THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
Application made April 1, 1918, at the postoffice at Nenana, Alaska,
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TILL WE MEET AGAIN.
If Baron von der Lancken-\V al
kenitz, civil governor and regarded
by many as the real ruler of Bel- (
gium during the German occupation, j
is brought to trial at the Old Bailey
in London, there will be present an ;
accuser whom Lancken tried to send
to the firing squad at the Tir Na
tional. That man is Gaston de Le-:
val, a Belgian attorney, legal coun
sellor of the American legation and
special aid to the American am
bassador, Brand Whitlock, and Hugh
Gibson, secretary of the American
legation, during those dark days of
the German occupation in Belgium.
There is bitter hatred between
Baron Lancken and the Belgian at
torney, who risked his life in his^
attempt to save Miss Edith Cavell,!
the British nurse, from execution.
Had it not been for the interven
tion of Ambassador Whitlock and
Mr. Gibson, a firing squad might
have entertained de Leval on the
morning of October 21, 1915.
De Leval accompanied Mr. Gib
son when, on October 11, the Am
erican secretary went to protest to
von der Lancken against execution
of the death sentence on Miss Cav- j
ell. While the Spanish minister, j
the Marquis of Villalobar, was ar-i
guing with von der Lancken, who
refused to intervene, the German
caught sight of de Leval and ex-;
claimed: “There is an enemy sub
ject; what is he doing here?” Mar
quis Villalobar and Mr. Gibson im
mediately recognized that Lancken
was attempting to create a diver
sion and requested de Leval to with
draw. The latter refused, saying:
“1 shall live to prosecute you at
your trial.” Lancken asked Gibson
to dismiss de Leva! from the service
of the American legation. Gibson
refused.
A few days later, Lancken came
raging to the American legation,
bearing a copy of an English paper
with the story of the execution of
Miss Cavell, including Mr. Whit
lock’s report to the state depart
ment. Gibson's narrative of the
events, and de Leval’s legal conclu
sions.
“This man de Leval will have to
be removed from the American lega
tion,” said Lancken. “Under mili
tary law he should be tried by a
court-martial. I would recommend
that the' most severe penalty be vis
ited upon him.”
On October 21, 1915, Lancken re
turned to the legation and demand
ed that de Leval be given up. Mr.
Whitlock refused. De Leval went
to London, where he remained
throughout the war.
Lancken’s parting sally to de
Leval was: “We shall meet again.”
De Leval retorted: “I am sure the
pleasure will be all mine.” And
now they may meet at the Old
Bailey.
MEXICAN FINANCES.
Mexican newspapers reaching
Washington contain long articles de
claring that recent figures as to the
Mexican public debt, published in
the United States, are ‘'wholly in
accurate.” In this connection fin
— —-actual pxmnz. in Hie, .States. say
comparison of the unofficial figures!
published in this country with the i
figures given out by the Mexican !
treasury department show no great
discrepancy.
The official Mexican figures as to I
the external loan debt of the coun
|
try are $143,472,000, with interest |
to the end of July placed at $43,-1
000.000. The unofficial figures as j
recently published place this total at j
$173,469,000. The apparent differ-,
ence, experts say, is made up mostly ]
by the $30,000,000 of the Huerta j
loan, floated in France under au-!
thorization of the Mexican congress, j
but repudiated by the Carranza gov
ernment.
The internal loan debt of Mexico,
according to the official statement, <
is $69,397,000, and interest to June '
30 of $17,914,000. The unofficial [
report gave this debt as $66,611,000,!
and interest of $14,530,000.
I
Washington financial experts say I
the Mexican treasury statement fails !
to account for all the guaranteed
railroad indebtedness which the un- ]
official report figures at $290,500,-j
000; the obligations other than rail
roads which the Mexican govern
ment has guaranteed, the chief of
which is the farm loan banks’ debts,
which, with interest to June 30,
totals $31,500,000; the “infalsifica
ble” issue of paper money, of which
$80,000,000 at ten cents, United
States currency, is still outstanding,
making a total of $8,000,000 more,
or the $20,000,000 which Carranza
took as a “loan” from the banks of
issue in Mexico City.
The fact that Mexico has paid no
interest on her foreign debt since
1913 also is kept in the foreground
by Washington experts, who, for
!the state department, are keeping
a close watch on the financial cor.
;drtion of Mexico. Experts there
also assert that the Mexican govern
ment has used the entire income of
the railroads and express companies
without accounting and with no ad
i mission of responsibility.
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Washburn, at Holy Cross.
Kotlik and Julia B, at St. Mich
ael.
! Davis, at St. Michael.
Benchley, at Louden.
; Seattle No. 3 and Pelican, at Gib
! bon.
Yukon, up Tanana river, 8 a. m.
j Reliance, down Hot Springs, 7:45
p. m., 28th.
Tanana and Kelly, at Chena.
Carl White, up Tolovana river.
27th.
i Alaska, up Circle, 5 p. m., 27th.
| Sibilla, up Nenana, 3:45 p. m.,
,28 th.
Jacobs, at Salcha.
Modern Improvements.
Patient: Doctor, I’m having an
awful lot of trouble with gas in my
stomach.
Doctor: Yes, yes, I know. Those
old-fashioned fixtures are giving peo
ple a lot of unnecessary trouble
these days. Just step into the next
room and I’ll have my engineer wire
vou for electric lights.—Puck. _
COBLEXZ.—At the time the Am
ericans began withdrawing from
Germany the United States army
had perfected one of the finest tele
phone systems in Europe. From
the headquarters of the Third army i
in Coblenz fifty long distance lines j
had been set up, and it is possible [
for the commanding general to sitj
in his office and talk with American ;
officers in London, Berlin, Vienna.j
Rotterdam, Brussels, Antwerp, Paris ;
and various other points in France. 1
The Army of Occupati6n has a
telephone system closely resembling
the best commercial system in the ^
United States. On the top floor of ;
the headquarters building in Coblenz
a nine-position switchboard was in
stalled soon after the Americans
reached the Rhine. Scattered through-'
out Coblenz are twenty private
branch exchanges of the various
units of headquarters. Connected,
to this system are more than four
hundred “subscribers” in addition to i
the fifty long distance lines.
Within the German occupied area I
there has been established by the!
signal corps, under the direction of
Colonel Parker Hitt, chief signal of- j
ficer, a network of wires connect
ig the various units of the Third
army. Direct lines connect with all;
the corps and divisions, approxi
mately 16,000 miles of wire being
in service.
This extensive plant has not, how
ever, been built by the Third army, j
but consists almost altogether of j
the German lines taken over by the j
signal corps and so arranged as to
meet the needs of the army. Suf-j
ficient circuits were left, however,
for the civilian population to carry
on their business.
More than 15.000 calls are regis- j
(tered daily on the Coblenz switch- j
board. With the establishment of
;the exchange in Coblenz it was nec
essary to employ operators who
i could speak English, French, and
| German. The fifteen operators on
I duty in Coblenz are all members of
ithe women’s telephone corps and have
been in the service more than a
year. The chief operator, Miss Hel
, en Cook, was formerly an employe
iof the American Telephone & Tele
graph company in New York. Pre
vious to joining the American Ex
peditionary force, Miss Cook spent
six years as instructor for the Bell
■ system in offices in Chicago, Min
neapolis, Omaha, Cleveland, Detroit,
ad Memphis.
lhe word *L>ooaieDug is ine coae
name of the Third army switch
i board in Coblenz, the corps and
'divisions also retaining the code
names that were assigned them dur
ing the war. On the back of a
20-page telephone directory issued
by the Third army the artist's con
ception of a “doodlebug'' has been
reproduced in the shape of a bug
made up of a combination of sa
bers, rifles and an aeial bomb.
All the apparatus, including
switchboards, telephone instruments,
and, in fact, everything except the
'wires, is of American manufacture
land is to be taken out when the
Americans in force say good-bye to
the Rhine and start for France and
Home.
Ysnaaa. Alaska's Interior Fuel Depot
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FIVE THOUSAND EACH
INSTEAD OF MILLION
NEW YORK, Aug. 29.—The wid
ows of former Presidents Cleveland
and Roosevelt will receive five thou
sand dollars each, under the terms
of the Carnegie will, instead of five
million, as reported in yesterday’s
dispatches.
The sum of $300,000 will be dis
tributed among the friends and rel
atives of the deceased philanthrop
ist, aside from the amount left Mrs.
Carnegie in real estate.
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WANTED—Pair of S-power field
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George Sarantis at The Terminal.
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long. Practically new. Cheap.
Inquire Mrs. Herman Rosburg.
VICTORY TAKES THREE
ON FAIRBANKS VOYAGE
The Douse launch Victory sailed
for Fairbanks shortly after nine
o’clock this morning with three pass
engers for the upper town, the
list including Mrs. Reynolds, Deputy
Marshal James Hagan, and Frank
Frev, the last named being enroute
i
to serve a sentence of six months
in the federal jail at Fairbanks.
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for any point on the line south of
town are required to purchase
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Tickets can be purchased from
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in the employment office, on the
ground floor of the general office
ouilding, Alaskan Engineering com
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Tuesday and Friday of each week,
leaving at 8 a. m., until further
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