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*.. THE ALASKA EVENING POST
SEWARD. ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21,1917 TEN CENTS PER COPY
Volume XI, Number l!Sl ■ .i., ■ .. _ ^_ "" -.'l— ^.-1'_
GERMANS :
ORDERED
FROM U.S.
CAPITAL
s
t'nuaturali/ed Germans in District of
Columbia Art* Given Seven Days
To Leave and lake Kesidence
Else* here
ARliKSTKH II THKV K KM AIN |
Orders Expected to bt* Made By the
Department of Justice Which
Will Expel Germans From j
The New Barred Zone ,
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21. — After j
the middle of next week, or attrr .
Nov. 28th. every unnaturalized Ger
man remaining in the District ot < ol- -1
umbia who came here since the war ^
with Germany was declared, will he <
arrested anti interned until attei the
war.
Germans, whose residence in the j
District of Columbia antidates the .
declaration of war, will be given un- |
til December 15th to leave.
The rush of unnaturalized Ger- r
mans to the courts to learn their sta- ,
tus was responsible for the above or- ,
der being issued today by the Depait- .
ment of Justice.
Within the next few days orders
will be issued regarding the new hal
ved zone on the Atlantic, 1 aeitu
Gulf Coasts.
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AUTO BANDITS
MAKE BIG HAUL
IN MINNEAPOLIS
MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 21. — Three
automobile bandits at nine o’clock
this forenoon entered one oi the laig
est jewelry stores on one of the prin
cipal down town streets, forced thiee
clerks into a back room and at the
point of revolvers commanded another
clerk to open the jewel safe,
bandits worked quickly, secured dia
monds and other gems valued at $50,
000 and made their escape. Then
operations took exactly seven min
utes.
Squads of police in automobiles and
on motor cycles are sweeping the
town for the bandits.
The men worked with no masks up
on their faces but their faces were
made dirty by an application of what
looked like burnt cork and two had on
false beards, the third member a large
brown moustache, one end having
come torn loose from paste on the up
per lip.
LASSEN IS DYING
REDDING, Cal., Nov. 21.—Mount
Lassen, the only active volcano in the
United States, is dying according to
a report of three men who have ar
rived here. The men ascended the
mountain to the opening. The former
seething caldron is becoming an ice
cavern and people are able to walk
across the crater.
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SHOOTER SENTENCED
Chris Miehaelson who took a shot
at young Julius Sal inskv, a newsie, in
the Ranier liar Monday afternoon,
vlead guilty this afternoon before U.
S. Commisisoner Whittlesey, and was
sentenced to seven months in jail.
Miehaelson claimed that his act was
done without malice.
SECOND PARTY !
TO SEARCH FOR
MISSING MEN
—
vasboat Altana With Captain Iverson
and Crew and Captain ShefTler
To Be Sent to Search for
Sweasy and Weaver
Another searching party will be
ent out tomorrow to look for Ben
Jweasv and Bill Weaver, missing ,
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tunters from Seward.
The San Juan Fishing & Packing
ompuny has again come to the front
imi the gasboat Altana will be used,
’apt. Iverson and his crew and also
'apt. Sheffler composing the search
ng party.
The searching party could leave at
my time but Deputy Marshal Isaac:
•'vans wired the officers of tlu* steam- J
*!* Dora to learn everything they pos
sibly could at Seldovia, regarding the
inding of the dory, as reported, and
ilso to call at Nuka Bay.
Marshal Evans decided therefore to
vait until the arrival of the Dora be
*oie sending the Altana out on a sec
ond search. Sweasy and Weaver left
Sew a I'd on October ltith to bo gone
wo weeks. Their gi-ub basket was
‘ound on Elizabeth Island and it was
iIso reported that a dory answering
he description of the one they were
ising, had been picked up by natives,
fhe lirst searching party returned!
vith no information after making a
•aivful search of the nooks and bays
md a second party has been organiz
'd to make a more thorough search. |
WRECK VICTIMS
REACH SEATTLE;
SEATTLE, Nov. 21. — Passengers j
front the wrecked steamer Mariposa
me arriving on steamers from thej
north. Today Delegate to Congress
Charles A. Sulzer reached here and he
made a statement that he would urge
Congress to make an appropriation to
dredge Dry Straits in order that
steamers on the Southeastern Alaska,
roast would not be forced to take
other dangerous passages.
Delegate Sulzer expects to leave
within a few days for Washington to J
be present at the opening of Con-'
gross.
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UNITED STATES ADOPTS
NEW HAT FOR THE ARMY;
AMERICAN TRAINING CAMP IN
FRANCE, Nov. 21.—The wide-brini- j
med campaign hats have been aban- j
doned by the United States army for;
troops actually in the field. In their
places hats like the fatigue headgear
of the French army have been adopt
ed.
The new hat is a sort of lore ana |
aft arrangement, made by sewing two ■
heavy pieces of khaki cloth togothei
with the seams front and back and|
adding to the sides other pieces of i
material which fold up on the side of
the hat, or may be drawn down to
cover the cars. The hat is most com
fortable. It also can be rolled up to
pocket size or worn under shrapnel
helmets.
The campaign hat is still worn at
billets and in barracks.
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AMERICANS FORCED
INTO GERMAN ARMY
COPENHAGEN, Nov. 21. — The
German military authorities continue
the practice of putting into the army
persons living in Germany who have
lost their original citizenship without
acquiring German nationality. A new
order says that former nationals of
foreign states, including American,
will not be employed with the front
line troops, but must serve in the ar
mies of occupation or elsewhere be
hind the front.
AMERICANS
IN FRANCE
READY FOR
THE ENEMY
Small Force of Soldiers on Front
Waited All Night for German
Patrol to Come from Behind
Their W ire Entanglements
)NE ENGVGEMENT REPORTED
lash Occurs in No Man’s Land and
One Soldier Is Reported To
Have Been Killed in the
Fight With Germans
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
FRANCE, Nov. 21.—One hundred and
dxtv American soldiers after dark
ast night, crawled across No Man’s
Land and took positions in front of
.ho inside Gentian wire entangle
ments, at a point where the enemy
uul been discovered coming out every
•light and making a patrol.
The Germans failed to venture dur
ing the night and just before day
break today the American force re-i
turned to thei town trenches. The
Americans were therefore deprived of j
[heir opportunity to repay the enemy
for the recent raids on American and
French trenches.
Every man of the 160 had been
trained in the special task and an
xiously waited all night for an op
portunity to make good their prac
tice.
WASHINGTON. Nov. 21. — One
American is reported to have been
killed in No Man’s land this forenoon
in a dash between American and Ger
man patrols. Full details are lack
ing of the engagement.
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DOLLARS ARE
WANTED FROM
THE LIBERAL
One Hundred Gifts for Soldiers and
Sailors in War Service Must Be
liaised in Seward—Gilts to
Be Distributed on Xmas
A gift for a soldier or sailor aboard
one of those in the war service that
is what the local shapter of th<‘. lv» <1
Cross has been asked to raise. One
hundred gifts have been assigned to
the local chapter but instead of the
gift being made up here, the time is!
too short and contributions ot $1 aio
sought. The money will be wired to
the Seattle division of the Red Cross
and the packets for the sailors 01
soldiers dispatched by December 10th
so that they will be assured of deliv
ery to the boys somewhere on Christ
mas day.
Members of the local Red Cross oi
the Gateway will take the $1 contri
butions. Previously the sum of •>.
was raised and today’s contributions
were as follows:
Miss Ruth Colton .$ 100
Miss Belle Wallace . 100
E. S. Jaccard. 1,00
Grand Total . ?l0 0°
WOMAN IS CARRYING
MAILS IN CAPITAL
WASHINGTON, Nov. *21. — The
first woman letter carrier, ununi
formed, but with a government bodge,
has been seen here. She is on a light
route, as an experiment for women
substitutes for men owing to the
shortage of men.
EVANS SAILS
NORTH TODAY
FROM SEATTLE,1
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Change in Sailing Dates Indicates
That Pacific Steamship Company
Is Rearranging Schedule to
(Jive a Better Service
The steamer Admiral Evans sails]
from Seattle today according to cable J
advices received last night by Agent
Wayne Blue from Seattle. The Evans
was billed to have sailed north last (
Saturday but in all probability the
officials of the Pacific steamship com
pany, instead of sailing a steamer at (
the same time as the Alaska Steam
ship company, decided to make a split
in time, rearrange the schedule, so
that a better service would be main
tained to Alaska, especially this sec
tion, during the winter months. The 1
Alaska sailed from Seattle last Sat- i
urday and the Evans sailing today
will make a far better schedule, the
steamers being five days apart.
SEATTLE, Nov. 21.—Steamer Ad
miral Evans sailed for Alaska at 10
o’clock this morning. There were no
passengers l>ooked through for Sew
ard on the steamer. The Evans has
a heavy load of freight for the differ
ent ports of call.
fOOO PRICES
ARE LOWERED
BY OFFICIALS
CHICAGO, Nov. 21.—The price of
ham and bacon to consumers have
been cut five to ten cents per pound
by the Illinois State food administra
tor.
The government’s complete control
of the packing industry lends im
portance to the announcement of the
cut prices. While for the moment
the price applies to Chicago and sub
urbs only, eventually it will serve asj
a standard for the nation.
RED CROSS GIVEN
SALT LAKEPALACE
SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 21.—The
Amelia Palace, the magniiicent hom*
of Brigham Young’s favorite wife,
was today turned over to the Bed
Cross for the use of the Utah State
Bed Cross Committee, to be used as
headquarters.
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FISH QUOTATIONS
KETCHIKAN, Nov. 21.—At noon
today the following were the quota
tions on lish: halibut, fitecn and one
quarter cents; sable, four cents and
red i-ock, one and one-hall cents.
MYSTERIOUS FIRE
DICKSON, Tenn., Nov. 21.—A fire
of unknown origin this forenoon des
troyed the Dixie Planing Mill which
! has been working at lull capacity on
government tent pole contracts. The
loss is estimated at one hundred and
fifty thousand dollars. There was no
insurance on the mill, it having ox
! pi red three days ago.
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AVIATION MEN WANTED
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SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 21. — The
aviation corps of the United States
anny have places for 350 candidates
| per woek for the western branch.
FIRST AND SECOND
LINE OE TRENCHES
OE GERMANS TAKEN
LONDON, Nov. 21.—The British Third Army attack
?d along the entire thirty-two mile front along the Scarpe
and St. Quentin rivers and broke the Hindenburg line to a
jepth of four to five miles. This was the official statement
received by the British War Department this afternoon
Prom Field Marshal Haig.
The attack was planned two days ago and everything
awaited a break in the weather. The favorable time came
jarly this morning, just before daybreak and the word for
.he advance came suddenly.
The artillery preparations were magnificent. The big
guns belched forth and the British forces charged the first
line of German trenches. The Germans were utterly taken
by surprise and so sudden was the attack that the trench
guns and mortars never fired a single shot.
Capturing the first line of trenches, the British infan
try andtanks pressed on and captured the second system
of trenches one mile beyond the first. Keeping right on the
infantry and tanks pressed further and are still on the at
tack with the Germans falling back bewildered and seem
ingly unable to gain a front for a successful resistance.
Several thousand prisoners have already been taken
and the first and second line of trenches of the Germans
are filled with dead, dying and wounded.
The official report says that already the British have
captured Benavis, Lamaeu Woods, Welsh Ridge and the
entire German line west of the canal of Dunord to Bau
paume and the Cambrai Road.
Air observers have reported that German reinforce
ments are being rushed to the new line of attack.
The British forces are moving heavy artillery forward
in order to hold every inch of ground taken.
PERSHING IS WATCHING NEW OFFENSIVE
BRITISH HEADQUARTERS IN FRANCE, Nov. 21.—
Major General John J. Pershing, commanding the Ameri
can forces, is here as a guest of Field Marshal Haig. The
American commander is watching the new British offen
sive and he is following the novel battle of infantry, artil
lery and tanks with the deepest interest.
The offensive is one of the most spectacular of the
war. At one point of the British attack, the Germans are
this afternoon fighting on the last line of their defensive.
SEN. KALEDINES
OFF TOJIOSCOW
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21. — The
Swedish press reports that General
Kaledines, with an army of Cossacks
is today moving against Moscow
where it is reported that Bolsheviki
have killed over eight thousand ad
herents of the provisional Govern
ment. General Kaledines is gather
ing strength on his way to Moscow
and will have a larger army upon ar
rival there than when he started.
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AUSTRIA PLEDGED
TO “SPEEDY AND
HONORABLE PEACE”
AMSTERDAM, Nov. 21.—Discuss
ing the visit to Berlin of Count Czer
nin, the foreign minister of Austria
Hungary,* the newspaper Fremden
blatt of Vienna points out that the
program of the Austro-Hungarian
empire remains the same, and is di
rected toward a speedy and honor
able peace.
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DENIAL FROM BERLIN
LONDON, Nov. 21.—An official re
port from Berlin denies the sinking
of a German mine sweeper by the
British off Heligoland. The report
says that a small fishing steamer is
misisng. The British Admiralty re
ported last Saturday that a mine
sweeper had been sunk during a naval
engagement.
TO SPAREVENICE
, PARIS, Nov. 21.—The Matin says
today that the Austrians have agreed
to spare Venice in response to the
Pope’s appeal. It is stipulated how
ever, that all authority must be left
in the hands of the Patriarch.
It is now certain that Venice will
not be defended especially in the
j event of the Italians retiring further.
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PORT OF RIO JANERIO
IS CLOSED BY BRAZIL
RIO JANERIO, Nov. 21.—The gov
ernment has issued a decree ordering
the closing of the port of Rio Jwierio.