GERMANY CLAIM!
DEATH AWAITS
DESERTERS
(By United Press)
WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES
May in.—(By Mail.)—One of the “im
perative military necessities” for the
incredible devastation and destruction
being wrought by the Germans along
the pathway of their retreat in France
is to convince the German soldiers
themselves that if they either desert
or surrender to the French they will
be Instantly shot in reprisal.
German soldiers now being taken
prisoners by the French along the
entire front between the Aisne and
Saint Quentin declare, without excep
tion to their captors, that they realize
they are going to be shot and are
quite prepared for it.
While the Germans manifestly have
various aims in view in their system
atic policy of reducing every inch of
French soil occupied by them to
wasteless desert, the French military
authorities have been able to establish
definitely from the German prisoners
captured (hat not the least of these
objects is to inject the morale of des
peration into the German army.
The latter are told not only that
they will be instantly killed if they
fall into the hands of the French, but
that unless they fight to the death in
an effort to keep the allied troops
from reaching German soil their own
homes, farms and villages will quite
naturally suffer the same fate by way
of reprisal that they have inflicted
on the homes, farms and villages of
France.
The need of desperate measures on
the part of the German military au
thorities to keep their troops from
surrendering on every possible occa
sion haB for a long time past been
fully established. One of the most
striking evidences of this were the
orders of Hindenburg himself, issued
after the French attocks at Verdun
last November and December. The
prisoners in these two affairs alone
totalled nearly 20,000.
Hindenburg in his orders to his gen
erals, copies of which have since fal
len into the hands of the French,
scathed in merciless terms the last
of morale on the part of the German
troops which permitted them to sur
render by thousands without the
slightest resistance. Imperative or
ders that all responsible officers take
immediate steps to overcome this con
dition were given.
Since then, however, this tendency
of the Germans to surrender on every
possible occasion has increased so
steadily, that Hindenburg himself has
been forced to take heroic measures
to overcome it.
German soldiers now being taken
prisoners, as well as other sources,
confirm the fact that it was Hinden
burg who conceived the idea of the
wholesale devastation of all territory
which the Germans are forced to aban
don. It is under his orders that all
German regiments now falling back
on the western front have regularly
appointed crews, whose sole business
it is to destroy all property and to
leave every inch of the ground that
goes back into the hands of the French
a veritable desert.
These same sources confirm like
wise that one of Hindenburg’s prin
cipal objects in this is to place the
entire German army now on the west
front in a position where it will real
ize that it is better to die fighting than
to surrender, and where it will realize
that only fighting to the last will save
their own homes from the same fate
they have inflicted on France.
IAUTOCRACf DEAD
FOREVER IN
RUSSIA
(By United Press)
NEW YORK, May 30. — Predicting
that a republic of peace will rise in
Russia after the war, Premiem Lvoff,
of the provisional government, has
sent a message to the American peo
ple, through Isaac P. Marcosson, rep
resentative of Everybody's Magazine.
“The newest of democracies greets
America with peculiar fervor, because
it feels that the American people can
readily understand what the great
Russian revolution means,” said
Lvoff. "Autocracy in Russia is dead
forever. In its stead will soon rise
a Republic of Peace.
“We wish America to realize thor
oughly that there can be but one re
sult of the great upheaval, and that
result a real democracy modeled along
the lines of the American republic, cre
ating a government by and for the
whole people. It will mean justice
and opportunity to everybody.
“The name Russia once meant dark
nes sand oppression. It will now mean
light and freedom. The New Russia
will be the frankest and moHt liberal
of republics. In New Russia the Jew
and Gentile are brothers.
“We want America to know that
Russia will continue the war to
a peace dictated by allied victory. The
revolution, which wiped out pro-Ger
man conspiracies against national life
insures the result. Only on com
plete victory can our Republic of
Peace be reared.
“In that struggle we are proud to
have American as an ally. Russia
looks to America for fresh bonds and
new and lasting commercial democrat
ic kinship.”
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MEXICAN PRODUCTS TO BE
MARKETED IN THE U. S.
(By Associated Press)
EL PASO, May 30. — Mexican con
suls and consular agents in the United
States will co-operate with the gover
nors of Mexican states in finding and
promoting markets for Mexican pro
ducts in the United States. This is
the plan of Andres Garcia, inspector
general of Mexican consulates in the
United States.
The plan is to have the Mexican
consular representatives in the United
States obtain from manufacturers and
from government departments the
needs of American industries and pro
vide lists of them to the governors
of the various states, who will send
copies of them to the producers of the
products needed in the United States.
Mexico produces much rubber, fibre,
cotton, wool, food products and native
woods,
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MANY GARDENS PLANTED
IN SAN FRANCISCO.
(By Associated Press)
SAN FRANCISCO, May 30. — The
model gardens are planned by the
council of defense of San Francisco
city and county as educational farms,
after which amateur gardeners should
pattern their back yards. The first
of these “farms” was planted May
17, with brass bands playing and much
speech making and ceremony.
The importance of universal garden
ing was impressed upon the public
in an address by Mayor James Rolph,
Jr.. Judge Thomas F. Graham, chair
man of the council of defence, and
John McLaren, chief horticulturist of
the Panama-Pacific Exposition in 1915,
who will have personal charge of the
project of the thirty model gardens.
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O. E. Lambert has rented the ground
floor of the building occupied by H.
I. O'Neill, opposite Game’s tailor shop,
where he will open a second-hand
store.
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Printing and developing. Mrs. Paul
Beran. Phone 73-3 rings.
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STOCKING THE STREAMS
WITH SALMON FRY.
(By Associated Press)
LEADVILLE, Col., May 30. — Appli
cations for fish fry made to govern
ment officers, many of which will be
filled from the federal hatchery here,
indicate that sportsmen of Colorado.
Wyoming, South Dakota and other
northern and mountain states are not
only maintaining present waters, but
extending them.
Applications for fry so far are said
to request a total of more than 3,000,
000. More than 2.000,000 fry, it is
expected, will be taken from the local
hatchery. Others will go from that
at Spearfish, S. D„ and the one at
Saratoga, Wyo.
Stocking operations in Montana in
clude the placing of quintet salmon
and other fry in the landlocked lakes
of the state, the streams of eastern
Montana generally and the Milk river.
Practically all the fry to be placed
are those of food fish.
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FIGURE IT FOR YOURSELF.
(By Associated Press)
BOZEMAN, Mont., May 30. — It
takes on the average about one hour
and five minutes of one man's time to
produce enough wheat for a year’s
supply for one person at the average
rate of consumption, according to H.
E. Murdock, agricultural engineer of
the Montana State College.
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Sam Shueklin arrived in town on
yesterday's train from Shushanna, hav
ing decided to quit that country and
go to Talkeetna, along the line of the
government railroad.
I IN THE PROBATE COURT FOR THE
TERRITORY OF ALASKA, THIRD
DIVISION, CORDOVA PRECINCT,
AT CORDOVA.
No. 101.
Notice of Sale of Real Property.
In the matter of the estate of John
LaBranz.
An order having been duly entered
this 26th day of May, 1917, by A. J.
Adams. Judge of the above named
probate court, authorizing the sale of
real estate of the above entitled estate
for the payment of debts, notice is
hereby given that that certain real
property in the town of Cordova, Alas
ka, consisting of one lot and desig
nated as Lot No. 12, of Block 13. in
the town of Cordova, Alaska, will be
sold at public auction by the under
signed administrator of the above en
titled estate, on the premises, on June
30, 1917, at 10 o’clock a. m„ to the
highest bidder for cash.
Dated this 26th day of May, 1917.
J. D. MacCORMAC,
Administrator of the Estate of John
LaBranz, Deceased.
First publication, May 29, 1917.
Last publication, June 26, 1917.
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Real Old German Lager
A Refreshing Drink
The Valdez Brewing Co.
Under New Management
Patronize Home Industry
On Tap In Every Saloon
Cordova Mill & Lumber Co.
LONG AND SHORT MILL WOOD FOR SALE
Manufacturers and Dealers in Rough and
Dressed Lumber.
Also Outside Lumber
We Have Succeeded the Arctic Lumber Company and
All Mail Orders Should be Addressed to Us.
Oulers From up the Line Office and Mill Opposite
Promptly Attended to. Railroad Depot. Phone 5
Copper River
& Northwestern Ry.
FOUR TRAINS WEEKLY BETWEEN
CHITINA AND KENNECOTT
Leave Cordova, Second Street Depot, on Mon
days, Thursdays and Saturdays.
Leave Chitina for Cordova Sundays, Tuesdays
days, Thursdays and Fridays.
Leave Chitina for Kennecott Sundays, Tues
days and Fridays.
Leave Kennecott for Chitina Mondays, Wednes
days, Thursdays and Saturdays.
The above schedule subject to change with
out notice.
Dining Car in Connection With all Regular
Passenger Trains Between Cordova and Chitina.
Freight received and delivered at Cordova
Wharf from 9 a. m. to o p. m., except Sundays.
Tickets on sale at Second Street Depot
office, one hour before departure of trains.
CALEB CORSER, W. E. BROWN,
Superintendent. Agt. Cordova Wharf
R. K. BROWN, Jr., Ticket Agent.
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