FIFTH YEAR
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CHITINA, ALASKA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1914.
NUMBER 3
PUB OF 1M
LONDON, Oct. 31.—Both Great Britain and
Russia have presented the following demands to the
sublime porte of legislation on Turkey’s naval action
in the Black Sea: Dismissal of German officers from
the Turkish ships’ dismantling of cruisers Goeben
and Breslau. Failing this afternoon to receive com
pliance with these demands the diplomatic relations
with Turkey will be severed by Great Britain.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.—The Turkish min
ister to France has informed the French ambassador
at Constantinople that the raid of Turkish warships
on Russian seaports took place without the knowl
edge of the Ottoman government, and presumably
under the influence of German officers and crew. The
information was conveyed in dispatches today from
Ambassador Morgantheau. It further added that
The Russian ambassador had received instructions
to demand his passports. He made an effort to see
the Grand Vizier, who pleaded illness and did not
receive him.
LONDON, Oct. 31.—From both French and
British official sources advices state that the general
advance of the allied forces have been ordered in
the central part of West Flanders province. The
battle has been raging without many details other
than that the great slaughter continues.
LONDON, Oct. 31.—An official message has
been received at Rome from Constantinople announc
ing that the Russian fleet had attacked the Turkish
fleet near Sebastopol, in the Black Sea.
LONDON, Oct. 31.—All reports today indicate
that the allies are winning victories. The Germans
have been forced to evacuate Ostend, while the
allied armies have advanced and are driving the
Germans a considerable distance eastward,
his government, has informed the Grand Vizier that
if the Turks cross the frontier it will mean war with
the entente powers.
PARIS, Oct. 30.—The situation in West
Flanders is this afternoon regarded as highly
favorable to the allies. In official circles the greatest
possible satisfaction prevails because of the satisfac
tory assurances given in official communications
from the seat of war. Very little news of a definite
nature is given out today with reference to the
battle line.
PETROGRAD, Oct. 20.—The Commander-in
Chief of the Russian forces has announced that he
has broken the resistance of the enemy’s last units,
which attempted to hold the section north of Pilitza.
He further states that the troops of Germany and
Austria are retreating beyond the Vistula river.
PETROGRAD, Oct. 30—Russia views the action
of Turkey in bombarding the unfortified Russian
ports without a declaration of war, as infinitely more
important to England than to Russia on accpunt of
her English communications with India and her
possessions in Egypt. The policy of Russia will not
he one of general aggression to American Turkey,
but merely the defense of her own interests in the
Black Sea.
THEODOSIA, Crimea, Oct. 30.—The former
German cruiser Breslau, now flying the Turkish
flag, opened an attack and shelled this city. Among
the buildings damaged were the Greek churches and
the Russian bank.
COPENHAGEN, Oct. 30.—In anticipation of
the possible invasion of Egyptian territory, the
British ambassador, acting under instructions from
WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.—The French embassy
this morning received a dispatch from Paris stating
that everywhere the Germaps had received a serious
check, falling back all along the lipe from Labassee
to the sea. It was stated further that the belief was
prevalent that the enemy would now be gradually
forced from French and Belgian territory.
BERLIN, Oct. 29.—It was officially announced
this morning that the German and Austrian troops
in Poland and the northern part of Austria had
withdrawn. This step was necessary because of the
fresh reinforcements that were advancing from
Ivangorod and Warsaw.
LONDON, Oct. 29.—All reports today indicate
that the tide of the battle in West Flanders has
turned in favor of the allies. Although the enemy
has been receiving hundreds of thousands of rein
forcements the allies have succeeded in pressing
forward and badly punishing the Germans. The
Russians are also making nobble gains. Berlin is
silent today with reference to its views on the war
situation.
ROME, Oct. 29.—A profound impression has
been created here by the report that Greece had
landed 1,200 soldiers at Santo Quarante, thus taking
possession of the southern part of Albania. This
gives Greece the entire control of Crofu Channel
LONDON, Nov. 2.—Very little news of the war
now waging in France and Belgium slipped through
today. It is the opinion at the war office here that
the situation remains about the same as a couple of
days ago. The allies have made slight gains in
pushing back the Germans, but there has been no
decisive action.
ATHENS, Nov. 2.—The Russian ambassador
left Constantinople on Saturday night, and it is
expected that the relations between Turkey and
Russia will soon be at end and in every particular.
LONDON, No. 2.—The British cruiser Pelmes
was sunk yesterday by a German submarine in the
Straits of Dover.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.—There has been some
question as to the authenticity of the report that
the German Crown Prince had been killed. Infor
mation of different kinds, however, tends to verify
it. In a private letter received this morning by a
young woman from a lieutenant in the German army
lie refers to ‘‘the funeral of the Grown Prince.”
Another private letter, just received from a different
source states that the Crown Prince had been buried.
BERLIN, Nov. 2.—The German casualties for
the past week have aggregated (12,000. The high
total is because of the almost continuous fighting
that lias been going on in France and Belgium.
TOIvIO, Nov. 2.—Official advices received here
indicate that a great battle is engaging Tsingtau.
BORDEAUX, Nov. 2.—Late this afternoon
France severed her diplomatic relations with
Turkey.
ROHE, Nov. 2.—The cabinet resigned on
Saturday because of an increase of tax through the
loss of revenues on account of the war. At least this
was the explanation made by the king.
NEW YORK, Nov. 2.—John I). Rockefeller, Jr.
announced this morning that the Rockefeller
Foundation Society stood ready with $5,000,000, if
necessary to furnish non-combatant countries
afflicted by the war. He thus hopes to fulfill the
chartered purpose of the Foundation, to promote
the well being of mankind.
BERLIN, Nov. 2.—The general staff reports
that they are pleased at the reports received ot the
recent fighting.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.—There has been a
formal protest to the British government against
the detention of the American copper laden steam
ship Kroonland, at Gibraltar today.
ROME, Oct. 31.—The island of Saseno is
occupied by Admiral Patris, of the Italian navy. It
commands the entrance to the harbor of Avlono,
Albania.
AMSTERDAMfi Oct. 31.—Two leading news
papers of this city announce that the Germans have
evacuated Ostend.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.—Word reached the
state department today that representatives of
Russia, Great Britain and France were preparing
to leave Copenhagen. At least one of the three
ambassadors have asked the United States to look
after their affairs.
PETROGRAD, Oct. 31.—Of the crew of the
Jemtchug, torpedoed by the cruiser Emden in
Penang harbor, 85 perished and 112 were wounded.
Some of the survivors had narrow escapes from
death.
HALIFAX, Oct. 30.—Filled with food and
clothing the Belgian refugee steamer Tremorvah
Xovascotias, sailing as a relief ship, sailed from this
port for London this morning.
ST. LOUIS, Mo., Oct. 30.—An agent has
arrived here for the purpose of purchasing 20,000
additional horses for the allies. Thousands have
already been secured in this section and shipped to
the Atlantic coast for transportation to Europe.
LONDON, Oct. 29.—The Dutch steamer Coni
lentz sailed for Rotterdam where 5,000 tons of food
had been purchased from the American commission
for the relief of Belgian civilians.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 29—Ambassador Gerrard
has cabled to the state department that Germany
would need 50,000 and Austria 25,000 bales of cotton
per month.
SARA JEVO, Bosnia, Oct. 29.—Gravio Prinzip,
the student who shot and killed Archduke Francis
Ferdinand and wife, was today sentenced to 20 years
in prison. Four accomplices, who it is alleged, put
up the plot, were sentenced to death, another to life
imprisonment and five were sent to prison for from
one to ten years.
TOKIO, Oct. 29.—The embassy announced this
morning that the German cruiser Emden, flying the
Japanese flag and disguised by a fourth smokestack
had entered Perang, a British possession in the
straits. From this settlement the cruiser fired
torpedoes which struck and sank the Russian cruiser
Jamschug and a French torpedo boat destroyer.
BERLIN, Oct. 28.—It has been officially
announced that $800,000,000 has been paid on the
war loan. The Imperial Bank has specie for
$57,000,000.
LONDON, Oct. 28.—The bloody battle in West
Flanders continues and tonight it was reported that
seven times the Germans crossed and recrossed the
Yser canal. Each time they gained the left bank
they found themselves in a death trap. The allies
were entrenched behind a railroad embankment
almost paralelling the Yser and no quarter was
given the enemy. The slaughter was immense.
German reinforcements continue to arrive hourly.
FLUSHING, Holland, Oct. 28.—It was an
nounced this morning that the Germans had fallen
back from Westend, and that they are putting the
coast from Ostend to Knocke in a state of defehse.
At Ostend preparations are being made to place
mines in the harbor entrance, so as to prevent the
near approach of the battleships of the allies. The
German losses on the Nieuport and Dixmude line
were 16,000 killed and 30,000 wounded. Four hun
dred vehicles loaded with wounded soldiers passed
through Ostend. Five train bads of artillery have i
been taken to Zeebrugge.
BERLIN, Oct. 28.—The Swiss newspapers
report that in the recent battles between Toul and
Verdun, the French losses exceed 40,000.
LONDON, Oct. 28.—The French war office has
made the announcement that the German line across
France has been broken near the eastern end of the
line in the region beyond Nancy. The invaders have
been driven back on German soil and other points.
In that section the allies have again resumed the
offensive.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.—Martial law has been
proclaimed today throughout Egypt by Great
Britain. It is reported that considerable disorder
prevails there.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 2.—Ambassadors of
Great Britain, Russia and France have received
their passports, and soon all will be on their way.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.—According to a cable
gram received from Ambassador Morganthau,
Turkey has announced that Russian consuls in the
Ottoman Empire will not be permitted to leave until
assurances are given of the safe conduct of the
Turkish consuls from Russia. The Turkish minister
has further in formed Ambassador Morgenthau that
the Turkish w»rahi}>s have bombarded Sebastapol.
Great Britain and France have placed their interests
in Turkey in the hands of the American embassy.
The Turkish consul at Havre has turned over the
consulate there to the United States.
LONDON, Nov. 2.—Turkey has formally
annexed Egypt, according to a German official
statement which has been received from Berlin by
the Marconi Company.
LONDON, Nov. 2.—The Grand Vizier of Turkey
has apologized for the recent events in the Black Sea.
SIDELIGHTS ON THE WAR
The British war office lias issued a call for a
thousand chauffeurs.
Altona has elected a Socialist for deputy in the
Prussian diet.
Large numbers of Germans are being arrested
in Great Britain and sent to detention camps.
Germany is about to float another loan of
$375,000,000 for the relief of sufferers in East
Prussia and elsewhere.
A Reuter dispatch from Berlin states the munci
pality is asking powers to fix maximum prices for
food stuffs.
Duke Ernest August, of Brunswick, son-in-law
to the Kaiser, is reported missing.
The body of Prince Miximilian, of Hesse, has
been found dead on the battlefield, according to
French reports.
Owing to the destruction by bombs in Montreal
of a tenement occupied by Russian families, Germans
and Austrians are being subjected to closer police
supervision.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.—There have been
many inquiries at the department of the interior
concerning certain phases of the Alaska coal
leasing bill. Several applications for leases have
come from the west coast. W. G. Whorf, of Seldovia,
has applied for several hundred acres adjacent to
his Port Graham property, upon which he recently
received a patent. No applications are vet on file
for leases for the Bering River or Matanuska fields.
It is understood that parties are awaiting the
promulgation of regulations so that they may know
exactly their rights. And pending the adoption of
regulations upon the part of the interior department
no action will be taken on any application. The
Frost group of coal claimants are the first to offer
to surrender their claims and receive the return of
the money paid as the purchase price, which is
$10 per acre. This is in accordance with the new
law and it is expected that other claimants will also
be willing to waive rights by receiving their money
back.
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LATE ELECTION RETURNS
The following have been elected’
governors of the states named:
Arizona, Hunt, Democrat; Alabama.
Charles Henderson, Democrat; Cali
fornia, Johnson, Progressive,; Colo
rado, George Carlson, republican;
Connecticut, Marcum Holcomb, Re
publican; Georgia, Nate Harris,
Democrat; Idaho, Moses Alexander,
Democrat; Iowa. George W. Clark».
Republican; Kansas, Arthur Capper,
Republican; Minnesota. Winfield
Hammond, Democrat; Michigan. Fer
ris, Democrat; New Hampshire, H.
Spaulding, Republican; Nebraska.
Morehead, Democrat; North Dakota.
Louis Hanna, Republican: Oregon.
James Withcombe, Republican;
Rhode Island, R. Livingstone Bee.k
man, Republican: South Carolina. R.
J. Manning. Democrat; Tennessee.
Thomas C. Rye, Democrat; Texas,
Jas. Ferguson. Democrat; Vermont,
Chas. W. Gates, Republican; Wis
consin, Emanual L. Phillips, Repub
lican: Wyoming, H. S. Ridgely, re
publican.
NEW YORK—-Complete returns
show Republicans have elected sen
ators as follows: Brandegee, Con
necticut; Brady, Idaho; Cummins.
Iowa; Galliger, New Hampshire:
Wardsworth, Ne.w York; Gronna.
Sorth Dakota; Harding, Ohio; Pen
rose, Pennsylvania; Dillingham, Ver
mont. Late returns show senatorial
results in doubt in Colorado, Kan
sas and Nevada. Indications are
that the Republicans gain 54 mem
bers in the House, reducing the pres
ent Democratic majority of 140
to 33.
NEW YORK—The Democratic ma
jority in the. House will be reduced
to a minimum. The following Demo
cratic senators were elected accord
ing to complete returns: Underwood,
Alabama; Clark, Arkansas; Fletcher.
Florida; Hardwick. Georgia; Beck
ham and Camden, Kentucky; Brow
brouisard, Louisiana: Stone, Mis
souri; Overman, North Carolina;
Gore,, Oklahoma; Smith, Georgia;
Smith, Maryland; Smith, South. Car
olina; Smith, Arizona, Chamberlain.
Oregon.
NEW YORK—One of the big sur
prises in any state is the overwhelm
ing election of District Attorney
Whitman as governor of New York.
He was the“regular Republican can
didate and when Teddy Roosevelt
decided not to support him it was
believed that his success was uncer
tain. But he had more than 100,000
votes in excess of that received by
Governor Glynn, the present Demo
cratic incumbent. Former Governor
Sulzer polled about 100,000 votes,
pulling from all parties. He is satis
fied in the, defeat of Tammany
through the loss of Glynn.
NEW YORK—The Tribune con
cedes the election of Walsh, Demo
crat, as governor of Massachusetts
by a big majority.
SEATTLE—With the vote only
half counted the drys seem to be
winning. Jones, Humphrey, Johnson
and LaFollette are re-elected. Dill,
Democrat, defeats Rosenhaupe, Re
publican, for congress. Hadley, Re
publican, has defeated Campbell,
Progressive, his nearest competitor
for Congress.
SEATTLE—In 863 precincts out
of a total of 2.053 in the state gives
the drys a lead of 880.
PORTLAND—W. C. Hawley and
N. J. Slnnot, Republicans, have been
elected to Congress from the first
and second districts in Oregon.
PORTLASD—The vote on prohibi
tion is close with the probability of
going dry.
CALIFORNIA—Johnson. Progres
sive. is re-elected governor. The 8
hour law and prohibition defeated.
COLORADO — Republicans elect
governor, defeatng Ammons, Demo
crat.
COLORADO-—In Denver the Re
publican for governor is safely ahead.
Progressives are tail enders every
where. The drys are slightly in the
lead.
COLORADO—This state has gone
dry, the drys piling up a big vote.
SEATTLE—The eight-hour law
is probably beaten In the state.
ILLINOIS—Sullivan and Sherman,
neck and neck. The Republicans
elect all state officers. Democrats
elect all Cook county officers.
WASHINGTON — The, Democratic
National headquarters has advised
the President that Phelan, has been,
elected senator in California.