RAID AERO POST BY RIGHT;
MEET TERRIBLE FATE
PARIS.—The French war office sup
plemented Its official statement with
an account of the exploits of a squad
ron of dragoons during the early part
of September.
"During the night of Sept. tht*
account reads, "a lieutenant of dra
goons win. had become Isolated with
his squadron in the midst of the Ger
man lines and had taken refuge at a
farm learned of the presence of a park
of Gorman aeroplanes on the road lead
ing from Vlviers to a factory between
Solssons and Compiegne. With the air
eraft was an automobile convoy of eight
or nine machines.
"The lieutenant decided upon an im
mediate attack. It was then half past
two in the morning.
"Two platoons on foot succeeded in
approaching to within forty meters of
the automobiles, and the challenge of
the German sentinel was the signal
for opening fire. Scarcely had the lire
ceased in conformity with orders re
ceived. than the lieutenant in command
of the mounted platoon charged at u
gallop at the head of the inert shouting
'Vive la France.’
’’Unfortunately the Germans were
only partially surprised and a rapid fire
gun stationed at the head of the auto
mobile convoy opened fire. The French
officers were kill<>d and the platoon
literally annihiluled. Not one of the
troopers reached the automobiles.
"Seeing this the lieutenant in com
mand of the two dismounted platoons
also attempted an assault. The nor
man machine gun was silent. the gun
nel's having been killed at their posi
tions. The French troopers hurled
themselves upon the aviators They
were in small groups, and at once be
gun a fierce interchange of shots at it
distance of fifteen yards The Germans.!
who were crouching along the edge of
the road, replied to the fire with grpat
courage.
"While this was going on a detach
ment of engine, rs armed with their
tools and having been previously in
structed as to what to do. threw them
selves on ttic aeroplanes. With •■urc
blows from their picks axes they de
stroved the motors, the gasoline reser
voirs and tlie running gear of the Ger
man machines. Furthermore, three
automobiles which contained a supply
of gasoline caught fire and threw a
glare of light over the scene.
“In the three platoons engaged only
ten men came out of this engagement
unseratched. They hid in a village for
three days, at which time a division of
French infantry, victorious over tin
enemy, marched 1 to the town."
Another recital, this time of an aerial
engagement, also was given out offic
ially this afternoon It follows:
“On the morning of Nov. 1S a ser
geant of one of our air squadrons, with
a lieutenant observer, returning from a
reconnaissance along the front, pre
c-oived a German flying machine going
in the direction of Ameins. He at once
started In pursuit.
"In front of Amiens the German exe
cuted a series o* evolutions to make
possible the throwing of bombs. The
French machine coming up aliened fire
on the German, and discharged about
100 bullets from its machine gun. The
German depended to the ground.
“The French sergeant then approach
ed another German aeroplane, this one
of the Albatross type, which was fixing
oyer Cailly. and prepared to attack it
The pilot of the Albatross, in a skillful
and desperate maneuver, made a rapid
half turn and precipitated his machine
at full speed on the French aeroplane
"The French sergeant, to avoid colli
sion. threw his machine back to such
an angle that the rapid fire gun was de
tached from its fastenings and fell
down inside the car.
“My the time the Frenchman had re
covered his equilibrium the German
machine had had time to get away, hut
was soon being pursued 1>\ anoth r
French machine, which followed the
German as far as the region of Mont
didler, keeping up a fix ing interchange
of ride shots Tack of ammunition
finally made it necessary to abandon
the pursuit.
“On reaching the ground the ma
cluinlcian of the French machine, who
had gone aloft in such a hurry that he
had not properly dressed for the llirht,
found he had one of his hands frozen.”
V/istinq Cards at the Nuqciet Office.
THE FUTURE STATUS OF
THE KEHAI PEHIHSULA
That the Kenui peninsula mure than
likely will become a formidable com
petitor with the Nome region in the
matter of gold production by dredging
is the general consensus of opinion
among the mining men now gathered
in Seattle from the North. Many of
these men are figuring on the con
struction of dredges for installation
next summer.
The Northerners, gathering from the
gist of their opinions, believe in tlit*
permanency of this district and brought
out a number of cleanups of gold
ranging in value from a few hundred
dollars to as much at $30,000. The
biggest cleanup of the year was made
on Crowe creek by Dick Dawson and
associates, who, it is reported, took
out about $40,00 last year N. 1!. Solner.
of the Union Savings and Trust Co.,
one of Dawson’s partners, last summer
brought down a poke containing 700
ounces of gold.
The Kenai peninsula last summer
was overrun with Nome dredging men
and engineers, among them being Jon.
H. Hutchinson, former governor of
Idaho. Hutchinson optioned a number
of claims at Hope for $2&,000. These
claims arc on Resurrection creek, where
(Jus Seiffert, formerly of Nome, in
'siatled a big hy draulic plant for the St.
1,'iuis Hydraulic Mining Company.
Soiffert lost a large load of pipe in u
storm on Cook Inlet and installed a
I sum lied plant that he had figured-on,
hut sill had a very successful season.
Major 1.. H. French and Charles K.
Herron, formerly of Nome, operated
a drill on Six Mile creek, near Sunrise.
The drilling operations which showed
values greatly in excess of $1.00 to the
cubic yard, were under the supervision
j of a professional expert.
Six Mile was opened up in ISOtl and
| about $300,000 was taken out by rocking
| along the rims. The stream itself was
I never worked, because of the heavy
flow of water. Two yars later the dis
coverers of Six Mile, who founded the
I town of Sunrise, deserted the camp for
Dawson.
This water difficulty, which proved
an obstacle to the pioneers, will he over
come by the dredge method which will
lie installed this winter Sixty-three
holes were sunk on the claims optioned
liy French and Herron, and the drill is
now operating on Glacier creek, below
it lie mouth of Crow creek, where I tick
Dawson’s plant operated.
Frank Young is planning in Install
| a dredge on Kenai river Professor
illcrsehell Parker of Mount McKinley
j fame, also is developing a large tract
of ground in this locality. Paddy Pum
| mins, formerly of Nome, is planning the
the installation of a hydraulic plant in
tile same locality.
Tho Gllpatrick ipiarix property, sit
uated on Kenai peninsula. 14 miles
from Seward, recently was bonded to
R. (1. Wilson of Washington, D. (V. w ho
has shipped S00 tons of freight and sup
plies for development work this winter.
Jack Ronan. who made a fortune in
placer mining on Cleary creek, in tho
Fairbanks district, bought the property
adjoining those purchased h> Mrs.
Vilelo. Northerners are anticipating a
much larger gold production from this
section next summer. The Alaska and
Northwest Mining Journal.
i
M’CARTHY DECLARES
AGAINST SALOONS
War between the wets and drys of
McCarthy lias been declared, and the
latter aro circulating a petition from
which the following extracts aro taken:
“We. the undersigned citizens of Mc
Carthy and vicinity, believing that the
beat interests of this part of Alaska
will he conserved by tho discontinuance
of the saloon, agree that we will not
sign a petition for a saloon license dur
ing tho present year. This locality is
rich in minerals and every available
dollar is necessary for outfits and de
velopment work.”
The petition was circulated and was
signed by approximately 7.7 per cent
of all adults living within the two
mllo limit. Among those not signing
wore several that were out of town, a
great many of whom are known to be
in favor of the movement; some others
refuse to sign for business reasons.
The signers wish it understood that
their motive is to change existing con
ditions, in which there is nothing per
sonal.
WHY EAT POOR BREAD.
When you can get GOOD. WHOLE- i
SOME Bread at 5c per loaf.
ANVIL BAKERY,
NORTH POLE BAKERY,
GERMANS IGNORE ANTE WAR
EXEQUATURS OF CONSULS
AMSTERDAM.—According to a
statement in the Norddeutsehe Allge
melne Zeitung, a summary of which
was given out recently by tho official
Press bureau in Berlin, Germany no
longer considores binding tho exequa
turs of consuls in any territory which
has been occupied by Germany during
the war.
Tite statement of the oOieiui press
bureau adds that "Germany is glad to
meet wishes regarding the admission of
cousuls anywhere except where mili
tary operations aro being carried out.
Germany requests, however, that only
j
persons of Oermanophile or neutral
learnings he appointed, but she has
'made no request for |tho recall of
any particular consuls.
"It cannot be expected that Germany
accept hostile Belgian subjects as con
suls for other countries in occupied
territory. This point is said to be es
pecially important, as 300 Uelgians
heretofore have held posts as consuls
for allied or neutral states.
GOOD EATS.
Mrs. Ginnivan has opened the Hoff
man House and is now prepared to
serve the best meals and lunches in
Nome.
SHE FINDS $175110
i DIAMOND IN HER
XMAS TURKEY
i
Airs, G. AlcAtahon of fiOUti Michigan
avenue bought her turkey in a market
at Sixty-first street and Prairie avenue
on Wednesday before Christmas. She
asked the butcher, hut tie insisted it
would keep bettor if it were not drawn.
The next night she was drawing it
and grumbling over tlie fact that the
butcher had persuaded her to preform
the unpleasant task, when she noticed
sumo hard substances in the gizzard.
When she washed them off they glist
ened. She discovered they were bits
of broken glass. There was one that
shown brighter than the rest, however,
and upon examination Airs. AfcMahon
found it had been cut in perfect design.
Airs. AfcMahon took it to George A.
Penrose, a jeweler at 344 East Sixty
first street, ffe found it to be a dia
mond, seven-eights of a carrat in
weight. He valued it at $175 and
offered Airs. McMahon $150 for it. She
refused the offer.
‘Til draw all my turkeys after this,"
said Mrs. AfcAfahon.
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Steam Laundry will call and gat your
laundry.
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ODDITIES
IN THE
WAR NEWS
(terns which havs not reached us by
I wire, culled from outside exchanges
_
A German airman battled with a
Rritish opponent far above the earth,
apparently not minding tin- bullet*
from an automatic pistol, but when the
Briton pointed a camera at him to snap
a picture the German flew rapidly away.
Because of the difficulty in getting
the necessary tartans, it was official!'
announced that Highland regiments
would in future get a uniform of khaki
kills. Then came another order that
two yards less of cloth would he used
and the Scots declare they will “nut
wear hobble kilts." They are afraid
their sweethearts would ridicule their
appearance.
Not since llie prehistoric cave man
have so many men lived in caves, a war
correspondent writes. Hundreds of
thousands of men under arms in Ku
rope have burrowed into i lie earth for
shelter from bullets and ( old, and vast
underground cities have been built in
one place there is a bill with live tiers
of cases in rows of forty each, the one
establishment housing ■’.OUU men.
in warning the inhabitants against
1 danger from fragments of shell and
bullets of guns used against air raid
ers, the Rendon official Bureau adds.
| "The civil population is warned lo keep
under cover, preferably in basements,
! upon hearing t tie sound ol tiring lay
jguns or of explosives.”
I'ari.s is how the ceiiler ol an in
trenched camp whose diatnetci is sixty
miles and circumference I10U miles. The
Trenches were begun during the danger
of German invasion, and among tin
diggers were aduu volunteers who pro
vided their own tools and received only
a daily ration of food.
I'rotVssnuihI traineil nurses nf Kng
' land have protested against so many
| “society nurses” for tho British wound- J
led. They say it may please Tommy to i
j be fussed oyer and petted by pretty, j
untrained girls, but it does not greatly j
| hasten his recovery.
FORSEES ERA WHEN NATIONS
WILL UNITE TO PREVENT WAR
bON’DoS Karl Grey, presiding at
a meeting held recently to advocate an
agreement among the nations for the
enforcement of international law, said
that the present conflict probably never
would have taken place had this policy
of Americans paeitlcts that the signa
tory nations of the Hague conventions
should undertake collective responsi
bility' for their enforcement been adopt
ed.
"It is almost certain," said Karl Grey,
“that tit is logical and necessary comple
ment of the Hague tribunal will be
adopted when the nations again meet
in conusultation. The neutral powers
who signed tho Hague convent ions mis
sed a great opportunity by not protest
ing against tho violations of the inter
national regulations that ot c ured in this
war, which undoubtedly would have led
to a diminution of its horrors."
A resolution was adopted declaring It
to lie "imperative that a peace he es
tablished which shall secure collective
responsibility by all civilized nations
for the maintainnncc. and enforcement
of international law.”
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