CELEBRATE LIBERTY DAY RIGHT—BUY A BOND
THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
VOLUME ONE member of associated press nenana, alaska, Saturday, October 12, 191s. whole number i6i
HUN NEARS BRINK OF DISASTER
ALLIES PUSHING FORWARD STEADILY
OCEAN COLLISION FATAL TO MANY AMERICANS
CAPTURE OF DOUAI
EXPECTED HOURLY
WITH THE AMERICANS.—The
American troops continued their at
tacks this morning in the region
to the northwest of Verdun, where
the Germans are bitterly opposing
the advance of our troops. In spite
of the strong opposition, our troops
are progressing favorably.
AMERICANS CLOSING IN
PARIS.—According to reports re
ceived from the battlefront , the
Americans are closing on Dun Sur
Meuse ,their left wing being only
five miles from the important town
of Buzancy.
Important Event* to Follow
The Paris Echo Defense says that
very important events, which will
change the entire face of things,
may be expected to transpire on the
American front.
HUNS NEAR DISASTER
PARIS.—Today finds Germany
nearer the brink of disaster than
ever before since the commencement
of hostilities. Marshal Foch’s broom
on the Champagne sector has swept
the enemy back on a wider section
of the battlefront than ever before.
General Ludendorff is now reaping
the results of his cardinal error in
supposing that the Allied offensives
will be spaced at as wide intervals
as his own were spaced.
!
I EVACUATION OF BELGIUM
—
It is now believed that the Ger
mans first ordered the evacuation
of the Belgian coast and afterwards
countermanded the order.
SUMMARY
Associated Press Summary.—The
Germans have paused in their head
long flight before the British and
American forces advancing from the
I Cambrai-St. Quentin line and are
I attempting to make a stand along
! the Selle river, where they are dig
ging in. The combined British and
America advance has been halted
for the moment. The British forces
are expected to take the city of
Douai, which they are attacking
strongly. The fall of this city is
momentarily expected. The French
and American troops have advanced
i to a depth of fifteen miles on the
j Champagne front during the past
j fortnight.
PRINTER MAKES
VERY BAO BREAK
S. J. Boone, A Printer, Starts
Towards President, Who Was
Leading Liberty Parade.
As President Wilson, at the head
of the division leading the Liberty
Day parade, passed Fifty-Fifth
Street. S. J. Boone, a printer, broke
from the line guarded by the police
and started towards the President.
He was promptly seized by the
officers before he had gone very
far and speeded away from the
wrath of the angered crowds, in
an auto and landed in jail. A loaded
revolver was found in the street
close to the point where Boone was
arrested and it is thought to have
dropped out of Boone’s pocket.
When questioned in the jail re
garding his extraordinary action,
Boone said he had no harmful in
tention, but that he merely wished
to shake hands with the President.
When Boone was arrested the an
gry crowd surged towards him and
they were held back with difficulty
by the police and secret service men.
The President was absolutely un
disturbed by the incident and smil
ingly continued on his way at the
head of the parade. The incident
didn’t even halt him.
Emil Ulset of Douglas, was ar
rested recently for alleged drunk
and disorderly conduct and for using
obscene and profane language. He
was fined $25 and cost for being in
toxicated and $10 andrcost for using
profane language on the streets.
GRIGSBY COMING
JO HELP SULZER
IN THE INTERIOR
Advices received from Fairbanks
this afternoon state that Territorial
Attorney General Griggsby is on his
way to Fairbanks on a Sheldon-Gib
son auto, and is expected to ar
rive about 4 o’clock this afternoon.
Mr. Griggsby is touring the In
terior in the interests of Charles A.
Sulzer, the Democratic candidate for
delegate to Congress from Alaska.
He will probably speak at Fair
banks tomorrow, and will then visit
Nenana and other towns and settle
ments along the river before re
turning to Juneau, his headquarters.
GRADING COMPLETED;
MEN COME TO TOWN
Frank E. Frazier, who was award
ed a grading contract on a section
of the D line from station D-18540
to station D-18570, a distance of
3000 feet, has completed his contract
and arrived in town with his men
for a settlement.'
Mr Frazier is an experienced rail
road man and had been, for some
time, general foreman in charge of
the works around old Camp 9 (20
mile) during the time the various
flood protection works were in prog
ress. He contemplates taking an
other contract if possible.
Theodore Johnson, formerly of
Peoples store, Fairbanks, is a city
visitor. He will probably return
to the upper town on either the
Tanana or the Reliance.
MEASURE MEN
10 KEEP ALASKA
IN GOOD HEALTH
SEATTLE—Steamship officials of
the companies operating boats run
ning to Alaska are examining all
passengers for the North very care
fully and will refuse passage to any
that show signs of any infection
from the influenza epidemic.
The precautionary measures were
taken by the steamship companies
at the urgent request of Governor
Riggs, who is endeavoring to stop
the spread of" the disease to the
Northland.
I
TRAVELERS SAY
REPORTS INSIST
KfflTOTTERS
ZURICH, Switzerland.—Travel
ers arriving in this city state that i
the rumors regarding the abdication
of the German throne by the kaiser
are steadily growing and think that
there is some truth to it.
They al»o say that the crown
prince of Germany, who will suc
ceed the kaiser in the event of his
abdication, is very unpopular among
the German people.
HUN REPLY COMING;
NO SURRENDER YET
PARIS.—All reports received thus
far, from German sources, would
indicate that Germany’s answer to
the demand for the evacuation by
them of the occupied and invaded
territory will be met by a counter
demand that all of the German
colonies now in the hands of the
Allies be also evacuated by them.
This demand by the Teutons will,
it is said, also include the evacuation
by the Allies of captured Turkish
territory.
It is very apparent that the Ger
mans are making great haste to
make it appear that their govern
ment has reached a democratic state.
WARNING SOUNDED
WASHINGTON, D. C.—It is offi
cially announced that the public
should be warned against believing
that Germany is about to bring the
war to a close by an unconditional
surrender.
THE GERMAN ATTITUDE .
BASEL, Switzerland—The Frank
fort Gazette says that Germany’s'
answer to President Wilson’s note, I
in principle, has been completed and j
that it will probably be forwarded
on Friday night. The Frankfort
Gazette believes that the German
answer expresses the intention of
the German government to adhere
to the demands laid down by the
President.
COPENHAGEN, Den.—The Nord |
Deutscher Zeitung understands that \
the answer made by Germany to'
President Wilson’s reply to the Ger-!
man peace ‘proffer will have far- j
reaching affects; and expresses the
hope that the discussions to be
entered into between the German
government and President Wilson
will bring a durable peace.
'I
—
BERNE, Switzerland.—-'A Wolff
News Bureau despatch received in
this city today says that Germany’s
answer to President Wilson can be
taken to mean, in one sense, an
acceptance of the terms laid down
j by the President.
Country’* Chief Executive Leads
Vast Throng In Parade Amid
Patriotic Demonstration.
NEW YORK.—President Wilson
marched at the head of an American
army division today in the great
Libery Day parade amid scenes of
patriotic enthusiasm and cheers from
countless throats.
The President led the division
down Fifth Avenue to the altar of
Liberty at Madison Square.
Word has been received in Juneau
that Arthur Fairchild has brought
down his fitfh airplane in France
and has been declared an ace. Fair
child is a Juneau boy, formerly em
ployed as bookkeeper in the Ray
mond Company store and later by
the Juneau Cold Storage company.,
EAR1HQUAKE HITS
WESTERN HANDS
HAVANA, Cuba.—According to
a report received in this city today,
widespread damage has been done
by an earthquake which shook Porto
Rico, and many fine buildings in the
principal cities of the island are
reported to have been destroyed.
HAWAIIAN PROFESSOR
IS STUDYING RUINS
HONOLULU, — Dr. MacMillian
Brown, of Christ church, chancellor
of the University of New Zealand,
and widely known as an authority
of Polynesian history, is making an
exhaustive study of the great temp
les and ruins on the island of Ha
waii, and reports several discoveries
of importance, tending to connect
the history of the native Hawaiians i
with the Samcans and early *Maoris.
The Hawaiian ruins are very ex
tensive. ]
VESSELS COLLIDE;
SOLDIERS PERISH
IRISH PORT.—Another great]
maritime disaster is reported to have
occurred when the armed British
merchant erusier Otranto collided
with the British troop transport
Kashmir last Sunday, in the North
Channel, between Scotland and Ire
land, with the loss of over three
hundred and fifty American troops,
who were on board the merchant,
cruiser .
A heavy storm was raging, ac
companied by a dense fog, when the
troop transport Kashmir crashed in
to the merchant cruiser Otranto.
Both vessels were proceeding at a
moderate rate of speed, owing to
the dense fog, and the usual signals
as required by the regulations were
sounded from time to time. It is
t'hought that the course each vessel
was steering, by the compass, and
guided by the warning signals, would
have taken them clear by each other
ordinarily; but the leeway made by
the boats in the heavy storm could
not possibly have been accurately
gauged, and the collision was the
result.
The wireless signals sent out by
both vessels were promtply respond
ed to by the British destroyer Moun
sey, which gallantly came as close
as she dared alongside the injured
Otranto and invited the men on the
sinking merchant cruiser to jump
on board the destroyer, but the offer
was declined, owing to the heavy
seas running. The Mounsey stood
by gallantly to the last and rescued
many who were thrown into the
water after the collision.
Before withdrawing from the side
of the Otranto where she had struck,
the Kashmir kept on her course for
it while under slow bell, to enable
those on board the former vessel to
transfer to her. After she with
drew, the Otranto, with a great hole
in her side, drifted helplessly ashore.
The troop transport Kashmir,
which was also badly damaged by
the collision, landed all of her troops
without loss, as well as those she
rescued from the Otranto, on the
Scottish coast.
Of those on board the merchant
cruiser Otranto, three hundred
American soldiers, thirty French
sailors and two hundred and sixty
six of the Otranto's crew have been
safely landed. Over two hundred
bodies of the Otranto victims have
so far, been recovered.
The heavy loss of life was due to
the foundering of the life boats
launched by the Otranto filled with
troops immediately after the col
lision. The boats could not live in
the heavy sea prevailing at the time.
The merchant cruiser Otranto,
which is now probably a total loss,
was an up-to-the-minute ocean liner,
belonging to the Orient-Pacifio
Steamship Co., and prior to the war
engaged in the mail and passenger
traffic between Liverpool, England
and Sydney .Australia. She is a
vessel of nearly 20,000 tons, with a
speed of eighteen knots aif hour,
and was in the floating palace class
of boats. She was one of the new
est of the fleet of vessels owned and
operated by the Orient Pacific
Steamship Co.
NENANA PEOPLE
IN THE STATES
In a letter to Mrs Carl Schmidt,
of this city, Mrs. Fred Ryus, who is
now at her home in Fetters Springs,
Sonoma County, Calfiornia, writes
of the fine times they are having
and of meeting former Nenanaites.
On their way out to the States
they spent four days in Juneau, as
the guests of Governor and Mrs.
Riggs, during which time Fred Ryus
took his mental and physical exam
inations for entering the army as
an officer in one of the engineer
regiments, which he passed. At the
time the letter was writen, he was
awaiting orders to go East and join
one of the engineer regiments for
active service at the front.
Dr. and Mrs. Malcolm E. Sm;tfc.
were at Camp Fremont, near Palo
Alto, Ca., and gave a Nenana dinner
it which Mr. and Mrs. Ryus, Max
Smith, former manager of the Ne
aana branch of the N. C. Co., and
Harry Abercrombie, former anes
:hetist of the Commission hospital
aere, were guests. Dr. Smith also
“xpected to get orders to report
:or duty at the front with the base
lospital to which he was attached.
War is an ugly thing, but a Ger
nan peace is uglier—■
CALL UP CENTRAL
! IN CASE OF FIRE
I -
! People should understand that in
giving a fire alarm, it is essential
| that telephone central be notified
i of the location of the fire.
If the original alarm is given
| directly to the power house, it should
| be followed instantly by a notifica
■ tion to central.
In case of fire, the quickest way
! to get results, is through telephone
1 central; for central is in a position
to notify everyone, as to the exact
location.
The Commission whistle sounded
the fire alarm yesterday afternoon
and met with a prompt response by
the Commission chemical. The cause
of the alarm was a small fire at
the Commission power plant which
was soon put out with scarcely an
effort.
The city fire department also
promptly turned out, but their serv
ices were not needed.
Fur Warden Cal Townsend ex
pects to leave for Seattle in a few
days. He will attend the conference
of fur and fish wardens to be held
at Seattle on November 20th when
the matter of a cannery at the
mouth of the Yukon river will be
gone into thoroughly.
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