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VOLUME XI.
NOME, ALASKA. SATURDAY, (MTOBER, l», 1»I8.
2031.
BRITISH REACH THE
BORDER OF HOLLAND
LONDON,—The British naval i
forces have taken the whole of the i
Belgian coast with Belgians partly s
occupying Zeebrugge. i
The Allies Saturday morning en- <
tered Ecloo trapping six thousand I
German forces between that point .
and the Holland frontier and^menac- i
ing the German line from Ghent to the i
eastward. }
The whole German defense in Bel
gium is quaking before the heavy s
pounding of the Allies, as the troops i
continue to drive ahead with the lines i
of communication being kept steadily t
epaired with even pace in this mag
lificent advance. Further to the
outh the German positions are shak
ng and the British have pushed on
light miles east of Douai capturing
hree villages east of Turcoing. The
Ulies have also reached the Oise
iver and on a wide front are attack
ng the vital German sector on the
lambre river at Maubeuge.
Here the Germans are stiffening to
more rigid opposition, but the Allies’
;uns, rushed forward with the big
nfantry push are playing a fire upon
he positions taken up by the discom
fitted enemy and these must soon give
way.
WASHINGTON,—General Marsh
in his Saturday morning talk to the
press said that the German retreat
continues over a wide area and that
the British have now reached the Hol
land frontier and are marching in
land down the boundary lines which
large troops of Hollanders are guard
ing to prevent any breach of the neu
trality of the Netherlands. The Brit
ish arrived at the frontier of Holland
at a point nearest to Bruges.
GERMAN REPLY IS
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STILL WITHELD
WASHINGTON,—Swiss advices
reaching the French Commission ir
this capital indicate that just at the
last moment that the German replj
ready for President Wilson had beer
withheld on Friday night. The Cab
inet and military leaders met Thurs
day and the official papers anneuncet
the note sent the contents beinf
made public in Berlin in this way
Later important considerations, pre
vented sending the reply and it is
still held in abeyance.
Altho, therefore, the contents have
been seml-officlally divulged, the:
cannot be recognized by Washingtoi
until officially received and there h
absolutely nothing to prevent the en
tire substance of the reply being helc
back and changed. So serious ar<
the social disturbances and other do
meBtic questions and the Germar
morale is now so disquieting that thi
government, it is announced, wants t<
deliberate further before sending ou
an official reply.
This was the status of the quas
official negotiations which were beini
exchanged with a view to an armis
tice, but it is not seen by the Com
mission wherein Germany will bavi
any advantage to gain by furthe
delay.
Every source of reliable informa
tion betrays the fact that disorders
discontent, and riot, not to say revolt
is growing in Germany and ready t<
break out at any time as a popula
manifestitation which will defy all ef-|
forts to control.
It is known that the facts of the
home conditions are being kept from
the German soldier at he front and
even troops at one sector are kept
in ignorance as to the losses on an
other.
COPENHAGEN,—The German
counter reply to the Wilson note is
made public in Berlin, thru the pub
lic press.
i It contains among a lot of insub
• stantial matter, more or less beside
the issue wholly, the statements that
i Germany cannot cease submarine
• warfare at the present time and that
. \ no definite agreement can b§ reached
i on the question of terms preceding an
• armistice.
i It is pointed out that the Wilson
i terms for such armistice are not re
i jected and the general denial is made
; that Germany has perpetrated cruel
ties or robberies in the occupied ter
l ritory.
; The reply is inconclusive and inde
■ cisive. indicating an unwillingness to
- accept terms but not firm enough to
s absolutely refuse them.
The press appears to be preparing
the people for their acceptance and
- the papers generally indicate that
, when peace comes it will be based on
, terms which are far from welcome to
i Germany and quite otherwise than
• the empire would have wished and1
had hoped for.
There is a growing sullenness |
among the people against the rulers
and the suppression of popular mani-l
testations so easily effected during j
other periods o fthe great war is now |
accomplished with dffiiculty, the sol
diers and police performing their ac ft
ccstomed duties in the civil life with
some apparent reluctance.
LONDON,—Mobs are slowly gain
ing the upper hand in the German cap
ital. On Friday the masses of the
people again engaged in anti-war
demonstrations that created riotous
conditions in the German capital.
They broke down the police and sol
diers barriers that were placed to
pt event their approach to the imperial
palace whoie scenes of indescribable
rioting prevailed. The police and sol
diers could not stem the torrent of
people that poured thru the streets
led by the independent socialists and
hundreds of windows in the palace
were destroyed by missiles before re
peated charges compelled the mobs to
give ground. Berlin is on the verge
of a revolution.
Reports show that the whereabouts
of the Kaiser is unknown and one
statement says that the German war
lord is now hiding. Uprcar and tumult
is reported as continuing sporadically
but the police and soldiers have been
enormously reinforced and machine
guns are ready to sweep the streets.
TO FEDERALIZE AUSTRIA
IS KARL’S PLAN
BERNE,—Emperor Charles pro
ceeded to put In force the plans for
the creation of federal states within
th Austria-Hungary domain, In order
to clear the way for making peace
with the United States.
Thursday he implied a proclamaton
calling upon his ministers to take
steps towards the federalization of
his empire as part of the peace plans
on the Wilson basis.
LONDON,—Mobs of independent
socialists marched thru the streets of
Berlin Thusday singing the Marseil
laise and cheering Liebknecht and
other pacificist radicals. The mobs
were large and truculent but were
prevented from demonstrating in the
vicinity of the Royal Palace by the
police who made free use of their
arms.
BUDAPESTH,— Extraordinary
jieace demonstrations took place at
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the opening of the Hungarian diet.
ZURICH,—Details of the peace
rioting within the parliament of Hun-|
gary at Budapesth are coining out. |
The pacificist element having brot j
about a condition of disorder when |
the government leaders proceeded to j
state their report upon the condition!
of the empire and the war. Demands I
for peace filled the assembly hall and j
these were taken up by many sup
porters of the government who have
heretofore been loyal in their atti
ude.
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* OVERSUBSCRIBE LOAN
' WASHINGTON,—Today the
" last day of the great Liberty
► Loan drive, the sums coming in
* have been very large. The Sec
* retary of the Treasury now
► states that according to incom
* plete figures, it is believed the
► great six billion dollar loan has
* been oversubscribed.
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FOB GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP
COLUMBUS,—Government control
as to railways, wire lines, merchant
morine docks and coal mines revoca
tion of water right patents was reso
luted in the convention of the Ohio
State Federation of Labor.
A resolution asks President Wilson
to take the Mooney case from the cor
supt and biassed courts of California.
LOSES LICENSE
| WASHINGTON,—The Pood Ad
ministration has approved the action
1 of the Territorial Food Administrator
in taking away the license of M. S.
Block of Juneau for disregarding the
orders regarding the prices set by the
government. The Juneau man sold
for higher' than the government
prices and for doing so has been com
pelled to surrender his license.
FRENCH FIGHT NOBLY
PUSHING FAR AHEAD
PARIS,—The French captured
three towns east of Bohain on the
Somme sector driving the Germans
before them like a herd of fright
ened deer. Ambly on the Aisne sec
tor has been captured. The Allies
are also now seven miles beyond Lille
and patrols are reported in that sec
tor as approaching Ghent which will
no doubt have been evacuated by this
time, threatened as it is by the north
and the south forces of the Allies.
PARIS,—The German prisoners
are being netted now at a much
faster pace as the defense shakes,
crumbles and falls on every sector,
i, Against the American troops the
Germans have massed every avail
able man in a desperate effort to pre
vent further advances in that sector
This temporary grip on the lines be
tween the Meuse and the Aisno is
however giving slowly to the Ameri
can pressure, the grip itself being
maintained at the sacrifice of posi
tions in other sections of the line.
The best troops have been picked
out to offer a rear guard resistance
in this position wheic the enemy is
also aided by the natural terrain,
which is a very d'dlcult one for of
fensive operations. t
LONDON,—The n ut of th» Ger
man fo’ces along the western front
is becoming marvellous in its com
pleteness. No sect3r is held by tho
vi emy with the teni.,:ous resistance
that marked the righting of a few
short weeks ago. The advance of thft
Allies is growing faster as the Ger
mans withdraw from the positions,
which they held so long. This is dat?
in part to the fact that the railroad
system of connections, organization
and communication which had been
methodically worked out, have been
ruthlessly broken by the constant,
fighting of the Allies. The perpetttat
hammering is bearing fruit in the
break down of the enemy’s resis-ting
power.
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WAR STRIDES ON IN
UNDIMINISHED FURY
LONDON,—While peace talk oc
cupies the attention of the papers to
quite a large extent, the war strides
on along the western front with the
%"les reaching wonderful successes
everywhere.
In Belgium the whole coast line is
now- controlled by the Allies. The
British also have occupied Thielt,
Blankenburghe and Zeebrugge. The
Belgians captured Brugges and Bel
gian cavalry is pursuing the enemy
to block the road of retreat to Ghent.
The British troops have entered
Turcoing and the German flank, de
feated and exhausted by continuous
hammering rests on the frontier of
Holland, preparing apparently to
melt away within the confines of the
neutral territory if too hard pressed.
The fighting in Holland for the
past two days has been in the open.
The armies passed the trench lines of
the earlier years and crossed the new *
defenses whidh prepared for another
season of trench warfare the Germans
had constructed with enormous detail i
and immense labor. Over these I
while the German infantry men made ]
a stand that was easily borne down, i
the cavalry, tanks and light horse j
artillery poured with the infantry ■.
regiments of the Allies coming up in ]
rapid and enthusiastic supports. 1
The Allies have been rounding up
stragglers behind their own advance
troops, apparently not being averse to (
the captures. 1
Advancing towards, the Scarpc titer i
the British crossed the Lille-Douai <
railroad at a point southeast of Douai
-v here the Germans were weil placed (
and offered a stubborn resistance t
The Allies further south between i
Le Cateau and Bohain toon four <
thousand prisoners in their progress 11
astwards.
PARIS,—Friday saw the Ger*
I’.uns retreating on a ten mile front
>etween the Oise and Sensee rivers,
lacked to pieces in yesterday's fight
ng the Germans covering ground rap
dly in an effort to save supplies, ;uns
nd baggage. They are putting up
leavy rear guard fights as the main
tody withdraws in this sector.
LONDON,The German evacuation
if Brussels has begun. Reports abso*
utely authentic show that the Ger~
nans are moving from the Belgian
apital. Ghent has fallen.
The British Americans at Le
iateau have advanced three miles
.nd are taking prisoners in larga
lumbers. Everywhere the progress
ontinues unchecked with the Ger
nans contuning their retreat.
CAN NO LONGER BASE PEACE
ON JANUARY SUGGESTIONS
WASHINGTON,—The President
informed Austria-Hungary in reply to
its peace proposals that America
can no longer accept as the basis of
peace with Austria-Hungary the con
ditions set forth by President Wilson
in his peace suggestions named on
January 8 of this year. Since thes'
suggestions were promulgated, the
reply coninues, America has recog
nized he Czecho-Slovak National
i Council as clothed with the proper
authority to direct military and polit
- ■■ ■ “1
ical affairs of that nation. It pro
ceeds that therefore the United States
is no longer free to accept the mere
autonomy of these peoples as a peace
basis.
They are obligated, says the Wil
son reply, not to see and insist that
they judge what action of Austria
Hungary will satisfy the aspirations
of the Czecho-Slovak peoples.
This reply was sent today thru the
Swedish Minister and it was made
public after the new Chezcho-Slovak
[ declaration of intlependance wan pub
| lishetl in the American capital.
The fact that this is practically a
positive refusal to allow Austria to
lean upon the peace proposals of
January 8 as a basis for that peace
the country demands, is recoguizetl
here. At the same time it is possi
i ble that a system of federalization
| may be accepted by the Czecho*.
j Slovaks themselves provided proper
safe guards are given their autonomy..
OFFER TO SURRENDER SMYRNA
TO THE ALLIED ARMIES
ATHENS,—Coming to the Greectan
capital with the white flag of truce,
envoys reached here today from the
Turkish commander of Smyrna offer
\ ing to surrender this city to the Allies
and asking terms.
The arrival of these envoys oc
casioned considerable surprise.
Smyrna has not recently been men
aced either by land or sea, but fearing
an attack the people and the soldiers
apparently are acting independently
of the Turkish government and seek
to surrender.
Smyrna is the most important
Turkish port in the Asiatic dominion
of the Sultan and faces the Aegean
sea. It is the terminus for the whole
railroad system of interior Turkey in
Asia, Palestine and its shipping has
been growing by leap3 and bounds
It has heretofore offered a stub
born resistance to the Allied fleets
and has been the scene of several
massacres of Christians since the war
began by the fanatic mussulmen.
LONDON,—No answer has been
received from Turkey in answer to
the demand for unconditional sur
render, the only offer made in re
sponse to that nation’s request for
terms.
WJiile it is not doubted that Tur
key will surrender sooner or later, the
German influence in Constantinople
is extremely strong anti may delay
the acceptance by Turkey ot these*
humiliating terms. It is known that
the Black Sea fleet is now controlled
by Germans and this is a powerful
factor in stiffening the Turkish re
sistance.
Attending the arrival and dispute!*
of the last boat both banks are al
ways very busy; hence all you good
people that have signed pledges or
yet expeet to subscribe to the Fourth
Liberty Loan will confer quite a favor
on these institutions if you will at
tend to this matter at ouce. We thank
you. ♦ j_L