Show OF OP P ALASKA Commanding Maks Ills Annual Washington Oct 8 The war depart meat melt has hns made public the annual re cc reo ort of ot Ceo Geo M r Randall tint the th department of at Alaska Gen ion lays much stress on 01 the tho thor tigers r ut of nn an Alaskan winter The cold he says nys is II intense and continues so et sofrom from November to Apri lh severe seere ert and blizzards There Thero hero Is 18 no dock doell dockage dockage age for tor ocean cesium vessels at tit the time supply port Fort rort St Michael und anti nil all al supplies must lust tie oc VI from ships In open If II I the time weather n is I rough tough the work of ot lightening becomes Impossible Gen Gemi Randall says cays fa that the macat lin lm work In the department after providing tor lor the housing und anti supply fu pl plot of ot troops was that of or constructing the line ln anti tind military road fond through Alaska The total length of ot ane up UI to August 15 was cae about abolt tO miles The work worle U Is i being I a ni as last as aim possible and by b the Ih close of ot navigation M Inton this year It Ils Is that communication be between tween Frt Fort SI ilL Michael and anu Fort l ort cUb Gib Gibbon bon hen 42 miles distant will wi have been b n The Ihie fl construction of these theFt lines In K Gen Cen Randall says lays Is attended with mal peculiar to 10 an au Arctic climate Owing to 10 the of In posts costs and amid to the lack Inck of or facilities for Cor fo tion ton In drill dri and amid for convening Gen Inn Randall says In troops left lef to servo there for tor several yeats must mut deteriorate In military effi em efficiency clone Ho Ito therefore recommends that lint tJI stationed In Alaska be relieved r two t WI years and anu that only ani men with wih more than two years to serve serle be tic ordered there titers thereIn In conclusion Gen len Randall sale InI Time The location of department head j quarters cleAners in Mackim Ala ka for tor the past year r Is Ie believed hellO to have hove had a n n effect toward the protection r or l i ton on and Rn property proper I and the o of ot good flood order In tho th territory t I This line has been accomplished without friction with the civil clU authorities and In harmony harmon U it I is thought with the Iho sen en L of ot nil all ni and self 1 civilians 0 |