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Lot No. I - $550.52
Lot No. 2 = $223.52
These Lots are centrally located, being
only a few steps from the Postoffice and
office of U. S. Commissioner and across
the street from the Telegraph office and
Federal Reserve.
The Lots origionally sold for $1200.00
and $500.00 respectively. For further in
formation see Dr. J. R. Bowen, the dentist
Bowen Building, Nenana.
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era OF ARMY
CENTRAL FRANCE—Artillery
and airplanes are going to be two
of the decisive factors in winning
the war, according to the military
experts, and here at this little in
terior town can be seen what the
ordnance branch of the American
army has built up in the last four
months to keep up the steady flow
of artillery, arms, ammunition, ma
chine guns, tanks, and all the ma
teria! of combat, toward the fight
ing front.
It is one of the mammoth institu
tions which has suddenly sprung up
with the coming of the Americans,
i and since April last, it has spread
over an area of several miles, with
two enormous gunshops, two similar
shops for tanks and gun tractors,
two more for assembling and re
pairing artillery of all kinds, an
other for machine guns, rifles and
| small arms, with huge foundries and
forges for the casting. A long with
these are going up four great ware
: houses for housing all kinds of ord
! nance material.
The big government arsenal at
; Rock Island. Mo., is the only thing
of the kind that compares in extent
with this plant, and yet it is 90
per cent completed, after four
months of existence.
There are two stages in the steady
up-keep of the cannon and all kinds
of weapons going forward to the
fighting lines. The first step is in
the zone of the advance, along
with the army, where a number of
ordnance shops are operated to meet
immediate requirements in the field,
to remount crippled cannon and tc
get the guns back into use with the
least possible delay. The shops
move forward with the troops, with
machinery, tools, and a” the stock
and parts to do quick work.
The larger stage of work, which
is not done in the face of the fight
ing. conies back here to the big
shops equipped to do all kinds of
extensive ordnance work, such as
the reboring of the heavy guns, the
remountirtg of the gun carriage and
all classes of artillery work on a
large scale.
In the heavy and constant artillery
actions now going on. the big guns
are put to a severe test and there
must be frequent re-tubing and re
rifling. The bigger a gun is the
shorter is its life for effective
shooting The 12-inch gun has a
life of 350 shuts; the sea-coast 14
inch gun, capable of shooting 21
miles, has a life of about 150 shots.
The smaller French 75 is good for
some 10,000 shots. But when the
limit is reached the gun must come
back here to be made over. Its use
as a gun is in no way impaired and
with a new cylinder in the barrel,
and new rifling to keep the shell
whirling, the gun is as good as new.
While this big institution is keep
ing up the steady supply of guns,
large and small, in the fighting now
going on. yet the main supply will
sooner or later come from America
when its vast productive resources
get in full operation. There are
cheering reports of how this pro
duction is fast increasing, particu
larly in machine guns. But big
guns and their mammoth tractors j
cannot be turned out in a day, and !
after that is the problem of ship- ■
ping such unwieldy monsters across
the Atlantic.
So, for the present at least, much '
of the vast supply of guns, great'
and small, moving forward to thei
firing line is of French pattern or j
French make. The splendid artil
lery results in the recent fighting
tell how these guns are operated in
American batteries. And yet it is
only fair to the American fighting,
force to recognize that they are
not yet fully equipped with their;
own arms, and that from this time'
forward there will be a steady in-'
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| crease of American metal and Amer
ican high explosive as well as Amer
ican airplanes in the crucial phases
of the conflict.
An imposing array of all the types
of big guns in use is to be seen
in the shops here with 4,000 gun
makers advancing them through all
stages. On one side are the monster
guns mounted on railway trucks,
with 8-inch, 10-inch and 12-inch
rifles and tne huge 8-inch and 9.2
howitzers drawn by tractors. Other
forms of this heavy artillery are
the 155 millimetre, the 4.7-inch. 5
inch and 6-inch guns, the field guns
of the famous French 75 pattern
and the 155-millimetre howitzers.
They look doubly monstrous in their
war paint, with fantastic camou
flage smeared over rifles and huge
armored trucks.
The smallest field piece in this
vast arsenal is the little French
o7-millimetre. or one-pounder which,
under the Hague convention, is the
minimum gun firing explosive shells.
Even in this workshop where the
guns are being hurried forward to
the front, one observes that the
same Hague convention which the
enemy ignores, is being observed
by the Allies.
1OWNSITE LOIS
AUCTIONED M
Pursuant to a notice appearing
in the columns of the Xenana Xews,
the following Xenana towmsite
. lots were sold today at the town
site office, at public auction:
Lot Blk Sold to Sale Price
3 12 James Hagen $350
10 1 Mike Goonen.$155
10 12 Mrs M. O’Bryan $330
7 1 Geo. W. Woods.$150
7 12 Wo. J. Taylor $525
22 14 A. W. Heimberger $200
22 11 Geo. S. Martin $325
15 11 A. D. Thompson.$325
Total .$2,360
These lot sales will be continued
on Monday and Tuesday, October
28th and 29th.
BISHOP TUCKER SENT
TO SIBERIAN STATION
TOKIO Bishop St George Tuckc-r
of Kyoto, who represents the Amiri
can Episcopal church, has rone to
\ ladivostock as a delegate to the
American Red Cress. Kish ip Tuck
er has been asked to inv >~‘.igate
the condition of destitute ci\ :-ars
in the region between Vladivostock
and Irkutsk.
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Paper-Weight Champions in an 8-Round Boxing Contest.
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Lavine” (Clifford Noeler), also shoowing the finish of the long
dintance race. This picture was taken in Xenana July 4, 1918.
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