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VOLUME XII.
JJOMJ3, ALASKA.
TUESDAY, SEPTUM BEK, 3, 1918.
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LONDON,—The British Tuesday .
evening are but nine miles from Cam
brai. Prenville, Doupnis and Ham
blain have been taken. The latter is
seven miles southwset of Douri. The
British took seventy thousand pris
oners since August 8.
AMSTERDAM,—An unconfirmed
report says that Hindenberg commit
ted suicide.
LONDON,—Tuesday Field Marshal
Haig reported that the Germans were |
now retiring along the entire front, j
The British have captured Lens, j
Quent and Wulverghem, advancing,
four miles on a twenty mile front to- j
day.
The Germans have held Lens,
against all attacks since 1914 and the
capture of the place, located in the
midst of coal mines, is regarded as
of prime importance and is received
wiht jubilation by the people. It is
admitted that the loss of Lens is a
terrific blow to the German tenure
of the Wotan line.
Quent is however from a military
point of view of even greater import
ance. It is the chief station for the
entire Wotan line, one of the names
given various sections of the so-called
Hindenberg line. It is estimated that
ten thousand Germans were taken
Monday when the British broke thru
the Drocourt-Queant line and envel
oped all the army by their splendid
stroke.
The Germans are now only three
miles in their main defenses from the
advancing British army in this sector.
WASHINGTON,—Pershing reports
the occupation of Terny Sorney and
the capture of five hundred prisoners
and eighty guns.
The Americans held all their gains
against powerful counter attacks.
' Defeats in the northern sectors are
dispiriting the German soldiers say
prisoners who have been taken.
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PARIS,—American airmen drop
ped two tons of bombs on Longuyon
and Adoun Adroman. The American
airmen are most active along the west
front and are increasing fast in both
skill and numerical superiority.
PARIS,—The Americans who
struck the German forces in con
junction with the British attack Mon
day on the Flanders front carried
all their obejctives and advanced a
mile.
A terrific artillery duel is now rag-1
ing on the Somme front.
By the exercise of superhuman ef
forts the Germans have concentrated
a terrific artillery fire against the ad
vancing allied forces in the last hope
of stopping the progress of the latter
The Allies however had moved up
their hig guns almost simultaneously
with their forward movement of in
fantry and have been able to reply
just as vigorously to the Germans
with the result that a fearful artillery
bombardment is crashing thru the air
along the whole Somme front. It is
a terrific duel.
Between the Oise and the Aisne
powerful raids by the Germans in an
effort to regain lost positions were ef
fectively repulsed last night by the
Allied forces everywhere.
The German losses have been con
siderable.
The situation is satisfactory to a
degree, with the Germans falling back
everywhere.
The capture of Lens is being cele
brated here.
REVIEWS HUGE PARADE
ON LADOR DAY
NEW YORK,i—Secretary of the
Department of Labor Wilson yester
day, Monday, reviewed one of the
mightiest labor day parades ever
seen in the metropolis. Over one
hundred and fifty thousand trade
unionists were in line, marching with
their fellow members in a giant dem
onstration. one of the most imposing
ever seen anywhere.
The Secretary of Labor was on the
reviewing stand together with the
Mayor and many other prominent
persons of the city who watched the
parade with marked interest.
Wilson was formerly a member of
the United Mine Workers of America.
CHICAGO,—Labor Day called
forth a giant demonstration in this
city, several hundred thousand being
in. line and eclipsing anything like
it ever seen here before.
The strength and numbers of or
ganized labor as revealed in today’s
demonstration was indeed a revela
tion to many who had no idea that
the movement had made such strides
In the city.
SAN FRANCISCO—The labor
demonstration held here Monday was
on a par with the parades and demon
strations held in other cities on the
Pacific Coast.
A great number however were en
gaged at work in the shipyards on
Labor Day and notwithstanding this
the paiado reached huge proportions.
CZECHO SLAVS NOW
RECOGNIZED HERE
WASHINGTON,—It is stated that
the United States has formerly recog
nized the Czecho Slovak national
council with its authority to direci the
military and political affairs of those
people recognized as at war between
the Allies and the Central Powers.
The National Council is having its
headquarters at Paris, and its main
agitatlve centers are in Bohemia.
It takes in a considerable portion
of the old Austrian and Russian em
pires, and claims to work for the in
dependence of the people so involved.
It is a racial far more than a terri
torial entity and the race is widely
dispersed over vast sections of Cen
tral Europe, having a lingual alliance
or kinship uniting them to an even
greater degree than common institu
tions. The existence of armed Czecho
slovaks does not exist outside of Si
beria where they are operating
against the Bolshevik! government for
the most part and on the west front
where some are co-operating with the
French.
In conection with this recognition,
it is recalled that Hitchcock of Ne
vada introduced on July 19 a resolu
tion of Congress recognizing the Pol
ish National Council, which was to be
tantamount to a recogniton of Poland
as a national state.
The Polish national council having
headquarters at Paris was to be thus
recognized and consular and diplo
matic connections opened up with that
body.
HASTE ON SOMME
| PARIS,—The Germans are said to
be retiring before the British third
army in actual confusion south of the
Somme.
The greatest disorder is stated to
prevail, the army organization hav
ing broken down completely after be
ing harrassed by artillery fire, in
fantry and cavalry attacks. The Brit
ish advance continues to be uncheck
ed.
BERLIN,—The German War Offce
makes the official statement that be
tween the Scarpe and the Somme, the
English thrust back the Germans on
both sides of the Arras Cambrai
road.
The Germans however succeeded
In stopping the onslaughts of the
British troops at Noreiul. The re
port is official.
AMSTERDAM,—There is growing
uneasiness and anxiety reported in
Berlin as a result of the continued ad
vance of the Allies. The public are
literally craving for a German victory
but the daily reports or retirement is
causing intense despondency.
COPENHAGEN,—It is stated that
Genine was shot by poisoned bullets
and it is feared that poison is develop
ing. A reign of terror is now said to
be developing. Three foreigners are
reported to have been killed by troops
which occupy the British embassy at
Petrograd.
The situation is reported to he get
ting desperate. Many are leaving the
country as fast as they can.
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LONDON,—The British troops con
tinue their advance under Byng along
the road from Arras to Cainbrai.
They move with an inclination some
what southeast towards a point north
east of Queant. They captured Nor
veul further to the south and have
been astride the railroad to Cam
bral for the past eight hours, Tues
day evening, pushing ahead with
steady pressure and driving the Ger
mans back at every point of contact.
They are in this section far across
the original Hindenberg line, and are
now seemingly inclined to follow its
course clearing it of Germans and
flanking the troops of the enemy re
tiring further south and west, from
the advantageous reach which they
have succeeded in obtaining there.
On the Flanders front the British
also obtained noted successes on
Monday, the Estaires village having
been captured and the Germans
driven back.
The movements that have lately
occurred on the Flanders front are of
importance in that they have succeed
ed in throwing o£f the German grip
that threatened to strangle the Allied
hold on Ypres.
The fighting here was more fero
cious than further south, indicating
a reluctance to abandon positions*
even in the face of compulsory losses
which the German commanders saw
inevitable before the fire and iufantry
attacks of the British. The advance
further south however compels a re
tirement here also of the German
lines.
FRENCH CUT ROAD
GOUCY TO LAON
PARIS,—The advanec of the
French troop3 beyond Coucy contin
ued to progress yesterday. Attacking
the German forces placed to prevent
such a move, the French compelled
thQ enemy to retire while they ad
vanced cutting the railway between
Coucy and Laon, a most important
road and which has been of immense
purpose to the Germans in the move
ment of supplies to the sectors ad
jacent. The French have been en
gaging the Germans north of Sois
sons, slowly driving them back.
Monday there was considerable
and very vigorous artillery fire main
tained upon the German positions
in this sector wher they had erected
defenses to withstand the French ad
vance and to slow down the German
retirement. Some of these are ex
ceptionally strong.
PARIS,—The summary of Mon
day’s fighting issued by War Office
bulletins show that steady progress
has been maintained all along the
west front from Uheims to Ypres.
The lighting has been steady and
without cessation with the German
forces giving way at every point, al
though thruout the day they made
counter offensives which only coliaps
ed after several attacks had resulted
in severe losses. This was notably
the case in the sector between the
Scarpe and the Somme, where a de
termined effort tried in vain to stem
the British advance.
REVOLT BREAKS OUT
IN SOPHIA, REPORTED
LONDON,—While the situation in
Bulgaria was known to be productive
of ferment it was not believed that
matters would come rapidly to a crisis
as is now evidently the case, as far
as can be gleaned from ‘dispatches
coming out very highly censored.
Lost month trouble broke out near
Sofia between soldiers demanding de
mobilization and their officers, many
of the men being shot to restore dis
cipline. Now it is announced in mes
sages that have come out of Bulgaria
that a revolution has broken out in
the capital and part of the palace of
King Ferdinand has been blown away.
The situation is becoming serious
and the efforts to control the rebel
lion are said to require all the energy
and ability of the military leaders who
with loyal troops are holding out
against the revolutionists.
Dispatches which are arriving show
that the government forces are still
in command of the situation and that
there is little likelihood of the revolt
making serious headway.
Sofia is the scene of tremendous
excitement while the government is
appealing to the patriotism of Bul
gars not to be swayed by the revolu
tionists while the enemy is at the
gates of the nation on the Vardar.
The most reliable experts on Bal
kan questions declare that it is very
improbable that the revolt is any
thing but a local trouble which will
in the nature of things be suppressed
by the powerful government that now
is really despotic in its control.
OPENS WEDNESDAY
NEW YORK,—The world’s series
opens at Boston on Wednesday be
tween the Red Sox and the Chicago
Cubs.
FRESH FINNAN HAD1ES AT
LEHMANN’S