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DAILY NEWS
VOLUME ONE member of associated press the nenana daily news, Thursday, November 21, 1918
WHOLE NUMBER 195
- GERMANS SURRENDER BIG WAR FLEET
YANKS ADVANCE WITH FULL_ WAR EQUIPMENT
GERMANS VIOLATE NEUTRALITY OF NETHERLANDS
GERMAN MAIN FLEET
MAKES SURRENDER
LONDON.—An imposing array of
warships presenting an awe inspir
ing sight, composed of the British
Grand fleet, the American battle
squadron, and the French cruiser
squadron, with scouting cruisers,
videttes and supporting squadrons
of torpedo boats and destroyers,
steamed out to sea today in perfect
order and in battle formation, steer
ing a course for a point between
thirty and forty miles due east of
May Island, opposite to the Firth
of Forth, where the surrender of
the main German fleet was received.
Before taking their appointed
places in line of battle and putting
out to sea, the several ships which
composed this formidable armada
were called to the rendezvous by
wireless, and the forming in battle
array too place without a hitch.
The battle fleet, which was the
most formidable array of warships
ever assembled at any time in the (
history of the world, consisted of j
sixty superdreadnaughts, fifty cruis-,
ers of the heaviest known type, and
two hundred destroyers.
C Led by the flagship, the fleet got j
under way, their departure being;
witnessed by over four hundred
Allied merchant ships, each one of
which carried a large crowd. Such
a sight as witnessed by those on
board the merchant vessels will prob
ably never again be seen by any-1
one. The big flotilla of merchant
vessels followed in the wake of the
war fleet at a given distance astern
of the warships, and those on board ,
witnessed the formal surrender of
the German main fleet.
Flanking squadrons of the battle
ship fleet with supporting squad
rons of lighter craft took their
places in perfect order and accord
ing to the plans laid out, the ships
were cleared for action, crews at
quarters and all their guns were |
ready for instant action during the j
formal transfer.
The surrendered ships will be
taken to a British port and disarmed
and interned for the present, pend
ing the outcome of the peace nego
tiations.
The exact number of German |
ships which surrendered to the Allied j
fleet is not known at present, but
according to despatches received
from Amsterdam, among the Ger
man ships which left Kiel on Sunday
for surrender and internment were
dreadnaughts Markgraf and Grosser,
launched in 1914 and classed among j
the most powerful ships of the Ger- j
man navy. Each of these boats j
was 25,000 tons displacement and
had a speed of 21.5 knots an hour, j
The main battery consisted of ten;
12-inch guns, fourteen 6-inch guns, j
twelve 12-pounders, four 14-pound
er anti-aerial naval guns and five
20-inch submerged torpedo tubes. I
Each carried a crew of 1100 men.1
The dreadnaughts Kaiser, Koenig
Albert, Kaiserin, and Frederich der;
Grosse were launched during 1912!
and 1913 and are of 24,700 tons
displacement each, with a speed of
20 knots an hour. Their main bat
teries consist of twelve 12-inch
fourteen 6-inch, twelve 12 pounder
and four 14-pounder anti-aerial
guns, with five 20-inch submerged
torepdo tubes. They carry crews
of 1100 men.
The battle cruiser Moltke launch
ed in 1911 and a sister ship to the
Goeben, which was sold to Turkey
at the outbreak of hostilities, is of
23,000 tons displacement, with a
speed of 27 knots an hour.
The battle cruiser Seydlitz, launch
ed in 1913 of 25,000 tons displace
ment with a speed of 26.5 knots
an hour, and the battle cruiser Der
flinger, built in 1914, of 28,000
tons displacement, with a speed of
27 knots an hour. The battle cruis
ers are classed as capital ships and
are in the dreadnaught class, and
are powerfully armed. Their de
fensive armor belt, however, is not
as heavy as that on the dread
naughts of the line, this being the
sacrifice made in the battle cruis
ers for a gain in speed and con
stitute the only difference between
a dreadnaught proper and a battle
cruiser, both of which ships are in
the capital ship class.
The only other two ships men
tioned in the despatches as having
surrendered are the Hindenburg and
the Bayern. These are not classified
in any naval list available at present
but it is thought that both of them
are capital ships of the newest type
in the German navy and that they
were launched after the outbreak of
hostilities.
The names of the other surrender
ing ships are not known at the
present time. Several armored
cruisers and cruisers of a lighter
type, as well as some pre-dread
naughts and torpedo craft are known
to have surrendered.
SURRENDER MADE
OF GERMAN SUBS
CREWS CHANGED
British Crews Replace Germans On
Surrendering Submarines Under
Cover of Guns.
Aboard British Cruiser.—Twenty
German submarines, recently held in
so much dread, were silently trans
ferred to England without any
demonstration excepting that of the
formal transfer of the crews.
The British crew's to replace the
Germans on the submarines were
brought alongside the underseas
craft on American submarine chasers
and the crews on board the escort
ing warships stood by the guns while
the transfers of the crews were
made.
The German crews sullenly obeyed
the orders given and filed past while
the Britishers stepped aboard to re
place them- The submarines then
proceeded to a British submarine
base, where they will be interned.
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Secretary of War Annul* Contracts
For Supplies Needed to
Continue the War.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Since the
signing of the armistice and the
dawn of peace, vast quantity of sup
plies and equipment contracted for
when the fighting was on will now
not be necessary and, consequently,
Secretary Baker today cancelled war
contracts involving over one billion
three hundred and thirty-s^x million
dollars.
WILL GET A TRIAL
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Practice Flights to Be Undertaken
All Over the Country By
Army Planes.
SACRAMENTO, Cal.—For the
, purpose of establishing air mail
| service and to ascertain definitely
’ the feasibility of inaugurating and
maintaining such service over the
; mail routes throughout the country,
■ practice flights are to be made be
• tween all large cities in the United
j States by army airmen in army
I machines.
| A practice flight for army planes
j is now being planned between Sac
' ramento and Seattle.
RULE OF NATIONS
Passage of Go-man Troops Through
Dutch Province Calls Forth
Sharp Protest.
PARIS.—The Allied powers have
forwarded a sharp protest to the
government of the Netherlands
against their recent action in allow
ing the passage of German troops
across the province of Limburg.
It was known a short while ago
that a large body of retreating
Germans took a short cut to Ger
many through a section of Holland
and that they did so with the per
mission of the Dutch authorities.
EXPRESS RATES
ARE INCREASED
To Meet the Increase in Wages to
the Employees, An Increase
In Rates Is Made.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Secretary
of the Treasury McAdoo, who is also
director-general of transportation,
announced today that a genenral in
crease in express rates will be put
into effect immediately.
The increase in the rates was
made necessary owing to a general
increase of wages granted to the
employees of the express companies
controlled by the government.
LAWMAKERS LAKE
WINTER HOLIDAY
After a Strenuous Session, Congress
Men Will Have a Breathing
Spell Now.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Congress
will adjourn today and senators and
representatives will be free to go
back to their homes and attend to
their ordinary vocations.
Congress has had a very strenu
ous and trying time during the past
session and had it not been for the
signing of the armistice, might have
been in session indefinitely, so that
the urgent needs of a nation at
war might receive -immediate at
tention.
RETURN OP PEACE
TO HELPJAILROAD
Chairman Edes, of the A. E. C.
Thinks Congress Will Now
Help Alaska Railroad.
SEATTLE.—William C. Edes,
chairman and only remaining member
of the Alaskan Engineering com
mission, arrived in Seattle today on
his way to Washington, D. C.
Mr. Edes said that he believed
that Congress will aid th > Alaska
railroad and will put the work in
connection with the building of it,
back on a pre-war basis.
He will leave almost immediately
for the nation’s capital.
COASMOlifl
ROAD ALE WINTER
ANCHORAGE.—With the recent
arrival in Anchorage of 1,487 tons!
of rails and sixteen tons of rail
fittings, the laying of steel will be
vigorously prosecuted on the route
of the government railroad north
of Montana, which is the present
end of track and which is ninety
five miles north of Anchorage. Bar
ring the occurrence of unusually
severe weather, the steel-laying
work will be carried on all winter.
The grade between Montana and
Talkeetna, a distance of sixteen
miles, is ready for ties and rails.
The projection of the track north
of Anchorage has been delayed by
the difficulty in getting steel. All
the rails received during the sum
mer were needed to connect the line
between Seward and Anchorage.
The rails and fittings that recently
arrived in Anchorage were ordered
by the Alaskan Engineering com
mission in 1916.
VOLUNTARY CENSORSHIP
FOR JAPANESE PAPERS j
TOKIO.—Newspapers of Japan, ^
forbidden during the recent rice
riots to publish anything about the
disorders, won a decided concession
from the government which now has
placed the press under the same
kind of voluntary censorship as
exists in the United States.
AMERICA’S SHARE
IN THE WORLD WAR
American Headquarters, France.
—The Allied nations, resting from
the strain and stress of more than
four years of destructive war, freely
concede the credit to America for
the most notable achievement of
bringing about the signing of the
armistice as the forerunner of what
is hoped will be a lasting world-wide
peace. Allied commanders and mili
tary experts freely concede that to
the United States, who threw her
might into the world conflict when
the Allied cause seemed hopeless,
belongs the credit and glory of forc
ing the Germans to see that further
resistance was useless against the
practically unlimited resources and
men which America had at her com
mand.
The superb fighting qualities ol
the American soldiers was one of
the greatest factors in inspiring new
hope and courage in the hearts of
the almost disheartened Allied sol
diers and with the arrival of fresh
American troops in a continual
stream, who went joyfully into ac
tion, the Allies taking new heart
were enabled to force the fighting
and the decision.
America had almost two million
men in the field on the Western
front when the armistice was signed
and had also great stocks of' food
YANKS TO PASS
THRU LUXEMBURG
American Army of Occupation Will
Pasa Through Neutral Country
On Way to the Rhine.
PARIS.-—The American army of
occupation which will garrison some
of the more important Rhine cities
until peace is restored and conditions
become more settled, will pass thru
the Duchy of Luxemburg on their
way to the Rhine.
General Pershing, who will ac
company this section of the army
of occupation, will call on Duchess
Marie Adelaide of Luxemburg while
in the capital of the Duchy.
The permission o' the ruler of
Luxemburg was obtained for the
passage of the American troops, the
necesary permission to do so being
readily granted.
The duchess also isued a proclam
ation to the people of Luxemburg,
telling them that the American
people were friendly, and calling
upon them to assist the Americans
through the territory of the Duchy
in every possible way.
YANKEES IN FAR NORTH
SETTING NEW STANDARD
NORTHERN RUSSIA.—In this
village.on the Dwina of the North,
one part of the American contingent
has established itself in barracks
once occupied by Bolsheviki soldiers
and has rapidly brought cleanliness
to wooden houses which they found
almost ankle deep in dirt. Now the
place is quite habitable.
There are plenty of stoves and,
with a good supply of wood brought
from the great piles of it stationed
have made snug for the winter.
and clothing for the use of her
armies, besides supplying the Allies
with most of the food and a large
part of the ammunition used by
them.
Nine hundred and sixty-seven
standard gauge locomotives and
thirteen thousand freight cars be
sides other railroail machinery were
brought to France from America
and used to convey troops, stores,
equipment, etc., in the battle zones
and other parts of the country re
placing the rolling stock destroyed
by enemy action.
The Americans constructed eight
hundred and forty-three miles of
standard gauge railroad, operated
two hundred and forty miles of the
French railroad, and repaired one
hundred and forty miles of German
railroads; these figures would rep
resent a fairly good sized American
railroad company.
The Americans operated over fifty
three thousand motor vehicles in
France to keep the roads fit for
travel.
The Americans had three hundred
and ninety million daily rations of
beans, one hundred and eighty
three million rations of flour, two
hundred and sixty-seven million
rations of milk These figures will
give some idea of the magnitude
of America’s accomplishment.
AMERICANS MOVE
Our T-oops Move Steadily Forward
Prepared For Any Eventualities
As In War.
WITH THE AMERICANS.—A
large body of American infantry
composing part of the big army of
occupation, who are to hold German
cities and strategic points, in terms
of the armistice, are moving steadily
forward in much the same manner
as if they are being actually op
posed by an enemy force.
Ammunition trains, artillery sup
ports and the commissary move with
the advancing infantrymen in ex
actly the same way as they would
in actual conflict, all the men, al
though on a peaceful mission, being
fully armed and ready to go into
action on the instant
The German troops are steadily
falling back and are faithfully carry
ing out their part of the armistice
pact.
WATERS OF THE GULF
PROVIDING NEW FISH
NEW ORLEANS.—Salt gar fish.
10,000,000 pounds a year, will go
from Louisiana waters throughout
the country, according to plans com
pleted by a local fish concern with
the approval of John M. Parker,
state food administrator. Mr. Parker
has eaten the salt gar, fried, baked,
stewed and in eourtbullion and pro
nounced it excellent, even declaring
it more palatable and nourishing
than the high priced cod-fish. For
merly gar fish were used only for
fertilizer and bait for crab nets.
It has been announced that salt gar
will be cheap.