ALSATIAN GIRLS FLEE TO UNITED STATES
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Misses Lydia and Janet Blumenthal. daughters of Daniel Blumenthal, who
was mayor of Colmar at the beginning of the wnr, until the Germans advanced
and deposed him. The two girls fled secretly from their home in Colmar to
France to save their lives as the Germans advanced Into the town, and
arrived recently in this country. Daniel Blumenthal nrrlved here six months
. go. lie is well known as a lender In Alsace and as president of the World
' "ague for the Restitution o£» Alsace-Lorraine.
BRITISH FLITS
CHRISTIANIA, Dec. 5.—(By Mail)
•—Norway during the last half of the
year has had the same experience of
German methods as the United States
went through before it entered the
war, spies working everywhere un
der the direction of espionage cen
ters in the neighboring countries,
Sweden and Denmark.
Thanks to the work of the police,
especially in Christiania, many of
them have been caught, some sent to
jail and others expelled from the
country.
Several mysterious fires in great
industrial plants and storage houses
have aroused a country-wide suspi
cion against every German, Swede
and Finn. During the last half of
the year there have been twenty-one
such fires here, two or three occurr
ing together. The great store of pro
visions in Trondjem belonging to the
British importing agency was burned
with a loss of several million dollars.
It proved to be of incendiary origin.
Two canning plants with great ex
ports for Great Britain were burned
and a condensed milk plant with ex
-ciusive export trade to England was
destroyed with more than a million
cans ready for shipment.
Three planing mills in different
parts of the country were burned.
Their output was being used for
boxes and crates for export. The
other day another planing mill in the
vicinity of the government's fire-arm
manufactory at Kongsberg was burn
ed during the night and while atten
tion was directed toward this fire a
burglar was detected in the fire-arm
factory. The press states that Ger
man plotters in this case tried to
blow up the government factory.
Foreigners have sought and in
some cases obtained employment at
the government munition plant, and
later have been discovered to be Ger
man citizen's, some of them even of
; ficers in the German army.
The press is warning the people to
look for a criminal spy in every Ger
man in the country.
In order to keep such undesirable
guests out of the country and pre
vent the increasing number of for
eigners of a poor quality from drift
ing into Norway, a short bill was
passed by parliament forbidding for
eigners who have arrived since Au
gust, 1914, to stay here more than
two weeks without a special license.
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Up to the hour of going to press
no word had been received from the
steamer Victoria, which Is due from
the westward. *
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The steamer Aameda is due in Ju
neau today and should be here Fri
day.
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H. G. McPherson, of Whitehorse,
claims to have a record laying flock
of one dozen hens. For several
months they kept the family sup
plied with eggs and out of the sur
plus $58 worth of the hen fruit was
sold.
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LOCAL DOINGS
AND PERSONAL
Francis A. Hancock, of McCarthy,
who is employed at the Mother I.odc
mine, is spending a couple of days In
town.
,T. E. Richardson and wife. )f Gul
kana, were arrivals in Cordova on
yesterday's train, on their way to the
States.
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N. G. Nelson, of Juneau, is here
from a trip to the interior, en route
home.
The boai4l of equalization met at
city hall last night but no one appear
ed to find fault with the assessment
levied against his property or stock.
F. F. Farrington, an old time Alas-j
kan, who has spent several months
in the Tanana valley examining sojne
mining property, is a Cordova visitor.
E. R. Peoples, one of Fairbanks’
largest and most successful mer
chants arrived in Cordova on yes
terday’s train and will leave on the
Victoria for the States. He reports
extreme cold weather and snow drifts
on the frail, although he made the
trip in seven days. Mr. Peonies is
greatly impressed with the growth of
Cordova and the prosperity our resi
dents are enjoying.
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DUBLIN, Dec 6—The Sinn Fein agi
tation continues to steam without
boiling over into actual rebellion.
The purpose of the Sinn Feiners is
alleged to be to keep the nerves of
thet government on edge, to produce
very dreadful deeds, and at suitable'
moments to provoke the government
action as an evidence that England is
holding down Ireland by force. Their ^
notion is said to be that the military ,
measures taken against them preju
dice England in neutral countries, and
in Russia.
The attitude of the military com-'
nianders is that it is their business
to check anything that could facili
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tate another armed revolt. The lasf
time they were caught napping and
besides, incurred a formidable list of
casualties in killed and wounded. The
government had to pay three million
pounds because it was obliged to ad-!
mit responsibility for the failure to
protect the lives and property of
peaceful citizens. They are resolved
that that shall not happen again.
That is why they have forbidden drill
ing, or uniforms, or processions.
A disciplined body of men march
ing In military formation, and train
ed to the word of command, even IT
armed only with hurleys, could out
master any local police force and con
trol any town. Hence such proces
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slons are prohibited. Today there
were to be Sinn Fein national par
ados in uniform all over Ireland with
a great meeting in the neighbor
hood of the Curragh camp. That has
been prevented.
The military authorities are par
ticularly keen on preventing the ac
quisition of arms. The Sinn Felners
main hope of getting arms is not
from Germany but from the British
army, and there is a constant activity
to steal or purchase arms from indi
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vidual soldiers.
For the present the government is
in the position that through the con
vention it is offering the Irish people
home rule. But the convention drags
along without coming to a decision.
If it should not form a plan of govern
ment Ireland will be left where It
was at the beginning, with the knowl
edge that there can be home rule for
twenty-six counties, and that Belfast,
will not come in and cannot be forced
' in. The situation, then would be that
! the government would 'be obliged to
' suppress the Sinn Feiners.
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