Alaskans Are Urged To Save More Food For Allied Soldiers
THE NENANA DAILY' NEWS
VOLUME ONE member of associated press
NENANA, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1918.
NUMBER 97
MARNE BATTLE MAY DECIDE WAR
ALLIES CONTINUE TO DEFEAT GERMANS
' AMERICANS IN FRANCE NOW NUMBER 1,250,000
FRANCO-AMERICANS
KEEP HUNS ON RUN
WITH THE AMERICANS—The
Franco-American forces operating.
to the northeast of Chateau Thierry
have succeeded in driving the Ger
man forces almost entirely from the
wooded areas which they defended
very stubbornly. The Allied artil
lery this morning opened a terrific
bombardment, severely punishing the
enemy and under cover of the guns
the French and American infantry
are advancing to the attack, crawl
ing forward to get within rifle range
of the enemy.
The Allied troops are gradually
approaching Fere-en-Tardenois,; it
is the most important railroad junc
tion in this section of the country
and is also the base of supplies for
the Germans, who are making in
tensive efforts now in a desperate
endeavor to hold both their flanks
in the Rheims-Soissons region.
GERMANS CAPTURED
PARIS.—According to a Havre
News Agency despatch received in
this city today, the Allies have cap
tured 30,000 German prisoners since
the beginning of the Foch counter
offensive.
EMPLACEMENTS FOUND
,The Americans have discovered em
placements for the German super
cannon at Brechy, north of Chateau
Thierry. The guns which were
mounted here were probably used
in the bombardment of the Allied
positions far behind their lines and
possibly also Paris. The despatch
does not state whether the guns
also were found there, and it is
presumed that the enemy had al
ready removed them, preparatory to
a general retreat.
FRENCH ADVANCE
PARIS.—The French troops ad
vanced during last night north of
the Marne in the district where the
Germans had been tenaciously cling
ing to the river bank. The French
line is now north of Port-a-Binson
A local operation undertaken by the
French forces on the Champagne
front advanced their lines for a dis
tance of two-thirds of a mile along
a two-mile front. Two hundred
prisoners and some guns were also
captured.
ATTACKS SHIFTED
WITH THE FRENCH.—Shifting
their blows to the southern arc of
the sector between Soissons and
Rheims, the French struck a mighty
blow at the German positions near
Port-a-Binson and hurled them back
with severe loss. Along the Cham
pagne front to the south of Mon
tagne, at an unnamed place, the
French troops advanced their lines
nearly two miles.
TOWN CAPTURED
^ WASHINGTON, D. C—Reports
received from the front today indi
cate that the American troops con
tinuing their advance in the region
north of the Marne, captured the
town of Lecharmel.
THE AMIENS FRONT
LONDON.—According to reports
received by the war office today the
Germans opened a heavy artillery
fire on the Allied positions in the
angle between the Somme and Ancre
rivers, to the northeast of Amiens,
the British artillery is vigorously re
turning the fire.
Both the British and German
artillery are also actively engaged
farther north in the Labasse Canal
sector of the battleline.
FOREST CLEARED
WITH THE AMERICANS—The
advancing Americans have now
nearly cleared the wooded region
near Fere Tournellis, which they
captured from the enemy. The Fere
en-Tardenois road has been rendered
useless an an artery for supplies
to the enemy by the rapid and
accurate fire of the Ameriacn bat
teries.
DECISIVE BATTLE STAGED
WASHINGTON, D. C.—According
to despatches received from the
front today, both the Allied and
German commanders are possibly
setting the stage now for the decisive
battle of the war which will be
fought on the Aisne-Marne front,
the battle taking on more than a
local significance.
The present plans of the Allied
commanders indicate that it is not
the intention to trap the Germans
in the pocket formed by the Allied
advance in this region, but rather
to force them from it.
DANCE FOR VOLUNTEERS
NETTED A GOOD SUM
For the dance recently given by
the ladies of the Red Cross of Nen
nana, voluntary subscriptions taken
up amounted to the respectable sum
of $94. The expenses in connect
ion with the function for the music,
refreshments, hall, etc., came to
$67.25, leaving a balance of $26.75
to the credit of the Red Cross, which
will probably be applied towards *
similar function to be given at some
future date.
SERVICE OF SONG
FOR TOMORROW EVENING
Rev. Robert Joseph Diven, pastor
of the Grace Presbyterian church,
announces that instead of the regu
lar .Sunday evening lecture, there
will be a service of song at the
church on Sunday, commencing at
half past seven in the evening.
A program of appropriate songs
has been selected for the evening
and Mr. Ernest Berggren will con
tribute a very choice violin solo.
He will also assist throughout the
evening’s program.
A cordial invitation is extended
to all Nenanaites by the pastor and
a cordial welcome awaits all lovers
of the old songs.
SIAMESE FLYERS
10 ASSISI ARMY
ON WEST FRON!
Airmen From the Fer Ea(t Will
Soon Arrive in France to Assist
the Allies.
PARIS.—Five hundred aeroplane
pilots, who have been undergoing
intensive training under the direc
tion of experienced airmen, in the
Far Eastern kingdom of Siam, are
expected "to arrive in France shcn
for active service with the Allied
forces.
These Siamese airmen are scions
of the best families residing in
Bangkok, the capital of the Siamese
kingdom.
Siam is an independent kingdom,
lying between British India and
French Indo-China and the people
inhabiting the country are of mixed
Malayan and Mongolian races
FORMER CZAR’S FAMILY
ARE SAFE IN SIBERIA
LONDON.—According to reports
received in this city from Amster
dam, the family of former Czar
Nicholas of Russia are safe in Si
beria.
They are reported to be inmates
of a Siberian monastery at Abalak,
Siberia.
SEI FOR TONIGHT
!
Aspirants for the Heavyweight
Championship of the World
Do Battle Tonight.
NEW YORK—The fight arranged
between Fred Fulton and Jack
Dempsey for heavyweight honors, is
scheduled to take place at Harrison,
New Jersey tonight, and is expected
to draw a very large crowd.
The winner of this fight will chal
lenge Jess Willard for the champion
ship belt.
Moving pictures of the fight will
be taken for the benefit of the war
relief fund.
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Six sacks of mail got in yester
day afternoon on the two stage
autos arriving over the trail.
The Carl White launch left at
11 o’clock this morning for the
Tolovana river country. Mrs. O.
P. Gaustad, Miss Vida Gaustad, Mrs.
R. Barthel, Teddy and Frankie
Graves were the Tolovana passen
gers, and Alick Sollavan and E.
P. Allard are passengers for Ne
nana.
I
MOONEY GIVEN
FURTHER STAY
BY GOVERNOR
Governor of California G-ant* Stay
of Execution at Urgent Request
of the People.
LOS ANGELES.—Governor Ste
phens, of California, has granted a
reprieve staying the execution of
Thomas Mooney until December
13th The original date fixed for
the execution was August 23rd.
The governor, in granting the re
prieve, said that he wanted every
body to be assured that the Mooney
case had received the fullest con
sideration by both the executive
and the judicial branches of the
state administraton.
Mooney is now at the St. Quen
tin penitentiary awaiting executon,
while the labor organizatons through
out the country are making every
endeavor to save him from death.
WORLD SERIES
DOUBTFUL NOW
SAYSJESIDENT
Baseball Fans Will Miss the Games
In the World’s Series This
Year.
SALISBURY BEACH, Mass.—In
a statement made today regarding
the effect of the recent work or
fight order issued by Provost Mar
shal General Crowder in connection
with the selective service regulations
and which places baseball playing
in the non-essential occupation class,
Presdent Tenner, of the American
league, said that he is of the opinion
that the world’s series will not be
played this year.
He also said that big league games
will not be possible during the prog
ress of the war.
MEAT PACKERS INDICTED
BY FEDERAL GRAND JURY
NEW YORK.—The federal grand
jury has brought in indictments
against twenty-one meat packers
who "had been awarded contracts for
the supply of beef for use in the
United States army and navy.
The packers are accused of de
frauding the government of about
a million dollars worth of bee*
VOLUNTEERS ARRIVE AT
TANANA THIS MORNING
Arild Slippern, one of the boys
who have volunteered to fight for
Uncle Sam, and who left for train
ing at Fort Gibbon on the steamer
Tanana, wiring to his parents here,
says that the boys arrived at Fort
Gibbon at eight o’clock this morn
ing.
Quarters have been assigned them
and they have been made com
fortable. They commence training
in earnest on Monday.
FOOD SITUATION
AT ACUTE STAGE
IN GERMANY NOW
Germany Reported to Be Robbing
Food From Russia to Meet
Serious Situation.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Accord
ing to advices received today, the
food situation between Russia and
Germany has now reached the acute
stage, the reports indicating that
there is not enough of food for
both countries.
The question regarding the avail
able food supply is giving both the
Russian and German governments
the gravest concern.
It is reported that German sol
diers with threshing machines have
been sent into all parts of the Rus
sian grain countries, and that they
are only allowing the Russian peas
ants who occupy the grain belts
such amounts of food as the Ger
mans decide they need.
The Germans are also reported ,o
be commandeering all the available
horses and cattle in Poland and
Lithuania.
LAND OFFICEAGENT
IS NENANA VISITOR
Field Service Men of the General
Land Office Arrive* on Way
to Fairbanks.
Mason. B. Leming special agent
of the General Land office, who
recently came in to Fairbanks to
fill the vacancy caused by the draft
ing of Special Agent Nelson O.
Brigham, arrived last night on the
launch owned by Knute Johnson
from Tanana.
Mr. Leming, who assumed duties
in the Fairbanks division of the
General Land office, left Fairbanks
for Tanana about a week ago for
the purpose of meeting Special
Agent H. K. Carlisle, who is now
on his way down river from Eagle,
bound for the Koyukuk country.
Mr. Carlisle had not arrived in
Tanana at the time Mr. Leming left
that town, but he received a wire
this morning informing him that
Carlisle expected to arrive in Tana
na some time today.
All of the timber permit and
homestead and mineral business on
the Tanana river coming under the
purview of the General Land office
is within Mr. Leming’s jurisdiction
and he will therefore attend to these
matters on his way up river. As he
will have to stop off at every wood
camp and homestead claim between
Nenana and Fairbanks, he expects
to be several days making the home
ward journey.
Mrs. R. S. McDonald, wife of the
U. S. commissioner at Nenana,
leaves the Outside today for the
North. She will make her home in
Nenana.
BIG NUMBER OF
YANKEE IROOPS
LANDJN FRANCE
Fifty Thousand American Troops
Are Sent “Over ' There” During
the Past Week.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Secretary
of War Baker and General March,
chief of staff of the American army,
told the Senate Military committee
today that during the past week
fifty thousand American troops have
been sent to France. It is expected
that the July troop movement will
reach the record of 300,000 men
sent over. The departure of the
50,000 who went across last week
make the total number of American
troops embarking for France one
million, two hundred and fifty thous
and.
Two additional American army
corps for service in France are now
| being organized. The ninety-first
[division, formerly in training at
; Camp Lewis, Washington, are now
| with the Fifth army corps, which -a
temporarily under the command of
Brigadier General Frederick S Foltz.
General March told newspaper
i representatives that a large number
i of American troops trained in actual
combat from France had begun to
arrive in Italy.
j Referring to the Allied offensive
on the Aisne-Marne front, the gen
eral said that the Germans have
now been forced back 11 miles far
ther from Paris and that as a result
of the counter offensive, the Allied
lines have been shortened by ten
miles. ,
GERMANS COERCE
Appointment of a Military Governor
la Threatened Unless Finns
Accept German Monarch.
STOCKHOLM. — The newspaper
Nya Dagligt Allehanda gives prom
inence to a report which states
that Germany has made strong rep
resentations to Finland, they almost
amounting to an ultimatum, for the
purpose of securing the consent of
the government of Finland to the
creation of a monarchy for that
country. ,
The country is threatened with
the appointment of a German mili
tary governor if they do not accede
to the kaiser’s wishes in this matter.
PARIS—According to a d'.spnt'-h
from Zurich received in this city
today, Duke Adolph Frederick of
Mecklenburg-Schwerin. has accepted
the offer of the crown of Finland.
It is expected that he will leave
for Helsingfors shortly.
George Hunter, of Pinska’s store,
expects to leave for the Tolovana
district on the Carl White launch
this evening.