Sir Philip Gibbs Says
Russia Ripe for Peace
on Any Termsfor Food
Detroit:—“A union of the world’s
leading powers now can dictate terms
and Russia will accept them, no matter
how drastic they arej if economic help
follows immediately on the acceptance
of terms,” Sir Philip Gibbs, of Eng
land, said at Orchestra Hall, Friday
night. He urged the United States,
Great Britain, France and Germany to
combine in the' reconstruction of the
Romanoff empire.
There can be no peace in Europe, he
said, so long-au the red army is mobil
ized. As long as it lines the frontier,
the Polish armies, largely supported
by the finances of France, will be main
tained on the border. So long as there
is that drain on the French exchequer,
she will demand^ payment of every
mark of indemnity from Germany
“It’s a chain without a link missing,”
Gibbs said. "With France demanding
an even pound of flesh, Germany will
continue to undersell in the markets of
the world, Great Britain will be unable
to compete, and American exports will
stay on American wharvea.
"A combination of "the large powers
could impose ’absolute drastic condi
tions in Russia in exchange for prom
ises of economic aid. The red and
Polish army could be demobilized. It
would ease the fear and financial
weight of France and make it possible
for Germany to get up again. Russia
is the key of the world problem, and
we must have a certain intellectual
courage in facing and handling the
situation.”
Gibbs was ih'Kussia when Lenine
abandoned his communist program and
restored to its place the rights of pri
vate property. Shops began to open.
Two restaurants appeared in Moscow.
The only patrons were thirteen mem
bers of the American relief commis
sion and two correspondents. The
cheapest thing on the menu was a bowl
of soun for 100,000 rubles, and the Rus
sian is poverty-stricken.
For his 140 pounds sterling the war
correspondent received a bundle of
42,000,000 rubles upon entering Russia.
Price tags have risen proportionately.
Boots cost him 7f>0,000 rubles. He paid
120,000 rubles for a pound of tea, 58,000
for a pound of butter, and 00.000 for 10
cigarettes.
And the president of Kasar univers
ity gets only 150,000 rubles a month,
the average wage in Russia today.
Gibbs said, of both a university dean
and a mechanic.
;^,In connection with the famine in the
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Furs Bought and
Sold!
Miners’, Prospectors’
and Trappers’
Supplies
Steamer Service'On the Inoka
River.
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Ask the People of Ophir about us.
station
Fairview, Innoko River
Volga valley, about .100,000 children
are getting one meal a day from the
relief commissions, but the child popu
lation of the Volga alone is 0,000,000.
From one end of Russia to the other
there is not a bar o: soap. In one hos
pital Gibbs fornd lour patients with
varions diseases in one bed; in others
he found no blankets, instruments or
anaesthetics; he saw farmers plowing
with sticks.
“1 am not here as a propagandist.”
Sir Philip said, “but we can’t stand
about and say we don’t give a damn.”
Gibbs said he found 20,000 abandoned
children in one district. 28,000 in an
other, and in one town he visited 50
houses with 500 abandoned children
living in each. He blamed the famine
on the political upheaval, the droughts
in 1920 and 1921, which blasted v'.tb
months of blinding sunshine the whole
Volga valley harvest and reduced the
grain from a normal average of 14
inches to 2.5 inches, and the war which
cost Russia 4,000,000 lives among them
thousands of peasant farmers.
• -“Yet they have great untapped oil,”
he pointed out, “forests, minerals, and
the soviet government has sent down
enough seed corn into the famine dis
tricts to provide a future crop, if the
weather is only benevolent.
“What we actually need, however, is
to get together for the sake of all civil
ization and mend the old empire if we
sincerely want peace und a bit of pros
perity.”
Miss Hose Atwater, after a sojourn
of several months in town, during
which she was made at home by Mr.
and Mrs. I). E. Clough, departed Mod
day morning for her home at Berry
Landing, going up with her father,
Lee Atwater.
Mail Carrier J. E. Beattie arrived
yesterday noon, on his way to Elat,
bringing a small amount of mail and
good-sized batch of express matter.
Grant Murdock, who arrived Sunday
from Taeotna, left Monday morning for
Candle. _
Tom McCrea and George Hamilton
left yesterday morning, headed for
Flat.
E. M. Whelan arrived Sunday, re
turning to Nixon ou Monday.
Billy Jones, from Ophir, with the
Yukon mail, arrived yesterday.
W. T. Vanderpool returned Monday
from a trip to Nixon.
Mike Blanusha was a Sunday arrival
! from Taeotna.
I
R. S. Hart, arrived yesterday from
the Forks._
W J. Widman left .Monday for Berry
Handing.__
Erie Hard, of Ophir, was a Sunday
arrival._
Harry SakiootT left Monday for (’in
die.
Notice of Forfeiture.
To .lohn Neimi, E. Oksanen, John
Heino, Matt Bosnia, Matt Kivinen,
John Turtenain, Henry Kleimola,
August Belkola, vour heirs, ex
ecutors, administrators, and as
signs:
You, and Jeach of you, are hereby
notitied that we. the undersigned, have
done and caused to be performed labor
to the value of one hundred dollars
($100.00) vearlv, for each of the years
1915, 1910, 1917. 1918, 1919, 1920. 1921.
* upon placer mining claim known as
and called Neimi Association, situated
on Spruce creek, a tributary of Innoko
river, Innoko mining and recording
precinct, Territory of Alaska, in order
to hold the said claim unoer the pro
visions of Section 232-f, and amend
ments thereto, of the revised statutes
of the United States of America, con
cerning annual labor upon mining
claims.
And if within ninety (90) days' after
the publication of this notice you fail or
refuse to contribute your proportion of
said expenditures, as well as the costs
of recordiopr the same and the costs of
this advertisement, your interest, in
said claim will become the property of
the undersigned, your coowners,‘.who
have made the required expenditures
under the terms of said section 2324,
and amendments thereto, of the re
vised statutes of the,United States of
America.
| H. ,f. VrNAT,,
W. A. Vina t,.
Date of first publication, Feb. 4, 1922.
Date of last publication. May 0, 1922.
Notice of Forfeiture.
To Jerry Ford, your neirs. executors
and assigns:
You, and each of you, are hereby
notified that I. the undersigned, your
co owner, have expended for labor and
improvements the sum of not less than
one hundred dollars ($100) yearly "or
the years 1920 aud 1921 upon your in
terests in the Pack Mule Association
placer mining claim, situated on Otter
creek, a tributary of Iditaroo river, in
the Otter mining and recording pre
cinct, Territory of Alaska, in order to
hold said claim under the provisions o*
Section 23- of the revised statutes of
the United States and the amendment*
thereto concerning annual labor upon
mining claims, being the amount re
quired to hold said mining claim for
the period ending July 1, 1921,
And if within the period of ninety
days ai'ter the publication oi this no
tice you fail or refuse to contribute
your proportion of said expenditures,
as well as .the costs of recording the
same and the expenses of thisadver
tisement, your interest in said claim
will become the property of the under
signed, your co owner, who has made
the required expenditures under the
terms of said Section 2324 of the re
vised statutes of the United States.
Dan S. M( Donell,
Co owuer.
i Date of first publication, April 8. 1922.
| Date of last publication, .July 8, 1921.
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