The Cordova \ Daily Times
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Member of Associated Press—Day pd Night Telegraphic Service
KO. ~~ COHDOVA, ALASKA, TO!~jY, JULY 2, 1!>1H price TEN CENTS
BRILLIANT WORK
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WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES IN FRANCE, July 12.
—In a brilliant operation last night, after hard fighting, the
Americans on the Marne captured the village of Yanx and a
large slice of the Paris highway west of Chateau Thierry, to
gether with two patches of wooded land. Two hundred and
seventy-five Herman prisoners, including five officers, many
machine guns and other equipment were captured.
The Americans surprised the Hermans, and most of the
prisoners were taken from cellars and dugnuts. Many of the
Hermans were killed.
HOLLAND’S FOOD EXPORTS
AROUSE AMERICAN PROTEST
\\ ASl 11 N( i'l'M.N, July The l uited Slates has iuformed
the Netherlands government that the proposed exportation of
fiftv t housnqd tons of potatoes from Holland to Germany would
violate the agreement with Great Britain relative to the yearly
potato supply and imperil the food agreement with the I’nited
States.
American officials are surprised at the report, in view of
the recent Netherlands famine. If true, it is believed that dras
tic action will be necessary in the way of retaliation.
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SPECIAL MARKS
FDR U-BOATS
LONDON. July 2.—The newspapers
nay that the sinking of the hospital
ships by the Germans is a deliberate!
policy, which is placed beyond all
<:<>ubt by the torpedoing <>1 tin* Brit-j
h hospital ship Llandovery Castle.1
The German commander said he;
submarined the ship because she car
ried eight American flight officers.
The News says this excuse is a lie.
Nurses Murdered
LONDON. July 2 A boat of the
hospital ship Llandovery Castle, re-.
ported yesterday as having been sunk
by a submarine, which contained
twelve nursing sisters, was seen to
capsize and the sisters wero drowned,
say survivors who have arrived here.
ORDER APPLIES
ONLYTO THOSE
OF DRAFT ACE
WASHINGTON, July " Provost
Marshal General Crowder asserts that
the new "work or fight" regulation
does not affect men outside the draft
ages. Several states have confused
It with the “anti-loafer" laws.
The order was intended to make
registered men get into useful occu
pations or tight.
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♦ A JUST RULING ♦
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♦ WASHINGTON. July 2.— ♦
♦ Regulations Issued by Food ♦
♦ Administrator Hoover yeater- ♦
♦ day ordered that Hour millers ♦
♦ who made exorbitant profits ♦
♦ during the last fiscal year re- ♦
♦ turn the amount of such profits ♦
♦ to the government in the form ♦
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HIGHER PRICE FOR WHEAT
WASHINGTON, July L\ The senate
yesterday again rejected a proposal
for the abandonment of its price in
crease on the wheat minimum.
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TO BE OPENED
I’AIUS, July 2 -France is making
special efforts to celebrate the Fourth
o! July properly, in the l’aris dis
trict reviews will lie held, and it is
understood that American troops will
participate in the dedication of a new
name plate for Avenue du [’resident
Wilson, which will he placed on the
former Avenue Trocadero.
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IS EXPECTED TO
WASHINGTON. July 2.—A huge
cotton crop is In prbspect this year,
according to the department of agri
culture forecast, which says that 15,
325.000 pounds, or the equivalent of
500.000 bales, will constitute the crop.
If It reaches these proportions It will
be the largest ever known.
TO FOHAA ORGANIZATION
FOR MUTUAL WELFARE
LONDON, July 2.—The formation
of an Amerlcan-Brltlsh society In To
klo Is being planned. It will have as
its otijeet the promotion of a spirit
of co-operation in matters of mutual
interest for the tv.o countries.
LONDON, July 2—An Kxchangt
Telegraph dispatch from Moscow re
ports a rapidly-increasing army in the
Don Cossack district General Alexiefl
has been named commander-in-chiel
of the I’kraine/ and has ordered tin
creation of eight new army corps.
MUNITIONS PLANT”FIRE
MUSES LOSS BF MILLION
MO!'NT I'N'ION. I'enn. July 2.
Kire of undetermined origin last nigh
destroyed four buildings of the Aetm
Chemical Company's plant. The los
is estimated at a million dollars.
More than four hundred and Oft;
thousand pounds of gun cotton wa
destroyed.
TD TRANSPORT TRDDPS
WASHINGTON. July 2— Some
American troops from western camps
are moving eastward through Canada
according to a statement of Secretary
of War Baker yesterday.
GENERAL HUNTER
IfTO COMMAND
1ST ■COUPS
WASHINGTON, July 2—The prob
able organization of the First army
eorps. under Major General Hunter
Idggctt, has been disclosed by Score
tary of War Baker. It includes the
Second and Third divisions of regu
lars, now at the front
The total strength of the corps is
planned to consist of nearly two hun
drcd gnd twenty thousand men, and
it is dxpectod by officials that it will
be re|dy to meet the next German
offensive.
fiGTIVtTIES Of 1 FLEET
SHOWN IN BRITISH NOTE
LQ1 DON, July 2 —On Sunday last
Berman airplane* wer*
shot down, ten were brought down
out of control, and two balloons were
i destroyed, according to an official
j statement on aerial operations issued
I yesterday.
l’.VRIS, July 2. An official state
ment issued yesterday says that
French airmen on Sunday last downed
twenty German planes and set lire to
six balloons.
GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP
PROBABILITY OF FUTURE
WASHINGTON, July —Secretary of War Baker, Post
master General Burleson and Secretary of the Navy Daniels
were before the house committee on interstate commerce today
to nice favorable reconimondath' a of the resolution empower
iii” the President to take over tin* 'olograph, telephone, cable
and radio systems. Secretary Daniels and Mr. Burleson advo
ented permanent ifovormnent ownership and operation of the
lines, and the postmaster sen oral said that the lines would
aever ifo back to private ownership if the systems were eon
dieted as efficientlv as the postal service.
RUSSIAN SOVIET CONGRESS
TO BE CONVENED TODAY
MOSCOW, July 2.—The meeting ol
the fifth all-Russian Soviet congress
which was to have met today, ha*
been postponed until July
REPORT AS TO PRISONERS
UNDOUBTEDLY ERRONEOUS
BERLIN, July 2.—Official reports
announce that 191,454 allied prisoner*
have been captured since the begin
ning of the German offensive on
March 21.
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PROUD OF WAR GARDENS
PASSAIC. N. J.. July 2 —Four hun
dred "We Have a Garden” window
hangers contributed by the national
war garden commission of Washing
ton are displayed In local homes, Can
nlng operations have begun on a large
scale
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| WASHINGTON. July 2— Secretary
of the Navy Daniel:, lias disclosed tin
I steps which have been taken to expo
dlte the construction of the remain
lug forty-eight naval vessels author
lzed under the three-year naval pro
gram bill, approved two years ago.
DISASTROUS EXPLOSION
LONDON, July 2. An explosion in
a national shell-tilling factory in the
midlands Inst night caused the death
of between sixty and seventy persons.
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FINED FOR SEDITION
Mamas Boss, a foreigner, was ar
rested at Mountain slough, on the
charge of sedition. Ho made dispar
aging rentarks about the American
lted Cross and was fined $25 and
costs by Commissioner A J Adams.
Tin* Associated Press summary of the war situation, issued
last night, says:
“After three days’ struggling, the Italians are still ham
nering at the most powerful and threatening positions of the
enemy. Not only have they gained ground, hut have held it
against desperate counter attacks.
“In France the French have advanced their lines north
of the ('ligdon river again and taken positions along the ridges
east of the Yillers ('otterets forest.
“The British and American fronts are inactive, hut tense
ness is evident, and it is felt that the storm may break soon.”
British Capture Prisoners and Guns
LONDON, duly 2—General Haig reports that fifty prison
ers and nine machine guns were captured in a raid northwest
of Albeit. The number of German prisoners captured in dune
by the British was 1,7.
The Germans, niter a strong bombardment last night, at
tacked northwest of Albert in an attempt to recapture the posi
tions taken by the British Sunday. The Germans gained a
footing in oiie British trench, hut elsewhere were repulsed with
I o > s.
Confirms American Report
PATHS, duly 2.—The Americans, in conjunction with tho
French, captured the village of Vaux and the heights west ot
he village, says an official report. j'
Italians Take Many Prisoners ** •
ROMK, duly 2.—Official reports state that more than two
thousand prisoners were taken by theiUdiaiSH while repulsing
tin* heavy attacks against Monte di Val Bella. H
Disaster Admitted at Vienna
YIKX.NA. duly 2.—The complete evacuation by the Aus
trians of the important positions of Col del Rosso and Monte di
Val Bella are admitted by the war office.
PROGRESSIVE EDUCATORS
IN TOUCH WITH TIMES
rnTSItrur.H. July : The ndop
tiou of wnr-moditied education to
build up a new civilization wan urged
at tin* opening meeting ot the \a
tional Kducational Association here
yesterday by President Marv <\ Brad
ford ot I >en\ et
FALCON JOSLi EXPECTED
TO BE IN KATALLA SOON
Man M Bateman, a mining expert
lor the Alaska Syndicate, is now at
Katalla looking over tin* coal and oil
fields. Falcon .loslin will arrive from
tl.e states, on one of the next boat
with a crew of forty men to devel >r
me old Kimlish (’ompanv coal claim
on Carhon creek, which the eompanv
he and (leorge Hazlet recently organ
i/ed intend to open up. the* full par
ticulars of which wen* published in the
Daily Times several weeks ago
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RAIDERS SIGHTED
PARIS. July LI. Knemy airplanes
crossed the French lines last night,
going in the direction of Paris.
WASHINGTON. July n The Bel
gian steamship Chilier was shelled
and sunk l».v a submarine l.inp miles
off the \thmtif coast on Juno HI A
ailing vessel resent'd twenty ti\e of
her crew.
May Have Been Sunk by Raider
WASHINGTON. July H It t- ho
1 lie\ t»d here that tin* Chilier may have
been sunk by one of the German sub
marines returning home alter the re
cent raids on the Xmorican coast
CHISANA MEN HERE
l» r Thornton and Lee CaUhinu
.lined in town on this afternoon's
train from Chisana. where tin > have
been mining They are both re^i
trantN under the jurisdiction of the
McCarthy board, but ha\e md a^ et
been drafted
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ALASKA DUE TONIGHT
The steamer Alaska is due from the
westward at f»:!?0 o’clock this after
noon and will he* in port until tomor
row loading copper ore
“SELF-DETERMINATION ”
AS APPLIED BY GERMANY
LONDON, July 2.—The (ionium newspapers are publish
ing the principal features of the German solution of the Polish
problem, the conditions of which have been approved bv all
the central powers.
Germany will fix Poland’s frontiers according to military
i/ecessities, say the newspapers. Poland must make favorable
economic concessions to the Teutons for fifty years on the most
favored nation principle. German schools must be established
in Poland where ten German children reside