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GERMANS ARE UNABLE TO i
STEM FRENCH ADVANCE
HEAVY FIGHTING YESTERDAY RESULTS IN A VICTOR! FOR THE
FRENCH —REINFORCEMENTS POWERLESS TO CHECK AD
VANCE—GERMANS DAZED IIY THK TERRIFIC ARTILLERY AND
RIFLE FIRE—FRENCH CAPTURE IMPORTANT POSITIONS BE
TWEEN OSTKL AND COURTK AND ALSO MAKE PROGRESS AT !
CR VONNK_BRITISH REPORTED TO HAVE ROUTED TURKS.
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PAKIS. April 21.—The great mass
's of reinforcements brought forward!
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.y the Germans have proved uunvtil-j
mg to stem the French advance and;
Thirgreat battle of yesterday was a de
cisive victory for the French. The re
mits far exceeded expectations, the
■’rench capturing important stragetie
positions between Ostel and (’ourl".
The Germans in the trenches were
pomplepidy dazed by the tremendous
,rtiller;- and infantry (ire, and wer* -
GERMAN FACTORY !
WORKERS STRIKE:
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UK UP BIG MUNITIONS PI-ANT
Pu«ut.v Thousand Employes in One of
Germany's l.ai-gest Munitions Fac
tories Walk Out—Holweg Refuses
to Act As Mediator.
AMSTERDAM. April 21. Advices
\<1 vices received here t'tom Berlin
tate that the employes in one of the
mgest German munitions plant have
-one on strike completely tying up the
vorks. Twenty thousand employes are
•■ffected. Chancellor Von Holweg was
nvited to act as mediator between
he men and the owners, hut he ref us
(1 to act. and also refuses to discuss
he strike in any manner with the
newspaper men.
EVERY POLICEMAN
HAS AN AUTOMOBILE
BERKELEY. Cal., April 21.—Ev
. ry policeman in Berkeley now has an
.-iiitomooile wh;oh he uses on his beat.
Police Cheif August Vollmer made
his arrangement some time ago and
:ias found after a period of experi
mentation that it works very well.
The city pays $25 a month and furn
ishes gasoline and oil, while the po
licemen furnish the machine. The
machine carries a tire extinguisher
a first aid kit. and an emergency lad
der. All persons arrested in minor
cases are carried to jail in the po
liceman's own car.
Chief Vollmer finds that the men
are able to cover miles per hour, that,
the policeman is able to reach a point
much quicker that he is able to inves
.igate cases much better and that he
s equipped to meet emergency cases
>n his heat. The cars are all Fords.
WASHINGTON YOEMEN
STAND BY’ PRESIDENT
TOCOMA, April 21.—Resolutions
pledging 12,000 members ot' the
Brotherhood of American Yoemen in
thes tate of Washington in support of
’.he president and the national gov
ernment of aristocracy to destroy a
fernment was unanimously adopt
at the state conclave in Detroit,
h., to work for legislation to pro
tect the life policies of members en
listing in the army or navy.
Gus Henkel will leave on one of the
text boats for the States. He will
spend about two months tu Idaho and
will then go to his old home in Ne
braska for a visit before returning to
Valdez. Mr. Henkel has not visited
his old home before tor seven years,
and is looking iprward with great an
ticipations to his trip.
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dragged out from where they had {
burrowed deep beneath their own I
dead to escape the terrible bombard- j
meat. The French also made decided j
progress east and west of (’raonne.
Turks Routed.
LONDON. April 21. Advices re-,
ceived here from Mesopotamia state
that the Hritisl: forces under General
Maude engaged the Turks yesterdav ;
and after heavy fighting completely'
routed the enemy.
DON'T IORGKT THK
MOOSK DANfK TONIGHT
Another of those very enjoyable;
Moose dances will be held tonight!
in Moose Hail. A thoroughly good j
time will be had by those who attend i
as excellent music will be furnished j
and a fine lunch will he served. The |
hall has been beautifully decorated I
with red. white and blue streamers
and (lags.
GERMANY FACES
ECONOMIC CRISIS
ISI.OODT KIOTS ARK RKI'ORTKR
Ten Thousand Striking Munitions
Workers Hattie Witli Troops In
Madgehurg—leaders Go to Herlin
With Revolutionary Demands.
WASHINGTON. D. C„ April 21.—
Indications point to the belief that
the labor unrest in Germany is a mat
ter of paramount importance to the
German government, and that the sit
uation is far more critical than the
present news coming from that coun
try admits. Advices from neutral
sources state that a rigid censorship
is being maintained and that the Ger
man newspapers have been rigidly
shackled as to the strike situation
{Germany is unquestionably facing a
great economic and political crisis.
Ten thousand munitions workers,
now on strike in the Prussian fortress
town of Madgeburg. have engaged in
a bloody tight with the troops with
results unknown.
The leaders of the strike are report
ed to have gone to Berlin and made
revolutionary demands upon the gov
ernment. the compliance with which
will mean the prompt ending of mili
tarism in Germany and the release of
all political prisoners, including Dr.
i Leibeknecht, the noted German So
j cialist leader.
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Sinn Feiners Suppressed,
j BERLIN. April 21.—The reasons
| for forbidding public meetings and
processions in Dublin next week un
less authorized by the military, arc
given in an official proclamation re
ceived here this week. The document
states that there is reason to appre
hend that the assemblage of persons
for the purpose of holding meetings at
;any public place within the Dublin
I metropolitan police district will give
■ rise to grave disorders. It was dur
' ing Easter week last year that the
[disorders broke out.
Dan Ross and J. W. Spaulding left
this moruing for a trip down the
'Sound, where they will remain for
j about a week.
WOODEN SHIPS IN BIG DEMAND
Fhoio« ;»v /\meri' *t« A*aoci it: »».
Ruthless U boat waifure has cau^vl shipbuilders to turn their attention
to reasonably cheap wooden craft. Below is one partly planked, while at the
top U a sister ship completely rigged "‘ad.v to go in for foreign trade
RAILROADS MAY
INCREASE RAILS
SIXTH WAK MIA\ SI CKSSI FI. rKKMlKSION IS GKANTKII TOIIAY
Xe\vspa|»ers Assert Knteute Attempt I'pon Shotting Malle hv Itoails Inter
to Wreck German Finances a Fail- state < onimerw Commission Grants
uri-Shortage in American Crops a Kaise of 15 l*er Cent Ktlective
anil Submarining Insure Success. .lime I, IUI7.
AMS I'KKDAM. April 21. German
newspapers received here state that
the success of the sixth German war
loan proves conclusively that the at-;
tempt of the Entente powers to wreck
German finances is a failure. They j
also declare that American crops are,
a failure and that the continuation of
Germany’s submarine policy insures
victory for the Teutonic forces.
WILL PM IS
AT DEATH’S DOOR
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MEMBER OK TRADE vX)MMISSI<)\
Well Known Resident of Seattle lx
Reported Dying Erom an Attack of
Gall Stones—Not Expected To Sur
vive the Day.
WASHINGTON. L). C.. April 21.—
Will Parry, of Seattle, Waahingtot
a member of the Federal Trade Com
mission, is at death’s door with an
attack of gall stones, and he is nol
expected to survive the day.
Slightly Colder Inside.
Slightly colder weather is reported
from the interior this morning. Pax
son and McCallum are the coldest
with 2 2 above and the other stations
report from 24 to 39 above. The
snow trail is going rapidly and the
road at many places is reported bet
ter for wheeled vehicles than sleds.
J. L. Galen and William Cavanaugh
returned last evening from Latouche
on the Elvira after a business trip.
J. H. Ingram of the Road Com
mission left Copper Center for Chit
ina this morning with an auto
WASHINGTON. I). C.. April 21.
The Interstate Commerce Commission
today granted the railroads permis
sion to increase freight rates 15 per
cent effective June 1. The action is
due to a showing made by the rail
roads that such an increase was nec
essary to provide in part for the in
creased operating cost under the en
forcement of the Adamson law.
REPORT SI B CREW
KILLED COMMANDER
NEW YORK, April 21.—A London
dispatch tells of a German submarine
crew somewhere off the Irish coast
which attacked a British trawler. It
was chased by a patrol boat and sud
denly slackened speed and a half-doz
en men ran on deck, each lifting his
hands and all talking at once. The
officers from the patrol boat boarded
the submarine and found every offi
cer dead. The crew had rebelled and
killed every officer to prevent putting
themselves to further risk in the haz
ardous game of submarine warfare.
I katk ok thk brkmkn
, MAY BK IMSCI.OSKI1
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j Nh'W YORK, April 21.—The World
: this morning says it has information
from confidential sources which seem
to establish the fact that the German
submarine Bremen, sister ship of the
Deutschland, was lost in her first at
tempt to make an American port last
July.
In the Bremen’s cargo, says the
World, were valuable securities, said
to have beeu consigned to Speyer &
Co., insured to the American Surety
Compauy and valued at $400,000.
Speyer & Co. are reported to have
called upon the surety company to
make good their loss.
Private Roy Hoots, who has been
stationed at the Summit station dur
ing the past winter, has^ieen detach
ed from service in Alaska, and will
leave on the first boat for the States
under orders for duty there.
BUENUS AIRES REPORTS
RECEIPT CIPHER DISPATCH
SPANISH LEGATION AT RIO l»K JANEIRO REPORTED TO HAVE RE
CEIVED A CIPHER DISPATCH I-ROM MADRID SAVING ARMIS
TICE SIGNED—STATE DEPARTMENT AT WASHINGTON AN
NOl'NCES THAT NO OFFICIAL CONFIRMATION HAS BEEN RE
CEIVED AND LITTLE CREDENCE IS GIVEN THE REPORT—
RI'SSI AN LEGATION AT WASHINGTON DECLARES SUCH ACTION
ON PART RI'SSI AN GOVERNMENT IS I’NHEMEVABLE
IIUKNOS A IRKS. April 21. The
Spanish legation al Rio de Janeiro is
teported to have received a cipher dis- j
patch troni Matlrid declaring tlite
Russia have signed an armistice.
Report Is Denied.
WASHINGTON. I>. April 21. j
The report that Russia and Germain j
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has sigip-d an armistice caused con
sideralde uneasiness here Coining,'
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< 'A HI, SWART/ TO III :
I’ll KM I Kll OK SWKDKN
LONDON. April 21. King Gustav
of Sweden, has requested Carl Johan
Gustaf Swartz, who was minister of
linance in the Lind man cabinet from
lit (it! to 1911. to form a cabinet in
succession to the Hammarskjold cab
inet. which recently resigned, says an
Exchange Telegraph dispatch from
Copenhagen today.
COMMISSION BE
SENI10 RUSSIA
Ml,III l’ ROOT PRORARI.Y I.KAII
Possibly of Russo-Ciennaii Armistice
Leads to Action—President Proba
bly Sentl a (’ommission to Confer
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With the (iovemment.
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! WASHINGTON, L). C., April 21.
;The reported armistice between the
(Germans and Russians while it find-,
little credence in official circles, nev
ertheless brings into prominence a
possibility which may change the
whole complexion of the war. Uuder
these circumstances it is believed
probable that President Wilson will
name a distinguished commission to
visit Russia and confer with the pro
visional government, with Elihu Roo‘
probably heading the commission.
It is believed that the visit of this
commission will have great weight
with both the government and Un
people of Russia, and that the mem
bers will be able to give valauble as
sistance in the solving of Russia's
problems of finance, industries and
railroads
Heavy Planting of Potatoes.
DALLAS, Texas. April 21.—Despite
the fact that at the prevailing price
of seed potatoes it will cost slightly
more than $28 an acre to plant white
potatoes reports from various parts
of Texas and Oklahoma, particularly
along the valleys of the Red, Arkan
: as and Canadian rivers, indicate that
there will be a record-breaking crop
planted this year. Several large po
tato growers have already purchased
a carload of seed potatoes each, and
dealers report unusually heavy sales.
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{SPECIAL AGENTS WATCHING
SfSPEOTED GERMAN SPIES
! WASHINGTON. D. C.. April 21.—
! It Is reported that the government
(special agents have no less than three
; thousand German citizens under sur
Veillance throui hout the country who
'are suspected of being in the employ
I of the German government is the ca
pacity of spies.
as it did. on top of the assurance from’
the Russian provisional government
that Russia would continue the war
to an end. the report does not receive
much credence in official circles. The
State Department announced that no
official conlirtnation o» the report had
been received, and the truth of the re
port was doubted. The Russian Kin
bassy here declared that such action
on tii ■ part of the Russian govern
ment was unbelievable.
BLOUNT JUNIOR
JOINS FRENCH
ENTERS THE FOREIGN REGION
His Father :sa>s He Will Re Satisfied
It the Son Kills l ive German—1
Resident of St. Louis—Will l<ea\i
for Front at Onre.
I’AKIS. April 21. Richard D
lllount. Jr., of St. Louis, lias joined
the Foreign Legion to light against
the Germans. Me joined with the ap
proval of his father, who slates tha'
lie will he satisfied if his son kills tiv
Germans.
I'.Xri I It I NTKRXMKXT
t'AMI* STORY DENIED
WASHINGTON. I). April 21.
A report from San Francisco that at:
internment camp is being prepared
! at Angel Island is declared not au
j thentic at the War Department. No
i preparations of the kind are being
j made either there or any other point
in the United States, it is said. The
policy ol the Government concerning
unnaturalized Germans is that the
Government will interfere in no way
with the nationals of Germany as long
!as they conduct themselves in an or
! derly manner and obey the laws of
| this country. All reports of threat
j ened Internment that may appear in
j the future, or until the Government
jsees the necessity of changing its poi
icv will be false.
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j BRITISH EMBASSY KI.IES
THE UNITED STATES FLAG
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WASHINGTON. D. April 21.
! The British embassy here is flying the
| Flag o? the United States from the
'flagstaff over the embassy by the side
I of the British flag in honor of the en
! trance of the United States into th >
i war on the side of the Entente Allies.
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i ESPIONAGE RHJi
PASSES THE HOUSE
i WASHINGTON. D. 0.. April 21.
i The espionage bill, with the news
I paper censorship section slightly
| modified, was passed by the House
'yesterdav afternoon.
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Admlral Watson Due Tonight.
The Admiral Watson is expected to
| arrive here from the westward about
] 7 o’clock this evening.
Frank Cavanaugh will leave on to
days’ boat for his home in Kansas.
Attorney John Lyons will leave on
the first steamer for the States on a
short business trip.