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THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
VOLUME ONE member of associated press
NENANA, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1918.
WHOLE NUMBER 156
HUINS SEEK PEACE
HINDENBURG ADMITS GERMAN DEFEAT
ALLIED ARMIES CONTINUE TO PUSH HUNS BACK
HUNS BURN TOWNS
AS ARMIES RETREAT
PARIS.—Reports received from |
the front today indicate that the I
French forces have crossed the
Suippe river and reached the out
skirts of Bazancourt and Boulsur
Siuppe. Severe fighting marked
the advance of the French troops
who before making the crossing of
the Suippe, inflicted severe losses
on the Germans, who were com
pelled to retire in disorder. The
advances made by the French in
this region has now completed the
deliverance of Rheims.
In the region lying tothe north
of St. Quentin, the French cap
tured and occupied several fortified
woods.
AMERICANS ADVANCE
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Offical
reports received today from Gen
eral Pershing are to the effect that
the American troops made a further
advance between the Meuse and
Bois des Agones in very heavy
T fighting. The German resistance
was finally overcome and they fell
back in disorderly retreat.
ST. ETIENNE CAPTURED
WITH THE AMERICANS—The
Franco-Americans after a very
heavy attack, during which very
fierce fighting was done, succeded
in capturing the town of St. Etienne
The capture of this place has forced
the Germans to withdraw their
forces along a twenty-five mile
front.
STRONGHOLD BURNING
PARIS.—The Germans are ap
parently burning the town of Laon,
which was for a long time their
stronghold, and to which they have
been clinging desperately, as it was
the key point of their southwest
line.
Rheims Cleared.
The city of Rheims and the neigh
boring region has now been cleared
from the menace of the German
cannon.
Germans Retreating
The Germans are retreating all
along the Suippe to Argonne, also
to the south of Cambrai. Peace
proposals are evidently not stop
ping the Germans from destroying
whole towns and villages in the line
of retreat. The town of Saullaum
ines, near Lens, is reported to be
burning; fires have been seen to
the west and southwest of Lille,
and the advancing Allies found all
of the villages in the Suippe valley
in flames.
BRITISH ADVANCE
LONDON.—The British force;
operating in the region between
Lens and Cambrai have made con
siderable advance. On the west,
the British have also advanced close
to Lille.
WITH PASSI
FOR STR.
On the train leaving Fairbanks at
half past nine this morning the fol
lowing passengers left to board the
steamer Reliance:
For Seattle—R. A. Perkins, Mrs.
Ben Sherman, Buster Sherman,
Ralph Sherman, Mrs. J. W. Hunter,
Mrs. W. Hnnter, Wm. Hunter, E.
T. Orni, John Howie, Colin Mc
Pherson, Mrs. F. L. Johnson, Mertie
Lovell, R. A. Ogburn, Mrs. F. A.
Gibbs, Mrs. J. B. McDonald, J. B.
McDonald, Peter Brook, Mrs. Nor
man Koon, Mrs. R. L. Bernard,
Robert O. Jones, C. W. Porter, Andy
Gustade.
For Skagway—T. Takola, Bell
Billson, Mrs. Agnes Billson, A.
Gooch, W. H. Smith, Albert Smith.
Albert H. Wood.
For Dawson—Martin A. Pinska.
For Nenana—Mrs. R. R. Myers,
J^red Morency, Mrs. Jack McLean,
Kenneth McLean.
For Tanana—James Gibbs.
All of them with the exception of
those destined for Nenana will be
transferred to the steamer Yukon.
It is thought probable that the
Reliance will go on down to meet
^ the Yukon, which is due here to
night and help her up with her load.
WASHINGTON, D. C—Presi
dent Wilson has set October 15th
to December 15th as the period for
the registration of Alaskans between
the ages of eighteen and forty-five,
both inclusive.
As a matter of convenience to
those who may wish to go Outside,
the Nenana local board announces
that such people may register with
the Nenana local board at any time
from this date. Those who will
remain in the district will be re
quired to register after 7 a. m., on
October 15th.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—The war
department received notification to
day of the death of Brigadier Gen
eral Charles Doyen, commandant of
the Marine training camp at Quan
tico, Virginia; influenza being given
as the cause of death.
Brigadier General Doyen returned
to the United States from activt
service in France several months
ago.
INS ASKED 10
Teutons Are Notified to Withdraw
Their Forces From Bulgaria
Within One Month.
AMSTERDAM.—According to re
ports received in this city today
from reliable sources, Bulgaria has
notified her former allies that they
must quit Bulgarian territory with
in a month from date of notice.
E. G. Wetzler, chief clerk of the
Railway Mail Service, arrived in Ne
nana on the steamer Yukon.
!
VON HINDENBURG j
RESIGNS HIS POSI
German War Chief Quit* Hi* Job
After Heated Interview With
the Kaiaer.
LONDON.—An Amsterdam des
patch received here today says that
Field Marshal von Hindenburg re
signed his position as chief of the
general staff after a heated inter
view with the kaiser.
Von Hindenburg is reported to
have told the kaiser that a retreat
of the German armies on a large
scale will be impossible to avoid.
LAUNCH IS WRECKED;
PASSENGERS PERISH
The most shocking river disaster 1
to be recorded in Interior Alaska, j
within the memory of oldtimers,
occurred some time last Friday
afternoon, when the launch Flyer,
owned and operated by Astral G.
Vernon, better known as the “Hun
gry Kid”, was wrecked, in some
manner yet to be accounted for, at
a point on the Tanana river in the
neighborhood of the 12-mile bar;
with the presumable loss of all on
board.
The Flyer, with the “Hungry Kid”
at the wheel, left Nenana at about
6 a. m., on Friday October 4th
with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Craig
and child, Mrs. Hawley Sterling,
George Coleman, Dick Richard and
Helen Moulton as passengers, bound
for Fairbanks.
The launch Victory, with Fred
Douse at the wheel, left Nenana
for Fairbanks a few hours after
the Flyer, and on arrival at Chena
and learning that the Flyer had not
arrived or passed that point, Douse
reported that he had not seen her
on the way up. It was thought that
the Flyer might have taken one of
the numerous sloughs that abound
between Nenana and Fairbanks and
that he might have had engine
trouble or run on a bar and been
delayed in consequence. The fact
that the Flyer had failed to show
up at Chena was also phoned to
Nenana to Andy Hoey, of the Ter
minal by Fred Douse late on Friday
night.
No tidings of the Flyer having
been received up to a late hour on
Friday night, early on the morning
of Saturday, October 5th, Harry de
Young and Eddie Clausen, of the N.
C. staff at Fairbanks, set out on
the launch owned by the former
to search for the Flyer and to
render what aid they were able
to and get the passengers up to
Fairbanks.
The first intimation of. the dis
' j aster to reach Nenana came in a
■ j telegram to the Portland from Joe
| Johnson, who regularly operates the
launch Peerless between Nenana
■ and Fairbanks, and who left Nenana
i for Fairbanks on Saturday morn
ing, October 5th. The message,
i which was dispatched from Chena
! shortly after the arrival of the Peer
! less at that point on Saturday
night, read as follows: “Yesterday
Hungry Kid passed twelve-mile, up
bound, shortly after boat came
drifting down full of water, no
people; expected all drowned; no
I trace.”
It is presumed that Joe Johnson
got the news at Norman Hadley’s
camp on his wav up stream, as this
is the nearest camp to the 12-mile
mile bar, where the empty water
logged launch was reported to have
been seen floating downstream.
Confirmation of the disaster was
brought to Nenana by Carl White,
who arrived on his launch from
Chena, bound for the Tolovana, at
about 9:30 p. m. Saturday.
Carl White stopped at Norman
Hadley’s camp on his way down to
Nenana from Fairbanks on Sat
urday afternoon and gleaned the
following information regarding the
Flyer: It would appear, from Carl
White’s story, that Hadley’s atten
tion was attracted to the river by
a noise caused by the hull of a boat
grating on the pebbly bottom of
the bar opposite his camp. On look
ing in the direction of the bar he
saw a large boat drifting down
stream, floating on its side, and he
immediately set out in his poling
boat to investigate. On arriving
alongside he identified the floating
object as the launch Flyer, from
the name painted on her, and, in
tending to tow it to slack water,
he made fast to the hull and took
it in tow. The tow would appear
to have been too much for his light
craft and despite all his efforts to
make slack water, they steadily
drifted toward the main channel.
On striking deep water his tow be
gan to sink rapidly and threatened
to engulf his boat, and to save him
self he was obliged to cut the launch
adrift. The launch is said to have
sunk in the channel about a mile
below Hadley’s camp.
Hadley, while being positive that
j the boat was the Flyer, was not
I able to tell whether or not there
were any bodies or baggage on
board.
Gus Peterson, one of the pass
engers on the Carl White launch,
who is on his way to the Tolovana
country, confirmed the story brought
by Carl White, and thinks that
Hadley will be in a position to give
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KAISER ASKS ALLIES
TO DISCUSS PEACE
COPENHAGEN.—Prince Maxi
millian of Baden, the newly ap
pointed German chancellor, told the
Reichstag that he had sent a note
through the good offices of the gov
ernment of Switzerland, to President
Wilson, in which he requested the
President to take up the question
regarding the bringing about of
peace and to communicate with the
other belligerent powers of the En
tente Allies regarding the subject.
The chancellor also said that
President Wilson in his message to
Congress last January and in pro
clamations issued from time to time
later on, outlined a program for a
general peace with the Central
Powers. The terms of the program
so outlined by President Wilson,
could be accepted, the chancellor
said, as a basis *for peace negotia
tions.
KAISER TALKS
BERLIN.—The kaiser issued a
proclamation addresed to the Ger
man army and navy in which he an
nounced that Germany intended to
offer peace to the enemy. He said
that it must be an honorable peace.
THE BRITISH VIEW
LONDON.—In discussing the
peace feelers put out by the Teu
tons, the British newspapers frankly
distrust the German peace inten
tions.
The Daily Mail says that Chan
cellor Maximillian’s speech to the
Reichstag contained no expression
of repentance for the ' crimes com
mitted by Germany; and citing the
Bulgarian situation and the uncon
ditional surrender demanded of
them, says that Bulgaria was not
allowed to tell the Allied powers
what to do, and claims that the
same course should be adopted by
the Allies in dealing with Germany
and nothing but an unconditional
surrender demanded of them.
THE AMERICAN VIEW
NEW YORK.—American news
papers are united in insisting that
an unconditional surrender be de
manded of Germany. The New
York Times says that if Germany
wants peace she will have to abolish
the kaiser and speak through a
government of the German people.
A MILTARY NECESSITY
BERNE, Switzerland—The Stutt
gart News and the Tageblatt says
that the peace proposals wrere made
by Germany on the advice of the
German high command or general
staff. These papers also say that
Germany has also decided to consent
to heavy sacrifices in attaining
peace.
NOTE IS PRESENTED
WASHINGTON, D. C. — The
Swedish minister presented a note
from the Austrian government to
day, asking President Wilson for
an armistice and peace negotiations
on the conditions laid previously
by the President.
It is believed that the offer will
fail if, as it now seems possible,
the Germans ask for a conference
and enter into diplomatic quibbling;
but it is felt that peace is in sight
if the Teutons would actually ac
cept the President’s terms without
any reservation and withdraw their
forces from invaded territory.
It is expected that Washington
will send a speedy reply to the
Austrian note so that the bond sales
will not be disturbed
AUSTRIANS JUBILANT
AMSTERDAM. — According to
Austrian newspapers, the Austrian
people are greatly impresse'1 with
the peace move, and are filled with
hope for its success.
POPE DECLINES
PARIS.—According to a despatch
received in this city today from
Rome, the Austro-Hungarian gov
ernment again requested the Vati
can to take steps towards estab
lishing peace with the Entente
Allies.
The despatch adds that his holi
ness the pope has refused the re
quest without giving any reasons
for so doing.
SENATORS’ VIEWS
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WASHINGTON, D. C.—Senator
Hitchcok, in discusing the peace
movement, said that the very
thought of a suspension of holtilities
was absolutely abhorrent and he
recommended that President Wilson
deal only with the real representa
tives of the German people.
Senator Lodge said that an armis
tice now would mean the loss of all
we were fighting for and that Ger
many merely proposes a long de
bate. We must obtain a military
victory and force Germany to sue
for peace, he said.
Senator Cumber introduced a re
solution which provides that before
the United States agrees to an
armistice, Germany must disband
her army, surrender her navy, arms
and ammunition, pay damages for
the devastated cities and countries
and restore Alsace Lorraine to
France.
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GERMAN NOTE RECEIVED
WASHINGTON, D. C.— An at
tache of the Swiss legation person
ally delivered the German note to
President Wilson today.
It is expected that the note will
receive the President’s immediate
attention and some action may be
looked for soon.
KNITTING CLUB MEETS
THURSDAY AFTERNOON
_
The Nenana Knitting club will
hold their next regular meeting on
Thursday at half past two o’clock.
They will meet at the home of
Mrs. David More, on the Commission
reserve.