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VOLUME XVI. NO. III. TELF.P"ONE MAIN 40 NOME, ALASKA. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13. I«)l6. TELEPHONE MAIN «. PRI.EJ5CENH
GERMANS TRY LIOUID
FIRE AT VEROUN
A. P. A. Service
PARIS, April 12.—Four col
umns of Brandenburgers employ
ign burning jets of flaming liquid
made repeated attacks, on the
French line of defense between
Veux and Douamont today but
the French, wearing poison gas
masks held the line intact and the
efforts of the enemy were fruit
less
This is the substance of the
war office report given out last ]
evening. The Germans with their
liquid fire machines made several
attempts to rush the French lines
and in several instances managed
to reach the trenches but were
driven back before they could
gain a foothold. Heavy cannon
ades are reported in progress at
other points.
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GERMANS SUFFER HEAVILY
IN FIRE RUSH
tty A P. A. Service.
PARIS, April 12.—The Ger-j
mans suffered severe losses in
their attempts to rush the French
positions with a liquid fire attack.1
Despite the menacing flames the1
French remained at their posts,
sweeping the advancing columns j
with a veritible hail of shot from
the machine guns and but few of
the attacking forces managed to
reach close enough to the French
trenches to spray their burning
liquid on the defenders. The re
urn of the Germans to a frontal
attack in this direction is again
indicated.
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TURKS REPORT BIG
VICTORY KU i-EL-AMAR AH
A. P. A. Service
BERLIN, April 12.—An offi
cial report of the Turkish war of
fice says that three thousand Brit
ish dead were counted on the field
after the battle between the Turk
ish and British forces at Felaine,
Mespotamia. The engagement
occurred on April 9 and resulted
in the British being completely
routed after a six hour battle.
The defeated forces under Gen
eral Lake are now reported re
tiring down the Tigris having ap
parently suffered so heavily that!
I further attempts to relieve the!
forces shut up in Kut-el-Amarah:
'without reinforcements are out of I
the question. It is considered
here that the beleaguered army is I
now doomed to surrender or anni- j
hilation.
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DUPONT’S AGAIN
BLOWN UP
A. P. A. Service.
ROANOKE, Ca., April 12
Three workmen were killed and
considerable property destroyed
in an explosion in the plant of the
'DuPont-Nemours Powder Com-i
pany here today. The explosion
took place in the packing house
and is thought to have been the
result of carelessness on the part
of one of the workmen killed.
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WILSON WINS
IN ILLINOIS
A. P. A. Service
CHICAGO, April 12—Presi
dent Wilson was returned the
winner over all opposers in the
Illinois presidential _ preference
primaries held yesterday. The
victory of the president is over
whelming as was also that of Sen
ator Sherman.
NIGARAQUA
RATIFIES
CANAL TREATY
A. P. A. Service.
WASHINGTON, April 12.—
Secretary Lansing announced to
day that the government of Nica
ragua has given formal notice of
the ratification of the canal treaty
whereby the United States is to,
pay Nicaragua the sum of three'
million dollars for all rights to
canal construction on what is
known as the Nicaragua canal
route.
The Nicaraguan government
has also signified a desire that the
United States pay over the money
as speedily as possible in order
to provide the nearly bankrupt
government with sufficient funds
to relieve the great financial dis
tress prevailing in that country on
account of the war.
WORKS ATTACKS
ARMY BILL
A. P. A. Service.
WASHINGTON, April 12.—A
bitter attack on the army bill was
made by Senator Works today
The senator declared that the bill
w'as entirely inadequatt to the
needs of defense and insisted that
the army should either be sub
stantially increased or not increas
ed at all. The senator coupled his
attack on the army measure with
a strong denunciation of the poli
ticians who, he declared, are try
ing to tempt justice Hughes with
the presidential nomination.
PORTUGESE CABINET
RESIGNS TODAY
MADRID, April 12.—Th<;. en
tire Portugese cabinet has resign
ed after a session distinguished by
especial bitterness over the war
question according to advices
reaching here this afternoon.
KAISER HAS
NARROW
ESCAPE
A. P. A. Service
ROME, April 12.—According
10 dispatches from Switzerland:
today Emperor William had a re
markable escape from being
struck by a brench shell while
;\isiting the German lines on the
Verdun front and is still suffer
ing severely from shock as a re
sult.
f he report says that the em
peror was standing at the side of
his automobile viewing the light
ing lines when a large shell fell
so close that several of his offi
cers were killed and the automo
bile wrecked. As the kaiser was
standing at the opposite side of
the machine he wras protected
from the flying fragments but suf
fered severely from tremendous
shock of the explosion. He was
immediately hurried from the
scene by his staff before another
shell should come. It is said that
the emperor was almost insensi
' ' and was compelled to return
to Potsdam to recover from the
shock
GERMANY DENIES
SUSSEX SINKING
A. P. A. Service
BERLIN, April 12.—The Ger
man reply to the American note
concerning the damaging or sink
ing of five ships, all of whom are1
referred to in the L'nited Stan
communication, was published to
day.
t he reply of the foreign office
contains the statement vtint tliej
steamers Englishman, Eagle
Point, Manchester, Engineer and
Berwindvale were destroyed by
VJie German submarines. Evi
dence obtained by the admiralty
shows that these vessel- were tor
pedoed in accordance with the
rules of war but no evidence has
been obtained showing that the
German vessels were concerned in
the explosion involving the Sus
sex. The note states that a Ger
man submarine torpedoed a
steamship in the vicinity of tin
place where the Sussex was dam
aged but the evidence ai Tiev* ;
dicates that the vessel torpedoed
was not the Sussex.
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CONGRESS PASSES RIVERS
AND HARBORS BILL
A- P. A. Service.
WASHINGTON, April it.—
I he rivers and harbors bill car
vying an appropriation of forts
million dollars for river and har
bor work passed the house today.
The measure includes an appro
priation of three hundred and for
ty eight thousand for the comple
tion of the ship canal between
Puget Sound and Lake Washing
ton, near Seattle, thus assuring
that town of the possession of one
of the greatest fresh water harbors
in the world.
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P. A. Service.
BERLIN, ApAril 12.—The re1
ply of Germany to the United
States in the Sussex matter was
handed to the American minister,
hy the foreign office today. The
' ierinan communication also re
plies to the American government
on four other .similar cases
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KRAUSE AGAIN
ON TRIAL
A. P. A. Servict
JUNEAU, April n.—Edward
Krause, the Petersburg man, sus
pected of the kidnapping murder
of VVm. Christie, a former amal
gamator in the employ of the
Treadwell company who myster
iously disappeared last November,
was placed on trial today in the
district court on one of several in
f’ie’ments returned against him'
by the grand jury. He is not on
trial for murder, however, as no.
evidence has been unearthed.
Krause is known to have lured
Christie away from Douglas by
means of a fake subpoena since
which date he cannot be located.
The charge he is at present facing
is that of impersonating an offic
er.
REPORTED RELIEF
EXPEDITION DEFEAT.
ED KUT-EL-AMARAH
P A. Service,
LONDON, April 11—Reports
indicate that the British relief ov
> •dition under General Lake in
Mesopotamia has met a serious
tevere within sight of the walls.
>f Kut-i 1-Amarah, thus further
jeopardizing the British forces
shut up in the beleaguered city.
GERMANY SELLS
HOWITZER
GANNON
A. P. A. Service.
BERLIN,- April 12.—A trade
announcement today states that
Germain' is selling fifteen centi
meter howitzers in great number :
10 the Swiss government.
RICHARD HARDING
DAVIS 15 DEAD
A- P. A. Sendee.
MOL"NT K1SCO, N. V., April
12.—Richard Harding Davis died
suddenly at his home here today
r" 1.*m an attack of heart failure
The famous author was standing
at the telephone talking to a
friend when he was overtaken
Members of his family at once
unished to the side of the fallen
man and help was immediately
summoned. Before the arrival of
a physician he was dead.
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