“CREME DE MENTHE” WADES THROUGH
FORTIFICATIONS OF COURCELETTE
Tho following story of how the
Conadiaus took C’ourcelette, on the ]
Somrne front, is taken from T. l”s.
Journal.
On Friday, September 15th, the as- !
sault was out to take Courcelette and
get across some of the main comun- 1
ications of the Theipval defence. On
the morning of the 15th, then, the
Canadians—amongst them a number
of French Canadians— and some
Irish troops massed ready to attack.
And tho Bavarians came out of Ceur
celette and attacked themselves,
j There was a very bitter fight with '
bayonet and bomb, and the Bavarians
I were able to got a footing into some
j of our works. At the moment when :
they were congratulating In inselves
on their gains, C:20 struck, and to
1 their wonder they were ■< vopr away,
engulfed, entirely obliterated in the
rush of massed thousands charging
up to Goureelette.
The German position was exceed
ingly strong. If the trenches had
been battered, the enemy had made
full use of innumerable shell holes all
! along his front. These shell holes
| were made into minor forts; machine
guns and men were holdng them
! staunchly. There was also a sugar
refinery here, an incredibly strong
pocket of machine guns which the
Germans reckoned, would account for
anything the British could send out.
The Canadians went to the attack
w'lth a rush. They fought among the
shell holes, they worried out the pock
ets of resistance, but they had a hard
task. It was not until the third wave
of attack came up that they broke
into the outskirts of the village. Aiul
“Creme de Menthe” was largely re
sponsible for their gains.
"Creme de Menthe" was not an in
fringement of the drinking law, but a
"tank.” it was the Canadian’s own,
peculiar tank. It went strolling over
the field, with its awful and ludicrous
solemnity before the advance, teat'ing
up wire, sitting across trenches and
sweeping them clean on either side
with machine gun lire, flattening out
mach'ine gun posts and the like. And
in the course of its perambulations it
saw the impregnable sugar refinery of
Pourcelctte. It walked up to that im
pregnable spot. It leaned against the
wall, and the wall went down in dust
and litter. Then it went 'inside. What
happens when a large, serene “tank”
gets into a well built factory garnish
ed with machine guns, can be better
imagined than described. Walls went
down and sand bags were scattered;
'm two minutes the impregnable pos
ition was ringing with the blessed
word “Kamerad." The Canadians
went up at a rush, swept Courcelette
clean, and went off on silent Red
Indian parties to stalk any defense
lurking to shell hole or dug out. The
Canadians won for themselves that
other imperishable laurel that day,
anil a tribute of desperate terror from
the Germans they stalked.
PRICES OUTSIDE HIGH AS NOME
SAYS OTTO VAN SICKLE
The following .interesting letter
from Otto Van Sickle was received
in the city by the last outside mail.
It mentions many old Nomeites who
have varying luck on the great out
side:
Well, you will see by the above ad
dresa that we are still enjoying our
selves in southern California. Have
been here since the middle of Decem
ber during which time wo have had
quite cold and rainy weather. I did
not think they burnt coal or briquets
down here but we have had fire every
night since we have been here and
quite frequently in the day time. Of
late the weather has been very nice
so we may soon be enjoying real
summer.
Have been for a great many aato
drives to many places of interest
along the beach and also inland.
Were over to San Diego to the fair
and there met the /.elmers. Captain
Sundback, Wm. Eddy and others. The
Zehners have a nice little home out
by the park and own a Dodge car.
Mrs. Cochran, Airs. Burisk and
Evelyn, Jafet Eindeberg and. wife,
Harry Le Bar and wife, Barney Ro
lando and family and Air. and Airs.
Ketterer are a few of the Nomrites
here at present.
Jim Bell and Judge Fuller both
have offices here. Joe Chilberg has a
curio store. Win. Hunger is hauling
paper for the Tribune. Earl Alont
goinery has a two and a half year
contract with the Vilagraph people at
Universal City. Dick ATodini and his
sister Edith are both here. Mrs. Gene’
Chilberg is running an apartment
house as is also Win. Tourney.
Young McDonough who used to
work for Swatzell, is in the plumb
ing business. Joe Waren, old Joe
Ross, Mabel Neibling, Si Fagot, Tom
Rawlins, Ben Frymier and Bruno
Alauro and wife are also here. Bruno
sold out in Portland and at present
is just keeping one eye open for a
proposition. Airs. Eouthan Doris are
I also here. 1 )oyis is married to a Mr. j
Scouller who sells Saxon cars and
Mrs. Louthan runs an apartment
house.
Mrs. Eomen and Helen were liere!
during the holidays. Mis. Jackson left
a few days ago for San Franeiscoc.
Hob Norris was here luit has gone
to Seattle.
Everything in the line of food -
stuffs are very high here. They seem I
almost higher than Nome. Potatoes
are Go at present and coal is $17 to
$19 a ton. Have seen eggs as high
at GQc in Eos Angeles. flood bacon
is tr.e. The only tiling cheap is
ni allie s, ih. v are 5e a d«izen How
many earloads will 1 send you?
Mrs. Van and Virginia are both fine, j
Virginia says she doesnV want to go j
back to Nome as it Is too cold tip
there. .'! is siir,' great for children
out h-' She is pnir.p to kindergar
ten hero.
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TUNGSTEN MINING TO BE
DONE ON A LARGE SCALE
S. \V. Taggart, G. M. faggart, Mike
Stepovich and Thomas E. Lee form
a quartette of interior mining men,
who are here on the'll' return to Fair
banks, where they own a valuable
nine of tungsten, from which 250 tons',
of raw oro was shipped to the states |
last fall and netted them quite a sum
of money. Tungsten is worth from
>17 to >20 a unit of twenty pounds,
which must run sixty per cent.
The Falrbanksans have brought
=onsldnrable machinery wMh them, in
■ ling a concentrator of three rolls i
a sawmill outfit, which will be J
freighted from Chitina over the gov
ernment trail. The outfit we'ighs fif
teen tons, and fourteen head of horses
I were brought from the stales to
| transport it to ts destination.
In conversation with Mr Taggart a
! Daily Times representative learned
that a shaft 110 feet deep has been
sunk on the ledge at the head of Fair
banks creek, w*ith ten feet of ore at
the bottom, and this property will be
j dvoloped on an extensive scale dur
| ing the coming season, and is likely
to prove one of the big producers of
the interior, so far as values are con
cerned. The general run of the ore s
five pr cent tungsten, which will be
concentrated on the ground and then
shipped to a sme'ter in the states.
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NOTICE TO PUBLIC.
All persons ore requested to Im
mediately take advantage of the warm
weather and get the winter's refuse
out on the lee beyond the flag lino
before May 10th, 1917.
W. H’ARCY CHACE,
Health Officer.
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