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v , SEWARD, THE GATEWAY TO ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1914. 0111_^
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HOLY WAR IS PROCLAIMED
BELIEF GROWS THAT RUSSIA WON GREAT VICTORY
WILSON OBJECTS TO
KILLING CIVILIANS
British Collier Blown U|> at the
Month of the Kiv er
Humber
WILSON WOULD SAVE CIVILIANS
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27—President Wilson has
communicated unofficially to the diplomatic representa
tives of the United States in the belligerent countries his
disapproval of attacks by bombs dropped on unfortified
cities which are occupied by non-combatants. 1 his com
munication has been received already by expressions
from pro-Germans to the effect that the president has in
view the expected attempts by Germans to drop bombs on
London from Zeppelins. He was careful, however, to;
make it understood that he did not act in the matter of-:
ficially as president of the United States but as a friend
of all parties concerned and for the benefit of helpless
people in all countries.
BRITISH COLLIER BLOWN UP
LONDON, Nov. 27.—The British admiralty an
nounces that the collier Khartoum has been blown up by
a mine off Grimsby at the mouth of the Humber river.
The crew was saved. The Khartoum had a net tonnage of
one thousand nine hundred and thirty two tons and was
only one year old. The occurrence took place today and
has revived the agitation for greater watchfulness.
BULWAK BODIES MUTILATED
SHEERNESS, England, Nov. 27.—Thirty bodies of
the victims of the disaster to the Battleship Bulwark were
recovered today in the Thames. Most of them were so
badly mutilated by the explosion that identification was
impossible. Additional details of the destruction of the
\essel confirm the belief that the ship was really destroy
ed by an internal explosion although it is difficult to get
the people to believe that she was not a victim of a Ger
man mine or torpedo.
BELIEVE RUSSIAN TRIUMPH
LONDON, Nov. 27.—While the belief grows hourly
that the Russians in northern Poland have won the great
est battle of the war the actual details of the story of the
battle are lacking. The failure of the Austrian-German
operations along the Czestochowa front evidently gave
the Russians the opportunity to envelope Hindenburg
after he had thrown a wedge into the Russian center.
The Russians to the south were able to strike northward,
thus breaking the enemy who had passed east beyond
their right flank.
PAIS, Nov. 27.—A special dispatch from Petrograd
to the Matin says that one German army corps surround
ed bv the Russians surrendered in a body and the number
of prisoners was nearly fifty thousand. Another corps
was completely routed and, according to this dispatch
also, the victory was the greatest of the whole war. The
message also states that the Russians are now attacking
the Czestochowa-Cracow line with redoubled intensity and
the hope is high that the German and Austrian armies
are on the verge of a crushing disaster.
BOMBARDING SOISSONS
PARIS, Nov. 27.— Reports direct from the front to
day say that the Germans are not attacking in force be
tween Soissons and Rheims as had been rumored. The
Gennans are, however, still bombarding Soissons inter
mittently with heavy guns at long range but the inhabit
ants are continuing their usual occupations and the dam
age is reported to be very slight
FIGHTING IN SERVIA
NISH, Servia, Nov. 27.—Heavy fighting is still pro
ceeding in northwestern Servia and the outcome of the
battle is still undecided. The Servians claim all the ad
vantage in the fight on the border of Austria and this coun
try and is said to be favorable to Servian anns. The great
hope of Servia lies in the fact that she may be able to hold
the Austrians from sending reinforcements to her armies
facing the Rusians.
HOW REVENUE
TAX HITS US
I
REVENUE BILL ARRIVES ANI)
SHOWS WHAT WE MUST
PAY.
A copy of the new war revenue bill
which has just arrived at the office
of Judge Whittlesey shows where the
people of Seward will be affected by
the European war.
Aside from beer and wine taxes
bankers must pay $1 for each $1,000
capital used or employed.
Proprietors of theaters etc., $25.
Dealers in tobacco whose annual
sales are more than $200 must pay
$4.SO for each store.
Bonds, debentures or certificates is
sued on and after the first day of
December by any association, com
pany or corporation five cents on each
$100 face value or fraction thereof.
I'pon each sale, agreement of sale
or agreement to sell at any exchange,
or board of trade, or other similar
places, one cent for each $100 or
fraction therof. It is provided that on
every sale, agreement of sale etc.,1
there shall be made and deiivered
from the seller to the buyer a bill,
memorandum, agreement of such deal.
Promissory notes and renewals of
Ihe same, twe cents for each $100.
For all transportation of parcel# hv
rail, steamship etc., a one cent stamp
for shipment whose transportation
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CROW CREEK TO
HAVE BIG YEAR
J. W. DAWSON ESTIMATES
CLEAN UP NEXT SEASON
AT $150,000.
The output from the Dawson-Nutter
mine on Crow creek will be $150,000
next year according to the estimate |
made by J. W. Dawson, a brother of '
Dick Dawson, who arrived from that j
crook last evening. Since the close of
the sluicing season they have taken
out 200, 000 feet of logs to be ready 1
for the saw mill that will be erected
next spring. They have also excavat
ed a bye path for the river which will
carry the entire waters of the river 1
t
for 4,000 feet and leave the present
channel dry. This bye path repre- j
sents a cost of $20,000. The prospect-.
ing which they have recently done
shows that the pay dirt runs seven
dollars anti sixty one cents to the yard 1
and was measured up by Engineer
Newsome who was here representing j
the Guggenheims. They also started
a water power plant this fall.
Mr. Dawson, who arrived last even- [
ing, is associated also with Robert
Hildreth, Tom Gordon and P. A. Mar- j
rian on California creek. They are I
putting in sluice boxes there this win
ter. They will operate it next summer
and the following summer they will
install a large hydraulic plant. In
preparation they are also building a
dam and two buildings. Mr. Dawson
believes the California creek ground
BELIEVE VILLA j
IS IN CAPITAL
LAST HEARD FROM WHEN HE
WAS FORTY MILES FROM
MEXICO CITY.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.—The*
latest dispatches to the state depart
ment reported that Villa and his
forces were at Tula, forty miles from
Mexican City. Communication with
Mexico City is slow and it is believed
probable that Villa lias already en
tered the capital as there is apparent
no reason for a delay. No explanation
has been given here for the departure
of the American forces from Vera
Cruz and the consequent admission of
the Carranza forces into that city.
It is likely that this government de
cided to let the Mexicans run their
affairs to suit themselves according
to their expressed desires.
DORA AT AKATUAN.
Apent Guptil of the Alaska Steam
ship company has received a wireless
messape statinp that the Dora was
anchored yesterday at Akatuan on
account of the pale.
nans about five or six dollars to the
>ard.
He states that Mrs. White has now'
E»verythinp fixed up apain after the
lire and is runninp one of the finest
road houses in Alaska once more.
VESIERDAVS' TELEGRAPHIC REPORTS
THE EUROPEAN WAR
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LONDON, No. 26.—It is officially I
announced that the British battleship j
Bulwark has been blown up off |
Sheerness. Only twelve of eight
hundred men aboard were saved.
LONDON, Nov. 26.—The Explosion
which destroyed the Bulwark originat
ed in her own magazine. The Bulwark
was fifteen thousand tons and was
completed in 1902. Sheerness is at
the mouth of the Thames, thirty five
miles from London.
SOFIA, Bulgaria, Nor. 26.—Fifteen
regiment* of Russian troops with
seventy barge loads of ammunition
and supplies have arrived at
Radievatz, Servia. They made a five
hundred mile trip up the Danube from
Russian territory and will be rushed
to the front to assist the Servians. (To
come up the Danube would mean the
violation of the neutrality of Bulgaria
and Roumania)
LONDON, Nov. 26.—A Petrograd
special says that the Russian victory
in Poland is decisive. The number of
prisoners taken by the Russians is
estimated at fifty thousand. The Ger
mans are retreating along the entire
front and in many places the flight
is a disorderly rout marked by the
abandonment of artillery, maxims and
transports.
PARIS, No. 26.—It is officially an
nounced that there were no important
developments yesterday.
LONDON, Nov. 26.—'The official
news received in Russian circles in
London declared the rout of the Ger
man-Austrlan forces in Poland is com
plete. The general staff gives no de
tails.
LONDON, Nov. 26.—A special mes
sage from Dunkirk to the Daily Mail
says that the French marines attacked i
Dixmude strongly Tuesday night and j
drove the Germans out of three lines
of advance entrenchments. On Wed
nesday they entered the town in an
irresistable charge. The Germans did
not halt in their retreat until they
were seven miles beyond the town.
The marines lost three hundred.
PETROGRAI), Nov. 26.—It is semi
officially announced that the German
defeat at Lodz culminating in the cap
ture of a German army corps was the
result of a Russian manuvre by which
the Germans were led into an extric
able trap. The Russian left wing was
resting on the river Warthe and the
Russian right wing was on the Vis
tula, both lying along the Warsaw
Kalisc railroad Both wings moved
forward in unison during the last two
days. Simultaneously the Russian cen
ter gave ground. The Germans moved
forward apparently depending upon
the German column from Weilun to
repulse the Russian left wing and
form a juncture with the main Ger
man forces. The plan failed as a re
sult of the battle Wednesday when the
force from Weilun was repulsed.
Thereafter the Russian wings advanc
ed and closed the gaps through which
the German center had passed. In the
meantime the Russian reserves had
come up and surrounded the Germans,
thousands of whom surrendered. Oth
ers fought their way in an effort to
join the German left wing in the vici
nity of Lowicz.
.
BERLIN, Nov. 26.—It is officially
announced that our troops under Gen
eral von Mackenson at Lodz and Low
icz inflicted heavy losses on the first,
second and portion of the fifth Rus
sian armies. In addition to many kil
led and wounded we have in our pos
session about forty thousand uninjur
ed prisoners, seventy cannon, one hun
dred and sixty ammunition wagons,
one hundred and fifty six machine
guns. We destroyed thirty cannons in
the battle. Our young troops did bril
liantly despite great sacrifices. We
have not, however, succeed in bring
ing this fighting to a close. This is
due to the enemy bringing up extra
strong reinforcements from the east
and west.
FOOTBALL.
Brown beat Carlisle by twenty to
fourteen.
THE PRESIDENT.
WILLI AMSTOWN, Mass., Nov. 26.
The president spent an old fashioned
Thanksgiving with his daughter, Mrs.
Sayre. He attended church in the
morning, automobiled in the afternoon
and dined with the Sayres in the
evening.
MEXICO
WASHINGTON, Nov. 26.—The
whitehouse learns that order is being
maintained in Mexico City by Zapata.
The forces in the country became
quiet on the entry of Zapata’s troops.
Arrangements are being made for the
entry of the northern forces. It is be
lieved that Zapata will join Villa in
the capital. The administration forces
expect that Eulalia Guiterrez will be
installed as provisional president as
soon as Villa and Zapata have gained
complete control if the situation.
VERA CRUZ, Nov. 26.—Carranza
will enter the city this afternoon ac
companied by Generals Obregon and
Alvarado. The local garrison now
numbers eight thousand and heavy
reinforcements of artillery have ar
rived. The railroad tracks to Mexico
City have been tom up.
TURKS AND BRITISH
TOUCH NEAR EGYPT
Invasion of that Country May
be Postponed as Turks are
Hard Pressed
HOLY WAR PROCLAIMED
CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 27.—A Proclamation an
nouncing the inauguration of a Holy War was published
here today. It was signed by the sultan and twenty eight
priests and calls upon the Moslem world to participate in
a holy war against the Russians and the French. This is
the first official notification of the fact that Turkey has
really entered into a world war of religion and that her
ambition is to raise the whole moslem world in arms. Such
a fact has-been suspected since this country first declared
war but now the issue is definitely drawn and what may
even be a more bloody and merciless war than that which
is being waged in Europe is now expected. It is stated and
believed here that the Turkish troops have already in
vaded Egypt and Persia and that the holy war has actual
ly been begun for some time.
TURKISH ANI) BRITISH TOUCH
LONDON, Nov. 27—The British forces are now in
touch with the Turkish invaders thirty miles east of the
Suez canal but there is no sign of a general engagement
in that vicinity. It is thought probable that the invasion
of Egypt will be postponed by Turkey because the 1 urks
are now hard pressed in Armenia and around the Per
sian gulf. It is assumed here that if the Turks finally cross
the canal they will probably concentrate all their efforts
to capture Cairo. Nothing is told here as to the probable
attitude which the majority of Egyptians will take if the
Turkish army succeeds in entering Egyptian territory,
but there is decidely a feeling of uneasiness that the defal
cation of the khedive pre-supposes a general uprising
should the British army not be able to repel the invaders.
TURKEY WILL NOT PAY
CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 27—It is officially an
nounced by the Turkish minister of finance that the in
terest on the loan of 1909 will be paid only to such bond
holders as present themselves at the central office of the
ministry of finance in this city. This means that the pay
ment of interest will probably be suspended on the bonds
held by people aboard. These bonds held by foreigners
amount to thirty two million dollars.
E’VE got THE MONEY TOO”
LONDON, Nov. 27.—Lloyd George, chancellor of the
exchequer, told parliament today that the new British war
loan of one and three quarters billions of dollars has been
greatly over-subscribed. He deduced from this fact the
conclusion that the people of Great Britain are absolutely
confident that the war will be brought to a successful con
clusion and that they are ready and willing to see the
struggle through.
QUIET IN THE WEST
PARIS, Nov. 27.—It is officially announced this morn
ing that nothing important occurred along the whole line
in France and Flanders yesterday. Some artillery ex
changes and minor assaults were noticeable in places but
the results were negligible.
COAST ATTACK DELAYED
LONDON, Nov. 27—The Germans have failed to be
gin the long expected renewal of the efforts to reach the
French coast and the feeling is growing that they have
come to a realization of the futility of the attempt. Their
defeat in Poland is expected to have a decided effect on
their operations in the west and on the whoie the victory
of the Russians regarded as coming at a providentially
good time.
GOEBEN LOST ELEVEN
BERLIN, Nov. 27.—The latest casualty list published
here shows that the German cruiser Goeben lost eleven
men in the recent battle in the Black Sea against the Rus
sian fleet. Full accounts of the battle and its results have
not been published and will probably not be known for
some time.