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THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
VOLUME ONE
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA.. THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1918
NUMBER 110
HUN LINES GIVE AS ALLIES DRIVE
CAPTURE OF NOYON EXPECTED HOURLY
AMERICAN CONSULATE AT PETROGRAD CLOSED
GERMANS RETIRING;
CAN’T STOP FRENCH
PARIS.—According to official re- ’
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V ports received by the war office
today the French troops during last
night conducted a series of brilliant
attacks and succeeded in forcing
the Germans back to a depth of from
one to twenty miles over a twenty
mile front, extending from Lassigny
to the Ailette river.
Contact Maintained.
The French forces maintained con
tact with the retreating Germans
between the Matz and the Oise
rivers. To the east of the Oise the,
French troops captured the villages
of Leplemont, Thiecourt, Canneeta
court and Ville, and also penetrated
as far as the Divette river. To the
east of Xoyon the French troops,
advancing rapidly over a six-mile
front between Sempigney and Bre
tigny, reached the river Oise, driv- j
ing the enemy farther back.
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BYNG GOING AHEAD
PARIS.—The British army under
>- General Byng, operating near Ba
paume, is encountering desperate
resistance in their advance, and
fierce fighting has mafked every
phase of the operations conducted
by them.
The village of Achietlegrand has
changed hands several times during
the fighting with the British finally
gaining possession. They now hold
it and are busy repelling the vig
orous assaults of the enemy in their
efforts to dislodge the Tommies.
The advancing French have reach
ed Ailette, and it is expected that
the Huns will fall back from the
positions rendered untenable by the
occupation of Ailette by the French,
and will retire to Oise.
BERLIN DOPE
BERLIN.—Over five hundred Al
lied tanks have been taken or de
stroyed since the eighth day of the
month.
BRITISH ATTACK
LONDON—Official reports re
ceived by the war office today from
the battlefront are to the effect
that the advancing British columns
attacked the enemy strongly be
tween the Somme and Ancre, put
the enemy to rout and crossing the
> Bapaume railroad, captured be
tween two and three thousand pris
oners besides much material and
stores.
PRISONERS CAPTURED
PARIS.—The newspaper Echo de
Paris says that since July 18th the
French forces have captured over
one hundred thousand prisoners.
POSITIONS CAPTURED
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LONDON—With the Huns bitterly
resisting their advance and contest
ing every inch of ground they are
forced to give up, the French troops
are steadily pressing the Germans
back along the Oise. Terrific fight
ing marks the advance of the gal
lant Frenchmen, who in the face
of the most stubborn resistance
succeeded in capturing several very
strong German positions, inflicting
heavy losses on the defenders.
NOYON SURROUNDED
PARIS.—The French continue
their advance in spite of the stub
born resistance of the enemy and
have now occupied seven more
towns around Xoyon, which is now
almost surrounded. The Germans
seem to be unable to stop the ad
vance of the victorious French in
their outflanking movement, and it
is believed by military critics that
the enepiy will have to soon sur
render Xoyon.
POSTS ESTABLISHED
WITH THE BRITISH—The Brit
ish are virtually holding all of the
Arras and Albert railroad and have
been able to establish strong posts
and occupy points of vantage, sup
ported by tanks on the positions to
the east of the line of their advance.
SUCCESSFUL RAIDS
PARIS.—Scouting American avi
ators destroyed two German planes
in the Lorraine sector today. Amer
ican troops operating on this sector
also conducted two successful raids
on the Hun positions at Longuyon
and Unleroman.
SUMMARY
Associated Press Summary.—The
powerful blows delivered by the
Allies along a hundred and twenty
mile front are steadily forcing the
Germans back- The Germans ap
pear to be unable to stem the ad
vancing Allied tide, which almost
hourly is increasingly threatening
the stability of the German defens
ive system. Marshal Foch is hit
ting the Germans very hard on four
fronts and is apparently keeping it
up with unabating fury for material
gains.
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BARS TOREFUGEES
Admission Is Advocated of Refugees
From Allied Countries to
America.
WASHINGTON, D. C—President
Wilson sent Congress a resolution
today authorizing the admission into
America of.refugees from the war
ring countries.
Only those refugees belonging to
the countries that are in sympathy
with the Allied cause will be ad
mitted.
Mrs. Luella Ross .formerly in the
employ of the Alaskan Engineering
commission here, is now working in
one of the shipbuilding offices at
Tacoma.
MINNESOTA TOWN
HIT BY TORNADO;
SEVERAL KILLED
Periodic Storm Brings Havoc in Its
Train and Many Are Killed At
Tyler, Minnesota.
! TYLER, Minn.—A tornado of
great violence bore down on this
\ city last night and practically tore
the town to pieces. The fury of
the storm was so great that a train
| standing on the tracks near the rail
! road depot was lifted bodily off the
tracks and deposited some distance
away, some of the coaches being
' considerably damaged.
Between thirty and thirty-five
people were killed and over one
hundred injured while the storm
spent its fury on the town.
A large restaurant in the heart
the town, built entirely of brick,
was blown down by the storm, and
sixteen of those occupying the place
at the time were killed.
Hundreds of the panic-stricken
townspeople rushed into a large
moving picture show house to take
shelter from the storm,
j The movie house, though in close
proximity to the destroyed restau
rant, was spared the fury oi the
storm.
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1 WASHINGTON, D. C.—President
Wilson has nominated John F. Pugh
to succeed himself as collector of
customs for Alaska, with head
quarters at Juneau.
Mr. Pugh has held the office of
collector of customs even since the
Democrats came into power and has
discharged the duties of that office
very satisfactorily.
RED CROSS PUTS BAN
ON DICE FOR TROOPS
NEW ORLEANS.—A Red Cross
ban has been placed on dice so far
1 as their distribution in the four
| army cantonments in the Gulf Divi
, sion of the Red Cross is concerned
1 A call for games, issued through
, out the division recently, brought
| to Red Cross headquarters here not
' only cards, dominoes, checker and
| chess boards but a complete assort
ment of dice.
Now there has gone forth from
Red Cross headquarters a request to
the public not to contribute dice
as the Red Cross does not favor
the playing of games to which they
are usually devoted.
Mrs. Herb Wilson, who had been
‘visiting in Nenana, has gone back
to her home, near Camp 385.
The M. Bloch Company, of Ju
j neau, is advertising for ten women
to work in their saltery. The pay
is forty cents an hour, for eight
hours, and sixty cents for overtime.
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FAVORS CHANGE
IN MANAGEMENT
Delayed Report on Aircraft Pro
duction For the Army Is Now
Made Public.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—The long
awaited report of the Senate Mili
tary sub-committee, appointed to in
vestigate aircraft production In the
country was submitted to Congress
today.
It begins with a scathing arraign
ment of the delays experienced
through preventible causes during
the early days of the war, but in
dicates that conditions would ap
pear to have improved later.
The sub-committee recommends
the creation of a separate aviation
; department with a cabinet officer
at the head of it.
The failure of the aircraft heads
to adopt foreign aeroplane motors
which were known to have been
; successful, has resulted in the wast
ing of millions of dollars of the
aircraft appropriations by the ex
periments conducted by inexperienc
ed automobile manufacturers, who
seemed to have dominated the aero
plane program.
The airfcraft heads are charged
with employing an unsystematic and
ineffective organization and with
giving excessive profits to the man
ufacturers, but says that it found
great improvement since John D.
Ryan and Major General Kenly were
placed in charge.
In concluding its report, the sub
committeee urged a one man con
trol of the aeropane program and
laid the blame partly on Congress
for the poor organization existing
heretofore.
ALLIED COUNCIL
IS ASSEMBLED
To Further the Cause of and Render
Aid to Russia, Councils Have ....
Been Formed.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—For the
purpose of co-ordinating the efforts
to be put forth by the Allies with
a view to aiding Russia to establish
a stable form of government in their
pountry, international Allied coun
cils have been established at Vladi
vostock, in the East, and Archangel
in the north of Russia.
American Ambassador Francis has
been appointed head of the council
established at Archangel.
Line Auditor Frank Doner went
up to Fairbanks this morning on
official business. He will probably
remain away for about a week.
Billy Lynn, Tfcbo has a coal con
tract near Camp 383 came into town
last night on business. He will re
turn to his camp tomorrow.
A form holder for concrete work
has been invented that can be left
in the concrete to reinforce 'it or to
provide a socket for attachments.
RAIDING TRAWLER
ELUDES SEARCHERS
CANADIAN PORT.—Reports re
ceived today from survivors of fish
ing boats indicate that the Ameri
can schooner Sylvania and the
schooner Pasadena were sunk off
the Nova Scotian coast by an armed
trawler.
It is believed that the armed
trawler referred to by the rescued
fisherman is the raider Triumph
which was recently captured from
the Canadian fishing fleet and armed
and manned by Gentian submarine
sailors.
FOUR SCHOONERS SUNK
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Reports
received by the navy department to
day indicate that four fishing
schooners have been sunk by the
! trawler Triumph off the North At
lantic coast. A Canadian patrol,
composed of destroyers and speedy
submarine chasers are hunting for
the raider.
The powerful destroyer squadron
and sub chasers which were de
tached from the American coast pat
rol squadrons and sent out yesterday
to destroy the raider have not been
heard from yet.
FLEET DESTROYED
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MONTREAL.—It is reported to
day that virtually the entire fleet
of fishing craft of various descrip
tions operated by the Maritime Fish
eries corporation has been destroyed
by the armed trawler Triumph.
The fleet of the Maritime Fisher
ies corporation operated off the
{ New Foundland coast.
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U. $. CONSULATE
AT RUSS CAPITAL
Owing to Declaration of War By
Bolsheviki, Our Consulate Is
Closed in Petrograd.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—As a re
sult of the declaration made by the
Bolsheviki that a state of war exists
between Russia and the United
States, the Star Spangled Banner
floating over the American consul
ate building at Petrograd, was low
ered today.
The consulate has been closed and
the affairs of the consulate have been
placed in the hands of the Norwe
gian government through her con
sul at the Russian capital.
SWINDLERS COLLECT
LEATHER IN GERMANY
AMSTERDAM—An extraordinary
instance of Teutonic servility where
uniforms are concerned has occurred
at Essen. A party of three armed
individuals, two soldiers and one in
a policeman’s uniform, made a round
of all the schools of the town, rep
resenting themselves to be author
ized to collect the children’s satchels.
They paid a trifle in each case for
the leather straps attached to them,
and carried away their booty. Af
ter a few days, the whole affair was
discovered to be a swindle.
“How it is possible that this could
have been carried on for days with
out anyone having the courage to
challenge their authority remains
one of the mysteries of this war,”
says the Rhenish Westphalian Ga
zette.
Deputy Marshal Bob Tull, of Fair
banks, arrived from the upper town
yesterday. He returned to Fair
banks this morning with George
Milich, who was fined $1000 for
selling booze. Milich will serve out
the fine in the Federal jail at Fair
banks at the rate of $2 per day.
NAVAL OFFICIAL
SAYS SOBS ARE
PARIS.—Assistant Secretary of
the Navy Roosevelt who arrived here
from England recently, in a state
ment made today declared that the
torpedoing of ships now is largely
accidental.
The stringent measures adopted
by the combined Allied navies to
combat the under-sea boats, he said,
has had the effect of practically
clearing the waters contiguous to
the coasts of England and France
' of German submarines.
INDIA STANDS READY
TO FIGHT THE KAISER
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i LONDON.—India is quite ready
i to take any action necessary to pre
vent the intrusion of German in
fluence in that country and to main
tain the integrity of its borders, ac
cording to an announcement made
here by the Mahar Rajah of Patiala,
j who is representing the Princess of
India on the Imperial War Cabinet.
He added: “On behalf of the Prin
cess of India I wish to express our
great satisfaction that inclusion of
India in the Imperial War Confer
ence has been insured.
SOCIAL DEMOCRATS
HARD HIT BY WAR
COPENHAGEN.—At the first
wartime congress of the Saxon So
cial Democratic party, Chairman
Sindermann stated that the party
had lost 20,000 members, while 70,
000 were in the army.
Offsetting this, Deputy Gradnauer
declared that Social-Democratic pub
lications through the whole of Ger
many had increased, while soldier
subscribers had increased eighty-two
per cent.
Mrs. Fred Carter, who went up
to Fairbanks on a brief business
visit, returned to Nenana yesterday.