TEUTONS, IT IS THOUGHT, ARE PREPARING TO AT
TACK REVAL AND KRONSTADT AND GARRISON
AT SEAT OF GOVERNMENT CONSIDERS PLAN TO
AVOID FATE THAT BEFELL RIGA.
PETROGRAD, Sept. 7.—German warships, having navi-'
gated the Baltie, were observed today, according to dispatches
from Helsingfors, at the entrance to tlie Gulf of Finland. Evi
dently the German fleet is preparing to attack Reval and
Kronstadt, the great Russian naval bases on the Gulf of Fin
land. These bases, particularly Kronstadt, are material to
the defense of Petrograd.
The proximity of the German sea force changes the Petro
grad situation as it was viewed by the Russian authorities im
mediately after the fall of Riga. Then they declared there
was no likelihood of the Germans advancing on the capital
city. General Romanoffs, chief of the general staff, said that
the evacuation of Riga constituted no eminent danger to Petro
grad because the near approach of the rainy season would
prevent tin* Germans from advancing any considerable dis
tance from Riga.
CAPITAL STUDIES PLAN OF DEFENSE
Now that the German fleet is reported at the entrance to
the Gulf of Finland, however, special committees have been
appointed by the regiments constituting the garrison in Petro
grad to devi-e a plan for the defense of the capital.
Reports from the army that abandoned Riga are to the
effect that it i> making no effective resistance to the pursuing
Germans. The retreat from Riga over a neck of land only a
mile and a half wide, between Lake Kish and Lake Fgel is
being accomplished with tin* greatest difficulty. The Germans
are constantly shelling the Russian rear guard.
Despite disgraceful accounts of the failure of resistance
on the part of some Russian officers and troops at Riga, there
are reports of numerous instances where Russian
soldiers fought with great heroism in an effort to save the
city from the Germans. The retreating Russians are moving
as rapidly as possible northeast.
GERMANS SUFFER NO LOSSES
The Germans have crossed the Dvina river with practical
ly no losses, owing to the effectiveness of their artillery and
machine bomb throwers. They assembled a greater number
of machine bomb thrower- than ever before, and brought them
into action after liie regular artillery had bombarded the tirst
and second Russian lines for several hours.
With German warships in control of the Baltic and the
Gulf of Riga, the Baltic and Riga coasts at almost every point
are subject to attack from sea.
More than 7,-700 prisoners and 180 guns were captured by
the Germans in their operations at and around Riga.
RICH RESIDENTS OF PETROGRAD
FLEE IN FEAR OF SUCCESSFUL
GERMAN ATTACK AGAINST CITY
PFTR< )G RA I). Kept. S.—1 n fear of a successful (ierman at
tack against Petrograd. many business linns in the Russian
capital are considering the removal of their headquarters to
Moscow. Novgorod or some other provincial city. Indeed, re
ports are current and are given credence that numerous fi
nancial concerns have sent their treasure to distant places.
Many members of the wealthy class have left the city and
others are preparing to leave.
The cabinet of the provisional government issued a state
ment today to the effect that there was no present need of
transferring the seat of government.
CRIMINALS BECOME ACTIVE
Owing to the unrest among the populace on account of
the military situation criminals have seized the opportunity
to ply their pursuits, and the cabinet today appointed special
civilian commissioners to preserve order.
While the military authorities are proceeding with their
preparations to defend the city, they declare there is no im
mediate danger of a German attack.
The war office announced today that there is no ma
terial change with respect to the retreat of the Russian forces
from Riga. Encounters continue between the Russian rear
guard and the advancing German cavalrv.
SUBMARINES SEEN IN RIGA GULF
The admiralty office declared that no German vessels,
except submarines, were observed today in the Gulf of Riga,
and that the Russion fleet is ready to engage the enemy. Dis
patches from Helsingfors make no mention of any German
ware raft in or near the Gulf of Finland now. Probably the
German war vessels, reported yesterday by Helsingfors as be
ing at the entrance to the Gulf of Finland, were scout cruisers
on a reeonnoitering expedition.
“Peace now.” says Kerensky, “would make us future vas
sals of the kaiser, which would be worse than being vassals of
the Russian emperor,” A great truth tersely expressed by a
great man. May the Russian people not fail to comprehend it
until too late.
With (Ioniums poisoning our court plaster and our wells,
we are getting a first class slant at kultur without going out
of our own back yard for it.
TEUTONS PREPARE TO MOVE
BACK THEIR PRESENT LINES
TWELVE MILES.
LONDON, Sept. 6.—German mili
tary authorities are reported to be
moving the civilian population from
an area comprising 200 square miles
in West Flanders in anticipation of an
attack by the entente allied forces.
The district abandoned extends twelve
miles behind the present German line
on the west front.
A German submarine last night
bombarded Scarborough, on the east
coast of England, killing three persons
and injuring five others. Little dam
age to property was effected. Thirty
rounds of shells were fired by the sub
marine.
An official report issued by the Brit
ish war office today on the moonlight
aerial raid by German airships at mid
night Tuesday places the casualties
resulting from the raid at seventy
three. Of these eleven were killed
and sixty-two injured.
Russian Commander Exiled.
Messages from Petrograd report
that General Gurko, formerly com
mander of the Russian forces on the
southwestern front, has been convicted
of treasonable conduct toward the pro
visional government and that he will
be exiled from Russia.
Russian troops which recently evac
uated Riga, are continuing their re
treat to the northeast and have cross
ed the Livonian river. The Germans
have occupied the towns and territory
at and near the mouth of the Dwina
river, which flows into the Gulf of
Riga. Heavy coast defense guns of
the Russians have fallen into the
haands of the Germans. German sub
marines continue to shell points along
the Gulf of Riga octupied by the Rus
sians.
Italians Score Big Success.
Advices from Rome are to the effect
that the Italians have captured Monte
San Gabriele and taken 1,000 Aus
trian prisoners, including thirty of
ficers. The Italians now possess the
entire chain of mountains dominating
Goriza.
Immense quantities of booty have
been obtained by the Italians in their
advance. The booty establishes the
disorderliness of the Austrian retreat.
Whole convoys of arms and munitions
were abandoned. Thousands of boxes
of projectiles, hand grenades, rockets,
shoes, rifles and helmets were strewn
about in the utmost confusion. Cav
erns in the mountains are packed with
Austrian dead.
AMERICA LENDS
MORE TO ALLIES
HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS
ADDITIONAL IS BORROWED
BY BRITIAN AND FRANCE.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 6. — One
hundred million dollars additional
| was lent today by the United States
| to Great Britain and France. This
j amount brings the total loan from
i the United States to her European
| allies to two billion, two hundred and
i sixty-two million dollars.
COLLEGE REGENT
MAY LOSE PLACE
LINCOLN, Neb., Sept. 6.—At a con
ference here today of representatives
of state and county councils of de
fense, a demand was made for the re
moval of Frank L. Waller from the
presidency of the board of regents of
the Universty of Nebraska. The con
ference declared that he had failed to
answer charges of disloyalty preferred
against him by the state council of de
i fense.
—
GERMANY IN BONDAGE.
Max Nordeau refuses to believe in
the possibility of popular revolution in
Germany because “the German soul
has been methodically perverted, de
moralized by the instruction of the ad
ministration, by literature and propa
ganda, by intellectual fraud deceitful
ly organized, and by terrorism, in aca
demic, official and social circles.”
The simple truth.
That is the sort of bondage in which
the German people have been kept.
But all things are possible in times of
such upheaval as the present—even
the awakening and emancipation of
the victims of the Hohenzollem au
tocracy, or, as the kaiser would de
scribe it, “theocracy.”—Exchange.
SERBIAN GIRLS
TEN THOUSAND MAIDS SENT
TO TURKEY, BULGARIA
AND ASIA MINOR.
ONLY 10 AND 14 YEARS OLD.
Officials of Native Country of Cap
tives Are in Position That They
Cannot Possibly Do Anything to
Help Them.
LONDON, August 15.—(Corres
pondence of the Associated Press.)
—Ten thousand Serbian girls from
ten to fourteen years old have been
kidnapped and deported from Serbia
to the harems of Constantinople, to
Bulgaria and Asia Minor, says ad
vices received by M. Pasitch, the
Serbian premier, who is now in Lon
don.
“These deportations,” said M.
Pasitch, “have been going on since
February 1916, but the number was
very limited until a few weeks ago.
Now it has been systematized under
Bulgarian controllers, and it is im-!
possible to predict how far it will i
go.
“Eight thousand girls have been!
sent to Constantinople, and two thou- j
sand more to Bulgaria and Asia i
Minor. Prisoners whom we have j
taken on the Saloniki front tells us j
that the traffic in our girlhood has j
gorwn to be a byword in Bulgaria j
and Turkey.
“The girls are kidnapped and i
taken away secretly, particularly!
from the smaller villages, until at
present dozens of small towns have
been quite denuded of the young fe
male population.
“I do not think that the Turks are
the actual instigators of this gross
violation of the rules of civilized
warfare. All our information indi
cates that the Bulgarians are the
prime movers and the Turks only in
cidental beneficiaries of the traffic.
“The girls are too young to be of
any use for laboring purposes, be
sides, neither Turkey nor Bulgaria
is seriously handicapped for labor, j
and in Turkey the use of young worn- ;
en for outdoor work is practically un- j
known.
“It is very difficult for us to do
anything to help these unforunatej
victims. Our affairs in Constantin-1
ople and Sofia are now in the hands ]
of the Dutch government, and we j
have made the most earnest possible 1
protests through that government. 1
But you know how difficult it is to !
get any action from Turkey. We1
have suggested, for instance, that
some scheme of repatriation be put
into effect immediately, that the girls
should be sent back to some place be
yond the war zone. But I fear it is
too late to save them, and that we
can only wait in patience until peace
comes.”
VIENNA GRATIFIED AT GERMAN
OFFICIAL’S WILLINGNESS
TO NEGOTIATE.
LONDON, Sept. 8.—Austria is
anxious for peace; England is de
termined to continue the war and re
gards the Teutonic submarine cam
paign a decisive failure. These con
clusions are evident today from dis
patches from Vienna and from state
ments by Lloyd George, the English
premier.
Messages from Vienna are to the
effect that the Austrians, of both
high and low degree, received today
with gratification the news of a
speech in the German reichstag b'
German Foreign Minister Von Kuehl
mann in which he declared he would
favor peace negotiations if it were
possible to arrange for them at the
present time.
Lloyd George’s speech was deliver
| ed today at Bii-kenhead. The pre
mier declared the cause of the en
tente allies depended on their con
trol of the sea. He said that entente
; shipping was building faster than it
could be destroyed by submarines.
This fact, he stated, had put an end
to the hope of the Teutons for vic
tory. He declared he was absolutely
convinced of the failure of Germany’s
submarine campaign.
The great beauty about accepting
advice is that you can always blame
the fellow who gave it to you.
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NO. A.
IX THfi DISTRICT COURT FOR THE
TERRITORY OF ALASKA, THIRD
i DIVISION.
j Leigh Hill French, Plaintiff, vs.
! Blanche Culbertson French, Defendant.
THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES OF AMERIA,
To the above named defendant, Greet
: ing: You are hereby required to ap
: pear in the District Court for the Ter
ritory of Alaska, Third Division, with
i in thirty days from the date of the ser
vice of this summons upon you and un
; swet the complaint of the plaintiff, a
copy of which is herewith delivered to
j you, and if you fail to answer the said
I complaint, the plaintiff will apply to
! the court for the relief demanded there
in, to-wit: for a decree of divorce dis
solving the bonds of matrimony exist
i ins between plaintiff and defendant.
The service of this summons by pub
lication is made by virtue of an ord<
of the court dated August 20, 191", di- ,
■ recting publication for a period of not
lesp than six weeks, and the defendant
■ must answer within thirty days after
[ the expiration of said period.
WITNESS, the HON. FRED M.
! BROWN, Judge of saiu Court, and the
i seal of said court hereto affixed this
; 21st day of August, in the year of our
; Lord one thousand nine hundred and
| seventeen and of our Independence the
one hundred and for;v-second.
ARTHUR LANG, Clerk.
(SEAL! By M. J. CONROY.
Deputy Clerk.
First publication, August 22, 1917
Last publication, October 3, 1917.
451
NOTION TO CBEOITOB8
IN THE COMMISSIONERS COURT,
TERRITORY OF ALASKA, THIRD
JUDICIAL DIVISION, KN1K PRE
CINCT, BEFORE LEOPOLD DAVID,
, COMMISSIONER AND EX-OFFICIO
PROBATE JUDGE.
In the Matter of the Estate of Benjamin
| Benson. Deceased.
All persons having claims against
; the estate of the late Benjamin Ben
| son, deceased, are hereby notified that
‘ the undersigned has been duly appoint
ed executor under the last will and
i testament of said deceased, and are re
; quired to present their claims, with the
i proper vouchers, to tne undersigned ex
. ecutor at his office in the Anchorage
; Daily Times building, at Anchorage. Al
aska, within six months from the date
of this notice.
Dated at Anchorage. Alaska, this Ikii
day of September, 1917.
JOHN W. FRAME.
Ixecutor of the Estate of Benjamin
Benson, Deceased.
Date of hrst puolication, September
Date of last publication, October 3.
1917. 321