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NOME, ALASKA. SATURDAY, DECEMBER, 38, 1918.
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WILSON
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SPEAKS
AT BANQUET
LONDON, Dec 28—Speeche's made
T>y the King of England and President
Wilson at the banquet tendered to
the latter at Buckingham Palace in
dicate that a tentative agreement has
been reached between the British gov
ernment and President Wilson on the
peace program.
President Wilson in his speech em
phasized the fact that the peace con
ference must establish a peace that
must be just to all nations concerned
and that thru organizing the moral
forces of the world the balance of
power of the sword must be ended.
The President’s spfeech was listened
td by a brilliant assemblage of
diplomats and peers of Great Britain.
President Wilson made the stand on
the disarmament question clear to his
audience who afterwards discussed
the? ubject thoroughly.
The President’s speech has attract
ed much attention and the British
press who witht he acception of the
labor journals are not in sympathy
with President Wilson’^stand on dis
armament and navalism have given
the President's speech wide publicity.
WILSON’S BIRTHDAY
LONDON, Dec 28—It is reported
here that King George of England was
the first to congratulate President
Wilson on his sixty second birthday.
WILSON AND PREMIER CONFER
LONDON, Dec 27—President Wil
son has had a lengthy conference with
the British Premier Lloyd George and
Foreign Secretary Arthus Balfour
presumably upon the peace problems.
When interviewed after the confer
ence President Wilson stated that the
conference was satisfactory to him,
but when asked what subjects ha
been discussed, smilingly declined to
satisfy thee uriosity of the press cor
respondents.
REPUBLICAN CUARDS
FIGHT RADICALS
LONDON, Dec 26—Fierce fighting
is reported to have taken place in
Berlin Germany between counte
revolutionary sailors and the republi
can guard.
After two days of severe fighting
a truce was called to collect the dead
and wounded. Hundreds of bodies
of the slain and wounded were re
moved. The revolutionary sailors
have barricaded themselves in the ex
Kaisers palace and twelve hundred
rebel soldiers are holding the Mar
stall building. The palace is almost
a wreck owing to the incessant ma
chine gun fire directed against it. A
large force of German marines from
Kiel have joined the revolutionaty
forces during the truce. The fighting
is extremely bitter and it is doubted
whether the revolutionary troops will
be able to hold out against the repub
lican guard.
LONDON, Dec 2fi—Dispatches re
ceived here state that Field Marshal
v«n Hindenburg has collected an army
with which he is reported to be march
ing upon Berlin Germany. ^This ac
tion has been taken with the full con
sent of the Allied powers, who aware
of the inability of the provisional gov
ernment to restore and maintain or
der have empowered von Hindenburg
to undertake this task. There is
much speculation here whether the
radicals will make an effort to oppose
von Hindenburg’s army or not.
As the latter is well equipped to
handle the situation and any attempt
to offer any opposition will be met
with'stern determination. Events in
Berlin are watched with a great deal
of eagerness as the success or failure
of von Hindenburg’s efforts to sup
press the radicals will have great in
fluence upon the political sentiment
of the German nation.
ENDORSE AGREEMENT
BERLIN, Dec 24—It is reported
here that the military leaders have
endorsed the agreement made be
tween the soldiers and the people’s
government.
PEOPLE STARVING
m RUSSIA
PARIS, Dec 26—American travell
ers arriving here from European Rub-!
sla report that thousands of Russians
are dying from starvation and dsease.
Conditions are stated to be chaotic.
The railroad service is practically sus
pended excepting for spasmodic ef
forts to run trains to the more promi
nent towns.
The destruction is described as be
ing very great thruout the country.
Industry practically is at a standstill,
food very scarce, and,at that almost
impossible to procure owing to Ihe
disorganization of tho railroads. Dis
ease is very prevaent, thousands are
dying for want of proper medical
care and the lack of medicine and
other medical supplies. Everyone
able to leave especially foreigners
grasp the first oportunity to leave
Russian soil.
PARIS, Dec 24—It is reported here
that the repesentatives of the Allied
nations have decided against any fur
ther intervention of a military nature
in flussla. The adoption of other
means of combating anarchy in Rus
sia have been advocated, a3 more apt
to bring results in restoring order.
PARIS, Dec 27—The French press
is unanimously demanding Allied in
tervention in Russia. Reports re
ceived here from French newspaper
correspondents and returning travel
lers are of such an alarming nature
that the dispatch of an Allied army
and the occupation of some of the
principal towns in Russia are demand
ed as the only means to restore order
and suppress the radical element.
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SOCIALIST WANT
SEVEN REPUBLICS
HAMBURG, GermwL. m 24- -In
a riot that tbrea|L' . JfU
ious proportions thirty w ere ^killed
and eighty tfcree wounded, when rev
olutionary troops turned machine
. guns on drunken soldiers who were
plundering shops and against whom
the local police force was powerless.
Order was quickly restored by this
: drastic action. Many of the disorderly
soldiers were arrested aild are await
ing trial.
BERLIN, Dec 24—The Socialists
of Saxony are advocating the forma
tion of seven republics in Germany
and the Teutonic part o£ Austria, to
be federated on the American plan.
The election of a president to admin
ister the affairs of these republics thru
duly elected representatives is also
contemplated.
The seat of this central government
is to l>e either Dresden, Saxor.y or
Berlin.. Public sentiment in favor of
the formaton of such a union is stead
ily growing this plan being consider
ed the most feasible of uniting the
different factions and thus restore
order.
LONDON, Dec 24—It appears from
dspatches received here by the press
that the split which has occured be
tween the radical and conservative
socialist element in Germany has in
creased the numerical following of
Dr Karl Lieblinecht to quite an appre
ciable extent. Liebknecht has been
able to gain -quite a few delegates
from the Ebert grouil of socialists
who have adopted his radical prin
ciples. The struggle between Licb
knecht and Ebert for the control of
the Soviets Congress is v/aged by both
sides vith extreme bitterness and
rancor. j
PRESIDENT WILSON
ARRIVES AT LONDON
LONDON, Dec 25—President Wil
son and his wife arrived here on their
visit to the King and Queen of Eng
land. Great preparations have been
made to make the reception of the
Presidential party one of the utmost
splendor. The President was warmly
welcomed on his arrival, and during
his trip from the railroad station to
the magnificently decorated Bucking
ham palace the streets were literally
choked with an enthusiastic crowd.
PARIS, Dec 24It has been announc
ed that Pesident Wilson and his wife
will eat their Christmas tjijJiey at
General Pershing’s he£{|^|rters.
Great preparations have flw? wiade
to entertain the presidential party
and make their Christmas as much
<JT df home affair as possible.
PARIS. Dec 24—An official confer
ence is going to take place tonight
between President Wilson and the
Belgian minister of Foreign Affairs
on the problems affecting Belgium
which will be discussed at the Peace
Conference. i
PARIS, Dec 24—All preparations
for the departure of the presidential
party for London to visit King George
have been completed. The President,
looks forward to his trip to London
with considerable pleasure.
TO LOOK OVER
OAL FIELDS
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ANCHORAGE,—Members of the
special federal commission appointed
by Secretary of the Interior Franklin
, K. Lane to investigate the coal re
sources of the Anchorage district are
making a thorough inspection of the
Matanuska field, which is about forty
miles north of Anchorage. The mem
bers of he commission are E. O. Mc
Cormick of San Francisco, vice-presi
dent of the Southern Pacific railroad,
chairman; George Watkins Evans of
the bureau of mines, University of
Washington, Seattle; Geo C. McFad
den, chief engineer of the Chicago
Coal company, and L. A. O. Gabaney,
geologist, of Chicago. They are ac
companied by Theodore Chapin of
the United States Geological survey.
The commission, after an exhaus
tive study of the extent and nature oi
' the coal deposits, the character ol
•
present development and the mining
possibilities of the immediate future,
will report to the Secretary of the
Interior. Members of the commission
expect their tack here will require
several weeks.
Two coal mines, one at Eska and
the other at Chickaloon, are worked
by the Alaska Engineering commis
sion. Heretofore the product of these
mines has been used only by the en
gineering commission as fuel in .tbe
buildings, chops and plant necesoitat
ed by the construction and operation
of the government railroad. Now the
engineering commission has been au
thorized b? presidential proclamation
to sell in either Anchorage or other
j Alaska towns any coal from the gov
| ernment mines that remains after the
I needs of the engineering commission
are supplied.
Sl'LZER HAS TIME EXTENDED
WASHINGTON, Doc 26—Delegate
Sulzer has succeeded after consider
able effort to have a resolution pass
ed in both Houses of Congress extend
ing the time limit for filing affidavits
of mine claimants for exemption from
assessment work to April first 1919.
Mr Sulzer is still the acting delegate
from Alaska, Congress not yet' hav
ing accepted the report of the con
gressional committee on elections that,
he was not elected in 1916.
NOTICE
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will make appointments prior to .Ian.
20th, 1010. I expect to leave Nome
about February 18.
LUTHER W. FROMM.
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