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: CORDOVA, ALASKA
War News Summary
Eleven Months
Fighting
I One year ago Monday the Austrian
> Archduke, Francis Ferdinand, and his
wife were shot and killed In the little
Bosnian (own of Serajevo by Garvlo
Prlnzlp. It W'as the act of Prlnzlp, a
poor student, which ultimately re
sulted In ten nations going to war.
These nations are, on one hand. Great
Britain, France, Russia, Serbia, Japan,
Belgium, Italy and Montenegro, nnd,
on the other, Germany, Austria and
Turkey. The war to date, according
to conservative estimates compiled
from the best available reports, has
caused a loss to the various belliger
ents of more than six million men,
dead, wounded and prisoners, and
more than five hundred ships. Of
these about 120 were war vessels.
The outstanding results on land are
these:
The greater portion of Belgium Is
under the control of Germany.
Germany has been driven from the
Far East.
A part of the Dardanelles Is In the
possession of the Allied troops.
Portions of France and Russia are
In the possession of German troops.
A strip of Alsace has been taken
from Germany.
On the continent of Africa parts of
territorial possessions have been lost
by both sides.
Various Island possessions of Ger
many have been taken by the forces
of the Allies.
Italian troops are In possession of
a strip of Austrian territory.
The outstanding results at sea are
these:
German and Austrian mercantile
shipping has been driven from alt the
open seas.
German and Austrian war vessels
having a total displacement of approx
imately 267,000 tons have been
destroyed.
War vessels of the Allied nations
having a total displacement of approx
mately 192,000 tons have been sent to
the bottom.
The greater portions of the German
and Allied fleets In the North 8ea re
main Intact.
Except for communication through
Holland and the Scandinavian nations,
Germany is cut off from the rest of the
world.
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Efforts on the part of the Germans
to pJaco the British Isles in a slmlllar
predicament has resulted in the sink
ing by submarines of hundreds of ves
sels flying the flags of the allied and
neutral nations.
The sinking In this manner of the
(’unard liner Lusitania with the loss
of more than 100 American lives pre
cipitated a request upon the part of
United States that such practices In
sofar as they might menace Ameri
cans, be stopped.
Prinzip's crime was committed on
June 28. An Investigation disclosed
what was alleged to be proof that the
assassin was the tool of a group of
Serbians. On July 23, after consider
able correspondence anti negotiations
an ultimatum was sent to Serbia by
the Austro-Hungarian government,
which Serbia declined to meet. A
week later a general mobilization oi
Russian troops along tlie German bor
der was ordered and the following
day Germany declared war on Russia.
The news of that event was followed
in a few hours by the announcement
that a general mobilization had been
1 ordered by the French cabinet.
On August 2, German troops entered
Luxembourg and Germany demanded
free passage through Belgium to the
French frontier. This was refused
and two days later Great Britain dis
patched an ultimatum demanding tinat
the neutrality of Belgium be maihi
tained. The ultimatum rejected, Getr
man forces attacked Liege. On thle
same day President Wilson issued s
proclamation of neutrality.
The following day saw the declara
tion by Great Britain of a state of war
with Germany, and two days later the
Germans entered Liege as Ibo French
Invaded southern Alsaca.
These events quickly followed by; at
affirmation on the part of Italy for hei
neutrality, by an Austrian Invasion ol
Serbia and by the sanding by Japar
of an ultimatum to Germany. This
had to do with the German possesslor
of Klao-Ohow of which Tsfngfau wai
the port
By August 17 the first British «xpe
| dltlonary force had completed, it:
‘ landing In France and on that <da:
' there began also a fierce battle on th
Jader between the Austrian and. Soi
hian troops. Victory was with th
! Serbian aruia after five day* of flfch
| tng and the 'Austrians were routed. ,
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In the meanwhile the battle of Lor- “
raine had opened and the German F
troops had entered Brussels, the Bel
gian capital.
A few days later, August 23, the
victorious Germans entered Namur F
and began an attack on Mons, de- (
fended principally by the first British t
expeditionary force. The next day J
the British troops began a retreat i
from their position and from then on ‘
until September the German troops \
drove through France under the lead- i
ershlp of General Von Kluck. Zeppe- J
llns bombarded Antwerp; the French t
were forced to evacuate Mulhausen; <
the Germans took and swept over ‘
Aongwy and reached Senlls, 30 miles i
from Paris, where the columns swung
to the eastward. The French gov
ernment fled to Bordeaux.
In the meanwhile German and Aus
trian troops had met the Russians. A ,
victory at Krasnlk was announced by I
the Austrian government on August 1
23 while on August 29 the German i
army under General von Hindenburg I
defeated another Russian force in a '
battle at Tanneburg, which lasted
three days. Louvain wras burned by
the Germans on the same day that the
Japanese blockade of Tsingtau was
begun. The blockade was maintained
more than two months before Tsing
tau surrendered.
Two days after the French govern
ment moved to Bordeaux, the battle of
the Marne was begun, a few hours
before Russian troops succeeded in
occupying Lemberg, the capital of
Galicia.
Before the French and British
troops, the Germans In France wero
forced to retreat as far as the Alsne.
Events of the next few days Included
the bombardment of Rheims by the
Germans, and the sinking by a Ger
man submarine of the British cruisers
Abouklr, Cressy and Hogue. On the
same day the Russian troops attacked
Przemysl and took Jaroslav.
British troops from India were
landed from transports at Marseilles
on September 26 and were Immedi
ately dispatched to the northward.
Before their arrival at their destina
tion the Germans had Inaugurated a
siege of Antwerp, which resulted in
the Belgian government moving from
that city to Ostend. Two days later
the bombardment of Antwerp began.
The Belgian government remained at
Ostend for about a week and then re
moved to Havre, France. Forty-eight
hour's later the Germans captured
Ostend. Meanwhile the allied troops
occupied Ypres, and a desperate
battle had begun on the Vistula river.
! German assaults upon the allied lines
between Ypres and Nieuport con
,, tinned for a week and then weakened.
The Germans operating in Russia
meantime had been defeated after a
ten days battle before Warsaw.
In Africa revolt and mutiny broke
out. These disorders were headed by
the Boer leader, General de Wet, Gen
eral Beyers, Colonel Maritz and
others. Colonel Maritz was driven
i from Cape Colony, General Beyers
was killed at Vaal river, and General
. de Wet was captured after he had
i been in the field for more than a
month. Native troops in the African
5 provinces belonging to Germany,
•. Great Britain and France wero lined
e up on the borders of the respective
t- provinces. Fighting was general. Dur
ing the latter part of October the
rltlsh dreadnought Audacious was
unk olT the Irish coast, the Russians
uccessfully attacked I>odz and 1
adorn, driving out the invndlng Ger
ians. Turkey joined the war at that
incture by naval operations in the
lack 8ea. Odessa was attacked.
November opened wdth a Oerman
aval victory over a British squadron
rf the coast of Chile and the Turkish
arships bombarded Sebastopol. Two
ays later German warships ventured
•om their anchorage behind the naval
ase at Heligoland and bombarded the
trltlib coast In the vicinity of Yar
loutli. On November 5. Great Britain
ad France declared war on Turkey
ad the forts gunrdlng the entrance
> the Dardanelles were bombarded
y a fleet of allied English and French
arships. On the north the Russians
'occupied Jaroslav after several days |
f ferocious fighting.
German cruisers which had been
tationed in foreign waters at the
penlng of the war had by that time
Iven a good account of themselves,
he Emden operating in the Indian
cean and adjacent waters overtook
ad sunk more than a score of mer
antile ships belonging to the nations
Hied against Germany before she was
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[estoratlon to Entry of Lands in
National Forest
Lists 6-1496,-1512,-1513,-1541.
Notice is hereby given that the
mds described below, embracing
69.88 acres, within the (’hugach Na
lonal Forest, Alaska, will be subject
b settlement ajid entry under the pro
isions of the homestead laws of the
Jnited States and the act of June 11.
906 (34 Stat., 233), at the United
dates land office at Juneau, Alaska,
n August 16, 1915. Any settler who
ras actually and in good faith claim
ug any of said lands for agricultural
imposes prior to January 1, 1906, and
ias not abandoned game, has a pref
rence right, to make a homestead
ntry for the lands actually occupied,
iaid lands were listed upon the appli
ations of the persons mentioned
>elow, who have a preference right
ubject to the prior right of any such
ettler, provided such settler or appli
cant is qualified to make homestead
ntry and the preference right is
exercised prior to August 16, 1915, on
vhich date the lands will be subject
o settlement and entry by any quali
led person. The lands embrace a
ract of 1G0 acres, described by metes
ind bounds as follows: Beginning at
’orner No. 1, situated on the bench
mmediately north of the town of
'Jinllchic, east shore of Cook Inlet, a
lost marked H-l whence U. S. L. M.
*Jo. 1, bears 3. 49 deg., 45 min. \\\
.7.88 chs.; extending thence N. 14 d( /
5., 15.15 chs.; thence meandering east
diore of Cook Inlet 60 feet back from
lne of ordinary high tide, N. 41 deg.
3., 7.53 chs.; thence N. 28 deg. E„
17.27 chs., to Corner No. 3; thence E.
15.17 chs.; thence s. 35.75 chs.;
hence W. 51.82 chs., to the place of
icgitinlng. listed upon application of
Alex Homan, Homer, Alaska; List
5-1496.
A tract of 153.60 acres, described by
netes and bounds as follows: Begin
ning at Corner No. 1 a spruce post set
n ground 60 feet distant from mean
:lde line on east bank of Laida Creek,
sast shore of Cook Inlet approxi
mately V4 mile northerly from Apex
if Anchor Point, marked H-l, whence
Forest Service Monument No. 10 at
Jranross Creek east bank Laida
Creek, bears N. 20 deg. E., 44 chs.;
extending thence along the east bank
if Laida Creek N. 51 deg. E„ 7 chs.;
thence N. 21 deg. E., 14 chs.; thence
N. 28 deg. E., 4.44 chs.. to Corner No.
2; thence E. 66.81 chs.; thence S.
21.46 chs.; thence W. 79.27 chs., to
the place of beginning, listed upon
application of Jacob Petaja, Honier,
Alaska; List 6-1512.
A tract of 86.78 acres, described
by metes and bounds as follows Be
ginning at Corner No. 1, Forest Ser
vice Monument (hereinafter de
scribed) bears N. 24 deg. W., 90 links;
extending thence along the east shore
uf Forberg Bay 60 feet hack from line
of ordinary high tide S. 54 deg. W.,
2.90 chs.: S. 43 deg. W„ 5.16 chs.; S.
34 deg. \V., 5.80 chs.; S. 22 deg. W„
3.33 chs.; S. 50 deg. W., 6.88 chs.; S.
46 deg. W., 6.33 chs., and £|. 40 deg.
W., 9.60 chs.; to Corner No. 2; thence
S. 24 deg. E. 18.30 chs.; thence N. 68
deg. E., 36.58 chs.; thence N. 24 deg.
W., 29.65 chs., to the place of begin
ning. Forest Service Monument con
sists of a post Bet in mound of stones
on top of bluff 10 feet above high
tide line on east shore of Forberg Bay,
marked F. S. M. H. whence Passage
Point bears N. 7 deg. E„ and Observa
tion Point bears N. 48 deg. E. Listed
upon application of Peter Forberg,
Cordova. Alaska; List 6-1513.
A tract of 69.50 acres, described by
metes and bounds ns follows: Begin
ning at Corner No. 1 situated on the
south shore of Boswell Bay a post
marked H-l; extending thence N.
63 deg. 45 niln. E„ 10.59 chs., to Cor
ner NO. 2, Identical with Forest Ser
vice Monument, whence Northernmost
point of Boswell Hock, a conspicuous
lone rock 80 feet high on mud flat
near south shore of Boswell Bay,
bears N. 87 deg. 30 min. W., 36.43
chs.; thence N. 45 deg. E„ 9:41 chs.;
thence E. 24 chs.; thence S. 26 deg
30 min. E„ 20 chs.; thence S. 76 d»g
30 min. W., 1.59 chs.; thence W. 49.l:
chs.; thence N. 7.15 chs, to the plac*
of beginning listed upon application ol
William Boswell, Cordova. Alaska
List 6-1541.
C. M. BHUCE.
Assistant Commissioner of th<
General I^and Office.
Dated April 17, 1915.
First Publication June 16, 1916.
Last Publication July 7, 1915.
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