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ggg*L*SK*' THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1918.__"" CEWT3 ’>ER C0I>,
NAVAL BATTLE IS
FOUGHT—GERMANS
LOSE FOUR BOATS
WASHV-iTON. March 11. — Lit at
Commander Richard Kl'iott and three
vkt wer killed 1* ronoun w mi • .
depth charge aboard the American
dotroycr Manley exploded when the
Manley collided with a Uiitish wa -
sh ip in the war zone. A number oi
A me lira o sailors veie inju ed.
vessels were badly damaged. This is
the official statement issued by the
Navy Deportment to !a\
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SEIZED BY THE
ALLIED NATIONS
WASHINGTON, March 21. — Sev
enty-sown Dutch ships in American
poit' art' today Hying the Stars and
Stiipes as a result of President Wil
sons pr xdamation ia>t night requisi
tioning the Dutch tonnage. The pro
clamation "as issued upon Holland’s]
refusal to permit the requisitions. Ihr |
Allies will make conipcn. ation for the 1
vessels direct to the owners and not
to the government of Holland.
LONDON. March 21. — The seizure
of Dutch ve- els by Ame ca and
Kngland and their use for Allied pur
pose reduces muten »uy the net aniec
losses caused by Geiman ine*
and m»nes since the beginning oi the
v.ar. The Allies have taken over ap
proximately one million tons *>f Di tch
ships.
MILITARY LAW
NOW NECESSARY
FOR MILWAUKEE
MILWAUKEE. Match 21. - Chair
man Bloodgood, of the Council ot the
i)eieii^e, issued a statement toda\
that he intends to have .Mayor lloan,
Socialist, indicted. Hoan’s re-election
assures *he people, said Chaitm.in
Bloodgood, that the city must be
placed under military law as the So
cialists have already started most se
ditious acts.
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STEAMER DOPE
Steamer Alaska is now in Cordova,
having arrived there this forenoon
early. The Alaska is expected to rail
for Seward sometime during the
night. It takes about 24 hours from
Cordova to Seward, so do your own
figuring about the arrival pf the
Alaska.
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TRAIN IN EARLY
The train ficm the noith arrived
shortly Wore 4 o'clock with a do*eo
pawnger*
LONDON, March 21. — Live Brit- ,
:sh and French destroyers enlaced *'•
‘lotilla of German destroyers and tor
x odo boa^ otl Dunkirk early this fore
nUon and for half an hour a terrific j
battle was fought. Two German des
troyers and two torpedo boats were
<.Unk by the allied coast patrol in the.
engagement. One British destroyer j
wa: damaged by a bursting shell but
■H>ne of the Allied vessels wen* sunk. •
Previous to the engagement the Gar- (
man boats had bombarded Dunkirk
but the engagement lasted only ten
minut helore the Allied tleot .vas at ;
the scene. The German boats not j
-link escaped to the north in a mist i
which hung over the channel at tlrP >
time.
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PRESIDENT SIGNS
THE RAILROAD BILL
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WASHINGTON Marofe^U. —
President Wilson this forenoon*
signed the bill permitting the
government to operate the rail
roads of the United States for
twenty-one months after the end
ol the present war.
CAPT. GLASSCOCK
HELD BLAMELESS
IN HITTING REEF
JUNEAU, March 21. — Captain C.
A. (aiasscock, oi thr steamer Admiral
Evans, was today exonerated from the
recent ateident to that steamer by hit
ting a reef in Hawk Inlet, by the U.
S. Inspectors. Not only had a buoj
shifted from tne erects of tne winr
| and tide but the reef struck was an
, uncharted one.
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RAKER INCLFDKS HIS
INSPECTION AT FRONT
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WITH THE AMERICANS. March
21. — Secretaiy of War Baker con
I eluded today his inspection of the
American military zones with a trip
1 which took him from Verdun to the
'heat Headquarters of the Allies.
Secretary Baker told the Americans
ih;»l they were the point ol the wedge
.vhi«*h the American people wore driv
i nr into the ninks of the enemy.
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Ill’Ns TO RETVLIATE
LONDON. March 21. — The Ger-1
> man Foreign OlHce has directed the !
! Spanish and Swiss ambassadors to I
' notify the American government that
Germany will proceed with measures :
.gainst American property in Ger- i
many in tho same proportion action
taken against Geiman property in!
America.
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INTERNATIONAL PEACE
WASHINGTON. March 21. — Sen
ator Owen, of Oklahoma, outlined to
the Senate today an International
peace plan to effect immediate peace
and maintain future peace. Senator
Owen is the author of the resolution
proposing a league of nations.
YOUNGSTER HONORED
LONDON, March 21. — Flight
Lieutenant L. Arscvott, 18 years old,
has just been awarded the Military
Cross for bringing down seven enemy
plane* on the western front.
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SOLDIERS I
ARE HERE 1
TO GUARD
PROPERTY
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Nominally to guard government
property in Seward, but incidentally
io put a stop to many acts of sedition
reported to the city and federal offi
cials, a detachment of the I4tl\ Infam
i.rv arrived on he Admiral Watson tins
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morning from tort Liscum. The de
tachment is in charge of- Lieut. Long
and there aio 22 men in the command
rent here.
Today the boys are quartered at the
Hotel Sexton, and Lieut. Long, wife
and two children registered at the
Hotel Sewa’d.
Permanent quarters for the detach
ment of soldiers will be in the gov
ernment cottages on Third avenue,
north of Lowell creek. * t 1
It is understood that a strict guard |
will be maintained at the Seward dock \
end along the government-right-q^
way, besides all other property owned
by the government in this locality.
This guard will be established just as
oon as the detachment is litted up in
Headquarters. Supplies were brm.ight
nerc on the Admiral Watson and trant
erring of them to the government
cottages will begin undoubtedly early
tomorrow.
The men, from Lieut. Long right |
down the line ape a tine looking bunch I
of fellows and their presence will bo j
ippreciate/j.
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40LDIFR BOYS TONIGHT
INVITED TO THE MOVIE
The management of the Libert}
theatre this afternoon sent an invita
4 ion to the detachment of the 14th In
f an try now in Seward to be the
guests of the theatre tonight and wit
ness George M. Cohan in “Broadway j
Tones” a production tb«t tickled th*> i
arge audience last night on the first
»ho wing.
WATSON BRINGS |
MANY TO PORT
FRO /I THE SOUTH
Steamer Admiral Watson, Capt.
Jensen, arrived at 5:80 o’clock this
morning from the south with a good
list of passengers and 58 tons of
freight. The steamer sailed for Kodiak
and other westward points at 10,
o’clock and will be back in Seward,
southbound, next Sunday. George
Banbury is now purser on the Watson.
Capt. Jensen reports exceedingly
windy weather at Valdez and Fort
Liscum and at both places he made
three attempts before he finally made
a landing and tie-up.
The passengers arriving on the
Admiral Watson were: Dr. 0. J. Keat
ing, Miss Elva Truex, Mrs. H. C. Pe
Line, Sam Baker, M. C. Rugg, W. E.
McRae, Art Mikal, A. R. Anderson,
Belle Mack, J. P. Doran, H. E. John
son, John Santima, Lieut. J. H. Long,
wife, and two children, 22 soldiers
from Fort Liscum and five steerage
passengers. Those sailing for the
westward were W. P. Lass, John Col
lias and P. E. Cummings.
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OUCH—SQUEEZED AGAIN
MOSCOW, March 21. — Germany
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nas increased her demands upon Ru
mania and now asks that Rumania
surrender to the Teutons all Ruman
ian war material as well as the sup
plies left in Rumania by the Allies.
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TEUTONS BEGIN ATTACK
AGAINST THE ENTENTES
COMMISSION
MAN ARiSTEO
AT ANCHORAGE
Trusted tint ploy eo ol the Government
Railroad Is Charged With the
Kit bezz.leim nt ol a Large
Sum Telegraph Tolls
COVERED UP HIS DEFALCATION
Claud • T. Boyles, since May, 191IL
accountant of the telegraph and tele
phone department of the Alaskan En
gineering Commission at Anchorage,
has been arrested on the charge ol
naving embezzled $4,759.07 of the
commission’s funds, according to ad
vices received in Seward. Boyles is
held in the Anchorage jail.
Acchrrh'ng to John H. Robinson, spcJI
i ial investigator for the Alaskan En
gineering commission, who ai rost.« cl
Boyles, the prisoner admitted having
embezzled the commission’s funds, re
ceipts of both the teicg'iaph ami unc
phone department, and the lighHrw
department, but was not certain as to
the amount of his peculations.
The money, it is said, was taken in
.undry amounts since August, 1916,
the first defalcation for less than $100
occurring about three months after
Boyles had come here from Valdez
to take the accountancy position. Now
that his accounts have been accurate
ly checked, it is declared that they
show he pilfered almost every month,
the thefts ranging in sums from as
low as $50 monthly to as high as $1,
00 mon:hly.
His manner of living in Anchorage
wi.iie not notice.! »ly exHavagart, was
nevertheless sufficiently beyond hi>
salary of $200 a month as accountant
to explain his dedications. Ho was
rot addicted to drinking yi gambling
Ho smoked cigars costing 25 cents
each and cigarettes of unusually high
price. Before his marrage 1 ist Nov
ember he entertained friends at din
ner in the restaurants quite •jften.
His bride of last November was
Miss Nell E. Mclnerny, of Chicago*
She went to Anchorage last spring
and was for a time employed in a
larve commercial establishment. She
left there in January to visit her pa
rents in Chicago. At the time ol h«*»
departure her husband gave her $*>00
to uofriy her traveling oxne» ses. H*'
has sent her no money since, ant1
neither did he give her any presents
of a costly nature before their m.ar
i iage.
K'Ltives N »t N » fficd.
Neither she nor the prisoner’s na*
rents, who live in Roanoke, Va., have
yet been notified of his t**wUe
Boyles, hv false bookkeeping entries
so cleverly concealed his peculations
that no suspicion attached to him un
til his annual report submitted last
January was subjected to careful
scrutiny and checked with his cash
accounts under the direction of B. H.
3arndollar, examiner of accounts for
the Alaskan Engineering commission.
MRS. OF. SAULLES
AWARDED HER SON'
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NEW YORK, March 21. — Mrs.
i Bianca Do Saulles, acquitted 6f the
murder of her former husband, John
Longer Be Saulles, some months ngo
! has won her legal fight for the cus*
! tody of her little son Jack. Tire death
j of De Saulles came about through a
dispute over possession of the boy.
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LONDON, March 21—Apparently the long expected
German offensive has begun but to what extent it will be
waged ^unknown. The Germans early this morning be
gan bombarding heavily with long range guns a wide sec
tion of the British front. The bombardment was plainly
heard at all coast sections of England. The official an
nouncement from the front received at noon says that a
desperate attack has been made upon the British lines by
the Teuton forces.
AUSTROS FIGHTING ON WESTERN LINE.
VIENNA, March 21—The official statement of the
War Department issued today says that the Austro-Hun
garian artillery is now engaging the English and French
forces on the western front. A concerted attack, prear
ranged, started at many places on the western lines, ac
cording to the statement.
FRENCH SECTORS ARE UNDER ATTACK.
v V PARIS, March 21—Intense bombardment of sectors
tf&rth and southeast of Rheims, as well as on the Cham
pagne front started shortly after midnight and are con
tinuing today. Two sectors held by the American forces
are under a fierce artillery attack today near the Toul
front.
KAISER GIVES HIS OPINION.
LONDON, March 21—The kaiser has telegraphed the
Rhenish Council that “we are now at a decisive moment
of the war and one of the greatest moment’s of the Ger
man history. We are going through to Paris and to the
English channel then across the channel.”
SAYS WORLD PEACE IS A DELUSION.
COPENHAGEN, March 21—According to a dispatch
from Berlin, Imperial German Chancellor von Hertling
today told the Reichstag that Germany should not indulge
in delusions for world peace as this would never be ac
complished. The Chancellor said that there was not the
•lightest inclination on the part of the Allies to terminate
the war on peace terms.
Grand Offensive
BRITISH HEADQUARTERS AT
FRONT, March 21. — The Germans
attacked most lieavil> this morning on
i wide section of the Cambrai front.
Hie assault beais the earmarks of *he
jcgilining oi the enemy’s grand offon
oive.
Terrific Bombardment.
PARIS, March 21. — The German
,uns opened a teriific bombardment
»n a front approximately fifty miles
ong in Northern France this mom
ng. The long heralded German offen
ive may now be said to be under way.
;hc front under attack stretches from
he river Scarpe, near Anas, to Ven
ideuil which is southeast of St. Qucn
ten. The Britsh forces hold all of this
line.
Launch Infantry Attacks.
LONDON, March 21. — Following
a heavy bombardment with artille»y,
the Germans launched an infantry at
tack on a big scale cn the front north
of Lagincourt to the Geouche Woods.
Americans on Raids
WITH THE. AMERICANS IN
FRANCE, March 2J. — The Ameri
cans, east of Luneville, with the
French, "aided German trenches and
peneti-ated the Teuton lines for some
distance after hand to hand fighting.
The raiders returned forty minutes
but no details are available. Ap ip
tense barrage preceded the raid, 'i lie
Germans retaliated by thiowing gas
and high explosives on the American
batteries.
JUNEAU UNION
NOT IN DIRTY
POLITICAL DEAL
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JUNEAU, March 21. — Telegraphic
reports sent out to *he effect that the
Alaska Labor Union of Juneau had
passed resolutions endorsing Gov.
Strong and protesting the confirma
tion of Thomas Riggs, Jr., are abso
lutely false. At a meeting of the
Alaska Labor Union here last night
called especially for the purpose,
former secretaiy Harrison and Terri
torial Senator Frank Aldrich, both
who signed the report of the protests,
were called on the carpet and given a
iearful grilling. Today secretary
Walter Johnson issued a statement, an
official one, that the union never en
dorsed or protested the appointment
of any one and the union was not in
politics and did not intend to be in
politics. Harrison is a candidate on
the Maloney ticket for senator from
this division*
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