GERMAN ONSLAUGHT HALTED
AND COMMANDER IN CHIEF
EXPRESSES HIS CONFIDENCE
. DATELESS.—On the anniversary of the entrance of tin
Lnited Stated into the war, the greatest battle of the conflict ii
still raging in Picardy. The formidable attack of the Germans
has been halted, and they are making ineffectual efforts t<
break the allied lines or bend them back in order to gaii
Amiens, thus completing the first stage of the advance wliicl
began at St. Quentin.
Commander-in-Ghief Foch yesterday told the newspapei
correspondents that the Boche tidal wave had been broken
“All is going well,” he said. “The allies will now trv to ge
the upper hand.”
As proof of his statement he pointed to the fact that in the
past two days the enemy had made only slight gains on a thirty
eight-mile trout. These gains had been equalized by allied ad
vances at some points.
DETERMINED BLOW AT BRITISH
DATELESS.—Another determined German blow has been
struck against the British on the Somme east of Amiens, from
which the Germans are now only ten miles distant. From the
early advances made it seems likely that the engagement will
be an important one.
The Germans are advancing from Vaire wood, dost' to the
Somme, and their troops are being pushed in dense waves to
ward Oorbue, evidently hoping to gain the Albert-Amiens road.
QUIET ON FRENCH FRONT
1 ARTS, April 6. German attacks on the French sector
have ceased. There was violent artillery fire south of Avre
hist night, but no infantry actions.
GERMANS ATTACK IN DENSE WAVES
LONDON, April 6.—Reuter’s says that at dav break todav
the Germans attacked the little town of Corbie, in the Somme
i alley, the teuton troops advancing in dense waves. The out
come of the attack was unknown at the time the dispatch was
fded. The main German thrust appears to be west of Vaire
wood, toward the Amiens road, says the dispatch.
COLLINSVILLE, 111., April 6.—The coroner has applied
ior warrants for the arrest of five men who were members of
the mob w hicli lynched Prager yesterday. Four justices of the
peace refused to issue the warrants.
CHICAGO |
CHICAGO, April (i.—The city council has voted to sub
scribe three million dollars to the third Liberty loan.
BOSTON 51PH0H LUOER SUBJECT OF SWISS mill
WASHINGTON, April G.—The Swiss government, has
asked the shite department for America’s reason for interning
Or Karl Muck, the noted Boston musician, who technically is
a Swiss citizen, although of German birth.
CAPITAL OF ALIENS
TO BUILD OUR SHIPS
M ASHLNG F( )A, Aj)ril (5. A. Mitchell Palmer, alien enemy
property custodian, has written to Chairman Hurley of the
United States shipping corporation suggesting that the govern
ment use available enemy capital in this country to build ships.
He has offered for this purpose the total timber supply of the
German-American Lumber Company of Millville, Fla. He says
that near the lumber company’s yards is a shipyard where -one
ship already has been built and five more of 5,000 tons will be
constructed in a short time.
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» STOCKHOLM, March 25 (by mail),
j —The pro-German newspapers in
, Sweden are printing fantastic stories
( regarding conditions in America. This
propaganda is designed obviously to
awaken hostility tow'ard the entente
powers and the United States and to
offset the effects unfavorable to Ger-j
many caused by the sinking of Swe
. dish ships and by the Luxburg affair.
Our Frightened Soldiers .
The Nya Dagligt Allehanda prints
an alleged interview with a Swede
lately returned from America. Ac
cording to this unidentified voyager
American soldiers are committing
suicide by the hundreds through fear
of submarines; American provision
shops are being plundered and the
proprietors lynched by the masses;
Swedes are faring hard in America,
due to the Luxburg disclosures; the1
j homes of 59,000 Germans in New
York are being watched by the police t
and the inhabitants searched in the
streets every time they leave their!
houses, and American newspapers
"not owned by BriUah-oaniUU" huau
disclosed that "the American embassy
in Budapest had been hoarding
bombs.”
i ,S- -
Ie United States Commission
irt yesterday afternoon, S. R.
was found guilty of sedition,
mplaint filed by J. F. Randall,
Ige Medley sentenced him to
year in the federal jail. The
nt was represented by Attor
H. Foster, who says he will
;he case.
til testified that Carlson said:
1 with the United States. I
country and would not fight
country.” J. A. Johnson, w’ho
3 present at the time of the
remarks, was not very positive
ecollection of just what Carl
say, but remembered that he
he would not fight for any
Johnson admitted having re
fit most of the Swedes were
lan.
Keenan, Jas. MacCormac, Joe
1 Gus Graham were called by
inse and testified that they
ays considered Carlson loyal
nlted States. _
iry that found Carlson guilty
t Of C. P. Michelson, W. U
r. . .■Boyle, 1j. G. Belter, Ben
Dufce, Roy Hegg, V. F. Nichols. Geo
Rrof i. T. N. Hubbert, M. J. Schenck
B. .4. Fletcher and C. F. Burke.
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TROOPS’ MOVEMENTS
INDICATE IMMINENCE
OF SERIOUS CRISIS
WASHINGTON, April 6.—Army officers feel that a crisis
in the great struggle on the western front is rapidly approach
mg. The war department is forging ahead in its efforts to
speed additional American forces across the water, and it is
learned authoritatively that the first increment of the draft this
month will be 150,000 instead of the 50,000 originally planned.
This will be,the first of the considerable force of 800,000
men to be mobilized this year. The remaining 050,000 will be
called in monthly installments, depending upon the availability
of shipping troops.
'Die movement of troops to the seaboard already has as
sumed unusual proportions, and while it is in progress railway
passenger and freight schedules in some sections have been set
aside temporarily, in order to give the men the right of way to
embarkation points.
Orders are being sent out to governors for the mobilization
of those called out in the second draft during April. It is ex
pected that 150,000 men will be moved to the camps by April 20.
The steamer Northwestern sailet
for Seattle at an early hour this morn
ing with the following passenger!
from Cordova:
Mrs. J. Heney, J. Heney, J. C. Las
ker, J. A. McDonald, Mrs. McDonald
Mrs. Sid B. Moore, Miss K. Munn, S
L. Whitford, Miss Jessie Bush, V
Heischman, Peter Buchholtz, Mrs. E
kV. Tillman, Mrs. A. HqU, Mrs. J
3yer, Carl Sarin, Mrs. C. H. Seiler
Wrs. C. H. Seiler. Miss L. Glenn, E
B. Duncan, Sam Johnson, A. F. Will
ams, Mrs. Wilson, Geo. Wilson, H
Vettleton, E. Swanson, G. A. Lilye
Strom, T. B. Stites, Geo. Bock, T. Kor
akis, Jack Chamberlain, Joe Mahearn
Mike Coyokos, A. Jennings, P. Pars
ley, C. p. McDonald, A. Eden, Alex
Nickolin.
«
sTuili in
SAILED THIS MORNING
SEATTLE, April 6.—The Admiral
Waston sailed at ten o’clock this
morning with the following passen
gers for Cordova: H. W. Attwood, A.
P. Peterson, H. E. Branstol, Geo.
Weber, w. Ape, Geo. Tamainura, K.
Kobay, Ashi Sadie Fisher, Mrs. J.
Howard, Mrs. Florence James, J.
Steinburg, Margaret Davis, J. Marks.
4.
PRESIDENT AND CABINET
INAUGURATE CAMPAIGN
FOR THIRD LIBERTY LOAN
WASHINGTON, April 6.—Today, a year from the day on
'v Licli the I nited States entered the war, the nation lias started
ilie collection ol three billions ot dollars from its citizens as the
third Liberty loan, to finance the fighting.
The day will be marked by patriotic celebrations, parades
ot soldiers, sailors and civilians marching to symbolize the im
portant part each must play in winning the war.
Subscriptions to the loan coming in early indicated that
many millions of dollars would be suscribed before tonight.
I President Wilson will make an important address at Balti
I more tonight in behalf of the loan; Secretary McAdoo will
| speak at Philadelphia, Vice President Marshall at St. Louis,
land Secretary Daniels at Cleveland.
—
OVERSUBSCRIBED FIRST DAY
SAN FRANCISCO, April 0.—Many towns in the Western
I States have oversubscribed their quota of the Liberty loan al
j ready.
PRODUCT OF WOOLEN MILES HAS BEEN COMMANDEERED
WASHINGTON, April 6.—The war department has di
rected that all woolen mills hold their looms at tin* service of the
go\ eminent until duly 1, in order to insure an adequate supply
of cloth for army uniforms. A special permit will he necessary
(‘or civilian clothing manufacturers to obtain goods.
PRUSSIANS TO BE MADE TO SIT UP AND TAKE NOTICE
LONDON, April 6.—Premier Lloyd George lias tide
graphed to the lord mayor of London on the occasion of a
luncheon in celebration of America’s entry into the war. He
said that during the next few weeks America will give the
1 Yussian military junta the surprise of their lives.
ANOTRER MONSTER GERMAN GUN ON WAY TO FRONT
A MSI EL DAM, April (>.—According to a Maastricht publi
cation, another long range gun similar to those bombarding
Paris passed through Belgium from Essen on Monday last. The
iengtli ot the barrel Was trom twenty to twenty-five meters and
the caliber was from twenty to twenty-five centimeters
SHITE COMMITTEE 00 TERRITORIES HECOMMEOSS~
COIFIIMITIOI OF OICCS IS COKER* OF I1ISII
\\ ASHING 1 ()X, April (>.—rI lie senate committee on ter
ritories today unanimously recommended the confirmation of
the appointment of Thomas Higgs, dr., to be governor of Alas
ka, to succeed d. F. A. Strong. There had been indications of
stout opposition.
PARDON IS GRANTED
TO DYNAMITER RYAN
WASHINGTON, April (i.—President Wilson has decided
to commute the prison term of Frank M. Ryan, formerly presi
dent of the International Union of Structural Iron Workers, to
expire immediately. Ryan, who is now confined in the Leaven
worth penitentiary, was convicted of a dynamite conspiracy
which was the outgrowth of Hie Los Angeles Times dyna
miting.
LEAVE FOR OUTsTdE
M. S. Wilson and son, George, left
on the steamer Northwestern, en route
to Lincoln, Neb., where they will
spend some time.
FARRAGUT NOT REPORTED- '
The Admiral Karragut has not as
yet been reported from Seward and
a rumor is afloat that she is frozen
in at Sawmill bay.