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The Cordova Daily Times
V<>LUME TW<>. NUMBER 105. \ CORDOVA, ALASKA, SATURDAY, DEC EMHER 4, 1015._PRICE TEN CENTS.
UNCLE SAM TO PDNISH ALL OFFENDERS
INTERFERENCE WITH OUR COMMERCE MUST END
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.—President W ilson has deter"
r^uod to take prompt and decisive action against all whose
sympathies with the foreign belligerents lias caused them to
violate the laws of this country, and excessive and extreme
measures are living proposed for those concerned in the de
struction of the American munition factories. Mr. W ilson will
not stop at the rank and file of the workers in these unlawful
acts, but will request the removal of all persons in the diplo
matic corps of any foreign country who have been in the least
planner connected with these outrages. The President will
decide each ground on the basis of whether such persons have
hampered, or will hamper if allowed to remain, the best in
terests of the United States. Captain Von Nuber, the Aus"
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I trim) consul-general at New York, its well as other consuls
throughout the United States, and even certain officials of
the Austrian and German embassies at Washington, are under
suspicion, and they are being investigated by the federal se
cret service.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 4.—A federal warrant has been
issued, charging Baron Von Brinken, a cavalry captain in the
German army, with attempting to destroy commerce. The
specific acts charged agaipst Von Brinken are not known, but
they are believed to be connected with the placing of bombs
and other explosives on ships bearing cargoes for the allies.
Von Brinken has not yet been undejr arrest, as his status in
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! this country is being investigated. The captain claims immun
ity from arrest, on the ground that he is connected with the
German diplomatic service.
NEW YORK, Dec. 4.— Sentence was passed' today on the
!&>ur officials of the Hamburg'American line, who were con
victed yesterday in the federal court here, of defrauding the
Knifed States by issuing false manifests. Dr. Karl Buenz, the
managing director, George Kotter and Adolf Dachmeister
were each sentenced to serve a year and a half in the federal
penitentiary at Atlanta. The Hamburg-American Steamship
Company was fined one dollar. All four defendants were acT
initted to bail pending the suing out of writs of error.
LONDON, Dec. 4.—Both the northern and southern Ser
bian armies have made successful movements and are now
safely established in Albania. A large body of Serbs, evident'
lv from Monastir, has reached the frontier camp at Gievgeli,
near the Greek frontier in Serbia. In England the feeling over
the Serbian situation is much improved, and the newspapers
are commenting optimistically on tin* outlook. It is expected’
that the Russian invasion of Bulgaria will soon crystallize,
and that with both sides of the Balkans subject of attack, that;
the Bulgarians and Von Mackensen will have more to attend
to than they can take care of.
ATHENS, Dec. 4.—Thousands of Serbian refugees are
crossing the Greek frontier and pouring into the towns on this
side of the border. At Fiorina several thousand have arrived
after tramping through the deep snow from Monastir. All
the buildings in Fiorina are crowded with the refugees, and
the town, being small, there are not half enough buildings
available to shelter all the people. Hunrdeds of men and
women are sleeping outside, although the weather is bitterly
cold, sheltered from the wind in all sorts of ways, and trying
to be as comfortable as possible, despite the hardships they
are undergoing. Feeding the refugees presents a problem
fully as serious as that of housing them, and many young|
children are dying from lack of food, while the babies werej
unable to live under the rigors of the march from Monastir
without proper food and warmth.
BERLIN, Dec. 4.—The war office officially announced to
day that very little activity was evident in Serbia, and with ,
the exception of the pursuit of various straggling bands of I
Serbs into the mountains, nothing of importance occurred I
yesterday. Scattered detachments are keeping up a guerilla |
warfare against the Austro-Gennan forces, but they are being;
vigorously pursued, and yesterday two thousand of these free
lance Serbs were captured’.
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ROUMANIA COMMANDEERS ALL STEAMERS IN PORT.
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BUCHAREST, Dec. 4.—The Roumanian military authori-'
ties have announced that all steamers, barges, tugs and other
water craft anchored in Roumanian ports, whether owned by
foreign or Roumanian concerns, will be commandeered by the |
government on Monday in the interest of the national defense. I
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BRITISH ARMY NEAR BAGDAD FORCED TO RETREAT.
LONDON, Dec. 4.—The British army in Mesopotamia,;
which for days has been in sight of Bagdad', and apparently
had the city within its grasp, has been forced to retreat. The!
war office announced officially today that the troops under ,
General Townshend were retreating in the direction of Tele
mara.
TURKISH SHELLS DESTROY BRITISH RIVER BOATS. \
LONDON, Dec. 4.—The war office has received official j
advices from Mesopotamia in regard to the fighting during the ,
march on Bagdad, and the total British losses are set at 4,000. j
The river boats which were used' by the British in their ad
vance were set on fire by Turkish shells and have been
abandoned.
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OLD CHINESE BOOK PRINTED FROM BLOCKS. (
CAMBRIDGE, Eng., Dec. 4.—The Cambridge University |
Library has just acquired from a graduate in China a volume!,
containing the complete works of the poet-statesman, Li Tsung ]
Yuan. The work is dated 1107, and is printed from blocks. It;,
is the earliest printed book in the library, being thirty'seven j (
years earlier than any book previously preserved there. j j
WHOLESALE INDICTMENT OF LABOR LEADERS.
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CHICAGO, Dec. 4.—A bomb shell was thrown into Illinois
labor circles yesterday when the state grand jury returned in
dictments against forty-seven of the leading labor unionists
of the state. Most of the men indicted are officials and mem
bers of the building trades unions of Chicago, which has but
recently concluded a strike, which tied up the entire building
industry of this section, and forced hundreds of thousands of
men in allied employments out of work. The indictments are
all based on alleged graft, which the labor leaders secured
from the employing builders during this strike. Among the
offenses enumerated are extortion, conspiracy and malicious
mischief, and it is further alleged' that the indicted men col
lected a half million dollars graft from the employers to bring
the strike to an end.
JAPAN ADOPTS NOVEL SANITARY MEASURE.
OSAKA, Japan, Dec. 4.—As a means of encouraging sani
tation and the prevention of disease the city health depart
ment has engaged a well known actor to produce a one act
comedy, whose story and plot is designed to instil a fear of
epidemic.
The authorities will buy tickets to the play, and they will
be distributed by policemen among the hotels and restaurants
and other places where there is special need of sanitary equip
ment.
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VIENNA TREATS INTERNED ALLIES LENIENTLY.
VIENNA, Austria, Dec. 4.—The Viennese are proud of
the fact that they have dealt leniently with the English,
French and Russians in the capital. Only suspicious charac
ters have been interned, and among the “enemy aliens” at
large in the city there is far more freedom than in Berlin and
most of the other German cities. The visitor from Berlin, for
instance, is surprised to find that any language may be spoken
over the telephone. Nothing but German is permitted in Ber
lin, and even a mispronunciation of a German word' may be
* followed by a polite hut firm request from the telephone oper
ator to-“Speak German, please.” The second offense means,
a severed connection.
CHINA INSISTS UPON HAVING AN EMPEROR.
PEKIN, Dec. 4.—Plans for the enthronement of Yuan
Shi Kai as emperor are proceeding fast., despite the joint re
quest made by Russia, England and Japan that the matter
be delayed for the present, until the situation in the war zone
.in Europe had cleared. China’s first reply to this request in'
Miniated that the suggestion of the allies would be followed,
but despite this everything is proceeding as if no postpone
ment were contemplated, and the diplomatic representatives
of the allies are preparing another joint note to China on the
subject.
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SOUTH AFRICA TO HAVE NATIONAL UNIVERSITY.
CAPETOWN, Dec. 4.—The project for a great national
# South African university seems now in a fair way to be rea
lized. More than $2,500,000 in bequests has for some time been
awaiting the agreement of various boards and trustees upon
questions of site and policy. It has now been settled that the
institution will have its headquarters on Cecil Rhodes’ old es'
tab*, at (Iroote Schuur. The existing “South African college”
will be the neuelus of the new university. The necessary legis*
lative approval for the project will be pushed through the ap
proaching session of parliament.
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GREECE WILL DISARM TEUTON SOLDIERS
LONDON, Dec. 4.—The progress of the negotiations with
Greece are progressing favorably fro the allies despite the
threats of reprisals from the Central Powers. Greece has
granted the allies absolute control of all the railroads in Mace
donia, and given them full charge of several ports in the
Aegean Sea. Greece has also promised that all soldiers of
the Central Powers entering Greece will he disarmed and in
terned.
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AMERICAN RELIEF COMMITTEE NEEDS SUPPLIES.
ROME, Dec. 4.~~The American relief committee, which has
its clearing house in Rome, under American management, for
the distribution of supplies to those in distress on account of
the war, reports conditions growing constantly worse, espec
ially as the winter approaches. Lewis Iddings, former secre
tary of the American embassy in Rome, who is acting as
chairman of the executive committee of the American Relief,
says that both food and hospital supplies of even kind are
needed' badly, especially anti-toxin and artificial legs and
arms. At the present time there are over 13,000 persons in
need of these substitutes for lost members.
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MAGNETIC SURVEY TO BE MADE OF EASTERN ASIA.
PEKTNG, Dec. 4.—Dr. Charles K. Edmunds, president of
the Canton Christian College, is about to complete a magnetic
survey of China, which the Carnegie Foundation of Washing
ton, D. C., authorized him to make several years ago. Dr. Ed
munds expects the preliminary survey to be completed by next
May. This will embrace not only China, but all of Eastern
Asia. When the work is completed there will be no point in
this section of the world more than one hundred and' fifty
miles from a station where magnetic conditions have not been
investigated.
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HAEPHESTIA LIKELY DESTROYED BY EARTHQUAKE.
ATHENS, Dec. 4.—A mutilated statue of Eros, discovered
by French troops in the course of trench digging exercises on
the island of Lemnos, may prove to he a find of great archaeo'
logical importance. The statue was uncovered on the site of
the ancient town of Haephestia, which once boasted 00,000 in
habitants, and the condition of the statue is said to give con
•lusive evidence that the city was destroyed by a terrible
earthquake, and not by an invader, as had heretofore been
bought likely.
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TRANSFERRED FROM SAN FRANCISCO TO TOKIO.
TOKIO, Dec. 4.—Matsuzo Xagai, formerly consul general
:t San Francisco, has been appointed private secretary to
3aron Ishii, the new minister for foreign affairs. Before serv
ng as consul at Sail Francisco, Mr. Nagai was one of the sec
retaries at the Japanese embassy at Washington. He is
horouglily familiar with conditions in the United States, and
s one of the best English scholars in Japan. The post of sec'
•etarv to the minister is one of the most important at the
oreign office.
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FORD’S PEACE EXPEDITION IS ON THE WAY
NEW YORK, Dec. 4.—The Norwegian steamer King (Ts
ar, which Henry Ford has chartered to convey the members
,f his peace expedition to Europe, will sail from here today,
unind for Europe, where the first stop will be made in Nor
ray. The peace expedition will likely receive a frosty recen
ion by the British, who seem stubbornly determined to fight
mtil a decisive conflict has been waged, but Ford refuses to
xpress any discouragement, and says he will go through with
lis plans, and remain on the job until peace is finally secured