The Cordova Daily Times
Member of The Associated Press
VOL. IV. NO. 39 CORDOVA, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1919 PRICE TEN CENTS
ENGLAND’S ATTITUDE ON LEAGUE NATIONS
LORD ROBERT CECIL EXPRESSES
BRITISH VIEW ON PEACE LEAGUE
t
I’A HIS, ,Ian. lb (by Associated Press).—Lord Hobert
Cecil, under secretary of state for foreign affairs, \vlu> lias been
assigned by the British government to represent its ideas re
garding the proposed league of nations, made public bis views
today.
Lord Hobert said he believed the league should be an im
proved association of nations providing a safeguard for peace
and for securing better international co operation. lie said the
basis of the league should be an agreement among the nations
by which each would bind itself to see that all warlike disputes
are presented to the league's tribunal for consideration, and
the use of force to accomplish this if necessary. (Quarrels
should remain under consideration for a specific time, and fur
thor time should elapse after the decision has been reached be
lore the contending countries be allowed to tight.
Moral force should be the ultimate factof employed to pro
vent war, said Lord Hobert. He did not consider an interna
tional army and navy feasible.
. .... ---1 I - ---
TO MAKE SURVEY OF DAMAGES
FRANCE AND BELGIUM SUFFERED
W" -
PARIS, .Jan. la (by Associated Press).-—Two hundred
American army officers probably will be detailed to conduct a
survey in order to give President Wilson an estimate of the
actual physical damage France and Belgium have suilered at
the hands of t lie (iernians.
President W ilson is planning to use this estimate when the '
peace conference discusses indemnities.
(Lbserveres believe that the damage bill will lie so great
that the allies will lie more concerned with Germany’s ability
to pay it than with the possibility of exacting further indemni
ties and war costs.
' President Wilson believes that damages ought to be re
stricted to restitution, reparation and restorations, which could
be extended as financial punishment of the German people.
Greece Seeks Territorial Expansion
Greece lias asked the peace conference for northern Epirus
and Thrace, without Constantinople. Tin* Greek coniinunica- j
t'on says there are one hundred and twenty thousand Greeks in j
Epirus.
Supreme Peace Council in Session
Tin* supreme council of the peace congress resumed its ;
<ssions today. Those present were: French Premier Clemen- !
eau and Foreign Minister Pinchon, President Wilson and Sec- j
etary of State Lansing, Premier Lloyd George and Foreign
dinister A. .1. Balfour, Italian Foreign Minister Konnonino, and j
/iscount Chimin and Baron Batsui, for .Japan.
- Serbians and Belgians Have Complaint
While the apportionment of delegates to the peace con
gress has not yet been officially made known, the list published
ifter Monday’s session of the supreme council has caused an
unfavorable impression among many of the missions. The
Serbians and Belgians are dissatisfied with the giving of three
delegates to Brazil while they are given only two each.
-o--—.
TOOGRAD CRIES FOR BREAD;
BOLSHEVISTS GIVE BULLETS
r* _
STOCKHOLM, Jan. 15 (by Associated Press).—Hunger
iots are reported to have taken place in Petrograd on Satur
lay and Sunday last, when ten thousand persons paraded the
treets, shouting for bread. They were fired upon by the Bol
heviki troops.
Desperute from hunger, the crowds asked the troops to
hoot them. The dispatch says that not a snigle piece of bread
i to be found in Petrograd. Unground oats are being given
k> the people.
B
DUCHESS OF
LUXEMBURG
ABDICATES
LONDON. Jan. 1'. (by Associated
Pres i The Daily Mail says that the
Brand Duchess Marie of Luxemburg
has abdicated and that the population
of two hundred thousand is undecided
whether to establish a republic or to
choose one of the grand duchess’s sis
ters to occupy the throne.
An earlier report said that Luxem
burg might ask to be joined to France.
Marie's Sister Chosen
Ll’XF.MBPKO. Jan. 1i b\ Asso
ciated Press ) Princess Charlotte,
sister of the Brand Duchess Marie,
has been chosen as the latter's sue
• • --ei by the chamber of deputies.
Tie- Brand Ductless Marie signed
her ahdicution.
BOLSHEVISTS
OF MEXICO
ARE ACTIVE
FL PASO. Jan. 1(by Associated
Press). A handbill printed in Spanish
and signed “Mexican Bolshevists,” is
being distributed here. It urges the
death of President Carranza, Villa, Fe
lix Diaz. Ksteban and Cantu, the gov
ernor of Lower California, and all
other leaders and rich men in Mexico.
—+
SOPHIA PROBE
WILL ADJOURN
TO FEBRUARY
* _________
VICTORIA. II Jun. 15 (by Asso
ciated Press). Officers of the United
States lighthouse tender Cedar will be
unable to be here Friday to give evi
dence at the inquiry into he Princess
Sophia disaster. The Cedar is now
at Bremerton, and will call here on
January 22. when the officers will
give their evidence. The inquiry will
then he adjourned until February 111.
EXPLOSION OF STORAGE
TANK KILLS FII EN
BOSTON, Jan. 15 (by Associated
Press).-Fifteen to twenty persons
were killed and from fifty to seventy
five injured today by the explosion
of a storage tank of molasses near
Cutts' wharf.
GERMAN WAR PRISONERS
FOR RECONSTRUCTION
PARIS, Jan. 15 (by Associated
Press).—The cabinet has decided to
use two hundred thousand German
was prisoners In reconstruction work
in the liberated districts of northern
France.
ALASKA MINING STOCKS
NEW YORK. Jan. 15.—Alaska Gold,
3%; Alaska Juneau. 2.
TRAINLOAD OF
FOOD GIVEN
TO VIENNESE
_—
VIKNNA. Jan. ir» (by Associated
Press). A small number of British
I troops have arrived here as a convoy
to a trainload of foodstuffs which wer«
sent as a present from the British
army in Italy to the women and ehil
dn-n of Vienna.
Great crowds cordially welcomed
, tii»* men and suppii which were sent
in recognition of tie fact that Austria
i treated her British prisoners with con
I sideration. in nStrast with tie- in
human treatment inflicted upon tin
prisoners of war by Germany.
RADICALS ARE
OUTVOTED AT
LABOR MEET
——- ■-* * r
CHICAGO. Jan. 15 (by Associated
Press). The conservatives defeated
th«• radicals by a vote of two to on<
in organizing the national labor con
j gross being held here to consider plans
I for the liberation of Thomas Mooney
.uniler sentence In California for tin
Sun Francisco bomb murders
Kd ward I). Nolan. Mooney’s co
j defendant, was named chairman.
-
REVOLUTIONISTS
REFUSE TO
SURRENDER
LISBON. Jan. 15 (by Associated
Press).—A dispatch fiom Lisbon re
ports that the revolutionists at San
taro in. northeast of Lisbon, having re
fused to surrender, the government
troops have surrounded the town and
/commenced a bombardment.
—♦
HINDENBURG TO DIRECT
TROOPS AGAINST POLES
—
COPENHAGEN. Jun. 15 (by Asso
|elated Press). Von Hindenburg will
soon take command of the German
troops operating against the Poles in
German territory
--♦
COL. HOUSE SUFFERS FROM
ATTACK OF INDIGESTION
PARIS. Jan. 15 (by Associated
Press).—Colonel House is confined to
his bed with an attack of indigestion
He is expected to be about again
within a few days.
-*
GENERAL WOOD ORDERED
TO CHICAGO COMMMAND
WASHINGTON .Jan. 15 (by Asso
ciated Press).—General Leonard
Wood, commanding Camp Funaton,
has been ordered to Chicago to as
sume command ot the Central depart
ment.
—
('[ 11 < "A< i<t, .Ian, la (by Associated Press). Within
; twenty tour hours, and possibly sooner, the I nited States
probably will have been voted “dry” by the action of the
legislatures of thirty six states, which constitute the 7a per
I cent necessary to read prohibition into the federal constitution.
I ]) to l! o'clock today the legislatures of thirty four states
, had ratilied the amendment.
Bhb’l.l X, Jail, la (by Associated Pie- Bol'liu's long
week of anarchy finally has ended. Scattered de-perado.-s,
mostly youths, lire occasionally I ruin the housetops and make
e!forts to revive the reign of terror, but the attempts are in.-ig
nilicant.
It i- believed tlmt two hundred were killed and a thousand
wounded during the lighting, mostly Bolshevists. The propertv
| losses during- the week of terror will total tens of millions of
; marks.
Documents captured show that the Hpartacide uprising was
directed from Moscow.
I he sister ot Liehkneclit. leader of the Spartacides, has
been arrested.
VIOLATORS OF
NEUTRAL Y
FACE TRIAL
SAN FKANt’ISCO. Jan. 14 (by As
sociated Press.)- Trial of the so
called Sacramento neutrality cases
which began here today, involved two
officials of the imperial German con
sulate-general in San Francisco, a
dozen other individuals and three cor
porations under indictments returned
in 1910 and 1917.
A blanket indictment returned July
7. 1917, charged conspiracy to violate
the neutrality of the United States in
1914 and 1915 through an attempt to
make San Francisco a base of supply
for a German fleet then operating in
the South Pacific ocean, and con
spiracy to obtain false clearance for
various ships needed lo cary out the
(dan The case centered about the
steamship Sacramento, which was al
leged to have delivered a general car
i go to the German fleet after it was
"captured" oft the coast of Chile: the
steamship Mazatlan. which was al
leged to have delivered coal to the
German cruiser Leipzig at Guaymas,
Mexico; the steamship Olson and
Mahoney, which was denied clear
ance papers here, end the steamships
Maverick and Annie Larsen which
were alleged to have been used In
an attempt to send arms and muni
tions to revolutionists in India.
The principal defendants are:
Baron Eckbard 11. von Sc hack, for
mer German vlce-onsul-general at Sun
Francisco.
Henry Kauffman, former chancellor
of the Imperial German consulate
general here.
Hans Tauscher, husband of Johan
na Gadakt, the singer, as agent for
the purchase of the Annte Uarsen’s
cargo.
Frans von Papen formerly naval
attache of the imperial German con
i lute-general tit New York,
Kohert fapelle, former l’acific
coast general agent for tile North
Gentian l.loyil Steamship company.
Frederick Johann, captain and own
er of the Mazatlan, never apprehend
ed and variously reported as killed, as
hoard a submarine, and as safe in
Germany.
J I,. Bley, custom house broker.
T A. Anderson, captain of the Sac
ramento.
It. H. Swavne and John G Hoyt of
tite firm of Sway tie and Hoyt, ship
brokers.
Philip It. Thayer, president of the
Northern and Southern Steamship
company.
Dr. Simon Heimor, said to have
been a German naval ofTicer
D Bunker and company, custom
house brokers.
The Northern and Southern Steam
ship company
t'apcllc, von Schack, Kauffman and
Bley were convicted here of conspir
acy to verthrow Britsh rule in India
Tuuschcr and von Papon, are said to
be in Germany
The Sacramento, then a German
merchant ship known as the Alex
andria. was interned at this port
when the war began in 1914. She
was taken over and renamed the Sac
ramento by the Northern and South
ern Steamship company, which, it
was alleged, was organized for that
purpose by Swayne and Hoyt and
others. A cargo, Including beer,
sauerkraut and other foodstuffs and
ship suplpies, was purchased through
(’. I). Bunker and company, and the
vessel was cleared from this port for
Valparaiso, Chile, in October, 1914.
When she arrived at her destination
shs was as empty as a drum.
Soon after the Sacramento left San
Francisco, it was said, a German offi
cer, a stowaway, appeared and aaaum
ed practical direction of the ship,
used the wireless and cooperated in
the “capture" of the vessel by the
tierntan fleet. This fleet included a
dozen cruisers, among them the Leip
zig. Baden, Santa Isabel, Scharnhorst,
Nrunberg. and Gneisenau. most of
which were subsequently suak by
British warships.