Uncle Sam Needs YOUR Help To Beat The Kaiser
MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
VOLUME ONE
NENANA, ALASKA, SATURDAY. MAY 18, 1918.
NUMBER 41
AMERICANS NOW HOLD THIRD OF LINE
HUNDRED DIE IN WRECK OF CHEMICAL FACTORY
> SITUATION IN IRELAND ASSUMES VERY GRAVE ASPECT
YANKEE FORCE IS
NOW SOME FACTOR
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WASHINGTON, D. C., May 18.—
The American forces in France have
become such a strong military fac
tor that they now rank third in mile
age held by the Allies. This in
-formation was given to the members
of the senate military committee
today during the weekly conference
with Secretaray of War Baker and
the members of the war council.
The French forces still hold the
greatest stretch of front, the British
come second and the Yankees third,
the Yankee mileage having exceeded
that of the Belgians only recently.
FRENCH ARE WAITING
PARIS, May 18.—The French
forces on the Western front are
awaiting the coming of the Germans
with the greatest confidence. The
Petit Parisien declares in its issue
today, that the Germans have massed
nearly all of their best troops along
the attacking front between the
Belgian coast and the Oise river, and
are ready to resume their offens
ive with a fighting force of nine
hundred thousand men. The attack,
says the paper, may be expected
momentarily.
RAIDERS REPULSED
PARIS, May 18.—The Germans
made an unsuccessful attempt to at
tack this city with airplanes during
the night. The attacking planes
were met by French airmen before
they had reached the city and were
forced to retire without releasing
any of their bombs.
ATTACK HOSPITALS
LONDON, May 18.—The war of
fice announces today that the Bel
gian hospitals at Calais were at
tacked by German air raiders dur
ing the night. Ten of the inmates
were killed and a score injured be
fore the attacking planes were
driven off.
f SIGN OF ATTACK
LONDON, May 18.—Reports re
ceived from the mainland this after
noon state that bombardment of the
Allied positions in he Arrhs-Given
chy sector, where the British lines
have not changed since the com
mencement of the great German
offensive on March 21, is increas
ing in violence, encouraging the be
lief that General von Beulow’s army
will be the next called upon to strike
the Allied defenses, which guard
important French coal fields. Sim
ultaneously, the Germans undoubt
edly will attempt to eradicate the
Allied salient between Lys and
Somme. The rej*>rts state than von
Mackensen has taken charge of this
^ army and will direct the attack.
Aerial observations show that the
greatest German strength is as
sembled between Merville and Al
bert, and intense artillery action is
in progress along that line, in the
k neighborhood jof Nieppe forest and
in the Lens and Hazebrooke sectors.
BRITISH AIRMEN ACTIVE
PARIS, May 18.—British *and
French aviators have been unusually
active during the past twenty-four
hours. A French squadron is re
ported to have dropped 36,000 kilo
grams of projectiles on German rail
way stations, lines of communica
tion, and airdromes at at St. Quen
tin, Jussy, LeMartel, Nesles and
Ham. Munition depots were ex
ploded at Nesles and the railway
station at that place burned. Large
fires were observed at Guiscard and
Chatelet.
British machines are reported to
have dropped twenty-three tons of
explosives on important railway cen
ters and billets behind the German
lines, causing a vast amount of
damage.
QUICK WORK.
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 18.—
Adivices received from General
Pershing state that two German air
planes were shot down by Captain
Peterson, of the American Flying
corps, both machines being dropped
within the remarkable time of one
minute. v
THE DAILY LOSS
WASHINGTON, D. C., May IS.—
The American casualty list, made
public today, contains the names of
39 soldiers, six of whom were either
killed or died of wounds, and four
teen were injured.
MONITOR SHELLS OSTEND
BERLIN, May 18.—According to
a statement issued today by the
war office, considerable damage has
been done at Ostend as the result of
the bombordment of that city by an
enemy monitor. Many persons were
| killed.
AMERICANS BOMBARDED
With the Americans in Picardy,
May 18.—The whole of the Ameri
can sector in Picardy was deluged
by German shells this morning, the
bombardment lasting forty-five min
utes. It was expected that the bom
bardment would be followed by an
infantry attack, but ther were no
developments after the firing ceased
and troop movements behind the
enemy lines were normal.
BALLOONS DOWNED
PARIS, May 18.—Two German
balloons were shot down this morn
ing by French airmen, to the east
of Montdidier.
ON THE ALBANIAN FRONT
VIENNA, May 18.—The artillery
of the opposing forces on the Al
banian front is very active today.
French and Italian forces launched
a heavy attack against the moun
tain positions between the Devol
and Osum rivers, but aside from
unimportant gains of terrain, they
were unable to make headway and
suffered severe repulses at several
points.
RUSSIANS TAKE BAKU
CONSTANINOPLE" May 18.—
Bolsheviki troops, with reinforce
ments from Turkestan and Astrak
han, have captured the port of
Baku, on the Caspian sea. It is
believed here that the Russians
crossed the Caspian on Russian
gunboats and attacked the Mussel
mem, who were without means of
defense, forcing them to evacuate
the town. The capture of Baku is
being followed up with vigorous at
tacks at other points.
CANNOT GET GRAIN
AMSTERDAM, May 18.—Advices
received in this city state that scarce
ly more than a thousand tons of
grain have reached Germany from
the Ukraine. The amount received
is less than a fiftieth of what was
to have been shipped into Germany
by this time.
HEAVY GUN FIRE
LONDON, May 18.—The war of
fice is authority for the statement
that heavy artillery action is in prog
ress today on the southern side of
the Flanders sailient, and along the
line beyow Amiens. The big guns
on both sides are active north and
south of the Avre river.
SUCCESSFUL ATTACK
LONDON, May 17.—Field Mar
shal Haig reports that his forces
launched a successful attack in the
neighborhood of Beamont early this
morning, capturing a few prisoners
during the operation. Aside from
this attack, there was practically
no movement of infantry along the
Western front today, but artillery
continues active at many points and
appears to be growing steadily more
violent.
GERMAN PEACE TERMS
With the French Army, May 18.
—The kaiser’s conditions of peace
are set forth clearly in papers found
in a captured German trench, which
was taken by Allied troops during
the past few days. The principal
conditions are as follows: Germany
to retain Flanders; her colonies to
be restored, with augmentation;
Germany to retain Longwy and
Briey mine fields and other mine
fields in France.
DATE IS SET
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 18.—
The fifth of June has been set as
the date of registration for youths
who have reached the age of 21
since the date of registration a year
ago.
E. J. Hutmacher returned to towTr
yesterday from his ranch on the
Tanana river, a few miles above Ne
nana.
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LARGE NUMBER
DURING DRIVE
Associated Press Makes Figures
Public, Which Show Good
Work of Allies.
LONDON, May 18.—Most of the
figures thus far announced regard
ing the losses suffered by the Ger
mans ■ in France this spring, have
been made public through the
Associated Press, and show that the
work of the Allied gunners was
most efficient. Since the begin
ning of the big drive on March 21,
the Germans have employed 206
divisions on the Western front, of
which number 126 divisions were en
gaged. On the Somme and Armen
tiers fronts, eight divisions lost over
fifty per cent, seven lost between
forty and fifty per cent. One regi
ment was virtually annihilated and
many companies and battalions dis
appeared almost completely.
R. W. Taylor, of Fairbanks, has
been advised of the arrival of a
new member of the family at the
home of his son Vaughn, at Seattle.
Young Taylor is a cavalry captain,
stationed in Texas. The new ar
rival was a boy.
RIGGS SAYS MANY
LABORERS WANTED
Governor Tell* Outside Newspapers
| North Has Lost Six Thousand
I Workers.
SEATTLE, May 18.—The news
papers of this and other coast cities
have published an appeal for work
ers for Alaska, which has been is
sued by Governor Thos. Riggs, Jr.
The governor says that Alaska is
suffering as the result of a labor
shortage and he urges those in
search of employment to go to
Alaska, where there is work of all
kinds for many. He says that the
territory has lost six thousand of
its workers, fully that number hav
ing entered the service of the gov
ernment, either as soldiers or as
workers in the employ of plants en
gaged in war work.
FALLS IN STALES
Captain of Royal Italian Flying
Corps Meets Death During
Flight in East.
NEW YORK, May 18.—Captain
Antonio Resnad, of the Royal Ita
lian Flying corps, fell to his death
at the Hempstead aviation field,
near this city, yesterday, as the
result of the collapse of his machine
at a heighth of only 100 feet. He
was engaged in testing an American
i built Carponi bombing plane.
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NEW NENANA HOME
Erection of Three-Room Cottage
Was Started Yesterday Opposite)
News Office.
As further evidence of his con
fidence in Nenana, Alf Ekeland, who
recently acquired a half interest
in the Portland, has commenced the
construction of a roomy cottage on
B street, near the News office, and
will reside here permanently, with
his family. The property upon
which the cottage is being erected
is one of the most desirable resi
dence lots in town, being close to
the business district and high.
Earl Slippern and Neil McDonald
have the contract to build the cot
tage and began work on the struc
ture yesterday morning. It will be
a three-room house, 20x24 feet, well
elevated from the ground and at
tractively finished.
A mail stage has reported at Mc
Carty, enroute to Fairbanks. The
rig also has several passengers.
SCORES ARE KILLED
AT CHEMICAL PLANT
PITTSBURG, May 18.—A great
plant of the Aetna Chemical com
pany, at Oakdale, was almost de
stroyed today by a series of ex
plosions which shattered the build
ings and killed one hundred of the
employees of the company. Hun
dreds of others of the workers were
injured and many of them maimed,
and several days probably will elapse
before the full extent of the damage
BUSH ARREST
IRISH PLOTTERS;
CHECKJUTBREAK
Believed That Germans Intended to
Land Troops In Ireland to
Aid Uprising.
LONDON, May 18.—A number of
the leaders of the Sinn Fein were
placed under arrest in Ierland to
day by the British authorities, on
suspicion that they are implicated
in a conspiracy to start another
uprising against the government.
Among those taken into custody
are: Professor Edward de Valera,
president of the Sinn Fein; Arthur
Griffith, founder of the Sinn Fein;
Countess Markivicz, Dr Dillon and
William Cosgrove, prominent mem
bers of the organization, de Valera
was a former member of parliament.
JUST IN TIME
DUBLIN, May 18.—The Irish
Times says, in its issue today, that
the government did not act a
moment too soon, since indications
pointed strongly to another serious
outbreak of armed violence, with
possible connection with the landing
of German troops on Irish soil.
In addition to the members enum
erated above, a number of agitators
were placed under arrest at Belfast,
and the government is of the opin
ion that the conspiracy has been
broken up.
ALLIEslolCT
WITH JAPS AND
CHINA IN EAST
Arrangement* Have Been Made to
Co-operate With Orient to
Oppose Teutons.
PARIS, May 18.—Arrangements
have been made for the co-operation
of the Allies with Japan and China
to meet the dangers which threaten
peace in the Far East from German
penetration.
The arrangement is purely a de
fensive measure, and participation
will be confined to Japan and China
for the present, the primary pur
pose being to safeguard Manchuria.
At a later date, should such a step
become advisable, the arrangement
will be extended so as to give pro
tection in Siberia.
j is ascertained. The wreckage is
now being consumed by fire, which
j renders the work of rescue slow and
j dangerous. The exact number of
dead will not be known until the
; flames have been extinguished and
! the ruins carefully searched.
The property damage is estimated
! at more than one million dollars,
j The cause of the explosions has not
j yet been ascertained.
HERTLING SAYS ”
PEACE MAY COME
BY ENO OF YEAR
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German Chancellor Confident That
Furthe- Events In West Will
Help Hun Cause.
: AMSTERDAM, May 18.—In an in
j terview made public today, von
|Hertling, German chancellor, is re
| ported to have expressed the belief
] that- hostilities will end within a
comparatively few months. "I am
optimistic enough to believe,” he
said, “that we will have peace this
year ” Continuing, he said that he
I cherished firm confidence that fur
jther events in the West will bring
Germany nearer a speedy end of the
war. He declared that if the world
should unite in an internal peace
league, Germany would unhesi
tatingly and joyfully join. Unfor
utnately, he added, present condi
tions give little hope of that. In
conclusion, he said that Germany
desired to win in order to preserve
peace.
FIRE DESTROYS
PARI Of ESTER;
STOCKS ESCAPE
Three Buildings In Pionee- Creek
Town Reduced to Ashes Early
This Morning.
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Advices received from Fairbanks
this afternoon tell of the partial
destruction of the pioneer creek
town of Ester, by fire, this mor*>
ing. Three buildings were burned
to the ground and but for the faet
that the wind was favorable, the
entire town would have been de
stroyed.
The fire started in a small cabin
at the rear of the California saloon
building and spread rapidly to the
California, owned by Thos. Marke
son, then to the building next door,
owned by Henry Schroeder and
finally to the McDonald building,
all of the buildings being burned to
the ground. Joe McDonald succeed
ed in getting most of his stock out
of his building and considerable of
the contents of the Schroeder restau
rant were saved, but the buildings
were a total loss. They constituted
the principal part of the town.
The fire started at eight o’closk
this meaning and had burned itself
out by 11:45.