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No. 103 TWENTY FIRST YEAR SKAttWAY, ALASKA. TUESDAY, JUNE 4. 1918
DING Sill IS CflTiED III IHU
Willi H IB If IWfl SEMES
FEAR OF BOMBARDMENT AND AIRPLANE
RAID NEW YORK WILL BE DARK TONIGHT
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Watch Was so Close U-Boat
Was Forced to Remain Un
der Surface Until Compelled
to Come up to Get Fresh
Air—Is Quickly Netted
Ntw York. Tuesday. — American,
a*'d Naval aircraft have ba;;ged one
ol t->e German submarines which
has been operating off the N'ew
Jer?ey coast.
The submarines are responsible
for tne sinkiug of six vessels, and
'£ '» claimed that they roved around
for two days before they succeed*
ed in slaking their first ship.
The American airmen and naval
vtssels hovered around the spot
wUe-e the tanker William Rocket el -
ler ^n.-vd been eunk since Sunday
mo'ciuj. The flotilla consisted of
torpedo boat destroyers, two 6ea
iilan'ts and the search was con
tinued duy and night, the power
ful searchlights form the vessels
sweeping the seas continuously bo
t«»t the airplanes could keep; watch
also.
At last their diligence tras
warded, and the German U-boat was
captured. The sea for miles about
t ie spo. where the fatal blow had*
been struck was so closely watched
that the undersea craft stayed be
low the surface until it was com
pelled to <ron»e u-p for air, its ail
t*afcs having- become exhausted and
thp D.ey was taken in a net.
Fifty aeroplanes reinforced by
hydroplanes are continually patro.1
lin~ *h° Long Island coast on the
lookout for submarines.
According to the best informa
tion obtainable today Germany's sub
marine raid has probably, destroyed
12 vessels including two liners.
450 arsons are missing, but it is
th.oupht that these will be found
landed somewhere along the «oast
a* sn early date.
Advice was received late this
afternoon that nineteen survivors
of tne steamship Caroline were
lan^'eH at Lewes, Deleware this
m ruins. They had been picked up
at s»a by the British steamship Ap
p'e>-r a'ter being adrift in a, boat
fo. more than twenty four hours.
Washington, Tuesday. — Navy of
ficial# Believe today that the Bub
marine or submarines that has or
have beett operating on Che Atlan
ta coast are on way back to base
of supplies and that f°r the time
1 eijig the danger is over.
Atlantic City, Tuesday. — One
hundred survivors of the liner Caro
lina we'<> laodeil at this port this
afternoon.
New York, Tuesday.—The schoon
er Edna T. Douglas ia reported to
be at Barnegat, N. J., with ap
proximately 250 survivors of the
liner Carolina. This accoujitts for
practically aJl of the Carolina's pass
tnsers and crew.
An empty life boat which he*
lougeJ t • the Carolina was picked
up at sea, and when examined dis
closec the fact that It hadt been
damaged by shell fire.
nual scouts battlk
WITH U-BOAT TODAY
Lewts, Delaware, Tuesday.Can
uouadlng by large sized £uns was
liea^d all morning ofl Cape Pen
Igpen, which indicated that naval
scouts are continuing the battl«
with the U'boat which is believed'
to be the one that sunk the tanker
Herbert L. Pratt.
New Yirk, Tuesday.—Some of the
! e-ews of torpedoed American ves
I ?«!s soeut eleven days as prisoners
| on submarine, but they report
tiiaf they were well treated.
Captain Holbrook of the schooner
Hat"ie Dunn said', "We were sub
merged many times. I shall not
forget May 27, when we had din
ner with the submarine lying on
the octan bottom in twenty-eight
fathmos of water. Frequently they
u<*ed wireless which they were send
ing either to anothr ship or to some
shore station. Every night they lis
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Paiis, Tuesday.—American ti-oopa
struclc their first blow; in the great
battle of the Marne. Fighting side
by side with the French they hurled
back the German force which had
reached the southern bank of the
Marne at one point, this being the
first time that the enemy had effect
ed a crossing of the river since
the beginning of the war.
The Franco-American forces took
over a hundred prisoners and a'"" I
I ter the Boches had been hurled bacic
the French and American forcesi <le-1
strojfd the bridge.
| Thfc war office advice also says I
I that the Amreic&n, forces also step- !
' ped the G-erman advance before '
NeuJlly wood, hurling the Huns bac
by a most magnificent counter at
tack.
Paris, June 3.—French troops
made a counter attack on the etfi'
emy w»et of Neiuilly front, njid'
drove the Germans back for a
considerable distance.
Simultaneously with the attack
on Nteully a drive was launched
against Hill No. 163 and the posi
tlon. was taken- together with the
Village Champlat which Is in this
regiion. Near ViHeentard.enois
ground was regained after sharp
fightjng and great loss was. Inflicted
on the enemy.
The French smashed' repeated
German attacks o£ greatest violence
in the sector north of the Aisne
between the Olse river and Sois
S4OTS. V • b
Paris, Monday. — Sunday niglit
the Germans pressed their hard«e«t
alon? th° western flank of the
salient between Soissons and Cha
teau Th'trry which is only 44 miles
from Paris, but the French held
firm and their positions are beiivr
rapidly strengthened.
London, Monday.—Th/e British
lines in the Rheims-Soissons sector
was advanced txyo points late this
afternoou, and Ijx the counter at
tack n the enemy 2^3 ^ prisoners
were captured, a number of machine
guns and' trcncb morters taken is
announced by the war office this
evening.
tenerj to the press bulletins sent '
cut from America. One told' of 1
tk ^attle drive now oil In France." |
• According to a story given out '
hv Knoch Rocker, boatswain cf '
the Schooner Kdna, which was sunk
by the German U"boat 151,1
Germany has established a perman- !
nt submarine blockade of American!
Atlantic coast ports and within a j
short time a force of U-boats ra- j
pablc o< operating against every
important Atlantic port will be on
th's side of the Atlantic.
Boatswain Rocker states that he
got h's Information from the
mato of submarine 151, and that
thir mau stated that he had served
five years as boatswain in the Un- j
ited States navy.
Rocker and other members of the
crew of the Edna were imprisoned
in the submarine for more thaa a
we»k after their ship was sunk.
The Jefferson sailed at nine
o'clock this morning, with twenty
one persons for Skagway, most of
■wnom are bookeft thrugh' for inter'
for points. Miss Ida Ross is a
passenger for Haimes.
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Pail-, Tuesday. — Refugees from
all points along the Aisae and
M;i?ne districts began pouring into
this city this morning by every
availaelo train, and even the canal
boats a~e crowded and every other
moans of transportation, is bei«;
utilized.
The arrivals include the entire
population of the villages of Lin
and Jiurorcq, and' these spent three
davs packed' Into boats together
w th ther possessions which bad
been hastily gathered together and
packf C.
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New York, June 3.—Reports re
ceived here from aJl over the
country indicate an extremely heavy
increase in enlistments in all brancl
ee of ice military throughout the
nation. ' ^li.J
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' DEATH DOOH
Indianapolis, June 3. — Charles
Fairbanks, former vice president
the United States is near death to
■lily as a result of Bright's disease,
i Late this afternoon Mr. Fair
banks' physicians amnouincedt tha
ther« was no possible chantce of hii
recovery and that death might oc
cur at any moment.
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New York, Tuesday. — la com
pliancy with an order issued today
by Police Commissioner Jlnrisht
li?ht.s In this city will not be Per
mitted to bo lighted or turned on
at all.
This Drecauition Is taken foi
fear that there might be airplane
raids or the city might be bombard
ed fry vessels at eea.
Ihe coast and- porta and harbors
I are being closely patrolled, and
I every precaution Is- being taken
| against an attack which might haT®
| a tendency to cause a panicky feel*
in?, while it could not cause serious
t damage to life or property. It i*
I thought that under cover of dark
j ne?s some small fast Yeeael might
g<»t within range and; fire a few
! shots Into the city or else an aero
plane drop a few bombs on the city.
1 PAIOS ON COLOGNE CAUSE
HE MOST ABSOLUTE PANIC
Washington, Tuesday.—The De
partment or State was informed to- ]
day that the Allied air raid on Co- ,
loene caused the d«eath of 146 eun4 :
the Injuring of 160. The advice I
wa3 receive^ today &i*di says that
the residents of Che town of Cologne
were throwo. into a state of "the
most absolute panic."
BIG HUH VISITS
(NT III FIELD
Amsterdam, June 3.—Paml Ros
•ner, ill an article vhich] was print"
ed in »he local Anzeiger says that
the Kaiser visited the nrmy north
of Rheims last Saturday evening,
and. worked with the indviidual com
manders in receiving reports from
the battle field.
GREEMPTIIRE
MANY GERMAN
PRISONERS
London, June '3.—Advice re
ceived lata this afternoon, accord
ing to an official report from Sal
onikt states that the Greeks had
i captured fifteen, hundred Gtermat:
and Bulgarian prisoners Including
33 officers, along the Macedonian
front. .
WOUNDED YANKS
RICE
Nice, France, Tuesday. — The
' first contingent of wounded Amerl*
I ran soldiers who had been amalg*
| mate'l with the French troope ar
rived in this city today.
Washington, June 4.—General
Pershing today reported to the War
Office forty casualtlea among the
naires are five American aold'iei
who were killed or died of wounds
and- fourteen otin-era more or It
seriously wounded.
■ FLOATING MINE PICKED
UP OFF DELBWARK
Washington, June 4.—A floating
mire was picked up today off the
coast of Deleware, waa reported hy
! the war office th'B afternoon.
The War Office al6o definitely
states that ten veseete, totaling
twenty tuousan^d torn? had been sumjc
by the German U-boat operations.
| No transports have been attacked.
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