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VOLUME ONE member of associatfd press NENANA, ALASKA, FRIDAY. AUGUST 16, 1918. NUMBER 114
CAPTURE OF ROYE IS IMMINENT
HUNS HAVE SUFFERED HEAVY LOSSES
MARCH SA YS AMERICANS MUST CRUSH GERMANS
FRENCH ENCIRCLING
IMPORTANT POSITION
PARIS.—On the battelline be
tween the Matz and the Oise rivers,
the French have made a further
advance, gaining much ground. The
line north of the Oise, near Ribe
court has also been advanced. The
operations in this region are mostly
of a minor character and are con
fined to actions between reconnoit
ering parties and outposts, the
Allied advance guards and scoots
being in touch with the German
rear guard nearly all the time.
BRITISH ADVANCE
LONDON.—According to reports
received from Field Marshal Haig,
the advancing Canadians have cap
tured the villages of Damery and
Parvillers, to the northwest of Roye.
The British line near Proyeart, jutt
south of th* Somme has also been
advanced.
EVACUATOION ADMITTED
BERLIN.—The German forces
have evacuated .their positions to
the north of Albert, according to
official reports received from the
German field headquarters.
FRENCH ADVANCE
PARIS.—The French forces ad
vancing over a two and one-half
mile front, made very important
gains west of Roye, near Yillers Les
roye.
GERMAN LOSSES
PARIS.—The French newspapers
x say that the Germans have lost about
six million men from the beginning
of the war to the end of last month.
The figures given representing the
German losses up to the end of last
month include 1,400,000 killed up
to the beginning of the German
' offensive in March.
It is also reported that the Ger
mans have lost 120,000 in killed
from March 27th to June 17th.
FURTHER WITHDRAWALS
LONDON.—On the Lys salient
the enemy made further slight with
drawals and evacuated the village
of Yieux Berquin. They have now
retired to a depth of between one
and two miles on a nine mile front.
The British have also advanced
their lines slightly south of Albert
near Marloncourt.
AIRPLANES DESTROYED
LONDON.—In the series of air
battles between the German and
Allied air squadrons, twenty-two
German machines were destroyed
and six others were downed and
put out of control. Fifteen British
airplanes have failed to return to
their base
FRANKFORT ATTACKED
GENEVA.—Allied aviators at
tacked the city of Frankfort on
Monday and dropped many bombs
in the city. Twelve persons were
killed and five were wounded. Re-!
ports received from Basel place
the casualties much higher and add
that it also had the effect of in
creasing the panic reigning in the
Rhine towns.
MURMANSK EXPEDITION
LONDON.—The Allied forces in
the province of Archangel, in Nor
thern Russia, have penetrated one
hundred miles south towards the
province of Vologda from the base
at Arcfangel. Troops from the;
Kola Peninsula an ’ Kem have been
landed on the shore of Onega Bay,!
the southern extremity of the Gulf
of Onega, which is an arm of the
White Sea.
The troops landed at Onega Bay
will intercept the BolsheviVi ^forces
who are retreating southward from
the Murman coast after committing
barbarous atrocities on the civilian I
population of the Murman region. '
ON THE CASPIAN SEA
LONDON.—A British force from
Northwestern Persia have reached
the shores of the Caspian Sea and
have taken over part of the defenses
of Baku. Baku is the largest and
most important town on the Caspian
Sea and is the capital of the province
of Baku, in Trans-Caucasia.
WASHINGTON, D. C—The ar
rival of British troops at Baku opens
the way for Allied aid to be rend
ered to the Czecho Slavs in that
neighborhood. There are but few
difficulties to be encountered in
reaching the country controlled by
the Don Cossacks, who are reported
to be in sympathy with the Allied
cause.
STUBBORN FIGHTING
PARIS.—The French forces are
holding Roye in a vicelike grip and
are slowly but surely crushing the
stubborn German resistance and
gradually encircling the town. Heavy
fighting is in progress, with the
Germans putting up a very desper
ate resistance. The French, how
ever are gradually closing in on
the town.
Jhe advance of the French forces
at Villers les Roye makes the fall
of Roye inevitable. The possession
of the town by the French will
force the enemy to rectify their;
lines and they will probably retreat
to the Xesle-N'oyon line.
Roye is the bulwark of the Ger-1
man positions in this region. The
Germans are clinging with despera- i
tion to the range of high hills east
of Ribecourt and are stubbornly de
fending the Lassigny-Oise canal, the
loss of which would entail the evac
uation of Xoyon.
ARTILLERY ACTIVE
WITH THE BRITISH—The ene
my artillery is very active from one
end of the British front to the j
other, but there is no infantry move-;
ment of any kind up to the present..
The British troops are continuing
to press forward in spite of the
stubborn resistance, for the purpose
of gaining the advantage in posi
tion. In these forward movements
the British have captured the vil
lages of Domery and Parvillers from
the Germans.
MAN POWER WANING
WITH THE BRITISH—Germany
has acknowledged that he man
power is dwindling in proportions
large enough to cause the German
high command much worry.
The prospect of being confronted
with an ever-growing American army
has caused General Ludendorff to
issue imperative orders for vigorous
immediate combing out in the Ger
man army for the purpose of re
covering from the auxiliary units
of the army all men capable of do
ing service in the trenches.
WOMEN APPEALED
TO SAVE HARVEST
NEW YORK.—The Industrial
commission of the state department
of labor has issued an appeal to
the women of leisure to help save
the harvest by volunteering their
services for farm work at good
wages.
ENTERS SERVICE
ON 6REAT LAKES
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Big Steel Freighter It Delivered
Complete to Federal Shipping
Board.
DETROIT, Mich.—A thirty-five
hundred ton steel freighter has been
delivered complete to the Federal
Shipping Board.
The big steamer, which was built
by the Great Lakes Engineering
Works, was completed in thirty days
after the laying of her keel, which
marks a record in the annals of
shipbuilding on the Great Lakes.
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Empero- Charles, of Austria Is
Reported to Be Visiting the
Battlefront.
AMSTERDAM.—According to au
thentic reports received in this city
today, Emperor Charles of Austria
Hungary, is at the German main
headquarters.
It is believed that he is now giv
ing effect to a long expressed wish
to view some of the military oper
ations conducted by his German
allies on the Western front.
Learn to control your appetite be
fore you try to control your neigh
bor’s.
NEW BUMS
10 60 OVERSEAS
BY JUNE EIRS1
Men Chosen After the Extension of
the Draft Laws Will Be Sent
to France By June.
WASHINGTON, D. C—All men
called to the colors for active ser
vice after the passage of the new
draft extension law will be in France
i by next June.
j The extension of the draft law
' the passage of which has been
I urged by Secretary Baker and which
i the Senate Military Committee
I promised to report on favorably re
i cently, provides for the calling to
the colors of all men from eighteen
to forty-five years of age.
The registration date for the men
coming within the meaning of the
new draft extension law has been
fixed for September 5th.
CROWDER READY
ID ISSUE ORDER
FOR NEW ORAH
—
1 Plans Have Been Made For the
Registering of New Draft Men
Before Bill Passes.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Provost
i Marshal General Crowder announc »,i
! that plans have been made for the
| registering of thirteen million new
men .expected to join the colors
j when congress enacts the new man
' power bill.
j These men will be needed in Octo
ber first and all the necessary ma
chinery has been made ready in ad
vance of legislation so that the men
could be inducted into service with
out any loss of time.
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TROTSKY URGING
PEOPLE 10 FIGHT
CZEIMOVtt
Russian Minister of War Is Urging
Bolsheviki Troops to Repel
Czecho-Slae Forces.
AMSTERDAM. — The Vienna
Nieue Frie Presse is authority for
the statement that Minister of War
Trotsky is touring the front where
the Bolsheviki troops are engaged
in battle with the Czecho-Slovak
army.
He is urging upon all the Rus
sians the necessity of repelling the
enemy.
The location of the battlefront is
not given but it is thought to be
along the Trans-Siberian railroad. I
to your home.
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BLACK IS WOUNDED
BY GERMAN SHELL
VANCOUVER, B. C.—Capta n
George Black, former governor of ]
the Yukon territory and now fight-;
ing on the Western front, is re
ported to have been wounded in the :
recent fighting.
He was shot in the thigh while
leading his company to the attack
and has been taken to a base hospi
tal.
ALASKA QUOTA OF
FOURTH LIBERTY
1 LOAN IS GIVEN
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Federal Reaerve Bank Tells Governor
Amount of Alaska's Quota
to Fourth Liberty Loan.
According to advices received yes
terday, Governor Riggs was inform
ed by James K. Lynch, of the Fed-j
eral Reserve Bank that the Alaska
i quota to the Fourth Liberty Loan
has been fixed at one million, four
i
hundred thousand dollars.
The Fourth Liberty Loan cam-!
paign will be launched during the*
latter part of next month.
AMERICAN Ml
NOW AMOUNTS TO
The Strength of Our Army He* Now
Reached Formidable Figure*
and I* Increasing.
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WASHINGTON. D. C—Secretary
of War Baker said that America
now has 2,600,000 men under arms
here and overseas.
The troops in France are com
posed of fourteen divisions of the
National army, twelve of the Na
tianl Guard and five of the Regular
army.
He said further that the move
ment of troops has been greatly
accelerated by reason of the great
assistance extended to the transport
service by England.
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REACH DENMARK
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Accord
ing to reports received in this city
today, Russian prisoners of war in
the hands of the Germans are es
caping daily from Germany into
Denmark.
The Danish government has es
tablished an internment camp for
them near Ribe.
OP 10 AMERICA
10 WIN THE WAR
ON WEST FRONT
General Marsh Say* That It Will
Be Up to U» to Whip the Hun
On Wetter* Front.
WASHINGTON', D. C.—General
March, chief of staff of the Ameri
can army, told the Senate Military
committee today that it is up to
America to put enough men in
France to win the war on the West
ern front. ’
He said he believed that a force
of four million American soldiers
could smash the German lines at
any time.
The administration program calls
for eighty divisions of over three
million men to be in France by next
July.
SYDNEY, Australia.—Many addi
tional enemy mines have been found
on the coast of Australia lately.
It is believed that the mines, which
are of the contact variety, have
been laid by an enemy raider.
AMERICAN VESSEL
IS SUNK BV SUB
NEAR CAPE MAY
WASHINGTON.—The American
schooner Barrett was sunk by a
German submarine yesterday near
Cape May.
Seaplanes and submarine chasers
were sent out immediately after
news of the sinking of the schooner
had been received, and depth bombs
were dropped, indicated as the place
where the U boat submerged, but it
is believed that she escaped, .is
there were no traces of wreckage.
The despatch telling of the dis
aster makes no mention of the crew
of the schooner, but it is believed
that they were all saved.
JUDGES ARE NAMED;
POLLS OPEN AT NINE
Messrs J. A. Slippern, Frank Ta --
lor and Joseph C. Schultz have been
appointed judges of election and
will have charge of the election of
an advisory board which will take
place at the townsite office to
morrow.
The polls will be open from 9
a. m. till 7 p. m., and the Nenana
voters will have an opportunity to
select five men to act with the town
site management on all matters per
taining to the welfare of the town.