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THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
VOLUME ONE member of associated press the nenana daily news, Thursday, November m, 1918 whole number i89
‘ GERMAN REDS FORMING GOVERNMENT
AMERICAN PRISONERS RELEASED BY GERMANS
RETIRING BOCHE SOLDIERS VIOLATE ARMISTICE TERMS
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General Pershing Confers American
Distinguished Service Medal on
Commander in Chief.
SENLIS.—General Pershing, com
manding the American overseas
forces, conferred the American
Distinguished Service Medal on Mar
shal Foch, commander in chief of
the Allied forces, today.
In making the presentation, Gen
eral Pershing said that he did so
in the name of the American gov
ernment as a token of America’s
gratitude.
The commander in chief grace
fully acknowledged the honor con
ferred on him by the government of
the United States at the hands of
so distinguished a soldier as General
Pershing, and said that he was
proud to receive the medal, which
he will as proudly wear.
Marshal Foch said that he would
never forget that tragical day in
March when General Pershing put
all the American armies and the re
sources of the country at his dis
posal. He said that the success in
the fighting and the final conquest
was the result of the conception of
the American command and the or
ganization of the American army
staff, coupled with the barvery, lash
and willingness of the Americans to
win the war.
The gallant bearing and conduct
of the American troctps at all times
under fire and in the most distress
ing circumstances, he said, had in
spired the war-worn Allied troops
with renewed vigor and imbued them
with a desire to emulate the Ameri
cans and carry on to victory, with
the result that the Allies have been
enabled to triumph over their com
mon foe.
In concluding, Marshal Foch said
that the Americans have earned the
right to have the name of Meuse
proudly emblazoned on their war
banners.
MAIL BOAT SUNK
AT CHILEAN PORT
Pacific Mail Steamship Company
Loses Boat As Result of Fire
In Chilean Harbo”.
SAN FRANCISCO.—The office of
the Pacific Mail Steamship company
of this city, received a wire this
morning informing them of the de
struction of the steamer Pennsyl
vania, by fire at Iquique, Chile.
The reports says that fire of un
known origin broke out and burned
fiercely in spite of all efforts put
forth to control it. The vessel sank
at the dock, and may be raised later.
The Pennslyvania was formerly
owned by the Alaska Steamship com
pany and was, for a time, in the
Alaska service.
For the first time in its history,
Fairbanks is discounting Canadian
currency. Banks are now deducting
3 per cent from the face value of
the Canadian paper.
PUTS OUT TO SEA!
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| Light Cruiser Puts Out With the j
Committee Who Will Meet
English to Arrange Peace.
BERLIN. — The German light
cruiser Coenogsberg went out to sea
yesterday with the plentipotentiaries
of the Workmen and Soldiers’ Coun
cil on board.
They will meet the British admir
alty representatives at sea and will
arrange conditions of a naval armis
tice.
This is the first time since the
outbreak of hostilities that a Ger
man warship set out alone, steering
a course that leads to hostile waters,
under control of the British patrol
ing fleets.
FOCH WILL MAKE
! FORMAL TRIP TO j
EVACUATED CITIES
Commanded in Chief Will Take
Formal Possession of Towns
In Alsace and Lorraine.
PARIS.—The American troops
crossed the German frontier and are
advancing towards Strassburg and
• Metz, which cities are being evacu
| ated by the Germans in terms of the
I armistice agreement. The Ameri
j cans will probably occupy the cities
| until Sunday.
On Sunday, Marshal Foch, in the
presence of President Poincaire and
Premier Clemenceau will make
solemn formal entries into the two
cities and take formal possession
I of them in the name of France, to
j which country the two provinces, of
I which the two cities are the capitals,
! will revert.
Strassburg is the capital of Alsace,
and Metz the capital of Lorraine.
These two French provinces were
held by the Germans since the
Franco-Prussian war.
WHITE BREAD
IN USE AGAIN
| Wheat Flour May Be Purchased
Without Substitutes In States
Again.
WASHINGTON, D. C -After an
absence of nine months, white bread
made of wheat flour h: s made its
appearance on the American tab’e.
The people are now permitted to
purchase wheat flour without sub
stitutes.
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TEMPERATURE
As reported by the government
observation station, Nenana
Maximum .7 below
Minimum .18 below
ORDERLY RETREAT
IS DIRECTED BY
VON HINDENBURG
German Commander in Chief Enjoins
Commands to Conduct An
Orderly Retreat.
LONDON.—General von Hinden
burg, who still remains as the su
preme head of the German army,
has ordered all commanders of army
divisions to lead their troops home
in an orderly retreat.
He has also given strict instruc
tions to the commanders to see that
discipline is maintained during the
retreat and that there be no viola
tion of any of the terms of the
armistice.
GERMANS VIOLATE
ARMISTICE TERMS
Retreating Boches Are Reported to
Be Pillaging; Allies May Punish
Them Soon.
LONDON—The reports have been
received here today that the German
soldiers in retreating, as required
in terms of the armistice agreement,
are pillaging and are committing
acts of violence against the peaceful
inhabitants of the countries through
which they retreat.
Such acts are contrary to the
terms of the armistice and, the re
port adds, the Allies may endeavor
to stop them.
AMSTERDAM. — Reports have
been received here today indicating
that the Germans are pillaging and
destroying property and in other
ways are violating the terms of the
armistice especially in Belgium and
the immediate neighborhood of
Brussels. The enraged citizens have
armed themselves, with the result
that much fighting is taking place
in the streets of Brussels.
The repc/ts add that ninety people
have been killed and injured in the
street fighting.
GEMS RELEASE
YANKEE PRISONERS
American Prisoners of War Are
Given Their Liberty, In Terms
of Armistice.
PARIS.—Over twenty-five hund
red Americans who had been held in
Germany as prisoners of war have
been released from the German
prison camps when the armistice
was signed.
This number includes all prisoners
captured up to November first .
Alaska’s record for the largest
footage acomplished with a diamond
drill in eight hours, is claimed by
Gus Reardon, an employe of the
Midas mine, on Valdez Bay. Rear
don broke all known Alaska records
recently when he drilled 54 feet in
less than eight hours.
SUPS PLANNED
FOR SURVEY OF
ALASKA WATERS
Modern Steel Vessel* to Be Built
Immediately For Survey of
Alaskan Water*.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—The Fed
eral Shipping Board will immediately
take in hand the construction of
two steel vessels for the Coast and
Geodetic Survey for use in sounding
hitherto unchartered waters of
Alaska and the South Pacific coast.
The vessels will be built on the
i
' Great Lakes.
Secretray Redfield said that the
: vessels will cost four hundred thou
I sand dollars each. He also said that
i the lack of information regarding
the Alaskan waters has resulted in
a great many wrecks with a great
loss of life and property.
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I STARVING EUROPE
Nation’s Food Administrator Will
Undertake Stupendous Task
of Feeding Europe.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—In a state
ment made last Sunday, Herbert
Hoover, national food administrator,
said that he will direct the work
of feeding the starving people of
Europe soon.
Hoover had been working on a
scheme whereby he will be enabled
to make equitable division of the
necessary food and send it to places
where it is needed most after the
requirements of the armies in the
field had been fully met.
The food situation in Europe is
reported to be of a very serious
nature.
RULER OF BADEN
INVITED TO MOVE
—
BASEL, Switzerland.—The revo
lutionary governments that have es
tablished themselves at Mannheim,
Rastatt, and Heidelburg have de
manded the immediate abdication of
the grand duke of Baden, who is at
present ruler of the Duchy of Baden.
SCHOOL IS ORGANIZED
AT ESKA COAL CAMP
ANCHORAGE.—At Eska, which
is on the line of the government
railroad, fifty-eight miles north of
Anchorage, and at which the Alas
kan Engineering commission operates
a coal mine, a school district has
been organized with fifteen scholars.
Miss Orah D. Clark, who formerly
was employed in the Anchorage post
office, is the teacher. Sumner S.
Smith, superintendent of the coal
mining department of the A. E. C.,
is the chairman -*®f the board of
supervisors in the newly organized
district.
The only industry at Eska is the
Commission’s coal mine. It has 135
men on its payroll.
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GATHERING SPEED
Railroads At Metz And In
Verdun Region Are Hauling
Away the German Troop*.
the i
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; WITH THE AMERICANS.—The |
! German troops are retiring north- j
j ward very rapidly and great railroad !
'activity is noted at Metz and other:
railroad junctions.
Many are leaving the Verdun sec
tor and it is expected that in a day
1 or two this region will be entirely
free from Germans.
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SEATTLE.—James VVickershain
| says that he intends to introduce a
i bill in Congress as soon as he gets
there, giving every desiring soldier
and sailor a ranch, fishing site, coal
. claim or other productive property
in Alaska.
: He says that he is now studying
' the land settlement laws of Aus-!
i tralia, Canada and New Zealand,
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and from these he will formulate
his bill.
CROWN PRINCE IS
NO! KILLED—YET
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Former Heir to German Thone Is j
Reported to Be Alive At
Maastricht, Holland.
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LONDON.—The London Express, j
i one of the leading English papers,!
says that the former German crown j
! prince was not shot, as previously |
reported, but that he is a guest j
of the governor of Limbourg, at
Maastrich, Holland.
The gang of men under foreman'
Sid Sheldon made a commencement1
yesterday morning with the work
of driving a double row of piling'
along the Nenana waterfront to pre
vent bank erosion, and the work I
is progressing steadily.
The first pile was driven near
the launch landing at the foot of
A street, and the work will be con-,
tinued on upstream to a point near I
Lehr’s sawmill.
As soon as the work is sufficiently j
well along and when teams become
available, it is expected that the
necessary saplings to form the cush
ion buttress agaidst the pressure
from the ice at the breakup, will
be hauled and placed in position,
after which earth or gravel will be
placed on top and the ground then
leveled off. 1
Socialist* Take a Hand At the Helm
of the German Ship of State
After Autocracy's Downfall.
COPENHAGEN—According to re
ports received in this city today, a
new German government has now
been organized and the following
cabinet officers selected: Premier
and Minister of the Interior and
Military Affairs, Herr Frederich
Ebert; Minister for Foreign Affairs
Herr Hugo Haase; Minister of Fin
ance and Minister for the Colonies
Herr Philip Scheidemann; Minister
of Demobilization, Transport and
Health Herr Wilhelm Dittman; Min
ister of Publicity and Art and Liter
ature Herr Landsburg; Minister of
Social Policy Herr Richard Burth.
All of the above cabinet members
are Socialists.
Ebert, Scheidemann and I.anus
burg were members of the majority
party of the Socialists who support
ed the Imperial government during
the war, while the other members
of the new cabinet are independent
Socialists.
Dittman spent the whole of last
summer in jail as the result of labor
troubles. Burth was the former
editor of the Socialist paper “Vor
waerts."
CHARLES ZIELKE IS BACK
FROM TRIP TO FAIRBANKS
Charles Zielke, who arrived in
town recently from his mining
ground on Moose creek with a pretty
good sized poke of gold dust, which
he took to Fairbanks, returned to
Nenana from the upper town Tues
day, just ubout in time to get
through the quarantine cordon with
out serious detention.
Zielke left Fairbanks on last Sat
urday morning with a loaded sled
drawn by a team of dogs that had
not been hardened to the trail; he
was aware of the impending quar
antine restrictions, being advised of
it by wire by Fowler & Morris, and
figured on being able to make the
trip in quicker time than he did.
He took the river trail over which
there had been hardly any travel
for the season, and consequently
was obliged to brpak trail nearly all
the way through, which delayed him
very considerably.
On arrival at Came Warden Steve
Foster’s camp he was held up for
half a day, Mr. Foster letting him
go through, as the stringent meas
ures had not then been made ef
fective.
Alaska needs lighthouse keepers,
acocrding to Captain J. W. Lead
better, master of the lighthouse
tender Cedar. Captain Leadbetter,
who arrived at Cordova recently
from a trip along the coast inspect
ing navigation aids, said several
men are needed at lighthouses to
lake the places of keepers who have
unlisted or left the service for other
reasons.
Supplying food is America’s prin
:ipal part in the war right now;