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VOLUME 18 VALDEZ, ALASKA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER-!, 1915 NUMBER 171
Kkter German Consulate and Secure
Bullion Left There for Safe
keeping b.v Companies.
CHIHUAHUA, Nov. 9.—General
'Villa’s soldiers, who have not re
newed their pay for months, and are
in a starving condition, yesterday
raided and burned the public market
and other buildings in this city, kill
ing many who resisted the raiders
and carrying off the supplies of food
stuffs from the stores.
The soldiers raided the German
consulate and seized a quantity of
bullion which had been stored in the
consulate for safekeeping. No vio
lence was offered the German offi
cials, as the raiders had evfdently re
ceived instructions to secure the bul
liop without assaulting the officials
if jjcssible.
,x«fedfres of fires were started in vari
ous parts of the city by the troops
after they had raided the premises,
and the citizens were kept in a con
stant state of terror for hours until
a committee of merchants raised
$100,000 in gold to. pay off the sol
diers.
It is reported that the gold bullion
secured from the German consulate
by the raiders was more than one
million dollars as a number of min
ing companies have continued opera
tions despite the numerous attacks
upon their employes by raiders.
GERMANS GME
MUCH MATERIAL
Pfnd Millions of Dollars worth of
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Metals, Oils and Rubber in
Serbian Arsenal City.
BERLIN, Nov. 9.—Advices from
Belgrade state that when German
troops captured the Serbian arsenals
at Kraguievatz, they secured a quan
tity of munitions and other war ma
terial valued at more than ten mil
3ioy?' d*llars.
As the Serbians were driven into
the mountains they were unable to
transport the stores of metals, oils,
rubber and other articles used in the
manufacture of munitions and at
tempted to conceal them in the moun
tains west of the city. The German
soldiers have recovered millions of
dollars worth of these materials and
are now operating the Serbian muni
tion factories turning out shells to
be used against King Peter’s troops.
The Teutons captured the city in
a bayonet charge and the fleeing Ser
bians were prevented ■ from destroy
ing thousands of shells stored in the
^warehouses. The guns of the fort
■were found to have been but little
damaged and are being repaired by
German workmen and will be sent to
equip a new force which Turkey is
creating for the campaign which she
plans against the British in Egypt.
tiKKMAN PRESS SAYS
WILSON'S NOTE TOO MILD.
BERLIN, Nov. 9.—The German
press commenting on the note sent
the British government by President
Wilson, states that the president is
very mild in his demands, but express
the hope that the note will serve to
develop a situation which will cause
the British government to raise the
blockade against German or a breach
in diplomatic relations which will
cause an embargo to be placed upon
shipments of munitions from the Uni
tod$taten to the Allies.
ANOTHER ITALIAN SHIP
SUNK BY SUBMARINE.
PARIS. Nov. 9.—Rome advices
state that another Italian steamer
has been sunk by a German subma
rine operating off the coast of Greece.
It is not known if the crew were
saved but they are believed to have
landed on the Greek coast.
LONDON REPORTS THAT THE ALLIES ARE
PLANNING CAMPAIGN IN THE BALKANS
LONDON, Nov. 9.—It is admitted
that the Allies are preparing to
launch a campaign in the Balkans to
recover the Belgrade-Nish-Saloniki
railroad with the object of prevent
ing Germanic transportation of mu
nitions and supplies toward Turkey.
The Balkan operations are skirting
southward and it is believed a deci
sive battle will be fought in Bulga
ria. The Bulgarians are exerting
every effort to annihilate the Serbian
troops before they are reinforced by
the Allies.
Italy Aided Serbia.
HOME, Nov. 9.—A semi-official
statement issued by the Italian gov
ernment yesterday says that while
Italy did not send troops to aid in
the recent expedition to aid the Ser
bians that she found a better way to
oppose the Teutons and had prevent
ed Austrian troops from being sent to
the Balkans by engaging in a general
offensive movement from the border
of Switzerland to the Adriatic. It is
stated that the Bulgarian attack on
Serbia, which was opened by the Bul
garians themselves when they threat
ened to invade Albania to reach the
Adriatic, was designed as an offen
sive action and dangerous to Italian
interests and that Italy would take
appropriate measures immediately to
frustrate the Bulgarians from reach
ing the Adriatic sea.
WILL. ATTEMPT TO RECOVER RAILROAD COMMUNICATING FROM
BERLIN WITH CONSTANTINOPLE TO PREVENT TURKEY SE
CURING MUNITIONS AND SUPPLIES FROM CENTRAL EUROPE—
BULGARIAN INVASION OF ALBANY WILL CAUSE ITALY TO
SEND TROOPS TO BALKANS—GREECE WANTS LOAN OF EIGHT
MILLION DOLLARS FROM ALLIES—RUSSIANS AGAIN BEGIN OF
FENSIVE IN THE NORTH—BULGARIANS ATTEMPTING TO AN
NIHILATE SERBIAN FORCES.
Greece Wants a Loan.
ATHENS, Nov. 9.—It is reported
that King Constantine and his cabi
net have appealed to the Allies for a
loan of $8,000,000 in order to main
tain the government and keep the
army mobilized to repel a threatened
invasion from Bulgaria. The Allies
are reported as being in sympathy
with Greece in maintaining her army
in readiness but it is understood that
before the loan is granted that some
definite promise will be required as
the plans of Greece.
Teutons Control Two-Thirds Serbia.
LONDON, Nov. 9.—Advices from
the near East state that the Bulga
rian and Teutonic troops control two
thirds of the Serbian empire and that
a few days will suffice to clear the
railroad from Belgrade via Nish to
Constantinople thus giving the Teu
tons two routes to Constantinople,
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communication via the Danube river
to Bulgaria already having been
opened when the Russian cruisers
were forced by the Rumanian gov
ernment to interne.
Russians Again on Offensive.
LONDON, Nov. 9.—The withdraw
al of German troops from the Rus
sian frontier to other fronts has
weakened the German army under
Gen. Hindenburg and has caused the
Russians to begin an offensive move
ment along the entire eastern front.
The Germans in the north, attacking
Dvinski and Riga, have been forced
to retire and are now on the defen
sive.
Seven Thousand Serbians Captured.
BERLIN, Nov. 9.—The official bul
letin of the German war office states
that the German troops have cap
tured the main Serbian forts south of
Kraliavo and that seven thousand
Serbians were* captured when Kragu
ievatz, the Serbian arsenal city fell
into their hands.
Serbian Army Intact.
LONDON, Nov. 9.—-The capture of
Kraguievatz, the Serbian arsenal
city, by the Germans deprives the
Serbian troops of their last arsenal
although the army is still intact and
attempting to escape to Montenegro
or the southern part of Serbia to join
the Allies operating from Salonika.
Montenegro Checks Austrians.
LONDON, Nov. 9.—The Montene
grin troops have again crossed into
Serbia and have checked the advance
of the Austrian troops in their move
southward to prevent the Serbians
reaching Montenegro. The German
and Teutonic troops are reported to
have crossed the Morava river north
west of Nish and have captured
Kruzhevatz.
Japanese Steamer Hunk.
TOKIO, Nov. 9.-—The Japanese
steamer Yasakuni, en route to Salon
iki, was torpedoed in the Mediterra
nean sea by a German submarine
which had evaded the vigilance of the
British fleet guarding the Darda
nelles. The steamer was under char
ter to the British government and
passed Gibraltar last Wednesday,
bound for Saloniki.
BUZZARD INTERRUPTS
TRAFFIC IN MANITOBA.
WINNIPEG, Nov. 9.—The first
heavy sleet storm in years struck
Manitoba today and has interrupted
traffic in all parts of the province.
The wires are down in ever# direc
tion and many parts of the country
are isolated. The sleet wrought hav
oc with the telephone and transmis
sion lines in this city, causing many
of the poles to break under the bur
den of ice and interrupting traffic as
well as communication by wire.
BELIEVES EUROPE
WILL SEE LIGHT
Secretary Lane Predicts that as a
Result of the Great War Europe
Will be Enlightened.
RALEIGH, N. C., Nov. 9.—Frank
lin K. Lane, secretary of the interior,
in a speech delivered last night be
fore the North Carolina Literary and
Historical Association, expressed the
belief that a new and greater Eu
rope will result from the war which
1b now devouring the countries en
gaged in the struggle.
Secretary Lane believes that the
peoples of all the European coun
tries are coming into a realization
of their true liberties and that as a
result of the war an enlightened hu
manity will, realize the futility of en
gaging in a wsr and sacrificing the
lives of millio ip of men because a
royal family was assassinated by
crazy fanatics.
SERBIANS AJRE ESCAPING
FROM AUSTRIAN TRAP.
BERLIN, Nov. 9.—Dispatches
from Belgrade are to the effect that
the Serbians are escaping f?5m the
Austrian troops which are trying to
prevent the fleeing Serbians reaching
Montenegro. The Austrian troops
are reported to have been checked in
their southward march by the Mon
tenegrin troops, preventing the trap
from closing on King Peter’s army.
Alaskan Dies in Denver.
DENVER, Nov. 9.—Edmund L.
James, a pioneer merchant of Ju
neau, Alaska, dropped dead here yes
terday afternoon from heart disease.
He was aged 62 years, and had re
sided in Denver for several years
since retiring from business in Alas
ka.
WILSON AND BRYAN WILL
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DEMOCRATIC LEADERS REALIZE THAT NO MATTER WHICH OF
THE POLITICAL GIANTS WIN IN FIGHT OVER NATIONAL DE
FENSE THAT SPLIT IN PARTY CAN NEVER BE HEALED AND
WILL RESULT I\ DEFEAT OF PARTY AT NEXT NATIONAL
| ELECTION—REPUBLICANS ARE WATCHING DEVELOPMENT OF
THE STRUGGLE WITH PLEASANT ANTICIPATIONS OF AGAIN
ENJOYING POLITICAL PATRONAGE.
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Nov. 9.—
The open rupture between President
WMlson and William Jennings Bryan,
caused by the latter’s criticism of the
president’s Manhattan speech, will
have a far-reaching effect. There
are now two Democratic forces in the
Democratic party, and each have
their hats in the ring and are tear
ing at each other’s throats.
The Republicans are looking on
and cheering the combatants to
greater efforts to destroy each other,
satisfied that no matter which faction
of the Democratic party succeeds in
discrediting the other that they will
have strengthened the Republican
chances of winning at the next na
tional election. It is believed that it
will be a ba^-.- 10 the finish between
the two giants of the Democratic par
ty.
It is understood in Democratic cir
cles that the break between Wilson
and Bryan, while suppressed so far
as the genera! public was concerned,
had .ts beginning when Bryan sud
denly withdrew from the president’s
cabinet. It would appear that the
political breach had been widening
ever since Bryan abruptly resigned
from the cabinet but as a matter of
fact the political bitterness between
them is no more intense at the pres
ent time than it was when Bryan quit
the cabinet.
Democrats who are in his confi
dence assert that Bryan is confident
that Wilson has gone over to the
money-power and has deserted the
common people and is herding with
plutocrats- While he has not openly
charged Wilson with having done so,
by every inference he proclaims that
the President’s policy for prepared
ness is the result of his having fallen
under the spell of the men financing
the munition factories supplying the
Allies, the United States Steel, and
other corporations. Bryan’s friends
state that he .o firm in the belief that
President Wilson has fallen from
Democracy, but restrained himself
until President Wilson’s Manhattan
speech caused him to decide upon
breaking with him, no matter what
the consequences to the party.
On every occasion Bryan has de
clared that the talk and agitation f6r
preparedness and greater national de
fense, which is now so earnestly es
poused by President Wilson is the
result of a campaign of education and
agitation financed and carried on by
the owners of factories manufactur
ing war munitions and the ship
builders and steel works which hope
to profit through the building of a
great fleet and equipping an army of
a million men.
President Wilson has so far re
fused to allow himself to reply to the
attacks of Bryan and Democratic
leaders believe that he will continue
to ignore Bryan’s charges as nothing
would be more pleasing to the Ne
braskan than to have the President
make reply.
The breach in the Democratic par
ty has caused much distress among
the subordinate leaders as they real
ize that it can never be healed. They !
know that it is a battle to the death
between giants and realize that as
Bryan was instrumental in making
Wilson president he may still have
the power to wreck his political cre
ation despite the efforts o( the admin
istration, Of one thing they are
sure, that their federal patronage is
meiyiced as the break in the party is
surest® cause its defeat at the next
national election.
Ben H. Durkee, the pioneer launch
man of Katalla, and who has a con
tract fo* landing the Engineering
commUnon’s freight at Anchorage,
was a pfcjsenger on the Admiral Ev
ans last night for the westward.
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GERMAN AGENTS ARE
ACTIVE IN GREECE.
LONDON, Nov. 9.—Advices from
Athens state that pro-Germanism is
increasing in Greece and it is believ
ed that King Constantine is not un
favorable to the nation joining the
Teutons in the war. The rapid
change in sentiment in Greece is
causing alarm here as should Greece
enter into the war as an ally of the
Teutons the troops of the Allies in
Bulgaria will be isolated from their
base at Saloniki.
DENY MAKING OF
FUSE ms
German Government Believes Men
Arrested in New York Will be
Found to be British Spies.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 9.—
The German government has enter
ed an official denial .to the charge
that German officials have prepared
American passports and handed them
to agents of the German government
to enable them to secure information
in countries with which Germany is
at war.
The German government has no
knowledge of Robert Kay, who has
claimed to be an officer in the Ger
man army when arrested in fNew
York, nor of Walter Scholz, his
companion. The truth of Fay's al
leged confessions is now seriously
doubted and the opinion is expressed
that investigation will disclose the
fact that the supposed German offi
cer is a British spy.
BATTLESHIP AEROPLANE
PROBLEM IS SOLVED.
PENSACOLA. Florida. Nov. 8.—
After three years experimenting a de
vice has been perfected enabling aer
oplanes to leave and return to war
ship without in any way obstructing
the gunfire. In a test Saturday
afternoon an aeroplane left the stern
of the warship North Carolina at a
speed of fifty an hour and after circ
ling the bay made a perfect landing
oif the battleship while she was trav
eling at full speed.
The device will enable aviators to
operate from battleships against an
enemy ship Irrespective of the dis
tance from land and at the same
time does not obstruct the fire of the
guns over which It passes in its
flight or return to the ship.
IN MEDITERRANEAI
French Steamship Y.ser, formerly th.
American Ship Dacia, Sunk off
the Algerian Coast.
PARIS, Nov. 9.- Advices from th
Algerian coast state that the Frenc
steamer Yser, formerly the America
steamer Dacia, was torpedoed by
German submarine off the Algeria
coast. The crew reached shore safelj
Before the beginning of hostilitie
the Dacia was a German liner an
was interned in an American por
soon after the beginning of the war
She was purchased by Edward Brei
tung, a wealthy German-Americar
and after being registered under th
American flag was sent to Brema
with a cargo of American cotton. Th
vessel was captured by a Frenc1
cruiser and taken to a French por
and later sold as a prize of war.
During the past week six ships fly
ing the flags of the Allies have beei
sunk by German submarines in th'
Mediterranean. Two Italian ships
two French, one British, and one Jap
anese ship under charter to the Bril
ish government, have been clairaei
as victims by the undersea fighters
All the passengers, with the excep
tion of one Italian ship, reached th*
shore. In the case of the Italian ves
sel lost only four members of th*
crew were saved as the ship wen
down almost immediately after beint
hit by the torpedo.
WILL DRESS SEAL
PELTS IN ST. LOUIS
American Company Handling Gov
ernment Fur Sales Engage En
glish Experts for Work,
ST. LOUIS. Nov. 9.—The officials
of the American fur company which
has <?the contract for handling the
United States government’s annual
fur sales have announced that they
will build a plant in St. Louis for
dyeing and dressing fur seal pelts,
which will reduce the cost of the fin
ished article to American purchasers
fully one hundred per cent.
The management of the company
states that two Englishmen who have
served in the great London fur dye
ing and dressing plant have been en
gaged to take charge of the plant as
they are familiar with the process of
curing and dyeing seal pelts.
It is not generally known that the
secret of curing fur seal pelts suc
cessfully has been kept a secret by
one London Jewish family who have
handed the business down from gen
eration to generation for centuries,
without the secret process becoming
known and as a consequence they
have enjoyed a virtual monopoly of
the fur seal dyeing business. Com- •
petitors. claiming to have discovered
the- process, have engaged in the
business but have failed to reach the
standard of the original Jewish dyers
demanded by connoisseurs of furs.
REPORTED KITCHENER
HAS GONE TO INDIA.
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Nov. 9.— ,
It is reported here that Lord Kitch
ener, commander in chief of the Brit
ish forces, who suddenly departed
from Loudon and was believed to
have gone to the Balkans or the Dar
danelles. has in reality gone to India,
where a serious insurrection is re
ported to have broken out. It is re
ported that several companies of na
tive troops have revolted, murdered
their officers, and seizing the arms
are offering resistance to the Euro
pean troops.
Dundee JBests Rivers.
MILWAUKEE,’ Nov. 9.—Johnny
Dundee. and J.oe ; Rivers boxed ten
rounds before g club here last night
to a press deCMdon. Dundee was de
clared to have made the better show
ing.