No. 148 TWENTY FIRST YEAR SKAGWAY, ALASKA. MONDAY, JULY 29. 1918 PRICE 10 CENTS
AlliED ABIES CONTINUE TO
DRIVE THE ENEMY NORTHWARD
London, Monday.—Reports re
ceived at noon by the British war
office from the fighting area in
the Soissons-Rheims salient, state
that the German retreat is continu
li u along the whole line, with the
Allies closely in pursuit.
The report states that the Ger
mans have succeeded in checking to
a certain extent the advance at
some point but tney cannot stop
the French advance at Fere en
Tardenois.
! Ville en Tardenois Las been cap
tured by the Allies, and French
forces are now on the north, bank
of the Ourcq river, and to the
east they have secured the whole
road between Rlieims and Dorinans.
In the operation of taking this
road the Germans stubbornly resist
ed, and when forced to retire they'
burned the various villages along:
the route of their retreat together
with vast amounts of stores and
ammunition.
— IT
SilG NEW
Berlin. Monday.—The official com
muuication fronx the German general
headquarters in the field to the
German war office here dealing with
the events of Saturday, reports a
nuiet day on the Crown Prince's
battle front.
The communication makes men
tion however, of "our new positions"
while it does not admit any material
Allied advance.
FORMER ALASKA ATTORNEY
lHKS OK HEART DISK ASK
Seattre, July 2y.—George Murphy,
formerly of Alaska, where he was
engaged in the practice of law. and
was chairman of ?he Alaska Demo
cratic delegation to St. Louis, died
of. heart disease Saturday.
SUNDAY SCHOOL PICNIC
TOMORROW
, The Annual Picnic of the Pres
fcyterian Sunday School will be
held tomorrow at Schaffer's Park.
Ta^ fun begins at ten a., m. Every
one is cordially invited to join us.
Bring your own lunch, enough lor
the noon and evenint meals, if de"
sired. Games ha^e been planned
for the children. Come and help us
give the kiddies a happy outing.
ANOTHER DIBTY
GERMAN TRICK
Geneva, Monday.—According) to
reports which are said to be re*
liable, thirty-two Americans in
cluding some office; a who were re
cently captured by the Germans
France, have bee lodged near the
railroad station at Mannheim on
the Rhine.
The Americans are placed in this
position, the report states, in or
der <o prevent Allied air raids on.
this section.
MI N IT ION" WORKERS AT WORK
London, Monday.—The striking
munition workers at Coventry and
Birmingham returned to their work
this morning.
CASUALTY" LIST
Washington, July 29.—The to
tai casualties to American forces in
France .including those of yesterday
sinee the beginning of the war is
stated today by the war department
to be * total of 13,965. The total
numDer of dead is 5,572, and the
wounded are 7, 6;32.
Mrs. E. B. Kelley, wife of Ser
geant Kelley of the U. S. Signal
Cortys, was an arrival on the Ala
meda yesterday, and left this morn
ing for Whitehorse, wnere she will
connect with the W. P. & Y. R.
steamer, Dawson, bound for Tanana,
where her husband is ' stationed.
Mrs. Kelley Is making her first trip
to the interior.
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Washington, Monday. — General
Pershing's communique to the war
department from the French front
Btates that Serlges-et-Neales, sergy
and Roncherea have been captured i
by the American and French forces |
and "hat the Franco-American lines
have been advanced three miles on |
a 20 mile front Bin«« Sunday noon. |
CABLE BKJKFS
Amsterdam.—A dispatch received
here states that the Bolhseviki gov
ernment in Moscow considers the
action taken by the Entente powers
in landingi troops oa the Murman
coast ps tantamount to the declar
ation of war.
r London.—Two hundred thousand
munition workers were idle in Eng
land 'ast Saturday as the result of
a strike in Coventry, Binghamton.
Rio De Janeiro.—Saturday the
Brazilian government issued an or
der calling for the liquidation of
three German banks here which ha\ii
been the center of German activi
ties.
Amsterdam.—A rumor has reach
ed this city that an attempt was .
made on the lives of the German i
emperor and General Von Hinden- j
berg some short time a£0. This j
statement is declared in copies of j
the Cologne Volks Zeitung which ,
were received here today.
Paris. — Five hundred aero- j
plane nllots, who are members fro j
the best families in Bangkeic^ have J
trained in Slam and are now ready ;
to come to Prance to take up active !
service with the Allied air corps »" j
gainst the Teutons.
New York, — Twenty one prom- ,
inent men have been indicted here
by the Federal Grand Jury on chars'
es of being implicated in a conspir- j
acy for the theft of large quantities j
of beef consigned to the United I
States army.
Seattle,—Word has been receiv* ,
ed here that Mrs. Julius Geise, wife
o* Julius Geise, former mayor of j
Nome, Alaska, and a sister of Mrs.
Dan McGilvra, died at Tellows, Cal.,
Saturday. The deceased was a pio
neer of Alaska. •
Washington. — President Wilson
issued a proclamation Saturday de
nouncing the lynchlBgs which have
recently taken »a>'S that
lynching leads to the growth of the
mob spirit, and constitutes a blow
at the heart of law and human just
ice. Continuing the President says,
"And this mob spirit contributes to
the German lies about the United
States, what her most gifted liars
cannot improve upon in the way of
calumny."
Mrs. C. W. Cash left this morn
ing for her home to Whiterhorse af
ter a brief visit ia Skagway.
■EES IE! HITS FINESIII
SIRE ffl M IB STONE ML
Paris, Monday, 4 o. m.—Sweeping
north from the Ourcq river front
the French and American toops are
now within eight miles of Fismes,
one of the most important German
concentration centers on the Vesle
river.
Desperato fighting is now under
way; *n the new pocket between the
Ourcq and Vesle rivers, where the
Germans are strongly covering their
retreat to the latter line.
In some places tho Americans and
French have pushed their lines for
ward several kilometers beyond the
Ourcq river.
MORE GERMAN SHU'S COMING
UNDER THE AMERICAN FLAG
Washington, July 29.—The A
meritan flag was raised over the
first of eight former German
steamers which were seized some
time ago by the Urnguyan Govern
ment on July 15. This is the Ar
tigas, once known as the Wiegand,
a vessel of 8,800 deadwieght tons.
The other German ships that will
shortly follow the Artigas into tne
merchant marine of the United
States increases the new tonnage
thereof of 62,000.
By the terms of the contract en
tered into with the Uruguyan Gov
ernment, the United States Ship
ping Board Emergency Fleet Cor
poration has agreed to allocate all j
eight ships or their tonnage equiva
lent to war trade with that coun
try. Tho agreement also provides
that tho United States Shipping
Board Emerggency Fleet
Corporation, as head char
terer, may sub-charter four of the
steamers to tho British Government. !
Officials of the Shipping Board ex
press satisfaction ofc the coopera- j
tioa of the Uruguyttu Government in;
the steps which have resulted in
bringing the former German steam- .
ers under the American flag.
RECEIPTS FROM SALES
OF ST AMI'S GROW
Washington, July 29. — The
Treasury /Department states that
from July 1 to 11 Inclusive, receipts ;
from the sal© of war-savings and \
thrift stamps totaled $G0,789,657.59,
this amount exceeding the Treasury
receipts from this source for the en-,
tire month of June.
Additional concrete evidence of
progressive success o* the war sav- j
ings campaign is found in the
fact that th© Treasury receipts from
this source for the week of June 24
made new weekly record, which was
in turn surpassed by the record for
the week of July 1. It is today cer
tain that the receipts for the cur
rent week from the sale of these
securiti.a will represent the best
weekly record since the inauguration
of the war savings campaign.
Miss Strothers, manager of the
Bennett eating nouse wag a
week end visitor in Skagway, and
went home this morningg.
Seattle, July 29.—Major General
Kenly, who Is in charge of the A*
merlcan military aeronautics, arrived
in this city today and said, "There
is not one single ship now crossing
the Atlantic which is not carrying A
merlcan aeroplanes with American
engines and American pilots trained
in America to fly, and In my opin
ion the war is to he won in the air-"
SCHWABTZENBERG IX CUSTODY
Wm Schwartzenberg, a local reg
istered German alien, was taken in
to custody early in the week on a
Presidential warrant for alleged vio
lation of the laws governing the
conduct of alien enemies. It is
claimed by the officers that he trav
eled back and forth on the ferry be
tween Douglas and Thane without
a permit and did ottter things con
trary to regulations.—Douglas Is
land News.
Mrs. E. J. Johnson, wife of the W.
P. & Y. R. wharfinger at Dawson,
arrived on the Alameda yesterday,
and left on the train this morning,
bound for Dawson. Mrs..*Johnson
went ou* last fall and has spent the
time away at St. Paul and Minnea
polis, nor old home.
Mr. H. Wheeler, general manager
of the W. P. & Y. Route, left this
morning for a trip to Whitehorse
and ether points along the system.
Before returning Mr. Wheeler
will visit the coal mines at Car
macks.
Spring Suits
London, Monday. — According to
advices wnlch reached London this
afternoon In the engagement south
or Sergy last night, the American
forces met the enemy's finest regl*
ments in battle.
Here the Germans threw in ths
whole of the fourth division ot Prus
sian guards in a desperate counter
attack.
The advices reaching here from
the front show that the Americans
stood like a stone wall and brought
the Huns to a clean stop, Inflict
ing the heaviest bosses upon them.
AIRMEN HARASSING
RETREATING ENEMY
With the French Army In France,
Monday. — The village of Serrgy,
which is southeast of Fereen Tar*
denois changed hands four times
today, but finally remained In pos
session of the Allies.
An extremely heavy artillery duel
is raging this afternoon north of
the Ourcq and as far as Soiason*.
Low flying Allied aeroplanes are
harassing the Germans unceasingly
in their retreat, and in many In
stances whole divisions are thrown
into disorder.
FRENCH ADVANCE GUARDS
ON NORTH BANK OUROQ
Paris, Monday. — Reports from
the Dat'le front this afternoon state
I that French advance gguardn hav®
j reached the north bank of the Ourcq
river and that the Allied troops
ihave entered Fere to, Tardenois, the
I great German supply base, which
i lies in the middle of the line be
tween the Aisne and Marn© Sector.
| The retirement of the German
forces continues, says tha report,
and adds that the Villages of An*
thenay and Olizyetvlolalne on th«
east flank and lying to the south
west of Rbeims have been occu
pied by the Allied forces.
YANKS BREAK DOWN
HUN RESISTANCE
Washington, Monday. — The re
sistance of the enemy between the
| Marne and Ourcq rivers has been
j broken down, says a report today
from the battle front to the A'
merican war department, and the
American troops, with those of the
Allied armies are *n pursuit of the
fleeing Germans. This report was
sent by General Pershing yesterday
and leceived late today.
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