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VOL. 11.
NOME, ALASKA. THURSDAY, MAY, 2, 1918.
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TWO SHIPS IN SERIOUS COLLISION
GERMANS CAPTURE
3 FINNISH CITIES
COPENHAGEN, May 2—Reports
Teaching hero from Finnlansd say
that the Germans have captured
Sutton, Helsingfors and Viborg.
Helsingfors is tile captial cdty of
Finnland and in the capture of the
city tile Germans took about one
thousand prisoners of lio R
Guard. Viborg, about one hundred
and forty miles tot he North East of
Helsingfors and seventy five miles
North West of Petrograd, is one of
the strongest fortresses in Finnland
and has been held by the Red Guard
(the Russian Bolshevik! troops) for
some time. It was only taken after
a most intensive bombardment of
eleven hours duration and has been
partly destroyed.
In Finnland amongst the Young
Finnish Group the Republic is the
most popular but amongst the Civil
and Parliamentary Parties a monar
chy has been practically agreed upon.
(In Finnland as in most of the
other countries oft he world today
the old, the unfit and the rich make
the wars, profit by tte wars and
wish a Government that may wield
as a club over the heads of those
who oppose them; the young and
the fit have nq say in themaking
of wars, yet it is they who must
do the fighting and bear the brunt
of the wars and do all the suffer
ing.) Ed.
GERMANS MASSING
TROOPS EAST AMIENS
LONDON, May 2—The German
artillery fire hrs increased to a
marked extent on both the Flanders
and the Picardy fi onts. The enemy
have opened a heavy fire on the
allied positions, about ten miles to
tho east of Hazebrouck, near Merris,
and are trying with all their might
to hammer a breach in thelines.
Tho Germans are now massing
troop3 about the positions, to the
East of Amiens, in the vicinity of
V.illiers Bretonneux, and the cannon
ading in this vicinity is most in
tensive. So far the enemy has not
been able to effect any break in
tho present Allied line on this sec
tor. Villiers Bretonneux is consid
ered one o fthe most important posi
tions, of a tactical nature, in the
Amier.s sector and has been taken
by the Germans and retaken by (he
Allies a number of times, since the
battle started for the possession of
Armiens.
A heavy shelling, of the British
positions, in the vicinity of Arras,
Lens and Stevant, by the enemy
batteries is now in progress.
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S. s. CO. ASKS PERMISSION
RAISE PASSENGER RATES
WASHINGTON, May 1—The Alas
ka Steamship Company officials have
applied to the Inter-State Commerce
Commission for help. They request
that they be allowed to increase their
passenger and freight rates between
the States and Alaskan ports. The
increases amount to from fifty cents
to fifteen dollars on one way pass
enger fares audf rom five cents to
three dollars on each ono hundred
pounds of excess baggage. They
also ask the Commission’e sanction
to their plan to raise the price for
round trips between Nome and St
Michael . The Commission has given
no answer as yet.
BOSTON, May 1—Samuel Gom
pers, President of the American Fed
eration cf Labor while addressing a
meeting here today said: "Labor is
in this war to win and is giving the
fullest support tothe Government
in the prosecution of the war.” He
reports the Labor conditions in Can
ada are ideal and assert that there
are no slackers in the rank sofLabor
neither here or in Canada.
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ALARMED OVER MENTAL
CONDITION OF THE KAISER
LONDON, May 1—Reports com-!
.nig out of Germany state that the
imperialistic militarists of the Em
pire are becoming alarmed over the
mental condition of the kaiser. Ger
man papers say that the Kaiser is
tho victim of halluciations and is
gradually growing worse.
PARIS. May 2—The Germans
broke the lull in the infantry fight
ing existing along the Picardy front,
by a heavy infantry attack on Then
Ties, about ten miles to tho South
East of Amiens and after hours
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of fighting were thrown back upon
their own positions with very heavy
losses.
Assaults by the enemy, ont he
French positions, tot he North of
Chrvignon and to the North West of
Rheims were made by the enemy
but were entirely unsuccessful in
their attempts.
The Americans fighting with the
French forces beat oft a heavy in
fantry attacks in which much hand
to hand fighting was engaged in.
The Americans are now holding
strong positions about nine miles to
the East of Amiens which is the
British base.
LONDON, May 1—According to
newspaper reports coming from
Cologne, Germany the Pope is un
derstood to be making plans to send
out another p?nco feeler. The news
paper report st?.te that the attempt
to iuterest all belligerents will be
made about th etwenty-seventh of
May, but no hint ofw hat plan the
Pope will advocate can beleanv-d.
NOTICE.
The Nome Mine Workers Cnion,
unanimously, decided by a referen
dum vote taken last Saturday, to
demand, on and after May 1st, 1018,
recognition of the Union, and $5.00
|jer day and board, for an eight-hour
work day.
MARTIN KENXK1.1.Y, Pres.
ALBERT BRATEN, Bic’y
TWO SHIPS COLLIDE;
69 LIVES LOST
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NEW YORK, May 2—A serious
collision occured this morning be
tween two ships just off the Dele
ware Capes. The accident resulted
in the loss of sixty nine lives. The
steamer "City of Athens^ which was
on its way from an Atlantic port
was rammed by a French cruiser
and a great hole stove in her hull,
causinghe r to sink shortly after be
ing hit. An official investigation was
ordered and has reported that the
great loss of life was due to the
faulty life saving apparatus.
/A heavy fog existed at the time of
thee ollision and the investigators
have not been able, so far to place
the blame for the accident. The
City of Athens, had a passenger list
of one hundred and thirty-five on
this, her illfated trip and only the
prompt aid rendered by the crew of
tho French cruiser helped to keep
the. entire number of passengers and
crew of the steamer from being lost.
"IThe City of Athens was. at one
time a crack passenger liner having
broke the record across the Atlantic
from New York to Queenstown, in
1892, when she made thetrip In 5
days, 1 4hour3 and 24 minutes, beat
ing the record of the Teutonic made
in 1891, by two hours and 7 minutes.
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UNION TELEGRAPH
COMPANY BUCKING
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WASHINGTON, May 2—The Na
tional War Labor Board, which was
formed some time ago on the reco
mendation of President Wilson and
which consisted of representatives of
the Government, Labor and Capi
tal, has wired the President of the
Western Union Telegraph Company
ask ng him, for co-operation.
The Board requests President
Carlson to cease discharging em
ployees of the Western Union until
sncL a time asthe Board can give
consideration totho demands of the
operators.
President Carlson, informed the
Board that he would have to re
fuse the request.
(This is certainly a fine exam
ple for the President of the largest
telegraph company in the United
States to set to his employees. Of
course we cannot believe for a
moment that Mr Carlson realizes
that he is giving the new Sabotage
Law quite a jar if not really break
ing it. When he tries to make six
men do the work of two hundred, as
he is trying to do in Seattle, we be
lieve he should be tried for hinder
ing war preparations, for certainly
the telegraph service of the country
is a war asset. If the law is not
applicable to capital why should it.
be applicable t oLabor? We would
like to now.) Ed.
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ELECTION RETURNS RELATED
FROM OTHER DIVISIONS
So far Sulzer leads Maloney in
th3 Delegateship race.
Apparently the majority of the
voters In the Second Division stood
by Maloney.
FOR DELEGATE
Maloney, Nctne total 244, out
ly'r.g districts total, 58.
Sulzer, Nome total 117, outlying
Ustrictr, total 36.
Wich, Nome total 113 outlying
districts None.
FOR SENATOR
Frawley, Nome total 282, outlying
districts total 61
Moran, Nome total 66, outlying
districts total 33.
Coombs Nome total 97, outlying
districts total None.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE
Allan, Nome total 101, outlying
districts total 1
Bogan Nome total 246, outlying
districts total 54
Daly, Nome total 235, outlying to
tal 54
Downing. Nome total 199, outly
ing total 56
Eddy Nome total 100 outlying to
tal None.
Edwards, Nome total 137, outly
ing total 48
Milot Nome total 87, outlying to
tal 1
McIntosh Nome total 87 outlying
total None.
Rydeen Nome total 174, outlying
total 72
Gibney Nome total 165 ouilying
total 5 7
Plien Nome total 79 outlying to
tal 1
Connolly Nome total 3 outlying
total None.
MARSHAL.
Maloney 29
Sulzcr 40
Frawley 54
Moran 17
Bogan 47
Daiy i 41
Downing 46
Edwards 68
Rydeen 37
Ploin 30
VALDEZ
Wickersham 15
Maloney ' 150
ANCHORAGE
Wickersham 139
Maloney 143
Sulzer 186
Connolly 1
ST MICHAEL
Sulzer 46
Maloney t
BOPP AND VON SCHRAK
GET TWO YEARS IN PEN
SAN FRANCISCO, May 2,—
Franz Bopp, former German Consul
General here and his assistant Bar
on von Schrak Vice-Consul were
sentenced today. Two years in the
Federal penitentiary and ten thousand
dollars is the sentence that was m.-i
exl out to each, for the part they
had taken in violating the neutrality
laws of the United States. They
were recently found guilty, of having
conspired with Hundus, who were
British subjects, to overthrow Brit
ish rule in India. Both were re
cently sentenced to serve two years
for having set afoot preparations fdr
a military expedition against Can
ada and their sentences will run
consecutively, making four years in
the penitentiary for each.
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