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No." H» TWENTY FIRST YEAR SKAttWAY, ALASKA, TUESDAY. JULY 30. 1913
ENEIWIf LAUNCHES STRONG COUNTER
III SOISSONS-OURCQ SECTOR
London, Tuesday. — The noon
reports from the battle front as an
nounced by the London war office,
state that shortly befor© neon to
dajr the Germans launched a heavy
counter attack Plong the whole
front extending from Solssons to
the Ourcq river.
With a superior force in the
Cierges district the enemy drove
the Americans hack and the French
forces nave been compelled to fall
back from Begneau.
Between the Veale and Qurcq riv*
ers the French made an advance
against the enemy and gained the
crest o' the plateau tnere.
TURKS m HOIS
HAVE BBDKEN
: REUT1S
London Tuesday. — From advice
co»i»i"from an autneiitic source, it
»s said that the relations between
Germany and Turkey has been bro
ken. The dispatch giving the in
formation was received at Copen
hagen from Constantinople.
' KING~FERB OFF
FOR VACATION
Washington, July 30.—According
to a report received here today.
King Ferdinand of Bulgaria has left
"" /or foreign lands where he has gone
un account of his health.
■ GERMANS ARE
STILL OBEYING
Berlin, Tuesday.—The German
war office today announced that af
ter fulfilling their tasks in the Sois
sons-Rheims front, the German fore*
field guards fell back according to
orders.
ALLIES GAINED
MORE POINTS
1ES1EAH
Par's, Tuesday. — According to I
the French war office's night re- ,
port from the front, It was announc-j
ed this morning that the Allied fore-'
es continued to gain ground at al
l most every point in the Soissons
i Rheims salient.
The principal points of progress,
however, were made on the west
flank of the enemy and around Fere
en Tardenois. In this locality num
erous villages fell into the hands of
the Allies, and the enemy were com
pelled to retire with heavy lossee.
P. S. WAGER
COKING NORTH
. .
Seattle, July 30.—A. F. Haines,
manager of the Pacific S. S. Co.,
will leave this city tomorrow evening
oa a ousiness trio to all parts of
the north which are touched by. his
ships, y
• CASUALTY REPORTS
Wasnington, July 30.—Reports
from the American field headquar
ters received today give the army
and marine corps casualties at 155.
Of this number 34 were either killed
Ui battle or died from wounds and
99 are severely wounded.
SKAQWAY, ALASKA
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London.—A dispatch from the
Reuters correspodnent relating to
the battle of today and yesterday
says that Americans gave ground
only on account of weight of num
bers.
In describing the struggle yes
terday for the possession of Sergy
he said, "Bach, side In turn held
the protection of the village un
til evening, when the Americans
with final fury and determination
swept the Germans from the ruins
and then ufc the hill before another
counter attack by the Germans could
drive them from their heroically
"won position. The last attack was
made by the German Prussian
guards, and when the enern^ had
withdrawn to points of safety the
Americans looked out over a field
where the enemy's dead actually lay
In heaps.
The piles of German dead were
all the more noticeable sine© the
Guards came into the fight with
complete brand new equipment as if |
they had been turned out for par* |
ade before their emperor.
London. — The American troops I
on the Soissons-Rheims fronts have ,
been fighting without cessation a-1
long their whole line for twenty/foui
hours.
The situation in the American
sector, according to the latest ad
vice indicate that the Germans have
retained the town of Ciergeg but
that the Americans are holding Ser
gy very determindly and ard Infllct
Qeavy losses on the enemy in his
hastily managed counter attacks.
Paris. — The Australian trooDS
have captured Merris by a Burprise
SLttacfc early today.
EIGLIsiuOl
SHOT III MI
London, July 30.—Lord Litchfield
was found dead in his home on his
estate -with a gun shot through his
heart. There are no clews as to
who did the deed.
MRS. BARNETTE IS
StTING WELLS FARGO
San Francisco, July 30.—Mrs.
Isabella Barnette has filed suit
against the WellB-Fargo National
Bank-and Fred G.. Noyes, an. officer
of the defunct Washington-Alaska
Bank, at Fairbanks, for $52,000,
which $he charges that Noyes ob
tained by reason of the northern,
bank selling property that was own
ed by her. Barnette was president
of the Fairbanks Institution when
it failed in 1911. -
1m IMS WO FBI H
n WW BATTLE LIE
bt -- ■ 1 f
An Atlantic Port, Tuesday. —
Three liners arrived In this port
this morning and each on© reports
having had a running fight with a
German submarine 'while they were
about 200 miles off from this coast.
All of the liners were armed With
deck guns and kept up a duel with
the diver, hut none of them report
having landed & telling shot.
POTATO ACREAGE IN ENGLAND
INCREASED 23 PER CENT
Loudon, July 30.—The British
food controller announces that pre
liminary returns have now been
obtained and tabulated from all per-*
sons farming 1 acre of land and up
wards in Great Britain, which in
dicate that the potato acreage of
1918 will exceed that of 1917 by
about 25 per cent.
When allotments and cottage gar"
dens, which are not included in the
returu, are taken into account, it
appears that the total acreage °f
1918 will approximate 900,000
acres.
SENDS A MESSAGE TO
AMERICAN WOMEN
The Queen of Belgium sends to
the women of America a cordial ex
pression of her appreciation of the
war work they are doing.
The message, transmitted' through
the Division on Women'p War Work
of the Committee on Public Informs
tion, in the form of a cable to
the Belgian minister at Washington,
D. .C., from Count Jehay, a mem
ber of the cabinet of King Albert,
and *s as follows:
"Please transmit to the Women's
Division of the Committee on Pub"
lie Information the followingg mess
age: 'I am directed by the Queen
on the occasion of th<- Independence
Day to inform you tnat Her Majesty
wishes to express ''er admiration for
the work the women of America are
doing for the allies' cause.' "
MEN' Ol'TSlDE OF DRAFT
AGE MAV NOW ENLIST
E. J. Shaw, as secretary for Lo*
cal Exemption Board No. 7, today
stated that he had received advice
that all Alaskans not coming within
tile draft age of 21-31, desiring to
enlist 'n the engineer corps could
do so now at Fort W. H. Seward.
OSWELL APPOINTED OADET •
Word has been, received, that Jack
Oswell son of Superintendent of the
Ebner mine has received an appoint
ment to Annapolis Military academy
He is expected to leave about Sep
tember first for Massachusetts to
enter a preparatory school for six
months in Boston.
Fruit Jars, j
Jelly Glass etc
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Macon Self Sealer Plats , $1.10 per doa.
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Mason Porcelain Lined Jar Caps, 40c per doz.
Jar Rubbers—Bast Grade—heavy, 10c per doz.
Parowax la 1 lb, -bricks, 20c each. 1 I
Penults ere now obtainable train ocal Food Administrator for <
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P. H. GANTY
SURVIVORS OP NORWEGIAN
BARK LAND IN NOVA SOOTIA
i Washington.—The Navy Depart
• ment has received information that
' the survivors of the Norwegian bark
' Morosa have been landed in Nova
' Scotia. The Morosa, they reported,
| was sunk by a BUbmarin© about 1,
I 200 miles east of New York. All on
' board were saved.
j The steamship Manx King was re"
' ported held up. by » submarine in
1 the same general locality July 8.
The crew took to the boats, and be"
! fore they pulled away Baw the Ger
mans putting bomos aboard the ves
sel, but did not see her sink.
N. Y. GRAIN FIRM PAYS .
$500 TO RETAIN LICENSE
New York, July 30.—For unjusti
fiably rejecting a lot of buckwheat
groats,and therey causing a loss of
| $381.05 to the ' seller, Benjamin
.Kaufman & Sons, of New York City,
j after a hearing before the Federal
Food Board, of New York, will
pay ?500 into the treasury of the
Red Cross. They were permitted
do tnis in lieu of having their
license to deal in food stuffs revok
ed for two weeks.
The firm which lost through the
Kaufmans' action waived its claim
I for the money in favor of the Red
Cross.
MANY INSANE FROM WESTWARD
The Juneau Marshal's office has
\ received word from United States
i Marshal Brenneman at Valdez that
he has 13 insane patients from that
district, mostly from, t&e Westward,
who will be sent «outh on the North
western on her next trip ^outh.
Two additional insanity cases are
reported at Ketchikan. >
London, Tuesday. — Late re
ports from the battle front given
out by the British war office »*y
that the Germans continue their
counter attack in great forca and
the Allies are being thrust back.
The enemy reinforced by) n«ir divi
sions from General Boehn's army
and from that of Crown Prince
Raprecht's, they fre greatly out
numbering the Americans and
French.
Their fiercest assaults hare
been directed against the American's
positions near Fere en Tardencls,
and in this sector tne fighting is
very violent.
There has also been heavy fight
ing near Buzancy, five mileg south
of Sois^ons and also in the Pariven,
wood about five miles farther south
[ of this latter point.
The Allies are slowly withdraw
ing from their positions, but it i»
costing the enemy a frightful price.
London, Later. — The German*
have thrown eight hundred and
fifty thousand men Into the battle
which's now faging in the greatest
fury that the world, has ever known.
The battle line extends without a
break from Soissons to Rheims and
on every front there la the fiercest
fighting since the beginning 0f th»
war.
In several places the Allied line
ia being dented, but it has not been
broken, e while at other places the
Allies have made.some ggains.
The American forces have advanc.
ed towards the road from Serlnge*
to Sergy, and the fighting In that
locality is the heaviest that has
as yet been experienced Wy the A
mericans since their entry into the
'war, but the report states, that thejf
are standing up supremely under
j the weight of the blow the enemy
I is aiming at them.
KEREUllI
UNITED SHIES
I ;
Chicago, July 30.—Former Rus
sian Prime Minister Kerensky, trav
eling incognito, is said to have ar
rived in' the United States, ac
cording to a dispatch which has
been recfeived by the Herald-Ex
aminer, of this city.
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