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VOLUME XII.
NOME, ALASKA. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER, 7, 1018.
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PARIS,—The French who captured
Ham arc now driving the enemy be
fore them, harrasing them in every
way with cavalry and light artillery
and inflicting enormous losses upon
the enemy.
The French have advanced three
miles oast of Ham taking many vil
lages. From the Somme to the Oise
the French continue the pursuit of
the German forces which is now some
what of a rout.
The fighting is impressive, but the
Germans can no longer make a stand
and as they halt their guns to in
tercept the French forces with artil
lery fire from the fleeing foe, these
guns invariably fall a speedy prey to
the French who follow upon them
with extraordinary celerify.
Machine gun nests scattered at
close intervals and between adjacent
points in old trenches, shell craters
and natural hollows have been the
main reliance of the Germans in slow
ing the advance of the Allies. Wooded i
sections, small groves anything of the
kind is also made to accomodate ma
chine gunners by the Germans who
in this way endeavor to exact a heavy
toll from the advancing Allies.
The large number of prisoners tak
en is due in a measure to the speedy
surrender of these forces placed to
stay the advance.
The most important announcement
up to noon Saturday was the capture
of Tergnier, a town three miles from
the German base of La Fere.
WASHNGTON,—The State Depart
ment officials announce that follow
ing reports of mutinies and riots in j
Germany, the dissolution of the Cen-'
tral Powers into small independent j
nations is looming up as a serious and ,
probable possibility.
The State Department is in active ^
touch with the internal conditions in j
the enemy nations and recent occur
rences despite a rigid censorship of j
all such news have come out. They re-j
veal the troops departing for the west
front manifesting a mutinous disposi
tion for the first time on a large scale,
while workers in the factories in sev
eral cities have shown signs of insub
ordination which were only prevented
from attaining proportions of im
mense gravity by the rigorous show
of force and suppression. The Ger
man domestic government is greatly
disturbed by the riotous conduct of
the citizens of various important in
dustrial centers where the food dis
turbances have only been held in
check with the utmost difficulty. The
authorities, it is known, have been
anxious to obtain some good news
ftom the west front, but the situation
is so serious that it can no longer
jbe disguised as developing in a most
disastrous manner against Germany.
Ali classes manifest intense long
ing for peace.
FIRST U. S. FIELD ARMY
NOW IS READY
WASHINGTON,—The most import
ant statement as revealing the degree
of military preparedness of the nation
is that made today by General March,
the United States Chief of Staff. He
says that the first American field
army is practically complete over
seas, with a full complement of divi
sion ready for offensive activities.
This army says March is now ready
to strike and will be alloted its sec
tor in the immediate future.
“The advances which have been
made” continued the Chief of Staff,
“must be credited to the Allies as the
American forces engaged only equal
about pne division.”
The statement reveals the fact
that the great American army is now
held in reserve but in practical readi
ness to take its place in the front
line in the immediate future.
Th news is so reassuring that the
pap.-rs comment upon it with intense
satisfaction. It reveals that the French
and British have been able with rel
atively small assistance from the
Americans engaged and which render
ed such brilliant account of themsel
ves where in action to drive the en
emy back heavily as to result in a
crushing defeat, and so great things
are expected when the first American
Field Army gets into action.
Keep Posted, Bead the WORKER,
TWO MEN ARRESTED OVER
FEDERAL BUILDING BOMBING
CHICAGO,—Two arrests have been
made in connection with the bombing
of the Federal Building last Monday
afternoon in which seven lost their
lives lives and seventy were injured,
when State Attorney Hoyne arrested
Harry Wilson a resident of this city
and the United States authorities ar
rested John W. Wilson, both charged
with complicity in the bombing con
spiracy.
The effort which is being made to
connect the explosion with I. W. W.
activities, reports as to which have
been appeai%ig in the Chicago papers
at the time of the explosion and since
then, finds realization in the fact
that John W. Wilson wras secretary
to William D Haywood, or is said to
fill some such function according to
advices.
No explanation is immediately
forthcoming as to the causes which
led up to the arrests and the authori
ties are silent on the matter.
The connection between the Wilson
arrested by the state and the Wilson
arrested by the federal authorities |
is not known and no information is !
leaking out as to clues which the of
ficials may hold relating to the causes
which called for the arrest of the two
men.
There is considerable sensation in
tho city over these arrests.
SHIPYARD WORKERS ON
STRIKE PORTLAND ORE.
PORTLAND, Ore.—As a protest
against the discontinuance of the Sat
urday half holiday the employers in ^
the steel shipyards to the number of i
si xthousand men struck this after-,
noon. j
The loss of the holidays means a 1
loss in pay because almost all the
men worked a full day, the second
half being paid for at the rate of
double time. It is believed that this
more than anything else is the reason
for discontent. .
HEADLONG RUSH TO
HINDENBURG LINES
1 LONDON,—Fighting on the west
i front, fs becoming a contest between
j the two armies for the Hindenberg
I line. Upon the part of the Germans
j it is a headlong rush to reach this
| old line and so consolidate defenses
there for permanent trench fighting
before the Allies come upon them and
drive them out. Upon the part of the
Allies it is a race to smash the retir
ing Germans in order to prevent them
fastening their grip upon the Hinden
berg line where they might hang on
for a considerable time and represent
a costly effort to remove before the
advance could bo resumed.
South of Cambrai and north of St
Quentin the French advanced four
miles. On a forty mile front the
British advanced a similar stretch.
Between H^vencourt and the Aisne
by capturing Tergnier' the French
cut the railway between Laon and St
Quentin.
In a month the British have cap
tures vast stores, 7 5.000 prisoners,
seven hundred guns and in Picardy
and Flanders since they crossed the
Somme a shorf time ago the British
have advanced not less than an aver
age cf seven miles along the entire
front. This is the most remarkable
feature of the battle.
Another feature wherein this great
battle still raging on the west front
differs from previous efforts is tho
constant fighting and the lack of lulls
due to weather conditions or any mili
tary cause. This alone is reckoned
one of the reasons for the collapse of
the German defensise and the rout
that is following this collapse. The
Allies are admitted to be whipping,
the Germans even in Berlin war an
nouncements.
OHIOAGO,—Saturday morning
Wiliiai'i ?J. Haywood, formerly gen-1
oral organizer of the Industrial Work
ers of the World and recently con
victed under the espionage act to-1
gether with one hundred other de-'
fendants, was sent to the Leavenworth I
Penitentiary this morning. He was
accompanied by ninety-six others of
the convicted men. Some are in a pre
carious condition of health.
A. S. Embree is now acting general |
organizer pending the possible release
of Haywood on bail while an appeal
is being prepared.
Haywood was with fourteen of the
convicted men sentenced to twenty
years in the penitentiary.
Leavenworth penitentiary is the
same in which the officials and mem
bers of the Structural Iron Workers
of America, convicted of a nationwide
dynamite conspiracy and connected
with the explosion which destroyed
the Los Angeles Times building, have
been confined. It is a singular coin
cidence that the last of these was
pardoned just shortly b fore. The
Ironworkers who are affiliated with
the A. F. of L. however were only
given a maximum term of eight years
as contrasted with the twenty which
was the maximum conferred upon
the industrialists under the espion
age act.
CHAUNY ALMOST ENTIRELY
SURROUNDED BY FRENCH
'WASHINGTON,—Friday's most
important operations in the western
theatre of the war were to be noted
on the front between the Oise and'
Aisne where continuous advances
vqere being made.
Chauny at noon Friday, east of
Novon and little more than half way'
between the latter place and La Fere, |
I was three quarters surrounded and j
its fall imminent. Most of the Ger-!
man troops have already evacuated1
this city and the remainder are keep
ing up a desperate desistance.
I The Franco-American troops are
[ advancing in this sector with steadi
j ness and determination smashing
clown opposition of the most determin
ed kind in turn, the German command
I ors sacrificing some of their test
j troops to interpose a rear guard re
sistance for the sake of gaining time
to withdraw the armies.
The ease with which the Allies
move forward their big guns is ex
emplified in the fact that at dawn
this morning heavy artillery greatly
aided by their splendid air service
began (he long distance bombard
ment of the German bases at La Fere
and Laon, while the troops advanced
under the singing shells.
All day long this artillery bom
bardment was being maintained with
accuracy and vigor.
The main divisions particinpating
in the fighting in this section are all
moved forward to the forefront of the
attack, so that the pressure to which
the German lines are subjected is
well nigh irresistable.
TRANSPORT DIVE
SAFELY i
TS
TO PORT
WASHINGTON,—The Navy De
partment announces that the United
States transport Mount Vernon, form
erly the Hamburg American liner
Kron Prinzessin Cecelia, was divered
off the coast of France.
The torpedo did not sink the liner,
but she was able to return to port
under her own steam and repairs will
be rushed upon the transport. No
troops were on board when the
steamer was divered.
LONDON,—An unequalled record
is officially reported for air work on
the part of the Allied troops during
the month of August.
The War Office announces that four
hundred and sixty-five German aero
planes were destroyed and two hun
dred shot down out of commission,
sixty five observation balloons were
set on fire, while nine hundred tons
of bombs were dropped on German
bases by the Allied airmen since Aug
ust 8. Many of the German machines ex
Thc; German aerial losses have beenamined have revealed the fact that
enormous and it is stated that the where wood was used it was of an
later airplanes are showing defectsinferior grade and steel substltutea
in structure and inferiority in mater-which were not nearly as efficient had
ial due to the German shortage of to replace wooden parts in a good
supplies. many instances.
TRAVELLERS REPORT THAT
PRMIER LENINE DEAD
I
STOCKHOLM, September 7—Trav
elers who have just arrived from Rus
sia say that Lenine is dead and that
his death has been purposely conceal-1
ed. The wound which he received
from the pistol in the hands of Dora
Kaplan proved too much for Russia
surgery.
The Swedish papers in touch with
Russian conditions decline to accept
as authoritative the reports as to
Lenine’s death and whilo admitting
that he may be dead, question the
reliability of the travellers’ stories
claiming that they would not be in a
position to say.