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WASHINGTON. Aug. 3.—Major General Hunter Liggett is now com
manding the !;r>t American army coips which is directly on the cee.t* i of
the Allied drive against are Crown Prince. General March told this to too
newspapermen today. Commander Pershing, according t«» General -'larch,
now has one million men undei his direct command.
The Forty Second National Guards division has met and defeated the
crack Prussian Guards.
General March said that there was no danger of a man shortage for the
American armies Hie General stated that 300,000 men embarked in July
breaking all recoids. Thera are now considerable over i,::0(),000 men now
embarked.
General March stated today that the Allies and American’s objective?
were the destruction of the German aimv. The maximum ictreat to yester
day measured 1(* miles on the Aisne and Marne salient and dating the pu l
JIG hours has been to 48 miles.
The Itiitish and 1 reach are pounding at the flanks of the salient and this
has resulted in the collapes o fthe German resistance. 1 he 1’ici.io Mmj.i.
walked into Soisons and confidential message said that it is seemingly was rn
possible foi the army not to gather a larjfo number of-guns and shells which
had been abandoned by the Germans. The German* have been driven back
without time^lo bury their dead anil the German bodies are so thick that u i
impossible to advance without walking over them.
The War Department has been th.ee days without any information con
cerning the American casualties.
STARS RE, :
ACTS
TO PLAY BALL
TOMORROW ir
WEATHER O.K.
There i* going to oo a buscoaii
game tomonow uiteruoon at 2 o’clock
uelw een tue sput-builisis oil the L .d.
datum uui a picKed team Trom tue
oe a aru and Souliers nines. Now mere
will be a game provided the lain tiou
ahow» hi* decency.
The baseball diamond is a sanuy
plot of ground anil ii it stops sprink
ling and the w ind blows or sun shim *
the diamond will be in ported shape.
Citizens should watch Third avenue
and ii players with their baseball
suits are seen making Tor the grounds
there will be a game.
It only takes a couple of hours for
the diamond to dry so about the only
word the sporting editor can say is to
keep your eye on the weather and ii
the sprinkling stops in time his
“unips” will call the game at 2 o clock.
If there is no game tomorrow there
will be one later on as the Saturn will
not leave here right away.
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ALIEN ENEMY
The registration of alien enemy \v«*
men will b*-gin in Seward next Mon
thly morning at 8 o’clock. Postmaster
W.E. Root is the registration officer
for the city.
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MAktfs ONE THIRST A
LONDON’, Aug. A wagon load
of wines from Ihe cellars of Bucking
ham Palace, contributed by King Geo
rge V. as a gift to the Red Cross, was
sold at auction here the other day and
brought a total of $8,500. Ine Ko\al
champagne fetched 8100 a dozen bot
tles, while $125 a dozen was paid for
a royal 1841.
F.W. Kelso, representing a dental
supply house, accompanied by his
bride is in the iitv calling on friends
while the Alameda is in port. Mr. and
Mrs. Kelso, are on their honeymoon
trip.
Everybody <n tov n is on the qui
vi. 1 for tiie big vaudeville show to be
given next Tuesday night at the Artrc
liroiherhood Hail by tue all-star ag
gregation oi the U.S. Saturn.
Last night citizens were not allow
ed on the Seward dock and the reason
was soon made apparent. Under the
able direction oi Sergeon Grove
tfuldwin aiut Ensign Thomas T. Hausc
a rehearsal was being held on the Sat
urn of the turns to be given Tuesday!
night and the bunch did not want any
body to get hep to what is going to be
pulled off. Even tiie dramatic critic of
the Gateway was told to hike up the
approach and keep away until next
Tuesday night and then show up eai.y
at the A.Li. Hall ready for the curtain
to go up at 6 o’clock.
Citizens arc urged to go to the hall
»?arl\ as there is* bound to be a smash
ing big audience and those first thc»*e
will be able to secure the choice seat*.
Citizens should aiso remember that
. In a the curtain goes up the perfor
mance will he a continuous one and
there will be no seating after the
footlights have been turned on.
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IS SHIPPING COAL.
VANCOUVER, B.C. Aug. 0— The
Granby Mining Company is making
shipments of coal from its new mines
at Cassidy Landing at the rate of 100
tons per day.
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FOG DETECTOR IS
GERMAN INVENTION
OF AVIATION FSE.
LONDON, Aug 3— German scien
tists have perfected an instrument
known as a “tog detector”, according
to an Amsterdam correspondent of
Reynold's Newspaper. The instru
ment, which is said to be already in
use in the German naval and aviat
ion services, indicates the gathering
of a fog. its density and duration,
about 10 hours before it settles down?
rwo DREVDNOUGHTS
BEING Bl lLT FOR
JAPANESE NAVY.
TOKIO, Aug. 3— The two new
dreadnoughts to be constructed by the
Japanese Navy this year with the
funds aproved in the last session of
the Diet have been named the Kaza
and Tosa.
H.F. Ellis, mining man who bis
been visiting in Seward for several
days, left on the Northwestern for
Juneau.
Jim Hawthorne,! who has boon con
nected with Frye- Bruhn for several
years, left on the Northwestern for
Roslyn, Wash., his former home.
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WASHINGTON’, Aug-. 3 — Joint
ix lion i: assured between Japan, Am
erica and other allies, in Siberia. Jap
an has accepted tin* American prop
osal which primarily looks to the aid
ing ot* the ('y.ech Slovaks now oper
ating; in Siberia.
A complete agreement has been re- i
ached after exchanges betwe >n Tokio
and Washington which cleared up the
doubtful points and removed ail fu
ture possibility of misunderstanding
The plan of operation will be put in
to execution immediately.
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ATLANTIC POUT, Atifr. 3— Fro-!
erick doucher was arrested this after
I noon while boarding a troops trans
port. a former German liner. The po
lice believe that Roucher intended
blowing up the vessel.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 3— Presi
dent Wilson may visit the Pacific
;\>a. t during; the Fourth I ifcr-tv loan
drive which begins September 28th,
and ends October 10th. The plans a**e
yet indifinite for the proposed trip.
HUGE m FOB
PENSIONS FOB
GREAT BRITIAN
LONDON, Aug. 2.—Great Britian j
will have to pay $250,000,000 a year
in pensions if the war ends by next 1
March, according to an estimate made '
by A. Bonar Law, Chancellor of the j
Exchequer. Sir Alfred W.* Wat.'. 1,;
■ government actuary estimates that j
by 1020, the annual pension charges I
will have fallen to $200,000,000 and j
•hat each succeeding decade will show
a reduction of $50,000,000 but that
these pensions will not have entirely
p ared by 1970.
15,000 gises of war disabled sol
diers are reported each week to the
Minister of Pensions. The total num
ber of disabled British men on the
’i t is now placed at 241,025 of which
28 per cent were cases if injury to the
eyes or loss of sight resulting from
wounds.
Small industrial and memorial
villages for disabled soldiers and sail
‘ors are being established in different
parts of Great Britian. At one of
these near Moroton, Dorest, ten acres
have been laid out as a market gard
on and houses are to, be erected for j
wounded men.
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EE ESTABLISHED '
BY THE GERMANS.
AMSTERDAM, Aug. .1— It is plan,
nod to establish tho largost shipbuild
ing yard in Germany, at Hamburg,
says the Hamburg Nnehrichten. Tho
nmhinal’on of interests at the back J
■ of this concern includes the Hamburg
I American line and the new c< anv
1 has n provisional capital of ton mill
: ion marks.
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Ensign Thomas T. Hause, USNRE.,
is among tho officers on the U S.S.
Saturn, now in port, who was here
last winter wbon that craft was in
! port. His namo was inadvertently left
from the list in yesterday’s issue.
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SUB STOPS BOAT
MAINE COAST
AND TAKES FOOD
WASHINGTON. Aug. 3— A sub-’
marine operating ofl the coast ol
Maine today removed a quantity of
provisions from the American lumber
schooner and then set fire to the boat.
The crew has landed safely.
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MAKE HUSBANDS
CAMP LEWIS. WN. Aug.
Brides of the future will be able to
‘take unto themselves' most compe
tent husbands, men skilled in the art
of putting a polish on everything
from the sugar bowl to the bread
plate and shining pots and kettles un
til they glisten like new silver dollars.
This is being made possible by tlie
strict sanitary regulations in Camp,
which give every soldier an oppor
tunity to learn kitchi n efficiency in
its latest development.
And the wise girls of the future
will ascertain how much kitchen pol
ice (K.P.) duty a man has performed
before giving him an affirmative an
swer when he softly croons the anci
ent love song.
It’s the man on kitchen police at
Camp Lewis and in other American
\rroy Camps, who dips his hands in
scalding hot water and brings out the
plates, knives and forks oven cleaner
than mother used to have them, be
cause the “most unpopular man in the
\rmy”— the dining room orderly is
standing beside him to see that his
work is well done.
As a general rule men in the Army
don’t like to do kitchen police uuty.
It’s too exacting. The dishes must be
immaculately clean and the average
.oldier entertains the idea that the
knives and forks don’t really need
nearly so much scouring as the dining
room orderly demands. And the tables
most of them covered with snowwhite
>il cloth, must be spotless. The ever
watchful eye of the dining room ord
erly seem to be ominfpresent. Sloven
ly work on the part of the kitchen
police must always be corrected and
invariably leads to the offender be
ing given an opportunity to continue
grooming himself for future house
hold duties for several days more.
Even experienced dishwashers have
failed to make good on their first tri
al as kitchen police. And it is no un
common thing to hear them say that
they can’t understand “why a guy
wants to he so sanitary, anyway."
But it’s one of the strictist of army
regulations that everything contain
ing food for the men must be clean
to the first degree. And as a result
f the execution of this order, which
is rigidly enforced, the soldiers can
“fall in and fill up" at mess with the
knowledge that everything is as spot
less as scalding water, fresh soap
suds and conscientious labor can
make them.^
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FOUR MINUTE SPEAKER.
Frank J. Cotter will be the four
minute speaker at the Liberty thea
tre tomorrow night.
SOnS IS RECAPTURED
BY FRENCH FORCES
LONDON, Aug. (Official)—'The French have recaptured Sois-ons
from the Germans and have also occupied the south bank of the Aisne river
for five miles between Pommicrs and Venizel.
After Soissons fell the French Headquarters received the names of sev
Viil villages and woods also recaptured by the Allies with almost monotonous
regulai ity.
Fierier Wood, the center of the enemy resistance, was captured after bit
er lighting. Further north the British were swung into action by Command
er loch a nek they crossed the Soissons Chateau Thierry road.
The I '.ench, using tanks, are closely pursuing the enemy and inflating
heavy damages. It seems that the enemy did not expect to be chased after
the capture of Soissons and had made no preparations* The enemy started
a disorderly r.trcat and are burning villages north of Vesle. Indictions are
that the Gormans are contemplating further withdrawls
!Ik important town of Fismcs is burning according to reports from
Avia lots and the Germans are trying to remove their immense stores of
munitions. Aviators are dropping l>ombs which are making havoc among
ihc enemy.
'Hie retirement of the Crown Prince’s army appears to he very rapid and
very little lighting, as a whole, is taking place.
FRENCH REACH THE VESLE RIVER
PARIS, Aug.*3.-—The French have reached the Vesle river and are pie
paring to 1‘io-s the stream. The Germans are continuing their retreat this
.ftei no mi toward* Aisne. It is believed that the Germans will be unable
o li lid Vesle as the captured* Soissons has enabled the Allies to debauch in
the German rear.
The Fieuch late this afternoon reached the Aisne between Soissons and
Venizel.
HUN’S RIGHT WING HAS BEEN CRUMBLED
NEW YORK, Aug. —The Associated Press- this afternoon says that
Jje Germans Oglu wing south of the Aisne has apparently crumbled before
he tcHfic attack of the Allies. Occupying Soissons is a small incident in
he grand scheme the Allies are working out. The Allies have retaken al‘
•round won ly the .Germans after the second, day of the German offen
-ive stalled May 27th. Fismes, the giet German base is burning and the
Allies are only five miles awayfrom there.
HUN RETREAT IS GENERAL
LONDON, Aug. ‘I.—The German letreat is general on three sides of the
present offensive salient. The Germans are practically conquered in the
lighting sector and the Allies are keeping right on their heels during their
retreat.
DRAFT AGE EXTENSION IS UP TO BAKER
WASHINGTON, Aug. —It was announced this afternoon that Secre
tary of War Baker will recommend to Congress to extend the draft age to
eighteen years as the minimum and 45 years as- the maximum. The bill will
nubably be introduced on Monday.
The local draft board, No Id, has
inducted four into the war service
from other districts ami they lelt on
the Admiral Farragut today for Fort
Liscum and William H. Seward. Phil
ip Weinburg, registrant of Division
No., 5, Minneapolis and Harry James
Spey, registrant of San Francisco,
both wired their board for permission
to enlist here and were inducted. John
Newlan Southern, from Unga, regis- ,
tered from the local district, now
wishing to he drafted, was inducted
here and James Thomas Coulter, of
Anchorage, also decided to enlist now
and did. Attorney Green, of the local
board, stated that the four men were
fine looking fellows.
INSANE PERSONS LEAVE
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The “nut house” U.S. Deputy Mar
shal* Evans has been maintaining in
Seward for several days, has closed.
The insane men from the westward
with two others taken in custody
here, left on the steamer Northwest
ern for Morningside.
SEWARD IS TO
RAISE $600 AS
A RELIEF FUND
Seward’s quota for the Armenian
and Syrian Relief fund has been plac
ed at $600 by Gov. Riggs. Dr. Ward
McHenry, of Portland, who represents
the general comittee, is in Seward to
day on his way to Cordova, being a
passenger aboard the steamer Ala
meda. Dr. McHenry was conferring
with many citizens, and the members
of the Council of the Defense and be
fore he goes will announce the chair
man of the Seward committee. Th<».
local chairman then will announce as
sistants and the campaign to raise
the $600 for this great relief will be
started.
FISH QUOTATIONS.
SEATLE, Aug. 3— Fish prices at
noon today were as follows: halibut,
thirteen and one half cents; sable, six
and one half cents; ling and red cod,
three cent*.
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