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ANCHORAGE, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1918.
PRICE TEN CENTS
HOMILISTS TO
PREMIER LENINE AND ASSOCI
ATES PLAN TO MOVE ROYAL
EXILE FROM BOLSK.
COMING TO EUROPEAN RUSSIA.
Leaders of Government at Moscow
Fear Complications in Siberia and
l.ook for Landing of Japanese or
Other Allied Troops There.
LONDON, March 27.—Nikolai Le
r.ine, premier of Russia, ami other of
ficials of the Russian Maximilist gov
ernment, are planning to transfer
former Czar Nicholas from Bolsk, in
Siberia, his presnt place of exile, to
the Ural region, in European Russia,
according to advices received in Lon
don from Moscow, the headquarters
<»f the Russian Maximilist govern
ment.
Maximilist leaders fear complica
tions, detrimental to their government
in Siberia. They rather look for the
’ending of Japanese or other entente
allied troops in Siberia.
BUSINESS MEN WILL
VISIT CHICKALOON
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MERCE WILL TAKE EXCUR
SION TO COAL FIELDS.
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An excursion to the Chickaloon coal
]> . < will be given by the Anchorage
Chamber of Commerce next week for
its member' according to plans which
v.vre announced today at the regular
jii. .eon meeting of the organization
at the Mint Grill.
The excursion is being arranged to
allow members to see tor themselves
the work that is being accomplished
both by the government and by priv
a .e coal mine companies in the Chick
aloon fields.
Ray C. Larson gave an interesting
talk :A the luncheon today on the sub
ject r.f glass and its manufacture.
1AT10N STUDENT
KILLED IN TEXAS
( AN UMAX LOSES LIKE AT FORT
WORTH WHEN HIS FLANK
CRASHED TO EARTH.
FORT WORTH, Tex., March 27.—
H. Hooten, of Montreal, Canada, an
aviation cadet, was killed here today
when his plane crashed to the eai th.
This is the forty-fourth fatal acci
dent in the combined British and
French aviation camp since their es
tablishment here last fall.
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ONE OF TEUTON VESSELS IS
RAM ME!) BY BRITISH DE
STROYER AND C UT IN HALF.
RATTLE OCCURRED SATURDAY.
Another of Kaiser’s Naval Units Is
Torpedoed and Is So Radlv Dam
aged That She Sinks—Engagement
Takes Place Off Dover.
LONDON, March 2G.—The British
destroyer Botha rammed a German
warship, cutting the Teuton vessel in
half in an engagement off Dunkirk,
Uranee Saturday.
The British destroyer Morris tor
pedoed a large German destroyer,
which sank.
OESCHflMPS GETS
FINE OF $369
AND 30 DAYS
SENTENCE IS PASSED BY COM
j MISSIONER DAVID ON MAN
j CONVICTED OF ASSAULT.
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VERDICT RETURNED TUESDAY.
Evidence Established That Defendant j
in Case Last Saturday Derided John
Klonos and Then Struck and Beat'
Him.
Thirty days in the Anchorage jail1
and a line amounting to $36t>.o0 con- j
stitute the punishment meted out this!
I morning by United States Commis
sioner Leopold David to Samuel
Desehamps, who late yesterday after
noon was convicted of assaulting John
Klonos.
At the trial, which was held before
a jury in the commissioner’s court, the
evidence established that last Satur
day Desehamps derided Klonos for
arrying a rifle with other members of
die Home Guard in the parade' that
escorted? sixty-one recruits to the rail
way station and that when Klonos le
torted to the derisive remark, he was
struck and beaten by Desehamps.
Desehamps declared that he acte 1
only in self-defense, and that the orig
inal dispute was not in reference to
the Home Guards or to the patriotic
parade, but to a wood bill.
Desehamps is a wood chopper and a
man of powerful build. He greatly
excels Klonos in physical strength.
RED CROSS READY
FOR GERMAN DRIVE
GREAT QUANTITIES OF SUP
PLIES ARE AT FRONT FOR
WOUNDED SOLDIERS.
SAX FRANCISC O. Cal., March 27.
—“The American Red Cross” was
ready for the offensive of the tier-.
mans” said Marshal Hale, manager
of the Pacific division, in addressing
■ the regular meeting of the social
workers’ alliance recently.
‘ Storehouses greater than the
world has ever seen before were fill
ed with Red Cross supplies in France,
waiting to serve American soldiers
and the fighters of our allies.
More than “0,000,000 surgical band
ages had been prepared by the women
of the United States and had landed
carefully, sealed and packed in
France.
“There must ho no let-up in the
work that is being done and increas
I ed production must be forthcoming in
; every department.”
FARMER SAID TO HAVE DISCOV
ERED MINERAL- Ii E A RIN G
QUARTZ IiORING WELL
MILES CITY, Mont., March 27.—
More than 300 mining claims have
bc-on staked since Sunday at Stacey,
; near here as the result of the discov
ery of what is believed to be gold
bearing quartz by a rancher while
boring a well.
Many persons are expected here to
night from neighboring towns to stake
OBRECON WRITES HISTORY. !
EL PASO, Texas., March 26.—Gen- j
A ral Alvero Obregon, former minister
[of war in the Mexican cabinet, has j
! written a book called “Eight Thousand j
Kilometers of Campaigning,” which!
describes his battles against the j
Huerta forces and the Villa revolu-;
j tionists. It is illustrated with many j
! pictures taken by the author and is a
complete record, in Spanish, of his
campaigns.
TEUTONS ABE NOW IN POSSESSION OF PKACTICALLY
ALL OF DEVASTATED S
B REGION AND ABE
MASSING NEAR ROYE AND NOYON FOR AN
OTHER EFFORT TO EI&AS BRITISH LINE.
KAISER HOPES TO DIM ALLIED FORCE
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COUNTER. ATTACK BY BRITISH.
LONDON, March 27.—Tire British today delivered
a counter attack in the angle between the Anere river
and the Somme river, and recaptured Morlanconrt and
Chipilly, according to the official statement of the Brit
i; 11 war office. The Germans possess the town of Albert,
hut it is announced that the Rvitifcfi hold the railway
embankment on the western outskirts of Albert. The
Germans are massing near Albert and a new attack is
expected.
BRITISH RETREAT ON WIDE FRONT
BKRLIN, March 27.—The British began to retreat
early today on a wide front on both sides of the Somme,
according to the official announcement of the German
war office. Stubborn resistance of the British rear
guard was overcome in tin* sharp pursuit of the Germans.
French Hold Their Line.
BARIS. March 2(>.—French troops are holding the
left bank of the Oise after having evacuated Noyon
yesterday.
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LONDON, March 27.—Four hun-;
Ircd thousand men is the estimated :
oss, in dead, wounded and prisoners,
suffered by the Germans since the be
ginning of their great offensive move
rent against the British lines in the
vestern theatre of war.
While the Germans have made ter
ritorial gains, they really are no near
er the accomplishment of their origi
lal plan to break through the British i
Tont than they were at tlie beginning
>f the drive.
Americans Are Helping.
General Haig, commander of the
British forces in France, reports that
American troops are aiding the
French and British in resisting the |
German drive south of the Somme
river. It is believed that the Amer
icans are co-eperating with the
French in constituting a reserve force!
to strengthen the British line.
The Germans have regained nearly
•xl! the devastated Somme region.
The latest advices indicate that the
Bermans are massing in the rear of.
Rove and Noyon for a drive in anoth
er efi'ort to break the British line,
preliminary to dividing the English
force and rolling it up on either side.
Rove and Noyon are regarded as con
stituting the gateway to Amiens.
The Germans have driven a blunt
wedge in the British front with the
apex at Albert. The other points of
die German triangle in this region
are at Monchy and on the Oise south ,
of t.afere.
Held Twenty-Four Hours.
The British line from the river
Scarpe southwest through Albert to
the Somme held for twenty-four hours
against terrific attacks and then re- i
ceded gradually in good order to pre
pared positions in the rear.
The Germans last night made a fu
rious onslaught on the British line in
a southerly direction from Ham.
Terrific fighting took place at Al
bert.
British commanders believe the
German forward movement is now be
;ng checked. They declare the Brit
sh defense is becoming stronger ev
ery hour.
MILITARY EXPERTS BELIEVE THAT ENGLISH AND
FRENCH FORCES ARE NOW AWAITING OPPORTUNE
MOMENT FOR DELIVERY OF COUNTER BLOW
AND OUTCOME EXPECTED TO BE FAVORABLE.
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LONDON, March 2G. — Although!
still giving ground, the British and I
French are preserving intact their;:
■jr.ited front and apparently awaiting <
an opportune moment for the delivery
of a terrific counter blow. In the opin- I
ion of military experts, big events ar< !
impending in the immediate future I i
and these events are expected to do- j'
velop favorably to the entente allies.
Despite the great massing of Ger- i
man reserves, the progress of the !
Germans is appreciably slower, pai- 1
ticularly on the extreme north and
center of the battlefront.
The German losses have been awful- i
ly heavy. They have been so great
that the German commanders have
been compelled to bring to the British
lines reinforcements from all parts of i
the western war zone.
The British war office estimates !
hat more than seventy German divi- '
ions, or about 8->0.000 men. are nov i
mgaged in the German offensive.
German troops today advanced at i
earful cost in lives in the Bapaumo. i
>0name and Noyon sectors. The heav- |
est fig!’.ting is now in these famous |
var regions.
A struggle of considerable intensity j
s also raging in the Arras sector, i
southeast of Arras, the British line |
las yielded only three miles.
South of Teronne, the Germans suf- i
ered unusually heavy losses in cross
ng the Somme river.
The British have established new
lositions east of Roye and Albert.
In a smashing attack yesterday
igainst the British line near Ervillers.
;h% Germans made use of tanks.
LAND AND INDUSTRIAL DE
PARTMENT WILL SEEK MAR
KETS ALONG COAST.
QUANTITY IS 400 OR 500 TONS.
Andrew Christensen Urges Farmers
to Have Vegetables at Placer;
Reached by Railroads so They Can
Be Obtained for Shipment.
Recent investigation by the lain
mcl industrial department of the Alas
Iran Engineering commission show
that there will be a surplus this sprir.t
of 400 or 500 tons of potatoes in thi.
section of the country. Active step;
are being taken by Andrew Christen
sen, head of the land and industrial de
partment to secure a market for the
vegetables along the coast of Alaska,
and possibly at the American Lake
cantonment near Tacoma.
Lower Freight Rates.
Action is also being taken by the
land and industrial department and
the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce
to urge the steamship companies to
reduce their freight rates in order
that the Alaskan farmers may be en
abled to compete with the farmers of
the states in disposing of their po
tatoes.
A circular letter has been sent by
the land and industrial department to
a number of farmers and also to all of
the business houses of Anchorage. The
department urges the farmers to haul
their potatoes to the railroad, or
otherwise to have them available for
shipment at any time during the
months of April and May.
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It is understood that many of the
potatoes are located several miles
from the railroad and that unless they
are hauled before the break-up of the
winter trails it will not be possible to
get them to market.
The land and industrial department
is anxious that the potatoes be ready
for delivery at any time after the ar
rival of the first boat in Anchorage.
Orders for potatoes will be sent
through the land and industrial de
partment, and arrangements will be
made to have the orders placed with
the farmers so that prompt shipment
can be made.
THIRD LIBERTY LOAN
WILL OPEN APRIL 6
AMOUNT IS FIXED AT THREE
BILLION AND INTEREST AT
FOl R AND ONE QUARTER.
WASHINGTON. D. C., March 27.—
Secretary of the Treasury William G
McAdoo of the treasury departmen
today announced that the third liberty
loan opens on April 5, the anniversur.
of the American declaration of wut
against Germany. The lean calls for
three billion dollars and the interest
rate has been set at four and one
quarters per cent.
“The soul of every American should
be fired with the determination to give
his dollars and every material re
source needed to end the execrable
atrocities of the German militarists,”
declared Secretary MAdoo.
REUTER’S NEWS AGENCY SAYS
TEUTON AIRMEN HAVE BEEN
OBSERVED OVER EGYPT.
LONDON, March 26.—German air
planes have been observed over the
Mediterranean coast near Cairo.
Egypt, says a Reuter’s News Agency
dispatch received here today.
IOL0 TO FGi
GUEST SIT
GENERAL LEONARD WOOD SAYS
FORCE SHOULD BE 4,000,000
OR 5,000,000 STRONG.
HALF IS NEEDED IN FRANCE.
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Senator Harry S. New Declares That
Only Thirty Airplanes Have Been
j Sent to European War Zone by This
Country to Present Time.
WASHINGTON, D. C„ March 26.—
General Leonard Wood, former chief
of staff of the United States army,
who recently returned from the Euro
j poan war front, today submitted to
the military committee of the senate
a confidential statement relative to
conditions on the battlefront and con
taining recommendations in regard to
America’s participation in the con
flict.
One declaration he made to the
committee has been given publicity.
It was to the effect that the fighting
force of the United States should be
increased to 4,000,000 or 5,000,000
men, and that half of it should be con
centrated as soon as possible in
France.
Senator Harry S. New, republican
of Indiana, declared in the senate to
day that of .12,000 airplanes, which
America, according to original plans,
promised to deliver in France by July
i, only thirty machines have been de
livered so fai*.
FIFTY NEW RELIEF STATIONS
ARE ESTABLISHED FOR CARE '
OF THOSE WOUNDED.
PARIS, March 27.—Paris is better
prepared than ever for the German
bombing expeditions. Fifty new relief
posts had been established in Paris
and the suburbs where “first aid”
could be given to the wounded or to
the “gassed.” These preparations
along with daily warnings in the news
papers and hints as to what to do In
case of alarm have been popularly re
ceived by citizens.
Parisians are warned to keep their
windows open, their blinds shut ar.d
their lights out. Full explanations as
to the best model of gas mask has
been given them and the sale of masks
has increased.
JOHN FREEMAN. EXPERT NA
VAL ARCHITECT, APPEARS BE
FORE SENATE COMMITTEE.
BIG PROJECT AT HOG ISLAND.
Witness Declares Construction Will
Run Between $35,000,000 and $40,
000,000, While Original PI ins Cal
led for $25,000,000.
WASHINGTON, March 27.—John
Freeman, the expert naval architect,
told the senate committee today that
the Hog island shipyard, near Phila
delphia, Pa., where the government
plans to build 120 fabricated steel
ships, will cost the United States be
fore completion between thirty-five
and fer+y million dollars.
Congress is investigating charges
! of extravagance in connection with
the construction of the yard.
The original estimate of its cost
was $25,000,000.
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