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VOL. 11.
NOME. ABA8KA. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7. 1H17.
NO. 2»;{1.
BERLIN, Doc 6.—According to
official statements put out by the
ofbccs of the German General Staff
here an effective conclusion has
been put to tho great British drive
in the region of Cambria, and com
pletely turning the tables on the
British forces have driven them
back a distance of over six miles
along a front of three miles. This
sets the enmy front back to its po
sition before the spasmodic drive
which threatened the capture of
Cambria and with this result it is
'confidently believed this important
supply basis is now secure. On the
southern front it is claimed that
over eleven thousand prisoners
have been taken in the fighting in
the region of Melotta. It is also
stated that a large number of
strong Italian positions have fallen
in German hands. The reports in
general indicate a strenuous revival
of Teuton activity on the Italian
front and that the forces of the
centra! powers are making excell
ent headway in the face of the most
; resistance the Italian have so far
! shown.
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ROAIE, Dec. 6.—The enemy]
forces have begun the most bitter I
I lighting offensive so l'ar known in I
i the encounters on this front and i
have all but succeeded in two pow
! crful drives attempted yesterday.
! Particularly determined have been
| the assaults around Assiago but so
j far the Italian lines have held
* under severe losses.
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ALLIED NAVAL DRIVE
CONTEMPLATED
PARIS, Dec. 6.—According to
reports and brief oifi.: at statements
given out here a eonceaed allied
Naval drive in the Adriatic sea is
under serious cont 'mplation. The
machinery for such a move is said
to he already well under wa> with
but few details sti'l to tie per''e<-ted.
It is the belief litam in high of
ficial position that the allied naval
war council will give immediate at
tention to this project and that a
great combined navai asault will
be made the fortifications of l’aola,
the Austro-Hungarian base at the
loot of the Austrian peninsular.
The naval stations in the Dalma
tian areliipeligo are also marked
as points objective in the con
templated drive of the allied sea
forces. The American warships
are under orders to proceed to join
the British and French squadrons
in this offensive which means the
arraignment ot the lighter guns of
naval equipment against the huge
guns and protection of land forti
fications.
NEW YORK, Dec. 0.—A wireless
station sufficiently powerful to
communicate with Germany has
been located on the Ne w York wat
erfront. The plant was very.
promptly confiscated and five men
and one woman have been arrested
in connection with the matter when
they could give no satisfactory ex
planation.
SHLZER ADVISES ON
ASSESSMENT LAW
The Industrial Worker had learn
ed from its New York connections
that Delegate Sulzcr had airived in
Washington several days in ad
vance of the meeting of Congress
and that he was busying himself
with the sevrra! departments and
commissions befcre whom the ter
iitcry has business.
The following telegram just in
receipt from him ought to put at
rest an> remaining doubt as to the
workings of the assessment exemp
tion resolution passed by Congress
to relative claimants.
“To the Industrial Worker.
Non e, Alaska.
The Secretary of the Interior in
defining the resolution passed by
the* last session of Coi gross exeuip
ing claim owners from performing
assessment work for the years
1917 and 1918 announces >11 a let
tei just received oy the Delegate
for Alaska that the law applies
completely to all Alaska mining
claims, ( with the exception of Oil
Claims and declares that it repealed
the territorial law of April 21
1915, insofar as it is conflict with
HALIFAX STILL
BOSTON, Lee. (5.—Latest ad
vices ftom Halifax, Nova Scotia
estimates the (lead fatally injured
i:\.IOV\HLK < A HI) I’.AltTV
The Miners Home Club, last night
held a very enjoyable card party
at the hall. The big storm pre
vented many to thew up. 14 tables
were set. The victors were among
the Ladies Mrs. Chas Lescher 1st
and Mrs. Victor Anderson 2nd.
Among tlio men T. W. Davis got
1st and C. F. Rice 2nd prize.
ami unaccounted for as a result of
1 lie munitions explosion when two
ships one of which was loaded
with munitions collided in the har
bor, at fifteen hundred, more than
half of whom are dead.
So much of the city is aflame
that it is not possible to Ftop the
holocaust short of the cities com
plete destruction The damage to
property is estimated at hundreds
of millions. The identity of the
munitions s’liip has not been estab
lished at the moment of forward
ing these dispatches. Nothing
further Section 2324 of the Re
vised Statute of the United States.
The Department considers that it
covers Alaska because of the legis
lative recognition accorded the
above section by the Act of Con
gress of Dec. 1st 1913. Please ad
vise all may be in doubt as to the
applicability of this law,
(Signed) CHARLES A. SULZKR”
Prepare for the winter by patron
izing the advertisers of your paper,
Mr. Miner!
whatever remains of her so com
plete was hei destruction and no
word has been received from any
port her origin.
WEATHER REPORT.
U. S. Weather Bureau.
Nome Alaska, December 6 tj A. M.
Temperature: Max. 10, Min.—5.
Barometer: 30.388 inches.
Weather: Clear.
Wind: N. 14 miles per hour.
Precipitation: None.
Dec G. G P. M.
Temperature: Max. 16, Min. 8.
Barometer: 30.156.
Weather: Parly Cloudy.
Wind- N. 3S miles per hour.
Precipitation: None.
Pur garments made and repaired
at the Nome Tailoring Company.
COPENHAGEN. Pee. S.—Ger
many's negotiations for an extend
ed armistice for a much longer per
riod than that contemplated along
the Eastern front are meeting with
serious objections at the hands of
Bolsheviki authorties.
The German authorities are in
sisting upon this as a condition
preliminary to the consideration
of any separate peace with Russia
and Roumania but the arrange
ments are meeting with obstacles
that may defeat the purposes of
the negotiations.
It is reported that the Russians
have flatly refused certain ol' the
German terms and have submitted
counter terms which it; turn have j
not proven acceptable to (lei many. |
It is officially stated that one of
the conditions upon which Germany
is determined insisting is that the
Austro-German forces he allowed
to occupy certain positions along
the Russian and Roumanian herder
and that the Russians retire behind
their defensive lines and to sur-i
render port of th'dr line uncondi
tionally.
Moreover Germany is said to he
demanding ‘hat all *r <:.n snld
iers held prisoners hy Russia ho
released blit that on the contrary
the Russian soldiers who have bren
captured and held prisoners by
Germany shall be retained in the
industrial service of that country
at a reasonable wage The prob
ability is that a complete deadlock
may result.
REVOLUTION BREAKS
OUT IN CHINA
SHANGHAI, Dec. 6.—Another
revolution has broken out in China
this time in '.he region of the city
of Chung, according to undoubted
reports reaching this city.
The rebels in no inconsiderable
numbers have been joined by mu
tinous soldiers and their combined
forces have captured the city of
Chung. The Japanese government
has hurried forward a detachment
of marines for the purpose of pro
tecting foreign property from pill
age and destruction.
WASHINGTON, P. Pec’. 6.—
The Italian Minister of War in a
communication to the Secretary of
State for the United States, Mr.
Lansing, says that the Italian army
with the French and English re
inforcements that have arrived will
be able to hold intact their position
on the Piave river and will be able
to keep the invaders from reaping
further gains.
The communication is taken to
indicate that the Italians are pre
paring a tremendous counterblow
to meet the onrush of the reorga
nized German and Austrian armies.
SAN FRANCISCO. Dee. «.—Thar,
the Government of tioumania will
never consent to a separate peace
arrangement with Germany is the
burden of a message to Rresident
Wilson from King Ferdinand of
Roumania and being transmitted t >
Washington by a detachment of
the Red Cross Mission just return
ing to America.
GERMAN MINISTER
SUSPECTED IN MEXICO
MEXICO CITY, Dec. 6.—Mexican
newspapers are astir in this city
•<ml other principal cities in Mex
ico over incriminating indications o
pernicious activity in violation of
the Republic's neutrality, today.
It is alleged that Count von
Reikliart the Minister from Ger
many to Mexico is supplying pro
German agencies with monies and
with assistance in the furtherance
of a German propaganda througli
uot Mexico. The eativ Imperial
Legation are .-u'd t*' ' «
in wliat is believe! to be a wide
spread German plot lo further
complicate Mexican state affairs
and to involve the country in hos
tile dispute with the United States
with a view ot fomenting war with
America in order to embarrass that
ccuntiy in its preparations for ac
tive participation in the European
war.
't is well known here that the
Ccnstitulionalist administration
will seek to avoid any such compli
in view of its own dome
Stic troubles and an anxiety to
avoid giving its northern neighbor
cause for intervening in Mexican
matters or of invading Mexican ter
ritory. In this policy President.
Carranza is supported by the Mex
ican newspapers, with practical tin
intimity and the press generally is
making urgent demands that the
government whatever agen-ies that
may be found working in the in
terest o' Germany.
Anything in the line of Job work
LONDON', Dec. C.— Reports are .
reaching the War Office here today
of another serious German atrocity
at sea according to official state
ments jest published.
The Rritish steamship Apapa
was shelled by a German gun-boat
when her passengers consisting of
many women and children were
seeking to escape by taking to sea
in the life boats. The vessel was
I then torpedoed and sunk.
The gun boat is reported to have
turned its fire upon the escaping
life boats destroying and sinking
many of them with their distressed
passengers. Over one hundred per
sons, many of the women and child
ren are reported us missing.
PARIS, Dec. 6.—An energetic
German air raid was perpetrated
upon the city of Nancy today. The
city fire in many places and a con
siderable number of her residents
were killed and wounded.
After the raid the German air
men left in group formation (ly
ing in a northeasterly direction,
presumably to the German airship
base.
\OTI('1*1 TO Till*: I’lT.IJC,
Messrs. I’eter .luul and Peter
Nelson have taken over the man
agement of the Nome Bakery.
| The premises will be closed until
Saturday morning for alterations
and repairs.