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VOLUME III." NUMBER ~241 C()H1x)VXTaLASKA, TUESDAY, iPRIL7?0,B>18 PRICE TEN CENTS
HUNS ARE UNABLE TO BREAK DEFENSIVE OF AIDES
TREMENDOUS ASSAULT OF THE GERMANS HAS BEEN REPULSED
. HILLS ARE HELD
AND ENEMY DEFEATED
LONDON, April JO.—Correspondents with the British
army agree that the Germans yesterday suffered a disastrous
defeat. It was the first phase of the battle in the Germans’
desperate attempt to capture the bills held by the allies which
endanger the possession of Kemmel bill. The Germans prob
ably used thirteen divisions from east of Ypres southward in
the line of battle, with two more to the northward.
The violence of the gunfire wag never greater or more un
ceasing at any period Of the war. The successful allied de
fense made it the bloodiest fighting ever experienced by the
Germans. Attack after attack was smashed by artillery and
infantry fire, and the German waves were mowed down.
Yesterday’s fighting closed with the British wings and
the French center neither bent nor broken.
Victory of Allies Complete
DATELEvSS.—Reports from the front serve to emphasize
the completeness of the victory won by the allies yesterday in
withstanding the tremendous assault hv which the Germans
hoped to break into the allied hill positions southwest of Ypres
and begin cutting their way toward the channel ports.
The allies made a stand after forcing the Germans to use
ten thousand men in getting to points near Loore, which they
were unable to hold and which tin French now hold. This po
sition guards the approach to Mount Rogue, one of the most
valuable hill positions of the allies on the defensive line.
Onfe hundred and seventy-five t ; • d ' >‘rmau tool:
Successes on Two Fronts
LONDON, April 30.—The French hold the entire village
of Loore, west of Kemmel, says the official statement issued
by the war office today. During last night the British ad
vanced their Tines east of Villers-Brettoneux on the front be
fore Amiens. The French counter-attacked and drove the Ger
mans from the ground they gained yesterday morning. The
Germans were repulsed along the northern front. The night
passed in comparative quiet.
British Continue to Advance
BRITISH HEADQUARTERS IN FRANCE, April 30.—
The lines of tin* allies have been advanced between Kemmel and
Laclitte, and have been advanced south of that region.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 30—Franz
Bopp, the former German consul gen
eral here, and E. H. Von Sehaick, for
mer vice consul, were today sentenced
to two years’ imprisonment in the fed
eral penitentiary and fined $10,000
each, following their conviction last
week on charges of conspiring to fo
ment a revolution against British rule
in India.
SMALL VOTE BEING^POLLFO
HI PRIMARIES TBDM
The primary election took place to
day, and but little interest was taken
by the voters. The polls opened at
8 o’clock this morning and will close
at 7 o’clock tonight. F. H. Foster,
James Brennan and J. W. Crompton
are the judges, and H. B. Wolking
and Hub Bollinger the clerks.
At 4:30 o’clock this afternoon there
were only 143 votes polled, as follows
Republican, 86; Democratic, 55; So
cialist, 2.
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Minstrel show at Empress tonight.
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Buy a Liberty bond.
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SALE OF BONOS
WASHINGTON, Apri 1 30.—Liberty
loan subscriptions of $2,403,440,400
had been reported to the treasury de
partment up to this morning. An ap
peal has been issued to all committees
in charge of local campaigns to in
augurate an intensive finish for the
third loan, and to see that no possible
subscriptions have been overlooked.
Twelfth District
SEATTLE, April 30.—The following
has been received from Liberty loan
headquarters under date of April 29:
"Subscriptions to the third Liberty
lean in the Twelfth reserve district
now total $211,518,250. Today’s sub
scriptions were $1,177,250.
"The number of subscribers is 711,
039. Seven hundred and eighty-eight
honor flags have been awarded in the
district. "VAN SMITH.”
PBiclSimm ■
IEICIIE OPENS TOOII
SEATTLE, April 30.—The Pacific
Coast International Baseball League
opens today. Aberdeen plays in this
city, Vancouver at Portland, and Spo
kane at Tacoma.
LONDON, April 30.—British casuai
s ties during April totaled 54,475. Of
this total, 9,344 were killed.
The April figures are higher than
| March as the result of the big of
fensive. The March total was 14,090,
which was the lowest for several
months.
FOOD ilOTsiWw
mm in Hucm
LONDON, April 30.—Serious food
riots have taken place at CracoW, Oar
licia. owing to the fact that no food
shipments have arrived there in sev
eral weeks.
IIISMIM PUN
OF JOINT TIFF SMIlLf
NEW YORK, April 30.—The secre
tary of the German imperial economic
board has sent to German industrial
and commercial bodies copies of the
draft of a new tentative Austro-Ger
man joint commercial tariff, say Ber
lin newspapers.
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Minstrel show at Empress tonight.
II SEEKS
J^OCKHOLM, April 30.—TFie Cath
olic! International Press Agency an
nounces that Emperor Charles of Aus
triipis making new peace overtures,
appealing to Italy to consider peace
! onjpr own behalf.
-THOROUGHBRED SHEEP
4SHINGTON, April 30.—Presi
! Wilson has purchased twelve
bred Shropshire sheep, which
v0 the run of the White House
for gracing.
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your Liberty bonds, women, and
r husband about it afterwards.
-„ ±_r-— tribute to the United States
yesterday when one hundred anil twenty-two American sol
diers were decorated with the War Cross for bravery displayed
in the recent fighting, when they bore the brunt of the German
attack on Apremont forest on April 12.
Here and there in the line of heroes, as they were drawn
up to receive the decoration, were spaces representing the men
killed or seriously wounded.
Meeting a Gas ana infantry Attack.
HUSH MU SEEKS
RICE III PHUT
MANCHESTER, England, April 30.
—The bye-election for the Keighley
division will probably see Miss Nina
Noyle as a candidate for parliament.
She has announced her Intention of
running for office, as she wishes to
settle the question whether women
now have the right of election to par
liament.
FINNISH GUARDS CAPTURE
VIBORG; ANNIHILATE DS
LONDON, April 30.—The Finnish White Guards have cap
tured the town of Viborg, seventy-five miles northwest of Pet
rograd, killing nearly the entire force of six thousand Red
Guards- _
^ Evidence of German Plotting
NEW YORK, April 30.—The Finnish Information Bureau,
which claims to represent the Reds of Finland, says that any
counter-revolutionary movement in Russia must inevitably rely
upon the German military party to maintain itself.
The great mass of the Russian people stands solidly be
liinds the Russian Soviets, says the statement issued by the
bureau. All the forces of reaction in Russia are scheming and
praying for a German victory and a German peace, to re
enthrone the autocracy.
If the counter-revolution succeeds, concludes the state
ment, it will give the German Junker group a number of vassal
allies with immeasurable potential resources.
STRIKE IT 1
\T\smNGTO^A?rtrW-??fiTln^
tional war labor board, at its first
session here yesterday, took steps to
ward averting a threatened general
strike on May 1.
Representatives of the employers
say that any settlement agreed upon
by the board will be acceptable to the
manufacturers, and representatives of
the workers state that a strike can
be averted if assurances are given
that the men will receive wage in
creases.
SENATOR®
RE 1SS0I1RI
BEEN FILLED
ST. LOUIS, April 30.—Xenophon P.
Wilfley, a member of the St. Louis
election board, and a prominent Dem
ocrat, has been tendered the Missouri
senatorship made vacant by the death
of Senator Stone, and he has notified
the governor of his acceptance.
CHOICE HORS t MEAT
SELES AT n CENTS
LONDON, April 30.—The first offi
cial horseflesh shop was opened in
London, in Camden Town, recently.
The new war-time meat had a brisl
sale. At the suggestion of the war
office old army horses are slaughtered
for sale at the new shop. The prices
ranged from 16 cents per pound for
the less desirable cuts'to 29 cents for
the choicer portions. Among the first
customers were three soldiers on
| leave. They said the oniy difference
between horse and cow meat was that
i the horse worked for a living.
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FISH MARKET
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KETCHIKAN, April 30.—Halibut,
firsts, 13c; seconds, 10c; sable. 4c; red
rock, 2c.
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Minstrel show at Empress tonight.
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WASHINGTON, April 30.—The sen
ate yesterday passed the Overman
bill, giving the President power to re
organize the government departments
during the continuation of the war.
The measure now goes to the house.
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BUENOS AIRES, April 30.—Argen
tina’s financial and economic condi
tion apparently is being strengthened
as the war drags on. The republic
recently signed a convention for
financing the sale of several million
tons of cereals to the entente allies,
which really amounted to a huge loan,
and there have been other events in
financial circles which show that Ar
gentine credit abroad and confidence
at home are progressing hand in hand.
The fact that is being most widely
commented upon by the Argentine
newspapers is that confidence at home
has become so strong that stocks of
the National Mortgage Bank, known
as “credulas hipotecarias,” are being
quoted at par for the first time in their
history. These credulas are looked
upon in financial circles as barom
eters of the nation’s condition, for
they are shares in a bank which is
backed by the government, and they
fluctuate with the improvement or
weakening of government credit. Usu
ally they are quoted around 94 to 98,
and they have never gone to par even
during the boom seasons, when every
thing else was being bought by in
vestors.
Now there is an animated competi
tion on the stock exchange for these
credulas, and large blocks of them
are changing hands daily, which the
newspapers take as an indication that
the public’s confidence in the Irigoyen
government has become so strength
ened that it, at- last, is willing to in
vest in government shares, the large
surplus of money which has been lying
idle in savings banks ever since the
war began.