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PUHI.ISIIKD DAILY. KVKPT SUNDAYS AND HOLIDAYS
BY
GATEWAY PUBLISHING COMPANY, (Inc.)
Harry V. Hoban. P Frank L. Ballalna. Sac. Erick Lacaa. Traaa
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Kntarad u aacond-claaa mattar Saptambar. 2.1916. at the po.tofflca at Saward. Alaaka.
undar act of March S, 1879.
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ONE YEAR. In ndrancy.$10.00
THE ALASKA WEEKLY POST by mall 3.00
PKK MONT, delivered.*‘-wu
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THE TIDE HAS TURNED
Thus far shalt thou go anil no far
ther. Now shalt thou go back to that
vile Prussia from whose loins came
forth minions of hate, who must per
ish from the face of the earth before
you anil 1 and ours can again dwell
in safety.
Joy tempers the sorrow of France
today for repeated victory at \ erdun.
The high-water mark of German hate
has been wiped out in a hurricane oi
fire and the Teuton is giving ground.
Regardless of what is to come, \ er
dun must be considered a pivot of the
war, equal in importance to the
Marne. The latter marks a war lord’s
defeat in open battle and the former
his downfall in trench combat.
The French generals drew an imagi
nary line across the hills east of the
Meuse and said “This far he may
come, if he dares to pay the price,
but no farther.”
And they set about ways and means
to keep the guns, those glorious
“seventy-fives,” supplied with shells
and flans by which the men in the
trenches could be relieved and given
opportunity to rest.
Keen witted agents gave advance
information of the coming attack. It
was certainly up to specifications, and
then some. These military press
agents had even underestimated its
violence. But human endeavor can only
last so many hours and when the break
came, the French still held; bent, but
not broken, and were ready like the
skilled fencer to thrust at every sore
spot and make every inch cost all it
was worth, and then some.
Liquid fire, mortars, grenades, gas,
thousands of tons of shells and every
other form of attack known, were
used by the desperate sons of Kaiser
Wilhelm, but it was like a man being
hit by the rebound of a punching bag
a thousand times magnified.
Kvery time the Germans neared the
dead-line they were literally swept
from the earth by a hurricane of
shells. With every inch of the ground
platted and every possible point from
which guns could be used surveyed
in advance, tlie astute French artiller
ists toyed with Fritz and slaughtered
him in droves. Don’t for a minute
think it was so one-sided in the
trenches, however, for to protect those
precious batteries, thousands of the
best men of France laid down their
lives and scores of thousands were
mauled and torn to mere wrecks of
men.
Hut the Hun never crossed the line,
and every time he relaxed his efforts
during the last year he was punched
back for a notch or two at the weak
points.
The French general staff, having
been assured of aid from America, de
cided to hurl the Hun back upon his
old trenches. Monday they kicked him
off Le Cot Talou and taking a couple
of days to move up the guns, during
which they met every counter attack
with a wall of steel, they give him
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another run, just as a wrestler lifts his
struggling adversary and hurls him
across the mat.
But the battle is not won. There
will be days and months of work be
fore the Hun can be forced back upon
his beloved Metz, and it will be a life
sized job, HUT IT WILL HE DONE,
SO SURE AS A JUST GOD RULES
THE UNIVERSE.
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AN ALIBI j
Some guiding spirit watching over j
our course through this mundane
sphere, is determined that we shall
not shirk from work. Every time we i
accept a lift from some kind soul who
notices the worn keys on our type-1
writer and expression on our counten
ance, we get our foot in it and wish
we hadn’t. Now, considering what
happened yesterday, when we accept
ed a neat little skit from a friend
concerning admission as a citizen of
the United States. Our volunteer
put linger to key and declared that
Harry was admitted in the commis
sioner’s court when yea, verily, it is
never done outside a district court in
Alaska. Our friend the commissioner
gained nothing by the error, for it did
not raise him to the high bench, and
our friend the court may hav^ a chance
at us some day if we don’t stick to our
grind.
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REALIZE SITUATION
That Fairbanks people have a clear
conception of the favors shown them
by the government in starting con
struction from that end as well as on
the coast is shown in a recent edi
torial in The Fairbanks Citizen con
cerning Secretary Lane’s request for
$4,000,000, in which comment is made
concerning the ill-advised strike at
Xenana. The Citizen says:
“Our dispatches tell us that Secre
tary of the Interior Franklin K. Lane
has asked congress for $4,000,000 for
railroad work in Alaska in addition
to the $10,000,000 already appropri
ated, and in a statement accompany
ing the request the secretary is re
ported to have said that the money
is to be used in closing the thirty-mile
gap in the railroad where it runs
around Turnagain Arm. The state
ment also says that the closing of this
gap will mean that 166 miles of rail
road in Alaska will be in operation
by fall.
“Secretary Lane’s action in this
matter is to be commended. Just why
the money is needed is not known, but
it is supposed that the amount alloted
to work on the coast end of the line
this summer was found to be inade
quate for requirements if the gap was
to be closed and if the coast termi-1
nus of the railroad was to be con
nected with the Matanuska coal field.
Hut the request makes it very evi
dent that the Matanuska coal is what
the government wants, possibly for
coaling any United States warships
which happen to be cruising in the
North Pacific. In vew of this fact,
it is thought that a coaling station
will shortly be established by the gov
ernment at Seward.
“In making his request Secretary
Lane undoubtedly took Interior Alas- '
ka into consideration. He could have
ordered all work halted here, for the
money which is being spent in the in
teror this summer could have been
used very advantageously in closing
up the gap, and it would not have
been necessary for the secretary to
ask for a further appropriation.
“The people of the interior can
therefore see just how nearly they
came to losing this summer’s expen
ditures of the government on railroad
work. For no better excuse for halt
ing operations here and transferring
them to the coast could have been de
sired than the strike which was stilt
ed at Nenana last week. In fact, there
is no doubt that, had the stiike leach
ed any kind of proportions sufficient
to hinder operations, Commissioner
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For further particulars of service, rates.apply to Agent.
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Riggs would have been ordered to
close up shop and move his outfit, bag
and baggage, to the coast. And the
government would have been the
gainer by the move, as it is an undis
puted fact that work on this end of
the line costs considerably more than
it would were the material for build
ing the road brought from the coast
and the road constructed toward, not
from, this end of the line.
“And Secretary Lane undoubtedly
took all of these things into consid
eration. He was kept informed at all.
times regarding the progress of the
strike at Nenana and the proportions
it was assuming. Had the threatened
walkout matured he would never have
asked congress for further funds; he
womM simnly have transferred the
railroad building fund of the interior
to the toast.
“Rut the secretary bore with us in j
our time of trouble; he waited for fur
ther developments in the matter of
th^ strike, for which the interior
should be grateful.”
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PETROGRAD, Aug. 23, (Official).—
Russian forces on the Northern end
of the front along which German
forces began their recent offensive,
have retired under pressure from the
Raggendzem and Kammern, to the
Lake Shloyirn and Frankendorf re
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