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NOME, ALASKA. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER :«>,
1017.
WASHINGTON. D. C\. Nov. 20.—
T>o pcrate as a wolf pack starvation
gnaws innocent hungry soldiers
abandoning their posts pounced
down upon the shops and market
places of Petrogr&d iliis morning.
At first the quest wa ior food
alone but the crowds of soldiers
was soon augmented by many of
the civilian population, and the
Tvobs success in getting the food
soon extended their operations to
other forms of merchandise than
mere food. The looting of stores
and residences soon became the
order with large mobs of people
and from the small beginning by
the soldiers, what i. believed to he
a second revolution is in full sway
throughout Pttrograd. Serious
fighting was again everywhere in
evidence and scenes resembling
the French Revolution when the
san,j culottes stormed the hostile,
hut with a modern setting were
everywhere in full swing. The riot
ina proceeded in every pari of flic
citv anti it seemed that no somli
lance or order could be restored.
Petrograd as it appears from these
dispatches i. in a complete state of
demoralization and no hope of an
early solution of the problems pre
sented can be hoped for
The situation presented in the
Russian capital, it is believed will
temporarily put a quietus to the
move toward eparate peace nego
tiations. w.
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Nov. 29.— ,
That Germany expects to stake
everything on the success or fail-!
ure of her Italian offensive be-'
comes appare”t today in dispatches
arriving from the Italian battle
front. |
Von Hindenberg the demi-god
superman of the German imagina
tion ig taking charge personally of
the Teutonic offensive in tliis |
quarter, a circumstance which is >
taken to mean that Germany's
tope of breaking the toils that are
slowly coiling about her are taken
o be on the Southern front and
hat the conflict in its immeasur
ible effects is to he fought out
here.
This information i<; gained from
jcrman officers who have been
'aptured and taken prisoner,
rhey advise moreover that the
Germans are fortifying the Taglia
mento and the left bangs of the
Piavo and Cadorez rivers. The
late untoward events in France
and the weakening of the German
lines in the vicinity of Combria are
believed to have convinced the
German military strategists they
could not very well expect to xe
tend the Teutonic aggression in
that quarter and that her best
prospect lie most promisingly on
Italian front. Preparations for the
tremendous struggle continue like
wise to be made by the allied
forces in that quarter.
I’NEILL APPOINTED
U. S. COMMISSIONER
Following sharply upon the ap
pointment of Territorial Senator
Tom M’Gann to be Clerk of the
Federal District Court comes the
astonishing announcement that At
torney Hugh O'Neill i- to receive
Irotn Judge llolzheimer the port
folio of United States Cominis
tidier for the Nome district.
The suddencss of the appoint
ment and the fact it was so en
tirely unexpected came no lcs3 a a
surprise to Judge O’Neill than to
his many friends and serves to in
dicate the promptness and decision
with which the new di trict judgei
is prepared to act when cnce his
mind is made up to a course of
action.
Mr. O’Neil! came to Alaska in
19t0 and became editor oi the
Yukon Valley News, hut removed
to Nome in 1911 where lias has
since recided. He has been en
gaged in the practice of law having
been City Attorney and has been
very active in the political arena,
editing at one time a political pa
per. known as the Nome Demo
crat. He is credited with having1
played an active part In the terri
torial coup de politics which landed
the present regime. Mr. O'Neill is
a graduate of the University of Ca
lifornia having degre? of Bachelor
el" Laws in that institution in
1903. lie became married to a
N( meite lady, Miss Theoline Ing
waldsou in 1913 and succeeds
Judge Frawloy to the present posi
tion.
OUT TIIU aKWS ItlOHT. KU.\D
THU WORKER.
NEW CHANCELLOR TO
MAKE MAIDEN SPEECH
AMSTERDAM, Nov. 29.—Hert
ling, the new German Chancellor
is expected to make hi iirst ad
Urcs to the Reichstag tomorrow ac
cording to o’ficial information re
ceived here today.
The general belief prevails that
the principal burden of his remark
will 1 elate to the proposed sepa
rate peace with Russia and the
conferences which are scheduled to
take place with representatives of
the Bolshiviki beginning Dec. 2nd.
If order can be restored in Russia
long enough to allow :i stable agen
vy with which to deal it is believed
the German government will gladly
enter negotiations that would en
able her huge armtes extending
over the wide Eastern front to be
withdrawn and assign then, to the
ta k ot' strengthening and rebuild
ing her western front lints.
The British succeoses in the east
cannot have had other effect than
to cause Germany to modify her
rigid attitude toward the Russian
revolutionists Chancellor Hertling
;i ropivt outing Ihe government lie
fore the Reichstag must also ad
dress liis consideration lo the in
ereaisng problem of financing Ger
many’s further prosecution of the
war and it is po sible that an ad
ditional loan will be arranged
for.
tail’ Till: NEWS RIGHT. REAM
THE WORKER.
You'll see it first in the Worker.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 29.
Tle greatest indignation prevails
here over the reports just re
ceived to lhe effect ‘hat American
soldiers are dying by the score in
their own cantonments of prevent
able diseases whose ravages are at
tributable to nothing short of the
most criminal neglect and military
inefficiency.
Overcrowding of the men like
tabbits in a warren has brought
on an epidemic of measles and a
lack of adequate clothing has re
suited in o\er si>tv deaths at Camp
Wheeler alone from pneumonia
into which the pestilence had de
veloped. More than three thou
sand ca-es of measles were re
ported in one day and three hund
red of these have contructed the
pneumonia with the malady still
spreading due to scant clothing
o\<t rowding and exposure.
Details of these diFgracefu! and
humuliating conditions were made
public today by Surgeon General
Gongas head of the Medical De
partment of tlir- army. The War
Department alarmed ami appre
hensive over the pro pec t of a ra
tion wide scandal about the matter
hate initiated measures to remedy
the conditions with all possible
haste. It is feared tiiai similar
pestilences may break out in the
other cantonment; of draft recruits
throughout the country since sinti
lai conditions of overcrowding in
barracks and lack of adequate
wearing apparel prevails- in all of
them.
GERMANS STUBBORNLY
DEFENDING CAMBRIA
LONDON, Nov. 3.—That the Teu
tonic governments are resolved to
lose no more ground in the Cam
bria region was made manifest in
reports reaching here to the effect
that re-infrocen ent. are pouring
into the German lines
Several large divisions of fresh
German troops rre known to have
bean hurried forward to defend
Cambria in the determination to
pervent if humanly possible the
utter demolition of this her chief
military base in the north of
France.
Large number; oi the enemy for
ces are being concentrated in and
around the sectors of Boulogne,
Fontaine and Notre Dame under
protection of Germany's heavy ar
tillery bombardments upon the
British position.
These movements are thought to
have been accomplished at tre
mendous weakening of the Ger
man defenses in other ectors from
which the reinforcements are be
ing drawn.
This forenoon a characteristic
German mass attack was made
upon the British lines in a <!■•?,pir
ate attempt to ili lodge tne Kim
lish from their position on the ele
vated ground occupied by them in
the recent fighting on the i’a mb rut.
road north of Ilea pan me hut were
driven back with heavy losses
The military authorities a re
agreed in the opinion that General.
Haig has broken down Germany's
almost impregnable advantage
without to wether Cambria is ever
taken or not.
Anything in the line of job work;
OCEAN FISHING LAWS
MAY BE REMOVE
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 29.—
The Food Administration has du
ally indorsed Governor McCall’s
plan whereby, for the duration of
the war, all restrictions on salt
water fishing ate to be removed
Moreover, Food Administrator Her
bert C. Hoover has sent me sages
to the governors of all coast states,
asking them to see that measures
similar to tha e conveived in
Massachusetts be generally adopt
ed as a means to further food
conservation.
The restriction that must he re
moved rro those forbidding purse
TERRIFIC AERIAL BATTLE
IS REINS FOURS!?
HOAIK. \ev. 29.—According to
information reaching Uiis capital
directly from the Italian Army
lUadquartf 1 s a terrific aerial battle
is being fought between Italian and
German airmen and the Italian air
duelist are magnificently sustain
ing the prestige heretofore gained
by them.
The Italian troops in the field]
have made all preparations to meet i
the mass attacks of German and I
Austrian forces and tin' assurances |
are given that every effort will he
made to the end that tin' ravader
advance not one foot further.
<>t ISIIU: M.VII. !X TUX l>\YS.
Tli? most r< liable sources of in
formation available lead this news
paper .to conclude that the rirst out
side mail si me the close of navi
gation, that is to say mail coming
from Seattle and the states, can
not reasonably be expected to ar
rive in Nome earlier than ten days
from this date. A telegram has
been received from Tatiana to the
effect that the first consignment ot
sii'th mail cleared through that city
on November 25th. To Itul y would
reijuiro two days, and two addi
tional days to Nutate. Thenee to
Kaltag, one day, two days over the
portage to Unal.ikleet and it usual
1 requires seven days from that.
point to Nome, making a probable
fourteen days, befort the "lvurni: g i
Daylight" of the long trail will!
come mushing into Ncme.
I.et r" estlmare on /our .Job Work
eining tor. hing, night fishing, fish
ing by nonresidents, die list1 of
traps, and close seasons of anv
kind.
The immediate result is expected,
to be the speeding-up of the lisli
indu try, with a growing supply of
rish to substitute for the meat
that must be sent to the Allic and.
American armies in the field.
I nder present laws the federal
Gloxernn.ent. has practically no con
trol over the fishery activities of
lie Atlantic tates, the actuaI c.t n
irol being in the hands of state
uithoritles. or, in some oases, hi
those ol counties ot townships. Tlio
fish most. ait cted will In- herring
weokfi h fiouiid ts. imakei cl,
whiting, mullets, sea bass. pjr.LicH
tnd butterfish.
NOTH III.
I'o all Members of l.oca! 11 -to. In
teruatioual I n ion of Mine, Mill
A Smelter Workers.
AH members of the Nome 'line
Workers Union, No. 240 arc re
lucsted to attend ttie next regular
meeting on Saturday night next.
Iktcembt'i 1st. ••’.lection of OP '■••ers
for die ensuing term.. I’olis to lax
:>pcn from 1! A. M. to 0 I*. M.
ANDHKW liKC’K, President.
AL HltATKN, Sec.-Treas.