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NOME, ALASKA. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1918.
XO. 2519.
FRENCH ADVANCE 3,000 YDS.
MOUNTAINS OF MONEY NEEDED
PREPARING A BILL FOR
TEN BILLION OOLLARS
WASHINGTON March 19-Von
gress -will be asked in the imediate
future to pass the new bond bill which
/ in preparation. The new bill
It is understood will carry a sum total
of $10,000,000,000 and Vt... be the great
est bond issue by any government in
the history of big issues. The money
provided for in this issue of govern
ment bonds is to be used for our own
war expenses and also as a means for
providing the Allies with necessary
loans.
■The exact amount of the loans for
the Allies cannot be ascertained at
the present time but it is understood
they will be some where in the neigh
borhood of $4,500,000,000. Secretary
McAdoo, of the Treasury Department,
stated that it was the governments
wish that this bill be passed before the
campaign for the next Liberty Loan
was launched, indicating that the next
Liberty Loan is being considered at
the present time McAdoo stated that
the next calmpaign would be a call for
$5.0uv,„*0,000.
The last session of Congress, which
adjourned on October the sixth last
had a noteworthy record for stupen
dous appropriations. The total approp
riated up till that time was about $21,
500,000,000, of which amount the al
lies received $7,000,000,000. Prom the
present indications this session will
not only equal last for expenditures
but far surpass ft.
WASHING TO >|, March 19—Presi
dent Wilson, today signed the Day
light Saving Bill, which wiLl go into
effect on March 31st. The clocks of
the nation are to be set back one hour
commencing at 2 a. m. on March 31st,
and are to continue so until the end
of October, when they are to be one
hour ahead.
BOLSHEVISM HALT
GERMAN ADVANCE
STOCKHOLM, Mar. 19.—Petro
grad dispatches today say that the
German-; have been halted along the
iontire front and that reports coming
from Moscow state that the city of
Odessa has b-en retaken from the
Germans after a short engagement in
which the Bolshcviki troops wer-'
ably assis'ed by large nubers of
the Don Cassocks.
hr.s urged the Russian workers to
stand solidly behind the Bolshcviki
Government. She denounced Ker
ensky for having reinstituted the
death penalty.
Some of the supplies captured
some time ago at Vladivostock are
now beginning to come into Mos
Mme. Brachovska, the grandmoth
er of all the Russian Revolutionists
'cow. The report also states that
President Wilson’s message to the
Russian people has been sent broad
cast over Russia and is heartening
[the people to a very great extent,
and although they are still making
|Jail preparation for a Jap invasion,
they do not think that it will take
place now with America’s con
sent.
COWARDLY DEGENARATE
“PATRIOTIC”? ASSASSINS
SEATTLE, Mar. 19.—The pro
fiteers lackey's of Yakima took a
man named Meyers from his bed
last night and after severely beat
ing him are reported to have poured
hot tar upon his bleeding flesh and
to have driven him from town.
Meyers was alleged to be trying
to organize the wage slaves of the
district and this bunch of human
vultures using the weapon of the
cowardly assassin claimed that he
was unpatriotic. The Unions
of Seattle have sent an at
torney to Yakima, to learn the facts
Unions of Seatth have sent an at
of the case and if the evidence war
rants, prosecution for damages will
bo brought against the guilty par
ties.
(What asubterfuge, if tl^a man's
conduct can be construed to be un
patriotic, he should have been ar
rested by the government author
ities and made to stand trail, that is
what American courts are for. and
no misrapreser.tative hunch of pro
fit mongers have any right to take
the law into their blood-stained
hands.
President Wilson, himself a short
time ago condemned such lawless
STRIKERS RETURN
TO WORK
ST. LOUIS, Mar. ID.—Many of the
men, of the Wagner Electric Co.,
Simims Hdw Co., Ligget & Meyers
s-.ml many cf the other indutries in-]
volved. in tho great strike went
to vork this morning under the new
agreement and others will start in
tomorrow and the day after, it
is loped that by the end of the
wool every thing will be working
smoothly t„gaJn.
Some of the industries effected by]
the strike will now work throe eight
hour shifts.
Tho entire city seems to have
taken on new life and business is
ngain assuming its natural gait.
The atmosphere seems cleared as
though by a great storm r.nd the
kiddies laugh aud play in the
streets.
• US'S TH.E NEWS RIGHT. REA.
THE WORKER.
actions in no uncertain terms when
he oaid that their perpetrators were
unworthy to be called citizens, of
any country which has the least
pretentions to bo a democracy. Ed.)
PATRIOTIC FUND
VANCOUVER, B., C. Mar. 19.—
At a meeting in Winnepeg yester
day, the Great War Veterans passed
a resolution, which will be forward
ed to the government, favoring gov
ernment control of the Patriotic
Fund and government responsibil
ity for the support of widows, or
phans arid other dependents of sol
diers in Canada.
The administration of the Patri
otic Fund was severely criticized,
many of the members stating that
they were opposed to the leaving
in iho hands of Individuals or asso
ciations the welfare of the men in
the trenches, and that all funds of
the kind should be handled by the
government so as to avoid any
chance of private grafters.
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FRENCH TROOPS
CAPTURE FIRST UNE^
GERMAN TRENCHES
PARIS, Mar. 19.—The Rheims
section of the Champagne front to
day was the scene of a renewed
French offensive in this sector.
After an intense bombardment the
French troops drove forward cap
turing the German first line trench
es, on a thirteen mile front, after
a slight resistance!. The second line
trenches owing to the great number
of fortified shelters, some of which
had not been completely destroyed
by the French artillery fire gave a
considerable amount of trouble but
were finally taken, with some loss
to both sides. After halting here
for a short time the third line was
taken by storm in which hand
grenades and fierce hand to hand
fighting was indulged in to a great
extent, the Germans finally being
forced from their partly demolished
positions at the point of the bayonet.
A large number of unwounded pris
oners together with many machine
guns were captured, the French
having penetrated the German posi
tions to a depth of almost 3,000
yards.
- All captured territory is securely
held and two enemy counter attacks
launched against the new French
positions have failed, entailing a
great loss of life to the enemy whose
hurried counters in mass attack was
swept from the field by the com
bined fire of the French machine
gun and artillory fire.
The seernd counter having failed
the Germans remained in their more
sheltered positons during the re
mainder of the day.. French air
men report the movement of large
masses of enemy troops, towards
the Rheims sector, and the French
positions to the East and West of
Rheims are being strengthend. The
last gain made by the French
troops places them in command of
most all the German positions on
high ground, in the vicinity of
Rheims and will compell the Ger
mans to fight at a great disadvan
tage for some tim if they fail to
retake the lost positions.
AMSTERDAM, Mar. 19.—The
Germans have attacked the Belgium
positions in West Flanders, North
west of Ypres and reports coming
from there state that the> Belgians
have suffered the loss of a great,
many men in killed and wounded,
and several hundred taken prison
ers. The Germans report having
taken the Belgian first line trenches
with slight loss to themselves.
[ The attack was a surprise attack
launched by the Germans, in which
great mass of infantry and a large
j number of aeroplanes took a most
[ prominent part. This is the second
[assault within the past 24 hours an(l
in both attacks the Germans’ use of
aeroplanes seamed to be constantly
increasing in numbers throughout
the both engagements and doing an
immense amount of damage to the
Belgian positions.
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Store.
ALLIED SOCIALISTS WILL
SEND DELEGATE; AMERICA
WASHINGTON, March 19—An of
ficial dispatch from Rome today states
that the Inter-Allied Socialists have
decided, that since the American Soc
ialists are prohibited from coming to
Europe, by the American government,
the European. iHocllftist would ven
ture to come to America. Tie* Inter
Adied Socialist have been balding
their Convention at Iamdon and this
action was agreed upon by them.
i
The Convention has been discussing
the Peace Programme of President
Wilson and Lloyd George and during
the discussion it was proposed, by
one of the Delegates, that the Con
vention send a delegate to America
to submit to I ’resident Wilson a Peace
Programme embodying the views of
the Inter-Allied Socialite.
The Home dispatch does not give
the date of the departure from Lon
don, of the delegate hut it is intimat
ed that the date will he announced
just as soon as passports can be pro
cured.
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PROCLAMATION ISSUED TO
SEIZE ALL DUTCH SHIPS
WITHIN 3 MILE LIMIT
March
WASHINGTON, March ID—Mr
George Creel, Chairman of the Gov
ernment Public Information Commit
tee was called to the White House
this morning to confer with the Pres
ident, in regards to the Dutch ship
ping question. Mr Creel immediately
after the conference said he had been
authorized to announce that a Presi
dential Proclamation would be issued
tonight to all American, Naval and
Port authorities, to seize all Dutch
shipping within the three mile limit.
Upon being questioned as lo ttie exact
hour of seizure Mr. Creel stated that
’ he was not authorized to announce the
hour as the government had particular
reasons for withholding this informa-1
tfon.
WASHINGTON, March 19—Copen
hagen advices received here today
state, that the German War Office has
issued a general invitation, to all cor
respondents of Neutral Nations, to
witness the mighty German offensive
which is to commence on the West
Front. The \V)sr Oltice announced, in
extending its invitations, that the cor
respondents would have the pleasure
of witnessing a spectacle never before
equaled in the history of the world.
That. Germany had many times sur
prised the Allies but the Allies would
find, Germany had not yet exhaust
ed her stock, before the great offensive
is well under way.
The Allied officials believe they
have fors tailed all chance of tho Ger
mana being able to break through and
are calmly awaiting the German mak
ing gool their threat.
Last chance to buy Woolen ‘■in ts
at regular prices. On account of (lie
war. Woolen Goods are going up
fast. From now until March -5 b,
we offer First Class Tailor r.’tlo
Suits, and Overcoats at Outside
Prices. Home Avra Fine Black and
Blue Serge & Worsted, besides all
kinds of fine patterns to select, from.
Nome Tailoring Co., next door to
Segerstrom & Hagen’s, Jewelry Siore.