KAISER GOES TO SOFUAHD
CONSTANTINOPLE TO DISCUSS
POSSIBLE TERMS DE PEACE
MUNICH NEWSPAPER, WHICH IS REGARDED AS SEMI
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF GERMAN GOVERNMENT,
SAYS KAISER IS NOT YET PREPARED, HOWEVER,
TO AGREE TO GIVING ANY TERRITORY TO ENEMY.
ZURICH, Switzerland, Oct. 20.—Emperor William, of
Germany, has just returned to Berlin from a journey that took
** him to Sofia. Bulgaria, and Constantinople, Turkey, and liis|
, trip to these capitals of countries allied with Germany is a pre
liminary step toward peace, according to the Neuete Naech
richten, published in Munich and regarded as a semi-official or
gan of the German government,
EXAMINATION OF EVERY POSSIBILITY.
The emperor’s conversations at Sofia and Constantinople,
says the Neuete Naechrichten, certainly mean the elimination
of every possibility in the direction of peace. It would be a
mistake, however, declares the Munich newspaper, to conclude
that the emperor has reached any decision that would involve
annexations of German territorv bv the enemy.
THROUGH TRAINS TO RIGA.
Advices from Berlin are to the effect that through trains
are now running from Berlin to Riga, Russia. The trip re
quires twenty-four hours. Persons can travel from riga to Os
tend, Belgium, with only one change of cars at Berlin, in forty
live hours.
BRITISH KEEP IIP
HEAVY GUN FIRE
ARTILLERY ACTIVITY IN FLAN
DERS INDICATES PREPARA
TIONS FOR ANOTHER DRIVE.
LONDON, Oct. 20.—British artil
lery activity continues with great
intensity on the Flanders front, pos
sibly in preparation for another
strong advance against the German
lines. Haig's artillery shelling on
the Sonnebecke sector and other
points northeast of Ypres heavily.
GERMANS TAKE DAGO ISLAND.
LONDON, Oct. 20.—The Germans
have landed troops on Dago island,
which lies north of Osel island and
which forms the boundary of Ivassar
bay. This is the last large island in
the northern part of the gulf of Riga
that remained in Russian hands and
was regarded as the only bar to the
Gulf of Finland.
CHINA WANTS TO BUILD SHIPS.
SHANGHAI, Oct. 23. — Chinese
newspapers have discussed very gen
erously the suggestion that the allies
may build wooden ships in China, us
ing timber from the Philippines. The
idea has met with great favor. China
has an unlimited supply of labor.
(From the Alaska Railroad Record)
Anchorage Division.
ANCHORAGE HARBOR IMPROVEMENT.
Active work on the Anchorage harbor improvement
project was inaugurated on Friday, October 5, when the
recently assembled dredge Sperm was towed from her
mooVings at Anchorage dock and moved into Ship Creek
by the tug Anne W. and the steamer Matanuska. As soon
as the necessary pipe connections and adjustments are
made the dredge will commence excavating a channel to
eliminate the present bend in the creek immediately in
front of the Anchorage passenger station.
The material removed from the new channel and
cpeek bed will be deposited by dredge pipe line on the
site of the old pond at the foot of Christensen Road, near
First Avenue. This low land will be raised to a height
sufficient to protect it against high water, and when re
claimed the area will be utilized for commercial ware
house sites.
The straightening of Ship Creek channel will divert
the water away from the embankments of the railroad
right-of-way and prevent the erosion of grade which al
ways threatens during times of flood and extreme high
tide. The diversion of the creek will also provide a con
siderable area of land which later may be filled in and
used for switch and storage tracks, if needed. The dredge
will operate this fall as long as the weather permits and
at the close of the season will be placed on the marine
ways for the winter.
Next spring it is planned to begin the construction of
k new dock about 1000 feet in length, to be located about
one-half mile north of the marine ways. This dock will
be connected to the shore by two embankments, heavily
ripvapped on the sea faces to protect them from erosion
and damage by ice. The embankments will be built at
an angle of about 45 degrees with the shore line, thereby
forming shear dams, and will be approximately 1500 feet
in length each. They will be so constructed that floating
ice will be deflected from the face of the dock regardless
of the direction of the tidal currents. The material for
the embankments will be secured from the area to be
dredged in front of the dock site.
It is tentatively planned to use one-half of the new
dock for the coaling of vessels, and the other half for
commercial freight and passenger traffic. The southerly
embankment will contain the railroad tracks that serve
the dock, and the northerly embankment will be used as a
highway for vehicles and pedestrians.
The new harbor improvements are expected to be suf
ficiently completed to handle traffic by the fall of 1918.
CARLOAD AND L. C. L. FREIGHT SHIPMENTS.
Department of the Interior
Alaskan Engineering Commission
Anchorage, Alaska, October 6, 1917.
Transportation Circular No. 96:
TO ALL CONCERNED:
Effective this date, billing clerk who has been in the
Trainmaster’s Office handling billing of Company ship
ments will be moved to the Anchorage depot, and the
receiving and forwarding of all Company shipments will
be handled by the agent at that station.
L. C. L. shipments of Company material moving to the
various points on the line must be delivered at Anchorage
depot or loaded on cars in Anchorage yard before 4.00 p
m. daily, at Warehouse No. 1, No. 2, or at the material yard
and cars containing such shipments will be forwarded tt
the city freight house and there consolidated. Shipping
bills in duplicate, covering all shipments must be left at j
the office where the car is picked up so that these bills j
can be taken over with the car, and receipted copy of
J such bills will be returned to the shipper by the agent at
Anchorage. All shipments must be properly tagged or
marked.
Carload shipments of Company material moving out on
the line may be loaded at an? time up to 6.00 a. m. of the
day the shipment is to go forward. However, informa
j tion relative to the billing should be forwarded to agent at
Anchorage before 10.00 p. m. the day previous, and all
information given as to proper billing.
All carload shipments of Company material received at
Anchorage will be handled by the agent at Anchorage,
who will make an expense bill covering each car, the or
iginal of which will be delivered to the department to
whom the shipment is consigned about 8.00 a. m. each
j day, and receipt taken for delivery of the car. Carloads
j will be switched as early as practicable after arrival at An
; chorage.
| L. C. L. shipments of Company material received at,
j Anchorage will be handled through the city freight house
and delivery will be made either by team or by car di
rect, whichever is the most practicable. Tteamsters cr
other parties receiving material will be given a copy of
expense bill covering such shipments and will be required
to give agent receipt for shipment.
All concerned will kindly govern themselves according
ly.
F. MEARS, Commissioner.
NEW FLAG STOPS AUTHORIZED.
Department of the Interior,
Alaskan Engineering Commission.
Anchorage, Alaska, October 6, 1917.
Transportation Circular No. 97:
TO ALL CONCERNED:
Effective October 15, 1917, south-bound mixed train
from Houston to Anchorage will stop on flag at Spur at
Mile Post 155, between Wasilla and Matanuska, for the
purpose of handling L. C. L. and carload shipments of
farm products.
South-bound train on the Matanuska Branch from
King to Matanuska will stop on flag between Palmer and
Matanuska for the purpose of receiving L. C. L. and car
load shipments of farm products.
Transportation circular No. 32 of December 10, 1916,
authorizing flag stop at Mile 123, is hereby cancelled, and
other than the stops mentioned above, no stops between
stations will be made after the above-mentioned date.
F. MEARS, Commissioner.
REQUESTS FOR ALTERATIONS TO COTTAGES
MUST BE MADE TO M. OF WAY DEPT.
Department of the Interior
Alaskan Engineering Commission.
Anchorage, Alaska, October 6, 1917.
M. of Way Circular (No. 52):
TO ALL CONCERNED:
Considerable trouble and annoyance has been caused by
occupants of Government cottages requesting directly from
foremen and workmen that alterations or improvements
be made to their premises. In the future all requests for
work of this nature should be made in writing and di
rected to the Engineer of Maintenance of Way, and fore
men are hereby forbidden to do work of this nature except
upon proper authorization from this office.
K. K. KUNEY, Engineer Maintenance of Way.
GREAT ARMY WORKS
FOR URERTY LOAN
TWO MILLION PERSONS LABOR
TO BRING SUBSCRIPTIONS TO
FIVE BILLION DOLLAR MARK
WASHINGTON, Oct. 22—Two mil
lion persons are working throughout
the nation to have Jhe Liberty loan
reach the five billion dollar mark be
for the campaign closes at the end of
this week. To reach this mark it will
be necessary to raise about three bil
lion two hundred and fifty million
dollars during the rest of the week,
or over five hundred and forty-one
millions daily.
The campaign will reach a climax
Wednesday, Liberty day, when cele
brations will be held throughout the
nation.
Reports from all parts of the coun
try indicate great enthusiasm every
where in favor of the loan.
TURKS TURN AGAINST CHRIS
TIAN GREEKS AND WAGE WAR
FARE OF EXTERMINATION.
FAMILIES ARE SEPARATED
Men Fit For Military Service Are
Pressed Into Army or Slain and
Women Are Driven from Cities into
Interior.
NEW YORK, Oct. 20.—Not sated
by the slaughter of hundreds of thous
ands of Armenians and Syrians, the
Turk has also turned against the
Greek Christians m his dominions and
more than 70,000 have fallen a victim
to persecution in the form of death,
suffering or deportation, it was declar
ed here today by Frank W. Jackson,,
of this city, chairman of relief com
mittee for Greeks of Asia Minor. He
said the real details of these new
Turkish atrocities were just beginning
to leak out.
ine story ot the ureek deportation
is not yet generally known,” said Mr.
Jackson. “Quietly and gradually the
same treatment is being meted out
to the Gereks as to the Armenians.
Although closely guarded, certain ech
oes of these horrors come out from
time to time.
“There w&re some two or three mil
lion Greeks in Asia Minor at the out
break of the war in 1914, subject to
Turkish rule. According to the latest
reliable and authoritative accounts
some seven to eight hundred thousand
have been deported, mainly from the
coast regions into the interior of Asia
Minor.
“The Greeks of Asia Minor have al
ways been law-abiding and perfectly
loyal to the Turkish government. Und
er Abdul Hamid they were well treat
ed, but his successors adopted a pro
gram to crush them.
“At the declaration of the present
war all persecutions were stopped but
the spring of 1915 brought to the
| stage a tragic, novel drama unique in
the history of the world as to its hor
rors and destructiveness, that is the
Armenian deportation; under that in
nocent name the extermination of a
Christian race was started.
“Along with the Armenians most of
the Greeks of the Marmora regions
and Thrace have been deported on the
pretext that they gave information tc
ALL MACHINERY IN MUNITION
PLANTS OF CITY IS REMOVED
TO FOIL DESIGNS DF GERMANS
COMBINED BRITISH AND FRENCH FORCES LAUNCH
NEW OFFENSIVE ALONG NARROW FRONT NEAR
YPRES AND BOTH ARMIES REPORT HAVING
SCORED SUCCESSES OF IMPORTANT CHARACTER.
PETROGRAD, Oct. 22.—All machinery in important mu
nitions factories in Petrograd has been taken down and moved
trom the city to prevent it from falling into the hands of the
Germans in the event they should succeed in occupying the cap
ital.
German Zeppelins have made raids for considerable dis
tances toward the interior from the Baltic sea coast and have
dropped bombs on a number of Russian towns.
Advices received in Petrograd are to the effect that the
Russian warship Ethotian, which was in a harbor of Osel isl
and, when that possession was taken by the Germans, man
aged to escape into the Baltic but was later run down and cap
tured by German warships. The Russians aboard the Etho
tian took to the small boats when the warship, riddled by gun
fire, began to sink. The men in the small boats were not per
mitted either to board the German vessels as prisoners or to
try to make their way to shore, but were killed by machine
gun fire from the Teuton warships.
The greater part of the Russian fleet which was in the
northern part of the Gulf of Riga, outwitted the superior Ger
man force and escaped from Moon sound, where seemingly the
Russians had been bottled up by the Teutons. The Russian
vessels are now at the northern entrance of Moon sound.
ENTENTE LAUNCHES NEW OFFENSIVE.
LONDON, Oct. 22.—Combined French and British forces
today launched a new offensive along the narrow front north
east of Ypres. In the neighborhood of the Ypres-Staden rail
way on the extreme northern edge of the Flanders front, the
French advanced along a front three-fifths of a mile wide. The
British advanced along a wider front. Both forces are achiev
ing important successes.
FAMOUS FRENCH GENERAL KILLED.
PARIS, Oct. 22.—Gen. A. Daratier has been killed in a
first-line trench on the Flanders front. He was captain of a
French command under General Marchand, whose occupation
of Fashoda in the Sudan in 1898 brought about a clash with
Kitchener, which threatened to result in war between France
and England.
the enemy. Along the Aegean coast
; Aivalik stands out as the worst suf-;
ferer. According to one report some |
70.000 Greeks there have been deport-1
ed toward Koria and beyond. At least i
7.000 have been slaughtered. The
Greek Bishop of Aivalik committed
suicide in despair.
“The latest account from Trebizond
shows the towns along the Black sea;
are being emptied of their Greek pop- |
ulation. From Lyndon S. Crawford,
missionary of the American board at
Trebizond we have a letter dated July
24, 1917, in which he says the follow
ing order came from Turkish army
headquarters at Sheishehie:
“ * By 12:25 July let no Greek man
over 16 and under 50 be found in Or
dou. Send all such on into the interior.
| As for the families, we will send
; further orders later.’
“Mr. Crawford also wrote:
“ ‘First let us express once more
our thankfulness to God for the de
liverance He has sent us by the great,
grand Russian army and people. We
are more and more appreciating what
the Russians have done for this re
gion. Immediately after the Russian
occupation of this province in April,
1916, hundreds of Armenians began to
come out of their hiding places.’
“From the Greek minister to the
United States, George Rousses, I have
a letter September 21, 1917, in which
he says:
“ ‘Backed by the Germans, the
Turks have put into execution and
even organized their wildness. They
have decided to exterminate the Greek
element which is the most important
and most numerous in Asia Minor.
“ ‘Under pretext of necessities of
war entire populations have been de
ported. Members of families have
been separated. The old, the men un
fit for military service and the women,
were sent into the interior of the coun
try, abandoned without the slightest
help and exposed to all sorts of de
privations. The men fit for military
service were taken by force into the
army despite the fact of having paid
for exemption; some of the wealthiest
have been called on to pay this exemp
tion fee three times over.”
CHEMISTS IN ARMY
GET SPECIAL WORK
SPECIAL CENSUS TAKEN OF MEN
WHO HAVE BEEN DRAFTED
INTO MILITARY SERVICE.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 20.—
Several hundred chemists among men
drafted for military service have been
assigned to special work. The authori
ties selected these men from a sort of
census list that had been arranged by
the bureau of mines. A similar census
has been made of mining engineers
showing the age and nature of work
each can do.
! GEORGE FAVORS
RETALIATION
LONDON, Oc.t 22.—King George
and Queen Mary today paid a surprise
visit to one of London’sbombed dis
tricts and talked with residents for
two hours. The king speaking to
clergymen said:
“I wish the people who oppose re
taliation could see this wreckage.”’
GREEKS OF ALASKA, ATTENTION!
WE HAVE JUST COMPLETED A SYSTEM WHEREBY MONEY CAN BE TRANS
FERRED TO ANY PART OF GREECE BY CABLE.
THE PRICES ARE VERY MODERATE, AND BEFORE SENDING ANY MONEY TO
GREECE CALL ON US FOR FULL PARTICULARS.
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