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-*=-■ T SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5^1917. Ten Cents the Copy
Volume XI. No. 2IS. ___I ..- . :_~~
G MANS GIVING WAY
IN FLANDERS, AUSTRIANS
STILL LOSING GROUND
FIGHTING IN EUROPE REACHES NEW STAGE IN
WHICH VAST OPERATIONS ARE UNDER W AY
ON ALL FRONTS AT THE SAME TIME. AIR
AND UNDER SEA RAIDS ON ENGLAND. AU
STRIA LOSES IMMENSE QUANTITIES 01 MU
NITIONS AND GERMANY TAKES GUNS AND
EQUIPMENT IN RIGA DRIVE.
(By Associated Press Dispatch,
ROME. Sept. 5.—Italian forces this morning occu
pied the final redoubts on Monte San Gabriel, taking a
thousand prisoners, including thirty officers.
This move is of the greatest strategic importance as
the forces of General Cadorna now occupy the entire
chain of mountains dominating Gorizia.
HURRICANE OF DEATH SWEPT ALP TRENCHES
(B* Associated Presa Dispatch)
MILITARY HEADQUARTERS AT UDINE.—Sept.
5.—Immense quantities of booty captured in the Italian
advance show the precipitation of a retreat along the
whole line on Bainsizza plateau to have been a complete
surprise. The Austrians were caught in a maelstrom of
death and abandoned everything.
Highly scientific warfare carried on by the Italian
artillery, in which gas. tire and petrol shells figured,
brought sudden terror to the Austrian defenders. Whole
convoys of arms and munitions were abandoned, includ
ing thousands ot boxes ot projectiles, hand gienadcs,
rockets, shoes, rides and other supplies. Equipment, hel
mets and field impediments are strewn in all directions,
showing the mad rush by survivors to escape from the
zone of death. Some caverns where the lines extended
both through and over the Alps are still packed, with Au
strian dead.
It is the opinion of military observers that in inten
sive and scientific annihilation the Italians outfought both
Austrian and German opponents.
GERMANS PREPARE TO RETREAT
tBy Associated Press Dispatch)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 5th — German military com
manders are reported to be moving the entire civil popu
lation out of an area including 200 square miles of west
Flanders, anticipating an allied attack in this section.
The district abandoned includes an area twelve miles
back of the present German line of defense. It is prob
able that the Teutons intend another "strategic retreat,”
similar to that along the Somme.
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RUSSIAN COAST FORT CAPTURED
(Bjr Associated Press Dispatch)
BERLIN, Sept. 5.—Due Nagaende, at the mouth of
the Dianna river northwest of Riga, fell into German
hands with the heavy coast defense guns undamaged.
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RUSSIANS CONTINUE TO FALL BACK
(By Associated Press Dispatch)
PETROGRAD, Sept. 5, (Official). — Russian forces
operating in an easterly direction from Riga, retired to
Segevold.
The enemy ships engaged in shelling the Riga coast
are submarines.
The Russian retreat continues along the coast of the
Gulf of Riga toward the northeast, retiring troops hav
ing crossed the Livonian river.
General Gurko, former commander on the southwest
ern front, is charged with treasonable conduct toward the
Provisional Government and will be exiled from Russia.
MOONLIGHT RAID ON LONDON
(By Associated Press Dispatch)
LONDON, Sept. 5, (Official). — The first moonlight
raid over the London district was accomplished by air
planes at midnight Tuesday.
One bomb fell just outside a hospital and another
i DO YOUR BIT FOR THE CIVIC FAIR i
A
| Season tickets for the Seward Civic Fair are only ;j
j fifty cents and all are urged to purchase as the en- j!
! tire proceeds of the Fair go to the Red Cross. Those ;;
J laying in supplies for the winter will do well to pat- jj
! ronize the Country Store, for.wholesale houses and jj
j local merchants have given liberally and many arti
* cles will be sold, which are worth many times the 1
! amount to be charged. j
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SHOOTING IS
AFTERMATH OF
3 ROBBERIES
—
Fourth Time Bandits Tried Hold I p
Deputy Marshal—Man In
Hospital
ANCHORAGE, Sept. 4, (Delayed).
Carl Lind, station contractor em
ployed at Mile l>8, was shot twice by
Deputy U. S. Marshal Jack Sturgis at
three o’clock Sunday morning for an
alleged attempt by Lind and an un
known companion to hold up Sturgis,
not knowing him to he an officer.
Lind is in the hospital and will live.
The other man escaped.
This shooting followed three other
holdups earlier in the evening, two of
which were successful in that the vic
tims were robbed.
Descriptions furnished by one vic
tim tally with the two men who en
countered Sturgis.
Lind’s reputation is good and his
friends protest his innocence, but his
presence in the neighborhood ol these
hold-ups and conflicting stories told
by him to the deputy marshal and
friends is held as being against him.
youngIrisT !
ARE JEALOUS
Attack Sailors of American Fleet and
Their Sweethearts on the Streets
of Cork
CORK, Ireland. Sept. 5. — Irish
youth is up in arms against the Amer
ican sailors who are receiving all the
attention of the Irish lassies these
days.
Gangs of young men paraded the
streets Sunday night and attacked the
sailors of the American flotilla off
duty and accompanied by their sweet
hearts. One young woman was grab
bed by the attackers and her hat torn
off.
Police officials state that the con
duct of the Americans was exemplary
during the occurrence.
The attackers shifted their anger to
the government later in the evening,
sang Sein Fein songs and broke win-j
dows.
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* NOW WILL NEW YORK
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* MEXICO CITY, Aug. .11.—The *
* Mexico City Town Council has or- *
* dered the arrest of any person *
* caught speculating in theatre *
* tickets.
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HALIBUT HITS
HIGH MARK ON
WEST COAST
Price at Seattle Over Eighteen Cents
—Iced Salmon Bringing
Nine Cents
SEATTLE, Sept. 5.—Halibut hit the
highest mark on record here yester
day when the dealers offered 18 2-5
cents per pound for fresh No. 1 fish.
N. L. Thomas, of the San Juan com
pany here, stated today tha* <he high
est previous offer under normal con
ditions for fresh fish had been 14c.
War conditions, the scarcity of fish
and shortage of the salmon run are the
causes for this high figure.
Advices by mail from Seattle indi
cate an equal demand for salmon, 9c
a pound being paid at Seattle for ice
salmon.
Never in the history of the salmon
industry has there been such a de
mand for light grades of salmon as
this season. The once despised hum
pie is now a luxury on the market,
selling last week at Seattle and Ta
coma for 9c a pound. In Southeast
ern Alaska the mild cure men are bid
ding against the canners for the last
runs of fish, which are being taken
with nets in the bays fed by spawn
ing streams.
238 REGISTER
FOR SERVICE
Draft List Here Includes More Than
Expected Quota of
Men
Two hundred and thirty-eight men
were registered here for the military
draft, according to City Clerk Poehl
mann.
Rev. Munro is No. 1 and Joseph Pe
rini holds card No. 228, while No. 12
fell to J. J. Campbell.
In addition to this list here, there
are registers out the line who have
taken names at Roosevelt, Mile 52,
Mile 71 and Moose Pass, which will
bring the quota in this district still
higher.
GRAND DUKE
IS^ACCUSED
PETROGRAD, Sept. 5. — Grand
Duke Michael, brother of the former
emperor, and his wife, have been ar
rested in connection with a counter
revolutionary plot, which was recent
ly unearthed by officers of the provi
sional government. _
smashed through a theater where a number of girls were
sleeping.
The total number of deaths resulting from the raid is
11 and the number of injured 62.
One raiding plane was brought down off Sheerness.
SUBMARINE BOMBARDS SCARBOROUGH
LONDON, Sept. 5, (Official).—Trying a direct attack,
a hostile submarine bombarded Scarborough on the east
coast of England last night, killing three and injuring five
civilians. Thirty shells fired by the submarine scored hits
ashore but caused little material damage.
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RECRUITS LEAVE FOR
CANTONM NTS, 2ND.
CALL SEPTEMBER 19
(By Associated Press Dispatch)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 5.—Training of recruits will
begin tomorrow in the National Army cantonments.
The first increment of 30,000 men entrained in all
parts of the country for the cantonments today. On Sep
tember 19 the second quota, which will include forty per
cent of the men called for the first army, will l>e called.
SOLDIERS MAKE THREATENING -
DEMONSTRATIONS IN CHICAGO
(By Associated Press Dispatch)
CHICAGO, Sept. 5—The Mayor Thompson Republi
can club was the center of a menacing demonstration by
soldiers this morning while the Thompson party was mo
bolizing in fifty automobiles for a trip to the Kankakee,
Illinois, fair. Political banners were torn from the ma
chines. Mayor Thompson himself did not appear.
ANOTHER $100,000,000 LOANED
• ENTENTE ALLIES, TOTAL GROWS
(tty Associated Press Dispatch)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 5. — The government today
loaned an additional $100,000,000 to Great Britain and
France, making the total loan to the Allies $2,206,000,000,
including loans floated in this country previous to Amer
ica’s entry into the conflict._
ANTI-DRAFT
CONSPIRACY
IN CANADA
Plot to Kill Premier Borden and Blow
t’p Parliament Is
Frustrated
(Br Associated Press Dispatch)
MONTREAL, Sept. 5.—Police offi
cials announce the discovery and the
breaking up of a plot to assassinate
Premier Borden and Soliictor General
Meighan, which included dynamiting
the parliament buildings at Ottawa.
The frustration of the plot was ac
complished through the arrest of anti
conscriptionist agitators, who are al
leged to be responsible for the dyna
miting of Lord Athelstane’s summer
home. ^
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VOTE DOWN
BOB^SJCHEME
Sixty and Seventy Per Cent Tax on
War Profits Is Not Favored
By Senate
(By Associated Press Dispatch)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 5.—Amend
ments offered by Senator Robert Ta
Follette yesterday, by which he pro
posed to effect huge increases in the
tax on war profits, were defeated by
an overwhelming vote. T he Senate
continued its debate in spite of the
holiday.
LaFollett’s proposal to make a gross
levy of 70 per cent on war profits went
under by a vote of 55 to 20.
The amendment to levy 60 per cent
tax was defeated 50 to 18.
DRINK AND
SMOKE HABIT
ON INCREASE
Reports for Past Year Break All Rec
ords—Smoking by Women
Increasing
(By Associated Press Dispatch)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 5.—All pre
vious American records for the con
sumption of whiskey, cigars, cigaret
tes and tobacco, were broken during
the past year, according to interna
tional revenue statistics.
The consumption of distilled liquors
' increased 26,000,000 gallons.
I Nearly 900,000,000 more cigars were
used and forty per cent more cigaret
tes.
The amount of tobacco used was in
creased by 28,500,000 pounds.
One detail of the report shows that
the use of cigarettes by women is
growing at a tremendous rate.
HIGH HONOR
FOR DRAFTED
Chief‘Executive of Land Leads the
Procession for Those Going
to War
(By Associated Press Dkpatcfc)
WASHINGTON, Sept. 5.—President
Wilson led the procession from the
peace monument to the White House
| yesterday, which was given in honor
of the 1400 drafted men, which form
the first contribution to the National
Army from the District of Columbia.
All government offices were closed
during the parade.
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