CERMAN RADICALS
STILL ACTIV
i
COPENHAGEN, April 9—Dis
patches received from Berlin state!
that German troops have befen or- j
dered to proceed to Essen where tile
radical strikers have occupied the
famous Krupp works.
BERLIN, April 10—Dispatches re
ceived from Munich, Bavaria jtate
that diplomatic relations between the
Bavarian and Russian Soviet govern- j
mcnts has been established and that j
both governments will act in concert j
in their foreign and domestic poli
cies.
Whether both Soviets have con- j
eluded a treaty .or not is at present ;
not known.
Px\KS, April 11—It has been stat
ed here that proof confirming the
Bolshevik plan of seizing GermanyZ
as atj initial stey in a world wide
proletarian revolution has been re
ceived in Bolshevik circles in this
SOVIETS IX CONTROL
COPENHAGEN, April 8—Reports
received here from Germany state,
that the political situation in Bavaria
is rather grave. The Soviets are
firmly established in Munich while
the Socail government has renoved
ts headquarters to Nuremberg.
MOHAMMEDAN’S PROTEST
BOMBEY, April 8—At a conven
tion of delegates representing the
Mohammedan element of the popu
lation of India resolutions were pass
ed firmly protesting against the ex
pressed policy of the Allies to force
the Turks to relinquish the control
of Constantinople.
RADICALS IN CONTROL
COPENHAGEN, April 8—Berlin
dispatches state that Drs Herz and
Hauffenburg, radical leaders have
gained complete mastery in Hamburg
and that a Soviet Republic including
Hamburg the city of Bremen and the
intervening territory has been de
clared.
. . TRANSPORT TO LEAVE
NEW YORK, April 8—The trans
port George Washington will sail for
Brest on April 11th to convey Pres
ident Wilson home whenever he is
ready to return.
The Presidents return was origi
nally scheduled for the 14th of April
but the delay in the Peace negotia
tions has been responsible for the
change in the schedule.
WILL TRY TO (MOSS ATLANTIC
LONDON, April 8—Officials of the
British Air Ministry announced today
that pilot Harry Baker will probably
make an attempt to cross the Atlantic
by airplain on the morning of April
15th.
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city.
It v/as announced today that the
German radicals with the aquiscensce
of the present German government
contemplate taking over the admin
istrative power after the Peace Con
ference closes and that the German
radicals if once in power will refuse
to pay indemnities or carry out the
Peace terms imposed upon them by
the Peace Conference.
The publication of this plot has
raised some doubts about its genu
ineness as it may be only a spurious
movement backed by the Junkers and
conservantive element to force Al
lied intervention.
BERLIN, April 11—Dispatches re
ceived by the Local Anzeiger state
that the government troops were
forced to use machine guns during a
riot instigated by the radicals in Dus
seldorf yesterday.
Twenty five radicals are reported
Baker will make his attempt for
the first trans Atlantic flight from the
east coast of New Foundland.
Pilot Baker’s trip will be watched
by the world with the greatest inter
est and if success attends his efforts
he will establish another milestone
on the road of human progress.
MASS TROOPS
BERLIN, April 8—Seven thous
and government troops have been
edneentrated in the vicinity of this
city to prevent any uprising of .the
radicals. The reds threaten that
they will proclaim a Soviet govern
ment.
' DISCOVER PLOT
LONDON, April 8—Dispatches re
ceived here via Copenhagen state
that a revolutionary plot has been
discovered in Stockhodm. Arms se
creted by Bolsheviks have been dis
covered and two of the leaders tak
en into custody.
CYCLONE SWEEPS TEXAS
DALLES, Texas, April 9—A terrii
ic cyclone swept the northern counties
of this state, doing an immense
amount of material damage. Thirty
three people are reported to have
been killed and many injured.
RESTRAINS BURLESON
CHICAGO, April 9—Judge Foell.j
in a decision handed down by him !
today permanently restrained Post
master General Burleson from rais
ing the telephone rates in the state
it Illinois.
\ WILL BE DEPORTED
WASHINGTON, April 8—Commis
sioner of Immigration Camenetti an
nounced today that all alien anar
chists would be speedily deported.
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to have been killed and manji wound
ed were removed to the hospitals af-j
ter the soldiers succeeded i*n clearing)
the streets and restoring order.
WEIMAR, April 11—.Hugo Haase!
German Foreign Minister in an ad-'
dress to the National Assembly as- \
serted that the German government!
would never^sign a peace treaty that
differ materially from President Wil
son's fourteen Peace principles.
Minister Haase stated that the
promulgation of these principles and
their full acceptance by the Allied
nations when made public in Germany
contributed greatly to the collapse
of Germany's military machine and
that they looked with confidence to
President Wlson to mitigate the
harsh terms entirely out of harmony
wth his Peace principles which some
of the Allied nations want to impose
pon Germany.
BOATS SOLI) OUT
SEATTLE, April 8—All passenger
accommodations on every vessel
sailing for Alaska up to June first
has been engaged. Hundreds are un
able to secure transportation as early
as desired. Steam ship line officials
admit that cannary crowds have
swamped them.
MAY ADOPT BOLSHEVISM
PARIS, April 8—Dispatches from
German and neutral cources indicate
that it is a question whether the
present German government is to
continue its present form of govern
ment or adopt Bolshevism. Every
thing depends on the action the
Soviet Congress which meets today
may take.
LARGE CROP
WASHINGTON, April 8—An es
timate, made by the Agricultural De
partment calculates the winter wheat
crop at S37 million bushels, the
largest crop in the history of the U. S.
of an estimated value of nearly two
billion dallars.
HELP WIN THE WAR
NEW YORk, April 8—Admiral
Sims on liis arrival from Europe to
day stated that depth bombs and the
sconvoy system had contributed tre
mendously toward winning the war.
UPHOLDS CONVICTIONS
SAN FRANCISCO. April 8—The
Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld
the conviction of Morris and Joseph
Pass of Seattle for violation of the
selective service law, affiirming the
decision of the Federal court when
the case was appealed.
CAPTURE ODESSA
MOSCOW, April 9—.Wireless dis
patches received here state that
Odessa has been captured by Uk
ranian Soviet BOldiers and that the
Allied forces were compelled to
evacuate Odessa and its environs.
WILL DO WONDERS
SEATTLE, April 9—C. D/ Proto
pappas a well known Alaskan has
according to a statement made by
him, secured a monster va,cuum
syphon pump with which he says he
can remove all the water front the
third beach line diggings at Nome.
This new marvel is inexpensive to
operate and ntiich mining ground
which Mr Protopappas claims con
tains enormous gold volues can be
made productive. He says that his
pump-will be a boon to owners of
thawed and wet ground which it
has been impossible to work up to
the present time.
Mr Ftrotopapas intends to leave
for Nome on the first steamer and
will lose no time to give hs pump a
thorough trial.
(Mr Protopappas will he remem
bered by the old timers as the pro
prietor of a fuitstand in Nome for
mtny seasons.—Ed.)
LEFT FOR GTRRALTER
LISBON, April 9—Thirty Ameri
can Submarine chasers left here to
day for Gibraltar.
COMMUTE SENTENCE
PARIS, April 9—Owing to the re
commendation of Premier Cienien
ceau, the death sentence imposed up
on Emil Cottin, who attempted to
assassinate Clemenceau on February
19th has been commuted to ten
years imprisonment.
MAY APPEAL TO ALLIES
PARIS, April 9—It has been re
ported that at the last session of the
German Cabinet the eventuality of
making an appeal to the Allies to
maintain order in Germany has been
considered. »
It is the opinion of the German
Cabinet officials that the best inter
est of the whble of Europe would be
served if the Allies would undertake
to crush Bolshevism.
ODESSA EVACUATED
PARIS, April 9—The evacuation
of Odessa by the Allied forces has
been confirmed by the Allied War
Council. Food shortage which was
impossible to relieve is reported to
have been mainly responsible for the
withdrawal of the Allied troops from
the positions in and around Odessa.
WANT TO KNOW
WASHINGTON, April 10—The
State Department has made official
inquiry of the Japanese government
regarding the recent clash between
American and Japanese Boldier3 at
Tientsin, but has received no ex
planation in answer up to date.
State Department officials con
fess to being puzzled over the delay of
the Japanese Government.
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DON’T FEAR JAPS
NEW YORK, April 10—-In an in
terview granted press representatives
today, Senor Quezon, President of the
Philippine Senate stated that the
Filipinos have no fear that Japan will
absorb their country after indepen
dence has been granted them.
He expressed himself as confident
that the Japanese government would
hardly dare to extend her imperialis
tic policy to the Philippines after
fighting for a world wide democracy
[and self determination for the small
er nations.
MANY DEAD
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lahoma and Arkansas state tnat im
mense amounts of damage has been
done in the territory devasted ljy the
recent cyclone.
One hundred and seventy two peo
ple are reported to have, been killed
while about fou hundred have been
injured, some of them severely.
The (damage to property can only
be approximately estimated at pres
ent but will reach many millions.
Eveything possible is being done
to relieve distress among the strick
en people many of them having lost
virtually all they possessed.
ASKED TO GO SLOW
S'ACRAMENTO. Cal. April 10—In
a message addressed to the State
Senate by Secretary of State Lansing
in Paris, the senators were asked not
to introduce or press the proposed
anti-Japanese legislation at this time.
Mr Lansing stated that it would
be particularly unfortunate to have
any anti-Japanese measures brot up
at th>s time as an opportunitp would
be given thea\ to show their resent
ment which might lead toa further
delays in the Peace negotiations.
SAM COMES HOME
NEW YORK,, April 11—With
tears streaming down his careworn
face, exclaiming in a voice which he
could hardly Control owing to his
emotions “This is my own, my native
land” Samuel Gompers the Apostlt
and Poo Bah of the American Feder
atoin of Labor landed here last night.
He declared that he was entirely
satisfied’ with the outcome of his
mission to Europe and that labor
could look forward to a period of
unexempled prosperity.
Gompers stated that after he had
consulted the American Federation
Officials he intended to take a vaca
tion as he was very near a mental
ana pnysicai oreatcaown, owing to
the arduous work performed by him
in the cause of labor.
PLUNDER STORAGE SHEDS
BASEL, April 9—It has been re
ported here that food rioters have
plundered American Red Cross Stor
age sheds at Nuremburg, Bavaria
and carried off considerable amounts
of food stuffs before the authorities
succeeded in putting a stop to their
depredations.
FIRST BOAT TO NOME
SEATTLE, April 9 -The steamer*
Northwestern and Senator are sched
uled to leave here on their first trip
to Nome for this season on the first
and second of June respectively witfx
their passenger accomodations vir
tually sold out.
GO ON STRIKE
BERLIN, April 9—Four hundred
thousand German workers in Dus
i selclarf and Essen have obeyed the
I general strike call of the German rad
| ical leaders and have laid down their
I tools. Magazines at Mannheim and
Magdeburg containing food which
j had been §tored tliare for war pur
| poses have t>een looted and iitterally
swept clean by the starving people.
The radicals demand the instant re
lease of all persons who have beeu
Imprisoned for purely political reas
ons.
The German government has made
the announcement that it will not
recognize the Bavarian Soviet gov
ernmene.
MILLIONS OF TAN PAYERS
WASHINGTON. April 9—Treasury
officials have announced that fully
five million America nr will pay in
come taxes and tet a'.Uion will pay
Federal taxes of all ds.
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