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LAUNCH VICTORY ARRIVED
FROM FAIRBANKS TODAY
The launch Victory, with Captain
Fred Douse at the wheel, arrived in
port from Fairbanks at half past
one o’clock this monring, bringing
Joe Meherin and C. Dunlap, two
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
Sunday school will be held in
the old commissioner’s office build
ing, opposite the postoffice, Sunday
at 1 p. m.
The regular service will be held
at the same place at two o’clock.
The subject will be: “Is the Uni
verse. Including Man, Evolved by
Atomic Force?”
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traveling men, as passengers foi
Xenana.
She also had the Beldon hydro
plane “Flea” in tow. The flea wil
j enter the motor-boat race to be helc
'during the Fourth of July celebra
tion.
The Victory is scheduled to sai
for Fairbanks tomorrow morninc
at the usual time, her skipper de
ciding to attend the Midnight Sur
hop tonight.
The Cascade Laundry has plents
of hot soft water at all times. Neui
bath rooms, fully equipped and san
itary, with special rooms for ladies
You get rebate with $2.50 laundry,
which applies on bath, or pay 50c
per bath.
Electrical Goods
Stoves and Ranges
Water Pipes and
Fittings
Bath Fixtures
Sheet Metal Work «f All Kinds
Tanana Sheet Metal Works
Nothing Succeeds I
Like Success
Our Goods arelRight. Our Prices are
Right
Watch and Jewelfy Repairing, Engraving
Wm. TAYLOR
I
IS BACK IN NENANA
FROM GERMAN TOWN
Among those arriving in Nenana
i on the steamer Alaska is W. D.
: Wallace, a former Nenanaite, who
• less than two months ago, was with
the Canadian army of occupation
at Cologne, on the Rhine, Germany.
From the beginning of September
last until November 11th, when the
armistice was signed and the fi-ht
ing concluded, Wallace was on the
firing line in the Arras sector, be
tween Douai and Cambrai, which
sector was occupied by the Cana
dians, and took part in the big
Allied advance all along the line
from Lille, in the north, to Verdun,
in the south, when they crashed
through the famous Hindenburg lino
and forced the Huns to accept the
Allied peace terms and quit fighting.
Mr. Wallace wears the badge of
the Canadian overseas forces, which
consists of a shield in the center
showing the British union jack en
circled by a band bearing the
legend, “Canadian Expeditionary
Forces,” awarded to the British col
onial troops who had supported the
British imperial forces overseas. He
has a wealth of very interesting
accounts of the actual fighting on
the Western front and of deeds of
personal heroism and devotion to
duty of members of the unit to
which he was attached.
Mr. Wallace formed one of Cadas
tral Engineer Woodbury Abbey’s
party during the summer of 1917,
and left Nenana in the fall of that
year for the States, i On reaching
San Francisco he enlisted in the
Canadian army for service at the
front, and with several others, was
sent to North Vancouver for a two
months' training with an engineer
regiment. When the two months
were up his unit was transferred
to St. John, Quebec, which was a
rendezvous station for Canadian en
gineer outfits and where their Cana
dian training was completed, pre
paratory to embarkation for the
The 1st battalion of Canadian en
gineers, to which Wallace was fin
ally assigned, embarked on May 14,
last, on the transport City of Mar
seilles, an6 sailed with the convoy
for “over there”, steering a course
that apparently led away from the
regular ocean trade routes. The
convoy was composed of IS vessels,
three of which were American trans
ports with American troops on
board. The convoy was led by an
armed auxilliary cruiser, camou
flaged to represent a peaceful mer
chantman, and was escorted by a
flotilla of Canadian torpedo boat
destroyers.
When two days out at sea. some
where in the neighborhood of the
Newfoundland Banks, the escorting
destroyers parted company with the
convoy and returned to their home
port, and save for the auxilliary
cruiser at its head, the convoy was
I unprotected.
! On the way over, the convoy, was
i twice attacked by German sub
marines, but in each case the fast
auxilliary cruiser was able to beat
them off and sink them. The con
: voy was twelve days making the
passage across the Atlantic, and
when two days off the coast of Ire
land, a strong flotilla of British
destroyers picked them up and es
corted the convoy safely into a
British port.
While in England, the 1st bat
talion of Canadian engineers was
stationed at Camp Seaforth, Sussex,
which is the headquarters for Cana
dian engnieer units. There they
were put through a course of in
tensive training, received their new
fighting equipment and as soon as
they were considered sufficiently
trained were sent across the mine
infested English Channel, to the
: front.
His unit arrived at Boulogne,
France, September 1, and the men
were immediately sent to the firing
line to replace those who had been
killed or disabled in action; and, as
stated before, from September 4
until the signing of the arimstice,
he was with the Canadian troops
fighting hard on the sector between
Douai and Cambrai.
The big drive, which was care
fully planned by Marshal Foch, the
Allied commander in chief, was
commenced very early one morning
in November, last, 'the whole Allied
line, from Lille to Verdun, advanc
ing as one man, in the face of
heavy shell and machine gun fire
from the Hun lines. Many men
! fell, he says, but the line never
wavered. Fritizie didn’t have a
chance to shift his forces from one
threatened point to another, as he
had been accustomed to do in the ■
past, and it was a case of fight or i
give up. Wallace saw many of his
comrades in arms killed right by bis j
side, but through all the heavy'
fighting he managed to escape un-'
hurt. He was thrown down on sev
eral occasions by the shock of a
nearby exploding shell, but came
out of the scrap otherwise unin
jured.
The signing of the armistice
halted the Canadians immediately
after they had driven the Huns
out of and occupied the city of
Valenciennes, famed the world over
for its lace, and here they were
able to rest for a while after their
strenuous spell of hard fighting.
A few days later the Canadians
selected as part of the army of
occupation, of which the 1st bat
talion of enginers formed a part,
commenced their march to the
Rhine, through the town of Mons,
to Cologne. At Cologne they were
quartered in a schoolhouse near the
west bank of the Rhine, and imme
diately mounted guards on the
bridges, of which there were three, j
crossing the river near Cologne. I
These bridges were links connecting J
the great arteries of traffic over
which the first German advance
came. .
Wallace put in the time as one of
the guards there until the first of |
March, when the Canadian army of j
occupation was relieved from fur- j
thur duty. They then began their1
return march to Havre, France.1
over the reconstructed area, and i
boarding a British transport at that I
port, were conveyed to a Canadian1
military camp at Bramshot, Hants, j
about fifty miles from London, j
This camp is a sort of Canadian j
troop depot, where the men's papers !
are arranged and they are medi- '
callv examined for disabilities be-;'
fore being discharged. At Bram-i1
shot they are also arranged in :1
groups for demobilization and sent i
to Liverpool, where they take ship i:
for the homeland.
The 1st battalion of Canadian en-l’
gineers, composed of what was left j1
of it after the fighting, with addi-i'
tions made since the signing of the j'
armistice, came across on the trans- j'
port Empress of Britain, a Canadian I
Pacific R. R. company’s boat, and!
were landed at Quebec at the end j'
of April, 1919. From this point j*
the men were sent to Minto bar- i
racks, Winnipeg, where they all j
were discharged. As his enlistment !
record showed that he was from I
Xenana, Alaska, Wallace was given |,
an order on the Canadian Pacific i
R. R. company for first class trans-!
portation to Nenana, which he had
no trouble in exchanging for the |
necessary tickets which enabled him j
to land in Nenana finally on the j
steamer Alaska.
In so far as providing transporta-I
tion to discharged soldiers is con- j
cerned, at least, the Canadian mili- [
tary machine would appear to be!
much better equipped and handled j
more smoothly than the American
one. The Canadian soldier’s en
listment record was sufficient for j
ali purposes and he was transported !
at government expense, always trav
eling first class, to whatever place
he came from.
Mr. Wallace states that the atti
tude of the German people toward
the army of occupation was at first
sullen and distrustful, but a few
days served to dispel this feeling
and the German people then opened
up and were as nice as possible
to the boys. In an incredibly short
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I SOFT DRINKS
(INCLUDING THE WAR TAX)
I THE PORTLAND
JACKSON & EKELAND, Prop..
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Trappers and Traders of Alaska
SELL YOUR FURS TO A HOME INDUSTRY. WE GUARANTEE
YOU HIGHER PRICES THAN OUTSIDE
CONCERNS WILL PAY.
During the last season we conducted an advertising campaign
throughout the North and are prepared to send you the names of
people in all sections of Alaska and the Yukon who will verify our
statements.
Our excellent Eastern connections, and the tremendous amount
of mail order business we are receiving from all parts of the
States for furs made to order enables us to turn our stock quickly
at a reasonable profit, but we must have fur, for which we guar
antee top prices.
Make us a trial shipment. If our price does not suit you, the
goods will be returned charges prepaid.
WE MAKE FURS TO ORDER
at more reasonable rates than can be obtained Outside. At present
we are working three operators, and need others. If you are an
operator and finisher, and want a good year-around job, com
municate with us.
CHAS. GOLDSTEIN & CO.
JUINEAU, ALASKA
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pace of time, the stores were
;tocked with iron crosses, helmets
ind other souvenirs of a military
haracter and could be purchased
nost anywhere from prices ranging
rom a few cents to as much as the
oldier cared to pay for what he got,
md a brisk business in souvenirs
vas commenced by the thrifty
Jermans. The helmets and crosses
■ffered for sale, he says, appeared
o be new, and a great many of the
>oys acquired some of them.
Akhiok, on Kodiak island, has ?.
lative orchestra which would be a
redit to any city in the States. The
nembers are all natives and render
he most classical selections in a
nanner which causes their hearers
o predict a successful musical
areer. Simeon Agot is the leader.
GRACE (Presbyterian) CHURCH
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REV. ROBT.
JOSEPH DIVEN
D. D.
MINISTER
12:00 noon—The children's hour.
Evening subject—“Samuel Gom
pers.’’
j Music begins at 7:15 Lecture 7:30
Everybody Welcome
The Alitak Packing company at
Alitak, Kodiak island, has extended
the wharf out to deep water, where
ocean going ships may land.
COLISEUM
Exceptionally Strong Metro Feature for Prog-am Tonight
(FESTIVAL OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN)
A Feature Well Adapted for This Holiday
B. A. Rolfe Present* the Exquisite Emotional Stage Star
Ethel Barrymore
Supported By An All Star Cast, In
“THE WHITE RAVEN”
A THRILLING FRONTIER STORY OF A BRILLIANT GIRL’S
SOUL STRUGGLE AND A GAMBLE FOR LOVE
Adapted and Directed by George D. Baker .
From Charles A. Logue’s Famous Story
IN SIX POWERFUL ACTS
A Picture You Can’t Help But Enjoy
MUSIC-VIOLIN, PIANO AND DRUMS
General Admission 50 cents Reserved Seats 75c
SOLDIERS AND CHILDREN, 25c
THE SHOW STARTS AT EIGHT O’CLOCK