PRICE 10 CENTS
SKAGWAY, ALASKA, THURSDAY. MAY 23. 1918
FIRST YEAR
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No..95 TWENTY
FRIGHTFUL HONS RAID HOSPITALS
AND KILL WOUNDED AND NURSES
With British Armies in France.
Thursday.'—1 At an early hour this
morning German airmen carried out
a frightful raid on Rr't'gh hospitals
beaind the lines and in the heavy
bomoing killed three hundved
wounded soldiers who were in tna
hospitals at the time.
Among those killed were a num*
b-«r of nurses and as the personnel
c* the nurses included" several Sis
ter* of Mercy, it is believed that
some of these were killed or wound
ed. ' f» '!«
All through the terrific deluse
of explosives, however, the Red"
Cross nurses assisted bv some of
the Sisters stood bravely by their
posts. ■ il
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Washington, May 23.—At yester
day afternoon session of the United
States Senate an amendment intro
duced by Senator Miles Poindester
.providing for the appropriation of
oue mill.'ou dollars for mining and
transportation of coal from Alaska
wines rpr use in the United States
navy, v as inserted, and the N'avv
Approoriation bill as thus amended
was adopted by that 1) dn\
Rome, May 23.—The war office
announced -this afternoon that the
Italian army had extended their
position at Caposillo. On the low
tr Piavfc they have destroyed the
fcnemy garrison at Mornte Spigoc'a.
.1KKERSOX SAILS FOR
SK.UiWAV AM) WAV IH>RTS
Seattle, May :|3.—Ihe Alaska
Steamship company's steamship Jef
ferson sailed from this port this
morning for Skagway and way ports
at irine o'clock. The through pass
engers booked are: J. K. Corwin.
W. A. Thompson, Captain J. C.
Green. Captain F. Murray, Wilbur
Storey and Mrs. \V. Stingier for
Skagway a»d Jack Nelson, William
Hoskiss and two orientals for
Haines.
5 a bis
Frencn Front, France, Wednes
i day.—The Amer>can air squadron
! are engaged* in participation with
1 the French bombing operations be*
I hind t^e German line?. The opera- j
tions are being carried on on a'
large senile, at one time theie be"
it-Z oue hundred" and twenty AJlied
machines flying at the same mo
ment iu the bombing *ork.
;
LOADING UP FOP THE HUN
rs Iu port loading munitions
; ,.bo;:rd an American battleship prepar
atory to leaving for the war zone.
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SA TURD A Y
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SATURDAY
ALBERT REINERT
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THE EIGHT HOUR LAW FOR
ALASKA DIES NATURAL DEATH
In *he eight hour law hearing re
' cently held In Juneau, Attorney Gor
ham, -Ktlng for the White Pass, pre
pared and presented' to the Ator*
nev General the petition of the em
ployees of the White Pass In which
a mod'Jcation of the law was re
quested, and the White Pass com
pany presented evidence of such a
nature that it Bhowed that the
law was impracticable in a, country
like Alaska, and would' work hard
ship on a.11 concerned.
In answer to the petition pre
sented by the White Pags through.
I ite attorney, W. H. Gorham the
! followng advioe Kas received by
cable this morning by General Man
ager V^heeler from Washington.
"Inasmuch as Attorney General
decided not pursue indictments
against Northern Commercial Com
pany Oi ei£ht hour law as he is
convinced they could not g-et a con
viction. department of interior deems
no actirn necessary on our applica
tion to hive law ^uspended. Piacti
cai effect this decision is that Bun
noil's decision holds and law is
dead letter."
The 3ction of Attorney General
Gregory in deciding not to appeal
Judge Bunnel's decision, whereoy the
Eight Hour law was dfeclaped un
constitutional, means that the Al
aska judge's decision holds and
thad the law is a dead letter.
There were two course® open- to
the Attorney General in the matter,
on© was to pursue the indictments
against the Northern Commercial
company by appealing the c^«e to
a higher court, and the other was
to take no action in the matter,
and in that case the decision of
Judge Bunnell holds good.
GERMANS REDISTRIBUTE WHOLE :
FORGE ALONG WESTERN FRONT;
French Army Headquarters, May
23.—Ii has been learnde that the
Germans have carried out a re*
d'-strisu'ion of their entire forces
•alons the whole front. The move
ment 01 troops in the rear of the
front battle lines has been es
pecially heavy.
It is believed that an effotr is
being: made at certain points to
strengthen the present weakened
posititoiis brought alout by the
recent heavy losses and when this
,has beou accomplished the heavy
thrust in a wild effort to force thru
the allierl lines will be made.
Man Drowns in Lake Washington
Fiance Attempts Commit Suicide
Seattle .May 23.—Earl V. Mills,
a clerk in one of the stores of this
city was drowned in .Lake Washing
to,, last night while canoeing with
Miss Audre Haines, his fiance. Miss
Haines sucoeeded in swimming
ashore. Searchers and divers 1m
mediately started to Beaixh for the
Dody of Mills, and when, they fail
ed to find it after searching for two
hours, Miss Haines jumped into
the lake in an effort to drown her
self but was rescua# and taken
from the scene.
U.S. PLANS
: III I RUSSIA
Washington, May 22.—The Be*
.partment of State has under consid
eiation a definite plan of aid for
Russia. It is to furnish, vast sums
of m£Roy wherewith to buy a® sup
plies It Russia including all the
oottoa and other commodties so
much desirred by Germany,
U-Boat Losses
Decreasing
London, Thursday.—The British.
Admiralty's report for the month :
cf April, 1918, BhoYva that 305,102
tons ol vessels belonging to the
Allied' or neutral nations had been
destroyed by German submarines
as against 893,000 for the month
of April 1D17.
HEAVY ARTILLERY FIGHTING
OX ANCRE AND FLANDERS
London, May 23. — The report
received at the British War Of
fice this afternoon Btatgs! that there
la heavy artillery fighting in the
Aucre valley southeast of-Lena and
in the Fland<era salient.
Th« Canadian Pacific Steamship
Princess Sophia, which arrived in
this sort at an early hour yester
day morning ytae delayed until
12:20 last night on account of tak
ing on the machinery which. had
bben brought over from the Pueblo
mine for transshipment to the
States. j I I " : tnnM
RIG ARMY APPROPRIATION |
Wash lag ton, May 23—.The mill*
tary committee of the House of Rep
rosentatives will report at today's
at Saturday's session of that body
an $11,000,000,000 army appropria
tion bin. zAAh.:':
Mrs. "W. S. Drury, wife of the
prominent Whitehorse merchant was ]
a south bound passenger on the |
3ophia last evening.
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WORK OR FIGM OTffi JULf I
Washington, May 23.—Under a
drastic amendment to the selective
service regulations, it was announc
ed toda." by Provost Marshal Crow
der that every man of draft .131?
must work ot fight after July 1.
Not only idlers will come muter
Ifc's -ruling but all draft registrants
no n engaged In what are held to
be non-useful occupations. These
nun will be hailed before the lo
cal exemption board® where they
will be given their choice of taking
a new job which will b® picked out
for them or at once joining the Mf
iiiy a ad- going Into training for
overseas service.
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Washington, May 2C-—Among
those registrants in the select draft
especially designated by Provost
Marshal Crowder as either laving to
1 fight or seek other occupations
' gamblers, race track *n& bucket
shon attendants, bartenders, uaEen
and clerks of all kinds.
Wafcsington, Thursday..— 86 cas
ualties of which) 26 were tilled or
died from wounds, 48 woundted an(i
balance missing is the report from
General Pershing received by the
War Department today.
CAPT. AND MRS. BOSANQUET
Esther Cleveland, daughter of the !
Sate ex-President Cleveland, and Capt.
William 8. B. Bosanquet, D. S. O,
leaving Westminster abbey after their
wedding. Until her marriage to this
distinguished officer of tire Cold
stream Guards Miss Cleveland had
been doing volunteer nursing la
France.
ALLIED US
WARN FINNS
BE CAREFUL
London, Thursday. — The Fta*
pish gerernment haa been Informed
by the British, government that U7
measures directed ' by; Finland
against the Mouroanek railway
would be regarded' by Great Brltala,
France and the United States as a
breach of neutrality.
u.5. TBoore
WILL CROSS
Washington, May. 23.—It WUT
announced 011 the floor of the Ho*®*
.Representative yesterday afternoon,
that there would be nimety thoua
and soldiers transported during the
next ten days. The American ar
my numbers, all told, two mUltoa
thirty eight men, it was stated*.
CHINA- JAPAN PACT TO
BE KEPT A SECRET
Tokyo, May 23.—The agreement
between China and Japan which
was recently signed at Peking will
be held a secret, was announced to
d<iy. The pact is said to be rela
tive to military matters.
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