The Cordova Times
Member of The Associated Press
VOL. IV. NO. 61 CORDOVA, ALASKA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1919 PRICE TEN CENTS
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RESUMPTION OF WAR MAY BE JUSTIFIED
REPORT ON LEAGUE OF NATIONS
TORE SUBMITTED NET FRIDAY
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 (by Associated Press).—The com
?nission of the League of Nations met today to hear the report
of the drafting committee. It is hoped to reach a final adjust
ment today. If this is accomplished the plan may be submitted
to the plenary session of the peace conference Friday.
The peace conference commission on international control
o£ ports, waterways and railways also is considering jurisdic
tion over aerial international flights. An aviation conference
which is soon to meet also will consider important questions of
air control. Rear Admiral Knapp will represent the United
States at the conference.
Financial Questions Under Consideration
PARIS, Feb. 12 (delayed in transmission).—The commis
sion on international labor legislation, headed by Samuel Gom
pesr, is expected to have its report ready for the peace confer
ence soon.
Continual meetings are being held on financial problems.
The American delegates will oppose the plan of committing
the conference to an international system of pooling of debts
of the various nations, including neutrals. The United States
is willing, it is said, to extend further credits, but can not com
mit the government to a monetary credit system in conjunction
with the European powers.
Want War Prisoners Released
BERNE, Feb. 13 (by Associated Press).—The interna
tional woman’s conference, with delegates present from allied
countries and from those of the central powers, has passed a
resolution ashing the release of war prisoners and interned per
sons. It is planned to send a delegation to see President Wilson
and pledge support for his program.
British Will Demand Indemnity
LONDON, Feb. 13 (by Associated Press).—The British
delegates to the peace conference have been definitely instructed
to claim an indemnity from Germany, which is to include Urn
cost of the war and actual damage done. This announcement
was made in the house of commons today by A. Bonar Law,
chancellor of the exchequer. In reply to a question he said the
commission was considering the amount to be claimed and the
means of enforcing payment.
FARRAGUT TO
] VE SEATTLE
SUNDAY NEXT
SEATTLE, Feb. 13 (by Associated
Press).—The steamship Admiral Far
ragut has been returned to the Alaska
fleet, and her sailing date has been
set for February 16. She will go as
far west as Kodiak island.
The Pacific Steamship Company ex
pects to send a steamer to Kodiak
every month for the rest of the sea
son.
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ENGLISH MINERS REFUSE TERMS
LONDON, Feb. 13 (by Associated
Press).—The English Miners’ Federa
tion has refused to accept the gov
ernment’s terms for the settlement of
the demands of the miners.
TO BAR GERMANS
FROM RED CROSS
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BERNE, Feb. .13 (by
Associated Press). — The
• ' International Red Gross,
now in session here, today
debated a proposition to
exclude the central pow
ers from the organisation,
as a result of charges of
violation of Red Gross
privileges by the Germans
during the war.
BRITISH FLEET
WANTS MARGIN
SUPERIORITY
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LONDON, Feb. 12 (Delayed in trans
mission).—Admiral Jellico, former
commander of the British grand fleet,
is the author of a book which has
just been published reviewing the na
val activities of the first two years
of the war. The admiral says the
British fleet was endangered by the
superiority of the German destroyer
forces, the enemy’s torpedo possibili
ties and submarines.
The British admiral says he is sur
prised that the Gertnans were so cau
tious, and in the future, he declares,
England must have a great margin
of superiorrity over any possible
enemy in all classes of vessels than
she had in August, 1914.
In the battle of Jutland, at which
Admiral Jellico was in command, he
says the British ships avoided the
torpedoes by turning the battle line
four times, despite the thick weather,
and attacking the Germans on the
port. Last year, he says, the British
were well prepared.
PERSHING TO REVIEW
TROOPS ABOUT TO SAIL
COBLENZ, Feb. 13 (by Associated
Press).—General Pershing Is expected
to arrive here Saturday for a visit of
several days, during which time he
will review two divisions before they
start for home for demobilization.
Bad Faith of Germans with Regard
to Carrying Out Armistice Terms
Is Responsible for New Crisis
PARIS, Feb. 1 3 (by Associated Press).—
The Havas news agency reports President
Wilson as declaring that the failure of the Ger- ;
mans to execute the terms of the armistice
would justify the resumption of the war. He
is reported to have said that he would not agree f
to fresh hostilities except on absolutely essen- :
tial considerations.
The supreme war council has decided to
renew the armistice on February 1 7 for a brief
period. The new armistice is to last* until the
signing of the peace treaty, providing demobi
lization of the German army ai|d disarmament
are carried out under the sudfervision of the
allies.
GENERAL
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SEATTLE, Feb. 13 (by Associat
special to the Times says that, a c
among'-the metal
movement for a general strike in the s .
The officers of the international unions' interested explained
conditions in the shipbuilding industry, with the result^ that
the radicals were defeated.
The defeat of the Seattle strike is said to have affected the
decision.
UNITED STATES ACCEPTS PLAN
FOR OPERATING SIBERIAN ROADS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 by wireless—delayed in trans
mission).—Acting Secretary of State Polk today announced
that the United States had accepted Japan’s proposal regarding
plans for the restoration of the traffic of the Siberian rail
roads.
The Siberian railway systems, including the Chinese East
ern, will be supervised by an inter-allied commission, with a
Russian chairman. Japan, the United States, Great Britain,
France, Italy and China will be represented on the commission.
Mr. Polk said that Japan and the United States had agreed
v operate the railways solely in the interest of Siberia.
John F. Stevens, head of the American commission sent to
Russia in 1917, will be the head of the technical and economic
management of the railways.
SAYS SOPHIA
PASSENGERS
COULD LAND
VICTORIA, B. C., Feb. 12 (Delayed
In transmission).—Captain Bayers,
master of the gasboat Electro, at the
Princess Sophia wreck inquiry yester
day, testified as to the state of the
weather at the time of the wreck.
The engineer of the Electro, Mate
Baxter of the Amy, Captain Logan,
representative of Lloyd’s, and others
also testified.
Baxter testified that the passengers
of the Sophia could have been landed
on the reef at low tide on thb morn
ing of October 24, and then taken In
the Sophia's lifeboats to the vessels
near by.
GOV. LISTER
IS CRITICALLY
HARD QUITS
OLYMPIA, Wash., Feb. 13 (by Asso
ciated Press).—Governor Lister yes
terday turned over the executive of
fice to Lieutenant Governor Hart and
left for the Western Washington hos
pital at Steilacoom, to be under the
personal care of Major Keller, super
intendent of the hospital, who re
cently resigned as a major In the
army medical ^corps.
Dr. Keller told Governor Lister that
he was facing death, and must quit
his office or die soon.
The governor, it is said, had con
sistently refused to slacken his labors,
and his worries had been Increased
by the shipyard and other strikes.
UKRAINIANS WILLING FOR PEACE
PENDING DECISION OF CONFERENCE
WARSAW, Feb. 13 (by Associated Press).—The Bolshe
viki have occupied Zeeliva, between Biarystok and Brest-Lit
ovsk. An attempt by the Bolsheviki, dressed in Polish uni
forms, to penetrate the Polish lines, has failed. One hundred
of the masqueraders were captured.
The Ukrainians have expressed a willingness to negotiate
an armistice with the Poles if they are given the Drosolycz oil
fields, pending a decision by the peace conference.
It is estimated that twenty divisions are opposing the
Poles. The Polish premier, Paderewski, is alarmed at the situ
aJion at Posen. He said he believed the Germans were couut
ng upon the American and foreign press to spread the impres
sion that the Poles were incapable of self-government.
The Polish Elections
BASEL, Feb. 13 (by Association Press).—The final results
of the elections for the Polish assembly show that two National
Democrats, thirty-two Populists, thirteen Socialists, eight Jews
and two Germans have been elected.
BOLSHEVI TROOPS IN NORTH
FORCED TO RETIRE BY YANKS
ARCHANGEL, Feb. 13 (by Associated Press).—American
reinforcements reached the British and Russians at Sredmak
renga yesterday, with the result that the Bolsheviki have re
tired southward, abandoning offensive operations.^
Other sectors of the Northern Russia front remain un
changed.
the North
ssL—The Bolshe
viki who are fighting the allies in the northern sections of Rus
sia comprise 37,000 men, with 151 machine guns, 66 field guns
and 9 six-inch guns, according to a statement from authorita
tive quarters.
• It is declared that the bread ration to the Bolsheviki troops
now is one pound a day, instead of two, and that other rations
are extremely small, showing that they are suffering from food
shortage.
UNION URGES
MINERS TO GO
BACK TO WORK
BUTTE, Mont., Feb. 12 (by wire
less—delayed in transmission).—The
striking miners have resumed picket
ing. Bodies of men congregating in
the streets have been dispersed by
the police and soldiers.
Delegates of unions engaged in the
copper industry and of the boiler
maerks, now at Washington, have rec
ommended that the men return to
work, but few have gone back.
The delegates said that nothing was
to be gained by the strike except a
long shut-down, as the mines have
large surplus stocks of copper, and a
reduction in wages is inevitalbe.
More Soldiers Arrive
Butte, Feb. 13 (by Associated Press).
—The police yesterday arrested a
man charged with threatening to blow
up the street cars if attempts were
made to resume the service.
More of the workers have returned
to the mines.
Two companies of infantry from
Fort Lawton arrived here yesterday.
A Dynamite Outrage
The home of C. S. Nolan, a miner,
was dynamited this morning. No one
was injured, though the house was
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TWO CRUISERS LEAVE
WITH MORE TROOPS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 (by Asso
ciated Press).—The cruisers Pueblo
and Montana left France yesterday
with five thousand troops.
KING WOUNDED
AND RUMANIA
ALL TORN UP
BERLIN, Feb. 13 (yb Associated
Press).—A general insurrection is in
progress throughout Rumania, accord
ing to a Vienna dispatch. King Fer
dinand is said to have been wounded
in an attempt to flee from Bucharest
with the royal family.
Workmen are reported to have at
tacked the royal palace. The rioters
in the Bucharest streets are openly
demanding the overthrow of the
dynasty, crying “Down with the pup
pets! Long live the republic!”
Budapest newspapers say the revolt
is part of the Bolsheviki propaganda.
In a clash between the, military
and demonstrators at Bakorst sixty
persons were killed and a hundred and
fifty wounded.
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FIRST PRESIDENT Or
GERMAN REPUBLIC
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WIEMAR, Feb. 12 (de- :
layed in transmission).—
Freiderich Ebert, the for
mer saddler and Socialist
leader, was chosen today
as the first president of
the German republic by ,
the national assembly,
now in session here.
The assembly is prepar
ing to form a cabinet.
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