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NOME, ALASKA. SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1018.
NO. 2518.
FRENCH GAIN EAST RHEIMS
THIRTY FIVE I. W. W’S ARRESTED
INTENSE DESTRUCTION
BY FRENCH TROOPS
EAST OF RHEIMS
PARIS, Mar. 15.—After a bom
bardment, which for intensity and
amount of destruction wrought, has
seldom been equaled, the French
troops in the RhWms sector moved
forward along a 25 mile front, tak
ing all positions. The artillery fir*,
had been so effective, that the Ger
man obstructions were leveled and
much of their trench work demolish
ed. After a very short engagement
the first line positions were t*ken
with slight losses to the French and
the second and third line in eiially
successful manner. All enemy
positions from Maron /illiers R ist to,
and including Hervon, with those
of Vaudesincourt and Ripent fell
into the hands of the French. More
than 634 prisoners, together with
a number of machine guns, small
arms and a large amount of other
equipment were taken. General
Nivelle was in command of the
drive and by the scientific manner
of his handling of his artillery and
infantry not only succeeded in mak
ing this a vrilliane victory for his
own troops, but also made it a
severe defeat for the Germans. The
captured territory rangies from 1500
to 9000 yards in width and as it
materially narrows the gap between
the advanced positions and the Fort
ress of Verdun it will greatly
strengthen the latter and prevent
to a great extent any encircling,
movement or the Germans. This
is the largest French gain since last
fall.
All ground gained is being hastily
prepared for a German counter at
tack which is hourly expected.
AMSTERDAM, Mar. 15.—The
German War Office this morning
gives out a statement admitting
French gains East of Rheims, of
considerable magnitude.
After a severe bombardment of
long duration the German troops
withdrew in orderly manner, to pos
itions in the rear which had been
prepared for them. The German
forces suffered slight losses in their
retreat.
ASS’T ATTORNEY GENERAL
GIVES SECRETARY LANE A
SEVERE GRILLING
WASHINGTON, D. C. Mar. 15.—
Another clash has developed between
the Department of Justice and the
Department of the Interior, of which
the astute Mr. Lane is the head. It
has been reported time and again
that Mr. Lane nas been in politics
■ever sincei he left his home In Cali
fornia—which by the way happens
to be a great oil state. He is now
charged outright, by Assistant Attor
ney-General, Francis J. Kearful,
with gross neglect of the public
interests and with violating the
statutes in the administration of
public lands. His record grows
daily more like the unsavory records
of Richard A .Ballinger of Wash
ington and Attorney-General Geo.
W. Wickersham of New York, who
were great pets of former Pres
ident Taft.
This again brings to the surface
the long existing friction between
these two departments. Kearful’s
open charge developed while h was
being questioned, by the Public Land
Frauds Committee of the House,
which committee has been investi
gating the public land frauds. Lane ;
was accused by former Attorney-1
General James McReynolds, and the
present Secretary of the Navy, I
Josephus Daniels, of practically the
same charges. He and McReynolds
had quite a ftisagreement over the
interference of Lane, in the prose
cution of some of the thieves who
were at that time, trying to steal
the California oil lands from the
Navy, this brought Daniels into the
breach, but although he (Lane) was
known to have, preformed some very
irregular transactions he was never
forced to resign at the time McReyn
olds was made an Associate Justice
of the Supreme Court., which was
shortly after the disagreement with
Lane. That this had been effected
through the influence, of the oil men
who were very ably represented by
Senator Phelan of California, is be
yond a. doubt.
Kearful further states that Lane
was even now protecting the thieves
of government oil lands, by enter
ing into agreement with these frauds
whereby their prosecution is barred
by the Department of Justice and
that when the oil leasing bill was
enacted Lane intended to make
these agreements permanent there
by allowing these thieves, who are
now masquerading as patriots, to
escape the fruits of their thieving.
Of course Secretary Lane denies the
charges biK the Department of just
ice, this time has all the incrimin
ating evidence necessarv to prove
he prostituted his high office and if
hd is whitewashed again then the
Department of justice will know
better next time than to waste
time attempting the prosecution of
government officials.
FLASHES FROM
LONDON, PARIS
& NEW YORK
LONDON, Mar. 15.—The British
casualties reported during the month
of February totalled 120,089, divid
ed as follows:
Officers, killed or died of wounds,
1,152; men, 24,292.
Officers, wounded or missing,
-3,537; men, 91,108.
PARIS, Mar. 15.—France’s war
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expenditures lor tine, next quarter
| year are estimated at 9.000.000,000
[francs (about $1,800,000,000) in
| figures submitted to (he Chamber of
I Deputies today by Minister of fi
I nance Klotz.
NEW YORK, Mar. 15.—Howard
S. Young, a 10 year-old boy, was
awarded a verdict yesterday of
$17,500 by Supreme Court Justice
Pendleton for the loss of his arm
against the Monota Realty Co.
Keep Posted, Read the WORKKT
CHARGE VIOLATING
FOOD RESTRICTIONS
W ICHITA, Kansas, March 15—Thirty
five members of the Industrial Work
ers of the World were arrester here yes
terday for alleged obstruction of food
restrictions. The charge reads "to
commit divers offences consisting of
placing in the postoffee of mail matter
for the purpose of executing a scheme
to defraud the employers of labor,"
etc. The indictment also mentions for
slowing down on the job. agreeing to
work (or starve) and then not giving
the employers.-!, fair and honest days
work when they did not intend to do
anything of the kind and in this way
they were cheating the poor employer
and only giving him twice what he paid
for, when they should have been giving
five times more. This is the way these
chrtminals? are interfering with private
profits and no matter how the author
ties may stretch the already over
stretched law they will have a hard
time making it cover such a redioukxis
charge says Attorney Frank Stiller,
who has been retained to defend the
men.
Sir Miller is one of the assitants of
Frank K Walsh, of Kansas City, and in
speaking of the eases of the Indus
trial Workers trails now on in Chicago
and other American cities, he says the
Deparement of Justice has been forced
to admit that in not a single instance,
hare they been able to prove that the
Industrial Workers o fthe World re
ceived a single penny from the Ger
mans. That the persecution of this
organization is under going in the
courts today is having the greatest ef
fect to strengthen this organization in
every way and that since the perse
cution cepninenced the I. W. W. has
increased its membership more than
five times. That since this organiza
tion began its work in the lumber in
dustry the men in the woods and mill
eaniips, who had previously lived more
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like hogs tan human beings are now
living like white men.
He also stated that the Western Man
ufacturing C<x, The Loggers League of
Spokane which includes all Lumber
men and Logging contractors, of Spo
kane and the Inland Empire, together
with all Lumbermen of Oregon. Mon
tana and Idaho have petitioned Con
gress to establish the eight hour day
4s Ithe basic-standard, day us uni
versal in the lumber industry. This,
he says, demonstrates beyond a. doubt
that such perfidious persecution does
not retard the I. W. \V. He shows
the' patriotism of the hyp.ifc.riis in
Wichtia as on a par with that of the
lumber barons of the North-West who
before the war sold their spruce at $13
and $14 a thousand and when war
started their loyalty having improved
they “gave” it to the government for
only $105. a thousand.
GERMANY PREPARES TO
LAUNCH GREAT OFFENSIVE
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AMSTERDAM, March 15—General
von Ludt. ndorff, who is the recognized
tactician, o rthe German army is re
ported to have miade an important
statement, while speaking on the ques
tion of an early peace. He said that
the Armies o fthe Central powers are
more powerful and fit, to wage war at
the present time than ever before,
I since the war began and that if the
allies wish peace, now is the time, if
they wish war to continue they must
expect all hell to break lose in the next
great battle, for beside the coming bat
tle, which the Central Empires are now
read and waiting to launch, all former
battles of the war would pole into
insignifianee. The people outside of.
the Ceuitral Empires have a mistaken!
idea o fconditions within, says Eu
dendorff and we shall very soon con
vince thorn of the mistake. Our armies
are now but marking time. We have
everything prepared to launch the
great offensive at the moment we deem
most opportune. ,
NEW YORK, March 15,—After a
conferenc e o ft he Wage Adjustment
Board of the Federal Shipping Board
and the Union Officials of the Marine
Workers here today, the announcement
was made, that there would he no
strikes. The Union officials and the
Employers had several meeting:- l>ut
could come to no agreement, to Em
ployers maintaining that hey could not
afford to pay the increase in pay anil
hotter conditions asked for. The
Union had taken a strike vote and had
set the date on which the strike was
| to lie called, when the Federal Authori
ties interfered.
The settlement was made by the
Employers being compelled to yield,
the Adjustment Hoard deciding that the
demands of tin men were entirely
reasonable.
• <KT THE MAYS KKillT. IIEA.
1 HR WOrtKETt.
3,000 MORE THREATEN
STRIKE, ST. LOUIS
ST.LOUIS, Mar. 15.—The great
strike is now spreading to this up
town districts and today 3,000 gar
ment workers in five establishments
presented demands for abolition of
bonus system, recognition of the
Union and an increase in wages
or a strike will be called at all five
places.
These workers have been working
under the scientific? speed up sys
tem which was devised by some of
the inmates of hell who have been
given a vacation by satan so that
they may assist if possible in help
ing the American profiteer system
and at the same time, get a few
pointers from civilization as exist
on earth today, to be used in future
experiments in their regular abode.
These poor workers mostly women
and girls, have been worked and
abased like slaves without any
chance of redrecs, but now that the
war is taking away so many of the
men ,the women are beginning to
be a little more in demand to fill
the places of men, and this gives
the women a little more power.
“The bosses say w]e> are not patri
otic,” said one of the girls, “Because
we have threatened to strife, but
they themselves, never go hungry,
why should they; when they have
plenty of us poor slaves to earn
their dally bread? But we cannot
fill our stomachs with fine speeches
and Hoover pamphlets, which tell
you all about how to cook certain
things and what and how to eat,
but which do not solve the problem
of where the eats are to come from.
One must eat no matter how much
patriotism one may have.”
The strifes in lower St.Louis at
the Wagner Electric Co., the Sim
ons Hdwr Co., and Liggett & Meyers
Tobacco Factories have not been
settled yet and the longer it lasts
thia more it spreads.
WASHINGTON, 0.0. Mar. 15.—
Former President Taft lias had an
other dream. He told the National
Geographic Society today, that the
draft law, (and ewry working man
has a good reasoin to know that ho
is an authority on laws) should
be amended at once, to 5,000.000
men. Mr. Taft said that only train
ed man power would win this war
and that o (course since he can't go,
he feels it his duty to see that the
other fellow shall not lack opportun
ities
Granite, Notions, Crocker
ware and everything you need at
Holts. ' tv*.1*.
Good, clean, comfortable bed.', by
the day, week or month, at the
Itunham I bidding, next door City
Hall. (West)
_ Mrs. Markham, Prop. i