THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana. Alaska,
for eniry as second class mail matter, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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Company, at First and B Streets, Nenana, Alaska.
R. G. South worth....Editor and Manager
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CAMPAIGN QUIZ WANTED
According- to information received
at London recently from Capetown
a demand has sprung up there for
a searching investigation into the
manner in which the British cam
paign conducted in East and
Central Africa after General Smuts
had relinquished command to go
to England. When he left it was
believed that the campaign had
been virtually concluded.
Owen Letcher, formerly an offi
cer in the East African expedition
ary force, reviews the campaign in
a series of articles in the Cape
Times and strongly advocates a com
mission of inquiry. Belief prevails
in Capetown, it is said, that the sport
of yachting at Dar-es-Salaam and
elephant hunting in the interior
were largely responsible for the pro
longation of the fighting.
The campaign is said to have ex
ceeded the cost of the Boer war,
amounting to about SI,500,000,000.
To the casualties, which were heavy
in killed and wounded, must be
added many men who will suffer
from fever for the rest of their
lives.
The work of the Portuguese
colonial forces is criticized, also the
huge headquarters staffs maintained
by the British hundreds of miles
from the scenes of the actual fight
ing.
Discussing the Portuguese. Let-,
c-her writes: "In common justice
to our forces it must be set on
record that not only did the Portu
guese colonial army put up poor de
fense against the maraudinv Ger
mans, but that their presence was
a vert- substantial advantage to Von
Lettow. (German commander) inas
much as they frequently embar
rassed our movements aad surrend
ered to the enemy guns, rifles, ma
chine guns and supplies of which
the Germans were badly in need.
"The engagement at Nhamacurra,
about 30 miles from Quelimane,
which was fought in the beginning
of July, 1&18, was a particularly
disastrous event for us. since after
the Portuguese had lost two guns,
with a lot of other equipment, and
native troops despite the efforts of
their officers had broken in dis
order, the enemy attacked Major
Gore Browne’s King African Rifles
detachment and largely through the
employment of the two captured
guns, inflicted a severe defeat
to us.”
WATCHING THE HUNS
Business in the German postal,
telegraph and telephone services un
der American censorship in the oc
cupied area has. increased to such
an extent that recently thirty-five
additional soldiers were added to the
force of censors. This gives Cob
lenz about sixty and Treves forty
in the censorship department. These
two cities handle virtually all the
mail, telegrams and telephone calls
from the occupied zone to other
parts of Germany.
The long distance telephone calls
are confined to business. Personal
calls, excepting where it is shown
that they are important as in case
of sickness, are not permitted. All
telephone conversations are recorded
a German-speaking American soldier
taking such notes as he believes
will be of interest to the intellii
j genee section of the army of which
. the censorship is a part.
Letters, telephone calls and tele
grams from one point to another
in the American area are not cen
sored . »
British landlords
Frequent charges that landlords
all over England, taking advantage
of the scarcity >f houses, have
assumed the attitude of "buy at my
price or get out” have been carried
; to the House of Commons with the
; result that the government has
promised relief. During the Com
mons discussion it was stated that
hundreds of families have eviction
notices and cannot find a place to
live.
In many instances rcnants ha\ e
been forced to pay three times
the pre-war rental and in addition
recently have received notices that
they must purchase the property if
they wish to remain.
The demand for houses at fancy
prices is unprecedented. Landlords
who invest in renting property are
anxious to realize handsome returns
on sales and argue that they are
under no obligation to re-lease
property particularly when by so do
ing they lose a big profit.
A NOTABLE SURRENDER
Among the most notable recent
surrenders of rebel leaders to the
government, according to an official
report by General Fortunato May
c-otte to the Mexican war depart
ment, was that of the former fed
eral brigadier general, Pablo Var
gas, in the state of Guerrero, says
an Associated Press corresDondent
writing from Mexico City. Vargas
revolted about a year ago when
his chief. General Silvestre Mariscal,
governor of Guerrero, was impris
oned in Mexico City for disobe
dience of orders.
In addition to General Gerardo
Morones, more than 1.200 /.apata
adherents have given ip their arms
and received amnesty at the mili
tary posts in Tlaipam and , ochi
milco. This leaves the mountain.>us
district near the capital, f .r years
dominated by rebels, in a safe «- m
dition.
NEW WOMEN
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Demobilization is returning men
servants to England in ever icr as
ing numbers and the wealthy house
holder has no difficulty now ,n hir
ing a butler, footman, .groom. chauf
feur or page boy, says a report
from London. The shortage of
women servants, howeie.- daily be
comes more acute. Unlike the
women, the men have ro objection
to returning to their old indoor
domestic jobs. The reason, cord
ing to a West End employment
agency manager, is that *he male
1 indoor servant is chosen mainly for
j decorative purposes -the women do
' the work.
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Parlor maids are >w demanding
: the salary of a trained typist. Some
j are highly particular about hours,
Quality of food and conditions of
! employment One notified an
| agency she would work from 9 to
j 5, with time off for neals.
It is said that the pre-var mis
tress is prepared tc. be much more
considerate of her servants than she
was in the old da vs.
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LOCUS! ATIACK
IS COMING SOON
IN THE STATES
WASHINGTON.—Great swarms
of tho 17-vear locust will infest the
United States in late May and early
June this year, which is expected
by scientists to be one of the worst
“locust years" on record. Experts
of the department of agriculture,
however, see nothing alarming in
the prospect.
Once regarded superstitiously as
a harbinger of disaster, the periodi
cal cicada, popularly known as the
17-year locust because it comes at
long intervals, is seen now to be
no more than an ordinary non
poisonous insect pest, which can
do little damage if proper pre
cautions are taken. The chief in
jury inflicted by the insect consists
almost wholly in chiseling grooves
in the branches of trees for deposit
ing eggs. Young fruit trees some
times are killed, but the damage
generally seems greater than it
actually is according to the entomol
ogists, and popular alarm is out of
proportion to the real danger.
The department of agriculture nas
kept close check for many years of
ail the broods of locusts and can
forecast accurately when and where
the pests will appear. Large
regions will be affected this year
where one brood appeared 17 years
ago and in other regions which suf
fered 13 years ago, the states in
cluding Alabama. District of Col
umbia, Deleware. Georgia, Illinois.
Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland,
Massaehusettes. Michigan. New Jer
New Tork, North Carolina.
Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina.
Tennessee. Vermont, Virginia, West
Virginia and Wisconsin.
Belief that the 1919 brood will
be exceptionally large is based on
the fact that the 17-year brood
coming out this year is brood 10.
perhaps the largest of the 17-vear
brood, and that brood 18 of the
13-year family comes out at the
same time. The year 1868 was the
greatest locust year in history, when
brood 19, the largest of the 13-vear
family, appeared in conjunction
with brood 10 of the 17-year family
There will be three regions of
greatest occurrence of brood 10.
one covering New Jersey, Mary
land and Eastern Pennsylvania; an
other covering all of Indiana, the
greater part of Ohio and Southern
Michigan; and a third covering
Western North Carolina. Eastern
Tennessee and Northern Georgia.
While brood 10 will affect 20 states,
brood -18 will appear in only five
states—Alabama, Georgia, North
Carolina, South Carolina and Ten
nessee, and only limited areas in
those states.
L. Marlatt, chairman of the
Federal Horicultural Board, who has
perfected the informal* n on the
■ icada, calls the insect the most
interesting in the world, because of
tKe spectacular swarms in which it
appears, its queer recurrence at
long intercals and the portentous'
significance frequently attached to
it. Every locust year has been a
year of fear and dread, even in
civilized times. Some people have
fancied that they could detect in
the cry of the insect a resemblance
to the name of the Egyptian mon
arch, Pharoah, who persecuted the
Israelites. Superstition attached
also to the shape of the filmy bars
on the cicada’s wings, which seemed
to form the letter “W’\ interpreted
as a forecast of war.
"Since this outbreak will come
just at the conclusion of the great
est war," said Mr. Marlatt said, “and
uhen even the imagination of the
rural prophet could hardly conjure
up the likelihood of another one,
some hew explanation will apprently
have to be found.”
Prospector. and Contractor.'
Now is the t<me to have that tar
paulin, tent or bag made for the
seasons outfit... Bed and hat nets
a-e now reed- »t .mall *-~*t
MRS. D’ORSAY’S TAILOR SHOP,
Third and A Streets.
FRENCH CULTURE
IS HARD HST BY
LOSSES OF WAR
PARIS.—That French intellectual
classes have paid in lives to a fear
ful extent in the war was disclosed
in the casualty returns now being
analyzed according to professions,
is stated in the Paris journal Intran
sigeant. The records show that
6227 Frenchmen prominently en
gaged in educational pursuits have
been killed on the battlefield.
Paris alone, the paper adds, has
lost 337S students of different uni
versities and colleges, besides 350
journalists and men of letters. The
figures for provincial France are
not yet available, but they are said
to be very large.
Since August 2. 1914, most of
France’s gjeat educational institu
tions have been practically closed
down, only a few elderly professors
and a limited number of younger
men. pysically unfit for military
service, remaining to keep the lamp
of knowledge burning.
To repopulate universities and
colleges without delay is. in the view
of the authorities. imperative if
France is to remain in the fore
front of intellectual life. M. Laf
ferre. minister of public instruction,
promises special facilities for stud
ents “as soon as they are demobil
ized." but the machinery by which
men are returned to civilian life is
working very slowly.
L Eclair, another Paris dailv
paper, in an editorial demands
quicker methods. It says that French
culture is in danger of losing its
leading position if the process of
putting the teaching elements back
into their proper spheres of activity
is not at once acclerated. Higii
cost of living, and the very human
desire on the part of demobilized
professional men to secure the best
possible livelihood, it says, is rap
idly leading to an acute crisis in the
teaching world. The paper advo
cates a scheme bv which the still
mobilized professors and students
should be enabled to resume their
lectures and nudies at once at the
universities and colleges of Lille,
Nancy, Strasburg and other centers
of learning in the northern and
northeastern parts of France and in
Alsace-Lorraine, if they cannot be
sent back to their homes.
NENANA TO TALKEETNA
DISTANCE TABLE
Talkeetna is the end of steel on
the coast division.
From N’enana to No. Miles
Xenana Crossing (by rail). 43
Lignite .52
Rilev Creek . ...70
Jack River ...... , 90
Broad Pass Summit. 110
Sullivan’s . 128
Indian River .......162
Dead Horse . 182
Talkeetna . 202
The distances given are approxi
mate.
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Browne, F. D.
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Haslem, H. G
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Gray, E. B.
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Laughlin, E. L
Lund, E. E.
Lehr, Q. F.
Markus, George
Mortensen, Peter
Myers, R R.
Moore, Frank B
Miles, J. H.
McDonald, R S.
Martin, G. S.
Morris, R. c.
Mash, Martin
Owen, Harry
O’Keefe, Larry
Parks, S. E.
Pennington. G. W
Palfy, Paul
Packer. Vi. L.
Ryan, W. A.
Rosburg, Herman
Roth, Andy
Rodigkeit, Wm
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Shaw, Harry N.
Stol, Xels
Schmidt, Carl
Schaeffer, M. A. *
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Scott, J. H.
Sellander, C. J.
Stone, A J.
Schmidt, Pete
Smith, Chas.
Smith, George A.
Southworth, R. G.
Spira, Frank
Taylor, Frank
Tunison, B.
Thompson, Theodore
Toussaint, J G. K
Tyler, M. V.
Taylor, Wm. J.
Verhaeghe, Cyriele
Van Orsdel, J. C.
Woods, Geo. W.
Williams, E A.
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