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VOLUME ONE. NUMBER 186. CORDOVA, ALASKA .WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 1915. PRICE TEN CENTS.
TURKEY TRIES MAKE SEPARATE PEACE
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Special to The Times By Associated Press.
LONDON, July 14—Reports received lien* today
from the neutral Balkan states have revived Hu
previous rumors about Turkey' being anxious to
seek peace independently of her allies Austria and
Germany. From what has been learned it is believed
that Turkey is weary of the fight, and that tlit
powers in authority there feel that the war is not
us popular with the Mussulmans as it should be, with
result that internal dissensions in the empire an
imminent. Turkey L a Do beginning to feel the pincl
of ammunition, for the fighting along tin* Dardanelles
has required a heavy outlay of munitions of war,
and' the Teutons are needing all their own supplies
to fight the battles with the allies in tin* west, and
along the Russian border. Unless Turkey ran keep
her soldiers in the field supplied with munitions, tin*
loss of the Dardanelles will shortly occur, and her
statesmen see the end of Turkey in Europe. The
recent shipment of guns from Adrianople to the
Gallipoli peninsula is striking evidence* of the lack
of ammunition and guns among the Turks, for under
tin* present uncertain relations with Bulgaria, it
must be extreme necessity tlmt would force Turkey
to weaken her defenses along the Bulgarian border.
Another (dement in the ammunition problem for
Turkey is the fact that Koumania lias refused to
permit munitions of war to cross her borders, either
from Austria or into any other country.
This embargo is understood to be the reason
why certain newspapers in Berlin, and throughout
Germany are making violent attacks upon Koumania.
The newspaper attacks are strong indications that
Koumania’s attitude is making Turkey feel the
pinch for ammunition.
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WASHINGTON, D. C., July 14.—
Large quantities of food supplies are
arriving at Mexico City from the coast
and the famine conditions heretofore
prevailing there have been largely re
lieved. Most of the food so far
received is corn. The Carranza
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forces are maintaining excellent order
and no trouble of any kind has oc
curred between the populace and the
soldiers. From information received
from the Mexican capital it is believed
that General Villa has evacuated
Aguas Calientes and is retiring north
ward. This report has not been con
firmed by any of the state depart
ments agents in Mexico, but comes
from an authoritative source.
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VICTORIA BRINGS
NOMETOURISTS
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The Victoria arrived here this morn
ing at 6:30 coming rrorn Nome via
Seward and Valdez. The tourists on
board went to the glaciers on an ex
cursion train at 8.15 this morning re
turning in time to sail south about
3:30 p .m. Governor and Mrs. Strong
came from Nome on the Victoria but
laid over at Seward and will come to
Cordova os the Alameda. The pas
sengers on the boat are:
W. H. Cox, Mrs. Lucy Cox, E. E.
Cox, Mr. Aiken, Miss S. Williams,
Miss A. Joyce, Mr. Breckert and wife,
A. M. Hender, J. W. Hender, W. H.
Metson, Miss Nellie Friend, Miss Alma
Walper, Walter Wright, Joe Makeme,
W. E. Curry, Miss Cora Hawk, Miss J.
8. Caldwell, Miss Maud Burroughs, P.
Smith, J. S. Barnes, Mrs. C. Kendall,
P. M. and O. T. Nitzchmen, Miss Cor
bett, Miss McIntosh, W. R. Turner
and wife, E. Endglert and wife, Mrs.
Geo. Geper, Mrs. J. H. McGuire, Mrs.
T. Coffin, M. S. Newcombe and wife,
C. M. Keller, and wife, E. E. Robbins,
J. T. Winter, J. Will, Master Will, Wm.
H. Gomen, John Deer, Miss Wilte,
MIsb M. Kobie, Mrs. Schwartz, Geo.
Maynard and family, Miss L. Noho
woc, Miss G. Gould, Harold Bauer,
Philip E. Bauer and wife, Herman
Bauer, John J. Link, M. Bacroft, wife
-and children, Miss Robbins, Miss
Green, M. Mantell, S. J. Steiner, W.
Grossman, J. W. McGuire, Thos.
Angen, Andrew Lawson, Mrs. H. S.
Webb and children, Geo Betts. Mrs.
F. H. Roust, Miss May Lewis, Dora
Blum, A. M. Minte, W. Hite, Andy
Keys, J. Kracower, I. Kracower,
Hugo Winter, wife and child, Clarence
Dease, Mrs. Dease, Emily Cox, H. L.
Stull, Lewis Stull, Mrs. C. J. Admonds,
Geo. Brown and Henry Schaefer.
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TORPEDO DOITS
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? ALASKA
VALLEJO, Cal., July 14.—Five tor
pedo boats will sail from here t<
Puget Sound tomorrow, and will con
tinue their cruise to AlaBkan waters
The boats are the Whipple, Pau
Jones, Perry, Preble and Truxton
From Seattle the boats will go t
Sitka, and later to Dutch Harboi
Whether any other Alaskan ports wll
be visited is not known.
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All the Seal News in the Times
UNITED STATES TO MAKE PROTEST
OVER ENGLAND DETAINING CARGOES
Special to The Times By Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, I). 0., July 14.—After holding
conferences with representatives of the leading
American meat packers today, the state department
officials announced that formal representations
would be made by the United States to Great
Britain for the release of the meat caroges consigned
to neutral countries and detained by the British
naval authorities. England has been holding up
these shipments on the ground that they are destined
for trans-shipment to Germany, and the shippers
insist that the consignments are bona fide sales to
firms in neutral countries. The matter has been tin
source of much irritation, ami the government will
be asked to insist that the rights of American
shippers be protected.
WASHINGTON, 1). C., July 14.—In the
address which the American meat packers presented
to the state department, protesting in strong terms
against England interfering with legitimate Ameri
can trade with non-belligerent countries, it is stated
that despite assurance given by Great Britain t<
the shippers of the destined cargoes to the effect tlial
the proceedings in the prize court would b<
expedited, the English authorities are making nt
I efforts to dispose of the cases, and either release tin
cargoes or condemn them. The eompalint is madi
that not a single cargo has been turned' loose, and
the implication is made that England is wrongfully
holding up the shipments and delaying trial because
she knows her case is weak. At present the Britisl
admiralty have in detention over 30 British, Ameri
can and other vessels, with cargoes of ammunitim
and foodstuffs consigned to neutral countries
mostly to Sweden, Denmark and Norway. In tin
dispatches from England yesterday, this number ol
ships were admitted to be detained, but it wa
implied that the evidence that the cargoes wen
i intended for trans-shipment into Germany wa
> strong.
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FRENCH LOSE POSITIONS
WITH 2,600 PRISONERS
IN MINE FOREST
BERLIN, duly 14.—The official German state
ment issued this morning states that their troops, in
the Argonne Forest yesterday stormed and captured
the French positions for a width of three kilometers
and a depth of one kilometer. The fighting was
severe, and the French soldiers lost heavily. The
Germans are still in possession of the captured' posi
tions and have successfully repulsed several severe
attacks to retake them.
The German troops also stormed an important
hill in this section, but the French fought valorously
and could not be dislodged. As a result of the day’s
operations the Germans took 2,600 prisoners and two
field cannon. Eight other cannon were put out of
commission by the Germans.
QUIET REIGNS III EAST
ARMIES REST FROM FUAT
LONDON, July 14.—The Teutonic offensive in
Russian Poland has been inactive for more than a
week. The same situation is found in Galicia. On
neither fronts are the Austro-German allies making
any effort to continue their attacks on the Russians.
The Russians are availing themselves of the respite
to strengthen and solidify their center, which has
suffered' the most from the recent fighting. The
soldiers are rested, and their army is now in good
condition, composed of veterans, who have becii
through some of the severest fighting of tin* war
Along the Russian center there has been a slight
falling back to a more advantageous line north ol
Kransik. The Slavs have entrenched themselves
here and await the next attack of the Teutons.
DETAILS OF GOAL RILL
111 LIMIT OF INCREASE
LONDON, July 14.—The bill introduced it
1 Parliament yesterday by the government for tin
purpose of regulating tin* price of coal, specifically
i states that coal cannot be sold at the pit mouth at i
rate exceeding four shillings per ton move than th<
> price was during the year ending June 30, 1914. Thi
. means that the coal mine owners will Ik* largely
i restricted in the profits they can make on the fuel
as under present conditions the coal could be sob
for much more than the price set by the governmenl
|The measure is meeting with popular approval, an
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no doubt will become law, although considerabh
muttering* of discontent are arising from the coal
magnates. The bill is lotted upon in Kngland as ;i
war measure and hardly any of the members of tin
Commons will risk the popular disapproval b\
opposing the bill.
AUSTRIA TEMPTS SERVIA
WITH SEPARATE PEACE
ROMK, July 14.—It was semiofficially
announced today that when Austria at last awakonec
to the fact that war with Italy was inevitable, sin
made strenuous efforts to conclude a separate peae<
with Servia. Failing in this Austria attempted t(
persuade Servia to agree to an armistice with tin
evident intention of transferring her troops from tin
Servian border to tin* Italian frontier. Servo
emphatically rejected both proposals.
GERMANS LOSE COLONIES
MAKING MIGHTY EMPIRE
LONDON, July 14.—Practically every inch o
colonial possessions that Germany had before tin
war has been taken away from her and captured In
the allies. These colonial possessions were a vas
empire in themselves, before which in point of tetri
torial size, the fatherland was a dwarf. The officia
figures of the extent of German colonial territory
now controlled by the allies has been put at 450,(XX
square miles.
- HELP BRITAIN IN WAT
Special to The Times By Associated Press.
LONDON, July 14.—The government today ofii
ciilly corroborated the previous press announct
ments that the subscriptions to the great British wa
loan now being raised had reached a total of thre
billion dollars. The subscriptions are still com in
in, and the enthusiasm of the people, and thei
, desire to aid their country in the present crisis i
, very gratifying to the officials. It is said that th
. money subscribed has far exceeded the expectation
j of the cabinet when the loan was first floated.
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* LONDON, July 14.—Two spies were hrougl
• here today and will be immediately tried on a char#
, oP espionage. The specific complaint against tli
1 men is that they attempted to send information t
. Germany about the movements of the British flee
1 The men will be tried by court martial.
GERMANS BEHIND STRIKE
AT ARMS FACTORY OF
REMINGTON COMP!
Special to The Times By Associated Press.
BRIDGEPORT, Conn., July H.—Major Pen
field, president of the Remington Arms Company
the big plant in this city, which has recentI;
increased its equipment and employes so that it out
l ranks the Krupp works at Essen, said today, in dis
‘ cussing the labor trouble that is seriously endangei
■ ing the war contracts which his firm has assumed
• that he thought it was all due to the work o
■ German sympathizers. Penfield asserted that he Inn
* some foundations for his belief, and personally wa
i convinced that the quarrelling between the Carpen
ters Union and the Structural Iron Workers ove
which craft had jurisdiction of tin* millwrights, wa
simply worked up to hinder the manufacture of wa
munitions and their shipment to the allies. Th
matter of the dispute is a minor one, and' should hav
no real foundation for causing the work of erectinj
the new buildings to be stopped until it is decided.
;FR.CM GERMANS
, HAVE GAINED NOTHINE
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LONIX >N, July 14 -Tin* French war office to«l;r
issued a communique which asserted that their fron
in the Argonne Forest, after being compelled b
retire in face of a violent attack made by the arm
of the Crown Prince, lias been restored after a sue
cessful counter attack. The net result of the opera
tions has beeu that the Germans gained nothing
although making a fearful expenditure in humai
lives for their efforts.
. ITALY TAKES 10 MILES
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VILLACH, Austria, July 14—The Italians hnv
captured two miles of Austrian trenches in th
t Carnic Alps. The fighting for the past few day
e have been heavy in this vicinity, with the Austrian
e attacking, and trying to force a passage through th
o Italian lines. The Italians succeeded in seudin,
t. forward new troops, and assumed the offensiv
resulting iu the capture of the Austrian trenches.
ZAPATA LOSES
HEAVILY AT
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WASHINGTON, I). July 14—Tha
agency of General Carranza in this
city today announced that dispatches
had been received from their leadei*
at Vera Cruz stating that the Zapata
troops had suffered heavily in the
recent battle for the control of Mexico
City, and asserting that as a fighting
unit his army was entirely disorgan*
ized. The announcement said that it*
the last four days fighting which rei
suited in Zapata evacuating the capii
tal 3,000 of Zapata's soldiers werd
j killed. Many more than that were
| wounded and missing, besides a large
I number of prisoners that Gonzaled
■ took.
ATTACK IS MADE
ON BRITISH'
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WASHINGTON, I). C„ July 14.-i
It has just been disclosed that an at->
tempt was made to hold up the
British ambassador, Sir Arthur Spring
Rice on the night of the day that
F Morgan was shot by assassin Holt.
The ambassador, who had remained at
Morgan's home all day, had entered.'
an automobile and was on his way to
the home of Willard Straight. He had
but just telephoned to Straight that
' he was coming, and nobody else knew
, of his destination. When but a short;
distance along the road, from Glen-j
. cove a party of men in an automobile
_ not bearing a license plate, attempted
to stop the ambassador's car. It was
plain that they had been lying in!
j! wait along the roadside, and it is a'
mystery how they learned the plans;
of the official.
s When the men In the roadside auto
' pointed their guns at the chaffeury
f he put on full speed and crowded past'
5 them in safety. No shots were fired.j;
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WASHINGTON. D. C.,
The Washington headquarters of Gen-;
eral Villa received word from their
- chief today with the news that Villa
[ had led his forces in an attack upon
, Queretaro and captured the city yes
. terday. According to the telegram!
sent by Villa, General Obregon is now
completely isolated from his base of '
supplies. Villa intends to remain in
> the field at the head of his troops and
1 says that he will continue the cam
paign in the direction of Mexico City.
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CONTROLLER BAY LAND
AT LAST IS PATENTED
A patent was received at the Juneau
\ Land Office for ISO acres in favor of
, Frank F. Davis. The land is located
| on Controller Hay and is In what is
known as the Ryan elimination. This
is the last of the Tour applications ft
which were received shortly after the
elimination was announced and which
were filed away ahead of any of tho
others. The fact that these four appli
s cations were filed within such a short
s time led to charges of collusion with
i1 the officials and was the cause of
r much controversy at the time.
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