A WEEK OF CONDENSED WIRE NEWS
MONDAY
i
French Port—Survivors of the i
divered American transport Antilles
who have been landed here, declare
that the soldiers and sailors who i
were unable to escape from the rap
idly sinking vessel, met death calm
ly, there being no disorder or ex
citement. The gunners remained
at their posts until they drowneu,
sacrificing their lives in the hope
that they would get a last shot at
the submarine. The Germans, how
ever. did not show themselves, either
before or after the torpedo was
fired.
Washington—There is much worry
in American shipping circles as the
result of the receipt of reports in
dicating that it is the intention of
the Germans to extend their sub
marine activities to the American
side of the Atlantic. A considerable
rise in insurance is expected.
London—General Haig reports
that the wedge has been driven
deeper into the Germans on the West
Flanders front, as the result of the
continual pounding of the Anglo
French forces. The Allied troops
are now delivering strong attacks
on the enemy positions north and
south of the Ypres-Staden railway.
Paris—It is evident that the Ger
mans are making desperate efforts
to launch a great aerial offensive
^ before America can place her air
fleet at the service of the Allies.
It is learned from German prisoners
that the German airplane factories
are turning out 2,000 machines a
month.
Washington—The list of names of
the men who were lost on the trans
v port Antilles, which was torpedoed
by a U boat last week, shows thgt
they hailed from various parts of
the world, very few being native
Americans. Several came from
Germany. There were no Alaskans
on the list and none from the Pacific
coast. The list was cabled to the
war department today by General
Pershing.
Seattle—The shipyard strike has
been settled, the men in all local
yards having returned to work this
y morning, leaving their claims in the
hands of the federal wage board
for final adjustment. The Port
land strike will end tomorrow, the
same conditions prevailing there.
With the labor troubles disposed of,
work will now be rushed on the big
government contracts.
Chicago—Bob Fitzsimmons, once
champion of the world, died here
T today, following a brief illness. As
in the days of old when he battled
for ring honors, he fought against
death stubbornly until the last. He
was ill five days.
London—The admiralty announc
es that British naval planes raided
several German airplane bases in
Belgium on Sunday, inflicting much
damage.
Petrograd—Advices received in
this city from the Gulf of Riga dis
trict today state that the Germans
are again landing troops on the Bal
tic coast, to co-operate with the nav
i al forces which are operating at
the entrance to the gulf. The men
were landed on Verde peninsula.
The Russian Baltic fleet, which
the Germans claimed to have bot
tled in Moon cound, has outwitted
the powerful and numerous enemy,
and escaped to the Gulf of Finland.
The Russians destroyed their naval
base before leaving.
Tokyo—The Japanese steamship
Mitachi Maru, which was due at an
East African port on the first of
October, has not yet reported and
it is the belief of the owners of the
vessel that a mine was encountered
and that all on board were lost.
. London—In an address made be
fore a large mass meeting held in
this city yesterday, Premier George
declared that the British shipping
loss now are only a third what they
were last April, while the German
submarine losses are fully double.
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Washington—It is admitten in
diplomatic circles that Turkey has
joined with Bulgaria in throwing
out hints, intimating a willingness
to accept separate peace from the
Entente powers on favorable terms.
* Both nations are suspicious of the
kaiser, believing that Germany am
Austria will endeavor to utilize +he
smaller nations as pawns in any
peace game that they are able to
initiate.
Rome—Officials of the American
Red Cross mission are authority
for the statement, made today, that
fifty thousand Serbians will die of
starvation in the city of Monastir
unless relief is provided immediately'.
Conditions prevailing in that city
are appalling, owing to the scarcity
of food. Thousands of the unfor
tunates have already starved to death
Washinton—Alice Paul, chairman
of the Woman’s party, and Caroline
Spencer, of Colorado Hot Springs,
were each sentenced to six months
by the police court judge this morn
ing. They were arrested on Sat
urday' for picketing the White
House. Two other women offend
ers were given 30 days, and four
who had previously been sentenced
to six months for an earlier offense,
were given 30 day's additional.
Washington—The navy depart
ment has announced that the de
stroyer Cassine, which is attached
to the American high seas fleet,
fought o glorious battle with a U
boat last week. The American
gunners rained shots at the diver
but were unable to make a hit.
The destroyer was finally forced to
turn back to port, her engines hav
ing been crippled by one of the tor
pedoes, which struck while the craft
was moving for another attack.
Rome—Four thousand Austrians
were killed and ten thousand injur
ed recently at Steifeld, Austria, as
the result of the explosion of a big
powder magazine. After the ex
plosion many women workers were
coerced into going to work in other
factories, where they are compelled
to labor with armed guards stand
ing over them. Uprisings are re
ported from a number of Austrian
cities, the trouble having resulted
from the general food shortage in
that country.
TUESDAY
Petrograd—Fearing that the near
ness of the Germans to this city
will make it possible for the enemy
to send Zeppelins to the capital, the
Russian government has decided to
remove the munition plants to a
place of greater security. The work
of dismantling has alread started.
Washington—Treasury department
officials are authority for the state
ment that two million persons are
working throughout the nation to
insure the success of the Liberty
Loan. To reach the amount de
sired by the government it will be
necessary to raise about three bil
lion by the end of this week. It
is expected that many millions will
be subscribed tomorrow, when the
entire nation will take a day off
for the purpose of stimulating sub
scriptions
Washington— Statistics gathered
by the war department show that
there are at present about thirty
eight millions inarms in the great
European conflict. Of these the
Allies have 27.000,000 and the Teu
tons 10,600,000. The strength by
countries is as follows: Russia, 9,
000,000; France, 6,000,000; Eng
land, 5,000,000; Germany, 7,000,000
million; Austrie, 3,000,000; Belgium,
300,000.
London— General Haig reports
that his forces, co-operating with
the French troops, have launched an
attack along a narrow front north
east of Ypres, on the extreme north
ern edge of the active Flanders
front. The French advanced along
a narrow front about three fifths of
a mile wide, while the English ad
vanced along a wider front. The
attacking forces scored early suc
cesses, the enemy having been taken
completely by surprise.
Mexico City—A resolution was
presented to the senate committee
today calling upon Mexico to adopt
an attitude of benevolent neutrality
; toward the Allies. There is a
, strong sentiment in favor of the
measure but equally strong opposi
tion is expected.
Milwaukee— Senator Paul O.
; Hussting, Wisconsin’s Democratis rep
I resentative in the upper house of
i congress, wras accidentally shot and
j killed on Sunday by his brother
• Gustave, while the two were hunt
i ing ducks. The term of the dead
! senator expires in 1921.
Washington—Official dispatches re
ceived from Rome yesterday state
that rioting is becoming general in
Austria as the result of the food
shortage in that country. Among
the cities mentioned, in which riots
have occurred during the past few
days, are Budapest, Vienna, and
Prague. Many women and children
are reported to have been shot to
death during the disorders.
Burbank. Cal.—In expressing his ,
sorrow over the death of Bob Fitz
simmons, James J. Jeffries, who won
the championship from Fitzsimmons
said that he was a great old gener
al. Fitzsimmons visited with Jef
fries at the latter’s ranch a few
weeks ago.
Memphis—Eight persons are under
arrest in this city, charged with con
spiring to assassinate President Wil
son. The act was to have been
committed on Thanksgiving. The
plot was worked out in a small town
near this city and was unearthed
by secret service agents.
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Washington —Secretary of War
Baker expresses the belief that the
new German offensive in Russia
means chiefly that the kaiser is try
, ing to hasten peace with the Slavs,
while at the same time it is intend
ed by the easy victories in the Bal
tic to cheer the flagging spirits of
the German people.
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Paris—The new Painleve cabinet
is very anxious to retire but Presi
dent Poincare has refused to accept
the resignations of the members.
London—In a statement issued to
day, the admiralty announces that
six German airplanes were shot down
yesterday by British naval airmen.
Nine other German machines were
downed by army airmen.
Washington—Secretary of War
Baker intimates, in his weekly re
view of military conditions, that the
American troops will soon take their
places on the firing line in France.
It is intimated further that there is
to be no halt in the campaign on
the Western front during the winter
months. Attention is called to the
rapid passing of the effectiveness
of the submarine, and figures com
piled by the shipping board are
quoted to show that the Allies need
feel no great uneasiness on account
of U boat activity. The figures
show that only one vessel is attacked
of every 200 sailing and only one
in every 125 is sunk.
London—Figures compiled by the
British admiralty show that fifty
one airplanes, thirty-nine of which
were German, have been shot down
or otherwise destroyed since the
commencement of the Allied offens
ive. Berlin claims that twelve
Anglo-French airplanes and balloons
have been downed in the same time.
London—The war office announces
this afternoon that a sa%-age German
counter attack, which was launched
this morning: north of the Ypres
Staden railway, has compelled the
British forces to withdraw a short
distance from one important posi
tion. The fighting centers on the
northern fringe of Houthst forest,
where the Anglo-French forces made
important gains in Monday’s drive.
Stockholm—A strog protest, in
which all the Scandinavian countries
have joined, is being forwarded to
Germany, in consequence of the
sinking this week of a neutral con
voy in the North sea.
WEDNESDAY
San Francisco—Banker Croker,
Federal Judge Morrow and other
prominent residents of this city re
ceived cards bearing skull and cross
bones, with a warning against at
tending the banquet tendered Con
gressman Kahn last night. The
warnings were unheeded, beyond in
forming the police of the incident.
Washington—A general order has
been issued by the war department
authorizing distinctive ribbons, to be
worn by American soldiers wounded
in action.
Seattle—Henry Peter, a realty
loan broker, committed suicide this
week by jumping from a boat into
Salmon bay.
London— Speaking before the
house of commons today, Premier
David Lloyd George declared that
the government was aware that ar
rangements were being made, partly
by Count von Berntorff, to land arms
in Ireland. Several suspects, he
said, had been placed under arrest
in connection with the plot.
New York—Liam Mellowes, one
of the leaders of the Sinn Fein, and
Baron Recklinghausen, a German
subject, are under arrest as suspects
in connection with the plot to land
arms in Ireland for another upris
ing.
Washington—Christmas presents |
and other gifts intended for the •
American soldiers in France must 1
not exceed seven pounds in weight. ]
according to an announcement made
today by officials of the postoffice
dejartment.
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Washington—Exultant over the
success of the seventh German war
loan, the kaiser is sending this an
nouncement to the few remaining
neutral countries: "This is proof of
our united and financial strength,
until now unequaled in war history.
It is the best answer which the Ger
man people can give to President
Wilson’s note and to the hope ex
pressed by our adversary of the eco
nomic breakdown of Germany.”
Rome—The war office announces
the a large Austro-German force is
being concentrated on the Italian
front and it is believed that an of
fensive of large proportions is being
planned.
Chicago—The members of the city
council, by a vote of an overwhelm
ing vote, has passed over the veto
of Mayor Thompson, a resolution
: commending Governor Lowden for
sending troops to this city during
the past summer to prevent the
meeting of the Peoples Council of
America.
Washington— President Wilson’s
labor commission, which was sent
j into the Western states to settle the
' differences between striking work
ingmen and their employers, has re
i ported that the Arizona copper irln
| ers’ strike has been settled and that
the mines in that state are agin op
| erating with full shifts.
Seattle—Willie Ritchie has been
appointed boxing instructor for the
91st division at American Lake.
Kid McCoy has received a similar
appointment at Camp Dix, New
York.
Fairbanks—One of the automo
bile mail stages operated by the
Northern Commercial company be
tween this citv and Chitina. was de
stroyed by fire last night, at the
Sourdough roadhouse, The mail
was saved.
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! Mineola, N. Y.—Lieut. Resnati ar
rived here with eight passengers in
his biplane, completing a flight of
325 miles in four hours, eleven min
utes. This is a record passenger
carrying flight.
Seattle—The threatened t'deohcne
strike has been nostponed until the
present Liberty Loan drive has been
comoleted. The operators were re
quested to defer action by repre
sentatives of the federal govern
ment.
Washington—Information received
in this city indicates that fully half
of the effectiveness of the German
super-Zeppelin fleet was destroyed
by British airmen and “runners dur
ing Sunday’s raid over England.
All France is exultant over what the
dispatches claim to be the greatest
definite defeat administered to the
enemy air fleet since the beginning
of the war. The British success is
I the more gratifying because of the
German threat of several days ago.
It is now known that the raid was
an attempt to carry out that threat
: _
Seattle—A petition is being cir
culated in this city asxing for the re
call cf Anna Louise Strong, a mem
ber of the school board. It is said
that the unpopular director is a
Socialist and has been too active in
opposing the government’s war pol
icy.
TlirUSDAV
Washington—Every community ir,
the country, managers of the Liber
ty loan campaign report, responded
in a most satisfactory manner to
the big drive yesterday. There were
parades and demonstrations in many
of the cities and bond buying was
the order of the day from coast to
coast. The loan has passed the
three billion mark now and is well
on the way to the desired five bil
lion.
Washington—Food prices in gen
eral have advanced forty-seven per
cent since the year preceding the
war. according to statistics compiled
by the government bureau. There
was a drop of six per cent during
!the year 1915, but in 1916 prices
advanced fourteen per cent and in
the present year there has beer, a*
advance of thirty per cent.
Havana—The president of Cuba
has issued a proclamation in which
he declares that he will expel any
person, regardless of nationality, who
interferes with the sugar production !
in this country.
Tacoma—Poul Haffer, who served
time for libeling the memory of
George Washington, was sentenced
to ten months yesterday for resist
ing the draft.
Seattle—Mrs. Bertha Volkman,
wife of John Volkman, a carpenter
foreman in the employ of the Alas
kan Engineering commission, was
shot to death in this city yesterday
by Charles Butcher, who recently ar
rived here from Lotouche. After
killing the woman. Butcher turned
the gun on himself, with fatal re
sults. The murderer was insanely
infatuated with the Volkman woman
and it it is believed that it was be
cause he could not have her that he
committed the double murder. The
shooting occurred at the Volkman
home here. The murdered woman
was a sister of Peter Standridge, a
Coast league baseball player.
Washington—In answer to an in
quiry from a Western senator with
1 regard to the development of the
jMatanuska coal fields. Secretary of
jthe Interior Franklin K. Lane says
i that the reason big operators have
: been slow to invest in Northern coal
I properties is because they a^e not
! sure that Alaska coal can compete
with the coal in the States or com
pete on the coast with California
oil. He said further that if the
plans materialize, the government
j will have provided ample transpor
j tation for Matanuska coal to tide
i water before the close of another
| season.
I -
Paris—The French forces are ad
jvancing steadily in their drive op
erations along a six-mile front to
I the northeast of Soisson. The gains
| already made are regarded as an ef
i fective step toward Laon and the
1 southern extremity of Heidenburg
heighths, dominating important Ger
man positions. The French guns
now command the opposite bank of
1 the river from Chavignon. The
' blow may prove almost as severe to
the Crown Prince as his defeat at
; Verdun.
London—The admiralty is author
ity for the statement, made today,
that twenty-five British vessels of
various sizes were destroyed by '"
; boats during the week ending ia~t
i night.
Petrograd—The Government is
possession of information which 11.
dicates that another revolution wni
be sprung in this country during the
coming month if the plans of the
| conspirators do not miscarry.
Petrograd—The minister of the in
terior has issued an appeal to the
Russian peopple to put down anar
chy, which, he declares, will be the
ruin of the country unless suppress
Petrograd—It is reported that the
Russian preliminary parliament will
discuss the fate of the Romanoff
family, the members of which arc
now imprisoned at Tobolsk. It is
considered probable that the family
will be banished.
1 London—The Germans have de
livered several desperate counter
I attacks during the pa.t two days
on the southern edge of Houlholst
forest in an effort to regain posi
tions in that sector which were tak
en by the French in this week’s
drive. In every instance the at
tacks were completely repulsed.
Amsterdam—The Austrian lower
lower house has passed the provis
ional budget, covering a period of :
four months instead of six, as re
quested by the government. The
budget authorizes a loan of nine
million krone. (An Austrian krone
or crown, is wopth slightly more
than twenty cents in American mon
Washington—With the three fail
lion mark safely passed, Secretary
of the Treasury McAdoo has issued
a final appeal to the American pub- j
lie to join in a smashing drive to j
boost the Liberty Loan to five bil
lion during the remaining two days
| of the campaign. It is considered
I doubtful in financial circles today if
| the five b llion mark will be reach
ed.
ri:n>AY
Washington—The American Fed
eration of Labor has declined to
participate in the international con
ference of workmen, as suggested
by the executive of the Russian
\\ orkmen’s and Soldiers’ committee.
Officials of the American organiza
tion declare that the conference is
untimely.
Rome—An effort to pass a vote
of confidence in the government was
defeated ir. the chamber this morn
ing. Three hundred fourteen mem
bers opposed the measure, while only
96 voted in the affirmative.
French Seaport—An American
which has just arrived here reports
having had a narrow escape from a
submarine and was saved from sink
ing by the timely arrival of an Am
erican torpedo boat. The steamer
battled for four hours with the diver
and seven members of the crew
were seriously injured by the Ger
man shells.
Petrograd—Following the evacu
ation of Kronstadt, the civil popu
lation is now moving from this city.
The government is preparing to re
move to Moscow.
Petrograd—The wreckage of a
German submarine which had been
operating in the Baltic, was washed
ashore on the coast near Gourzouf.
Washington—In a talk to one
hundred suffragist ’eaders from New
York, who called at the White House
today, President Wilson fully in
dorsed the woman's amendment in
every state and pledged his heartv
support to the suffrage movement.
He repeated that the issue is one
for the states to deal with, not the
national lawmaking body. He ex
pressed the hope that the several
states wTould soon grant the prayer
of the women.
Petrograd—It is announced by
the war office today that the advanc
ed Russians in the Riga sector are
now out of touch with the Germans,
as the result of the continued re
tirement of the enemy. At some
points the Germans have withdrawn
their lines a distance of fiftee miles.
Indianapolis—John P. White, pres
ident of the L'nited Mine Workers,
has resigned his office with that or
ganization to accept o post with the
government as advisor to Fuel Ad
ministrator Garfield. He will be
succeeded by Frank Jotyes, who is
now vice president of the labor or
ganization.
The Hague—The Xetherlands gov
ernment has submitted to the second
chamber a bill increasing the naval
ept-dits to six million seven hundred
thousand florins for the extension
of the naval air service.
Paris—-The new French loan, as
outlined by Minister of Finance
Klotz, will be limited to ten billion
francs.
Helsingfors—The Russian fleet i
diligently guarding the entrance to
the Gulf of Finland anticipating an
attempt on the part of the Germans
to follow up theij- advantages in
the Baltic. There have no further
naval engagements, however. No
measures have been taken to evac
uate this city, despite the fact that
the nearness of the German fleet is
admittedly a menace.
Montreal—Tremendous explosions
destroyed part of the plant of the
Canadian Explosives Company this
morning, at Vaudreuil. The deto
nations continued for an hour. The
reports indicate that there was no
loss of life.
Buenos Ayres—A resolution will
be introduced in the Uruguaian con
gress next week, permitting the
crews of American warships to
land at ports in Uruguay for the
purpose of drilling and maneuver
ing.
Paris—The chamber of deputies
passed a vote of confidence in the
government today, thre being only
37 votes cast against the measure.
Seattle—Chas. Butcher, the Alas
kan who killed Mrs. Volkman and
himself in this city this week, in
vested $500 in Liberty bonds the
day before he committed the trag
edy. He left a note in which he
gave the bonds to his sister.