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VQL 10 VALDEZ, ALA8KA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1914. NO. 314.
GERMAN FLANK MOVEMENT STOPPED
ALLIES PREVENT CUTTING OF COMMUNICATION TO THE COAST
GERMANS ADMIT RUSSIAN VICTORY IN SUWALK1 PROVINCE
BRITISH SUBMARINE SINKS A GERMAN BOAT IN EMS RIVER
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TICKET SALE
MUSES RIOT
Thousands of Fans Crowd Into De
partment Store To Buy Tickets
for Championship Games.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 8.—A riot
was started yesterday in this city
when the Philadelphia baseball team
of the American League opened the
sale of tickets for the games to be
played here. The sale was started in
a local department store and the
place was soon jammed, tables up
set, men injured, and the police, fear
ing serious trouble, called out the re
serves from several police stations
and cleared the building.
Some of the fans have been wait
ing In line for two days and nights
in order to secure a good seat. Spec
ulators are also securing many tickets
and are asking five dollars over the
regular prices fixed by the commis
sion.
Twenty-five dollar tickets are sell
ing for $50 and the city authorities
will endeavor to stop speculators sell
ing tickets, as it is against the mu
nicipal law to re-sell theater or base
ball tickets or tickets to any amuse
ment house.
The umpires will be Klein and By
ron of the National League and Dineen
and Hildebrand of the American Lea
gue. There will be three official scor
ers, J. G. T. Spink of St. Louis, and
one man to be picked by the Phila
delphia baseball writers and one by
the Boston writers.
No changes were made in the rules
for playing world’s series games. As
heretofore, four games must be won
by a club to claim the champion
ship. In the event of a seventh game
being necessary the toss of a coin
will decide whether the seventh shall
he played in Boston or Philadelphia.
In case of a tie game or a postpone
ment the clubs will remain in the
’city where the game was scheduled
to be played until it is decided.
The official price for seats:
Boston—Boxes, $5 each seat; grand
stand, $3; pavilions, reserved, $2;
general admission, $1; bleacher seats,
50 cents.
Philadelphia—Boxes, $5 each seat;
grandstand, $3; pavilion, reserved,
$2; general admission, |1.
Tickets will be sold in each city for
a series of three games. In the event
that a game Is unplayed the mpney
paid for a ticket for that game will
be refunded.
The players eligible to participate
in the series are:
Boston—Cather, Correham, Connol
ly, Cotrell, Crutcher, Davis, Deal, De
vore, Dugey, Evers, Gilbert, Gowdy,
Hess, James, Maranville, Mann, Mar
tin. Mitchell, Moran, Rudolph, Smith,
Schmidt, Strand, Tyler, Whaling,
Whltted.
Philadelphia—Baker, Barry, Bend
er, Bressler, Bush, Collins, Coombs,
Davies, Davis, Kopf, Lapp, McAvoy,
Mclnnls, Murphy, Olring, Pennock,
Plank, Schang, Shawkey, Strunk,
Thomas, Thompson, Walsh, Wyckoff.
The first game will be played here
tomorrow and the second on the 10th,
also In this city, while the next two
will be played in Boston, The fifth.
If necessary, will be played at Phil
adelphia, and the sixth at Boston and
so alternating until the series is play
ed.
Fair Warning.
Canada takes Europe’s war so ser
iously that it has suspended the ha
beas corpus act. Americans who con
template leaving their country for ur
gent reasons, such as looting a bank,
will do well to take notice.—Phila
delphia Record.
Another boy arrived last night at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. William
Egan. Both mother and youngster are
getting along fine.
Reports From Antwerp Indicate That the Germans Are Making Considerable Progress In the Siege
of That City and Belgium Court and Capital Is Moved To Ostend—German Movement To
Rear of Allies Was Checked At Lille—Allies Cannot Break Through Line Held By Von Kluck
But Continue To Move Northward Towards Belgium—Battle Line Becoming Extended.
LONDON, Oct. 8.—The German
'flanking movement which aimed to
break the communication to the south
was checked this morning at Lille
and no danger is expected now from
that source. The situation at the
front is believed to be exceptionally
encouraging. The allies, while un
able to break through the north and
south line held by General von Kluck
are still continuing the move north
ward and are now almost at the Bel
gian “border.
Good News From Petrograd.
From Petrograd the war office has
received the news of confirmation of
victory in Suwalki province over the
Germans and the rumors of ineffi
ciency of the Russians are disproved
by the many successes they have had
over both the German and Austrian
troops. In Poland the Russians are
strongly entrenched along the Vistu
la river and are waiting for the Ger
man attack. As the Germans have
concentrated all available men on the
line from Cracow east to Tarnow,
the Russians will wait for them to
take the offensive, while the other
Russian armies in East Prussia and
those east of Tarnow continue opera
tions which will tend to force the
Germans to accept battle under unfa
vorable conditions or else weaken the
line at Cracow by sending help to
the other points of attack. Russia
is depending upon her vast numbers
to force the Germans to their knees.
Russians Fighting Well.
The British war office has a large
number of officers with the Russians
as military observers and they all re-,
port that the Russian troops are fight
ing well and are well drilled, and,
contrary to the general belief, are
well armed. The commisary depart
ment is also well organized and is
doing wonders feeding the vast horde
of Slavs.
British Submarine Crew Jubilant.
LONDON. O#. 8.—The crew of the
British submarine E 9 have return
ed to England after having sunk a
German destroyer off the mouth of the
Ems river. The same boat with the
same crew also sunk a German de
stroyer about a month ago entering
the German harbor at Wilheelmshav
en, sinking a destroyer, then drop
ping to the bottom of the harbor for
twelve hours, while the Germans
searched the harbor with wire nets,
but failed to find the little boat, which
escaped at night. The crew of the
underwater fighter are jubilant and
expect to again attack the German
fleet.
Aerial Duel Watched By Thoutanda.
BORDEAUX, Oct. 8.—-Thousands of
troops on both sides yesterday watch
ed an aerial duel between a French
and German aeroplane crew. Each
machine had an aviator and an ob
server aboard and the observers used
rifles. The maneuvering to secure
positions was watched for ten or fif
teen minutes, and then suddenly the
French aviator, taking a desperate
'chance, sent his machine up until he
had a position just above the Germans
gnd the end soon followed. As the
^German operator, was shot his ma
chine turned turtle and he and his
companion and the machine dashed
to earth, falling within the French
lines .near Reims. The French es
escaped without Injury. Their ma
chine, however, had been hit ten
times.
Russians Have Big Front.
PBTROGRAD, Oct. 8.—The Russian
front extends 800 miles, reaching
from the Baltic Sea to the Carpath
ian mountains. In many places the
armies are in contact and so tar the
Russians have won every battle. The
province of Suwalki has been clear
ed of Germans, who have suffered
heavy loss In killed, wounded' and
prisoners and are now fleeing to the
interior of East Prussia. At Przemysl
three German army corps and two
Austrian corps are bottled up by a su
perior force and several of the forts
of the city have been captured and
the city is expected to be forced to
surrender within a few weeks.
Germans Strong At Cracow.
/The German-Austro lines are stroag
at Cracow and extend to Tarnow, but
the Russians are preparing to cut the
railroad at any cost between the two
cities and isolate Tarnow, which can
then be reduced by siege operations.
In Silecia the Germans have made
no gain, although they have a large
force of the first line of German
troops, many of whom have already
fought in France, but the new Rus
sian forces seem able to hold them
back.
Allies Check Germans.
LONDON, Oct. 8.—The allies have
finally succeeded in checking the
German efforts to reach the rear of
the allies lines connecting with the
coast. The French coast guards were
brought up to reinforce the extreme
end of the allies lines and succeeded
in inflicting a terrible beating on
the German Uhlans, who were forced
to flee in disorder towards the Bel
gian border. The Germans tried to
pass behind the allies at Lille, but
met reverses just outside of that city.
Belgian Field Army Is Active.
The Belgian field army is busy and
has attacked the German rear, in
flicting a defeat upon the Germans
at Hal, but are not strong enough
to follow up tiie advantage gained.
The effort to penetrate eastward con
tinues, however, with the hope of
breaking through and severing the
railroad connection through Belgium
upon which Generals von Kluck and
von Boehme depend.
Canadian Troops Reach England. ‘
The 30,000 Canadian troops from
Ottawa have reached England and are
now in camp at Harwlck, receiving
special training and they will soon
be sent to the continent.
British Submarines Do Damage.
LONDON, Oct. 8.—Because of the
demand by the British public for
some action by the admiralty to
avenge the loss of the cruisers Abou
kir, Hogue and Cressy, which went
down in the North Sea from the ef
fect of torpedoes from the German
submarine U 9, the admiralty yes
terday sent several underwater boats
to the German coast and one of them
succeeded in sending a German de
stroyer to the bottom. All the British
boats made their escape.
Belgian Capital Moves To Ostend.
OSTEND, Oct. 8.—King Albert and
the administrative officials of the
Belgium government reached here to
day from Antwerp, the former tem
porary capital of this country, and
have established the capital of Bel
gium In this city. This is the second
move of the capital, the first from
Brussels to Antwerp, then to Ostend.
All the foreign diplomats came with
the court by boat.
Austrians Sink Own Boats.
ROME, Oc*. 8.—Four Austrian de
stroyers were sunk yesterday in the
Adriatic when they struck mines laid
by the Austrians themselves.
American Officer Telle of War.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 8—Col. Hayes,
of the United States army, who has
been in France the past two months,
returned today from across the ocean
and states that the allies feared that
they would not be able to penetrate
the bat'leflelds of the Alsne because
of the purification of dead horses and
men, who lie by thousands in every
section of the ground held by the
Germans. The allies are burying the
dead as fast as possible, but when
fighting over ground held by the Ger
mans have been almost unable to pen
etrate any distance until the dead are
cared for.
Few Men Can Be Seen In Modern
Battle.
"Few men and no guns are to be
Seen in the modern battle," says the
colonel. “The men are all hidden in
trenches and the hiding of a gun has
become a science In which both sides
have become adept.”
Antwerp Forte Fall.
BERLIN, Oct. 8.—It was officially
announced last night by the war office
that Forts Kossel and Brlchetn,
which guard Antwerp, had fallen and
that the Germans were now in pos
session of the forts.
Belgians Hold Strong Entrenchments.
The Belgian infant rymenn have
manned trenches which fill the gaps
made by (he loss of the forts and are
fighting stubbornly to check the Ger
man advance, but will he unable to
hold out for any length of time and
the early fall of Antwerp is predict
ed by military authorities.
Expect To Check Germans.
LONDON, Oct. 8.—Last night the
military officers in charge of the press
censorship admitted that the Germans
might be able to cut the line of com
munication between the allies and the
coast, but that strong reinforcements
were being sent to them from south
ern France, and that the Indian
troops, which were to have been ac
climated by a few weeks stay in the
south, have been sent north and are
now with the British and are expect
ed to check the German encircling
movement.
Horse Meat for Prisoners.
BERNE, Oct. 8.—In Germany signs
of distress are now apparent in the
comments of newspapers. The Lok
alanzeiger in several issues complains
that prisoners of war are fed much
better than millions of Germans, who
often have no butter and eat meat
only twice a week, whereas the pris
oners get meat daily. The same paper
also suggests that wounded and dead
horses on the battlefield should im
mediately be converted into sausages
■d other food for the German popu
lation and the prisoners of war.
The Munchener Medizinlsche Wo
chenschrift of Aug. 25 publishes a
signed article by Prof. Straub contest
ing the generally held opinion of
German soldiers that French bullets
are particularly dangerous or likely
to cause poisoning, and concluding
by saying that the French infantry
bullet may be considered a humani
tarian missile.
German! Need Gaiotene.
BORDEAUX, Oct. 8—The Troyes
correspondent of the Temps has sent
SPEND YOUR MONEY
SAYS SEC. M'M
WASHIGTON, Oct. 8.—Secretary
McAdoo, In an interview, asserts that
the big corporations are hoarding
money, stopping expansion of their
works, refusing to enter new Helds
of endeavor opened by reason of the
European war and are retarding the
prosperity of the country; that indi
viduals are also hoarding money and
that if the practice is not stopped
hard times will be sure to follow, as
the government is making money as
fast as it can and yet the amount in
circulation is decreasing each day.
OUST OFHCIILS
OF BUTTE CD
. BUTTE, Oct. 8.—After a two weeks
trial the courts have ousted Mayor
Duncan and Sheriff Driscoll, who have
been found guilty of neglect of duty
In that they failed to maintain order
in the city during the recent labor
troubles. Clarence Smith, the Social
ist president of the council, was nam
ed to succeed Mayor Duncan, but no
sheriff has been named as yet by the
governor.
HIKES IS SURE
GOSH AW WILL WIN
Say* Hi* Candidate Will Get Big
Vote To Westward, At Chlsana
and Also In Valdez.
(Frank Hayes, the campaign man
ager (or George Goshaw, the Chlsana
miner and storekeeper, Is confident
that he will land his man In the up
per house of the Alaska legislature
on November 3. He has been busy
sending out letters and literature to
his own and Goshaw's friends to the
westward, where he has a large ac
quaintance and also to the south,
where he is confidently expecting a
good vote.
Mr. Hayes says his candidate will
be elected by the big vote he will
get to the westward, and by the vote
of Valdez, Cordova and Chlsana,
which places he expects to carry by
fair majorities, especially the Chls
ana district, where about 300 miners
are working, of whom he expects al
most all will vote for the local mining
candidate.
See the war vessels in action In
the war pictures at the Orpheum to
night
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LYONS TO TALK
TO MITES
SEWARD, Oct. 8.—Judge John Ly
ons will speak here tonight to the
people of Seward regarding Issues of
the present territorial campaign.
Councilman Albert White, of Valdez,
will also address the crowd. Both
men have been given a hearty recep
tion In Seward. Representative “Dad"
Ingram Is also making good headway
with his campaign In Seward and up
CooTt Inlet, where he now is on a
speech-making tour.
All the candidates leave here on
the Mariposa tomorrow for Valdez.
DHL TO PUT
ON BOSTON TEIM
PHILADELPHIA, O.ct. 8— Manager
Stalling, of the Boston Nationals, an
nounced yesterday that he would put
Deal In at third base because of the
•accident to Third Baseman Smith.
•Deal was crippled the early part of
the season after playing seventy-seven
<ganfes and he batted an average of
217, while Smith, who relieved him,
iplayed In 127 games and batted 257.
The Philadelphia team Is still the
favorite In the present series.
the following dispatch: “According
to wounded prisoners, the German
aeroplanes have been put out of ac
tion through lack of gasolene. The
French aviators, on the other hand,
have been doing excellent work. One
of the airmen succeeded in dropping
bombs at an important railroad Junc
tion, with the result that ten trains
filled with retreating Prussians were
stalled.
“In the last body of prisoners
brought to Troyes were seventeen Im
perial Guardsmen who were captur
ed In the woods near Vitry-le-Francois
(Department of Marine.) Attached to
their sleeves by pins were Red Cross
insignia to which, It Is suspected,
they had no right They have been
sent to a French ambulance corps,
where their qualifications may be
tested. Military automobllists report
that the country around the battle
field is teeming with German strag
glers, who frequently fire upon French
convoys."
Swiss May Ask Indemnity.
HERNE, Oct. 8.—Although the ex
treme measures which were adopted
during the first weeks after the war
begun have been relaxed, Switzerland
is still under the pressure of mobiliz
ation. This is taxing the financial
resources of the government, as it is
now spending *l,400,000f. ($280,000)
daily on the army. It is stated that
Switzerland intends to ask for an in
demnity at the end of the war, ow
ing to the stoppage of manufactures
and industries.
Turkey’s Plans Balked?
LONDON, Oct. 8—The Rome cor
respondent of the Dally News tele
graphs: “I am informed from Bucha
rest that Rumania, Bulgaria and
Greece have concluded a defensive
alliance.”
The Dally News adds to this the
following note: “This interesting
news, if confirmed, would paralyse any
aspirations which Turkey may have
to throw her army into the balance
of the European war on the side of
Germany and Austria. It also means,
probably, that Bulgaria has been
promised comlpensation for her aban
donment of any idea of revenge
against Greece and Servla.”
Another Million Germane.
BERLIN, Oct. 8.—In addition to the
immense armies already in the Held.
Germany still Is able to draw on her
great mass of reserves to send an
army of 240,000 men to reinforce the
bard-pressed Austrian army In Galicia
and Poland. At the same time she
is sending 200,000 men ot reinforce
her army in East Prussia. Her entire
active army and first reserves were
called to the colors In the first mob
ilization August 1. These troops now
sent to the front come from the sec
ond and third reserves.
Every German Is subject to military
service from his seventeenth to his
fory-fifth year. When he la twenty
years old every man has to report
for active service; only about half
of the men are taken Into the army.
The remainder form the ersats re
serve and have their names listed
ready to be called to fill any vacan
cies in the army due to disease or to
war. The call for the active army
included every able-bodied German
from twenty to twenty-seven years,
both those on the active list and those
In the ersats reserve. It also included
the next class of the reserve, or the
-first band of the landwehr, which is
made up of all ex-soldiers from twen
ty-seven to thirty-two years.
The first mobilisation call on Aug
ust 1 included all the above classes,
a total of 2,400,000 trained soldiers.
These were not all available for light
ing at the front because detachments
had to be made to run the railroads,
(Continued on gage «.)
SEARCHLIGHTS
SWEEP ARMIES
Terrifying Effect of Germane’ Night
Reconnaissances — Conflicting
Views of German Fire.
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LONDON.—In the course of a long
dispatch the Paris correspondent of
The Daily Chronicle recently describ
ed the use of searchlights by the
Germans:
“As soon as darkness falls.” he
says, "the Germans light their lamps
and play them upon our position.
Those long, tapering fingers of light
creep along the hillsides, touching
the batteries of the sleeping battal
ions with a white luminance. They
feel their way along the fringe of
autumn woods, so that, in a moment,
where there had been black blocks
of darkness one sees the shimmer of
leaves and silver branches and tree
trunks like columns of burnished met
al. They are extraordinarily inquis
itive, these feelers of light, and range
from earth to heaven, and point sud
denly and arrestingly at moving ob
jects, which halt at the first touch
of that perilous illumination.
“A friend of mine who has been
driving stafT officers about the front
tells me that a few days ago he was
driving rapidly toward a wireless sig
nal station when his car was pick
ed out by one of these traveling rays.
In a moment he and the officers who
were with him, were flooded in the
white brilliance of it, so that they
were dazzled and startled. It had an
extraordinary psychological effect up
on my friend, who is a man of steady
nerve.
"He felt like a man stripped naked
and put up against a white wall for
execution. He seemed to know that
at the end of this great white beam
was a staring eyeball watching his
slightest movement and ready to kill
him before he crept beyond the light
Into the darkness. His thoughts were
hardly fantastic, for the moment after
his car had been revealed a shell
came hurtling overhead, and several
of the bullets in it buried themselves
in the chassis.
Two View* of German Fire.
BORDEAUX.—(Recent dispatch to
the London Standard.)—Some of the
wounded arriving today had come di
rectly from the front and had no:
been detained in hospitals en route,
tn every case they told the same
story of shrapnel injuries. The pro
portion of bullet wounds was so very
small that those suffering from them
were curiosities.
One gunner described to me the
terrible effects of the shells. When
the Germans got within range of the
men working his battery not one es
caped Injury. This was near Sols
sons. An officer near him had bis
legs and an arm blown off; a serg
eant had an eye taken out, and wound
ed men were lying all around. See
ing so many Injured, my informant
said, he began to feel as if he him
self had suffered some Injury, par
ticularly as one of his feet felt numb.
He discovered a big hole In his an
kle, but felt no pain until taken to
the field hospital. The concussion
had dased him. and for the time be
ing rendered him insensible to pain.
A shrapnel bullet struck a man near
him in the hip and tore his leg open
to the knee.
This man’s story and the narrative
of others confirm the opinion univer
sally expressed regarding the effi
ciency of the German artillery. The
British, however, despise the German
infantry, whose shooting they say is
worse than that of the Chinese when
first learning to fire a gun. All ref
erences to the German infantry are
contemptuous, and any suggestion of
comparison between the German and
French foot soldiers is' simply laugh
ad at, for the British have formed a
very high opinion of the latter’s dash
and efficiency.