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VOL. 11.
TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 1918.
NOME, ALASKA.
NO. 2548.
GERMANS BOMBARDING AMIENS
STRAINED RELATIONS
CENTRAL EMPIRES
WASHINGTON, D. C., Apr. 22.—
According to Rome despatches the
present indications show that the'
diplomatic relations of the Central j
Empires are greatly strained. The!
occasion growing out of the division!
<of the spoils taken from Rumania,
and Russia.
Turkey has precipitated the crisis
by demanding that Flulgaria return
Adrianople territory, tak n from her
in the last Balkan war. Turkey
claims that she must have this ter
ritory in order to establish an equl
librium in the Balkans. She says
that Bulgaria i sclaiming other cap
tured territory and that it is no more
ktlir.n fair that Turkey be compen
sated for the sacrifice she has made
for the sacrifice she has made in
an the war.
Bulgaria, does not want to give up
Adrianople and claims the whole of
the Rumanian territory of Dobrud
rha, or that portion of Rumania, ly
)ng between the river Danube and
Ithe Black Sea. Bulgaria also opposes
the annexation, of captured Russian
territory of Bessarabia, by Austria.
The German government is very
much embarrassed by the obstinacy
of Turkey and Bulgaria. She real
izes that in trying to satisfy the
claims of her allies and do so in
a manner satisfactorily to all, she
has a diplomatic situation on her
hands, worthy of a Bismark.
Shovels, Picks, Quicksilver, Gold
Pans, Brooms, Building Paper and
Rubber Boots. HOIjT Has the
Goods.
PLANNING TO
DRAFT
RAISE
LIMIT
WASHINGTON, D. C., Apr. 22.— j
The House Military Affairs Commit
tee are now planning to raise the
draft age. Members of this com
mittee have been considering means
for raising the age since the draft
law first went into effect, and at
one time certain members of both
houses had under consideration a
plan to make a very radical change
in the draft law. They wished to
make the lr.w apply to all the nu-n
between the ages of nineteen and
sixty.
This was deemed entirely to rad
ical a change and the plan of the
House committee now advises that |
the law include all men between
tho ages of twenty-one and forty.
The House committee now plans
to withhold the fight to raise the
draft limit to forty until the legis
lation already passed by the Senate
reaches the House.
This, it is understood, 5s the leg
islation, providing for registration
of all men, who have become twenty
one years of ago since June fifth
last.
First-class Vnalakleet dog sal
mon for sale at 12 cents a pound.
See Duffy O’Conner.
WAR INCREASES COST
LIVING 88 1-2 PER CT.
PHILADELPHIA, Apr. 22.—To
live as comfortable now as in 1914,
workng people in this city and vicin
ity are obliged to spend for bare nec
essities alone. 88% per cent more
than before the war, according to
fvtc'.listies by investigators for tho
federal department of labor. These
figures were explained by John M.
Foster of the department of labor,
at a hearing held yesterday of the
wage, commission of the federal
shipping board, which is attempting
to establish a standard wage scale
for ship yard employes along the
Delawaro river.
Trade unionists insisted that the
advances in necessities since 1914
is mare than 8814 per cent. Some
of them place emphasis on the point
that while the government's per
centage may be accurate no atten
tion had been given to the quality
cf the staples received for the money
paid out. Hundreds of families de
pending on a husband’s income or
a son’s income, they said, have not
Been a steak or a roast of beef since
-the war began. It was maintained
■also that they were wearing cloth
JOHNSON SPEAKS
ABOUT MOONEY
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Apr. 22.—
During the discussion of the ease of
Thomas Mooney, in the Senate to
day, Senator Johnson, former Gov
ernor of California, stated that he
had believed Mooney entirely cap
able of the offense charged against
him. He further stated however,
that he had been convinced by the
t^stimoney of Frank Oxman, whose
statements had since been repudi
a. ted.
(Oxman, himself, admitted that
ihe had perjured himself and that
he also tried to get another man
to perjure himself, and this attempt
proved the undoing of Oxman, the
skunk.)
Tipping the Ushers Not Allowed
They Get As Much As the Actor9
EAGLE HALL,—APRIL 27th
$ng of an inferior grade and one
ior two Rfirs of shoes a year instead
Of three of four for each mcmlx-r
of the household.
Edward L. Keenan, president of
the central labor union, said that
a family of five cannot possibly live'
on $4.50 a day, with prices as they
are now. He quoted prices of eggs,
meats, flour, fuel and other necessi
ties, to show that $4.50, once a re
spectable wage, was now a mere
pittance.
Keep Posted, Head the WORKER.
WEATHER REPORT
- IT. S. Weather Bureau.
April 22, 6 A. M.
Temperature—Max 37 Min 29
Barometer—29.041 inches
Weather—Snow
Wind—E. 5 miles per hour
Pecipitation—.04 inches
April 22. 6 P. M.
Temperature—Max 36 Min 29
Barometer—29.7S5 inches
Weather—Clear.
Wind—S. W. 4 miles per hour
Precipitation—.02 inches
Clothing cleaned, pressed, altered
and repaired at the Nome Tailoring
Co., next door to Segerstroot and
Hagen's.
Keep Posted, Read the WORKER.
CITY OF AMIENS
LONDON, April 22—The German ar
tillery in the vicinity of Amiens has re
commenced the bombardment of that
city, The famous Cathedral has been
struck three times by the enemy shells.
The British attacks on the enemy
positons near Villiers Bretoneaur ten
miles due east of Amiens on the rail
road, were successful and a number
of prisoners and machine guns were
captured with smell loss to the at
tacking forces.
In the Albert sector about seventeen
and a half miles to the Northeast of
Amiens, the British forces repulsed a
surprise attack by the enemy and sue
cessfuily pushed their own positions
forward to a more favorable location
The new positions were gained at a
minimum loss to the British troops.
Along the Flanders front around the
village of Robecq the British forces
launched a powerful attack upon the
advanced German positions and after
a short, sharp engagement drove the
enemy back a considerable distance
and captured a number of prisoners,
machine guns and quantities of small
arms.
PARIS, April 22—The German forces
in a number of surprise attacks to the
East of Khelms were repulsed with
heavy losses. The French cannonad
ing continues on the front to the East
ward of Khelms and a number of Ger
man prisoners have been captured.
Along the Avre Southeast of Amiens
(he French forces have repelled all .vi
enemy attacks and have taken a number
of prisoners. The artillering along this
sector of the French front continues
with unabated fury and much damage
is reported being done in the rear of
the German lines.
Prices Within Reach of All—Eagle
Hall, April 27th.
NATIONAL DEBT
LONDON, April 22—The British
Chancellor of the Exchequer, A. Bonar
Law, in introducing the budget today
announced the present amount of the
British National debt. He announced
that England’s expenses for the war
amounted to about 6,200,000 pounds
sterling per day.
The gross amount of the National
debt of 5,850,000,000 pound sterling, he
said, was contracted, in spite of the
fact that the British revenue from all
sources have been [raying twenty six
I ' _ ._ 1 _
per cent of the war bill.
In the coming year the Chancelor
stated he expects the incoming revenue
to pay twenty eight per cent.
The Chancellor places Germany’s
daily war cost as practically the same
as Englands.
He estimated the amount of neces
sary expenditures for carrying on the
war, for the fiscal year, beginning
April first as 2,872,000,000 pounds ster
ling.
PARIS, April 22—'Reports coming
out of Germany, are to tho effect that
German writers commenting on tho
war give what is considered as a reas
onable estimate of the German losses
since the beginning of the war.
They place the number of killed,
prisoners and those dying of wounds
or sickness as a whole at 5,000,000.
I,urge Iron Blocks, Anchors Oakum
Caulking Cotton, Axle Grease, Oils.
SAVE MONEY AT HOLTS
PRES. OPPOSED TO
DRASTIC MEASORE
WASHINGTON, April 22—President
Wilson toduy notified Senator Over
man that he Is unalterably opposed to
I the measure recently introduced by
Senator Chamberlain of Oregon.
The Chamberlain bill has been in
troduced with the intention of making
the entire country a military zone.
Under its provisions, the power of deal
; Z "• *h spies and traitors, would be
taken out of the hands of the Dejcirt
inent of Justice entirely and tried be
fore a military court. Chamberlain
stated at the tome he introduced the
BUI that a measure of this kind was
necessary in order to stamp out the
German spy system in the United
States.
President Wilson evidently does not
believe any such drastic measure nec
essary at this time.
WASHINGTON, April 22—Reports
reaching here from Gautemala, tho
Central American Republic, are to the
effect that this country has also Joined
with the United States and the other
American Republics, in the war on
Germany.
The National Assembly of Gaute- '
mala, has unanimously voted war on
Germany.
AUSTRIAN MINISTER
REPORT ATROCITIES
MOSCOW!. April 22 The Austrian
foreign Minister has informed the
German Government of the atrocities
being committed by German troops
now in Russia.
The Foreign Minister states that
many Russian towns have been set on
fire by German soldiers, and the fleeing
inhabitants killed by machine gun and
infantry fire being turned upon them.
He voices a protest against such
action and requests that the Ger
man Government punish those guilty
of such inhuman, conduct and also*
asks that assurances be forth coming
against the repitition of any such con
duct in the future.
The Russian Foreign Minister Trot
sky, a short time ago, lodged an in
dignant protest against the German
pillaging of Russian towns and mur
dering of Russian peasants, with the
Government of Germany and it is be
lieved that the additional protest of
Austria will result in the punishing of
the offenders.
NOTICE.
The Nome Mine Workers Colon,
unanimously, decided by a referen
dum vote taken last Saturday, to
demand, on and after May 1st, 1918,
recognition of the Union, and 85.00
5per day and board, for an eight-hour
work day.
MARTIN KBKNECLY, Pres.
ALBERT BRATHN, flec’y J