Old Scores To Be Evened Up
When French General Leads
Army In Triumph Into Berlin
Liu. don, Friday.—In will in
formed diplomatic a;.d n»i itary cir
cles it has been state.l here that a
tremendous triumph is in so e
for Marshal Foeh. commander of
thp Allied forces against ihe Hups.
Jl is said that wb,n the Allied
fort-es mareh in triumphal entry in
to Berlin, the capital of the form
er irouerial German Empire, this
cavalcade of victorious tiocps will
be led In person by Marshal Gen- j
era1 Foch, as the commandng gen
eral o' the French army.
It 13 said that when the time
comes, if plans now under discussion
materialize, the Allied forces will
maka spectacular entry into the
famous German city, and that it is
but just and fitting that the nation
which has been most sorely hit by tl 3
enemy should be given the greatest
honor and 'afforded li|is great tri
umphal hour. #
Copeuhasten, Friday. — It has
been learned here tUat Allied and'
American forces "ill temporarily oc
cupy Berlin as a fore,- exercising
poli<-e supervision, acrorrting to a
Deutsche Allgenipiue Zeitung <lis
patchs which says that an American
wireless dispatch to this effect has
boen intercepted by the Germans.
Manheim will l>e similarly occur
nied, th» reason for this act on the
p-Trt of the Allies is saitf to be "A
rcgretable incident during which a
supervisor of one of tlie prisoners*
cacjot in Berlin shot and instantly
killed three French soldieis who
were held as prisoners of war."
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Atlantic City, Dec. 6.—A commis
sior of the nation's leading busi
ness men will be sent to Europe at
an earlv date so as to be available to
th* delegates -in attendance at the
peace conference, should any ques
tion arise which might require their
advice.
Mrs \V. W. Dickinson, wife of the
Whitehorse White i'ass agent, ar
rived up on the 1'rincesjs Mary and
is sojourning in the Skagway in
fluenza detention hospital .
Wash'ngton, Friday.—Tlie pro
posed six billion dollar revenue bill
wag presented to the senate this af"
ternoon and the debates upon it
will lies;in Monday.
INKI.I K.NZ.V KILLS
OX ISLAND OF SAMOA
London, Friday. — According to ,
s> Meblourn dispatch received here
this morning sis thousand deaths
have occurred in Samoa as the re* •
suit bf the Spanish influenza epe-j
demie.
The Armisiic is signed and Peace is comir.g hut v .i; cb i
gations are not paid and to take care of i!i»n: i'.o C.ovtm
ment lias given notice of a
FIFTH LIBERTY LOAN
Skagvvay has in the past done its share in helping Alaska
go over the top. To do so again every local re fide n
should at once open a bank account, that when the call
comes, you may have ready money t;> meet your Liberty
Loan installments We invite yours.
BANK OF ALASKA
NOTICE
On account of oontinued bad weather and tlie po°r success
now obtained in the search tor bodies, the Canadian Pacific
\
Railway Company announce the organized search that Itag been
maintained pince the wreck of th.eir steamer Print-ess Sophia
will b8 discontinue# this week.
REWARD
Effective at once, and until December 31, 1918, a reward of
J50 >5111 be paid for each body recovered anil brought in, bear
ing no gl&ns of having been tampered with, i:
Thg reward will be paid at the office «of the General Agent,
Seward atreet, Juneau.
Washington, Dec! 6. — General
Peisbing In his preliminary report
to the War Department; rec"eiveifl"in
last mJ.il from Europe, states tfcat
the work of the American expedition'
arv forces in France shows that the
conn which the American army
pullM of-on the German in the St.
Miliiel salient cleared the way f°r
the German defeat at the hands of
the Allied armies. _ .
The report ptate's that the J^ery
'effect of th© American forces re-,
fuslnr to retreat, and following up
each and every advantage by an
advance, th«§ preventing the ene
fro'm retablishing hi$ line, and
from 'digging in, was a new depar
ture ■jflnd was quickly recognized by
the French and British leaders, as
well as the troops, and' almost from
th. time of the first engagement In
which the Yankees participated,
this method was followed.
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Washington, Friday. — Sehator
James Ham Lewis, of Illinois, to
day told the Unite# States senate
that President Wilson should be on
his guard for snarfes which were al
ready made and Bet for hitn'in En"
rope, relative to hia " pro posed ,v
Le-V'-e ot Nations. '■ ; •!
H0 states 1 that eucfc a league
migh»' Wconie a danger to the con
tinued peac0 of the world' gather
than a guarantee for such peace,
and that the President should be
watned to be cautious against any
pitfalls which might t>e placed in
t&'e' way of a realization of the aims
of iho league of Nations. . |
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BRITISH DAK'
Seattle, Friday. — British Day j
will "oe celebrated 'in thig city.to-1
morrow and also throughout the'
entire nation as a mark of tribute
to the British for thq part they '
took in the war and for the man
ner la which they treated the Amert*
c'ld expeditionary forceg wMle in'
■Earooe.
British flags will be flown thru
out tbe city, and thlg will be dfone
likewise* in all towns, city and vil
lages throughout tho United States.
Suitable exercises ' will be held
lu several of the large balls and
auditoriums in the afternoon and
evening.
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Seattle, Dec. 6.—Lieutenant Hog-1
land, who made the flight fr°m
Sacramento to this city this week,
as « part of a plan to determine
best aerial mail route betweea San
Francisco and this city will depart
for Sacramento tomorrow at an
early hour. .
URGE ALASKA
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Cordova, Alaska, Dec. 5.—Givej
wide publicity to the following mesf*
age receive*} here today from A. H.!
I>. Klie, chief expert of the Govern-!
merit Herring department of the ;
Bureau of Fisheries, Seattle.
Between ten and twelve thousand j
barrels o" Norwegian cure# herring
lie ia Seattle warehouses unsold) to-,
day with buyers showing no interest
iii'them at any price, some of j
them Lav? been offered as low as 1
teu dollars per barrel but still
remain unsold. All of the Scotch
cured herring which have been of-,
fered on the market have practical
ly been sold there being an active
demftnd. The prices paid averaged ;
from $17 to ?23 per Scotch Style!
barrel, according to siz^ and cure.
Thj heaviest demand is for large
lish, but the Prices offered may- ease
Off a little a« Cbe shipments of largo
herring are now beginning to arrive
in eastern makets, these coming
from New Foundiand, and will come |
in direct compeition with the large |
fish' from Alaska fisheries, c. L.
Anderson, Bureau Fisheries, Cor
dova
, The above cablegram was re
ceived by thig paper yesterday too
late for publication.
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PEACE PARLE)f BETWEEN HEADS DP
i ALLIED- NATIONS TO BEGIN I7TH
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Paris, Friday.—The parliamentary
peace discussions, according to the
present plana, will begin in Paris
on Tuesday, December 17th, with
President Wilson participating with
thn heads of the other Allied" na
tions.
It ia expected that this conference
will continue for at least one month,
as it will take fully that length of
time to determine exactly what th«
Allies will demand from the German
government and the Central powers.
Tho formal peac9 congress, with
Germany and the other Central pow
ers represented will probably be
gin about January fifteenth and It
is estimated that a peace treaty
will he signed in April or May,
Dundee. Dec. . — Speaking at
a public meeting in this city last
evening. Lord Winston spencer
Churchill said that the British dele
gates *o the peace conference would
demand aosolute abolition of con
scription throughout the whole fit
Europe as on© of the terms of peace
with Great Britain.
Paris, Dec. .—It hag been fig
ured out in this cit£ that President
Wilson will arrive in this city one
week from today.
Aboard the SS. George Washing
ton at .Sea. Friday.—The weather
s very rough, but notwithstanding
th« high wind, the President's voy
igp is continuing with precision and
according to nayai schedule.
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MEDICAL AID
j Amsterdam, Friday. — A despatch
from Amerogen, at which town the
former German kaiser is now living:,
and where it is reported he is seri
ously ill with influenza, states that
his private physlciang arrived at
lm bedside this morning, having bee*
brought by special train from Berlin
to attend the former ruler of Ger
many. i'
! Vancouver, B. C., Friday.—This
I city was shaken by an earthqufLk* '
I whieu continued for two minute*,
j beginning at 12:45 o'clock thi**
j moraing.
j Pictures were dislodged from their
fastening on the wallg and dishes
j were shaken from tables an<l cud
boards. f
The quake caused great fright' ft*
jinon? tb» residents of this c^y. an<*
| it was learned at an early; hour
, this morning that Victoria experi- .
I encM the same condition.
Thomas C. Richards and Edmond
J, Guillout, two arrivals on the
1 Princess Mary Wednesday, are
'guests at the hospital annex, quar* *
I sntineif for the allotted time.
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