HOUSE FURNISHERS, TOOLS, BUILDER’S HARDWARE
GAS ENGINES AND BOAT SUPPLIES
NORTHWESTERN HARDWARE CO.
Pacific Steamship Co. 4
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S. S. Admiral Farragut
From Seattle Due Cordova Sails South
May 30 June 5 June 11
Through tickets sold to all California points.
Three sailings a week from Seattle.
Steamers President, Governor, Queen, Admiral
Schley and Admiral Dewey.
See agent for special summer excursion rates.
W. A. NOURSE, Agent EMPEESS BLDG.
ALASKA
STEAMSHIP CO.
This company reserves the right to change eohedule of eteamere
without notice.
Leaves Seattle For Seattle
May 1.ALASKA .May 12
8.NORTHWESTERN . 19
16.ALAMEDA . 27
The freighters Cordova, Latouche, Juneau, Valdez
and Ketchikan also make regular trips.
Tickets on sale at up-town office Alaska Steamship Bldg. Bag
gage or freight will not be received at the dock later than one hour
before sailing time.
J- H. BUNCH, G. F. & P. Agt S. R. HEDGES, Agent.
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Loggers Attention!
\fter February .1st we will pay $10.00 for
Flemlock and $11.£0 for Spruce
GOVERNMENT SCALE
Cordova Mill & Lumber Co.
The United States Government un
consciously forwarded the world war
in 1914 by selling two obsolete battle
ships to the Greek Government. The
Idaho and Mississippi, sold to Greece,
put that country in a position to con
quer Turkey, the vital link in the
Kaiser’s Pan-German scheme, and in
clined him to find an early pretext
for war. Henry Morgenthau tells the
story in his reminiscences as Ameri
can Ambassador at Constantinople.
His article appears in World’s Work
for May, just published.
Shortly before the outbreak of the
world war—on July 8, 1914, to be
exact—the United States sold to
Greece two battleships. It was at
this time that relations between Tur
key and Greece were strained almost
to the breaking point, and the sudden
acquisition by Greece of two battle
ships gave her the preponderance of
J power at sea. Negotiations for the
sale of these ships had, of course,
been going on for some time, and
they had created unusual interest in
Turkey. Turkey was merely await
ing the completion of a superdread
naught that was being built for her
in England, before attacking Greece,
and the possibility of the Greeks
gaining the upper hand was not at all
to the liking of the Turks.
Djemal Pasha, the Turkish Minister
of Marine, and one of three men who
dominated Turkey at that time, was
greatly worried by the Greek nego
tiations, and asked the American Am
bassador at Constantinople to inter
vene. He even offered to buy the
ships for Turkey. Ambassador Mor
gen thau in the World’s Work for
May, tells the rest of the story, as
follows:
n,vmently the clever Greeks had:
turned the tables on their enemy.)
Turkey had rather too boldly adver
tised her intention of attacking Greece
as soon as she received her dread
naught. Both the ships for which
Greece was now negotiating were
immediately available for battle! The
Idaho and Mississippi were not in
dispensable ships for the American
Navy; they could not take their place
in the first line of battle; they were
powerful enough, however, to drive
the whole Turkish navy from the
Aegean. Evidently the Greeks did
not intend politely to postpone the
impending war until the Turkish
dreadnaught had been finished, hut to
attack as soon as they received these
American ships. Djemal's legal point,
of course, had no validity. However
much war might theraten. Turkey
and Greece were still actually at
peace. Clearly Greece had just as
much right to purchase warships in
the United States as Turkey had to
purchase them from Brazil or Eng
land.
But Djemal was not the only states
man who attempted to prevent the
sale; Wangenheim, the German Am
bassador, displayed the keenest inter
est. Several days after Djemal’s vis
it Wangenheim and I were riding in
the hills north of Constantinople;
Wangenheim began to talk about the
Greeks, to whom he displayed a vio
lent antipathy, about the chances of
war, and the projected sale of Ameri
can warships. He made a long argu
ment about the sale; his reasoning
was precisely the same as Djemal’s
—a fact which aroused my suspicions
that he had himself coached Djemal
for his interview with me.
“Just look at the dangerous pre
cedent you are establishing,” said
Wangenheim. “It is not unlikely that
the United States may sometime find
itself in a position like Turkey’s to
day. Suppose that you were on the
brink of war with Japan; then Eng
land could sell a fleet of dreadnaughts
to Japan. How would the United
States like that?”
And then he made a statement
which indicated what really lay back
of his protest. I have thought of il
many times in the last three years
The scene is indelibly impressed or
my mind. There we sat on oui
horses; the silent ancient forest ol
Belgrade lay around us; in the dis
tance the Black Sea glistened in the
afternoon sun. Wangenheim sudden
ly became quiet and extremely earn
est. He looked in my eyes ,gnd said:
“I don’t think that the United
States realizes what a serious matter
this is. The sale of these ships mig#
be the cause that would bring on a
European war."
This conversation took place on
June 13; this was about six week be
fore the conflagration broke out.
Wangenheim knew perfectly well that
Germany was rushing preparatons
for this great conflict; he also knew
that preparations were not yet entire
ly complete. Like all the German
ambassadors, Wangenheim had re
ceived instructions not to let any cri
sis arise that would precipitate war
until all these preparations had been
finished. He had no objection to the
expulsion of the Greeks, for that in
itself w-as part of these preparations;
he was much disturbed, however,
over the prospect that the Greeks
might succeed in arming themselves
and disturbing conditions in the Bal
kans. At that moment the Balkans
were a smoldering volcano; Europe
had gone through two Balkan wars
without becoming generally involved,
and Wangenheim knew that another
would set the whole continent ablaze.
He knew that war was coming, but
he did not want it just then. Ho was
simply attempting to influence me at
that moment to gain a little more
time for Germany.
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HONOLULU, T. H„ May 13.—Per
sons who fail to observe the wheat
less and meatless days and the other
food conservation regulations of na
tional food administrator Herbert C.
Hoover, face indictment by the feder
al grand jury here, according to in
structions given the inquisitors yes
terday by United States district
judge Horace Vaughan.
Emphasis was laid by Judge Vaugh
j an in his instructions to the grand
jury on the necessity of prosecuting
all those guilty of violating the so
called “war laws,” and more particu
larly the law to conserve the nation's
food supply during the war.
By a free interpretation of this stat
| ute as construod by Judge Vaughan,
any individual, alien enemy, citizen
or other resident may be prosecuted
; f°r failing to observe the wheatless
and meatless days, although the stat
ute does not specifically say that fail
ure to do so is violation of the law.
Such a comparison of the law, the
j judge said, would be gained by a com
j parison of the reasonable needs of the
average loyal citizens with the amount
bought by the disloyal ones who dis
obey the food regulations, and so it
could be proven that the needless use
of flour or meat on wheatless or
i meatless days constituted an offense
against the law.
The intentional keeping from the
market of any foodstuffs is a viola
; tion of the food conservation act that
was emphasized by Judge Vaughan.
He instanced the alleged action of
I the owners of fish ponds on this isl
j and who refused to bring their fish
| to market until the price was raised
| by food administrator J. F. Child.
FOR RENT—CaDin*. See Oooley.
American and sectionallzing postal
law, and that the same should be re
pealed.
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Use less wheat ana meat. Buy local
foods. Serve just enough. Use what
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Madame Lydia, the palmist, will be
found In the Currier & Mlckelson
building on C. street 16-tf
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