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Cordova, Alaska
SKI PATROL AS A
PARTY
VIENNA, Jan. 7—(Correspondence
of the Associated Press)—Use of the
skis in this war, previously described
in these dispatches, has been develop
ed on a large scale out in the Carp
a'hians and on the hills and dreary
plains of Qalicia, where thousands
of Austro-Hungarian soldiers -move
about rapidly and noiselessly in this
manner. Their first duty is scouting,
but now and then they are obliged to
fight and fight hard.
While some of the ski organizations
have white uniforms others have to
make use of white blankets to render
; themselves as Invisible as they pos
| sibly can.
A ski patrol's experience of a night
is here related by the officer in charge.
The patrol had left camp in the even
ing, and wrapped in white blankets,
the men were speeding through a
Carpathian forest late at night when
the breaking of twigs cautioned the
officer to order them to cover.
"A second later," he says, “I heard
an alarm signal given by one of my
corporals. I decided to investigate
and with three men proceeded in the
direction whence the signal had come.
Near an ice and snow-covered bram
ble bush one of the patrol signalled
caution and then informed me that
near him on the right there was a
Russian scouting party.
"There was nothing to be seen,
however. Though the moon shone
brightly, the tree trunks, snow-covered
undergrowth and a shower of powder
ed silver sent down by the gently
moving branches of the treeB, hamp
ered the view. So we crept under the
brambles and saw to it that the powd
ered, cold silver entered by our col
lars.
“The ensuing wail was none too
pleasant. We were measuring the
snow with the length of our bodies,
which is not the finest pastime I
know.
“Right ahead of me there was an
open stretch of snow and I had been
watching the filigrees thrown upon It
by the moon as Its beams broke
through the branches of the tall beech
es and oaks, when a long, black
shadow appeared from the right.
“The next Instant three Cossacks
entered the clearing. Their horses
were small and shaggy and white, and
the men seem to hang In the saddles
rather than sit in them. They were
wrapped In thick furs. The bright
moonlight showed they were Asiatics—
broad faces with strong chins, promi
nent cheekbones and long black beards
with the frost clinging to the hair.
"A sign from me and my men were
on their feet—another moment and
the Cossacks were off their horses.
They were a most surprised lot.
Abject terror stood In their eyes and
they had difficulty understanding that
we were no evil spirits of the forest.
"The Cossacks had hardly been
tnken to the rear by one of the men.
when the vigorous tramp of Russian
infantry was heard. Back under the
bramble bush. Twenty yards nway
from us the Rirsslans marched past.”
The writer then recounts how the
ski patrol followed the Russians into
a village. Later in the night he was
able to get in touch with the com
mander of a German contingent, which
occupied a quarry on the other side of
the village. Towards morning he also
discovered how the Russians, who had
taken the village, could pe outflanked.
With dawn everybody was In his place
and fire was opened. The Russians
were forced to retreat in disorder,
leaving behind many killed and wound
ed in addition to prisoners. *
“We are known as the 'white rav
ens,’ ’’ concludes the account.
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STRONG APPEAL
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—
Invincible in the arguments It pre
sents in an effort to bring an end to
conditions that would never be toler
ated if their significance were under
stood by the general public of the
United States an appeal to Congress
has been sent by Seattle's Alaska
steamship companies and Puget. Sound
companies, nsklng that the national
solons provide for a wire drag survey
of Northern waters, the construction
of proper steamships for the coast and
geodetic survey, the charting of Alaska
waterways, the establishment of aids
to navigation and the creation of the
office of supervising inspector for Pu
get Sound and Alaska.
The appeal was sent to Congress
early and is believed to have had
weightwy influence with the House
committee on interstate and foreign
commerce, which has since made a fa
vorable report on the bill to appropri
ate $525,000 for the construction of
modern vessels for the coast and geo
detic survey.
The appeal was drawn up at a con
ference of steamship officials and is
signed by J. C. Ford, president of the
Pacific Coast Steamship Company; by
R. W. Baxter, vice-president of the Al
aske Steamship Company; H. F. Alex
ander, president of the Pacific Alaska
Navigation Company; M. Kalish, vice
president of the Humboldt Steamship
Company; H. C. Bradford, vice-presi
dent of the Northland Steamship Co.
later nbosorbed by the Border Line
Transportation Company; Joshua
Green, president of the Puget Sound
Navigation Company, and W. L. Gaz
zam, president of the Puget Sound
Steamboat Owners' Association, who
also is president of the Kitsap County
Transportation Company.
The document lays stress on the
danger to life and property in Alaska
waters under the present coditions. 1^
points out that in the wreck of the
revenue cutter Tahoma and the light
house ship Amerla on uncharted rocks
In Alaska waters, the government it
self suffered a heavy financial loss.
An expenditure of an amount equal to
the loss, it is Bhown, would have ac
complished much in the proper chart
ing of dangerous channels.
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HAMBURG, Germnny, Jan. 7—(Cor
respondent of the Associated Press) —
Harrowing and exciting details of
mining and blowing up trenches are
are told by a German officer in a letter
to a local newspaper, describing in
particular the capture of a strong po
sition held by the French in the Ar
gonne forest. Many of the French
soldiers were killed and the others
were captured. The Crown Prince
sent blankets and wine to the men who
accomplish this feat. The letter fol
lows:
"Fly the first of December our com
pany had been undor fire for the fifth
time, and the distance between otir
trench and that of the French had de
creased from 520 feet to from nine to
fifteen feet. Flut the company on our
left was separated from the F’rench by
a vale, on the far side of which the
enemy had laid out three line of
trenches.
"We hnd come to consider the posi
tion as 'Impregnable. But progress
had to be made somehow. Our pio
neer detachment, therefore, decided to
mine the French trenches near the
position of our company, which, as
already stated, were only from nine
to fifteen feet away.
“Some of us feared that the French
would be doing tile same thing and
would try to blow us up first. Our
men worked hard for tills reason, and
on December first the mine was ready.
At 10:30 in the morning our first
trench was clenrod of men, and at
10:45 all our trenches were empty.
It was exactly 11:19 when the pio
neer lieutenant placed his thumb on
the electric button. Then followed a
detonation found enogh to herald the
end of the world.
in front of us shot up a large, black
column of earth and gases. It was
fully 600 feet high and when it collaps
ed a rain of earth fell down on us.
Our men had taken cover In the
woods, and It was well that they had
done so. For about two minutes it
rained great chunks of earth and rock.
“When it was safe again in the open
our companies advanced through the
hole which had been blown in the
French position. The first trench
was full of dead soldiers and some
who been burled alive. In the second
and third trenches the French were so
.attled that they surrendered easily.
Inside of half an hour we had taken
the entire force of the three trenches—
eight officers and 378 men. Two offi
cers were among the dead.
“We also took three mine-catapults
front the French. Our losses were
three dead and seven wounded. But
we were lucky, indeed. Among the
French prisoners we took were some
pioneers, who told us that they had
mined our trenches at eight points,
but had not been able so far to place
the mines. They had attempted too
much and had lost.
“This is one of the biggest events
m the Argonne forest fighting. When
the Crown Prince heard of it, he sent
200 blanketB and to each a liter of
wine." ,
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NO WIRELESS MESSAGES
HIE RECEIVED ON UNO
GENEVA, Jan. 7 -(Correspondence
of the Associated Press)—A Swiss
officer who spends most of the year
in an Alpine fortress sayH that wire
less telegraphy Is not being employed
on land.
“In peace” he says, "we are con
stantly receiving wirless messages in
the Alps, from liners In the Atlantic,
and at the beginning of the war we
received (involuntairy) many military
messages in cipher, both from Ger
many and France. But they have
stopped. The armies have found that
wireless mesages are too dangerous
and they have been replaced by the
field telephone at the front.”
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