TEUTONS TIE MB ISLANDS
IN GULF DFBOTHNIA WITH
BIG QUANTITY OF MUNITIONS
NOTICE OF INTENTIONS OF BERLIN GOVERNMENT
IS SERVED ON NEIGHBORING COUNTRY OF SWE
DEN AND OFFICIALS AT STOCKHOLM FILE PRO
TEST AGAINST SEIZURE OF TERRITORY.
PART OF OCCUPATION CALLED TEMPORARY
Officials of Central Powers Declare Their Action Is Necessary
for Purpose of Restoring- Order and Give Assurance That
Their Troops Will Abandon Country Just As Soon As They
Succeed in Overcoming Unruly Elements That Are De
clared to Control It.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, March 4.
Ger: any has taken possession of th
Aland islands at thr entrance to th
Gulf of Bothnia between Finland an
Sweden, and also intends to occupj
;u cording: to official notice given t
Sweden, the whole of Finland, th
gn at Russian possession joining Swc
dt” ci the north.
Sweden protested to German
against her occupation of Finlam
Germany, in reply, states that it i
-1 necessary for her to occupy Finland
e for the purpose of restoring1 order
there, ard has given the assurance
0
^ that the occupation will not be per
manent and that the country will be
’ relinquished just as soon as the un
3 ruly elements are overcome.
e Russian and Finnish troops evacu
■ ated the Aland islands lute last week.
They left in the forts a great quanti
v ty of military supplies.
1. A large percentage of the popula
s tion of the islands is Swedish.
RULER FENG KWO MAY HAVE TO RESIGN
Antagonists of Executive of Oriental Republic Are Not Agreed
As to His Successor, Some Wanting Hau Shih Chang,
Guardian of Former Boy Emperor and Others Advocating
Elevation of Youthful Scion of Royalty to Position of
Supreme Power.
PEKING, China, March 2.—Russiar
developments in the world war have
involved China and a change is immin
ent n the government.
The militarist party in China i.
rapidly gaining the ascendency. It ha;
forced President Feng Kwo to an
nource with reluctance that he wil
order the sending of Chinese troops te
Manchuria to reinforce General Sem
enoff, the Cossack leader, againsl
whom, the Russian maximilist gov
ernment is arming former Germar
and Austrian prisoners of war.
General Semenoff has been waging
vige • ous war against the Russian max
imi •>: government. He opposes a sep
arate peace with Germany and advo
cates continuation of the war by Rus
, sia on the side of the entente allies.
The pressure of the Chinese mili
tary party, who are enthusiastic sup
porters of the entente allies, may
force President Feng Kvvo to resign.
1 It is generally believed that even now
he virtually is a prisoner in the execu
tive mansion and that he is forced to
1 do the bidding of the militarist lead
ers.
In the event of resignation of Presi
dent Feng Kwo, the leaders of the
! Chinese military party are not agreed
on his successor. Some of them favor
Hau Shih Chang, who is now the
guardian of the former boy emperor.
Others urge the elevation to the persi
rlencv of tiie former boy emperor.
Our Aims
are to be conserv
ative and yet
quickly responsive
to the unusual
needs of the times
Bank of Alaska f
COSTLY FURNITURE IS WRECK
ED AND MAGNIFICENT TAP
ESTRIES ARE RUINED.
Soldiers Set Up Enormous Kettle and
Cook Their Soup in Hall of Struc
ture and Smear Food All Over
Place.
NEW YORK, March 2.—The Petro
grad correspondent of the Moscow
newspaper Outro Rossit (Morn of
Russia) who in the issue of November
21 described the siege and capture of
the Winter Palace by the Bolshevik
I forces and the perilous march of the
j arrested Kerensky ministers from the
| palace to the Fortress of Peter and
I Paul, gives in the same paper a pic
I luve of the looted Winter Palace and
of the events of the next six days, in
I eluding the attempt of the municipal
council of Petrograd to assume the
! reigns of power in the capital and
form a coalition ministry with repre
i sentatives of all parties.
“I succeeded,” he says, “in walking
i through the palace a few hours after
the bombardment. The corpses of the
soldiers of the Women’s Batalion kill
ed in defence of the palace, had al
ready been removed but through the
iron gate could be seen the heaps of
empty shells, torn munition belts,
books and leaflets. The whole facade
of the palace was riddled by shells,
the white scars standing out in strik
ing contrast to the red of the walls.
The palace guard consisted of strong
| pickets of sailors and soldiers, heav
ily armed and covered with cartridge
belts.
“When I entered the first floor l saw
a picture of complete devastation
amid which moved soldiers and sailors
searching the rooms and adding to the
confusion. All the drawers of the side
boards and cupboards had been broken
open, all the chairs smashed and the
wrecked furniture thrown together in
heaps. On the beds and sofas broken
boxes, lamps, chandeliers and porce
lain had been thrown. The corridors
were filled with torn papers, frag
ments and scraps of the magnificent
tapestries, and broken furniture. Ev
erything absolute chaos.
“In the room where the electric fit
tings had been stored the soldiers,
having carried off everything that
seemed to have any value, were amus
ing themselves and a crowd of ap
plauding spectators by smashing the
electric bulbs. In one room l saw a
soldier hacking away the valuable tap
estry from a couch with a table knife.
On the second floor the scene was
even gloomier. Everywhere dirt in
describable, mattresses over a'd tin?
floors, soldiers squatted at their meals
1 on the wonderful couches of the im
perial furniture, spilling soup and
greasy bits of meat upon me priceless
“The palace servants were no whit
behind the soldiers at the looting and
went around with bags collecting what
| struck their fancies. In the Round Hall
i the soldiers had set up an enormous
| kettle and were cooking their soup. In
| the room of the press bureau all the
j papers had been torn to bits. In the
j picture gallery many pictures had
! ’neon slashed to strips of painted rags.
! In one room heavy guns had been set
up. Windows were pierced with bul
lets. It was a nightmare of destruc
tion.”
The eighth of November, the day
following the siege, pass'd quietly,
the street cars were running every
where, the number of patrols had de
creased and absolute order prevailed.
The municipal council had passed a
resolution, instructing the population
to defend itself against looting, by use
of arms if necessary, and though the
Bolshevik authorities opposed this
order, the formation of house com
mittee of self-daiense went steadily
forward.
The representatives of the allied
powers held long conferences but no
decision regarding recognition of th<?
new regime was taken and it was
stated that special instructions from
the respective governments would bi
necesary, as there was now no on<
established government in the coiin
try. Leon Trotzky had visited thi
foreign office, announced himself a:
the foreign minister of the new gov
ernment and asked for the “secre
treaties of the allies.” He was told, tc
his amazement, that documents relat
ing to arrangements made during th<
war were incorporated in the protocol:
of the interallied conferences am
were not available in Petrograd.
November V—In view of the over
throw of the provisional governmen
and the dissolution of the temporary
council of the Russian republic, tilt
municipal council became a centre o:
political life. By noon the lobbies o
i the municipal council building we;<
j filled with representatives of all dem
ocratic organizations, united to pio
test against the seizure of power b;
the Bolshevik leaders. Demands wer<
made for guarantees for the safct\
and if possible the release of the mem
bers of the Women’s Battalion.
November 10—The extraordinary
session of the municipal council wa:
most stormy, owing to a proposal t(
’ expel the Bolshevik members of tin
council. Great excitemnt was causer
by reports of the arrest of five mem
bers of the council, sent as emissaries
, to the army in an attempt to proven
' bloodshed, and by street fighting
started near the building of the coun
| oil.
A Bolshevik woman representative
tried to explain the irritation of tin
soldiers and sailors against the Coun
oil, which had become the center o:
C.e .druggie against the Bolshevik au
thority. A tremendous uproar begai
when reports came in that a little gii
had been killed and women injured ii
the fighting, in the midst of which tin
Cadet A. I. Shringaroff (since killed it
the January troubles) arose and de
manded the immediate release of al
the arrested ministers and declaret
that the chiefs of the Bolsheviki art
responsible for this fratricidal war.
“'Out of here,” cried Shingaroff t<
the Bolshevik representatives in th<
council, “you are murderers and trait
ors to the country.” Representative:
of the public joined in the tumult wit!
shouts of “Out of here, looters, mur
derers.”
With great difficulty a riot wa:
avoided, the council finally adopted :
resolution demanding the release o
the ministers.
The following day, November 11
was also a day of complete uncertain
ty. The telephone system was stil
working, thanks to the self-sacrificing
work of the telephone girls, some o
whom had been on duty twenty-foui
hours without relief in spite of tlv
bombardment of the exchange build
ing, but communications were ven
poor, giving an opening for the mos'
sensational rumors to circulate among
the population. Kerensky with ar
army was reported approaching thi
Warsaw railway station and about t(
bombard that building with heavy
guns.
Another set of rumors had the des
troyers in the river at the point of op
ening lire across the city against th<
Kerensky forces. Municipal hospital,
were reported full of wounded fror*
street combats. Such rumors drove th<
population from the streets, whirl
were entirely deserted. Emissaries oi
the council were sent to the powdei
: mills to prevent expected disorders h
that part of town, which would hav<
caused a collosal disaster.
Amid the conditions of anxietj
i and uncertainty leaders of the anti
Bolshevik parties wei-e indulging ir
discussions as to the possibility of or
ganizing a coalition government with
out participation of the Bolshevik rep
resentatives, the Cadet Leader Shin
garoff fighting with tremendous aud
acity for the isolation and exclusion oi
the Bolsheviki from political life.
By the morning of November i2 il
had become apparent that the sensa
tional rumors of fighting were with
out foundation, civilians again appear
! ed in the streets, stores in the Nevskj
reopened for business and the streei
cars were again crowded. Normal lift
in the city had, however, suffered {
most severe blow from the entire sus
pension of the telephone service, th<
manager and entire personnel walking
out upon the refusal of the Bolshevil
leaders to remove the guards from th*
central station.
MHTTO
EXTEND AIDTO
| FARMERS HERE
; : SECRETARY LANE SAYS HE
I WILL SEND MESSAGE TO
ANDREW CHRISTENSEN.
FIGHT WAGED ON GOVERNOR.
| Congress Probably Will Permit Sew
ard to Issue Bonds in Order to Get
Funds to Harness Waters of Glacier
Creek.
I
Ey CHARLES E. HERRON.
NEW YORK, March 1.—Secretary
of the Interior Franklin K. Lane,
, when I visited him at his office in
Washington yesterday, said that he
would send a message to Andrew
. Christensen, of Anchorage, head of
. the land and industrial department of
! the Alaskan Engineering commission
, asking him to help farmers along the
I route of the government railroad in
crease their production this summer
, by lending them horses, plows, tools
or anything else owned by the gov
. ernment.
.1 There are no developments in the
contest between James Wickersham,
, republican, and Charles A. Sulzer,
, democrat, for Alaska’s seat in the
house of representatives.
Oppose Jordan and Strong.
George Grigsby, attorney general of
1 Alaska, whose official headquarter
are in Juneau but whose home is in
1 Nome, and John W. Troy, editor and
publisher of the Juneau Empire, are
1 in Washington trying to prevent the
confirmation by the senate of the
1 president’s nomination of Emmet R.
1 Jordan, of Nome, for United States
! marshal of the second division, and
the re-appointment of Governor J. F.
’ A. Strong.
J. J. Finnigan, who came to Wash
ington weeks ago as the representa
tive of citizens of Seward in an effort
1 to get an appropriation from congress
for the purpose of controlling the
waters Af Glacier Creek, at Seward,
realizes such an appropriation is
1 scarcely obtainable and he is now try
ing to have congress pass a bill auth
orizing Seward to bond herself in a
’ sum sufficient for the needed work.
Likely to Be Authorized.
In this bonding matter, he has the
support of William C. Edes, chairman
of the Alaskan Engineering commis
sion anti the requested authorization
probably will be granted by congress.
Lillie Sutherland, formerly of
Nome, has just returned to the United
. States from France, and is staying at
| the Waldorf-Astoria in New York.
BE DRY DURING WAR
HOUSE BILL ISLANDERS SHALL
VOTE ON PERMANENT PRO
HIBITION AFTER PEACE.
WASHINGTON, D. C., March 4.—
. Prohibition for Hawaii until the con
clusion of the war, at least, is pro
posed in a bill reported favorably by
j the house committee today. It is plan
ned under the act that Hawaii two
! years after peace shall take a refer
; endum vote to determine whether the
law shall be made permanent.
TO IDENTIFY MINERALS.
"
University of Montana Will Help
Prospectors All It Can.
I MISSOULA, Mont., March 2.—To
i
assist the government in its war-mak
ing efforts by the discovery of new
minerals deposits in this state the
geology department of the University
■ ■ of Montana has offered to identify any
minerals sent to the university by peo
; pie of this state.
> Ore bearing tungsten, manganese,
l mercury, antimony, platinum, or mo
■ lybdenum, chomite mineral and de
> posits of sulphur or nitrate are es
; pecially desired, the department has
; announced, and large fields of mineral
> deposits in the state are still unex
plored.
AMERICAN, FRENCH AND BRIT
ISH REPRESENTATIVES RE
MOVE TO VOLOGDA.
CITY IS MENACED BY GERMANS.
Dispatches from Muscovite Capital
Declare That Teuton Forces of In
vasion Have Resumed Their Ad
vance Northward Into Country.
LONDON, March 1.—Events have
taken an unexpected and sudden turn
for the worse in Petrograd. The
United States, French, Japanese and
British embassies have left the Russian
capital, and likewise the American mil
itary mission and the American Red
| Cross representatives. Quite likel.v
1 the diplomats of all other entente
j powers have left Petrograd, but no
advices to this effect have yet been
received in London.
:
No Diplomatic Break.
The departure of the diplomats
from Petrograd does not mean that
they have left Russia or intend to
leave Russia or that any break has
occurred between them and the Rus
sian Maximilist government. Because
the messages from Petrograd say
that United States Ambassador Da
| vid R. Francis and his staff have gone
I to Vologda, an important railroad
city, about 200 miles directly east of
i Petrograd, the belief is entertained
that all other entente diplomats who
left Petrograd also went to Vologda.
Menaced by Germans.
The departure of the embassies
from Petrograd indicates at the pres
ent time merely that the capital city
is menaced by the Germans.
The Norwegian representative has
taken charge of United States affairs
j in Petrograd.
Direct dispatches from Petrograd
declare that the German forces of in
vasion have resumed their advance
northward in Russia.
German troops are also pressing
! eastward in the Dnieper river region
A dispatch of significance chroni
; cles the fact that Austro-Hungarian
troops are advancing toward Ukrania,
the newly-formed republic in southern
Russia, to help the organizers of the
republic resist the forces of the Max
imilist government.
Recent dispatches said that Ger
many and Austria were quarreling
over Austria’s refusal of Germany’s
request to send troops into Ukrania.
GAMBLER PLEADS
GUILTY; FINED $319
A. BYSTROM IS CAUGHT PLAY
ING POKER IN HIS ROOM IN
LODGING HOUSE.
Three hundred and nineteen dollars
was paid into the treasury of the
United States this morning- by A. Bv
strom who pleaded guilty to a charge
of gambling in a rooming house on
Fourth avenue.
Bystrom was arrested late last
1 night as he was taking part in a
friendly game of poker in his room
at the hotel He was released shoi’t
ly after his arrest under a cash
i bond of $500. Deputy Sheriff Harry
Kavanaugh made the arrest.
At a hearing held in United States
commissioner’s court this aftemo .1
Bystrom, through his attorney, Wil
liam H. Eager, pleaded guilty to the
charge and was fined by Judge David
$300 and costs . The costs amounted
to $19.
SEAGULLS SAVE STEAMER.
LONDON, March 2.—How five sea
gulls were the means of saving a
steamer from destruction was related
by the pilot of the steamer on arrival
at an English poi*t. He noticed five
gulls perched on a dark object which
was bobbing up just ahead of the ves
sel. Closer examination revealed that
a seagull was sitting on each of the
five prongs of a floating mine and
there was just time to alter the ves
sel’s course and prevent a disaster.