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RAIDED ENGLISH COAST j
LONDON, August -L—A Zeppelin raided the east!
coast of England last night shortly before midnight but j
the war otlice announces that no damage was inflicted and
no casualties occurred, f he raid last night and those for j
some weeks back are now believed to be merely intended j
as reconnoitering flights to test the British air defenses in
preparation for an air attack in far greater proportions
than any of the previous ones attempted. For the past
fortnight word iias been coming from Germany that the
Germans are constructing giant Zeppelins and it has been
hinted that they would move against London and Paris in
the months of September anu October when the climatic
conditions would be favorable. But the first authentic in
formation which has come on tiiis subject was given out
last night by Baron Montagu, former vice-president of the
joint naval and military board, in a speech which he de
livered in public. He informed the people that these giant
airships are unquestionably being built and that they can
have hardly any other object than a tremendous attack
on the capitals of England and France. The new dirigi
bles, he said, are seven hundred feet in length, can travel
eightv miles an hour, can ascend three miles and so keep
out of the range of shells and each can carry live tons ot
explosives. Owing to this fact greater precautions than
ever will probably be practised from this time forward.
The newspapers do not attempt to minimize tiie apparent
danger and are calling on tlie government to prepare for
a terrific attack of tne nature suggested. The greatest
danger is expected to come from the fact that the new
Zeppelins can reach such an altitude and be able to keep
above attacking aeroplanes whose chief advantage over
Zeppelins lias been that they couhi get above the monsters
and drop shells.
RUSSIANS DEFEAT TURKS •
PETROGRAD, August 24.—The Russians have de
feated the Turks in a great battle at Mousul, ok Mosol, on
the Tigris river in Asia Minor and captured two whole
regiments. The Turkish army was composed of four divi
sions or eighty thousand men. This statement is official.
The battlefield is about a hundred miles west of the Pers
ian border and north of the territory where the British
are operating on the Euphrates. The aim of the Russian
generals is to drive the enemy so far back that a juncture
with the British can be affected, a matter of very little dif
ficulty when the Tigris is forced open.
FRENCH REPULSE GERMANS
PARIS, August 24—The war office announces offici
ally that German attacks were repulsed by our troops last
night in the Seyecourt region. The attacks were preceded
by intense artillery lire after which the infantry charged
in great force but the repulse was complete. No attacks
are reported in the Verdun region and we are holding
Fleurv without trouble. The German artillery maintains
a constant fire, however, especially at night.
BULGARIANS DEFEAT ALLIES
BERLIN, August 24.—The Bulgarians have defeated
the enemy in fresh fighting on the Enruna river, the offi
cial statement of the Bulgarian war office sa>6. It is
further announced that the Anglo-FrenCh forces are now
trying to ascape by flight on the right bank of the river
with the Bulgars following up the advantage. The allies
were compelled to abandon several hundreds of their dead
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DEUTSCHLAND ARRIVES
BERLIN, August 24. — The submarine Deutschland
arrived home safely at the mouth of the Weij^r yester
day, according to a message from the Overseas News
Agency. No further statement has been given out but the
news is taken to be authentic.
BREMEN SOON DUE HERE
COPENHAGEN, August 24.—The submarine Brem
en will arrive at a United States port within a few days,
according to the statement of Director Lossman of the
Ocean Company to a German newspaperman at Bremen.
Harry Hoben Buys
Out Fred Laubner
Harry Hoben has purchased the lots
owned by F red Laubner. The proper
ty is made up of ten and a half lots
but the price is not given out although
it has been stated in places that it
was $5,000. Three of the lots are on
Broadway near Lowell creek, live are
pn Third avenue and two and a halt
on second street.
DKNOl'NCK WlClvKKSHA.U
FAIRBANKS, August 17.—The
Democratic Divisional convention held
here yesterday placed in nomination
the following ticket:
F\»r Territorial Senator—Thomas
A. McGowan.
F'or Representative—William T.
Burns, of Little Kldorado, (Renomi
nated for the third term). Luther C.
Hess, of Fairbanks, John W. Dunn of
Ruby, A. M. Kilgore of Flat creek,
Iditarod district.
The platform adopted denounced
Delegate Wickersham in very strong
terms, endorses the Democratic plat
form anti candidates of the National
ami Terirtorial, including a strong
plank supporting Charles A. Sulzer
for Delegate to Congress.—Ex.
“THK CENSOR IS NOT THK DAMN
FOOL YOU TAKE HIM TO BE”
By HAL O’FLAHERTY,
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
LONDON, August 14.—“The censor
is not the damn fool you take him to
be.”
The above line was penned by a
British censor upon a letter from an
officer at the front to his wife, in
• which an ingenious code was discov
ered. it meant to disclose to the
anxious wife just where her husband
was lighting, but it was spoiled by
the censor and an order was issued by
the war office prohibiting such practi
ces. Before the officer, who wrote the
code letter, left for the front, he se
cured two maps showing the entire
British lighting line. The maps were
identical. One he left with his wife
and the other he took with him.
Thereafter, each time he wrote a
letter, he placed the stationery on his
map, stuck a pin through it directly
over Paris, another directly over
Brussels, and a third at the point
where he was stationed. Upon re
ceiving the letter, his wife would
superimpose it on her map, adjusting
the extreme pinholes over Paris and
Brussels, and her husband’s where
abouts would be indicated by the mid
dle hole.
This is but one of a score of codes
and secret signals discovered by the
censors recently. England does not
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NENANA LOTS j
GOING STRONG!
FIRST LOT SOLD IN NKW TOWN
SITK BRINGS S1XTKKN
HUNDRKD DOLLARS.
FAIRBANKS, August 24. — H. K.I
St. George has bought tb** first lot in
the Nenana townsitc at the govern
ment auction for sixteen hundred dol
lars. Ben Simson bought the second
.for eleven hundred. The sale will be
in progress there unfil Saturday.
UOM.MLSSIONKR TO HAVK
OF KICK IN NKW BUILDING
The United States Commissioner,
who will be J. Karl Woolley on the
first of the month, has arranged to
have his office and court in the new
van Gilder building on Adams street.
Dr. J. M. Sloan will also have his of
fices there and Judge S. 0. Morfovd
is another who will have his offices in
that building. The Oddfellows and
Masons have also, taken some of the
building’s rooms. The Geto^v will
have the basement and part of the
ground floor.
censure the relatives of men at the'
front for wanting to know the locality
in which they are fighting and per
haps dying, but such disclosures be
came a menace. No one knows how
extensive Germany’s espionage sys
tem may he, and England is taking
no chances.
Another code system used by a cer
tain officer was more elaborate than
the one pointed out by the censor,
with his “damn fool” notation. It
•was arranged by the officer with his
wife, just b ‘fore he sailed for France,
and consisted of two charts of the
battle line, one of which he retained
while the wife kept the other. Each
map was laid out in blocks an inch
square; each square could be indent i
fied by combinations of letters indicat
| ing each line of squares from left to
| right. On the left hand side was
another row of letters.
In writing home, the officer would
say: “Give my regards to L. A.
! Smith.” Being a fictitious name, the
wife would know it as a key to her
secret code. Putting her finger on the
“A” line of the squares on her chart,
she would follow along under the “L”
squares, in which was her husband’s
position at the front.
It is improbable that any informa
tion cotnained in these code letters
has ever reached the Germans, but
there is a possibility of such a mis
chance and England is losing no op
portunity to defeat a spy system that
has made Englishmen gasp.
HOW ANTWERP IS FARING
AMSTERDAM, August 24— Reports are now reach
ing the newspapers of Holland describing how the great
city of Antwerp is faring under German government and
if the accounts are true perfect peace and quiet reign
;there. Vast numbers of German business people have
come to the city and as it always had a large population of
Germans, Dutch and other nationalities the Belgian at
mosphere is said not to be very evident. Tremendous for
tifications have been erected but the most significant fact
is that Germany has established great German institu
1 tions that suggest the intention to keep the city as part of
German territory for ever. According to German ad
vices the population of Antwerp was and is strongly
! Flemish and the sympathy for the allied cause is not very
pronounced. This is" the firse intelligence permitted to
come from Antwerp for a year and even this is from Ger
man sources undoubtedly.
RAILROADS A
RUT I
ROAD MOST ;
BEAllEiElIL ANYWHERE
This is a Statement by Colonel Dick,
Alaska’s Great Hoad lluilder.
“In all this world* 1 believe there is
no more picturesque* and interesting
road than the one leading out from
Sewn rd.”
This is the statement made by
Colonel Wilds P. Richardson, the man
who has built thousands of miles of
roads, and that in a territory where
natural beauties are the rule. The
colonel when he made the statement
had in view the road which will soon
lead all the way from this city to
Konai lake. He went out yesterday
with Superintendent Anton Hide and
if what he said whs repeated about
Anton’s work the modest superintend
ent would blush. Suffice it to say that
the chairman of the Road Commission
found the bridge and road work ex
tremely satisfactory in every respect.
The road will be built in a complete
manner mile by mile so that it can be
used as it goes along and it is the
colonel’s belief that it will be com
pleted to the lake next year. The
sum of $22,000 has been allotted to
work in this district already and more
will probably be given after the chair
man of the commission goes back to
Valdez and figures everything out.
There is an immense aomunt of work
to be done in the other parts of the |
territory and the necessities of each !
district must be looked after. It is
hoped to obtain the same liberal ap
propriations in future years which
Colonel Richardson obtained this year!
and his Hoard will present the needs
and depended on the approval of the
secretary of war and the President,
which approval is necessary of course.
The colonel expresses a sincere wish
that the city will put the road with'n
the city in good shape out the cor
porate limits where it joins the gov
ernment road. On the latter, he says,
he found the work not only fine in
character but in appearance and ho
seems so pleased that he intends to add
to the appropriation for this road as
much as he possibly can. He will
leave on the Watson for Valdez.
CAPTAIN LENOIR OPERATED ON
SEATTLE, August 17.—Captain H.
0. Lenoir, of the United States Signal
Corps, in charge of the Alaska cable
system, was taken seriously ill this
morning in his office in the Arcade
Annex, and was taken to the hospital.
An operation for hernia will be per
formed this afternoon.—Ex.
SAYS HUGHES WILL KILL
THE ALASKA RAILROAD
SEATTLE, August 23.—Ballaine
speaking at Ballard says he has been
told that Hughes has named men sec
retly to carry on a campaign to kill
the Alaska railroad and withold Mata
nuska leases.
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MANIAC IN FATAL
BATTLE MISSOURI
KANSAS CITY, Mo., August 24.—
Fred M. Larkin, a maniac, is dead,
Patrolmen P. V. Neff and S. Glenn
Marshall are near death as the result
of a battle which took place when
patrolmen atempted to arrest the de
mented man.
WATSON DUE THIS EVENING
The Admiral Watson is due this
evening from the westward, according
to a message received by Wayne Blue.
The exact time of the probable ar
rival is not given in the message.
CCEPT EIGHT HOURS
9NLY AT EIGHT HOUR PAY
WASHINGTON, August 24.—The railroads are
yielding to the insistence of the President for the granting
of an eight hour day after the presidents and the manag
ers of the railroads had practically agreed that there is
no other way to meet the crisis. They will probably, ac
cording to the best information available, concede the
.eight hour day for eight hours pay at the present rates
and also overtime at the present rate or they will arbitrate
the overtime question. They will not, however, concede
an eight hour day for which they should pay wages for
*en hours. The concession would mean that if the men
work for eight hours Jhey will receive pay for eight hours
but an additional two hours work would bring two hours
of overtime pay which is greater than the ordinary pay.
in this way the men would receive more wages for ten
hours than they had received under the former conditions.
AUTO SHOOTS WOMAN
THROUGH A WINDOW
SEATTLE, August 24. — A run
away automobile without a driver rac-!
ed down University street today from
Thin! avenue and striking Mrs. W. I).
Swan of Hadlock hurled her through
a plate glass window. She is not
seriously hurt.
MARIPOSA IN MORNING
The Mariposa is due at one o’clock
tomorrow morning.
ALAMEDA DELAYED
The Alameda will not leave Seattle j
until the 27th instead of the 2.7th.
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CONFER TO SETTLE THE '
LONGSHORE STRIKE
SEATTLE, August 24.—It has been
decided that a committee of the
Chamber of Commerce will meet a
committee of the organized longshore
men for the purpose of trying to set
tle' the strike.
ADOPTED GIRLS WERE
HIS OWN DAUGHTERS
CHICAGO, August 24.—Edward
W. Morrison, a millionaire recluse,
has been named in proceedings before
Federal Judge Landis which are in
tended to prove that the millionaire is
the father of two girls whom he re
cently adopted. The accuser is Joseph
Bernstein, a junk dealer, who declares
that his wife confessed on her death
bed that Morrison was the father of
the girls, and not Bernstein himself.
KILLED BY PIECE OF
GLASS FROM AN AUTO
ROCKFORD, Ills., August 24.—Roy
Mihigan, 21, is dead as the result of
having his lung pierced today by a
piece of glass that flew from the
wind shield of an automobile when
the auto came into collision with a
taxicab.
ADMITS KILLING MAN
AND WIFE ON RANCH
OLATHE, Kan., August 24. — Roy
Dudley who was arrested on the
charge of killing Mr. and Mrs. Henry
’Mueller on their ranch south of here
has admitted his guilt. The police
have not given out the full statement
of the murderer but the cause is be
lieved to have been an attempt at
robbery.
ADMIRAL EVANS LEAVES
SEATTLE, August 23. — The Ad
miral Evans left Tuesday night with
the following passengers for Seward:
J. W. Rieu, Max Hoding, Miss
Louise Perry, J. H. Eagle. A pas
senger to Cordova is Mil nor Roberts,
dean of the University School of
Mines.
MEN IN LIQUOR CASE
GO IQ GRAND JURY
ANC HORACE, August 24. Otis
Osgood, Harry Fitzgerald and Jack
Hennessy have been bound over to
await the action of the grand jur> in
connection with the charge of ship
ping a large quantity of liquor which
was seized at Campbell Point. The
preliminary hearing took place in the
Commissioner's court yesterday. The
men were placed under heavy bonds.
The Crow creek case which is the big
gest on the docket comes up tomor
row.
CONVICT JOSEPH CAMPUELL
STILL PROTESTS INNOCENCE
OF MURDER OF NELSONS
IDITAROD.—The Pioneer is in re
ceipt of u letter from Joseph Camp
bell, convicted in 1D12 in this city of
the murder of the Nelson brothers
in the Kuskokwim country. It will he
remembered that a year ago District
Attoreny Roth set on foot an investi
gation into the facts connected with
the case, as strong representations
had been made to him of the possi
bility of Campbell’s innocence. Noth
ing has appeared in the public prints,
however, to indicate what were the
results of that investigation. A por
tion of Campbell’s letter, which is dat
ed April 10, 1916, is as follows:
“You can tell the world that I did
not commit those murders, and that l
am enduring the misery of penal serv
itude‘wrongfully, and for a crime
which I never had anything to do with
and did not know anything about it
until shortly before I was arrested at
Ruby, which was about a year after
the crime was committed. I have
learned of several witnesses since I
have been down here that would have
helped me a great deal if I could have
had them at the trial. Rut at that
time I didn’t know anything about
them. And there were several others
that would have helped me a great
deal, but I was unable to locate them,
the full names of some of whom I did
not know, much less their addresses.
And for that reason I had to take the
witness stand without a single witness
in my defense.
* * * I have never been able to
locate Billy Barnhart yet, although l
have done everything in my power.
I have written several letters to his
brother, Ora Barnhart, and addressed
them to different places, but so far 1
have not received an answer. You
can take my word that a man without
money in a case of this kind is a man
without luck. I am not altogether
discouraged though.”—Iditarod Pio
neer.
Daniel J. Concoran has been ap
point depot agent for the government
railroad.
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