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T^JTTFmST YEAR SKAHWAY, ALASKA, FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 13, 1918 PRICE 10 CENTS
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The American Army in Lorraine
Frday. — The Allied offensive
.for the first time is dominating!}'
American. ^ M"l
French forces are eoooerating
and- in a military Bens© it is re
garded as a continuance of the
phase of the battle which began
earlv last summer.
Secretary of War Baker, of the
United States and other French
notaoles, wintessed the beginnnig
of the battle in the St. Mihiel sal
ient from a French fort situated be
hind the middle line of battle.
London, Friday. — The assaut on
the St. Mihiel salient, with the
American first army predominaing It
the operations, is today given pref
erence in an news matter by the
newspapers of this city, and is de
scribed as the opening blow in an
offejsive scheme.
The opening blow of any offens
ive has always claimed the attention
of the people and is given the great
est amount of space in the papers,
but this one has a special attrac
tion as it is the first stroke of an
independent American army under
the direct command of an American
general and as such is considered'
»a one of the milestones of the war.
With the American Army on the
Lorraine Front, Friday. — In the
attack made against the enemy at
early hour yesterday morning
•II objectives were reached and in
add'tion to the capture of the ene"
B» positions in the American ad
vance which consisted of five towns,
the Americans captured seven hun
dred nrisouers in the St. Miniel
drive with their own losses recorded
as very algiht. I | !
Thf> town of St. Mihiel is reported
to have been cautured by the
French. j
The Americans advanced five
miles at one point in the'r drive
against the enemy and at no place
on the en'ire line was the advance
lass than three miles.
London, Friday. — Advice from
the American headquarters ia Lor
raine to the British war office this
afternoon state that the American
forceg up to noon had advanced a
total of eight miles in the St. All
hiel salient on a fourteen mile
front. Th© advice further states
that the Americans have captured
nint- thousand five hundred; prisoners
in the two days operations and 'hat
in addition to thQ prisoners taken
sixty 'arge sized field guns were
wrested from the enemy.
With the American Army in Lor*
raiue, Friday. — This forenoon
the Germaus are attempting to re
move their artillery through the
towp of Vigneulles under stress
of the American attack on the
St. Mihlel salient.
The Huns are meeting with great
difficulty in making any headway in i
wito&rawing their artillery as they]
are being greatly hampered by aero* J
planes as well as by artillery fire
ircm oatteries located In thg rear |
of the American lines which com
mand Imposing positions.
I.ondon, Friday, 3:22 p. m. —Re
ports received late this evening
from the Lorraine fiont state that
twelev thousand prisoners have
' Dee^ taken by the Americans in
•ht.r offensive at St. Mihlel.
The entire salient has n<>w 1)60,1 !
captured and the railway from Ver
dun, Commercy, Toul and Nancy is ]
now open to the entente Allies.
Paris, 3:25. — St. Mihiel salient
haa *>een reduced. The censor will
not permit publication of the names j
of the villages forming the present
American line of battle in th© St.
Mihiel sector. : !
CASUALTIES REPORTED
Washington, Friday.—The report]
of casualties for yesterday give6 a
lis' o* 359 names. Of these 134
are reported to have been killed andj
17 G woumted severely.
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Washington, Sept., *3.—Congress
man. Tillman, who headed the con
gressional delegation which was
entrained at the American Field
Headquarters in France recently has
returned to the United States ajid
called upon President Wlfioa late
today to make a report to the
j Prfsident of the trip.
Through Congressman Tillman,
General Pershing, commanding the
American forces in France sent the
following message to the American
peoDle, "Send ug men, guns and'
supplies quickly, and we will wift
thig war before the end of the sum
mer of 1919."
AFTER SIX YEARS IN ARCTIC
REGION STEFAHSSON RE1URHS
POLAR BEAR ARRIVES IN NOME
IN BATTERED CONDITION Bl*T
CREW ALL SAFE.
From nine o'clock Tuesday eve
ning, until the sailing of the Prince
Sooh'a lagt night Skagway has had
the honor of having aa a visitor
the di.tlnguished Arctic explorer,
Vjhjaimur Stefaiusson
For more than six years Mr.
Stetausson,, with his little band of
hardv associates, have been making
scientific exploration, research, and
othfti" work of a similar nature in,
that vast unknown region lying north
of the American continent in what
is commonly termed the Arctic
ocean.
In the summer of 1912 Stefans
sou connected at Nome with the
schooner Karluk, and began his
jouiney through the uncharted wat
ery o* the North Bering sea dis
trict and on into the Arctic. Some
y«'.rs were spent in charting islands,
taking observations, making data
of climatic conditions, when the
little ship Karluk met witii disas
ter and Stefaneson with his crew
were forced to abandou their shin.
It was then that the Polar Bear
w»a r»ard from, which was engaged
in an Arctic expedition of a simi
lar nature to the one in which Sfcef
assson was engaged, and> as it had
been decided to abandon/ the form
<>*, Stefansson negotiated for the
purchase of the Polar Bear, which
lg a sailing schooner of about 48
tons burthen equipped with auxil
iary gasoline engine power.
With his new ship Mr. Stefansson
resumed his voyage, and after al
most three years work in the far
Arctic north, landed' at Herschel is
land, off the mouth of the McKen
zie river late last fall, after it
was too late to get back to Nome.
The remainder of the Btory of
Mr Stefansson's illness at the R
N. W. M. Police station at BV>rt
McKenzie. was printed in a recent
issue, and his trip out after he was
convalescent as printed in the Daily
Alaskan is also fresh in the minds oj
the people of skagvay.
Arriving at Summit, Mr. Stefans
son decided to mush in over the
old White Pass trail and this he ac
complished Tuesday, arriving here
only three hours after the train's
arrival. He stopped at the Pullen
hotel, and' few knew of his arriv
al here until late yeterday after
noon
Ad effort wa3 made to induce him
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to aoeak her® for the benefit of the
[ Red Cross, but in answer to the tele
gram sent him at Bennett, he had
made reoly tha he would arrive here
too late to do so. He understood [
thai he would sail for the south
early Wednesday evening:.
When this subject was mention
ed to nim, Mr. Stefansson stated
th*t he would hay© been pleased to
h°va given a little talk for the
Re*4 Cross had he been approach
ed after he learned that he would
have an evening open here. He
a' Ued that Mr. Cecil Cole ha4 call
ed him ud on the Dhone, but had'
m.°d* no further request for his serv
icr-s. wlien he had stated to Mr.
Go's, that he was under contract to
lecture for the Red Cross beginning
his lecture tour at New York, and
and he did not wish to press the
matter.
"Tuesday," said Mr. Stefansson,
"I received a telegram from Nome
advising me that the Polar Bear
ha'1 arrived at that port, but that
she had sustained considerable dam
age by being caught in an Icq floe,
which crushed her hull quite badly.
"I do not know when X will re
sume my exploration, as I feel that
I am now getting on in years,
am* this task is the work of a
youucer man, who might be more
physically fit to cope with the
hardships and dangers incident to
the undertaking.
"It will require at least two
years to reduce th© data I have se
cured to a report which I shall have
to make to the Dominion Naval de
partment at Ottawa and I am now
under contract to lecture for the
benefit of the National Red Cross,
all amounts received' in excess of
actual expenses going to the asso
ciation.
"I am rapiQ'iy regaining j
health, and I was surprised to find
that I could make the mush into
Skaeway from the Summit in such
a short time. It certainly was a (
fine walk, and the scenery along the
way is most wonderful, and com
pares with any mountain scenery
that I think I have ever seen."
Mr. Stefansson sailed south on
the 3ophia.
WILSON' orders men
TO RETURN TO WORK
Washington, Friday. — President
Wilson today sent a warning to the
strlaing machinists at Bridgeport to
returp at once to their work, and
to then await an arbitration of
their claims.
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ENEMY DESTROYS VAST STORES Of
MUNITIONS III ST JUL SWT
Parte, Friday.—Advice from the
Lorra'*- front thin afternoon pays
♦hat the Germane are blowing up
vast munition dumps at Hattonvlile
which Is located In the center ot
the widest reach of the St. Mlhl®l
pocket at which point it haa been
I narrowed down to six mllea.
BRITISH REPULSE
ENEMY ATTACK
Loudon, Friday. — Field Mar®h&l
H»U reported to the British war
office this afternoon, that his troops
had repulsed a determined' attack of
the enemy on the British position at
Havitncourt, southwest of Cambrai,
and that the British troops had
inflicted great losses on the ene
my from whom the town had re
cently been wrested. On the south
ern extremity of the British line
the British today topic Holnonwood
from the enemy. ,
GERMYN VICE CHANCELLOR
SPEAKS IN PESSIMISTIC TONE
Amsterdam, Friday. — Friederich
Von Payer, imperial vice chancellor
of Germany, expressed his opinion
'a » speech which he made at Stut
gai (, today that the postponement
of peace and the Prospects and like
lihood of a fifth winter of war
would weigh equally heavy on all
belligerents and not on Germany a
loDe
HOAT D\Y FOR SK AGAVA Y
Yesterday was boat day for Skag
wav there being three boats in
fbis nort between early morning ^nd
lat» at night. The Princeas( Sophia,
o* the C. P. R., th© City of Seattle
of the Pacific Steamship company
and the Harbor Boat Peterson of
Port W. H. Seward.
Both the Princess and the Seat
tle took almost capacity passen
ger lists from this city.
The steamship Northwestern and
th6 gteamship Jefferson sched
uled for the 14th and 15th respect
ively, will be the next boats for
this nort. The former from the
sout' bound for the westward and
the latter also from the south will I
return from this port.
HIINS ANNOUNCE
EVACUATION OF
- SALIENT
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Berlin, Friday. —The German war
office announced this morning, "Dur
ing the night the evacuation of
the 3t. Mihiel salient was completed
without interference and are
now standing in the new line which
has Deeii prepared."
Berlin, Friday.—The German war
office merely mentions t&e Ameri
can drive on the St. Mihiel salient,
aa-> says that the fighting is con
tinuing.
PENALIZED FOR /
SUGAR HOARDING
For violating the Food Adminis
tration gugar regulations the Greeljr
Square Hotel Company of New York,
which controls the Hotel McAlpin
and a numoer of other large ho
tel* and' restaurants in the metro
polis «s to shut down for three
mouths the confectionary depart
ment which it runs in connection
with its hotel and restaurants busi
nesj and will contribute $10,000
to d<< divided equally between the
Red Cross and the Y. M. C. A.
Over nine hundred violators of
fooi1 regulations have been penal
ized by the Food Administration.
Id. a majority of cases heavy penal
ties have been imposed. J
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