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AMERICAN
TROOPS IN
ITALY NOW
WASHINGTON. June 2i> — Gener
al Maivh. Chief of StatT. announced
today that the first American tloops
were landed in Italy yesterday. I he
Americans were sent from here and
are not part of Pershing's forces. The i
troops sent consist largely of sanitary
units and aie mostly non-combatants.
The combatants will be sent by Persh
ing.
Surveying the entire battlefroats
Gen. March said that the situation
was extremely favorable to the Allies
The first national army division has j
taken up sectors at the fronts. This
division was the 77th from New York,
trained at Camp Upton, and is in com
mand of Major General Franklin Boll. |
Gen. Maivh stated that from offic
ial advices the Italians had captured
fS.000 Austrian*- ’•'cent efle.o
ive, much boot\ * d had restored the
line along the Fiave.
HILDRETH GOING TO FRANCE
H. H. Hildreth is now in a Y. M. C.
A. training camp in California and ex
pects to leave for France during the
early part of July. This is the infor
mation received in a letter by George
Sexton. Mr. Hildreth will be stationed
in the held and intends to give illus
trated lectures on Alaska when it is
possible. Mr. Hildreth asks that all
kinds of views of Seward be sent to
him so he can display them at the
camp at the front in which he is stat
ioned.
FOUR MINUTE SPEAKER
L. L. James, the well known attor
ney, and secretary of the Seward Ch
amber of Commerce will be the four
minute speaker at the Liberty theatie
tomorrow night.
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NEW MORNING PAPER TO
BE STARTED AT CORDOVA
J. Wilbur Ward, former business
manager of the Anchorage Times, is j
now in Cordova and announces that
the Daily Herald, a r.ew morning news
paper will blossom forth with the first
issue on next Tuesday morning
ALASKA IS COMING INTO
HER OWN AFTER THE WAR
“Right now it is quiet in Alaska and
those who dispose of their property ot
other interests will be sorry that they
did. 1 am going to Anchorage to dost
up several little deals and then go
south. But when the war is over, back
north I come and will reside perman
ently”. This is the way G. M. Camp
bell, first locator at Anchorage, re
viewed the situation yesterday aboard
the Alaska on his way to Cook Inlet
metropolis. Mr. Campbell stated that
when the war is over in Europe hund
reds and hundreds of people are com
ing north and the great majority will
locate in Alaska for keeps.
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CHARLES SHELDON WITH
AVIATION CORP IN FRANCE
Charles A. Shddon, formerly of this
city, is in France according to post
cards received in Seward in the mail
on the Alaska. Mr. Sheldon is in the
quartermaster’s Department, Aviation
Corps. \
CRUISER VINDICTIVE, NOW BLOCKING THE 03TEND CHANNEL
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This is tin* old British cruiser Yiudh he whieli. tilled with concrete. It iv been sunk in tin* clnmuel at Osteitd.
pmti.v VCUng tip that Herman t'-Boat base. The photog aph was taken after she had been battered in the previous
mid on /eehrugge and Ostend. Above are her gallant officers. Left to right: Surgeon Bayne, Surgeon Clegg, Com
mander Osborne, Captain Carpenter. Stall Surgeon McCutcheon and Senior Conner Cobby.
WAR SAVINGS
PLEDGES MADE
Seward came through in tine manner !
for war savings stamps at the special
meeting called last night at the A. it.
Hall. Chairman Hardy announces
that over $2700 was subscribed lust i
night. At the meeting Curtis R. M>r-j
ford acted as chairman and introduced j
Attorney L. V. Ray who read the pro
clamation of President V* ilson regard
ing War Savings Day and then made
remarks. The printed pledges were
then passed out to the audience for
signatures.
AMMUNITION IN
IRELAND SEIZED
FOUND IN GRAIN
DUBLIN, June 29 — The police this
forenoon seized 40.000 rounds of am
munition found in a consignment oF
grain. This ammunition is believed
part of a cargo of aims and munition
landed on the northern coast of 1 re
anti some time ago.
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STAKT SUNDAY SCHOOL
The Sunday school of the Episcopal
church will start tomorrow and will
l>e held at the time of the regula:
morning services, 11 to 12 o’clock.
Children of any age are welcomed ac*
cording to Kov 1 * _ ’•
CHARLES MARTIN NOW
IN THE AMBULANCE CORES
According to advices received on thr
Alaska, Charles D. Martin, foimerly
with Brown & Hawkins, who went out
side several weeks ago, is in the am
bulance corps and is in training at
Camp Lewis.
As a general thing, the lazy man’s
idea of pressing his trousers is to sit
down in them.
FRANCE DECLARES A
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PARIS, June 29— Cheers and shouts of enthusiasm
•; ccied the announcement this forenoon made in th
Chamber of Deputies that July Fourth will be regarded as
a legal French holiday. At. party lines will be obliterated.
The plaudits were unanimous, i:. was one of the most im
pressive demonstrations seen in the Chamber since the be
ginning of the war and whenever the name of the 1 niter
States was mentioned more cheers resulted.
WITH THE AMERICANS, June 29— July fourteen
th, the French national holiday, and July Fourth, will be
celebarted jointly by the Americans and French in Paris,
Troops of both armies, not at the front, will march side b\
side in processions on both holidays. It is understood that
the idea orginated with the French.
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NEW RUSSIAN LEADERS APPEAR TO
HEAD ANOTHER RUSSIAN REVOLUTION.
AMSTERDAM, June 29— A Berlin dispatch say^
that *Prof. Paul MiSiuoff, leader of the Russian Constit
ional Democrates, and Alexander J. Guchkoff, Octoberist
leader, have arrived at Harbin, Manchuria, and placed
themselves at the head of the revolutionary movement.
PACIFIC COAST SHIPYARDS WIN
HONORS FOR BUILDING OF SHIPS.
; WASHINGTON, June 29—= The Pacific Coast ship
yards made a clean sweep in ship building honors during
May. The first honor blue flags were awarded to the Beth
lehem Shipbuilding Corporation of San-Francisco, for
steel ships, and Grant-Silfith-Porter Company of St. John,
Oregon, for wooden ships. Second and third honors for
r.teel ships went to Skinner & Eddy Corporation, of Seattle
and the Moore Shipbuilding Co., of Oakland. For wooden
ships, the Grant-Smith-Porter Co., of Aberdeen, and Allen
Shipbuilding Co., of Seattle won honors.
NEW YORK, June 29— The British troops in Fland
ers and the French forces further south, apparently anti
cipated theproposed drive of the Germans toward the Eng
lish channel ports and also Paris, and have struck first.
The Allied troops caught the enemy unawares at import
ant points and took ground at Remy and Piodievb of con
siderable value. Practically all points of the German line<
were attacked simultaneously.
The British made a sucessful advance of nearly a mile
between Belleau and Labashee. The captured ground lies
at the most debateable point on the British front, just west
of Boise Daval with the east angle in the Nieppe forest.
The French attacked on a front four and one half
miles south of Amblemy to east of hloetgober, southwest
of Soissons aiM captured ground and many prisoners. At
some points of the attack the lines of the French were ad
vanced right into the heart of the German positions for a
mile and a quarter. One thousand and sixty prisoners have
been accounted for to early this morning.
GERMANS TAKEN UNAWARES.
WITH THE BRITISH, June 29— Prisoners captured
during last night and this morning in the offensive again
st the German lines, says that the German commanders
had no idea that the British and French wonld take the
offensive. The Germans felt so secure that they were de
voting most of their time to a campaign against an epi
demic known as the Flanders Grippe.
The British went over the top and at the enemy before
the latter realized their danger.
BERLIN BUSY WITH REPULSE MOVEMENT.
BIRLIN, June 29—(Official) The Germans are bu'sy
ly engaged in attempts to repulse vigorous Allied attacks
north of the Lvs and south of the Aisne rivers.
MANY AIRPLANES DESTROYED.
LONDON, June 29— ( Official) The British have de
stroyed 21 enemy planes within the past 24 hours and
downed nine. The British lost 14.
GERMANS BUSY WITH BARRAGES.
WITH THE BRITISH, June 29— Last night the Ger
mans placed heavy barrages along the sector north of Mel
ville. There was no further infantry action during the
night nor did any occur early this forenoon. It is reported
that great fleets of airplanes are constantly circling over
hostile territory and bitterly attacking the Germans.
FAIL ON SECOND RAID ON PARIS.
PARIS, June 29— Enemy airplanes flew in the direct
ion of Paris last night and dropped a few bombs before
beaten off, here were no victims.
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