,
which another man helped her to
spend.) One of these dance hall girls
later entered, as a maid, a Fifth ave
nue house, New York, and her employ
er, the widow of a multi-millionaire,
married the girl’s lover, while under
the additional influence of Scotch whis
key ahd champagne. All of these wo
men pioneers who had remained in the
territory, with a single exception, were
now duly married and were leading re
spectable lives as society dames. One
of them who was on the boat was the
wife of the most influential citizen of
the territory.”
Concerning the women of today
Foster says:
An Old Maidless Country.
“The white women are less numer
ous thdm the men. They are smaller
and more wiry. Since most of them
live a distance of several days from a
physician and physically they are in
ferior to the squaws, they usually
practice race suicide. But they make
devoted wives. Many, who at their
father’s homes, were accustomed to be
waited upon, in steam heated apart
ments, live here cheerfully in log
cabins, cooking, washing and making
fires, without servants. They are re
warded by devotion and admiration.
Old maids are unknown in Alaska.
Most women have two or even three
husbands, and a line waiting for any
vacancy that may occur. In one re
spect, they have reached an advanced
stage of civilization. A woman who
has sinned in the past, if her life is
now respectable, is respected by the
others.”
CROOK TO BE OVERHAULED.
(Seattle P.-I.)
On the bid of $101,598, with com
pletion guaranteed within eighty-five
days, the Heffeman Engine Works
was awarded the contract for the re
pairing and overhauling of the United
States army transport Crook by the
local quartermaster’s department yes
terday following advices from head
quarters at Washington, D. C. The
Puget Sound navy yard was the only
other bidder on the job, but while the
figure set was lower, or $89,023, 7%
months’ time for the completion was
asked. The Alaskan Engineering Com
mission will operate the Crook this
season to carry railroad supplies to
Anchorage.
The items of repairs and new work
to be installed, together with the new
equipment to be added, include re
caulking decks, installing new break
water and new plates, two patent an
chors, enlarging hatches, furnishing
steel mast and boom, caulking spar
deck, clearing, scaling and painting
bilges, furnishing and installing two
new boilers, scaling, wire brushing and
painting coal bunkers and furnishing
new deck scuttles.
Work on the job will be started at
once, probably today.
Latest War News at Peterson’s. 399
After the movies a nice lunch at the
North Pole Bakery. 328
DO YOU WASTE MONEY?
Almost every one does. Bread east upon the
water comes hack again. But when you throw
money away it mighty seldom ever comes back.
What’s going to happen to you when you have
no more money to waste ? Why not open an ac
count here? $1.00 does it. Doing it once a week
for a year means $52 to the good for you—and
the interest we pay you in our Savings Depart
ment. Try it for a few months, you will be sur
prised to find how fast your account will grow.
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Special Arrangements Made for Entertaining Private
Parties.
The place of real service. Boxes, Lunch Counter.
Try Some of Our Special Dishes.
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THE
BON MARCHE
Opp. Postoffice
Ladies:
COME AND TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE GREAT
BARGAINS WE ARE NOW OFFERING.
$4.00, $5.00 Ladies’ Silk and Lace Waists, your
choice . $1.00
Ladies’ Cotton Hose, 2 pairs for.25c
Ladies’ Extra-Fine Worsted Skirts, $7.50 to $9.00
values, your choice .$4.50
Navajo Wool Blankets..$1.75
Comfy Wool Bed Slippers, pair. 25c
Opp. Postoffice
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Plumbing and Sheet Metal
Works
PHONE 29-Y
5th, near G.
Anchorage
ANCHORAGE CABINET
WORKS.
Furniture and Fixtures
Repaired and Made New.
Carpenter Work of All Kinds.
EXPERT TOOL GRINDING
AND SAW FILING.
Anchorage Cabinet Work:,.
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5th Avenue, Between C and D.