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NOME, ALASKA. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1918.
FRENCH AND BELGIUM
AIRPLANES MAKE VERY
SUCCESSFULL RAID
PARIS, Feb. 25.—The most dam
aging air raid yet made against the
German Military Works in Belgium,
has been reported today from Ypres.
The French and Belgium planes
attacked the German positions at
Roulers where the railway station
two bridges and great quantites of
food supplies and ammunition were
destroyed. From Roulers the bird
men divided, half of their number
fallowing up the railway towards
Ghent and the other half proceeding
towards Bruges. All supply depots
as well as the stations, yards, cars,
engines and everything in the line
of transportation, all along the
routes froni Roulers to Ghent ana
Bruges were either blown up by
the bombs dropped by the airmen
or set on lire. At Ghent the rail
way bridges as well as the foot
bridges the airdome and a number
of trains which had tome in from
Brussels, Malines and Antwerp were
completely demolished and enough
damage done to the yards and out
lying railway tracks that it will toke
the Germans some time to replace.
At Bruges five hrain-loacls of
supplies and ammunition bound for
Zeebruge, one of the German sub
marne bases, and Ostend were
wrecked and set on fire. One of
these trains were carrying troops to
Zeebruge, it is presumed to relieve
the men at the front that they might
go on their regular vacation which
the German Military Machine
allows the men every so
often. In the attack on the
troop train just outside of Bruges
over three hundrred troops were kill
ed. The birdmen flying low enough
to use their machine guns with dead
ly effect and in so doing exposed
themselves to the fire of the enemy
antiaircraft guns aboard the trains
which were quick to seize the
opportunity offered them and two
of the French machines were dis
abled and compelled to volplane
to the ground. The planes which
had accomplished such deadly work
at Bruges now flew across country
to Thielt, where the Germans had
stored immense supplies of ammu
nition, gasoline and oil for the sub
marines. The high explosive bombs
dropped here by the airmen struck
the warehouses and tanks contain
ing the gasoline which on exploding
set fire to the entire town. The air
craft from Thielt and Ghent again
came together at the town of Cour
trai where two bridges, the railway
and supply depot, and a trainload
of supplies bound for the front were
blown to fragments. The birdmen
now following the course of the
River Lys, and preceding to de
stroy every bridge and as much of
the railway equipment as possible
until they reached the town of Wer
vicq where raising to a great height
they crossed over Into their own
tenitory where they were received
by thousands of Belgians andFrench
soldiers and officials. Great re
joicing, over the whole of Fance, is
today being manifested by the peo
plo.at what they term, the Huns
dying from forced feeding with their
own food.
FROM ATLANTIC PORT,
AND NEW ORLEANS
AN ATLANTIC PORT, Feb. 25.—
Among the pascngers who arrived
recently at an Atlantic port from
Spain, on a Brazilian liner, was
August Stanfield, a representative ot
the Association for Trade with Am
erica of the department for the man
ufacture of artificial limbs at Gene
va, Switzerland. He said that the
hospitals contain many maimed sol
diers, needing wooden legs and the
government was unable to cope with
the demand.
"The material for making these
artifcial limbs,” Stanfield contin
ued, ‘“can only be obtained in the
United States, ancj, I have come
over to make arrangements for its
exportation to Switzerland. The
Swiss government has established
a factory at Brienz, with facilities
for turning out from 1,500 to 2,000
wooden legs a week. Just before
leaving France I met Major General
Pershing, who said that the hospi
tals were sorely in need of artificial
limbs, so that the maimed soldiers
of allied nations could be sent back
to their homes, and other injured
men taken into the hospitals in
their places.
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 25.—Ac
cording to reports reaching here to
night from Sheriff Alberti of Plaque
mine parish, two soldiers attached
to Fort St. Phillip were burned to
death when the frame shack in
which they were sleeping caught
fire.
The soldiers went to sleep in the
shack after being absent several
hours from the fort. The fire ap
parently started from a lighted cig
arette.
J
FROM MINNEAPOLIS
AND MILWAUKEE
Minneapolis, Feb, 25—The State Soc
ialists in Convention, here today have
passed resolutions demanding that the
Military Draft Daws now in force be
immediately repealed so that every
American Citizen shall have the right
to volunteer his services to the country
if ho so wishes and will not feel that
he is being driven like a dumb brute.
Demanding Conscription of wealth
and asking President Wilson, to im
mediately ig'eog'nize, the Russian Bol
shovild Cfirvernment, in the name of
the American people.
The Convention atso adopted a res
olution ot sympathy for the one hun
dred and sixty Industrial Workers of
the World, who have heen Imprisoned
In jails in Chicago and vicinity for the
past five or six months without trial,
being' held under unreasonable and ex
orbitant ball. The Socialists also wont
on record pledging these men their
hearty support in obtaining Justice.
MHjWAI’KTOK, Feb. 25-Ex Congress
man Victor Merger, of this city is out
for the scat of Senator Paul O.Hast
ing of Wisconsin. Merger has tv i n
[nominated by the Socialist Party tnd
will seek election on the platform fav
oring a democracy and general peace
and demanding that the profiteers, “ ho
many believe responsible for the blood
feast, be compelled to pay the war
cost. The Socialists are fast gaining
support throughout the country and
Berger’s election would not surpr’re
many of the old time politicians.
But it is held by others, that Berger
cannot be expected to poll the vote
a Socialist Candidate should at thi-ij
time, because of unsatisfactory service j
rendered the Socialist Party during the I
time he was congressman.
Good, clean, comfortable bed-,, by
the day, week or month, at the
! Dunham Building, next door City
| Hall. (West)
' k Mrs. Markliam, Prop, t
WILSON SAYS MAY I
CONSCRIPT CAPITAL I
AND LABOR I
■ WASHINGTON, Feb. 25—Secretary
of Gabor Wilson, after a lengthy meet
ing of tlie new Labor Planning Board,
said that the members of the board
representing labor and capital would
both have to change their views if the
difficult problem now before the board
is to lie solved in a mnner satisfactory
to the government. The members
spoken of were appointed recently by
Gomtiers, President of the American
Federation of Labor and Mangus Alex
ander, Secretary of the National In
dustrial Board. And it is quite evi
dent from Mr. Wilson's remarks that
the onemulM'-rs of l>oth factions have
rather fixed pinions regarding what
they believe to be their rights. Wil
son said that in this great crisis, it is
not a matter of standing on our
rights as individuals or as groups of
either labor or capital but that each
and everyone of us must be prepared
to sacrifice for the cqmmon cause of
all. This is no time for the settling
of petty quarrels between labor and
capital said the secretary and he warn
ed thom. Unit the government In order
to successfully prosecute this war can
not and will not tolerate the continual
friction now going: on between labor
mid capital but will be compelled foa- tho
sake of its own preservation to con
script both labor and capital in tho
very near future, unless some more
agreeable solution could be introduced
in the coming session of the board.
The Hoard will meet again tomorrow
when two additional members will bo
present, one of whom will represent
the public and the other will be J. B.
Franklin of the Boiler Makers Union
who will represent that arm of the
ship building industry.
PROF. ROSS UNIVERSITY OF I
WISCONSIN LECTURES ON I
ECONOMIC QUESTION I
CHICAGO, Feb. 25—Dr. Edward
Ross. lYof. of Political Science and
Economics, at the University of Wis
consin, In a lecture delivered here last
night, said that; “America must accel
erate its Social Evolution or prepare
for Social Revolution.” Dr. Ross has
recently returned from Russia, where
tie has been studying the Russian eco
nomic system for some time, lie says
the Russians are the most wronged
and the least understood of any neople
in the world today. They are not an
ignorant people as we have always
been taught to believe and neither are
they dreamers as our capitalistic press
is constantly trying to teach us. But a
people of frugal habits, high ideals >.d
a firm confidence in themselves to at
tain their ideal. They are slow In at
taining certain things but when once
attained they consider the sacrifice of
life, as cheap in the retention of these
i things. He states that he believed,
that considering all elements, that go
to make up the present Russian situa
tion, it will probably take between five
and ten years to establish a stable
government which will be stisfactory.
The Russians are sick of shams an<l
will continue to fight as long as they
think their government exists through
diplomatic hypocracy.
Social Evolution, will be found much
cheaper in this country; as it has al
ready been proven in Russia, than
Social Revolution; Said Dr. Ross, and
that those reactionaries who are at
present standing In the way of labor
legislation and reforms, must expect to
step aside or be over run.
NORTH DAKOTA SENATOR
VEHEMENTLY DENOUNCES
GIGANTIC GRAFTERS
WASHINGTON, I'eb. 25—Senator
Porter J. McCumber, of North Dakota,
n the Senate today vehemently de
nounced the profiteering of big busi
ness. and their control of public officials
:ind public inoney as exemplified in
the J5.000.000 graft in the Hog Island
shipyards; the $5,000,000 uniform steal
in New York, the sugar bogs in Buf
falo the, coal hogs in Boston and other
American cities, and the food grafters
ill over the country. They cannot be
considered as men in any sense of the
word, said McOumber and the quicker
they are put where they belong just
so much quicker shall the efficiency
of the country win the war. For, said
he, to win the war we must have
scientific efficiency and we can only
do that by weeding out these vampires,
who never cease to absorb the life
blood of the country. The Senator
advises the prompt passage of his hill
introduced some titne ago. which ad
HERO DOES A CHARLIE
CHAPLIN; IS SAVED 3Y COP
BROOKLYN', Feb. 25.—Walter
Young, of this city, yesterday slip
ped on a string-piece of the pier
at Jay street, when Michael Sweeney
tried to save him, both men went
into the East river.
John L. Poweelc, a policeman, of
he Poplar street station threw off
liis hat anil coat, and jumped into
the river. Ife reached Young and
swam with him hack to the pier
without, much trouble, but Sweeney
wefihod more .than 200 pound:', and
was carried out by the tide and
disappeared before Poweek could
reach him.
vacates the drafting of all male citizen*
between the ages of eighteen :tnd sixty
two years, into a reserve army to bo
used for the purpose of supplying'
trained workers to carry out the trans
portation, shipbuilding, munition mak
ing, farming and for any other line of
production which will aid the govern
ment in prosecuting this war to a suc
cessful conclusion. In his opinion the.
war question |k the most vital of all
questions at the present time and the
sooner and more drastic the measure
taken to solve it the sooner it will ho
accomplished.
. .SCI1NEIUEU BUIIilHXG rooms
are now for rent, by the day, week
tir month.
..Rooms by the month, $10.00 and
up.
. . \!so steam heated rooms.
..Will reopen restaurant In a few
daj s.
George Modini,
Prop.
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