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VOLUME ONE
NENANA, ALASKA. FRIDAY, MAY 24. 1918.
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LONDON, May 24.—In an ad
dress delivered at Edinburg, Premier
David Lloyd George expressed the
belief that another attempt would
be made by the Germans to break
through the Allied lines on the West
ern front. “We are or the eve of
a great German attack,” he said.
“Those who know best what the
prospects are, feel most confident
about the result.”
Referring to the accomplishments
of the Allies in the way of ship
building, the premier stated that in
April the output of shipping ex
ceeded, for the first time, the losses
sustained as the result of sub
marine attacks. He also said that
the submarines of the enemy were
being destroyed faster now than the
Germans can build them.
Continuing, the premier declared
that during the next few weeks, ;t
would be a race betwen Hindenburg
and Wilson. The Germans, he said,
are straining every effort to reach
the goal first, on the eve of Ameri
can help becoming available f< r the
Allies. “I can honestly say,” he
added, “that the government has
neglected no possible means for
finding whether there is any honor
able outlet of war.”
In conclusion, he said that after
all her exertion, America, at the
present time did not have what was
equivilant to one-fifth the fighting
strength which the Teutons have
received from the collapse of Russia.
It takes time, he said to train and
equip armies and that American
help could not be reckoned on for
some time.
WASHINGTON PUZZLED
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 24
Officials are puzzled regarding the
figures given by Premier George,
in view of the recent announcement
to the effect that there were more
4 than half a million American sol
dirs in France. It is believed that
the premier’s statement indicates
that between and two and two and
f one-half million Germans have been
released from the Eastern front, and
not previously reported. The Ger
mans in the East totaled about that
number.
CONVICT BATALLIONS
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 24
Reports received in this city state
that Germany is forming convict
battalions and taking men from the
munition factories and filling their
places with women. German troops
are also being moved from Dutch
and Rumanian frontier garrisons to
positions on the French front.
FRENCH MAKE RAIDS
4 PARIS, May 24.—The war office
announces that successful raids were
carried out during the night and
early this morning south of Covey,
on the Aisne front, in the Cham
paigne sector and in the Vosges. A
number of Germans were taken cap
tive.
FIRE IS ACCURATE
With the Americans, May 24.—
The wreck of eight of the ten Ger
man batteries on the Picardy front,
which have been bombarding the
American positions, indicates that
the fire of the Yankee artillery is j
very accurate. Aerial photographs J
show that direct hits were scored:
in most instances. In addition to j
putting the German guns out of j
commission, the American batteries j
are busily engaged in tearing up j
the enemy rear lines, and setting:
ammunition depots and billets on :
fire. Yankee patrols continue to
harass the Germans nightly.
LINES PENETRATED
PARIS, May 24.—French patrol
troops are reported to have pene
, trated the German lines in the Cham
pagne district and on the Woevre
plain. Numerous prisoners and
considerable war material were cap
tured. Heavy bombardment is in
progress on the Avere river front.
THIRTY PLANES ATTACK
PARIS, May 24.—Thirty German
planes engaged in the attack on
this city, but only one succeeded in
penetrating the aerial defense.
Bombs dropped by the lone machine
killed one person and injured sev
eral. There were several victims in
the suburbs, where the bombs were
more numerous.
RED
IS
BY COAST
Six Hundred Workers In Walkout;
Strike Seriously Crippling
the Food Movement.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 24.—Six
hundred union warehouse men work
ing in large food warehouses in this
city, have struck for an increase in
pay and the walkout is seriously
crippling food movements, as these
warehouses are distributing places
for a great part of the food supply
in the western states and Alaska.
The strikers are making a demand
for four dollars per day, based on
an eight-hour workipg day, and
sixty-five cents an hour for over
time.
GERMANSliEZE
ANOTHER VESSEL
German* Seized Dutch Steam*hip
Meg-ez. Thi* It the Second
Seizure in Two Day*.
LONDON, May 24.—Information
received here today states that the
German government has seized the
Dutch steamship Mebrez, taking it
to Swinemude. This is the second
vessel to be seized in two days, the
steamship Agena having been taken
on May 22.
STEAMER RELIANCE
SCHEDULED AT TWO
The steamer Reliance was booked
to leave Fairbanks for the lower
Tanana river at two o’clock this
afternoon and should reach Nenana
sometime during the evening.
IN GERMAN CAMPS
| MOSCOW, May 24—Conditions
! among the Slav prisoners confined
! in German and Austrian prison
! camps are appalling, according to
the stories told by scores of Russian
soldiers who have just been ex
changed for German war prisoners
held in Russia. The mortality
among the unfortunates is almost
beyond belief, and of the three
million who have survived the in
human treatment, fully a million are
total invalids. Half of the invalids
are in the last stages of the dread
disease. The death rate is mount
ing steadily.
There are at present one million
nine hundred thousand Russian pris
oners in Germany and a million two
hundred thousand in Austria. Ex
treme hard labor, lack of proper
j nourishment and unsanitary prison
conditions are responsible for the'
pitiful state in which most of the
j sufferers find themselves.
Of the prisoners just released, a
very great many of them will be
j for a long time, a burden upon the
1 districts to which they have been
j returned and a large proportion of
them will never recover their health
sufficiently to care for themselves.
CONCRETE SHIPS
DEFY-EFFORT OF
HUN ENGINEERS
Unable to Remove Obstructions,
Germans Are Now Making
New Channel for Subs.
LONDON, May 24—Having failed
in their efforts to blow up the con
crete laden ships which were sunk
at the entrances to the harbors at
Bruges and Zeebrugge, the Germans
are now cutting away a portion of
the piers and making a new channel
for their submarines and vessels of
even larger size.
Photographs taken recently by
British aviators show that the chan
nels were more effectually blocked
than was at first supposed. And
the steps now being taken by the
Germans to provide a new passage
prove that considerable difficulty
has been experienced in getting in
and out of the harbors since British
raiders launched their attacks.
The operation of the German en
gineers are being continually ham
pered by Allied airmen, who drop
bombs at frequent intervals on the
men engaged in making the new
channels.
Thirty-Seven German Aeroplane*
Destroyed, Six Downed and
Eight Balloons Destroyed.
French Army Headquarters, May
24. — Thirty-seven German aero
planes were destroyed, six others
forced to decend badly damaged and
eight captive balloons destroyed by
French aviators since weather con
ditions became favorable for aerial
operations.
SOCIALIST CONVICTED
KANSAS CITY, May 24.—Mrs.
Rose Paster Stokes, wife of a prom
inent New York Socialist, was today
convicted of violating the Espion
age act, on three counts.
GOING 10 JAPAN
Prince Arthur of Connaught Heads
British Mission to America
and Orient.
ATLANTIC PORT, May 24.—
Prince Arthur of Connaught, son of
the former governor-general of Can
ada, arrived here today at the head
of a British mission to the United
States. The party made the voyage
across the Atlantic on a British
cruiser.
The prince and the members of
his party will proceed at once to
Washington, D. C., where they will
confer with President Wilson at the
White House. After the Washing
ton visit, they will cross the con
tinent to the Pacific coast, where
they will take passage to Japan.
The purpose of the visit to the
Orient has not yet been disclosed
and neither has a statement been i
made with regard to the visit of |
the mission at Washington.
MILLIONS DONATED
TO RED CROSS
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Over Fifty-Two Million Dollars Is
Donated to Fund Throughout
the Nation.
WASHINGTON’, D. C., May 24.—
Officials of the Red Cross society,
who are directing the drive for one
hundred million dollars, announce
today that more than half the
amount has already been subscribed,
and it is estimated that the re
mainder of the sum desired will be
contributed during the final days
of the drive. The exact amount
subscribed thus far is $52,150,396.
JUNEAU WANTS WOOL
Telegraphic advices received from
Juneau today state that a resident
of the territorial capital has come
forward with a bid of $500 for the
parcel of White House wool alloted
to the First division.
WASHINGTON’. D. C . May
| That the kaiser’s soldiers in the
j Eastern arena are very much averse
to engaging in the sanguinary fight
ing for which the Western battle
fronts are justly notorious, is evi- .
deneed by the refusal very recently
j of an entire German division to
! leave their quarters at Dvinsk,
Russia. The men had been ordered
from the Eastern to Western front
and trains were sent to carry them
across the eounry. They flatly re
fused to embark, however, and it
was not until more than a thousand
of them had been placed under ar
rest that the others submitted. Fifty j
of those placed under arrest were
executed.
The sympathies of other Gorman
troops in that part of Russia are
with the mutineers, it would appear
from wireless advices received by
the state department from Russia.
Demonstrations in favor of the
striking division were held at sev
eral points, and but for the drastic
measures taken by the German mili
tary authorities, disorders doubtless
would have become general among
the kaiser’s fighting men in Russia.
A transfer to the Western front,
in the opinion of the Eastern troops,
is equivalent to being sentenced to
CANADIANS WANT
Ten Thousand Shipbuildf-s In the
Dominion Yards Are Insisting
Upon a Raise.
VANCOUVER, B. C , May 24.—
Feeling that they are entitled to a*
much pay as American workers re
ceive, ten thousand Canadian ship
yard workers have served formal
notice upon their employers that
they will quit their jobs tonight un
less their demands for an advance
in wages is granted. In addition
to the wage increase, the men in
sist upon a forty-four hour week.
The contention of the workers is
that living costs in Canada have in
creased to such an extent that their
labor is no longer profitable at the
Canadian rate of wages.
Officials of the Dominion govern
ment, have taken the matter up with
representatives of the workers and
an effort is being made to adjust
•the differences before the walkout
I takes place.
FOOD SITUATION
RUSSIA SERIOUS
Allied Subjects Are Leaving Russia.
Food Almost Unobtainable;
Outbreak Feared.
[ MOSCOW, May 24.—According: to
official reports reaching here from
Kiev today, Allied subjects are leav
ing Russia in great numbers owing
to the scarcity of food in this coun
try. The supply has become so lim
ited, it is stated, that food is now
almost unobtainable in Petrograd,
the distribuion having been stopped
May 14th. It is greatly feared that
an outbreak will develop in Ukraine
among the thousands of hungry
people in that region. Local dis
orders are reported from a number
of cities and towns and there is the
danger that continued suffering will
result in a general uprising.
The launch Victory was sched
uled to get away from Fairbanks
about noon today.
POIlfXiER IS
MAKING EFFORT
TO HELP NORTH
Washington Senator Wants Congress
to Spend Money for Develop
ment of Coal.
SEATTLE, May 24.—The Post
Intelligencer is authority for the
statement that Senator Miles I’oin
i dexter, of this state, is responsible
■ for the insertion of the clause, in
the na"i! '■npropriation bill, pro
j s iding for the appropriation of a
million dollars, to be used by the
i : y far mining coal or contracting
for coal in Alaska for the use of
the navy. The funds also are to
be used for transporting the coal to
Seward and for the construction of
suitable bunkers and docks at the
Gateway town.
The bill is now before committee
and it is expected that the measure
will be reported before congress ad
journs for the week.
LONDON, May 24.—According to
despatches received from Rotterdam
today a British aviator sank a Ger
man destroyer yesterday at Zee
brugge, having scored several direct
hits with bombs. The aviator was
under fire throughout the attack
upon the vessel but managed to
escape with only bullet holes in his
plane as evidence of his narrow
escape.
commIeeToies
FOR LARGER ARMY
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 24.—
The senate committee on military
affairs has given its unanimous ap
proval to the resolution providing
for an increase in the army strength
to three million men. A favorable
report on the resolution was ordered
at a meeting held this morning.