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THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
VOLUME ONE
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1918
WHOLE NUMBER 147
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BRITISH ARE CLOSING IN ON ST. QUENTIN
, WILSON GETS GOAT OF GERMAN CHANCELLOR
HUNS FIGHTING HARD
TO HOLD UP BRITISH
LONDON.—The British forces,
steadily continuing the process of
closing in on the town of St. Quen
tin, have made further advances
near Gricourt and in the Selency
region. To the northwest of St.
Quentin, the Germans delivered a
strong counter attack on the Brit
ish in an attempt to stop their ad
vance owards Gricourt, but were re
pulsed with heavy losses.
FRENCH REPULSE HUNS
PARIS—During last night the
Germans made an unsuccessful at
tempt to regain valuable ground
which the French recently captured
from the Germans near the western
end of Chemin de Dames The Huns
commenced their attack near Moisy
Farm and a fierce battle ensued,
but the French troops were able to.
hold their own and succeeded in
driving off the attacking forces.
PRISONERS TAKEN
LONDON—In the fighting around
St. Quentin yesterday, the British
compelled a further retirement of i
the enemy and captured one thou- j
sand prisoners.
IN MACEDONIA
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LONDON.—According to reports :
received from the Macedonian front, i
the German and Bulgarian troops i
are retiring to Veles, along the
Prilop-Gradsko road. The Serbians
have captured thirteen large guns,
a great number of ammunition;
wagons and much war material.
GERMANS ADMIT LOSS
BERLIN. — After considerable
fighting to the west of St. Quentin, j
the towns of Francilly and Selency
still remain in the hands of the
French.
BULGARIANS RESISTING
PARIS.—According to despatches
received from the front, the Allied
troops are encountering very stub
born resistance on the Bulgarian
frontier and furious fighting is in
progress on the left bank of the
Vardar river.
The Bulgarians are holding strong
positions overlooking their own
frontier and are bitterly resisting
the further advance of the Allied
forces. This is the only section
on the entire Macedonian battle
front where resistance is encount
ered.
SUMMARY
Associated Press Summary.—In
the encircling movement around St.
Quentin, and in driving the Ger
mans and Bulgarians northward on
the Macedonian front, the Allied
armies are making steady progress
against increasing enemy resistance,
Northwest of St. Quentin, the Brit
ish are adavncing towards the north
western suburbs of the city, and
very heavy fighting is in progress
near Grycourt, which is less than
three miles from the British ob
jectives. The British, however, are
continuing their advance, despite
several German counter attacks.
The Allied forces in Macedonia are
apparently splitting the Germans
and Bulgarians apart, the French
troops forming the wedge driven
between the two forces. To the
west of the Vardar river the Ser
bians are advancing towards Veles.
IN PALESTINE
LONDON.—Reports received from
the British field headquarters in
Palestine indicate that the British
have captured over forty thousand
prisoners and two hundred and sixty
five guns of large caliber.
1, ALASKA’S QUOTA
IS MADE KNOWN
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal—Alaska’s
quota of the Fourth Liberty Loan
has been fixed at one million, three
hundred and sixty-nine thousand,
0 four hundred dollars.
The quota for the Twelfth Fed
eral Reserve district, which includes
the Pacific coast states and Alaska,
has been fixed at four hundred and
two million dollars.
CRAMER BABY
PASSES BEYOND
—
In a letter received by Miss Jane
Anderson, the sad news of the death
of Mr. and Mrs. Fenton Cramer’s
child is announced. The death of
the infant is said to have taken
j, place just three days after its birth
at Washington, D. C.
German scientists claim to have
invented an instrument that indi
cates the gathering of a fog, its
density and duration about ten
^ hours before it appears.
SIDE GUNBOAT
SUNKBV MI
COPENHAGEN.—The Swedish
gunboat Gunhild struck a German
mine in the Skagerrak and was
sunk. The commanding officer and
eighteen men were lost when the
boat went down.
It is rumored that another Swed
ish gunboat was sunk by a mine
recently and that the greater part
of her crew were killed.
The Gunhild was a very old gun
boat, built in 1863, and displaced
190 tons. For many years she was
used as a minelayer.
JAPANESE RED CROSS
SENT TO SIBERIA
TOKIO.—A Japanse Red Cross
contingent of one hundred persons,
including physicians and nurses, has
left for Vladivostock.
The Moore Packing company of
Cordova, reports a pack of 23,000
cases of salmon, which is about
twice the pack of last year.
IGNORED NOTES
AMSTERDAM.—According to re
ports received in this city today
German Chancellor von Hertling, in
an address made to the members of
the Reichstag, complained that Presi
dent Wilson paid little attention to
the chancellor’s note in which he
signified his acquiescence in the
four points laid down by Wilson
as peace essentials.
The chancellor said that in Feb
ruary last he announced his agree
ment, in principle, with the views
of President Wilson, who he says
did not appear to have taken any
notice fff the chancellor’s declara
tion.
Von Hertling also said that he
favored the formation of a League
of Nations for the protection of
1 the small nations and individual dis
armament in equal proportions.
The German submarines, he said,
were slowly diminishing tonnage
and steadily restricting the trans
portation of American men and ma
terials.
bihIUns
VETERAN PRELATE
j ST. PAUL.—Archbishop John Ire
j land of the diocese of St. Paul,
| Minnesota, died here today at the
I age of 80 years.
John Ireland, archbishop of St.
Paul, held such a keen and active
interest in general affairs in the
United States during the past half
century that he was noted as a pub
licist, as well as for his religious
zeal- He was one of the most dis
tinguished of the Roman Catholic
churchmen of America. There were
few fields of intellecual political or1
spiritual endeavor in which he failed
to take a positive stand, making
himself at times the center of a
controversey.
Born in 1838 in Ireland,a car
penter’s son, he was carried with his |
parents in the tide of Irish immi-1
gration to America while he was a j
child. He came to St. Paul in 1852. j
He was being educated for the |
priesthood by the Marist Fathers in
France when the Civil War broke
out, when he accepted an appoint
ment as chaplain in the Fifth Regi
ent of Minnesota Volunteers.
He was founder of the Hill sem
inary on the Minnesota side of the
Mississippi river. To this he gave
his highly-prized private library,
one of the most comprehensive in
the Northwest. One of his early
works was the founding of a colony
of 900 Catholic farmers in Western
Minnesota in 1876.
He became bishop in 1875 and \
archbishop in 1886. He received I
support from many of his admirers
for appointment as the fourtn
American cardinal. Celebrating his
golden jubilee the priests of his
diocese presented him with a purse
of $100,000.
FOCH SPEAKS 10
NEWS GATHERERS
REGARDING WAR
LONDON.—Marshal Foch, com
mander in chief of the Allied forces,
dislikes interviews, but received a
few newspapermen last Tuesday and ^
expressed his views to tWm regard
ing the war situation.
He said that the British army is
now better than ever and that they
had made good all of the losses
sustained by them in the earlier
stages of the war.
Referring to the Americans, Mar
shal Foch said that they were just
splendid and fought with wonderful
gallantry in the field. Ten thou
sand of these splendid American
troops are arriving in France daily,
he said.
The French arniy, he said, was
the same good old army as in the
opening days of the war in 1914
The enemy forces were badly
shaken, he thought, but were still
holding. Concluding the interview,
he said: “We have passed the crest
and arenow going down hill, and
if we gather impetus, so much the
better.’'
BREAKDOWN OF
GERMAN MORALE
NOI CONFIRMED
AMERICAN HEETAOIN ETAA
American Headquarters. — Con
crete information gathered from
various reliable sources does not
give any indication that there is
a breakdwn of the German morale
to any appreciable extent.
According to officers who examine
the prisoners taken, only a few of
them say that they are glad to be1
captured and that they are tired of!
the fighting. I
The same thing is possibly true j
of the Allied prisoners taken by the
Germans after being subjected to
long bombardments.
CARL ROSSlASE
IS VERYJRITICAL
Carlton D. Ross, who for some I
time was connected with the time
keeping department of the A. E. C.,
at Nenana, and who latterly was on
the staff of the Fairbanks News
Miner, was reported as being in a
very critical condition this morning.
Ross is at present in the St
Joseph’s hospital, as a result of the
accident which befell him last Sun
day while riding a motorcycle, and
from the account received this morn
ing of his condition, the internal
injuries received by him would ap
pear to be of a more serious nature
than they were at first thought.
RAILROAD EXTENSION
IS IN CONTEMPLATION
Mr. Frederick D. Browne, en
gineer in charge of the Fairbanks
division of the Alaskan Engineering
commission accompanied by Mrs.
Bronwe and Mr. and Mrs. W. A.
Ryan, left last night for Hot
Springs on the steamer Alaska. The
party expect to return to Nenana
in about a week’s time.
In conversation with a representa
tive of the Nenana News, shortly
before sailing time, Mr. Browne
stated that he was making the trip
to the Hot Springs for the purpose
of looking over the country, get
ting first hand information and gath
ering data regarding the resources
of the country and their possible
development, with the object of ex
tending the railroad to tap the dis
trict if conditions and the future
development of the country will
"warrant sucn a course.
Mr. Browne will go thoroughly
into matters pertaining to the d's
trict that will have any bearing on
any future action that -nav bo taken
by the Alaskan Engineeiin' con.
mission for extending railroad facili
ties, and will also make a thorough
study of the topography, with a
view to the selection of the best
and most feasible route for he 'c
cation of the line that w.il b • laid
at some future date to serve tl e
needs of the district.
It is not the intention of the
Alaskan Engineering commission,
Mr. Browne said, to complete tho
building of the main line from Nc
nana to the coast and the branch
line to Fairbanks only. The volume
of business that would be handled
over this line would barely pay the
expenses incident on the operation
and cost of maintaining the road,
he thought, unless branch lines were
constructed to tap the mining dis
tricts adjacent to the main line.
This was the primary purpose for
the construction of a trunk line
from the coast to Xenana.
On his return from the Hot
Springs district, Mr. Browne will
have informed himself thoroughly
regarding the country and its possi
bilities and will be in a position to
advise the Alaskan Engineering
commission, and to make his recom
mendations to the commission so
that it would be enabled to take
appropriate action when the. proper
time arrives. Mr. Browne was not
in a position to make any definite
statement regarding the construc
tion of the Hot Springs branch line,
as much would depend, he thought,
on the freight requirements of the
district and the volume of outgoing
freight that can be calculated on
to feed the main line when the dis
trict has reached a more advanced
stage in its development than at
present existing. He would be in a
better position to say more about
the possible extension of the rail
road to the Hot Springs district on
his return to Nenana. He thought,
however, that the Hot Springs
branch would be one of the first of
the feeder lines to be constructed.
During the coming winter, when
railroad activities will have, of ne
cessity been somewhat curtailed,
and he will have a lesser amount
of office work to attend to. Mr.
Browne contemplates making: trips
to the mining: and other sections of
the country adjacent to the main
railroad line for the purpose of
gleaning: information with a view to
building feeder lines at the proper
time. These trips contemplated by
Mr. Browne, will include the Kan
tishna, Totatlanika, Lake Minchu
mina and the country in the neigh
borhood of the headwaters of the
Kuskokwim river
It is thought that the completion
of the railroad to the X'enana Coal
fields in the Lignite country and
the making available of an unlimit
ed quantity of cheap fuel for all
purposes, will stimulate the mining
industry and create a demand for
large quantities of this fuel for
mining purposes in the immediate
future, provided the necessary trans
portation facilities can be obtained
This will be a determining factor
when the need for the construction
of feeder lines comes up for con
sideration. It is the desire of the
government to offer every encour
agement and inducement for the
purpose of keeping up and if poss
ible increasing the gold output of
the country, and it will be safe to
assume that railroad facilities to the
gold producing districts with fav
orable freight rates on fuel ship
ments will be early considered. This,
it is thought, will give a new lease
of life to the mining industry in
Interior Alaska.
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ALLIED OFFICIALS
I IN GRAVE PERIL
LONDON.—According to advices
, received in this city today, several
' British and French officers have
; been compelled to take refuge in
the American consulate at Moscow,
which is now under the protection
I of the Norwegian government.
The Bolsheviki have placed a
strong guard around the consulate
building and have made a demand
of the Norwegian consulate officials
for the surrender of the British and
French officers.
It is believed that the officers
who have sought refuge in the
American consulate building are the
former naval and military attaches
of the French and British consul
ates who were unable to get away
with the rest of the refugees who
left Moscow in a special train re
cently.
A wire cage that can be used in
doors as well as out of doors and
which will hold a ball driven into it,
has been invented for golfers to
practice putting.
Basing their calculations upon re
troactive phenomena, two British
scientists have advanced the theory
that the world is at least 71 1.000,
000 years old.