The Cordova Daily Times
Member of The Associated Press
Yr()L. III. NO. •'Iii.'l CORD<)VA, ALASKA, Tl ESBAY, DECEMBER IlMS PRICE TEN CENTS
GERMANY MAY BE OCCUPIED BY ALLIES
TERMS OF ARMISTICE HAVE NOT BEEN COMPLIED WITH
SURRENDER OF
EX KAISER TO
BE DEMANDED
LONDON. Dec Tho Kxpress
says the allies will demand of Hol
land that she surrender the former
kaiser It is believed that Holland
is not disposed to bio* k bis extradi
tion.
The allies' request is ha « d on the
ground that the position of the former
kaiser is analogous to that of a pirate
or slave trader, and that he is not
entitled to sanctuary in any country.
The Daily News says that tin* Mrit
ish war cabinet, with tin* Trench and
Italian representatives in London,
have decided to take no action re
ganlins* the former kaiser until ITesi
dent Wilson arrives.
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GERMANY BUT
LONDON. Dei An Amsterdam
dispatch sa\ that (lermany has per
mitted several ! lohon/.ollern prince?
to leave (lermany on condition that
they leave their fortunes behind. The
primes have accepted these eondi
tions and expect to proceed to Switz
erland. Denmark and Holland.
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♦ CROWN PRINCE
♦ KNEW WAR LOST
♦ AFTER MARNE
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♦ HOST Kill.AM >. Holland, lien.
4 Tile former Herman crown
♦ prince today told an Associated
♦ Press representative that he
♦ "had renounced nothing." and
♦ that lie had signed no doett
♦ incut.
♦ Marne Was Crucial Blow
The former crown prince ♦
♦ said he was convinced that ♦
♦ Hermany had lost the war ♦
♦ early in October, l'.il-l He 4
♦ innsidcred the Herman posi ♦
i4 tion hopeless after the battle of ♦
4 tile .\iart.c, which the Hermans 4
4 would not have lost if the 4
4 chief of the general staff had 4
4 not suffered from a ease of 4
4 "nerve; 4
4 Staff Was Rude to Him 4
4 The prince said he had tried 4
<r to persuade tin- general tall 4
4 to seek peat e then. c\cn ill 4
4 great sacrifice, even suggest 4
4 ing tin surrender of Alsace 4
4 Lorraine 4
4 "I was told." he said, “to 4
4 mind my own business and 4
4 confine my activities to com 4
4 manding my armies. I have 4
4 proof of this."
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FROM SACRAMENTO
TO SEATTLE BY AIR
M \Tl!i:U K1KLI». Sacramento. Dor.
Lieutenant A l\ Howland left on
an airplane Might for Seattle today.
He will make hi* first stop at Red
ding. and plans to reach Seattle to
morrow morning.
GERMANS ATTACKED AND
DEFEATED BY RUSSIANS
BKKL1N, Dec. —Baron Aexkuell of Ksthonia reports
that the Germans have bofpm to evacuate Keval, where they
were attacked and defeated by the Kussians. He says if a few
allied warships should reach Koval this week they could dam
the Bolshevik Hood, which has been murdering, burning and
plundering in Ksthonia and Livonia.
UKRAINIAN TROOPS TO
STARVE OUT LEMBERG
VIKXXA, I><•(■. Travelers from Lemberg state that the
Ckrainian troops are preparing to surround and starve out
Lemberg, which the Poles now control. Conditions in Galicia
and Silesia are reported to be worse than during the war. Sev
eral of the newly-organized republics are recruiting among the
returning soldiers. '
REPUBLICANS SHOULD NOT
EMBARASS THE PRESIDENT
WASHINGTON, Dec. Representative Mann of Illinois,
Republican floor leader, declared in a speech in the house to
day that factional strife should not be permitted to interfere
with President Wilson’s mission abroad. He said the house
Republicans should make no concerted effort to embarrass the
President, and that the American people would not tolerate
meddling in what so vitally concerns them.
100,000 YANKS
ABROAD TO BE
ACCOUNTED FOB
WASHINGTON. Dec-. Secrotar)
j of War linker today announced tliai
lie believed Hie unreported casualties
I of the army are those of men bu
| slightly wounded The stutemen
was (ailed forth by inquiries of the
senate military committee, which i.1
in\estignthiK the delay in the publi
| cation of casualty lists.
It is reported that more than «'
hi udred thousand names are yet tin
published. Secretary linker sail h
i 11 eel repeatedly asked General Per
shine to experlite til*' lists, and tha
the department never hart delayed til
.T.neunoement • ot the casualties.
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WOUNDED WILL BE
SENT TO HOSPITALS
NEAREST TO HOME
\y.\SHr.V,T()N. i >nc. 3 The wn*
department plana to send tile return
ing wounded men of the army to hos
pitals within three hundred miles of
i!i - homes of their nearest relatives.
It i expe.-ted that fifty thousand men
will he senl to the hospitals within
four months.
PORTLAND HARD HIT
BY THE INFLUENZA
SKATTLK. Dee. .*!. A quarantine
against influenza may he put into
effect here. At Spokane the schools
have been closed on account of the
reappearance of the epidemic. There
are two hundred new cases at Port
land.
CRAZED MURDERER
HAS BEEN CAPTURED
*LOS ANdKLKS. Dec —Lieutenant
H K. Perry, who is believed to have
shot and killed Captain Abram Pos
ner near here yesterday, has been
captured by three deputy sheriffs at
Palmdale, seventy-five miles south of
j here. It is believed that Perry is de
mented
BELGIUM TOUCHES
U. S. FOR MORE FUNDS
WASHINGTON. Dec. 3 Helglum
has been given another credit of $12.
000,000. making total loans from the
United States $210,128,000.
American loans to the allies now
total $8,106,000,000.
MORE SOLDIERS ARE
ON THEIR WAY HOME
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—Two
steamships left Liverpool yesterday
with about live thousand American
officers, nurses and soldiers, to ar
rive at New York.
WOMEN WORKERS
OBJECT TO LOSING
JOBS AND WAGES
LONDON, Dec. 3.—Discharged
women munitions workers, who have
been receiving high pay, marched
through Downing street today and de
manded to see Premier Lloyd George.
WANT MARSHALL BE
ACTING PRESIDENT
WHEN WILSON LEAVE!
NVASH INdTO.N, I >»»<■. Senatoi
Sherman of Illinois today introducec
a resolution, notice of which \va
*
: giv-n yesterday, proposing that the
I office of president he declared vacant
upon President Wilson's departure
for K'lrope. and proposing that Vice
President Marshal assume fin* exeeu
tive duties.
BERLIN FEARS
ACTIVITY OF
SOCIALISTS
LONDON. Dee. Advice- from
Iterlm state that tin- diplomatb <■ <>r|>
at tho German <-;i|dtal ha a asked tin
German government for protection
' igalt st anarchistic propagandti of the
1 'Spartacua" group of Socialists,
'heeded by Dr K;irl Llchknecht, which
^k^'tating for a general arming of
I the proletariat.
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NON-PARTISAN LEAGUE
! IS IN SESSION TODAY
ST PAIL. I)(*« . Tlte annual
I convention of the National Non-Parti
sail League was railed t<> order here
today The sessions arc* executive
Forty-one delegates, from thirteen
slates, mostly in the* Northwest, have
credentials.
SPANISH MINISTRY
TENDERS RESIGNATION
MADRID, Dec. it. The Spanish
ministry has resigned
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CONTRACTSFOR
IMMENSE SUMS
ARE CANCELED
WASHINGTON. Secretary of War
[taker estimates that war contracts
to the amount of $2,600,000,000 have
been canceled since the armistice was
signed.
The secretary of war has derided
to postpone his trip to Europe, which
was planned for about this time, and
probably will go to Era nee in January
on war department business only.
PRISONERS OF
WAR ARE WELL
ORGANIZED
WASHINGTON. Doc. 3.- The lied
Cross has received a cablegram stat
ing that the twenty-three hundred
American prisoners of war at Camp
Knstatt. Germany are well organized,
well clothed, and maintain an excel
lent morale.
Germany has expressed a willing
ness to release the prisoners Imme
diately, and a train may be sent for
*hem at once.
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I,< »XI >< I)cc. .1. A garbled dispatch 11 <>111 If rlin indi
'ides 111at (lie allies have delivered In (fcrmanv an n'tmiatuni
,1'ur nun compliance with the terms of the a rm ist ice, Th" tier
! Hum new spapers say there is nu hope of prolonging the armis
11 ee, and that it is likely tile allies will neell p\ (I e rn la II v. 11 is
believed that (formally has failed to deliver the railwav ma
terial specified.
Marshal Pneli .~ 'lit In (eTtm.nv a new i It imal am : utand
: :iig that (formally suit. nd« r lie- uf tie loeomoti, - agr.J
tn. Aeeurding to tin1 Iierlin di-1 ilea rr - I. i ger pint. -t. ,| t hat
tlii' was imp— i! !• . and - or. • . . pit.., T, ,. T'miifum
expired Mnlldav lull'll.. >11. hilt tie1 result 1- Ullklinwil.
11euter s say> that the ultimatum < ar i> .I .. twi • t . I . .r
aunr time limit, and that Krzherg. r offer, d t. d !':■.• r all tee
luculllnt • e- as 'll.Ill t 111■ X W el l' r< paired.
Will Delay Peace Negotiations
I’Ai.'lS, |r .... It appeal' that »i n- 11 niai ' a ah
jin hand overall of the live t lioiisand loeuniot i v. - ~ t i j. 111 a t < > i I ■ o
in the armistice agreement l.y I lee. n.l"i 17. it is | Id ; ho
allies will grant imv time. hut this will dclav tlie . e ie go
tint ions, a> thev can not begin until all t In - conditions ha vc I..
lul died. 1 lie Dennans have keen notified to thi' effect.
WITH T11K AMKKIGAN ARMY OF
OITTI'ATION. Dec After their
first night's sleep in Germany, the
American troops are ready to resume
their march toward the Rhine They
are advancing toward Coblentz, astride
the Moselle
The Americans when they are
across the Rhine will establish a line
sixty miles long. The British tire on
their left and the French on the right.
HOLLAND STOPS ALL
EXPORTS TO GERMANY
I LONDON, Dec. 3.—Holland has de
cided to stop all exports to Germany
jin reprisal for the stoppage of the
export of German coal to Holland
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STREET CAR MEN OF
CLEVELAND STRIKE
WANT WOMEN FIRED
CLEVELAND. Ohio, Dec
! Twenty-four hundred motormen and
conductors of street cars struck here1
today, demanding that the Cleveland
I Hallway Company dismiss the women
conductors,
WALSH RESIGNS AS
MEMBER OF WAR BOARD
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3, Frank 1\
Walsh has tendered his resignation
as joint chairman of the national war
labor board, and it has been accepted.
Basil M. Manley has been named in
his place.
BRITISH FLEeViT
NOW ON THE BALTIC
COPENHAGEN, Dec. 3—The Brit
lsh fleet hits arrived at Libau. in
Courland, on the Baltic.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 3. If is ex
pooled that President Wilson will
leave tonight for New York The last
cabinet meeting before the President's
departure was held today, (’ouneelur
Polk baronies acting secretary ot
state during the absence of Secretary
Lansing
President Will Fare Sumptuously
NEW YORK. Dec 3 The trans
port George Washington, painted a
battleship gray, handsomely' decorated
and with steam up. is ready to carry
President Wilson and the ponce dole
gates to Europe. It is believed she
will sail Wednesday at noon.
The President has a suite of three
rooms, and a New York hotel chef
with fifty assistants is in charge of
tiie cuisine. A navy band is aboard
Will Visit the Pope
ROME. Ilfs 1 President Wilson
will visit Pope Reuedict while here
The newspapers say In* will o from
the \merican embassy i<» the Y.iti an
instead of from tin Quirin l. when*
President Wilson and his wife are to
be guests of the king and queen.
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ALASKA MINING STOCKS
N'KW YORK. Dec 3. U.iska Gold.
4'4 : Alaska Juneau, 17„
HUN ESPIONAGE
SERVICE STILL
BUSY BELGIUM
HKUS8BL8. Dec. 3.—The Herman
espionage service In Belgium contin
ues active, notwithstanding the armis
tice. According to the Gazette, In a
village near Brussels the police ar
rested two German soldiers disguised
as women, who were taking photo
graphs of passing troops.