WILD HI tT CARDIFF WH N PEACE IS URGED
THE NOME DAILY NUGGET
VOLUME XVI. NO. 205. TELEPHONE MAIN 411 NOME, ALA8KA. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13 ,1916. TELEPHONE MAIN 46. PRI„E 25 CENTS
CARDIFF E MEETING
ENDS IN DIG FIGHT
SPEAKER BADLY BEATEN
International News Service.
LONDON, Nov. 13.—A pcaco moot
ing on Saturday afternoon in Cardiff,
Wales, broke up in a wild riot.
The meeting was held In spite ol
warning. Thrlty thousand people wen
prevent including many coal minors.
A majority of the crowd were opposed
to the speakers from the very start
and when criticism of the government
became bitter and lnilamatory lan
guage was used large numbers ,of
the listeners rushed for the platform
in an attempt to get at the speakers.
They were opposed by friends of the
speakers and advocates of immediate
cessation of the war who were at the
front and n free-for-all fight took
place.
The speakers were Thomas and Mc
Donald, members of the house of par
liament, and the head of the South
Wales Miners' Association. The
| miners’ freprescnttlves was conciliatory
in liis speech urging an acceptance
■ at a convenient date for honorable
terms affording peace.
The riot was caused by the oratory
' of nu mber of parliament McDonald
who criticised Great Britain for enter
ing the war and found fault with Un
conduct of the campaign as to the
Dardanelles, the operations^ of >he
navy, the letting of war contracts and
other issues including the suppres
sion of the Irish uprising. lie was
frequently hissed and hooted and was
finally interrupted by a determined
rush of .men for the platform with the
utrntton of dragging him off.
In spite of efforts by peace propa
gandists to stern the current and pro
tect their leader the mob reached the
platform from all sides and seized
McDonald who was pulled down and
severely beaten. Constables forced
their way into the dense mass of
struggling, shouting men and suc
ceeded in rescuing McDonald, Thomas
and the other speakers. McDonald
was badly injured by the mauling he
received but not dangerously.
The sentiment of the meeting was
generally loyal to the government’s
! obey though there was a considera
ble sprinkling of radicals who cheered
c\ > ry reference to immediate peace
and boo-ed all references to n delay
which should await a peace proposal
when conditions should favor the
allies.
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BRITISH CAPTURE BEAUMONT
AND HAUMEL ON SUMME AND
TAKE 2,000 PRISONERS
I j International Newt Service.
I ! LONDON, Nov. 13.—It in officially
1 announced that Ihe British have cap
1 tured the villages of Beaumont and
Haumel In the valley of the Anerc rlv
i er and about eight miles west of
l Bapaume. These places have been
i successfully held by the enemy in
splto of desperate attempts to win
> them.
i The action was begun by a drum
like artillery bombardment and then
l J the British started to break through
' the German defenses. In the face of
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1 MASSACRE
; WOMEN AND
CHILDREN
Pacific News Servioe.
LAREDO, Tex., Nov. 13.—Tho stato
of Morelos in Mexico is rapidly being
overrun with Zapatistas according to
news received at this place.
Yesterday tncy massacred indiscrim
inately over one hundred women and
children near Contrenas. A small
| detachment of Carranza troops which 1
were on their way to quell the out
breaks wore taken from the train and
given their choice between Joining the
Zapatistas or being shot. They rh e*'
tho former alternative.
The dc facto government is said to
bo losing strength in Morelos and
lawlessness is increasing.
i ill obstacle* every entrenchment anil
i fortification was carried by storm and
Beaumont and ITaumel- fully occit
pled.
Over two thousand were capturid
along with cannon machine guns,
and supplies.
The Times commenting on the action
it is “one of the great victories of the
second class on the French front"
International News Service.
PARIS, Nov. 13.—The two enctr
cling movements directed againjt
Papa time and-Chnulnes and begun
about a month ago are succeeding
siowgly but surely.
Fxhileratlng news has just come
from the Rommo headquarters of a
brilh: nt British success In the Cap
ture by .-term of the villages ot Beau
mont and Haumcl with their fortifica
tions and entrenchments. Two thou
sand Germans have been captured and
the enemy’s defense pnrtiallv demor
alized.
International News Service.
LONDON, Nov. 13.—General start
official news is to the effect that the1
British are driving home their attack ,
both north and Bouth of the Vncrr
river, more prisoners have been taken
ind additional ground gained.
International News Service.
BERLIN, Nov. 13.—It Is olllciaUy
stated that German artillery was abb
successfully to withstand strong Brit
ish and French attacka on the S' inn
The enemy came on repeatedh mil i
cover of bombardments.
Official announcement is made that
Von Maekensen still holds Ceravoda
and the bridge across the Danu'i
which gives access to Romnania anil
mokes possible an advance on Bu
chareat.
It also states that the Russians and
Roumanians are shelling Cernavoda
night and day and that infantry at
tacks are frequent.
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If ternational News Service.
NEW YORK, Nov. 13.—An extra
edition of the New York Evening
Sun contains reliable reports of a der
man war submarine lying oft Point
Judith,, Rliodo Island, at the mouth of
Long Island sound.
It is conjectured that ttio U-bout
is waiting for the merchant submu
fine Deutschland to come from New
London and is intending to convoy her
on the return trip to Bremen.
No British or French cruisers are
within sight of Block Island or Mon
tauk point although incoming ships
have reported their presence off the
coasl.
ALASKA AWAITS RETURNS FROM
OUTLYING DISTRICTS IN
DELEGATE CONTEST
That all of Alaska is in doubt, as to
the outcome of tho election of dele
gate Is shown by tho number of tele
grams received by tho Nugget from
papers of the principal towns from
Fairbanks to Anchorage.
There is ground for supposing that
dispatches emanating from Juneau
claim Sulzers election bccauso of esti
mates rather than from tho returns.
The Nugget’s dlsaptch from the Em
pire of Juneau gave Wickcrshnm 1801
votes several days ago with fifteen
precincts still unheard from. Other
Juneau dispatches have since given
Wlckersham only 1745 with some of
thoso precincts added to tho score.
That additional precincts had been
heard from is shown by the increase
of Sulzer's vote from 2146 ns shown
In tho Nugget dispatch to 2226 in the
later message. That Sulznr should
gain 80 votes and Wickerslmm go
back 66 votes by later returns is not
possible. Thero must be a mistake
somewhero cither In the tabulation
of one set of figures which Is possible
or In their transmission over tho wire
which Is not probable.
Because of the lively telegraphic in
lerest taken in the returns from this
division by Alaskan papers It may
reasonably bo Inferred that that the
election Is so close that It will bo
settled by the returns from outlying
preclnts.
The Alaskan papers all are inquir
ing particularly as to wlmt precincts
in the second division remain unheard
from and guesses will probably be
made ns to their leanings.
It Is possil lo for a man who knows
the trend of sentiment in Haycock
| and Fortuna Ledge (o make a better
prophecy as to the outcome than a man
who knows little about the d »■ Mite
sentiment in those places but the faats
won't Ite known until the returns are
all in.
Tito Fortuna Ledge returns have to
I come a part of the way by dog team.
It is understood that the radio sta
tion at Holy Cross is closed down in
the winter and so the nearest stations
are St. Michael and Nulato. If the
I rct§rns are taken up the Yukon they
could reach Kaltag which has a tele
phone to Nulato in seven or eight
days if the traveling is good which Is
unlikely at this time of the year. The
trip down the river to St. Michael
could also bo made in about the same
time if travel is possible which !f>
doubtful. If a skilled cross country
musher should be secured to make the
trip, another route could he followed
which would get the news to St. Mich
ael In four days and that route would
ha straight across country. As no
returns have yet come from Marshal
It Is likely that this was not attempted.
Probably the Marshal officials arc
not so anxious lo get the returns out
as Alaskans are to hear them and
they may he entrusted to the mill
or casual travel. Owing to these
facts and the additional fact that the
trail from Marshall in either direc
tion Is bad at this time of year It is
possible that a waiting territory may
not hear the results from that section
for a couplo of weeks. Then again
the news might come sizzling over tho
wire at any moment.
As various estimates by lato ar
rivals from Fortuna Ledgo glvo the
population there from 400 to 1,000 It
can be sjen that a comparatively large
vote may he cast and It may bo de
Clslvs.