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THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
VOLUME ONE member of associated press NENANA, ALASKA. MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 1918. NUMBER IIP
ALLIES EXTEND PICARDY LINES
PRISONERS NOW TOTAL NEARLY 40,000
FRESH GERMAN TROOPS SLOW ALLIED ARMIES
' FRENCH AFTER CREST
HELD BY THE ENEMY
LONDON.—Official despatches re
ceived by the war office state that
the advance of the French troops
have taken them nearer the import
ant town of Roye. The troops ad
vanced from the southwest and cap
tured the villages of Armancourt
and Tilloley, from which the Ger
mans were ejected with heavy losses.
The French are now attacking the
outer defenses of Roye.
To the south of the Somme, the
British, advancing to attack Bray,
succeeding in gaining the western
edge of the town- They also took
200 prisoners and are now engaged
in pressing the attack. It is ex
pected that Bray will fall soon.
The French troops are continuing
a vigorous attack on the southern <
jart of the battlefront and heavy
fighting is in progress. The main
Allied interest is now centered
around Lassigny. and owing to the
intense nature of the cannonading
in progress, it is difficult to say
whether the French troops have suc
ceeded in carrying the crest of the
hills near Lassigy. The stability of
the whole Allied position on the
southern line depends on the poses
sion of this crest.
40,000 PRISONERS
PARIS.—According to reports re
ceived from the battlefront, in the
Picardy drive the Allies have cap
tured nearly 40,000 prisoners and
700 guns.
Resistance Bitter
The Germans are bitterly resisting
along the Chaulnes-Roye-Noyon line
and fighting of the most desperate
character is in progress there. The
Germans are bringing up strong re
inforcemnts and are throwing them
into action along this line. The
Allied forces are preparing for a
further advance.
EVACUATION REPORTED
WITH THE BRITISH.—It has
been reported that the Germans
have evacuated the important town
of Roye, which they defended des
perately for a time, and the British
tanks are reported to be operating
for a considerable distance east of
the town. These reports, however,
have not been confirmed.
AMERICANS IN ACTION
^ —
LONDON.—Americans are press
ing forward in the fighting in the
suburbs of Bray and are slowly
forcing the Huns to give way- A
fierce ding dong battle for the poss
ession of the outskirts of this little
French city is reported to be raging
up and down the northern section
of the line between the Americans
and the Huns. Our boys are going
at it hammer and tongs fashion and
are doing fearful execution in the
Hun ranks. The falling of Braj
to our troops is merely a matter
of time.
GENERALS CASHIERED
LONDON.—According to reports
received in this city today, three
, . BP
German generals commanding the
troops near Montdidier were cash
iered for neglect of duty and that
a large number of German soldiers
were court martialed for high treas
on. The report also states that the
Germans in Belgium are showing
signs of great uneasiness.
GERMANS REACTING
PARIS.—With the arrival of a
great many new German divisions
from the north to reinforce the
battleline in Picardy, the resistance
of the Huns to the Allied advance
has stiffened considerably and they
are reacting with a certain amount
of success along some parts of the
line. The Germans with the aid of
the reinforcements are now trying
to halt their retreat along the Roye
Noyon line, and are also putting up
a furious fight in a desperate en
deavor to block the Allied advance
towards £esle. The leading news
papers say, however, that the Allied
advance, though slowed up some,
is bound to continue.
SUMMARY
Associated Press Summary.—The
Germans, who have been heavily re
inforced, are making mighty efforts
to check the advance of the Allied
forces through Picardy towards Pe
ronne, Roye and Noyon, on the south
ern end of the battleline, and the
British have been unable to press
! forward rapidly. Although a por
tion of Bray was entered last night
by the British forces, strong German
counter attacks have temporarily
halted the Allied advance in the
center of the line. The French
forces to the right of the line are
steadily gaining ground and have
virtually cleared the Germans from
the valley of the Matz.
wonm
RECEIVES BAD CD1
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! Sam Derretich, while working on
the Commission woodsaw in the yard
on Saturday, had the misfortune to
! get his left forearm badly cut and
! is now under treatment for the in
Ijury in the Commission hospital.
| Sam had on a gauntlet glove and
while cleaning off some sawdust near
the big saw, some of the teeth of the
whirling saw caught the top of the
gauntlet and drew his hand in, near
ly severing it.
The saw cut clear through the
radius, severing all the tendons,
. nerves and bloodvessels, leaving a
. badly lacerated wound, one end of
the severed bone being badly splint
, ered.
. | The severed nerves, tendons and
. blood vessels were spliced, and to
| enable the bone to knit together, a
| small portion of the bone was sawed
| off and the severed ends connected
| up. It is expected that the bone
> will knit in time and that the man
i will regain the full use of his arm.
RUSSIAN CM
IS NOT POPULAR
AT VLADIVOSTOK
Foreign Consular Bodies A'e Asked
to Expel Horvath from Siberia
By Zemstvos.
LONDON.—The Zemstvo congress
at Vladivostock has requested the
members of the foreign consular
corps to expel General Horvath, who
has constituted himself dictator of
Siberia.
If the foreign consuls decline to
interfere in the matter the Zemstvo
congress threaten to cease its func
tions, in which case the province, of
| which Vladivostock is the capital,
' will be without any semblance of
civil government.
The Zemstvo is a Russian political
body ejected for the development of
home rule and compares favorably
with our state legislatures- They
were first mentioned by Alexander
II, in the imperial edict of 1859,
and after years of labor in perfect
ing it, in January 1864 was officially
recognized by him as an institution.
Its original intent was the great
i est possible development of home
; rule, the members of the district
assemblies or Zemstvos being elected
I by three different electoral classes,
the landowners, the city people and
the country inhabitants, thereby in
troducing for trial a sort of con
i stitutional representation Owing to
j dissensions following the assumption
I of too much authority b the Zems
I tvos, their representation by the
j edict of June 1890 was limited to
two classes of citizens, thus depriv
ing the peasants entirely of their
elective franchise, their representa
tives now being selected by the gov
ernors and by members of the Vol
ost assemblies.
It is thought that the franchise
rights have now been restored to the
peasants, following the recent tur
moil in Russia, and that the Zems
tvos, as now constituted, are thor
oughly representative bodies.
RUSS MINISTERS
ESCAPE 10 COAST
LONDON.—According to a Berlrn
despatch received today, the Bol
sheviki Ministers Lenine and Trot
sky have fled to the Russian nacal
base at Kronstadt, near Petrograd.
Kronstadt, together with the re
maining vessels of the Russian Baltic
fleet, is now in the hands of the
! Germans.
I
Steam shovel No. 1, operating at
jMile 118, of the Alaska railroad,
established a record for itself re
cently, when it handled 3,700 cubic
yards of gravel in one day. This
gravel was taken to Turnagain Arm
Shovel No. 1, during the six work
ing days in the week ended June
22, moved 15,000 cubic yards of
gravel.
MORE BOATS SUNK
BY GERMAN SUBS
Several VeiseU Are Sunk By Enemy
Submarine Off New England
Coa»t.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Reports
have been received by the navy de
partment to day of the sinking of
three vessels off the New England
coast by a German submarine.
The vessels sunk were the British
steamer Penistone, Swedish steamer
Sydland and the American schooner
Herman Winter.
The report does not make mention
of the crews of the sunken vessels,
but it is believed that all of them
have been saved.
SUB COMMANDER
FORMER SKIPPER
ON YANKEE BOAI
Former Skilled American Navigator
In Fisheries Service, Now
Submarine Commander,
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• GLOUCESTER, Mass.—The claim
is made by some fishermen located
here, who were recently victims of
a German submarine operating off
the Massachusetts coast, that they
were able to identify the commander
of the submarine which attacked
their vessel as a former skilled
navigator in the employ of the
American Fisheries Service.
The German submarine operating
off the Massachusetts coast has re
cently sunk sveral American and
Canadian fishing vessels and the ap
parent ease with which the sub
marine navigates the waters off this
coast, avoiding the shoals, reefs and
submerged rocks lends truth to the
claim made by the fishermen.
ACCIDENTLY KILLED AT
KUYUKUK STATION
“Old Medicine Woman”, one of
: the best known native characters
I on the Yukon, was accidently killed
! recently at Koyukuk station when
| one of the Indian caches fell in on
: her. Large numbers of natives
i along the river attended the funeral,
; among the number being Chief John
' of Kokrin.
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SUBMARINED SAILORS
CROWD DUBLIN HOTELS
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| DUBLIN.—The activity of the
i German submarine around the Irish
coasts has led to the arrival in Dub
line or passage through it of many
j shipwrecked merchant seamen. To
provide for their accommodation, a
new hotel has been taken over and
an association formed for working
it in the interests of the welfare
of the sailors.
i Thos. A. Mcllvoy, for many years
a resident of Dome creek, in the
Fairbanks district, is a recent arrival
in Nnana and may locate here per
manently.*
Fire of Unnown Origin De»troy»
Valuable Cargo of Sodium
Nitrite in Friaco.
SAN FRANCISCO.—A barge load
ed with twelve hundred tons of
sodium nitrate caught fire from an j
unknown cause and burned to the
water’s edge here yesterday.
The carge of the barge, which
was completely destroyed, was valued
at eighty thousand dollars.
Sodium nitrate or saltpeter is
largely used in the manufacture of
munitions of war and the cargo de
stroyed was evidently consigned to
a munition factory.
BRITISH ASSURE
RUSSIANS INTENT
IS TO AID SLAV
British Proclamation Is Issued In
Vladivostock, Archangel and
Murman Coast.
LONDON.—In a proclamation is
sued by the British at Vladivostock,
Archangel and the Murman coast,
the Russians are reassured that it
is not the intention of the Allies
to establish a form of government
by force in Russia nor to retain
a single foot of Russian territory.
It was also stated in advices re
! ceived in this city today that the
j British proclamation declared posi
tively that the sole aim of the
I Allies in landing troops at Vladi
vostock and the Murman coast was
^ for the purpose of helping save Rus
sia from dismemberment by theGer
1 mans.
HP iORfflE
AIDING SIBERIANS
THE HAGUE, Holland—Accord
ing to a despatch received in this
city today, the advance guard of
the Japanese army recently landed
at Vladivostock, are now in touch
with the rear guard A the Czecho
slovak army, which has already com
menced its westward advance.
SECOND-HAND FURTNITURE
WORTH LOT OF MONEY
AMSTERDAM.—Second-hand fur
niture in Germany now brings prices
several times higher than it cost
when new a few years ago. The
furnishings of a hotel in Frankfort,
according to the German newspapers
has been sold for $55,000. although
its cost less than $18,000 when in
stalled.
Nothing is as usual, why eat as
usual. A good citizen is known by
the food he eats..
PERSHING LEADS
NEW FIELD ARMY
ON WEST FRONT
First American Field Army of Five
Corps Now Completed; Pershing
to Command.
WITH THE AMERICANS—The
organization of the first American
field army of five army corps has
| now been completed. General Persh
! ing will command this field army,
I which will operate on th? salient
1 north of the Marne,
j General Pershing, although placed
in command of the first American
field army, will still reaain bis posi
tion as chief of the American Ex
peditionary Forces in France. He
will have two field headquarters for
the field army.
Other field armies will soon be
formed for service in Franc?,
j Before the formation of tne first
| American field army, our forces
were brigaded with the British and
French for effective fighting. They
J will now operate as a separate and
' distinct unit of the great Allied
i fighting machine.
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HOVRATH THINKS
ALLIES WILL NEED
; 150,000 TROOPS
Many Men Will Be Needed to Prevent
German Encroachments In 1
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Siberia.
I VLADIVOSTOCK.—General Hov
rath, the self-styled head of the new
all-Russian government, said today
that the Allies will need at least one
i hundred and fifty thousand troops
| in Siberia to prevent the Germans
from obtaining control of the food
resources of Mongolia and Siberia.
In the scheme formulated to rend
er aid to the Siberians in forming
a new government and checking the
German penetration of Siberia, Brit
ish and Japanese troops have been
landed at Vladivostock and are now'
protecting the rear of the Siberian
army, which is advancing westward
It is expected that Arc
will soon be landed in Vladivostock
to support the Anglo-Jap forces.
FORMER GERMAN ATTACHE
HONORED BY THE KAISER
NEW YORK.—Captain Boy-Ed,
former German military attache in
Washington, whose recall was de
manded by the American Govern
ment because of his connection with
German propaganda in this country,
has received official recognition by
Emperor William for his activities
here. The Cologne Gazzette, report
ing a spech by Boy-Ed and refers
to him as Naval Captain “Von”
Boy-Ed.
Ask no rest—we have a victory to
win.