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BRITISH HEADQUARTERS IN
FRANCE.—(Special.)—What has be
come of the old British army which
fought at Mons? It is generally
' thought of as a force now greatly
multiplied, but still lighting out bat
tles on the line from Yser to the
Somme. As a matter of fact, the
“Old Army.” as an army, disappeared
long ago. But they did not disappear
a worn-out, decimated remnant utter
ly exhausted by the retreat and the
subsequent thrust of the Marne and!
Aisne, as is often imagined. Instead
they have been swallowed up by death
and the new armies.
The little band Sir John V rench
commanded is not all dead or hors de
combat because it figures no longer in
the daily newspapers. As casaulties
are estimated today its losses were
not very heavy. When the trench
warfare began a large number ot
men from Mons were still in line,
the greater part of those veterans who
have laid down their arms because of
death, sickness or wounds, did so after
the deadlock came.
Many of the officers and men of thi
first army are still in harness. The
officers, with the exception of a few
who still lead men in battle, have lett i
the trenches, and, rising to big things
occupy high positions to which their
superior experience, knowledge and
training entitle them. I hose who
have remained with the combatant
troops have been promoted to high
ranks of which they never dreamed
of in days of peace.
The men do odd jobs around the
base. They help the railway trans
port officers -veterans these—in theii
work. They superintend the handling
of ammunition, guns, rides, wagons,
clothing and all the vast equipment of
an army in the field. Some do orderly
room work. And a few act as ser
vants to the officers with whom they
did duty before the war.
Some times the masters and the
servants speak of old times, but very
seldom. As the officer dresses a regi
ment goes by the window of his billet.
With his “batsman" (servant) he
watches them until the hist man has
passed and the wail ol the fife has
died in the distance.
“Well, what do you think of thorn,
Jones?” the officer asks.
“Them.” Jones says, “Oh. they’re
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“they’re not the boys we used to meet
on Salisbury Plain!”
“No, they are not.”
And then they change the subject,
lest it should conjure up sad thoughts.
Those who led the old army are
leading the neiy armies today. They
have seen their battalions swell to
brigades and their brigades to divi
I sions. They have taken the raw
youth of the British islands and
watched them gradually change from
ignorant civilians to hard, rough
troops very nearly the equal of the
men they used to command. A right
ful pride is theirs. Are not the regi
ments which are smashing t^e Som
me defenses the children of their
heads and hands?
So, from the headquarters of
armies and divisions and brigades,
the red-tabbed colonels and majors
and captains of today guide the of
spring of their battalions of yester
day. It is not often that they get an
opportunity of looking back and real
izing what changes there haye been
made.
A brigade major well expressed the
attitude and experience, of the old
army officer when he *aid:
“I heard that my old lot were to
be near here some time ago,” he said.
(“When they came I dropped into their
mess to see old friends and talk over
old times. Do you know how many
familiar faces I saw? None! Not
one! They were very nice, the men
whom I met. but they were all stran
gers. It was hell! I came away. I
couldn’t stick it.”
The men are a strangely silent
crowd. They hold themselves aloof
from their companions. Letters bind
them together these old soldiers, and
they write to each other as -though
they were the only white men among
I tribes of dark natives. Their letters
| speak largely of the early days. They
mention names which have been for j
| months within the German lines.
Sometimes they will unbend and
will tell their young comrades some
| thing of the Hrst clashes.
“Aye! We was at Nery then—j
that’s where old L. battery had their j
show. Great days them was—not like
now, v’hen your trench is as safe as
England and you don’t have to worry j
about your flanks or something.
Those days you never knew where
you were or who was on the. right or
anything. *Alf the time you was in
touch when you thought you wasn’t
and left be’ind when yo thought you
was! Them was real fighting days,
them.
Gone are the battalions which neld
the line, the boys, who tired of re
treating, picked out a nice ridge dug
in, stayed and died.
“An’ march! Lor’! When we went1
through Crecy me boots was off and
: ’alf the regiment was done in. Me
feet were bleeding, all me amrauni
! tion was gone, and ’d lost me bayonet.
They were days!”
They work hard. At night they
dream of lying in the open under
howitzer fire, of cavalry charges and
of departed friends. Smoking their
pipes>, they meditate on the past. Ar
guments are usually beneath them,
and when they do take a hand in dis
cussion it is to give the final decision
which proves the question.
And what of the units? A^ the
men who made up the units have
gone, the units, though wulking under
the same titles, are not the same.
There is a different style about them
—the new style, which is essentially
the style of the citizen soldier; its
uniform, its badges and its traditions.
These the Kitchener fellows live up
to worthily, as if in recognition of the
men who stemmed the first German
tide, hurled it hack, and — disap
peared.
Their graves are as thick as poppies
in the fields and along the roads of
France. But, as has been well said,
“the old army itself is one with that
of Spain and Waterloo. Only its soul
remains—in the bagpipe music and
the strain of ‘Tipperary.’ ”
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NOTICE OF REGISTRATION
Notice is hereby given that at the
hour of nine o’clock a. m., on the 5th
day of February, 1917, the registra
tion books of the Town of Seward will
be open at the office of the Municipal
Clerk for the purpose of registering
all qualified electors, twenty-one
years of age or over, who are citizens
of the United States, or who have de
clared their intention to become such,
and who have resided continuously
one year next preceding the date of
election in the Territory of Alaska,
and six months next preceding the
date of the election within the cor
porate limits of the Town of Seward.
All electors must, before voting, reg
ister their names and qualifications
with the registration officer.
Registration books will be open
every day of the yeax, excepting Sun
days* and holidays, between the hours
of 9 a. m. to 5 p. m., until the Friday
next preceding the first Tuesday in
April.
On Friday and Saturday next pre
ceding the first Tuesday in April the
books will be open between the hours
of 9 a. m. to 12 m., from 2 p. m. to 6
p. m., from 8 p. m. to 10, p. m.
That said registration books will be
closed for such election at ten o’clock
p. m., Saturday, March 31, 1917.
That said election will be held on
the first Tuesday in April for the pur
pose of choosing city officers.
Dated, Seward, Alaska, Feb. 5, 1917.
O. H. POEHLMANN,
Municipal Clerk.
Feb. 23—Max. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30.
FORFEITURE—NOTICE
To M. IMHOFF, C. J. IMHOFF. A.
M. IMHOFF. HARRY V. MILLER, H.
D. THIELE, ESTATE OF H. D.
THIELE, Deceased, and AUGUST
MELHORN, your respective heirs and
aasijgns:
You are hereby notified and will
take notice that we, the subscribers,
H. P. Salisbury and A. A. Hein, have
expended, during the year 1914, the
sum of TTvree thousand, forty-six dol
lars and twenty ($3,046.20) cents,
during the year 1915, the sum of
Six hundred ($600.00) dollars, during
the year 1916, the sum of Two thou;
sand, five hundred and sixteen dollars
and seventy (2,516.70) cents in labor
and improvements upon each of the
following described mining claims, to- j
wit: OPHIR QUARTZ MINING
CLAIM, COLUMBIA QUARTZ MIN
ING CLAIM, BESSY PLACER MIN
ING CLAIM, MILL SITE and WA
TER SITE OR LOCATION, all of
which said claims are situated and lie
in the Moose Pass Mining District,
Kenai Recording District, Third Ju
dicial Division, Territory of Alaska,
The notices of location thereof are of
record in the office of the United.
States Commissioner and District Re
corder for Kenai Recordfng Precinct
and District, at the Town of Seward,
Territtory of Alaska, to which office
reference is hereby made for a more
particular description of said mining
properties. Said expenditures were
made for the purpose of holding pos
i aessory rights and title to said min
ing claims under the provisions ot
section twenty- three hundred and
twenty-four of the Revised Statutes
j of the United States and the amend
ments thereto, section one hundred
and thiry-six of the Compiled Law's of
Alaska, 1913, and the Session Laws of
the Territory of Alaska, providing for
the annual labor upon mining claims.;
If you fail and refuse or fail or re
fuse within ninety (90) days from the
personal service of this notice, if per
sonal service be had, or within ninety
(90) days after the publication of this
notice, to contribute your proportion
of such expenditure as a co-owner,
your respectice interest in and to said
mining claims, and each and evjery
one of them, will become the property
of the subscribers, who are your co
owners, and who have made the ex
penditures and improvements as
above-mentioned on said mining
claims, and each and every one of
them, pursuant to the provisions of
the said statute, Compiled Laws and
| Sessions Laws.
A. A. HEIN
H. P. SALISBURY.
1 Firs* publication, March 21, 1917.
last publication May 23, 1917.
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FORFEITURE—NOTICE
To A. F. SPRAGUE, YOUR HEIRS
AND ASSIGNS.
Your are hereby notified and will
take notice that I, the subscriber, J.
C. Gilpatrick, have expended during
the year A. D., 1916, the sum of One
hundred ($100.00) dollars in labor and
improvements upon each of the fol
lowing described mining claims, to
wit: “MEAT IN THE POT,"
“CLARA," “OLYMPIA," “SUMMIT,"
“LISBON" and “HATTY," all of
which said claims are situated and lie
in the Moose Pass Mining District,
Kenai Recording District, Third Judi
cial Division, Territory of Alaska. The
notices of location thereof are of
record in Book One of Locations, at
pages 132 and 133, and Book 5 of Lo
cations at pages 45, 46 and 34 in the
office of the United States Commis
sioner and District Recorder for Ke
nai Recording District and Precinct,
at the Town of Seward, Territory of
Alaska, to which book and pages ref
erence is hereby made for a more par
ticular description of said claim. Said
expenditures were made for the pur
pose of holding possessory rights and
title to said mining claims under the
provisions of section twenty-three
hundred and twenty-four of the Re
vised Statutes of the United States
and the amendments thereto and the
Session Laws of the Territory of Al
aska, providing for the annual labor
upon mining claims, said amounts be
ing the sums required in each instance
to hold said mining claims during the
period ending the thirty-first day of
December, 1916.
If you fail and refuse or fail or re
fuse within ninety (90) days from the
personal service of this notice, if per
sonal service be had, or within ninety
(90) days after the publication of this
notice, to contribute your proportion
of such expenditure as a co-owncr,
your proportion being in the total the
sum of Two hundred and eight dol
lars and thirty-two (3208.32) cents,
made up of the following amounts to
wit: ‘MEAT IN THE POT," $50.00,
“CLARA", $25.00, “OLYMPIA,"
$33.33, “SUMMIT," $33.33, “LIS
BON," $33.33, and “HATTIE,"
$33.33, your respective interests in
and to said mining claims, and each
and every one of them, will become
the property of the subscriber, who is
your co-owner, and who has made the
Expenditures and improvements as
above mentioned on said mining
claims, and each and every one of
them, pursuant to the provisions of
the said statute and the said Session
LaWR' J. C. GILPATRICK.
First publication, Feb. 2, 1917.
Last publication, April 27, 1917.
IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR
THE TERRITORY OF ALASKA,
THIRD JUDICIAL DIVISION.
The town of Seward, Alaska, Plaint ill
vs.
George Turner, O. G. Labaree and
Alexander H. Bradford, Defendants.
Cause No. S-104
Summons by publication.
IN THE NAME OF THE PRESI
DENT OF THE UNITED STATES:
To the defendants in the above en
titled cause, Geore Turner, 0. G. Lab
aree and Alexander Bradford,
GREETING: . v
You, and each of you, are hereby
summoned and required to appear in
the District Court tor the Territory of
Alaska, Third Judicial Division, with
in thirty days after the completion of
the period of publication of this sum
mons, to-wit: within thirty days after
tho fourth day of May A. D. 1917, and
answer the complaint of the above
named plaintiff, which has been filed
in the above entitled court, by which
plaintiff seeks an order and judgment
of the court for the condemnation of
Lots numbered One (1), Two (2),
Three (3), Four (4), Five (5), Six
(6), and Seven (7), in Block Six (6),
iu the Town of Seward, in Kenai Re-1
cording District, Third Judicial Divi
sion or the Territory of Alaska, as j
shown by and according to the map
and plat of the Frank L. Ballaine
Townsite of the Town of Seward, Al
aska, and appropriate said Lots to a
public use, as a public park with
street and drive-way therein, for the
town of Seward, and to continue Rail
road Avenue from its intersection
fith the south end of the Alley in said
Block Six, in a northeasterly direction
to intersect with Adams Street in said
Town of Seward at the East end of
said Street;
That unless vou so appear and an
swer the complaint of plaintiff, with
in the time above stated and show
cause why such order should not be
made, plaintiff will, take judgment
against you, and apply to the court
for an order of the court, condemning
the above named lota to be appropri
ated by the plaintiff for the uses and
purposes above stated, and for a
Further order of the court, ap-1
pointing three appraisers, as is
provided by law, to appraise,
the said lots, and each ol them,
and to assess the benefits and dam
ages, to each of you and report to the
court their findings, and that upon the
payment of the amount or amounts
Found to be due each of you by said,
appraisers, into the above entitled
court to be paid to you and each of
you as therein provided that an order
be made by the court directing you
and each of you to execute to plaintiff
a deed conveying any and all interest
you and each of you or any one of you
may have in any one or more or all ol
said lots, as the case may De, ana win
apply to the court for such other and
farther order or orders in the prem
ises as to the court may seem meet
and proper.
Witness the Honorable FRED M.
| BROWN, Judge of the above entitled
! court, this, the 26th day of February,
A. D. 1917.
ARTHUR LANG,
Clerk.
By ROBERT L. WEVER,
Deputy.
Date of first publication, March 5,
1917.
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