STRUGGLE FOR SUPREMACY
PARIS, Sept. 27—The long awaited offensive movement
of the allies along the western front commenced yesterday.
As a result of a day of wonderful fighting, with victory crown
ing the efforts of the French and English, twenty thousand un
wounded' German prisoners were taken. Many field guns were
captured some of the batteries of the Teuton being taken along
with the entire battery crew, and with the guns in perfect con
dition. A great qauntitv of miscellaneous war material also
fell into the hands of the allies and the biggest victory of the
allies on the west since the battle of the Marne, was recorded.
The first French charge-took place at Souchez, and after
sweeping through the German trenches, the French continued
their advance in the direction of Givenchy. The forward
movement was simultaneous along the whole front in the
Champagne district, and the French have succeeded in retain
ing all the positions captured.
Further north the British were also on the move and the
soldiers under Sir John French captured five miles of German
trenches south of the LaBassee canal, and east of Vermelles.
At some points the German lines were penetrated to a depth of
four thousand yards, over two miles. The British charge re
sulted in the capture of the village of Loos, with all the German
defensive works around it. Hill 70 was also taken, as well as
the western outskirts of the village of Hulluch.
Twenty minutes after the French started their charge on
the German trenches their work was accomplished. Before
the infantry participated in the fight, the German trenches had
been systematically shelled by the allied' artillery for over sixty
hours, the French 75’s throwing their shells into the enemy
under a plan whereby the whole front was shelled, each fifty
square yards of the German trenches being thoroughly raked
before the guns turned their attention to the next section.
The sixty hour bombardment ended at dawn yesterday
morning, and the French infantry, received the orders to ad
vance with cheers, swing ahead onto the enemy in an avalanche
of steel, very little musketry being used, the charge being
chiefly a bayonet one. The artillery fire of the French and
British guns was deadly, and the Teuton dead reaches an
enormous total. When the allies advanced, they found the
Teutons in the trenches in a dazed condition, the enemy sur
rendering with hardly a show of fight, the troops being barely
in condition to resist the attack. Trainload after train load
of German prioners is arriving in this city, the remarkable
thing about it being the absence of wounded' German among
the captative. Heretofore the larger percentage of prisoners
have borne wounds of some nature, but the prisoners being re
ceived today are all unharmed. The total German losses is es
timated at fifty-five thousand.
LONDON, Sept. 27—The Belgian troops under King Albert
gained considerable glory in the general offensive undertaken
by the allies yesterday. In the charge they compelled the Ger
mans to evacuate a long string of trenches on the west bank
of the Yser canal, and captured a German post in this section,
The new western situation with the enemy on the defensive is
very gratifying to the allied governments, and compels the
Germans to adopt new tactics. With the Russians holding the
Germans on the eastern front, actually forcing them back in
places, and with the two million German troops on the west
unable to hold back the advancing tide of French and English,
it will be impossible for the Teutons to proceed with the at
tempted invasion of Serbia and bring relief to their hampered
friends the Turks.
LONDON, Sept. 27—The people throughout the nation are
thrilled with enthusiasm and overjoyed', at the news of the vic
tory won Saturday and Sunday over the German forces in
France and Belgium. The elation being felt is increased be
caused of the political effect of the victories upon the Balkan
nations, and upon Bulgaria in particular who was veering to the
side of the central powers. The Bulgarian diplomats are now
eagerly assuring the allies that the mobilization of their army
was not a hostile move against the allied powers.
LONDON, Sept. 27—The French and British forces fight
ing in northern France gained greater results in the last two
days than they did in the preceeding twelve months and so far
have been able to maintain the new positions taken from the
Germans. Thirty pieces of field artillery and twenty thousand
prisoners were taken. The victory opened a formidable gap in
lie German lines, and the remainder of the German trenches
before Lille are in danger, being exposed to flank attacks.
LONDON, Sept. 27—General Ivanoff, he commander of the
Russian southern army won a striking victory over the Teutons
in southeast Poland, taking thousands of prisoners and forcing
the Austro-Germans to retire a considerable distance. Advices
from Petrograd report desperate fighting along the entire front
with numerous villages being retaken from the enemy, and
many prisoners are being captured. The German reverses have
caused the Teuton general staff to make many changes in the
commands of the armies in the field. General Eichhorn has
been removed because of the recent Russian victories over his
troops.
LONDON, Eept. 27—The Russian army of the north is in
a distinctly better position due to the advantages recently
gained, and even in the fighting around' Dvinzk, the Russians
have improved their situation. Hindenberg is concentrating
his efforts against the army of General Russky, but his pro
gress of late has been inappreciable. The German attacks are
slackening, and the great losses suffered in the previous attacks
are apparently having their effects.
BERLIN, Sept. 27—The war office issued an official state
ment today stating that the new offensive movement of the
allies in the neighborhood of Lille has been brought to a stand
still by fierce German counter attacks. The British attack in
the other portions of the front held by them had broken down
with heavy losses to the attacking force and with any appreci
able advantages being gained. The statement admits that the
French offensive had made further progress in that portion of
the line between Rheims and the Argonne.
Greece in favor of the nation entering the conflict to assist
Serbia and the Anglo-Franch forces on the Gallipoli peninsula.
ATHENS, Sept. 29—The victories of the allies along the
western front has aroused tremendous enthusiasm throughout
The apparent dismay evident when the first mobilization order
was published has disappeared, and the people are now receiv
ing the troops everywhere with open arms, and indications are
growing that a great wave of patriotism is sweeping over the
country in support of the determination of the king and the
cabinet to stand by the treaty obligations with Serbia and' sup
port her in case Bulgaria enters the war.
PARIS,, Sept. 28—The war office issued an official com
munique this morning announcing that the allied offensive
along the western front was still being pushed, and reporting
further successes at various points along the front. The most
notable advance made yesterday was in the Artoes region in
the vicinity of Souchez, the wedge driven into the German lines
last Saturday and Sunday, being further extended, until now
the now the Teuton positions along this whole section are in
extreme danger of being captured' with great losses unless a
new alignment of their advance trenches is made soon.
Additional progress is also reported in the Champagne dis
trict while the heavy German counter attack commenced by the
army of the Crown Prince in the Argonne, was repulsed with
tremendous losses to the enemy. The soldiers in the French
trenches here, can see the ground in front of the German
trenches is covered with the enemy’s dead and wounded, and to
venture into the zone between the beligerents for the purpose
of rescuing the wounded means death, so that the wounded are
compelled to lay on the ground uncared for, and the battle is
being fought over ther heads. The Germans in the Argonne
delivered some tremendous attacks against the Frertch lines,
but they were easily repulsed. The fighting here has been more
consistent all summer than at any other point on the front, and
it is estimated that in the battles of the last few days, and the
previous engagements this summer, the army of the Crown
Prince has lost a hundred thousand men.
Back of the German lines, all available means of transpor
tation are being used to take the wounded to the base hospitals.
The German trains are crowded, and the wounded are being
carried away by the tens of thousands. All thorough this sec
tion, from Toul to Verdun and farther north the French army is
on the move, creeping slowly but steadily in the direction of the
German stronghold of Metz.
LONDON, Sept. 28—Reports concerning the fighting on
the eastern battle front indicate that the battle is still favoring
the armies of the Czar along the southern end of her line. Petro
grad reports unofficially that the Russians have reached the im
portant railway junction of Koval on the line which runs
through Cliolm and Lublin. The Americans and Germans have
been steadily falling back since Mackensen and the Archduke
Frederick were forced over the Styr river into the Pripet
marshes. The heaviest fighting along the whole front is in the
north where Hindenberg and Russky are fighting a great duel
with hundreds of thousands of men for the possession of Dvinsk.
The Germans have been checked in all their attacks heretofore
and althongh some progress has been made they are still far
from accomplishing the end desired. Hindenberg is regroup
ing his forces for another great blow in a last desperate effort
to drive the Russians out of the city.
BERLIN, Sept. 28—The war office in an official statement
issued this morning says that the allied offensive in the west
has been definitely checked by the Teuton forces, and that the
Gormans have not only stopped the enemy but have regained
considerable of the lost territory by counter charges.
PETROGRAD, Sept. 28—The military authorities here
were overjoyed when the news of the allied offensive in the west
was received. They believe now that the Anglo-French initia
tive will spoil the plans of the Germans in Russia and regarding
the contemplated invasion of Serbia. The Russians are de
fending Dvinsk with great energy, and the troops under General
Russky are holding out stubbornly against tremendous driving
attacks of huge numbers of the enemy. So far the Russians
have held their own, and reserves are being rushed to the front
to ward off the anticipated last great effort of Hindenberg to
capture the city.
BERLIN, Sept. 28—The war office issued an additional
official statement today reciting that Mackensen’s army in the
southeast of Poland had forced its way across the Styr river be
low the fortress of Lutzk, and that the Russians after being
badly defeated were now in full retreat north of Dubno, and
along the entire front in this section of the battle line.
PARIS, Sept. 29—The wrar office issued an official com
munique this morning announcing that the estimate of the Ger
man losses since the offensive on the west yas commenced last
Saturday had been placed at 120,000. This estimate is conserva
tive and includes killed, wounded and prisoners. The fighting
in the Champagne country continues uninterrupted, both sides
attacking and making counter attacks. The heavy boom of the
artillery never ceases, and the men in the trenches are being
attack Serbia within fifteen days. Apparently this conincides
region the French offensive has not yet been checked, and their
progress continues slowly but steadily, the Teutons being com
pelled to gradually retire to new trenches. The forward move
ment here has taken a definite direction north of Cassiges.
Yesterday a thousand Germans surrendered* in this vicinity.
SALONIKI, Sept. 29—It is reported here that a precise
agreement bewteen Bulgaria and the Central powers has been
concluded and signed by the plenipotentiaries of all the coun
tries affected. Under this agreement Bulkaria has promised to
declare war on Serbia on October 15.
LONDON, Sept. 29—The allied governments are keeping
a watchful eye On Bulgaria, and although it seems that she will
fight with the central powers, who have dountless promised her
the whole of Macdonia, and is apparenly preparing to attack
Serbia, Sofia is showing signs of hesitation, and her statesmen
are assuring the allies that the mobilization of the army does
not mean war. Yet the withdrawal of her consuls from Serbia
may be construed as an unfriendly act, and the warning given
by Sir Edward Grey in the Commons yesterday has the support
of all the allied nations, and there is still some doubt about the
ultimate course of Bulgaria. The victories and the vigorous
offensive taken by the allies on the west has also caused the
Balkan nation to ponder before she finally commits herself.
Her statesmen are playing a purely selfish game and will do
what they think will be the most advantageous for the nation.
ATHENS, Sept. 29—It is rumored hero that Bulgaria will
constantly re-enforced with fresh reserves. In the Artois
with the dispatches received through London yesterdays that
the German invasion of Serbia would commence within a fort
night. It is felt that Bulgaria and the Central powers' have n
full understanding and that when the attack begins it will be
started similtaneously, the Teutons and Bulgarians -moving
down the valley of the Mrava from the opposite ends* Greece is
steadily going ahead with the mobilization of her forces, and
tK work has been about completed. Transports are in readb
ness to convey the soldiers at a moment’s notice, and around
the war office everything is activity. Frequent conferences are
being held between the premier and the'cabinet and King Con
stantine.
HIE TELEGRAPHIC NEWS NOTES
A Record of the Principal Happenings of the World
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio, Seut. 27—
John W. Bookwalter, the well known
capitalists of ths city died today in
San Ramo, 'Italy. A cable was receiv
ed by the relatives of the deceased, an
nouncing his death, and stating that
the body would be shipped home for
interment. Bookwalter, has been in
poor health for some time and went to
Italy on the advice of his physicians
who thought that he might be benefit
ted by the climate there. The de
ceased had acquired a national repu
tation as a philantropist and took an
active interest in politics to further
the reforms which he had at heart
BYFIELD, Mass., Sept. 27—Ben
jamin S. Cable, a resident of Indian
apolis, who served as Assistant Secre
tary of the Department of Commerce
and Labor under President Taft, was
killed here today in an automobile ac
cident.
SEATTLE, Sept. 27—The steamer
Admiral Farrpgut sails tonight for
Southwestern Alaska ponits. Her
cargo will include three hundred
tons of rails and supplies for the Alas
ke Engineering Commission at An
chorage.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 27—The gov
ernment has awarded the contract for
the new boat to be used by the Coast
and Geodetic Survey in Alaskan wa
ters. The boat will be built of steel,
and be larger than any of the vessels
now employed in coast survey, and
will be named the Surveyor.
SEATTLE, Sept. 27—The work of
raising the steamer Admiral Watson,
which was sunk at the dock here sev
eral weeks ago, is progressing very
rapidly and it is expected to have
the vessel afloat tomorrow.
SEATTLE, Sept. 27—The Seattle
Chamber of Commerce entertained, at
the Arctic Club on Saturday evening
in honor of well-known Alaskans in
the city, the guests being Sam Blum,
of Cordova, John W. Troy, editor of
the Juneau Empire and B. M. Stone,
publisher of the Seward Gateway.
SEATTLE, Sept. 28—The steamer
Admiral Farragut sailed last night for
Southwestern Alaska. Her Cordova
passengers were W. Richardson, A.
Dewey and Louis E. Wolf.
, WASHINGTON, Sept. Sept. 28—
President Wilson went to his home at
Princeton, N. J. yesterday to vote at
the Democratic primaries which were
being held throughout that state. He
remained but a short time, greeting
most of the people in the small town,
where he was welcomed by his neigh
bors and friends, and was vociferously
cheered by the students of the univer
sity, who gathered at the railroad de
pot to see him off. Returning to the
capital, the president addressed the
encampment of the Grand Army,
which is being held here, and conclud
ed a busy day by retiring early.
NAHANT, Mass., Sept. 28—Mrs
Henry Cabot Lodge wife of the United
States senator from this state died
at her home here last night. Mrs.
Lodge had been in the best of health
and her death, which occurred from
heart disease was entirely unexpected
and has been a great shock to Senator
Lodge and the relatives and friends of
the family. The deceased was sixty
five years old, and took an active in
terest in philantrophic enterprises.
GLASCOW, Sept. 27—James Kelr
Hardie, the English labor leader and
one of the foremost socialist thinkers
of the day, died at his home in this
city early this morning. Hardie in
early life was a coal miner, but was
blacklisted by the employers for his
activity in organizing the workers.
He was then made paid secretary of
the miner's union. He was one of the
founders of the Labor Party in Eng
land and was elected to the House of
Commons in 1888, and several times
thereafter. His paper, which he own
ed an edited, The Labour Leader,
commanded a large influence among
the working classes of Great Britain.
SALEM, Ore., Sept. 28—Otto Hook
er, who escaped from the penitentiary
recently, last night shot and killed
Harry Minto, the warden of the State
penal Inslttutton, south of this city.
Hooker had previously shot City Mar
shal Benson of Jefferson. Posses
have been organized and the surround
ing country is being thoroughly
searched for the convict. Hooker
escaped in the direction of Albany,
and very little hope Is felt that he will
allow himself to be captured alive, as
he Is well armed, and after holding
iff the posses as long as possible will
probably kill himself.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 20—The navy
department have prepared the hull
plans for the two new thirty-two thou
sand ton dreadnaughts, that are about
to be built for the American navy.
The plans for the hull are unique in
many respects, the naval architects
having profited by the lessons learned
in the European war about the dan
ger of submarine attacks, and import
ant devices are to be installed which
will act as perfect defenses against
torpedo attacks. The matter of the
new devices has been kept a close
secret by the navy officials, but en
haustlve tests have been made, and the
department feels that they have
solved the problem.
ALBANY, Ore., Sept. 29—Otto
Hooker, the escaped convict from the
State penitentiary, who shot and mur
dered the warden of the prison, was
surrounded by a posse near here last
night, and in the fight which followed,
was shot and killed. Hooker refused
to surrender when cornered, and kept
firing on the posse until the end.
When the body was recovered it was
found that several bullets had taken
effect on the convict.
ARDMORE, Okla., 29—The revised
figures of dead as a result of the ex
plosion of a tank car filled with gaso
line at the Santa Fe depot in this city,
places the number at forty-eight. The
property loss will easily run as high
as a half million. Nearly one-half
of the dead were negroes. A relief
fund has been started for the families
of the victims, most of whom were
working men, with wives and children
dependent upon them.
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 29—The
city election which was held here yes
terday resulted in the re-election of
James Rolph as mayor, who easily
defeated his opponet former mayor
Eungene Schmitz. Schmitz made a
good fight, but was unable to recover
from the sigma of his removal from
office when the graft conditions under
Ruef were exposed in the Golden Gate
city some years ago.
WASHINGTON Sept. 28— The
Weather Bureau reports extreme wea
the rconditions In certain portions of
the states with early frosts being re
corded in New England, the states
along the great lakes, the middle At
lantic states, and in the interior.
Along the Pacific coast the weather is
normal, and the same in the southern
states and along the gulf.
WALLA WALLA, Oct. 1—Elmer
Holma, teller of the Farmers’ Savings
Bank in this city, was arrested yester
day charged with the embezzelment
of $19,000. Holman, when arrested
confessed his crime, and turned over
to the bank officials private property<
to the amount of $10,000 in an effort
to make whatever restituion lay in his
power. Holman has always borne an
excellent reputation and has been with
the bank for years, rising to his pres
ent position from the post of bank
messenger, which he assumed when a
boy.
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 1—A violent
West Indian hurricane swept over this
city the night before last leaving death
and devastation in its wake. The
wind at times reached the velocity of
one hundred and thirty miles per
hour. Between the hours of 6 and
9:30 the wind readiest its heighest,
at intervals going above 120 miles an
hour and once reaching the pinnacle
of 130. Between 5.30 and 7 o’clock
the average wind velocity was eighty
miles. Ten persons were killed by the
storm and 150 injured. The property
loss is at least a million and some of
the most important business blocks
in the city suffered severely from the
storm. Many churches, schools and
public buildings were damaged, and
the famous French market, one of the
most interesting sights in the city,
was partially wrecked. The roof of
the Masonic Temple was torn off, and
the entire telephone system demoral
ized, while for a time outside tele
graphic connection was cut ofT.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1—Another
wonderful invention in the telephone
field was subjected to a severe test
today and proved its validity when
Theodore N. Vail president of the Bell
Telephone Co., talked from bis office
in New York with persons in the Mare
Island navy station at California. The
voice of Vail was carried by ordinary
telephone to the wireless station of
the government at Arlington, Va., and
transmitted by wireless 2500 miles
across the continent where it was tak
en from he air by the wireless at Mare
Island, and transferred into the voice
of Vail again, and heard by the man at
the receiver. This marvel is made pos
sible by a new and wonderful device
which transforms the spoken word on
the wire into the wireless message and
automatically turns It back into the
spoken word once more at the point
of reception. With the use of this
device Mr. Vail said that It would be
possible to sit in one’s office in New
York, and call up people in Paris or
Hong Kong and talk with them.
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The officers of the steamer Mari
posa, report that the big steamship
was forced out Its rugular path by
immense ice floes from Columbia
glacier. The Mariposa took the Inside
channel between the wreck of the
Olympia and the mainland to avoid the
great bergs which were floating In the
channel usually taken by steamers
entering nnd leaving Ellamar.
The officers believe that the unu
sual ice conditions must have been
caused by an earthquake, which
caused the big glacier to empty mil
lions of tons of ice into the bay as
the field of ice was extensive and the
bergs larger than any ever before
encountered along this part of the
coast of Alaska. Severe earthquake
shocks have been experienced around
Juneau and other Southeastern points
and the Mariposa's officers believed
that the disturbances had extended
to the north and caused the glacier’s
to break loose
Captains of launches who have re
cently made the trip to Port Wells
report that the Columbia glacier,
which has always been very aclve
during the late summer, has been
discharging immense quantities of Ice
this fall, and at times the channel
between Glacier Island and the gla
cier has been packed with the floes.
They express the belief that the ice
encountered by the Mariposa was car
ried out from the Glacier Island chan
nel by the high tide.
MILLION DOLLAR CHISANA
MINING CO. ORGANIZED
Another company has been organ
ized in Seattle to engage tn mining In
Alaska, the field of operation chosen
being the Ohisana country, already
overdone on the Outside stock mar
ket. The latest company is known
as the Gold Hill Shushanna Mining “
company, and is capitalized at $1,500
000, with Thomas Shepherd, Bert Ross
and Owen Roberts as the principal ln
coporators.
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Beginning Monday the mall, express
and passengers for Fairbanks and In
terior Alaska will go via Cordova,
over the Copper River railway to Chiti
na and from there over the govern
ment trail.
With the improvements made to the
American trail by the road commis
sion during the pas: few years auto
mobiles are now raak'u? regular trips
winter and summer between this coast
and Fairbanks. A few years ago the
mail was roughi.ecohcd to the Interior
by dogs and the most primitive means.
Then followed the double ender and
next the four and six horse stages
with warm furs and foot-warmers.
Now passengers are sped over the
snow roads and across the iced rivers
in modern touring cars. Though a
long cry from the dog sleds to the
automobiles, the change has taken
place in a few years time.
Dogs are mostly used as yet over the
trail from Seward to the Idltarod.
But as more roadhouses are built and
the trail conditions are improved
double enders and Anally automobiles
will also follow along that route.
Meantime, the government Is project
ing a railroad to the Tanana and the
completion of this will see a still
greater improvement in transportation
to the interior.
The time for travel is much shorter
during the winter from the coast to
the Interior than is true of summer
conditions when the trip Is made down
the great Yukon river and then up the
Tanana river to Fairbanks.
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Back to the Old Job.
Purser Tom Kehoe Is back on the
Evans In his old office on this trip.
Tom has decided that after all he will
not be a travelling salesman and will
contlue In the employ of the Pacific
Alaska Navigation company. He
missed but one one trip of the boat.