ficial clerical organ of the \ aticau, de
clares that it is authorised to confirm the
statement published yesterday in Spanish
newspapers that the family and most in
timate associates of the German kaiser
are urging him to abdicate the German
throue.
Paris: Official figures published this
morning show that the French have cap
tured 20,000 prisoners and 100 guns since
April ninth, and have inflicted a total
* loss of 100,000 in killed, wounded and
missing. They have re-taken fifty square
miles of territory, including twenty large
villages.
Petrograd: It is reported here this
morning that a squadron of German l«t
tleships lias lett Ltbau, presumably to
attack the Russian line from the Baltic
. in an effort to cut the Russian army off
from' its base at Petrograd. A second
squadron is also reported to have sailed
from Kiel.
Copenhagen: The steamship Zara was
torpedoed in the Baltic yesterday by a
German U-boat with a severe loas of life.
The Zara had on board a large number
of prominent Socialists who were enroute
to their homes in Russia from the Siber
ian convict camps from which they had
but recently been released.
London: The British have started a
new drive on the Arras front, and in the
■ fighting this morning inflicted severe
losses on the enemy. The British forces
also suffered heavily in killed and wound
ed as the Germans had lieen heavily re
inforced with men and machine guns and
put up a stubborn resistance.
Juneau: The damage to the Tread
well mines is estimated at S15.000.000.
The Treadwell, Mexican and Seven Huu
> dred mines are flooded to tide level and
the surface is cracking so badly that a
large number of residents have been
forced to abandon their homes. One
thousand miners are out of employment.
San Francisco: Superior Judge Grif
fin, who sentenced Mooney to tie hung
for lus conspiracy in the preparedness
parade bomb plot outrage in this city a j
number of months ago, announced this
morning that he would ask the attorney
general to giant Moonev a new trial. He
stated that he had secured sufficient evi
dence of false testimony being given dur
^ ing the trial to warrant a new trial.
Washington: The members of the
British commission to the United States
are unanimous in their declaration thut
the eud of the war is as yet a long way
off and that Germany is in no immediate
danger of starvation nor are her people
at this time seriously considering an open
revolution. They also assert that Amer
ican troops are not needed in Europe at
present, but that the Allies are depend
ing on us tor food and clothing.
WEDNESDAY
Chicago; May wheat touched $2.52,
July $2.16 and September $1.91 here this
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Rome: Italy will soon send a high
commission to tlie United States to join
the Allies’ war council here.
Londoo: Field Generl Haig announc
ed that the British have captured three
thousand Germans in the Arras sector
since Monday.
Seattle; Robert Bridges, president of
the Seattle Fort commission, resigned his
position last nite in order that he . might
be tree to offer his services to the United
States.
Washington: The first war loan to the
British was consummated this morning
when Treasurer McAdoo handed British
Ambassador Spring-Rice treasury war
rants in the amount of $2,000,000,000.
London: For the first time in history
a battleship has been sunk bv an aero
plane. Three British aeroplanes dropped
bombs on a fleet of five German destroy
ers near Zeebrugge yesterday, and one of
the destroyers was sunk.
Washington: In an interview this
morning Lord Balfour stated that it is
not the purpose of the British or French
commissions to entangle America in ail
alliance and asked that the fact be
clearly put before the American public.
London: The intense activity on the
Western front was reflected in the air yes
terday when British fliers brought down
forty-one German planes. The air battle
was fought entirely within the German
lines and otilv two British fliers.failed to
return to their base.
New York: Bourke Cockrane, attorney
for Mooney during his recent trial in
San Francisco, declared this morning
that Judge Griffin s action m asking lor a
new trial is in line with the defense’s
contention that Mooney was the victim
of a conspiracy because of his labor activ
ities.
San Francisco; P. W. Bradlev. presi
dent of the Treadwell mines in Alaska,
stated thi6 morning that the company
hoped to he able to work the ore bodies
which underly the flooded levels by sink
ing a shaft three thousand feet and drift
ing twenty-four hundred feet under the
Gastineau channel.
Washington: The official reception
given the members of the French com
mission in this city today was most im
pressive, and its significance waa more
pronounced when it became generally
known that the day marked the 140th an
niversary of the arrival of General La
Fayette from France to offer his sword
to America in her fight for independence.
London: America has drawn first blood
in her war with Germany. The transat
lantic liner Mongolia arrived in Liver
pool this morning. Captain Rice stated
that she encountered an enemy diver off
the Knglish coast and the naval gunners
•auk her with one shot. When the pen
scope was first sighted it lay dead ahead
and Captain Rice ordered full steam
ahead tn an effort to ram the U-boat.
She submerged and when next seen the
periscope lay about 1000 yards to star
board. The aft gun crew fired one shot,
which evidently went home, as it did not
ricochet, aa is always the case in a hit,
The periscope disappeared instantaneous
ly and did not reappear, and au oil patch
on the surface of the water indicated that
her shell had been shattered.
London: The war office announced
this morning that the British forces with
stood eight successive assaults at Gar velle
during last nite.
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tensive east of Arras, anil are taking Ger- |
man prisoners at the rate of 1000 a day.
Washington: Construction work on
the first thousand of the wooden merch
antmen, or “sea jitneys” a« they have
been popularly nicknamed, is expected
to begin this week^
Washington: Neutral European coun
tries are expressing great alarm over the
proposed embargo of American foodstuffs
being shipped out of the United States,
because of the shortage it will cause in
those countries.
Washington: The question of a food
embargo is being seriously agitated in
state department circles to prevent the
shipment of food into neutral European
countries and which eventually finds its
way into Germany.
Washington: A report to the state de
partment received this i: orning thru of
ficial channels states that 250,000 workers
in various industries in Berlin have laid
down their tools and absolutely refuse to
work, declaring they want peace.
New York: A soldier doing sentry
duty on the Manhattan bridge shot and
fatally wounded a man who attempted
10 overpower him yesterday afternoon.
Documents found on the wounded man
revealed his identity and showed him to
be a German spy.
Seattle: A movement is on foot tliru
out the Pacific Northwest to set the clock
ahead one hour, beginning May first and
extending to October first, in a daylight
saving plan to provide longer periods of
daylight in the evenings for outdoor rec
reations and sports.
Washington: The state department
received official advice this morning of
the sinking of the American schooner
Percy Birdsall in the English channel
yesterday by gunfire from a German sub.
All the crew escaped in boats and were
picked up by patrol boats.
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Paris: The French forces continue to j
advance in the Champaign sector, and
advices from that point state that a num
ber of violent counter attacks on the new
ly acquired positions by Teutonic reserve
forces had failed, and resulted in heavy
casualties among the attacking forces.
London: Advices from Madrid state!
that Spain addressed a note to Germany
this morning in which she warned the
latter to immediately cease the sinking
of merchantmen engaged In the Spanish
trade, and threatened her with the alter
native ot aligning herself with the Allies
if Germany failed to heed the warning.
London: Later reports from the Brit
ish positions in Garvelle state that the
mortality among the German forces was
frightful, as they were forced to carry on
their counter attacks thru a curtain of
fire maintained by the British artillery.
Those of the Teutons who managed to
get thru were either killed, wounded or
taken captive.
Washington: A census of the vote of
the House on the selective conscription
bill now under discussion tu both branch
es of cougress, and which is expected to
come to a vote by Saturday nite, shows a
total ot 237 for, 113 against and 80 non
committal. Advocates of the volunteer
system admit defeat. The senate is prac
tically unanimous in support of the mea
sure.
New York: An Associated press sum
mary of the terrific struggle at present
in progress on the Western front in
France states that “at the end of the
fourth day, with both sides straining to
gain the advantage, the mutterings of
internal troubles has been temporarily
drowned out. But indications are never
theless plentiful that momentous events
are about to occur behind the fighting
lines.”
FRIDAY
London: The foreign blacklist was
ordered abolished this morning.
Chicago: May wheat touched 52.70
today. The market is advancing troin
one to three points at a time.
St. Paul; It was announced this morn
ing that the inheritance tax on the Hill
estate will amount to $1,500,000 this year.
Paris: Several powerful enemy count
er attacks against the French positions in
the Cerny district were repulsed this
morning
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Washington: Senator Stone, leader of
the ‘‘Wilful Twelve,” announced this
morning that he will support President
Wilson in his fight for conscription.
Seattle: Orders were placed today hv
the Seattle office of the Alaskan Engin
eering commission for $100,000 worth of
grocery supplies for the Nenanadivision.
Petrograd: Official dispatches state
that a mighty artillery tmttle is develop
i ing along the Riga and Dvina fronts, in
I dicating that the threatened German of
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| Berlin: The military staff in an official j
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counter attacks by the Teutons have been
successful.
Washington: It was announced this
morning that the postal sayings bank de
posits, amounting to $100,000,000, will
| be made immediately available for loans
to farmers to enable them to increase
production.
New York: The various big steel cor
porations announced this morning tlint
they have offered to furnish the govern
ment with steel products at discounts
varying from 33 1-3 to 51 i-3 per cent of
their regular prices.
Washington: It was announced this
morning that the international confer
ence lias decided to establish a commit
tee to control and regulate the world’s
focal supply mid that a prominent Amer
ican has been named as dictator.
London: German warships raided the
English coast this morning. Twenty
houses were demolished, two persons
killed and a number injured when the
1 town of Ramsgate was bombarded. The
Germans fled upon the approach of a
British destroyer flotilla.
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New York: Bread prices were advanc
ed this morning all over the city. The
small loaves have been reduced in weight
two ounces and the price increased to ten
cents. Advices trom the principal cities
thruout the nation state that flour is now
quoted at $13.00 a barrel. The price a
year ago was $5.00.
London: Reports from the Garvelle
sector this morning state that the German
counter attacks at that point have been
abandoned. The Germans attempted to
stop the British drive by their old tactics
of massed formation infantry rushes, and
their losses were appalling, the ground
being strewn with dead and wounded.
London: In a speech at Guild Hall
last nite Lloyd George said that up to
June 1916 the British had lost eighty guns
and since then none. Since the same
date the British have taken 400 German
guns. For every allied prisoner taken
by the Germans the Allies have taken
ten Germans. The first 18 days of Somme
battle the Allies took 11,000 prisoners
and in the present action in the Arras
sector have taken 18,<HX) prisoners and
284 guus.
New York: Speaking before the con
vention of American publishers in this
city last nite former Ambassador Gerard
impugned the patriotism of Champ Clark
for his speech against the conscription
bill in the House. When advised of his
statement Champ Clark said: “He's a
liar, and the truth is not in him if he
gays I've got cold ffcet.”
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