Celebrate The Fourth In Nenana—The BIG Show Of The Interior
THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
VOLUME ONE member of associated press
NENANA, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 1918.
NUMBER 66
TEUTONS CHECKED ON ITALIAN FRONT
ALLIED FORCES INFLICT HEA VY LOSS ON ENEMY
AUSTRIANS USE NINETY-TWO DIVISIONS IN ATTACKS
BATTLE CONTINUES
ALONG PIAVE RIVER
PARIS.—According to advices re
ceived from the Italian war office
at Rome today, the Teutonic forces
which are engaged in a titantic of
fensive in Italy are being success
fully opposed by the Italians, sup
ported by French and British re
inforcements- The Teutons are
now using ninety-two divisions in
their attacks along the ninety-mi1
front, eighty divisions being in
fantry and twelve cavalry and the
battle is described as the greatest
in which the Italians ever engaged.
Three-fourths of the attacking army
are Autsrians. The size of the divi
sions is not known definitely, but
it is estimated that the number of
Austrians engaged in the struggle
\vill exceed one million.
PLANS FAIL
PARIS.—Papers reported to have
been foun 1 on captured Austrian
officers indicate that it was the in
tention of the Teutons to cross the
Piave river and advance to the Tre
viso-Monte Belluno railroad on the
first day of the attack. Instead
of reaching their goal, however, the
Austrians, in two days fighting have
realized only the minimum of the
advance assigned to the first day’s
operations.
ITALIANS COUNTER
ITALIAN HEADQUARTERS—
Bitter fighting is in progress today
along the Piave river, where the
Italian batteries are inflicting heavy
losses on the enemy. The attack
ing forces are also being hard hit
by the Italian infantry, which has
launched a number of successful
counter attacks along the river, cut
ting great holes in the Austrian
ranks.
AUSTRIANS CROSS RIVER
LONDON.—The Evening Stand
ard is authority for the statement
that the Austrians have occupied
the west bank of the Piave river.
Between the Conegliano railroad
and Zenson bend, a distance of a
mile and a half, the Austrians have
thrown fourteen bridges across the
river, but heavy Italian fire has pre- I
vented their advance beyond the
river bank.
REORGANIZING
—
LONDON!—Dispatches received in j
this city this afternoon state that
the Austrians are reorganizing their
forces along the British line of the
Italian front, following their defeat:
at that point of their advance. The
Italians, in conjunction with French
and British forces, have launched
a counter offensive and have re
gained a considerable portion of the
ground lost during the first rush
of the enemy forces.
NO GERMANS THERE
AMSTERDAM—According to ad
vices received from Vienna, Em
peror Charles, of Austria, is with
his troops on the Austro-Italian
front. The advices also state that
there are no Germans participating
in the present operations on the
Italian front- '•?
HOLDING THEIR OWN
ROME.—Reports of the opera
tions now in progress on the Italian
front, which appeared in the after
noon papers, show that violent
fighting is still in progress along
the forty-mile front, from the Adri
atic to Ciane, on the upper Piave,
with the Italians holding their own
everywhere. Tremendous efforts
are reported to have been made by
the Austrians to extend their slight
gains on the slope of Montello
crest, but without success, the new
attacks in that region having broken
down.
RAIDS IN WEST
WASHINGTON, D. C.—In his re
port to the war department, Gen
eral Pershing states that with the
exception of minor patrol activities
in Picardy, Lorraine and the Vosges
sectors, there have been no develop
ments of consequence.
USING LOTS OF GAS
WITH THE AMERICANS—The
Germans ars using an unusually
large amonut of gas in their oper
ations against the Americans on the
Marne front, but notwithstanding
the heavy showers of poison and
metallic missiles, the American line
continues intact.
TURKS AT TABRIZ
LONDON.—According to a Turk
ish official statement, which has
just reached this city, Turkish
troops have occupied Tabriz, the
second largest city in Persia.
SUPPRESS DISORDERS
PARIS.—According to advices re
ceived in this city, four thousand
troops are engaged in putting down
the food disorders in the Lemberg
district. Simialr action has been
taken by the government at Vienna,
Budapest and Prague, where food
riots are occurring.
AMERICANS KILLED
PARIS.—A Gorman officer who
was captured by the Americans in
the Ziveray battle, has admitted
that the Germans killed a number
of American-; aft r they had been
taken captive, the murders having:
been committed before the Germans
returned to their own trenches.
HUNDRED TAKEN
PARIS—The war office announc
es that one hundred Germans were
captured during the night in a local
operation south of the Aisne.
SOME YANKEES TAKEN
WITH THE AMERICANS—A
German raiding party captured a
few prisoners in the Luneville sec
tor at an early hour this morning.
An American patrol later entered
the German first line trenches and
did considerable damage.
SUMMARY
Associated Press Summary—TV
Italians and their Allies are holding
their lines intact along virtually all
of the ninety mile front, from the
Adriatic to the Asiago plateau. They
appear to have given the Austrians
a serious check, and frightful losses
have been inflicted upon the attack
ing Teutons in the Montello region.
The Austrians have crossed the
Piave river.
IN ALSACE
WASHINGTON, D. C.—The war
department has authorized the state
ment that the 32nd Division, com
posed of Michigan and Wisconsin
militiamen, is now fighting in Al
sace, in German territory.
HIT A SUBMARINE
ATLANTIC PORT.—The crew of
an arriving steamer report that the
naval gunners aboard the vessel yes
terday fought off a submarine off
the Virginia coast. They declare
that a clean hit was made and that
the submarine was either sunk or
seriously crippled.
FIRST AMERICAN
AWARDED CROSS
BY THE FRENCH
First American Killed In Action
On French Soil Is Awarded
War Cross.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—W. .1.
Guyton, one of the men of the
American forces 'operating in the
Vosges sector, and who was the
first American soldier to be killed
in battle was awarded the war cross
of France.
The decoration will be sent to
this country to his next of kin, in
accordance with the usual custom
in such cases.
Towmite Puts In Culvert With Flood
Gates On Ditch Near F
Street.
A big box culvert with proper
flood gates is now in course of con
struction across the big ditch built
by the townsite authorities east of
town for the purpose of preventing
the flood waters of the Tanana
river from coming into parts of the
town, and for letting out any excess
water that may accumulate in town
from overflows of the Nenana river
or from other sources.
The box culvert will be 16 feet
long, bulkheaded at each end and
fitted with automatic flood gates.
The openings at each end will be
30x32 inches. It is built at the
intersection of Front street with the
F street ditch and will be covered
over to give roadway for all kinds
of traffice between the town and
the mission.
The Alaskan Engineering commis
sion have also built a set of flood
gates across the ditch near the big
warehouse and running in a south
erly direction along the eastern
boundary of the Commission re
serve.
Not “Bit” but “Utmost”—the end
is worth our “All.”
BUSCH ESTATE
IS TAKEN OVER
BY GOVERNMENT
Widow of Wealthy Brewer Held
At Key West, Upon Her Return
From Berlin Visit.
WASHINGTON, D. C—Mrs. Adol
phus Busch, widow of the St. Louis ]
millionaire brewer, is being detained
at Key West, upon her return from
a long stay in Germany. She is
being examined by the immigration
officials, who will try to learn some
thing of her movements while a
broad. She will be asked also
whether she can communicate with
Germany now. It is expected that
she will be released soon, as there
is reason to believe that she is not
pro-German.
Mrs. Busch claims that she is a
loyal American. Her husband was
naturalized.
The. great Busch brewery and j
other property of the estate, valued |
at several million dollars, has bee
taken over by the alien property
custodian, orders to that, effect hav
ing been issued yesterday. Mrs. |
Busch is one of the chief owners
of the brewery.
NEW LIBERTY LOAN
COMES IN OCTOBER
Secretary of the Tresaury Announces
Date Set For Fourth Liberty
Loan.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Secretary
of the Treasury McAdoo announced
today that the next Liberty Loan
will be some time in October next.
In the meantime, he said, that
six billion dollars’ worth of certifi
cates of indebtedness and two bil
lion dollars worth of tax certificates
had been issued.
SECOND FOUR- MINUTE WOMAN
MAKES SPEECH AT COLISEUM
At the Coliseum Sunday night,
Mrs. M. J. Cooney delivered a four
minute speech which was well de
livered and well received by the
large audience present.
Mrs. Cooney’s speech was along
th lines of food conservation, with
special reference to the potato as
an easily acceptable and wholesome
substitute for wheat. The argu
ments brought forth in the' speech
were very apt, and helpful hints
and suggestions for a more generous
share of the potato in the daily
bill of fare was urged on everybody
as a patriotic duty.
Mrs. Cooney has the distinction
of being the second lady to join the
ranks of Nenana’s four-minute
speakers.
SCHOOL BOARD MEETING
WILL BE HELD TONIGHT
Announcement is made that a
meeting of the Nenana school board
will be held at sevn o’clock tonight
at the schoolhouse for the transac
tion of school business.
We have to put every ounce of
effort behind the men behind the
guns.
JAPAN UNPOPUIAR
A! RUSSIAN PORI
Member* of Hospital Unit Says
BoUheviki Is Not Strong In
Eastern Siberia.
TOKIO.—Bolshevism, as it exists
in Southern Russia, does not seem
to have penetrated Eastern Siberia,
in the opinion of Dr. H. Q. F. Thomp
son, who has just returned from
Russia with the Anglo-Russian Hos
pital unit.
In Vladivostock he saw officers
in uniform, though they had been
stripped of their shoulder straps.
In Ukraine an officer’s uniform
means sure death, he said. Vladi
vostock and Harbin seemed very
quiet after the turbulent cities of
the South. There seemed to be no
excitement due to the presence of
Allied warships in the harbor. All
nationalities mixed quite freely and
there seemed to be no more antag
onistic feeling toward the Japanese
than toward others.
WORK WILL BE
GIVEN IMPETUS
ON RAILROAD
The employment office in the
office building of the Alaskan En
gineering commission is quite a
busy place nowadays, and many men
may be seen signing up for work
along the railroad.
The new location which is known
as the D line is being prepared as
rapidly as possible and actual con
struction work will be rushed as
fast as conditions will permit.
Locomotive No. 5 and the Brown
hoist have day and night crews,
while the dragline will have three
crews working two shifts of eight
hours each and one of three hours,
with a five-hour interval for any
overhauling and repairing that may
become necessary as the work prog
resses.
It is expected that double crews
will soon be put on for working
the locomotives 270, 272 and the
Lidgerwood unloader.
All of the necessary materials i
and supplies are now being assem
bled at an advantageous point on
the right of . why for the uninter-1
rupted continuance of the work of |
railroad building and the camps!
along the line are now the scenes
of much activity as a new impetus
appears to have been gi\|n railroad
work recently..
The services of all of the men
that will be necessary for railroad
work have not b.een Availed of, but
they are being steadily signed on
as conditions warrant and it is con
fidently expected that a large force
of men will eventually be on the
payroll of the Commission.
The Brown hoist has been very
busy night and day for the past
week or so getting together the ties,
logs, bridge and culvert material/
gathering them up from points
along the old location and bringing
them to the new.
A band concert and dance will be
given at the Auditorium on the '20th,
the proceeds to go towards the up
keep of the band.
War Hat Shown Dependence of
Japanese Nation Upon Foreign
Industry.
TOKIO.—Warning that adverse
jconomic conditions may develop in
lapan as a result of the war was
?iven by the Japanese Premier,
Count Terauchi, in an address de
ivered recently before the annual
neeting of the clearing house banks.
Responsibility of averting a disaster,
le said, rested upon the bankers of
lapan.
The premier remarked that the
lecessity of industrial independence
lad been vividly brought home to
lapan in consequence of the war
ind it was because of this that the
'overnment had introduced into the
ast session of the diet projects
sending towards the achievement of
this independence. .
Mr. Shoda, finance minister, who
Allowed Count Terauchi, said that
.he government in compiling the
;stimates for the current fiscal year
laid the utmost attention to the
jerfection of the national defense.
\ project was mapped out for the
juilding of two battle-cruisers, three
:ruisers and sevently-five other war
ships of all sorts at a total cost
.“quivalent to $150,250,000, the dis
bursement of which was to be spread
>ver six years. This together with
;he expenditure of $141,500,000,
vhich had already fived, would bring
:he total naval expenditure to be
iefrayed during the next six years
;o about $292,000,000.
CHANCE SHUT FATAL
10 AMIII An
Bomb* Dropped By Airplane Turn
Huns Into Path of Big British
Force.
LONDON,.—Surrender of a Ger
man force .of, 3,000 men in East
Africa was due to the chance drop
ping of a number of bombs by a
British airman, according to a re
port from Capetown, which says:—
“A.n officer of the Flying Corps
was out on a reconnaissance in the
region of the Rpvuma river, but
found nothing to bomb. Being
forced to discharge his cargo of
bombs to lighten his machine for
the homeward trip, he chose a quiet
spot and dropped them all, causing
of course, considerable noise.
“The German general, Tafel, was
at the time marching to join his
chief, Von Letto.w, but news of the
explosions was reported to him, and
be, thinking a large force of the
enemy must be somewhere in the
district, diverted his line of march
and before long bumped into a
British force.
■ “Ultimately his whole force, 3,000
strong, surendered.”
Walter Hollerbach, late of the
Commission force here as dragline
operator, left for Fairbanks on the
launch Nita yesterday. He is on,
bis way to the States.