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DEUTSCHLAND PREPARES TO
MAKE ITS DASH FOR GERMANY!
GREAT BRITISH VICTORY
LONDON. July 11. — The British troops broke the
German lines on a four mile front at dawn today with a
smashing blow that swept the British lines into the vill
ages of Lengueval. Bazentine and Egrand and cleared
the Teunes wood of the Teutons. The advance is more
than a mile ami is the greatest success won by the allies
since the beginning of their great offensive thirteen days
ago.
DKI TSCHLAND GETS READY
BALTIMORE. July 11.—The hold of the German sub
marine Deutschland is now rapidly being filled with a car
go of nickel and rubber and everything is being arranged
to make a swift getaway. A Hydroplane has been stored
secretlv on her deck and will he used to blaze a trail past
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the Virginia capes. L it is found that hostile warships
are lined up the Deutschland will run the blockade and
Captain Koenig is confident that he will give the allied
snips the laugh and be soon on the way back across the
Atlantic with a million dollar cargo for Germany. The
start of the Deutschland is being awaited with absorbing
interest as overvone assumes that the Britsh navy will
tio everything in its power to capture or destroy her and
so remove the loss of prestige caused by her successful
trip westward to the l nited States. It is expected thatj
at the time when the submarine is about ready to steam!
away large numbers of sight seeing vessels will carry
parties beyond the three mile limit to watch what will
occur.
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IRISH RIOTING AGAIN
CORK, Ireland, Julv 11. — Several hundred rioters!
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paraded the streets ul' this city this morning hissing the
British troops and smashing the windows of the chief re
cruiting offices. They previously inscribed on the pillars
of the gate of the principal recruiting building the words
“Hurrah for the Irish Republic.” The soldiers were ord
ered to charge finally and the rioters were dispersed.
Guns were used and several shots were exchanged but, it
is repotted, no one received serious wounds. Quite a fusil
lade of shots were exchanged outside the residence of
Captain Phillips, the chief government recruiting officer
but no one was killed. Above the sign on the pillars were
painted with tar a skull and crossbones. It is admitted
that the shooting after secret trails by courtmartial of the
leaders of the Dublin revolt has created a more bitter feel
ing than ever throughout the country and many who were
opposed to Sinn Fein and the revolution party have turned
revolutionists at heart themselves.
STILL POUNDING AWAY
PARIS, -Uilv 1 h—The allied offensive at the Somme is
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still proceeding vigorously while the Germans last night
made some further assaults near Fort de Souville but
without results. The allied war offices today report sev
eral important advances.
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NOTHING IN EAST
LONDON, July 14.—Dispatches from Berlin and
Vienna say that the Russian offensive in Galicia seems to
have spent its chief strength but Petrograd messages in
dicate that the forward movement is proceeding with un
abated vigor.
TOPE AGAIN TO ASK PEACE
HOME, July 14.—It is reported that the Pope is pre
paring to issue a second appeal for peace to the heads of
the warring nations on the second anniversary of the be
ginning of the conflict, now only two weeks away.
Clark of Ohio to j
Succeed Hughes
WASHINGTON', July 14.—John H.
Clark of Ohio, hus been nominated.
by President Wilson as a member ol
the United States supreme court to;
till the vacancy caused by the resigna-;
tion of Charles E. Hughes. The name
of Clark was sent to the senate this
afternoon.
PARTY OP BANKERS AND
CAPITALISTS COME I P
On the Mariposa last night was a
party composed of some very promi
nent banking and mining capitalists]
which was being shown the country I
by Andrew Stevenson, president of i
the Bank of Alaska. Those in the
party besides Mr. Stevenson wcrei
Mrs. Stevenson, Z. S. Freeman and
wife of New York, F. F. Hepburn of
New York, A. E. Wallbridge of New j
York, W. H. Benton, a banker ol* j
New York, and Mrs. Benton, Bishop
Harrold, a New York capitalist, Mrs.
W. A. Benton and her son, and Miss
Harriet Robertson of Minneapolis
The mining and other interests repre
sented in this group are entirely
separate from the banking interests.
The above party are all interested,
however, in the banking business
which is separate from the mining
interests as headed by Colonel \V. L.
Stevenson of Skagway. The party
went west and will return soon.
ALASKA RAILROADS
\\D STEAMER LINES
PREPARING DEFENSE
SEATTLE, July 7—Representa
tives of the several Alaska steamship
companies ami the White Pass & ^u
kon held a meeting here today to con
sider their line of defense in the mat
ter of Delegate Wickersham’s recent
charges that these concerns are vir
tually under the control of the Ameri
can Smelting and Refining Company.
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MILLIONS LESS FOR MEN’S
CLOTHES IN ENGLAND
(Special to Gateway by United Press'
LONDON, July t>.—About $2,500,
000 less will be spent for masculine
summer clothes on account of con
scription. This estimate is made by
prominent London tailors who are
wearing long faces. It is worse, they
say, because the estimate represents
the value of the cloth alone and does
not include the profit of the tailoring.
The tailor trade was dead weeks be
fore conscription passed, the tailors
say, because the bulk of ordinary
buyers were making old raiment do
until they found out whether the gov
ernment would furnish their next suit
of khaki. It will—and the tailors are
blue.
MTRDKRKR OF FOUR D1KS
SIN SING. July 11.—Oristia Shil
litani was executed this morning for
the murder three years ago of two
New York policemen who were at
tempting to arrest him for killing a
third man in a quarrel about a girl.
Shillitani made no pretense of in
sanity during his trial, but became
apparently crazed with terror in t^e
death house a few' weeks ago when
two other prisoners were executed.
A w’eek ago he obtained possession
of a revolver, shot and killed one of
the keepers in the death house and
wounded another and escaped, but w*as
recaptured.
SEWARD MAN’S BROTHER
MOBILIZING (H ARD
Lieutenant Colonel C. C. Weibreeht,
a brother-in-law of Cal Brosius, is
now engaged in mobilizing the nation
al guard of Ohio at Columbus. A
letter received last night by John
Noon from Mr. Brosius indicates that
the writer will be absent for some
time yet. Weibreeht was adjutant
general of the Ohio Guard but has
received the rank of lieutenant colonel
while in the forces on active service.
DELEGATES EOR SEWARD
The following were elected at Val
dez as delegates to the Democratic
divisional convention to be held here
in Seward on July Tom Beasley,
Louis Rothkranz, William Meals, A.
J. Dimond. C. J. Todd, Dr. 11. Cock
erille, William Thomas, G. W. Rob
bins, Frank Lows. James F. Wilson
and C. H. Wilcox.
CONVENTION HELD
IN PIONEER HALL
The Democratic divisional conven
tion which takes place here on July 26
will he held in Pioneer H ill. There
is no definite news yet as P how many
delegates will come from other towns
in the division to attend.
BXNDITS FIRE IU C'KSHOT
.XT TRAIN PASSENGERS
LIMA, Ohio. July 14.—Pandits who
were foiled in their efforts to hold
up the Broadway express on the Pen
Railroad near Tonroeville, Indiana,
last night discharged several loads of
buckshot at the passenger, who were
riding on tin* observation car plat
form. R. J. Wood was probably seri
ously injured and others sustained
lesser wounds. Wood was hit in
eight places.
IUOl SANDS OF WOMEN
REPLACING MEN IN
GOVERNMENT DEPTS.
(Special to Gateway by United Press)
LONDON, July 10. — Whitehall,
Great Britain’s official governmental
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nerve center, is soon to be ruled by
women, it was announced today.
With conscription enacted, steps
are being taken to clear all govern
ment departments of young men eli
gible for military service. Women are
being trained to take their places.
In exceptional cases a few govern
mental offices will retain their in
dispensable males but the latter will
remain principally to train the
women.
Hundreds of men who have basked
behind their official jobs for twenty
months already have been given their
ten days grace to arrange business
and domestic affairs.
An official census for April dieted
that 1022 single military eligibles
were employed in the Admiralty
alone; 1032 in the board of trade; 623
in the War office; 465 in the Ministry
of Munitions; 145 in the Board of
Education; 2202 Customs; 1780 In
land Revenue, and hundreds more in
other departments in addition to the
postoffice where single and married
eligibles numbered 31,000.
ALASKA FISHERIES TO
RECEIVE ATTENTION IN
CONGRESS THIS MONTH
WASHINGTON, July 6.-The
house committee on merchant marine
and fisheries will probably take up for
consideration within the next ten days
the bill of Representative Joshua W.
Alexander, of Missouri, chairman of
! the committee, providing for “the
protection, regulation and conserva
j tion of the fisheries of Alaska.”
C. R. Brock, Jr., a popular member
of the government engineering force,
| returned last night to resume his
duties.
VILLA GAINS STRENGTH AND
THREATENS CHIHUAHUA CITY
Wilson Makes Bid
For Progressives
WASHINGTON, July 14.—l’resi
: dent Wilson made a bold bid for the
votes of the members of the Progres- j
sive party today when he declared j
| that his parly represents the larger J
part of the Progressives as well as the !
country and all other parties hut that
| of the regular Republicans. The state-'
| merit was made formally.
SHOWS HOW W \K MOWS
IS OPTION FAI\i:i>
I ^Special to Gateway by United Press;
NEW YORK, July b.-—The New;
York Times on June 2b printed the
following special dispatch from its
London correspondent:
“The Daily Mail says this morning:1
“In the House of Commons yester
day, Mr. Ainsworth asked the Home
Secretary if the censor ita.^ passed a
telegram which appeared in the New j
York American from the Loudon
correspondent of the International
News Service, stating that the Ad
I miralty had admitted an overwhelm
ing defeat by a portion ol tnc Ger-j
man high seas fleet.
“Mr. Samuel replied that the mes
sage in question was not included in
any telegram sent from this country,
but was composed in the New York
otViee of the International News Ser
vice with the exception of the word 1
‘overwhelming* which was inserted inj
the ollice of the New York American.)
“There were several similar cases]
at the time of the disturbances in;
Ireland at the end of April, but the J
London representative of the agency |
has now given assurance that no such
manipulation of his messages should !
occur again.
“The Times (London Times) pub
lishes the text of Mr. Samuel’s writ-,
ten answer to Mr. Ainsworth. Refer
ring to the Irish message, he says:
“ ‘There were several cases at the j
time of the disturbances in Ireland at
the end of April in which messages,.
appearing in the New York American
and the New York Journal, which pur
ported to be from the London corres
pondent of the International News)
Service, bore no likeness to the cable |
grams actually dispatched, and in1
some instances gave information
which was the opposite of that which
had been sent to the press.”
ALASKA MILITIA IS
AUTHORIZED SAYS
SECRETARY OF WAR
JUNEAU, July 6.—Gov. J. F. A.
Strong today received a letter from;
Secretary of War Newton D. Baker
in reply to a letter of inquiry in re
gard to the formation of a National ^
Guard in Alaska. The reply, printed
below explains itself:
“Washington, June 24, *10.
“My Dear Governor Strong:
“1 have your letter of the 12th
instant regarding the organiza
tion of a National Guard unit in
the territory of Alaska, and in
reply 1 would state that under the
act of June 3, 1016, provision is
made for such organizations in
the Territories.
“In due process the quota from
each territory and regulations
with references to their organiza
tions will be promulgated and the
governors informed.
“Very sincerely yours,
“NEWTON D. BAKER,
“Secretary of War.”
VILLA DEMANDS SURRENDER
EL PASO, July 14.—Villa has demanded the surrend
ei* of Chihuahua City, according to well founded reports
of an unofficial character which have arrived at head
quarters. General Goebel, Jr., commander at Fort Bliss
iias received reliable information of the defection of Gen
eral Trevino, commander of Chihuahua City, from the
Carranza cause. The report that Villa has demanded the
surrender of the city has also reached Goebel. Villa is
said to have informed Trevino that if the city is not turn
ed Over to the former the Villa army would advance
against it in its full strength and Trevino and all his of
ficers will be put to death if captured. All the reports
now being received indicate that Villa is gaining recruits
all the time and that he threatens to become formidable in
the north.
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U. S. TROOPS RIOT
CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 14.—Two hundred famish
ed New York troops who were enroute to the border stop
ped here long enough to raid a commission house and clean
out a restaurant to secure some food. A riot call brought
out the armed police but no arrests were made and the
supplies appropriated by the soldiers will be paid for by
the war department, Major Moynahan assured the mer
chants. The soldiers had been without food for thirty
six hours because of faulty arrangements by the commis
sariat department and their action is excused by most of
the people. Moynahan succeeded in getting the men
under control after the raid.
COMMISSION MAY SETTLE
WASHINGTON, July 14. — The establishment of a
commission of six men, three from Mexico and three from
the United States, has been proposed by Carranza to act
as an investigating body to study and settle the contro
versies between the two countries. The proposal of the
Mexican provisional president will be submitted to the
state department within a few days and the feeling is
general that it will be accepted.
2.500.000 LOYAL BELGIAN
CHILDREN TO BE HELPED
(Special to Gateway by United Press)
LONDON, July 10.—There are 2,
500.000 Belgian children, up to the
age of 10, still in Belgium and still
under German control. To provide
these gallant little victims of the war
with food the children and the schools
of the whole British Empire today,
are celebrating Childrens’ Belgium
Day.
From Fiji to Aberdeen today,
wherever the British flag flit's, British
boys and girls are holding sports or
giving entertainments, the proceeds
of which will be sent to the National
Committee for Relief in Belgium. The
only exception will be Canada, where
the Day will be celebrated on Novem
ber 15.—King Albert’s Fete Day.
Mr. Arthur Henderson, M. P., Presi
dent of the oBard of Education, ap
proved Belgium Day being held in the
schools of England and Wales.
THE VENDER IS MISSING
(Special to Gateway by United Press)
LONDON, July 10.—‘The war has
hit even the London’s street venders.
The old men who hold little trays in
front of them along the curbs are
slowing disappearing, “nobody knows
where,” says a London poor expert.
ATTENTION U. S. W. VETERANS
Meeting called at City Hall Friday
evening, July 14, 8 p. m. sharp.
By ORDER COMMANDER.
7-13—2t.
Mr. and Mrs. William Sauers have
returned to the city after a most
pleasant stay at the Oasis with the
Haydens.
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GILMORE INDIGN \.\ 1
ABOUT FALSE RUMOR
NOME, July 14.—William A. Gil
more, delegate to the National Re
publican convention, returned here
from Chicago this week and indig
nantly denies the published reports
that lie was elected national commit
teeman. He asserts that he personal
ly nominated Judge Murane, of Ju
neau, for the place and Murane was
harmoniously elected. Gilmore states
that the ridiculous story that he
violated the instructions of the Sew
ard convention was concocted and
telegraphed by Alaskan political
trouble makers from Chicago to tho
Seattle Daily Times and copied in the
Alaska papers to stir up dissensions
in the Republican organization of the
territory. He says there was not the
slightest ground for such a story as
Judge Murane and he were both
Hughes men at all times. Gilmore
has an invitation from the National
committee to campaign the states of
Indiana, Ohio and Illinois during the
month of October for the national
ticket and if he can arrange his work
he will leave via Fairbanks, Cordova
and Juneau in September, speaking
enroutc for the Territorial ticket. A
Republican ratification meeting will
be held here Saturday evening.
NEW DEPUTY MARSHAL
NAMED AT GIRDWOOD
N. E. Ohlsson, formerly of Valdez
but recently in business at Anchorage,
has been appointed United States
Deputy Marshal at Girdwood. Tho
town is situated on the main line of
the Alaska Northern road, at about
Mile 75.