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FIFTH YEAR
CHITIAN, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MAY 11, 1915.
NUMBER 30
I lowing up Lusitania
VICTORIA, B. C., May 10.—The city is under martial law
and the wildest excitement has prevailed all day, as a result
of the second anti-German riot. The first demonstration
occurred on Saturday night, when the damage done aggregated
at least $25,000. On Sunday night darkness had hardly set in
before a mob assembled in the business district. This was soon
followed by a determined attack upon the part of upwards of
a thousand men on the Phoenix Brewery, which is owned by an
old-time German resident. The building and plant was
wrecked, windows broken and some damage done by fire. The
mob then made further attacks on the New England hotel,
Scraper & Glass, the tailors, Geiger Plumbing shop, and
Hilburger’s Jewelry Store. On Saturday night Simon Leiser’s
Wholesale Liquor store suffered heavily. Leiser, though born
in Germany, has been living in Victoria for 40 years. And
during that time he has become a British subject.
After the damage was done on Sunday night the mayor
planed the city under martial law. At 11 o’clock he appeared
at Yates and Government streets and read the riot act. This
morning companies of mounted troops were patrolling the
streets and infantry was stationed at the principal corners.
During the day detachments of Vancouver troops arrived.
Citizens are ordered to keep off the streets and towards evening
the excitement is subsiding. Germans have all closed their
places of business and are staying closely at home, as are also
men of that nationality who have been working for others.
Nothing before so aroused the indignation of the people of
Victoria as has the blowing up of the Lusitania and the
murder, as it is called, of so many Canadians and English.
VANCOUVER, B. C., May 11.—There was some outbreak
here as a result of the Lusitania sinking, but is was quickly
quelled and quiet reigns again. Advices from Victoria today
are to the effect that the troops have the situation well in hand
and that there is no likelihood of any further trouble there.
WASHINGTON, May 11.—Former Attorney General
Wickersham is highly indignant at the sinking of the Lusi
tania and the terrible loss of life. He says that America will
sink to the level of Chinese unless we act vigorously. He says
that if he were in authority he would cancel all our diolomatic
relations with the country which declared war on civilization.
He would further recall the American ambassador from Berlin
and hand the German ambassador at Washington his passports.
WASHINGTON, May 10.—Administration circles are
very much concerned over the sinking of the big liner
Lusitania by German torpedoes. Advices from different parts
of the country urge that the United States should take some
action in the matter. President Wilson, however, is taking
no precipitate action and is now awaiting a report from
Germany.
NEW YORK, May iu.—me revised list 01 tne ngures
regarding the number lost on the steamship Lusitania on
Friday afternoon places it at 1,302. The survivors are 462
passengers out of the total of 1250, and 302 saved out of 816
crew. The passengers were divided into 290 first-class, 600
second-class and 306 steerage. It is believed that the 764
reported as saved includes the total number.
QUEENSTOWN, May 10.—The confidence possessed by
most of the officers of the Lusitania that the big steamship had
not been mortally hurt and that she would be able to reach
shore, was the cause of much loss of life. If it had been
thought that she was in danger of sinking so quickly greater
haste would have been taken to get the passengers off in
small boats.
SYRACUSE, May 10.—In a fiery speech on Saturday
night Colonel Roosevelt insisted that immediate action should
be taken by this country. He repeated some of the statements
that he had made earlier in the day. One was that as a partici
pant in the signing of The Hague treaty, it was our duty to
enter the war in aid of Belgium, whose rights had been ruth
lessly trampled upon by Germany. He added that “the
sinking of the Lusitania was piracy and murder, and not war.
and the men responsible for the murder should be hunted down
and hung.”
LONDON, May 10.—Although it cost nearly $10,000,000
to louild and equip the Lusitania she was only insured for half
that sum, with the valuable cargo carrying over $2,000,000.
The Lloyds companies will be hit as hard by the sinking of the
Lusitania as they were when the Titanic went down on her
maiden trip across the ocean. The admiralty will undoubtedly
reimburse the Cunard line for any loss to them, as the British
ships are being operated only under the direction of the
admiralty. The life insurance companies will also come in for
heavy losses as many accident policies were taken out, espe
cially for the trip, by both British and American passengers.
MADISON, Wis., May 8.—Former President Taft is here
tonight and he says the incident of the Lusitania makes Presi
dent Wilson’s situation one of the most difficult in character.
NEW YORK, Mav 8—No list of survivors received here
contains the names of Vandervilt, Frohman, Klein or Hubbard.
Their friends have abandoned any hope that they have been
saved.
LONDON, May 8.—Lord Beresford announced that he
would question Prime Minister Asqqith as to why an escort of
torpedo boat destroyers had not been provided for the
Lusitania.
BERLIN, May 10.—The German government today tele
graphed the state department at Washington. An expression
of the deepest sympathy was tendered for the loss of
Americans on the steamship Lusitania. A German foreign
officer reported that the reason for their deaths rested on
England, Regret is expressed that Americans had relied upon
English promises instead of Germany’s warnings. The note
of condolence added that all British merchant vessels were
generally armed and had frequently tried to ram submarines.
For this reason it was stated the search of vessels is impossible,!
and they cannot be treated like ordinary merchant ships.
QUEENSTOWN, May 10.—A whole company of British!
soldiers was occupied in digging huge graves, each 30x20 feet
in which 240 unidentified dead of the victims of the Lusitania
were buried. The moving of the bodies from the temporary
morgues to the cemetery up on the hill, began at 9:30 this
morning and continued until 1:30 this afternoon. Mounted
police, soldiers and civilians participated in the funeral. There
were joint services held at which clergymen of all creeds
joined in saying prayer.
LONDON, May 8.—The details are being received of the
terrible loss of the many hundreds aboard the steamer
Lusitania. This afternoon the Admiralty states thht the total
casualties were 1,502, according to the latest figures available
this afternoon. The total number of passengers and crew
aboard was 2,160. The total number rescued is 658.
The only officer reported to have#been saved is Captain
Turner. He was picked up from the waters 3 hours after the
ship had foundered.
Most of the passengers aboard were English. The total
number of American passengers is given at 177. A large
majority of them are believed to have perished.
Four torpedoes were fired at the steamer. Two struck the
vessel, one the bow and the other the engine room. The
oassengers were at lunch at the time. The vessel immediately
listed and it was with the greatest difficulty that any Of the
life boats could be lowered. The steamer went down within
15 minutes after she had been struck. There were no small
craft in the immediate vicinity to go to the aid of thr
Lusitania’s passengers.
QUEENSTOWN, May 8.—The town hall at this city ha'- j
been turned into a temporary morgue. Torpedo boats, tugs
and armed trawlers are all in except the Heron. There have
been landed from these, 595 survivors, with 40 dead and 52
survivors landed by steamers here. At the town of Kinsale
11 survivors and 5 dead have been landed. The total survivors
are 658 and the dead bodies recovered 45.
COPENHAGEN, May 8.—Advices received here state that
the Berlin newspapers have proclaimed the sinking of the
Lusitania in collosal head lines, and declaring that Germany
had registered a new naval policy. In the various editorials
published it was frequently stated that England had received
what she deserved.
WASHINGTON, May 8.—British citizens in this city are
greatly agitated over the sinking of the Lusitania and are
demanding of Americans, almost angrily, how the President
can be able to maintain the continued neutrality of the United
States under the existing circumstances. .. |
WASHINGTON, May 8.—Secretary of War Garrison has
cancelled his proposed trip of inspection and remains at his
office awaiting developments.
WASHINGTON, May 8.—Dr. Howard Fisher, enroute to
Belgium to serve in the Red Cross is reported as saved. He is
a brother of former Secretary of the Interior Fisher.
WASHINGTON, May 8. — The administration has
demanded the basis of the report that the commander of a
German submarine had said that an American steamship from
New York and due at Liverpool today had also been
torpedoed.
NEW YORK, May 8.—Broadway is tonight mounring the
| loss of the great theatrical manager Charles Frohman and the
i playright Charles Klein. The steamship Transvlvania, which
vTas reported torpedoed off Ireland today had 879 passengers
aboard when she sailed from this citv.
WASHINGTON, May 8.—The English Admiralty denies
the statement that the Lusitania was armed as an auxiliary
cruiser.
KINSALE, May 11.—The coroner’s jury finds that the
deceased victims of the steamship Lusitania met deatli through
prolonged emersion and exhaustion in the sea, owing to the
sinking of the vessel hy torpedoes fired by a German submarine.
They further find that the crime is appalling and committed
contrary to international law.
QTTEENSTOWN, May 11.—Several of the survivors
declare that but one torpedo struck the ship, but that her
boilers exploded shortly afterward.
PHILADELPHIA, May 11.—President Wilson, in his
speech last night before thousands of naturalized American
citizens, took as his keynote the word “Humanity.” He stated
that all must have the consciousness that humanity is on all
sides of us; it is there when men touch elbows and it is in the
hearts of men and women in their daily intercourse. With
nations, the making of a state of humanity is always first.
There are many occasions when men are too proud to fight
because they know they are right. Tumultuous applause fol
lowed his address, which it is believed tends to show his policy
towards Germany.
LONDON, May 11.—Priixie Minister Herbert Ilenrv
Asquith says that the war was begun by Germany witli
fragrant and inexcusable bi'eaks and that it is carrying trouble
to the entire world. His hope is that the neutral nations will
fully realize that fact.
EUROPEAN WAR
LONDON, May 10.—Italy is now ready to enter the war,
making Turkey as the basis of the reason, because of her
alleged violations of the Lausanne treaty. Six hundred thou
sand soldiers are concentrated at Verona, 25 miles from the
Austrian frontier. The Austrians and Hermans are fleeing
from Italy by the thousands.
LONDON, May 8.—The British steamer Centurian was
torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine off the coast of
Ireland. Her crewr was saved. The steamer Candidate was
also sunk off the town of Waterford, which is about 50 miles
north of Queenstown, in St. George’s channel. The crew was
saved. ■
Washington, May 8.—An official statement received this
afternoon from Berlin states that Libau. Russia, had been
Raptured by the Germans.
TOKIO, May 7.—Advices received late today state that
China accedes to Japan’s demands under protest, recognizing
the fact that resistance would be foolhardy.
WASHINGTON, May 7.—An administration statement
was issued this afternoon in reference to the Japanese-Chinese
negotiations which this government has been conducting. Our
adherence is reiterated in the open door policy and the main
tenance of territorial integrity.
LONDON, May 7.—The steamer Cathay, with passengers
and freight horn Copenhagen bound for Chinese ports, wa»
sunk by a German submarine in the North Sea. Nearly all
who were aboard escaped in small boats and reached places
of safety.
LONDON, May 7.—The Germans are reported to have
trapped the third Russian army in Galicia by using gas bombs.
Tt is also reported that the Germans are holding many
trenches near Ypres. Both of which events, a Berlin telegram
states, is highly satisfactory. The British lines however, have
made gradual advances and are said to be within three miles
of Ypres city.
PARIS, May 7.—Unofficial advices state that the French
have evacuated the Alliy woods to the Germans. Many of tie*
French soldiers were captured while the French losses are sai 1
to have been heavy.
TOKIO, May 7.—Portions of the army corps at Hirossima
and Okivama are already for eventualities. It is generally
believed that hostilities cannot much longer be delayed.
TOKIO, May 6.—The Emperor is personally presiding :*t
a cabinet meeting today. It is understood that the l nited
States is endeavoring to mediate in the controversy between
Japan and China. The deliberations have thus been protracted.
From inner circles, however, it is intimated that the offices o!
the United States will not avail, and that serious trouble is
likely to be precipitated. This afternoon a big fleet of war
ships is taking on supplies at Sasebo, which is located near
Nagasaki. Everywhere preparations are making for
hostilities.
PEKIN, May G.—The ultimatum from Japan has been
received and is being considered. T he Japanese barracks at
Hankow are reported as being ready to seize Mukden, in
Manchuria.
MUKDEN, May G.—By reason of an order issued by the
Japanese consul there has been a general flight of Japanese
from this citv.
TOKIO, May 6.—Martial law is favored for Kwangtung
island, which is located near Port Arthur.
WASHINGTON, May 6.—China makes a idea that
America give her moral support in the controversy now on
with Japan. It is represented that the latter country is
pursuing a policy of progression. It is realized by the admin
istration here that the situation is a delicate one.
LONDON, May fi.—Fierce fighting continues in Flanders.
The Germans are using gas bombs with deadly effect. Both
sides are losing large numbers of men.
THE HAGUE, May 6.—The large number of delegates
who have congregated here from all sections ot the world in a
peace congress, have given thought to all phases ot the
European situation. They discussed various plans and
methods by which a termination might be brought of the
terrible conflict. The conclusion reached has been to call upon
England first and ask that she terminate hostilities.
LONDON, May 6.—Advices received this afternoon state
that a small steamer, a trawler and a schooner were sunk by
a German submarine in the North Sea.
VIENNA, May 6.—Lafayette V oung, editor and former
IT. S. Senator from Iowa, with a companion, former deputy
consul at Berne, were arrested in Austria on suspicion ol
espionage. The former was released but the latter was held.
PENZANIC, May 5.—An inquest started today over the
death of Captain Gunther, master of the American ship
Gulflight. which was torpedoed.
LONDON, May 5.—Nine British trawlers were torpedoed
on Monday by German submarines. In each instance the crews
were given but five minutes time in which to make their escape
from the vessels. And few were lost.
BERLIN, May 5.—In official advices received it is stated
that the British are retreating in the region of the Ypres.
BERLIN, May 5.—Encouraging news is received to the
effect that the southern wing of the Russian army west of
Galicia has been broken along a front of 24 miles. And this is
regarded as significant.