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NEW YORK, March 10.—Brigadier
i General Joseph Kuhn, of the United
[States army, who was until recently
j United States military attache of the
American embassy at Berlin, in an
interview tonight declared that Ger
many is now on the verge of starva
tion. and is ready to accept peace on
almost any terms.
He says there is no question about
the bravery and endurance and patri
otism of the German people, but the
bravest and most patriotic men are
compelled to succumb to an empty
stomach. “The German government,”
he said, “has heretofore taken, and is
now taking, every possible precaution
to make the food supplies go round,
and have utilized every possible ar
iticle in their attempt to furnish sup
i plies to the people, but notwithstand
ing its efforts and the endeavors of
the people to carry out the instruc
tions given them, it is impossible to
I feed the nation.
“Every man who possibly can is
bearing arms or is employed in the
munition or gun factories. Only a
part of the German women and ehil
I dren and the prisoners held by Ger
many are left to work the fiehls, and
these are not enough to keep the
crop yields up to the normal. When
Roumania was overrun large quanti
ties of supplies were seized, but they
have long since been used up.”
The German government, he says,
realizes that it is impossible to feed
the nation much longer and that it
| is only a question of time until this
will force a peace. In his opinion,
Germany’s declaration of unrestricted
warfare was caused by this situation,
I and the hope that if she was able to
shut off Great Britain’s food supply
a similar situation would confront the
! British government and would force
! England to agree to an early peace.
I This, he thinks, is Germany’s last
j hope of obtaining anything like fav
I orable peace terms.
He also states that economic eondi
| tions in all the warring European na
| tions are very trying. England and
| France both are feeling the effects
of lack of supplies, but conditions in
both these countries are much better
ithan in Germany. He concluded by
saying that “If Great Britain can
keep Germany from shutting off her
supplies by rendering ineffective lier
submarine blockade, Germany must
! soon capitulate for want of food.”
KAMTZ TRIAL ON AT
CORDOVA: JURY DRAWN
CORDOVA, April 4.—'When the dis
i trict court convened this morning the
I case of the United States vs. Otto and
, Caroline Kanitz was called for trial.
1 The defendants' are charged with seven
j counts in the indictment, which grew
j out of the big fire at Valdez on Janu
ary 2. The Kanita’s are charged with
being responsible foi^the conflagra
I tion, according to the opening state
ment made to the jury, while the coun
sel for the defendants claim that the
evidence to be adduced is all circum
stantial. District Attorney Spence and
Attorney E. E. Ritchie are represent
ing the government, with Attorneys O.
P. Hubbard, L. V. Ray and L. C.
Booker as counsel for the defendants,
who were granted a separate trial,
Otto Kanitz being selected as the de
fendant for the first case. A large
number of witnesses have been sub
. poenaed and the case promises to be
I the most important one at this term
j of court.
But little trouble %as experienced
in securing a jury* all of whom are
from Cordova, excepting R. F. Spiser,
of Latoche, as follows: W. L. Smith,
Ed Rodee, F. A. Jones, W. W. Wern
er, E. O. Norgren, E. S. Malone, G.
L. Buchanan, Fred Schrenger, Charles
Kitsman, J. J. Strigsve and Henry
Daniels.
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LONDON, March 27.—Flying: has j
become so safe and easy that in peace
time everyone who can should take |
it up as a means of travel and recre
ation, according: to General U. S. (
Brancker, director of the air organi- ■
zation for the British army.
“Flying today is so easy,” said Gen
eral Brancker, “that most pupils are
in danger from over-confidence. Half
our accidents arise from this cause.
Training in aviation from the mili
tary point of view is getting more
and more complicated, hut actual fly
ing from the practical point of view j
of getting from place to place has be- j
come almost as easy and safe as au- j
tomobiling or bicycling.
"People generally ought to learn
the elementary principles of handling
an aeroplane. The only factor against
general private use of aeroplanes, es
pecially in Great Britain, is the un
certainty of the weather, but with ex- .
perience and reliable engines, it is |
possible to fly in almost any weather
short of a thick fog, a hurricane or a j
violent thunderstorm.”
General Brancker foresees the de- :
development of more and better qual
ified instructors, more reliable engines !.
and slower and more reliable training j
after the stress of war is over. “At
present,” he explained, “there is of j
necessity a good deal of undue haste.
The supply of aviators is forever try
ing to catch up with the demand, and
the demand is forever increasing, both
in numbers and quality.
Asked whether any ordinary per
son could become a really good aero
plane pilot, General Brackner said: \
“The most unexpected people make ;
*good pilots, and very often the most
promising ones never attain more j
than mediocrity in the air. Any sound
man with sound nerves—-and woman, i
too, for that matter—can make a I
good, useful pilot, but it is only the
exceptional individual who will make 1
the really brilliant fighting pilot. Kven ,
the physically unsound man can be j
a good pilot, like the late Lord Lucas, j
who had a wooden leg.
“As for the best age for training i
in fiying, I think they should begin as ;
young as possible. Generally speak- I
ing, 18 is rather young for the great i
strain of active service, and I prefer
a man of 20 or 25 for army aviation |
life. A man of 35 to 40 who has lived
a hard life and is a good horseman
will probably develop into a good
pilot quicker than a man of 25 to 30
who has spent his life in an office or
in doing nothing, but as a rule the
older man will not stand the strain
of active service as long as the young
man.
“The quality of horsemanship is a 1
(rood useful one in any woukl-be aero-!
i pianist. The requirements are just;
the same—good hands, a good head,
steady nerves and judgment. Flying
is perhaps a little easier than riding,
because one sits in a comfortable arm- |
chair in a quiet machine.”
No national temperament is so well 1
! suited to flying as the British, in Gen- i
| eral Brancker’s opinion. ‘The Eng
| lishman may be conservative,” he re
marked, “but he is certainly the fin
est aeroplane pilot in the world. The
old British characteristics which made
us masters of the sea are intensified
in the air—and they will make us
masters of the air in spite of our pol
itics and our system of government
and all the many obstructions to pro
gress which will assuredly spring up
I as soon as peace is declared.”
Turning to the question of casual
ties in aeroplane training, he said:
! “A good many deaths are reported in
! the papers, but when compared with
the numbers in training and the num
ber of hours in the air is accomplish
ed every day, the price is not great,
and in the present stage of aviation
the fact must be fearlessly faced that
no progress can ge made without a
certain cost in human life. The ex
traordinary few cases of breakage in
the air speak well for British con
(Juneau Dispatch.)
We “find that Charles A. Sulzer, of
Sulzer, Alaska, received the greater
number of votes for delegate in said
election, for the term beginning March
5, 1917, and the election of said Chas.
A. Sulzer is hereby duly certified.”
This was the certificate handed yes
terday by the canvassing board to Mr.
Sulzer.
Of course the canvassing board
found no such thing, and said so. It
is simply saying here what it denied
before, but. what the court compelled
it to say now. Oliver Goldsmith was
once asked what he meant by a cer
tain line in a poem. When he tried
to explain what he meant his ques
tioners contradicted him and said he
didn't mean any such thing, so he said
he didn’t. His publisher was one of
the questioners.
Some years ago there was a ruling
a czar of all the Kuusias and a (luma |
Dr parliament was inaugurated to
‘represent” the people. This duma
voted once for freedom of the press
with a good majority. The speaker
went to the palace and notified the
:zar and his ministers.
“Your majesty,” says he, “your i
luma has decided by a vote of blank ;
mndreds against —teens that the j
press must have freedom.”
Kmperor Nick looked at his minis
:ers and his ministers winked.
“Sir,” said his majesty, “you are
nistaken. The vote was the other I
way.”
“But, sir—”
“But nothing. Go back to my faith
ful and exceeedingly beloved parlia- j
ment and tell them that his majesty ]
the emperor of all the Itussias by the j
grace of God loves it, and refuses to ,
permit any association in his royal i
mind between the^beloved representa- j
tives of his adored people and penal!
servitude in that horrible Siberia.”
Fifteen minutes later a committee!
from the duma again entered htimbly j
the august royal presence and the!
speaker spake:
“Most exalted little Father,” quote j
he, “humbly do your devoted servants
come in sackcloth and ashes to inform
your imperial majesty that the duma
by the grace of yoiy majesty, finds I
that the vote was against the freedom
of the press, not for it.”
The courtiers winked again.
struction and inspection. The most
common cause of accident is engine
failure, followed by an effort to turn
sharply into a possible landing place
and losing speed on the turn, which
results in a nose-dive. Even good
and experienced pilots are prone to
do this, and the only cure appears to
be the avoidance of engine failures.
This will come in peace, when we can j
devote more energy towards real reli
ability in the engine instead of ex
treme lightness and exaggerated per
formances.”
CABLE I,AYER INVENTS
AUTOMATIC TORPEDO
WILLISTON, N. D„ March 23.—
Charles J. Field, grandson of Cyrus
K. Field, the man who laid the first
transatlantic cable and turned it over
to the American government, has in
vented a torpedo, designed to guide
itself on a magnettic control, into the
bowels of enemy vessels. The tor
pedo attaches itself to the ship by
magnetism and remains there until
its explosion, which is controlled by
a timing device. Government tests
credit the toipedo with seven out of
eight perfect explosions.
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announcement: “Mrs. Celia Thomas
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daughter, Myrtle Vesta, to Robert
Duncan Kelsay, of Valdez, Alaska.
The wedding will take place in the
near future.”
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