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THE NENANA DAILY NEWS
VOLUME ONE
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
NENANA, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 11, 1918
NUMBER 135
HUN REGIMENT THROUGH WITH WAR
CITY OF PETROGRAD IS REPORTED IN FLAMES
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ALLIED FORCES ARE
ADVANCING RAPIDLY
PARIS.—It is reported this morn
ing that the Germans have been
driven from their positions in the
neighborhood of LaFere and that
the town of Travsoy has been cap
tured and occupied by the French
forces. The Germans are launching
strong counter attacks in the hope
of recapturing the place, which is
considered a very important posi
tion on the line of battle in this
sector. If the French can hold
Travsoy then the town of LaFere
and the northerly defense of St.
Gobain will be completely out
flanked. Strong bastions and re
doubts at St. Gobain guard the ap
proaches to the fortified town of
Laon.
BRITISH ADVANCE
LONDON.—According to reports
received from the front today, dur
ing last night the British again made
a slight advance in the Vermand
region. They also repulsed a strong
counter attack in the Escourt St
Quentin region.
BRITISH GAIN FOOTING
WITH THE BRITISH.—Report;
received from British field head
quarters indicate that the BritisI
fighting their way forward on the
railroad between Roisel and Mar
coing, compelled a farther retire
ment of the Huns and gained ;
footing in Peiziere and Epehy. Th<
Germans are counter attacking
fiercely, but have so far made no
impression on the Britishers, who
are pluckily sticking to their guns
and doing terrible execution among
the attacking forces. The positions
captured and held by the British
are very important ones and gives
them the command of a wide area
in their line of advance.
AMERICANS REPULSE HUNS
WITH THE AMERICANS—After
! a .particularly heavy and intensive
| bombardment by the German batter
j ies on the positions held by the
| American troops on the Vosges sal
ient, the Hun infantry advanced in
force to the attack early on Tues
day. Our troops met the shock of
their attack very firmly and severe
fighting ensued. The Americans,
although greatly outnumbered, re
fused to give an inch of ground
and are said to have fought like
demons with the result that the at
tacking forces were hurled back with
; very heavy losses.
THE BERLIN REPORT
BERLIN.—An attempt made by
the British to advance on a section
of the battle front to the south of
Ypres was repulsed by the Germans
, who drove the British back to the
south of Gouzeacourtt and in the
neighborhood of Epehey.
Three thousand British soldiers
were captured by the Germans in
this action.
COAL CONTRACT
IS AWARDED TO
R. E. BORNS & CO
A Large Supply of Coal For the U*e
of the A. E. C. Has Been
Contracted For.
R. E. Burns & Co. have been
awarded a contract for the supply
of five thousand tons of lignite coal
of good quality for the use of the
Alaskan Engineering commission, the
contract goes into effect imme
diately and Burns and his partners
will probably go out to their mine
and commence mining immediately.
The partners to the contract are
R. E. Burns, John Bernard and An
drew Anderson.
The coal vein which Messers Burns
& Co. have tapped is situated ap
proximately from 600 to 1000 feet
in a westerly direction from Station
No. 17435 on the right of way.
The coal will be taken delivery
of as required by the Commission
at the right of way near the mine,
and will probably be put to general
use on the railroad, where large
quantities of fuel are required. It
will also be used on the locomotives
and in the shops in the Nenana yard.
It is expected that some time
after the rails have reached station
17435, a spur track will be run out
to the mine pit to facilitate de
t liveries.
TRANSPORT JAKES
DRAFT QUOTA JO
TRAINING CAMP
Transport Jacobs Arrived Late Last
Night and Sailed Very Early
This Morning.
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The United States army transport
Jacobs arrived in Xenana at ten
o’clock last night with the boys of
the third contingent of the second
draft quota of Fairbanks on board,
bound for the training camp at Fort
Gibbon. Owing to the disagreeable
weather prevailing at the time and
the signs of a portending storm, her
departure was fixed for a very early
hour this morning.
The boys of the Fairbanks quota
came ashore and were seen around
town up to a very late hour last
night, looking up old friends and
making new ones. The following
formed the Fairbanks quota :Thomas
Wells Carr, Fred Martin Wackwitz,
Stephen John Wenzel, Gosta F.
W’esterburg, John Fran-a, Hadzes
mel Konieff, and they were joined
at this port by Sam Hamloff and
George Akoff.
The transport sailed at 4 o’clock
this morning with our contingent
and the best wishes of an united
community for their welfare and
■ success.
WAR BOARD ASKS
U. S. INDUSTRIES
FOR COOPERATION
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Chairman
Baruch, of the War Industries Board
has made a general appeal to the
American industries for their co
operation in the scheme of the war
board.
He made a strong appeal to them
for help in bringing the man power
of the country to the army, which
they could do, he said, by asking
exemption for the lowest possible
number.
GERMAN TROOPS
REFUSE 10 OBEY
ORDER TO FIGHT
The Twenty-fifth German Regiment
Mutinie* At Cologne; Refute
to Entrain for the Front.
AMSTERDAM.—According to an
article appearing in the Telegraef,
the 25th German regiment broke
into open mutiny at Cologne on
August 31. The regiment had or
I ders to entrain for the Western
i
front, but the soldiers refused to
, board the waiting train.
| Another regiment stationed at
Cologne w’as ordered to force the
25th to entrain and a fight seemed
imminent for a while, but the troops
sent to enforce the orders on the
125th regiment refused to fire on
their comrades and marched back to
their barracks.
The Home Defense Guards, com
i posed of boys, were then ordered
' to undertake the task and in the
: fight that followed eleven of the
. lads of the Home Defense Guard
were killed and several others were
wounded.
The 25th regiment did not go to
; the front.
BOSTON AMERICAN
CLUB WINNER
BOSTON—In the final game ol
the world series played here today,
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the Boston team was credited with
two runs, five hits and no errors
and the Chicago team with one run,
three hits and two errors. In win
■
ning this game Boston wins the
' series.
The batteries were Tyler, Hend
1 ricks, Killifre and O’Farrel foi
' Chicago, and Mays and Schang foi
Boston.
About forty miners and laborers
recently arrived at Kennecot tc
work in the copper mines of thal
district. A majority of them came
j from the States.
ANARCHY REIGNS
IN RUSS CAPITAL
CITY JN_ FLAMES
Deplorable State Said to Exist In
Petrograd; Indiscriminate
Massacres Common.
WASHINGTON, D. C —The state
department is in receipt of a des
patch from the American legation
at Christiania, Norway today which
states that according to reports re
ceived at the legation, a state of
anarchy reigns in Petrograd.
The city is reported to be burn
ing in twelve different places and
murder, rapine and pillage are going
on uninterruptedly.
There is no semblance of law and
order, the report says, and the
people are being massacred indis
criminately in the streets of the city.
IMP AflUHIfC 1C
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MADE BY ALLIES
SIBERIAN FRONT
Allies Move Forward Four Thousand
Miles; Czecho-Slavs Break
Through Lake Front.
VLADIVOSTOCK.—In the words
of an American military authoritj
with the forces advancing westward
from Vladivostock, “The Siberiar
front has disappeared overnight.”
The Allied forces have movec
: forward for a distance of foui
! thousand miles and have establishec
| uninterrupted communication be
tween Vladivostock and Irkutsk, or
the Trans-Siberian railroad.
The Czecho-Slovak troops, oper
ating in concert with the Allies ar«
proving to be splendid fighters
They have broken through the strong
opposing lines in the Lake Baika
region and are steadily advancing
towards Tchita, driving the enemj
before them.
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GLACIER CREEK
SIDING IS Li
i Temporary Spur Track At Fill
Creek Taken Up and Laid Near
Glacier Creek Bridge.
A force of men were busy yester
day in taking up the teroporar;
siding laid near the commencemen
! of the D line in the neighborhoo<
: of Fish creek. The material form
i ing the siding was taken to Glaciei
creek and a side track laid then
for the accommodation of the cam]
and gravel cars and for other con
! struction purposes.
The relaying of the side track ha:
been almost completed. It is on thi
north bank of Glacier creek am
near the bridge now in course o
construction. This siding is abou
one thousand feet in length.
TRANSPORT IS HIT
ENROUTE OVERSEAS
LONDON—A large transport with
twenty-eight hundred American
troops on board was torpedoed by a
German sumarine at 3 o’clock last
Friday morning when 200 miles out
at sea. All of the troops and the
crew she carried were saved, and the
ship was beached in a sinking con
dition- It is believed that the ship
can be saved.
The torpedoed ship was one of a
large convoy of transports approach
ing the English coast under strong
escort. Her engines gave some
trouble and she was obliged to shut
! them off for a while until the
j necessary repairs could be af
jfected, and the delay caused her to
i lag considerably to the rear of the
' advancing convoy. The enemy sub
marine taking advantge of this
j fact, succeeding in launching a tor
i pedo at her, which struck the trans
1 port just forward of the engine
| room. No one was hurt by the ex
i ploding torpedo. It is thought that
; her collision bulkheads were imme
1 diately closed from the bridge, and
although she settled a little and
took on a considerable list she did
' not sink. The transport, which had
| fixed her engines, was under way
at the time and was rapidly catching
up with the convoy when the tor
i pedo hit her.
' The response of the escorting flo
tilla of torpedo boats and destroy
ers to the blast of the transport’s
whistle as soon as the danger was
noticed, was immediate, and the
I speedy craft reached the vessel’s
side almost as soon as the deadly
torpedo had struck her. Other
destroyers made for the Hun boat
cutting loose with their rapid fire
batteries as they swung away from
their course in the wake of the
convoy. The Hun submerged im
mediately, but too late to escapt
the relentless destroyers, whose
. depth bombs, exploding beneath the
j sub, raised her clear out of the
. water before she disappeared en
, tirely.
American ami uriusn uesiroyen
I swarmed ground the stricken shir
and coming alongside, enabled the
troops and crew to lower themselves
' on to the decks very rapidly b>
| means of ropes and rope ladders
The explosion although tearing t
great hole in the fore part of the
ship and giving her a list, did nol
entirely disable her; and she steerec
toward some shoals in the neigh
borhood and beached, while to save
time the men on board were trans
ferred to the destroyers while the
. ship was headed toward the shoals
■ Calm weather prevailing at the time
I helped this operation.
There was no panic on board al
. any time, from the time the torpedc
,: exploded to when the last man left
, the ship. The transfer to the de
. j stroyers, though hastily done, was
[ also very orderly. Some of the mer
;! were bathing at the time and wher
.' general quarters was sounded, made
| their appearance with very little
’; clothing and went over the side tc
; | the destroyers in their proper order
The troops on board were com
posed of men from Cleveland am!
Chicago, many of whom were form
er factory hands and office men, and
their behavior at this time of peril
proved that they had assimiliated
the true spirit of the American sol
dier.
Long before the ship was suc
cessfully beached the troops and
such of tjie crew wdiose services
were not necessary on board had
I been safely transferred to the sev
eral American and British destroy
ers from the escorting squadron,
! who immediately returned to their
stations on the flanks of the con
voy.
The master of the stricken ship
with the assistance of a couple of
deck officers and the chief and first
assistant engineer safely beached
and anchored the boat before they
left for safetty ■ on the escorting
boats.
I It is believed that salvage opera
i tions will be undertaken at once
and the transport taken to a dry
dock and repaired to resume the
! service later on.
TROOPS LANDED
i ENGLISH REST CAMP—The
majority of the American troops
'from the torpedoed ship have ar
rived here none the worse for their
i experiences. They are consoled to
'some extent for the loss of the ship
by the fact that the Hun submarine
i was destroyed.
; Several soldiers told an Associated
! Press correspondent that they saw
i the submarine lifted clear out of
' water after the depth bombs had
; exploded and then disappear en
tirely.
LATER REPORT
j WASHINGTON, D. C.—The tor
pedoed troopship was a British liner
and she was torpedoed last Sunday.
RED CROSS RESPONDS
I ENGLISH REST CAMP.—Imrae
i diately after the news of the tor
pedoing of the transport became
: known, the American Red Cross
rushed supplies and a large number
of Red Cross workers 'rom London
to render aid and assistance to the
men of the torpedoed transport.
FOURTH CELEBRATED
IN SPITE OF RUIN
I PARIS.—Arras, which has re
ceived 150,000 shells in the last
four years, was not to be prevented
from celebrating the Fourth of
July.
i The Prefect of the department,
, dence in Boulogne, visited the ruins
of Arras on Independence Day and
found that some fifty flags had
been hung out on its roofless build
ings and battered walls. The Stars
' and Stripes floated from many
: ruined buildings. Some of the
town’s inhabintants had found means
to return or had never left, as the
Prefect met a dozen in the streets.