The Cordova Daily Times
VOLUME IIII. NUMBER48._ CORDOVA, ALASKA, TUESDAY, ,\I (il ST -js, i:»i7. PRICE TEN CENTS
RUSSIAN ARMY BADLY DEMORALIZED
SOLDIERS KEPT OR FIRING LINE THRU THREATS
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* MOSCOW, Aug. 28.—Korniloff told the national ♦
* confeernec that the Russian army was disorganized and •
* insubordinate. In the present movement the soldiers had *
* killed four regimental commanders and other officers ♦
* and ceased their outrages only when threatened with be- *
* ing shot. Recently a regiment of Siberian rifles, which *
* fought splendidly at the beginning of the war, aban- *
* doned positions on the Riga front and returned when ex- *
* termination was threatened. The conference lionized *
* Korniloff. ♦
* In reviewing the conditions in Russia Korniloff told ♦
* the conference that the railroads were in such bad shape *
* that the army would not receive any supplies after No- ♦
* vember 1. He quoted a telegram from the commander in ♦
* chief on the southwestern front, saying the shortage of ♦
* bread and biscuits amounted to almost a famine; that ♦
* the production of war materials had decreased sixty per ♦
* cent for guns and shells and eighty per cent for aero- *
* planes, compared with the period from last October to ♦
* January. ♦
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CHINA WILLING TO FURNISH TROOPS
PEKING, Aug. 28.—The generals commanding 50,000
troops in Van Nan, Kweichow and Kwangtung provinces have
offered forces for service from each.
FORCED AUSTRIAN INFANTRY OUT TRENCHES
PETROGRAI), Aug. 28.—An Austrian infantry left the
trenches before an enemy attack in Royany region, and is retir
ing eastward.
WILL NOT TAX LETTERS AND POSTCARDS
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.—The senate by a vote of JO to
20 struck out the provision in the war tax bill levying a one
cent tax on letters and postcards, designed to raise $50,000,000
in revenue. The provision giving American soldiers abroad the
privilege of mailing letters was retained.
FIERCE FIGHTING ON VERDUN FRONT
REREIN, Aug. 28.—The Germans were forced from Beau
mont, on the Verdun front, in Sunday’s fighting, but subse
quently recaptured the village and wooded sections. The fight
ing continues in that sector.
ITALIANS OVERCOME AUSTRIAN RESISTANCE
ROME, Aug. 28.—A desperate battle is progressing at
Bainsizha plateau, on a front north of Gorizia, where the Aus
trian resistance was overcome at various points.
AMERICA TO STAND BY RUSSIA
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.—President Wilson has sent to
the members of the national council at Moscow assurances that
the American government is willing to extend every material
and moral assistance to Russia.
SOON REPLY TO POPE’S PEACE PROPOSAL
W ASHINGTON, Aug. 28.—Secretary of State Lansing
says a reply to Pope Benedict’s peace proposal will be made
soon. The indications are that the entente powers are waiting
for the United States to make the first reply.
FIRST AMERICAN NAVAL AVIATOR KILLED
W ASHINGTON, Aug. 28.—The first death of an American
naval flier on the French front has been reported. George
Manley, a machinist’s mate, was killed in an aeroplane acci
dent. He enlisted from New Jersey.
AUSTRIAN TROOPS FORCED TO RETIRE
AMSTERDAM, Ang. 28.—Austrian headquarters report
the retirement of Austrian troops, which were fighting north of
Gorizia, on the Isonzo front.
TO STANDARDIZE SUB DESTROYERS
W ASHINGTON, Aug. 28.—Navy designers are preparing
plans for a standardized destroyer to facilitate the quantity
product on the most successful weapon against submarines.
Parts of engines will be assembled from various factories at
central plants and forwarded to ship yards. The building of
hulls for new destroyers will be delivered rapidly, beginning
next year.
RECEIVER
(Special to the Times)
FAIRBANKS, Aug. 28. — The Am
erican Bank of Alaska has boon de
clared insolvent by W. Ci. Smith, ter
ritorial examiner, A. Bruiting, former
cashier, has been named as receiver.
The bank can pay twenty per cent on
deposits of $150,000 immediately, and
forty-five per cent in the near future.
It will eventually pay about ninety
■per cent.
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♦ JEFFERSON WILL RETURN ♦
♦ TO SEATTLE FOR REPAIRS. ♦
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♦ SEATTLE. Aug. 28. — The ♦
♦ steamer Jefferson is anchored in ♦
♦ Swanson bay, and it is believed ♦
♦ she will return to Seattle for re ♦
♦ pairs. The Northwestern took ♦
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(By United Press)
PARIS, Aug. 28. — Paris as one of
the world’s great seaports of the fu
ture is today more than an idle dream.
Ever since the seventeenth century
the idea of a seaport Paris has been
occasionally discussed by learned
Frenchmen and approved as highly ad
visable. But it has taken the big war
to develop the plan so that today it is
a potent possibility. The war has de
manded the absolute necessity of pro
viding Paris with a navigable water
way direct to the sea, so that ocean
going ships might bring their cargoes
into dock at the French metropolis
The Paris seaport scheme has
been handed down from generation to
generation, with additions and modi
fications on paper. Then came the
great floods of 1910, when whole quar
ters of paris were inundated and traf
fic was suspended for days. It was
then definitely decided that a canal
system must be built to relieve the
main stream in case of new floods and
the idea of widening and deepening
the Seine was also considered.
Today the prefect of the Seine has
issued circulars to the municipal au
thorities, outlining a definite and new
scheme for rendering the Seine navi
gable for big shipping from Paris to
Rouen and proposing that port be
built at Gennevilliers, outside of Paris,
with easy access to the capital.
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SCORES OF SUNDAY'S GAMES
IN AMERICAN LEAGUE.
The Sunday ball games resulted as
follows: American League: New
York 3, Chicago 8; Washington 1,
Cleveland 2; Boston 6, Detroit 3;
Philadelphia 5, St. Louis 6; Philadel
phia 5, St. Louis 9.
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SCHOONER CHARLES WILSON
RETURNS FROM BERING SEA.
(By Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Aug. 28. — The Charles
Wilson, first Bering sea codfishing
schooner to arrive from the north,
reached here last night.
STARVATION FACED BY
THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN.
(By Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Aug. 28. — Fifty thou
sand small children are roported in
danger of starvation at Lebanon.
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The Boy Scouts of Cordova, at their
regular meeting last night, decided to
give an entertainment next Monday
evening at their headquarters in the
Red Dragon Club House, and show
what they are able to do in the way of
first aid, camping, signaling, cooking
and some other qualifications which
are necessary to become a first class
scout. Parents and friends are re
quested to reserve next Monday even
ing for this occasion, which is to cele
brate the first anniversary of the lo
cal organization.
VESSEL IS USED
HOTEL
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, Aug.
28. — Vacations may be enjoyed in
Holland on board a liner without the
present-day perils. The privilege is
conferred by the use of a floating ho
tel of the 12,000 ton steaniBhlp Jar
Pieterszoon Coen, one of the Nether
land Steamship Company's colonia
liners. In normal times this ship rum
between here and the Dutch East In
dies, but since the unrestricted sub
marine war, her owners have laid hei
up for safety in Amsterdam harbor.
The steamer was anchored at an at
tractive spot on the North sea canal
between Velsen and Ymuiden, am
opened as a hotel. Remunerative put
ronage was easily secured, at price!
according with those of first clas!
hotels at Holland's seaside resorts
and there was a big run on this inno
vation in European holiday facilities.
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(By Unital,Prpsg)
WITH THE BRI^II ARMIES IN
THE FIELD, Aug, y* - (Ry Mall<)_
Sooner or later t,bn», capital of
France's "Black Country" or coal belt
will fall before the- ever- tfghtenfnp
pressure put upon ff by Sir Douglas
Haig. When this dap comes America
can render France and her allies ni>
greater service than jio send tmmcdl
ately to this region tie exports necos
sary to put the coat miner, in ordei
Jn the shortest possible time.
For three years France has been do
prived of the richest coal deposit!
she possesses. In the Loire, Bur gun
dy Nivernais. Hard, Blanzvw. d; \.ubln
Decazevllle and Cahnaux, it is true
there are coal mines, but these are not
to he compared with those In the nor
them part of the country around Lens
This deposit runs from easi to west
from Belgium to Flechinelle in France
and since the German occupation it li
only the extreme western end of it
which the French have been able t<
work. And this is the hardest t<
work, being deep beffiw the surface
Whereas in Belgium,the coal is prac
tlcallv on top of tlv ground, at An
zin it is 120 feet deep and deeper the
further west it runs. Douat It h
480 feet deep, at Fiecbinville almut
1800 feet. The vela of coal from thi
Belgi in frontier FI. hl^e is atioui
6! rut!long b.v^rt, (#rffS wide 'ftlb
to the war, of the thirty-nine millions
of tons extracted from French soil
three fifths came from here, or about
25,000,000 tons. Even with this
France has always been compelled ti
buy from the outside almost as mucl
coal again as she produced, half o
which came trom lieigium — Trom thi
country around Mons, Charleroi am
Liege, seized by Germany as her ven
first act of war.
It Is this country around Lens am'
behind Lens to the east, which tli
Prussian war lords are defending re
gardless of the cost in German lives
And here it is that British pressuti
is growing ever stronger. Every blov
struck this summer has yielded a nr'
gain in the direction of these coa
fields and a retirement anywhere fron
Arras to the sea would be more in
jurious to Germany from an economi
cal point of view than at any othe
part of the western front. Fightin"
in this country is extremely difficult
On the sea, where British Tommie
have recently made their appearance
there are sand dunes which make
trenches almost impossible. Fightin
there is like fighting in the heart of
the Sahara desert. Further soul'
along the line is water, water every
where, spreud out over the flat coun
try. Everybody knows what the coun
try about Ypres is like, and around
Messlnes ridge, while below that
conies Labasae and Lens, with the!
mountains of slag and cinders, callc
"Crassiers,” rising nearly 200 feet ove
the level country around about; amt
the "fosses," or mines, with mining
buildings cluttered about them, al1
affording the best possible obstacles
from the defender's viewpoint, hiding
field guns, howitzers and especially
machine guns.
Such Is the country over which thi
British are now fighting, if the Ger
mans are beaten back out of the coa'
country they will do as they hav'o done
already at Lens: Destroy the mines
by blowing them up or flooding them
or both. But American miners an
said to be the best to bo had and cor
tainly the United States can do no bet
ter than to send hundreds of their
over here to reclaim the ruins, foi
even !f the Prussians do their wort
so completely as to ronder the mines
useless for the remainder of the war
reconstruction of France and Relgiun
will depend largely on fuel supply.
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Word comes from Vancouver, of thi
death of Alexander McGuire, for yean
a member of the Dawson fire depart
ment. He died at Salmon Arm, abou
60 miles above Vancouver, where hi
had been working.
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I J. F. Gilbert, of the const and geo
detic survey, is on route to the west
i ward to continue the coast survo
i along the southwest coast, and It I
. expected will bring the U. s. steame
Yukon to Seward this fall, where sh
will probably be wintered.
NIT HIT
(By United I’ress)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 27. — If you
have pictured President Wilson care
worn, haggard and breaking under the
strain of his tremendous war problems
change the portrait. It is way wrong
On one of his unannounced strolls
front the White House to Secretary
Baker’s office in the state, war and
navy building, he gave press men an
opportunity for a good close-up of
Woodrow Wilson in war mood.
Swinging out from Baker’s room
and down the tiled corridor, the pre
sident mad more the manner of a man
who had just concluded a pleasant
chat with an old crony about nothing
in particular, than of a nation's leader
who had just discussed a vital world
problem whose solution he must find
Clad in snowy linen coat and trous
ers, a flat-topped, broad brimmed
straw hat set squarely on his head,
the president moved at a brisk pace
toward the sairwav. There was
spring in his step. His smile was gen
ial, his cheeks ruddy with the glow
of health.
Realizing the vital Importance of
keeping himself fit, the president is
exceedingly careful to play with his
w'ork. Early every morning, long be
foro most Washingtonians are so
much as turning over for their pre
getting up nap. the president is out
In his knuickerbockers and off around
the golf course. Mrs. Wilson usually
accompanies him. A couple of hours
later they may be seen rolling Into
tho White House grounds in one of
the big cars with the gold spread
eagles in a circle on the door panels.
Golf, walking and other mild forms
of exercise take care of the president's
physical health. For mental diversion
and rest he turns from the problems
of war to intricate, complex and quite
thrilling detective stories. Mose of his
newspaper reading is done for him by
Secretary Tumulty. Thousands of pa
pers from all over tho country are
carefully gone over for news of in
terest to the White House, and what
ever is deemed sufficiently important
to bring to tho president's personal
attention he gets in the form of pasted
. up clippings at the proper time. He
. has cares and worries and burdens
r galore, has the president, but he isn’t
, breaking down under them.
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>' Everything In furniture and house
i hold goods. JuBt call on Lambert. tf
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The Rockefeller foundation has
erected a model war base hospital In
which American doctors will be train
ed in the surgery used on the Imttle
front In France. The hospital will be
in charge of Hr. Alexis Carrel the fu
moils surgeon, who recently returned
from the French front, where by new
methods he was able to save many
lives and limbs.
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LONDON. Aug. 28. — They used to
say that the fastest thing on the B.
i & O. was the Royal Blue Limited.
, They were wrong. The fastest thing
on the It. & O. was a young hired
j hand named Eric Geddes. Naturally
it wasn't known then, but the appoint
ment of Vice-Admiral Sir Eric Geddes
—the same young hired hand and not
a whole lot older — to be ruler of the
navy that rules the wave ought to
prove it.
If the new first lord of the British
admiralty had a middle name it would
be speed. If he accomplishes the same
results in the admiralty that he has
accomplished in other branches of the
government, this much is certain:
British naval officers Will cease to
marvel at the hustle of the American
navy; they will be too busy speeding
up their owu.
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Five men aboard the gas boat Mo
tenon, sailing from Juneau, recently
averaged $17.70 per day for ten days'
halibut fishing.
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Something new Pyrex Fleplates.
Northwestern Hardware Co.
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♦ BANDITS KILL TWO PAYMASTERS AND ♦
ESCAPE IN AUTOS WITH $8,000 ♦
t IIH’AtiO, Aug. 28.—Two men carrying $8,000, the ♦
I* payroll tor Winslow Brothers’ iron works, were shot *
■ and killed in front of the plant by live bandits, who es ♦
♦ caped with the money in automobiles. ♦
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GREEK STEAMSHIP SUNK BY SUBMARINE
A 1 LAN I K l’OH T, Aug. 28.—The Greek steamship Nea
ellns, of .5,500 tons, bound for Italy with grain, was sunk by
gun fire from a German submarine, in the Mediterranean sea
■ II Julie !>■ The crew was landed at Salonki.
CANADIAN CASUALTIES FOR LAST WEEK
I’AWA, Aug. 28. -It is officially announced that the
Canadian casualty lists total a thousand for the week-end, the
< aiiadians bearing the brunt of the fighting at Lens.
TEUTONS OCCUPY RUSSIAN TRENCHES
I LI ROGRAD, Aug. 28.—A Russian retirement was occa
sioned by the beginning of a Teuton offensive* in the region east
ol ( zernowitz. 1 lie Russians retreated without waiting for an
attack on their trenches, which the* I’eutons have occupied.
ITALIANS CONTINUE THEIR ADVANCE
ROM hi, Aug. 28.—’1 In* Italians have progressed further on
Baiusizza plateau, north of Gorizin.
CUTTING DOWN THEIR BREAD RATIONS
HAGUE, Aug. 28.- Beginning September 1, the bread rn
lions in the NcUterlantl- will be mlucedJtunJLol 1 to 25L grams j
laily, and the furnishing of bread with hotel and restaurant
iishes is forbidden.
STEAMER SIS
TRIP
(By Associated Press)
SEATTLE. Aug. 28. — The steamer
Northwestern sailed yesterday morn
ng at 1) o'clock. Her Cordova pas
tengers from here were Mrs. w. H
'hase, Mrs. (J. \V. Edgecomb, Mrs. J.
I. Fraisure, Florence Fraisure, Ellen
Fraisure. Francis Fraisure. Fannie
llrayton, H. J. O'Neill and S. Cohen
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► 696 ALASKANS WILL BE ♦
► DRAFTED FOR SERVICE. ♦
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► SAN FRAN< ISCO ' ♦
¥ li has been definitely dei Ided ♦
¥ that Alatka will • nd 1 9 men to ♦
► the American lake cantonment at ♦
► Tacoma +
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(By United Press)
WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES.
A»g.'25 Amiatiiite trOops. "tile BltTe
brown men." of Prance's colonies in
Indo-China. have just had their bap
t ism of fire on the western front.
The Annamites are the smallest
men participating in the European
conflict, yet they have acquitted them
selves in the fighting manner that
gives them rank alongside with the
troops of greater physical endowment.
The Annamite battalions are com
posed entirely of volunteers Their
first public appearance was on July
14. 1916. the French national holiday,
when along with the Russians. Cana
dians. English. Belgian and Australian
troops, they participated in the mili
tary parade at Paris.
Almost without exception they are
students from the French schools, col
leges and universities in Indo-China.
The announcement there early in l'Jlfi
that volunteer battalions would be
formed for service in France, result
ed almost in the depletion of the
French educational institutions. The
students enlisted almost to a man.
In the battalion n w serving in
France are Annamite. with the rank
of count, with the rank of mandarin
of the first, second and third classes,
and with various other distinctions of
cast and nobility. Amongst them
selves all the courtesies to which
these ranks give title are scrupulously
observed. But when the battalions
are formed for fighting or other ser
vice on the French front, the counts
and mandarins become merely the
private soldiers that they temporarily
are. and the brothers of all the rest.
When the Annamites were first
brought to France there was no idea
of using them as fighting troops Their
small stature seemed to preclude that
They were drilled and employed in all
of the various services of the rear,
such as convoy chauffeurs, road build
ers, forestation work and similar oc
cupations. Their constant proximity
to the front, however, soon aroused in
them an ardent desire to participate
in the fighting, and now after a little
more than a year of faithful service iu
the auxiliary service .of the French
army they have been given their
chance to establish Iheir right to he
in the fighting ranks. Their place
there, too, seems to have been perma
nently won.
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JAPANESE WAR PROSPERITY.
(By United Press)
TOKIO. Aug. 28 — Japan’s war pros
perity has boomed so and her increase
in specie holdings become so great
that prices are at least 35 per cent
higher than before the war. Purchas
ing power has been placed in the
hands of many hitherto poor individu
als, but production has not kept pace
with this tendency.
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W. G. Atwood, formerly a resident
engineer on the Alaska Northern un
der the old regime, is now a major
of engineers with the American army
in France.
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