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WEDNESDAY. APRIL 30th.. 1919
RED CROSS EFFICENCY
(From an Fxehange.)
A financial report issued by tin- War Council of the American Red
Cross shows that for every dollar contributed by members to the organization
$1.01 was used for relief work,the interest on t he subscriptions more than paying
t'ie cost of administration. This is an exhibition of efficient;.' in the econ un
it al use C funds well Matchinf its eflic . n- ' in ,cih f w e l: and in contrast with
some war charity societies.
THE U BOAT LEGEND PERISHES.
(From the New York World.)
During the active period of the war the legend of the German superman
was fostered in various ways: In no wav more strikingly than by wonder
tales of C boats gigantic in size, miraculous in equipment and boundless in
potentiality. All seas were to be swept and all coasts ravaged through these
diabolical craft. No voyage was to be too long for these terrors of the under
sea. no storm too fierce, no opposing force sufficiently alert and powerful.
There were believers in these legends of an indomitable Fl ight fulness
on the main. We are forced to confess that also there were those who took
the tales with grains of son-salt. To both kinds of listeners comes the verdict
of llritish naval men who received and examined the C boats as they were
surrendered. The expert word of John Hull's best sailors is that there were
no marvels in all the German submarine fleet, save as any boats built success
fully to proceed the waves partake of a marvelous quality.
So the boast and blare of Frightfullness by sea perish even as the blare I
and boast of Frightfulness by land. There were Teutonic prodigies of in-,
vontion displayed in t'ie war. These had their equals, in eases their superiors,]
among the fighting instruments of the Allies. The only monstrosities in the!
great contest were human. Fortunately for civilization, they were with the
vanquished forces.
WHO ARE THE SPARTICIDES?
In a December issue, the Literary Digest gives the following interesting
explanation relative to the radical German political group whose machinations
has been the principal instrumentality in bringing about the state of chaos |
which reports indicate exists in the former German empire. The article is
reprinted in response to numerous queries reaching this office regarding who
ami V. hat the Spartieans are and whence their peculiar title was derived (Ed)
The Digest says:
A mysterious group of German Holslieviki have recently iruido their op-!
pea ranee in the cable dispatches from Germany, which must have somewhat
puzzled the American reader. This is the Spartaeus group, or Sparticides,
and they arc, wearetold.a party o' extreme Socialists,led by Dr.Karl Liebknecht
and Rosa Luxemburg, who wish to see a proletarian autocracy replace the old
military autocracy in the Fatherland. The name they tell us. is derived from
the fact that early in the war Dr. Liebknecht issued a number of anti-war
pamphlets signed with the the pseudonym "Spartaeus". The choice of th:s
name, a correspondent of the Manchester Guardian avers, is due to the fact
that the revolutionists or ists had a partiality for signing their anonymous
pamphlets with classical names, a habit wltich the T.iebknecht group lias re*
viced. The original Spartacus. it will bo recalled, was a Thracian soldier
taken prisoner by the Homans, reduced to slavery, and trained as a gladiator.
He escaped, proclaimed the freedom or slaves, raised a powerful army, and
several times defeated the Homan consuls who were sent against him. An
unhappy augury for the success or Dr. I.iehknecht and his Boisheviki followers
lies in the fact that Spartacus came to his defeat and death in b. e. 71 through
dissensions among his followers.
Tho Berlin correspondent of tho Kolnische Zeitung draws a graphic
picture of the terrorism exercised in Berlin by the “Spartacus gangs.” He
writes.
Dr. Liebknechl himself, whose imprisonment has obviously clouded
his former keen intelligence, and probably turned his brain, spends
his time in visiting the barracks in Berlin, Spantlau and elsewhere,
and inciting the men to refuse to allow any distinctions even of
non-commissioned rank or to accept anything resembling orders from
officers or under officers or to admit them to the local councils. His
chief of staff. Dr. Bevy, who before tho war was his business
partner in his lawyer’s office, is preaching fanaticism in Berlin to
all and sundry.
Tlu* word Spartaeus goes through the city like a bogey.. Civilians,
soldiers, employees, capitalists, all feel themselves sequally threatened
A sitting of the Prussian Rower House had to be adjourned because
it was feared that the Spartaeus gang was going to seize the building.
The Lokal Anzcigcr lias several times failed to appear, as the result
of repeated efforts of the Spartaeus gang to seize it. Careful burgers
chain up their house doors and it would be well if the steadier ele
ment of our workmen and soldiers would chain up their hearts against
the murderous and suicidal ideis of the Spartaeus gang.'
THE MILLIONS OF DEAD
(From an Exchange)
Officially the French have now stated their losses, but M. Lucien Voilin,
the Socialist Deputy, puts the number of killed alone at 1.400.000. which is
probably from 300,000 t<> 400,000 below the actual figures for those who died
from all causes. Unofficially also, Germany's dead have been given as 2,000,
000. The latest official reports for the British armies were 659,000 dead, and to
date the American killed and dead from wounds and disease in Pershing's
forces exceed 66,000. Over 4,000,000 dead from these four armies would be i
very conservative estimate.
Russia’s losses were appalling; they run into the millions. For Italy
the figures are high but are not yet definitely known. With Austro-Hungary,
Turkey, Bulgaria, Serbia, Roumania, Belgium, Portugal and Greece still to be
added, it would not be far wrong to assume that the total number of killed
mid dead in all the armies in the great war will reach at least 10,000.000.
It can never be accurately reckoned how many more millions of men,
women and children perished from privation and sickness due to war conditions
Of Armenians alone massacred by the Turks or condemned to starvation tho'
estimates exceed 1.500,000. It will never be known with reasonable certainty
how great was the slaughter in all the countries visited by war. or how many j
victims outside the armies succumbed to hunger and sickness. The greatest j
plague ever known in the history of tho world lias swept the earth, and it was j
man’s deliberate doing.
STRAW VOTE IN INDIANA GIVES WOOD REPUBLICAN NOMINATION
Special to The Nome Nugget by The Associated Press.
FORT WAYNE. Ind. April 28—A straw vote hold by the Indiana news
papers gives General Leonard Wood the Republican nomination for president.)
Hughes received the second largest vote. Governor Watson third. Senator
Borah, fourth, General Pershing fifth. Senator Lodge sixth and Former Pres
ident Taft seventh. The Democrats of the state chose candidates for tlv
Democratic nomination in the following order. Thos. A. Marshall, Woodrow
Wilson. Win Jennings Bryan. Speaker Clark. Wm. G. MeAdoo.
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