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VOL. 11.
NOKH, ALASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1917
NO. 2118.
LONDON, Nov. 21.—Tlie British
forces operating against the Turk
;n Palestine continue to press
steadily forward toward f'alestine
toward which they have been driv
ing for some weeks. The point
reached today is within five miies
of the Holy City and :ts occupation
by the Briti h armies is regarded
as but a matter of a few more days
of righting.
!t is believed that great moral ef
fect will result from the occupation
of Jerusalem by the soldiers of a
Christian nation though the war is
in no sense a religious one or .'or
the recovery of the holy -epulehre
as were the crusades. The Turkish
troops are fighting determinedly
and slowly giving ground in good
order.
PARIS, Nov. 21.— Dispatches
from the fighting front in France
are confirmed to the effect that
Cambri, an important German rail
road and supply base ha.* been sur
prised on three sides on the south
west and north and the allied for
ces are pressing their advantage.
I
As a distributing ba-e for supplies!
it is extremely important t> the
German forces in the North of
France and if taken will mean that j
without further serious fighting
the Teuton forces must in time
evacuate a wide area.
Near the British Arir.y Head
quarters in France the Germans
are fighting on their last line of
defences at ore point of the British
attack. If taken it will mean a re
organization of the German lines
for several miles.
ITALIANS HOLD FIRM
ON PIAVE RIVER
ROME, Nov. 21.—Through the
most terrible and furious fighting
of tho war the Italians on the Piave
ara holding 'heir lines intact de
spite assaults after assault of masr
sed German troops. The loss of
life is appalling the Teuton attack
ing forces charging over mounds
and mounds of their fallen soldiers.
The desperation of both the as
saults and the defense indicates a
psychological and conscious realiz
ation that a tremendous Issue of
the war is being determined.
From the Italian Army Head
quarters it is reported that the
fighting continues to rage furious
ly and with great violence and de
struction of life on the slopes and
foothills of Miunt Monfenera.
With utter disregard to losses of
numbers of dead and wounded the
enemy masse i alternate fierce at
tacks with its infantry. The carn
age on both sides is of a kind to
stagger' the imagination. With each
impact of the tremendous Gorman
assaults the Italian lines quiver as
a huge gate ibat is being rammed
but holtli fast. The successive re
pulses by the Italians of the Ger
man infantry is horrible to con
template. The fighting is so close!
and the German line formation in
such compact order that it seems
with each repul e that a huge slice
ha3 been cut from the sides of an
unearthly monster, in the hundreds
of men that sway and fall to the
ground not to rise again.
Anything in the line of joh wort
KAISER BELIEVED TO BE
PLAYING DESPERATE GAME
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 21.—
Ofticials here who are high in both
the War and State departments
have expressed a common opinion
that the Kaiser is at the root of
the trouble, in Russia. It is be
lieved that his desperate game at
tremendous cost lias been to play
one faction against another until
each is so weakened that there will
Temain no alternative except a se
parate peace and then that he will
have strength enough to compel the
survivor to become h's active ally.
It is, not in appearance so far that,
the Cossack element of Russia is
averse to continued fighting and !
with Russia even as weakly sup-!
porting him and the central power , j
the trained and hardy cos acks
would make excellent replacement I
of the hundreds of thousands of
soldiers which the fighting on the
several fronts is costing him.
The pacificist populations of Ru —
sia 'aie anxious for an end to blood
shed and to turn to ways of hus-j
bandry and industry would become
as valueable a- reir.frocecaent in
supplying the German population
both civil ami military foodstuffs
arid supplies. But whether as ally
or peaceful! neighbor it is regarded
here as of supreme importance that
the eparate peace idea finds lodge
ment in Russ'a. More and more
officials and army men are coming
to regard the war as a conflict that
in the end will be decided, not by
powder and gin-cotton, nor yet
by man-power but by—hunger.
GERMAN SUBMARINE SINKS
TWO BRITISH SHIPS
BERLIN, Nov lil. In an au
thorized official statement put out
by the war office here it is siated
that- on November IKn doiman
submarines destroyed and ■mill a
British monitor and one destroyer
off the coast of Syria. Names and
further details of the eiungeirent
are not given out in the statement.
NEW YORK, Nov. —Sugar
to the amount of ten thousand tons
which had been bought by the Im
perial Ruaian Government before
tlia revolution which deposed the
Czar lias been taken over by United
States federal agents and will be
placed on the domestic market at
once.
LONDON, Nov. 21.—Official an
nouncement was made in the House
of Commons here today to the ef
fect that Colonel E. M. House, Pre
sident Wilson’.! personal represen
tative and General Tasker H. I31iss
will represent the United States
government in the interallied con
ference which i3 shortly to sit in
Paris for teh purpose of unifying
the war and field operations of the
allied nations.
LONDON, Nov. 21.—Premier
Lloyd George triumphantly over
tode all oppositions to policies suit
ported by him which are intended
for the guidance of the English re
presentatives at the inter-allied
conference to be held in Paris
shortly for unifying tDo purposes
the purpo on and conduct of the
allied powers in prosecuting the
war.
WASHINGTON, I). C., Nov. 21.—
When the regular s_s ic:i of C011
grers of Congress meets December
2rd, one week from next Monday,
ameng the first matters of great
moment it will have for considera
tion a proposal now in preparation
by President Wilson ..hat the Gov
ernment at once take over ;he larg
er railroad systems of the United
Stites. Although the President is
proceeding slowly and with great
deliberation it is known that this
decision has practically been decid
ed upon and comes as a culmina
tion of a series of conferences with
tin head of the four great railway
brotherhoods.
The railroad companies had re
fused to grant, the demands of the
employes at the out-et of the last
regular congress and before the 11a
tioial election. A nationwide tie
up of railway transportation was
narrowly averted at that time by
the enactment by Congre s of the
Adamson i ail way eight hour law
now in effect, upon the earnest urg
ing of toe President.
Lately upon the presentation of
their new demands the railway
companies through the General
manager's Association have chec ked
the handling of the whole atfah
up to the President with full power
to act as regard their interests.
The President h; s held a series of
conferences with the loaders of the
Brotherhoods in consider ition of
the terms of the new demands and
found they favor the operation by
government ownership of the lines
The Brotherhood leaders express
themselves as favorable to the
plans and the companies have told
the President to whatever he thinks
best to avoid the walk out
TO CLEAN OIL
FIELDS OF I. W. W.
AUGUSTA, Kansas, Nov. 21.—
A determined movement has been
set on foot to completely clear the
oil fields of the pestiferous labor
organization known as the Indus
trail Workers of the World from
the middle west to the southward.
In this city and environs the first
round-up has resulted in the arrest
of fifteen members of the organi
zation and the incarcerations are
expected to continue until the last
of the pesky go-abouts is behind
the bars.
TOPEKA, Kansas, Nov. 21.—
The concerted movement for the
elimination of the Industrial Work
ers of the World from throughout
the middle west was begun in this
section promptly today and with
in a few hours forty of them had
been taken under the none to tend
er care of the arresting officers. It
is expected that fully two thousand
members of the organization will
be arre' ted in this field. There is
no difficulty or disorder of any kind
connected with the arrest of even
a considerable number of these
men, appearing as they do to be
anxious to submit themselves to cu
stody and no instance of resistance
to the arresting officers has been
reported. The culprits seem more
like the devotees to some fanatical,
cult than criminals seeking to evade
the proco-ses of the law and they
seem to be gaining in numbers, be
ginnirg with the harvest hands of
last summer. They have complete
ly invested the oil fields of Kan
sas, Oklahoma and Texas.
AUTO BANDITS GET
FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS
MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 21.—One
of the most daring and successful
daylight robberies that ever occur
red here took place this morning
shortly after the opening hour.
Only three of the clerks of the
largest jewelry establishment in the
city were on duty when a large
louring car containing a like num
ber of dapper and well dre sed
young men, who might have been
taken for students or young bloods
about town drove up and entered
the store. There was nothing in
the appearance or manner of the
bandits to excite the slightest con
cern. Upon entering the store each
strode leisurly along to separate
how cases as if looking for prob
able purchases. After a brief exa
mination of the liamcnd case and
apparently having satisfied hint
that all the jewels had been
brought from the vaults for .lie
day’s exhibit one of them gave a
quick signal when each of the rob
bers “covered” him man with an
automatic. The rare jewels case
wa , quickly emptied the diamonds
and precious stones being dumped
into small canvas bags. So quietly
and so calmly did tlie bandits work
that not ever, a pass ?r by was able
to tell 'hat r.ny thing was wrong
although preciou^ stones and dia
monds ■. f die value of fifty thou
sand dollars were being taken.
Their work completed in an amaz
ingly brief period tbe robbers sued
quickly away, when the alarm was
given but they had disappeared.
Calls for their apprehension have
been phoned in all directions.
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STRONGEST GERMAN
LINES GIVES AWAY
LONDON, Nov. 21.—The famous,
invulnerable battle ine built and
maintained bv the famous and in*
vulnerable von Hindenberg, super
man of the German imagination,
has teen smashed through on the
front between Scarpe ltiver and
St. Quentin. The war office is ues,
a confirmed statement that this!
amazing accomplishment is the I
work of the Third British Army
under the generalship and strategy I
of General Sir Douglas Haig who
in one brilliant and masterly stroke
has smashed into the German De
fenses tor a distance of five miles
overcoming all resistcnco capturing
over a thousand prisoners and a
quantity of guns and ammunitions
beyond estimate.
This capital is wild with enthu
siasm over the achievement which
is regarded as the most important
since the lenowed French oPensive.
Despite the inclement weather
hanging over London at this season
this city became at once electrified
with the street th.ongs gayer than
at. any time since the hegimiing ot.’
tli(> war. Surprise was felt through
out all military tin I■ that the ex
traordinary gnni was made without
the aid of artillery tire so indispens
ably in modern war far ■ tut this
has been partiallv explained by llio
fact that a heavy cannonading was
in progress in Wes; Flander- which
may have led the enemy to ht lit vo
that the main lighting was there,
and so were surprised at the sud
deness of General llaig1., onslaught.