WEATHER RETORT
V«&terilay:.M»x. 34. Mia. SS.
No. S4 TWENTY FIRST YEAR
Loi'don, Friday.—L.!oyd George s
uovernmeirt was upheld by the Brit
ish House of Commons yesterday
v, hen i vote was taken on ex-Prem
ier Asquith's resolution designed to
obtain a censure, the vote being 29-5
to 106. !l
Preceding the vote, the former'
Premier, in speaking on the mo-1
tion for the appointment of a se
lect committee to investigate the
charges made by General. Maurice,
said he thought it not tha busi
ness of Parliament to constantly in
quire into the conduct of the goveru
ment in each successive phas«j of
the v. ar. J
Many Amiens Citizens Killed
Or Wounded By Hun Shells
With French Army in France,
Friday.—Newspaper correspondents
visited Amiens yesterday afternoon
and ia their description of the
city 6ay that they found that the
"German bombardment had turned
parts of the town into ruins.
The records show that fifty two (
men civilians, thirty women and five
ehi'dfen had been killed and sixty
two men and forty eight women and
nineteen children had' been wound
ed before the population had an
opportunity of evacuating the place
to points of safety beyond the reach
ot the enemy's gnn«. t
Since the Germans hav« been
within cannon range of the city
they have hurled' 5800 shells into
it. ■ i : J
NAVAL AVIATORS
ME RESCUED
SI SEA
New Orleans, May 10.—Two naval
aviaotrs were rescued by a coast
steamship aud brought hero today.
The two men were picked up off
the coast of Miami, Florida, in. a
stit« of exhaustion after remaining
afloat with their damaged hydro
p'a*ie for more than twentv-four
hours. The men made a fight in
the machine, and something went
wrong with the engine, and they
wer<2 compelled to settle in, the
ocean, and when picked' up were
so nearly dead that it required con
siderable work on the part of the
chip's physician to resuscitate them.
REPORTED CASUALTY LIST
FOR TODAY IS SMALL
Wa?nlngton, Friday. — 21 cas
ualties, including four killed is re
ported in today's casualties from the
American headquarters in France.
James Wallace and Howard Ash
ley were passengers for Juneau oir
'he Humboldt yesterday.
HEM SHELLS
LITTLE EFFECT
Paris, Thursday. — An official
communication received from the
I French field headquarters toduy
1 states that heavy artillery fighting
! has been indulged in on both sides
of ♦he Avrie river oil the front
below Aliens by the Germans, but
(that they had gained nothing Qf
any worth. , _||
NUNS IS! OUT
London, Friday. — Enable to
I tak-- a position held by the British
I in a point north, of Kemme'l hill by
a fractal operation, enemy foroes
j made a movement against our lines
! thari aixl pressed it back at one
pDint. The Germans are attempting
to outflank our positions at Locre
si i prwuDerg and Montj-ouge.
I V*. 1'.. Myrick and G-eo. B. Wright
left yesterday on the Humboldt for
Juneau where they have been called
on the jurry.
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Ideal Weather Brings Out Airmen Who
Engage Enemy In Fierce Combats
Duels Fought High Over Heads
Of Infantry
With British Armies In France,
F, [dn^ — Most amazing air fight
ing along the entire battle region has
been going on for the past three j
days, the jveather being ideal for air
craft movements.
Th,e skies >.re literally alive with
fighting squadrons of all nations.
Thirty enemy machinesj are trying
fc dock the allied' scout planes j
I from flying over the sections back |
of the enemy ltnes along the! Somme.
The number of the German ma-1
chines is increasing, and. new battle
tactics are being employed by the
enemy who are putting up an ex
ceedingly stiff fight.
The artillery keeps pounding
awaj^in spots, and it Is reported at
headquarters that a terrific can*
nonnde i^ the Arras sector on one
single corps of that front has been,
in pivgress for houre and that thene
ha® been unusually harassing and
bit'er artillery fire around Lens and
Bethune and» Hazenbrouck.
T.o'rdon, Friday. — Advice as
given out by tho British admiralty;
today says that British naval forces
last tr.fiht made a dash (lown upon,
the "Belgium coast aaid succeeded la
barring the seaway to an importr.u
German submarine base at Ostemd.
The cruiser Vindictivie was sunk
acioss the entrance to the Ostend"
harbor in operations similar to
: those employed at the time tlie har
■ bor a! Zeebrugge was blocked.
The cruiser Vindictive, Which had'
been the leader in the Zeebrugge
' aid ".'here it was. bad'ly damaged by
ahofs from the German shore bat
'teries, was filled with cement and
■sunk across the piers at the out'
let of the harbor. j
Soldiers Are Killed And Wounded '"]
When Cars Fall From Trestle
Columbia, S. C., May 10.—Fif- j
Wu soldiers were killed1 outright
and many others probably fatally in"
jurcd when three passenger coache s |
loaded with members of the 321st
and C17th Machine Gun companies
i buitish mark bk; advance:
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London, Friday. — British, troops
advancing northward from Bagdad
have captured Kerkuk, which is
situated one hundTed a/nd fifty
lailns north of Bagdad and eighty
iiuiles southeast o£ Mosul, which city
is in Mesopotamia aaid iss the ob
jective of the British- d*ive.
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EVINRUDING
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of the U. S. Anuy Ml from a trestle
near Camp Jackson this morning.
Information ns %to tthe details of
•he wreck are not given, but am in
vestigation is being macie as to the
probable cause of the accident.
HLLIE5 BEWKE
LOSi PObilluS
l.oiido1.), Friday—By counter at
tacking yesterday afternoon, Brit
ish troop® drove the Germans front
portions of the Allied front which
they occupied between Laclytte and
Vowrezeeie. The advice comes
from Field' Marshal Haig to the
Ltritish war office.
London, Friday.—At close range
figlitins in the Lachyel-Voormezeele
sector, says Field' Marshal Hals' in
his daily report, the French an.'.
British positions on this front were
completely reestablished yesterday.
I-ondon, Friday.—British. ' forces
rccaptured' a portion of the front
trenches northwest of Albert whicb
the enemy gained yesterday.
It is now. believed, from, the ac
tivity shown during the past few
days by the Germans, that the of
fensive between Albert and Amiens
is now aimed at St. Pol with, the
design in view of reducing the An~
ras salient. j ]
NINE AMERICAN
GUNNERS ARE
KILLED
Fort Worth, May 10. — Nine gun
ners were instamtly killed at the
military training camp near this
city when a shell accidentally esP'oc
ei; while being loaded into the gun.
iub mini FnufiiL
I smrn kh urn mm
London, Friday. — Fighting: of
the Krpateat severity continued thru
out yesterday afternoon along the
front north of Kemmiel hill. The en
emy mad© attack after attack in
mass formation, enduring frightful
slaughter as they; came on to thb
attack only to be hurled 1>ac]c.
This report La part of ^ Halg's
report to the War Office yesterday.
GERMAN 5PI SYSTEM CODE IS
RECONSTRUCTED IN ITS ENTIRETY
Albany, May 10.—The code^ Bys
tem employed by the German for"
elgn office In communicating with'
Von Bemstorff, and to keep in
touch with Jiia movements, while he
was directing the sabotage move
ment£ and other Gerrfwun, propogandal
in the United States which' wae dis
persed when he was deported has
been reconstructed in its entirey and
turned over to the Unitedf Btatea
government by Attorney General
Lewis. j i
This is a copy of tha same <»<la
which Hugo Schmidt, wtho was Pay
master in this country for the G«r*
inan foreign office, at
tempted to destroy in a furnace In
a club in New York city shortly af
ter the discovery of tha German, In
trigue in the United1 States,
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Paris, Friday.—General Perching,
in command of the American forecs
in France, today; issued an. order
tomrnanding- all. American soldiers
to write letters . home to their
mothers on. Mother's Day, May 12.
The day \vlil be celebrated through
out France in a most fitting man
ner.
FOR BELIEF
OF ALLIES
Havana, May 10. — The Cufcan
House of Representatives today ap*
d roved a resolution appropriating
$.600,000 for the allevation of the
suffering among the peoples of the
Allied nations.
SulJscrlbe for The Dally Alaskan.
With American Army in Picardy,
Friday —The bombardment of the
German positions by American ar
tillery has demolished the church at
Cantigny, an<l several other large
j ouildfings in the Vicinity 01 the
church Which have been used for
' machine gu^ emplacement* bave
bean Dlown up. These positions
. commanded a zone at Fontaineftou?
j and Montdid'ier and' Courtmanehe.
j U lien the work of destruction had
) beeu made complete atf these jflfcces,
I the American gun# began to fire at
! Mesnil and St. Georges. Tha church -
j es at Cantigny vera being uaed flJr
jo'wervation posta by the enemy.
IAPOJNT8 NEW HEAD TO
FOREIGN RELATIONS COM
Washii.gton, May 10. — Senator
Hitchcock Tvas tod<ay mjuiei chair
man oI the Senate foreign relation*
committee to succeed Sentaor Stone<
deceased. •'j--..! i
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Albert Retnert was a paaeaagex1
> for Junean on the Humboldt ywster*
day from where he will make Visits
to several of the small villagee la
tha' vicinity on .matters of business.
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