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VOL, •.
WOMB. ALASKA FRIDAY, MAY 11, 1017.
NO. 2251.
NO DIVISION FOR COL. ROOSEVELT
German Official Makes Statement In Berlin
READY TO REPORT
THE DRAFT DILL
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 10.—
It is announced that the conference
committee is ready to report the
draft bill having reached an agree
ment thereupon as well as upon the
espionage bill.
The House members won a vic
tory also in the draft bill, practical
ly retaining their age clause while
adopting the prohibition clause af
fecting conscripted men in the text
and placed therein by the Senate.
The age clause now stands at
from 21 to 30 and it is expected
that this is sufficent to raise the
army fo two million men which will
be the first drafted for service un
der the new law.
The delay in passing the draft
law has not been in any way an
noying to the administration. Il
was taken for granted that it woyld
ultimately pass and they have not
allowed the delay in its passage to
affect any their plans in the slight
est and Secretary Baker and the
war chiefs have already completed
the tentative plans for such draft
ing as is being authorized by law.
The bill as it is now agreed upon
in conference is practically and in
detail just as desired by the admi
nistration. It is however likely
that this is but the entering wedge
of what will be much more formid
able conscription plans before the
war requirements are wholly met
by the United States.
NO REASO
AMERICA HE SAYS
BERLIN, May 10.—An official
statement is given out upon the
part of a “high official authority”
in the always official Lokal An
zeiger wherein it is asserted that
Germany has no reason to attack
America and will continue to ope
rate its submaripes.
The statement is really a defense
of the German position in the war
and an explanation why Germany
has not declared war upon the
United States.
The statement pays a glowing tri
bute to the success of the subma
rine campaign, which it is declared
will be continued despite all objec
tions until victory is achieved.
The fact is admitted that the po
lice are holding on criminal charges
some of which arise out of the war,
one hundred and fifty Americans.
The treatment meted out to these
Americans will be in line with that
which is measured to Germans who
are being held by the American
authorities.
The statement finally declines to
take a serious view of the American
entry into the war, quoting the re
cently published statements of von
Hindenberg thus practically con
firming the correctness of that in
terview which in some quarters
has been doubted.
The “high official authority” be
lieves that Americans will recog
nize the folly of declaring war with
Germany and is very hopeful of an
early successful conclusion of the
war.
SLAVS READY AGAIN
DO SOME FIGHTING
PETROGRAD, May 10.—While
along the eastern theater of war
there has been a relative lull and
along great sections for over a
month not a shot has been fired,
the Grand Headquarters Staff, com
pletely reorganized has now made
known its intention to actively re
AT THE DREAM.
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be shown tonight and tommorrow
night at the Dream. The Story
deala with David Harding, an Amer
ican soldier of fortune, visits in his
wanderings, an old friend in the
city of Barrnlpore. He hears of a
religious festival to be held in the
Temple that night and of a wonder
ful diamond of incalculable value,
which is set in the forehead of the
stone god of the Temple. He deter
mines to risk a visit to the Temple
and, disguising himself as a native,
mingles among the worshpers un
detected!. His cupidity is aroused
by the gem and in the night when
• the throng has left the Temple, he
pries out he jewel and attempts to
«scape with it. A Hindoo fakir near
by, gives the alarm and Warding
breaks away with difficulty.
sume the campaign.
PETROGRAD, May 10.—Social
ists deny that there is auy inten
tion ot slacking up in the war pro
gram beyond what has been abso
lutely necessary during the period
o£ “severe reconstruction”, unless
the Kaiser and the German bureau
crats withdraw from control and
cease their persecution of the "Ger
man comrades”.
The recent attacks upon socialists
in the Prussian domain especially
have switched the revolutionary
socialists from their Teutonic paci
ficism and they feel greatly em
bittered that their efforts at peace
should have recoiled so cruelly
Upon file German socialists and the
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LONDON, May 20.—The situation
in the east front remains practi
cally the same although Petrograd
advices Indicate a bitter feeling
among the radical members of tne
Russian people owing to the iron
hand with which the Germans sup
pressed the May Day strikes.
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CONFEREES KILL THE
TEDDY’S ARMY CLAUSE
WASHINGTON, D. C., May 10.—
The Espionage bill is now on the
high road to become a law, the
the conference committee this
afternoon finally reaching an agree
ment after wrangling and jangling
almost a week.
As froth the very start the bone
of contention was the Roosevelt di
vision clause in the bill inserted in
Senate and giving Roosevelt power
to raise a division for service in
France.
This joker was inserted at the in-.
stance of Senate republicans headed
by Henry Cabot Lodge and ac
quiesced in by some democrats who
believed that it might be a factor
in the general amendment of the
Bill. *
The house conferees stood pat
against the Roosevelt clause and
the deadlock that ensued has been
regarded as very annoying to the
administration which is especially
anxious to have this act passed into
law, giving the President and the
cabinet, as it does through him,
enormous powers.
The great fight of the conference
senators for the Roosevelt clause
was only finally overcome today
when the report went out that
France would be reluctant to accept
Roosevelt’s volunteers unless form*
ally approved by the United States
War Department. The senators
finally gave way before the insistent
demand for its elimination and tlio
agreement is announced tonight.
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SIMPLE STORY FIGHT
LONDON, May 10.—The Admi
ralty reports today a small engage
ment in the North Sea with eleven
German destroyers somewhere oft
the Coast of Holland and four
cruisers of the British patrol fleet.
Towards evening the cruisers were
returning to their base when they
were attacked by eleven destroyers
flying the German flag, the destroy
ed manoeverng for position but un
able to escape the deft handling ot
the cruisers’ guns.
After a short fight and several of
the destroyers had been hit they
took to flight, the cruisers pursuing
the enemy destroyers some distance
until the dusk of the evening made
further pursuit inadvisable.
The Admiralty believes that
these destroyers were preparing for
a night raid upon the channel pro
tecting patrol when they came upon
the cruisers.
Tlie incident serves to impress
upon the nation the possibility ot
German naval reeonnoitering for
success for a dash to sea upon the
part of the Teuton capital ships.
LONDON, May 10.—The Edison
submarine destroyer is looked for
ward to with as much scientific cur
iosity upon the part of naval ex
perts, as upon the part cf the pub
lic there is manifest a genuine en
thusiasm for the electrical wizard.
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FIRST GERMAN SPY
IS ARRESTED FRISCO
SAN FRANCISCO, May 10.—The
arfest here of a deserter from the
United States army resulted in the
discovery of a German spy.
This man had joined the signal
corps as an airman of experience.
LOCAL ITEMS.
There is a story of a stove. A
lady rented! a cabin some time this
year, in which was a fine stove and
it is around this that the tale hangs.
Another party had bought last year
a new heating stove off one of the
local hardware men and placed it in
a cabin. One day before the freeze
up the stove disappeared from the
cabin end the owner wondered
much . The chechaco lady who en
joyed the use of the heating stove
this winter had no idea someone
with good intention some time last
year had placed the mssing stove lit
the bungalow which she rented
■since Xmas. Someone recognized
the stove and told the lady about
it, and now under the aegis of the
officials W was restored to its origi
nal claimarit. The transfer of x
large heating stove from one cabin
to another is the' mysterious thing
about the story for no one knows
how it came about.
His dexterity in handling ships ot
the air was manifest and he was re
garded as a good find. He was a
lieutenant in the German aero
corps.
He spoke English like a native,
born, and teh army authorities con
gratulated themselves upon theii
find.
Secret service men however had
been looking for a missing German
who is said to have been a lieuten
ant in the Aviator Co»ps of the Ger
man army and the man suspected
thgt his identity was in danger of
being revealed.
He deserted a short time ago,
and an examination of his deEcrip
tion showed that he answered in
detail the description of the miss
ing German officer.
Today the deserter was located
here and arrested when least ex
pectng it, as he was preparing to
take a train from here. After being
taken into custody the man was
searched and plans and sketches of
fortifications and harbors were
found in his possession. The man
had an enormous quantity of plans
and drafts on every thinkable de
vice and skillfully concealed.
He absolutely refused to say one
word when taken into custody nor
has he spoken to his captors. The
penalty for desertion is death.
DISMISS LAST CASES
EVERETT INDUSTRIALISTS
SEATTLE May 9.—Today before
Judge Ronald the last of the cases
against the Industrialists was drop
ped and (all charges dismissed
against the nine who were held.
It is understood that the prose
cution admits despairing of secur
ing a conviction and as the cost to
Snohomish county tor mere persecu
tion of these men would be prohibi
tive, they thought it best to let all
go free.
It is admitted by all of them that
when tjie Industrialists secured a
change of venue the prosecution
was practically defeated.