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Daily Edition, and The Alaska Weekly Post
SEWARD, ALASKA. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY SO, 1918. TEN CENTS PER COPY
Volume XI, XumUT-i,. __—_-__ _ — ■ --- - - 1 ■ ■ - —1 —— .
ANOTH 1
AIR RAID
MADE ON ;
Killeen Airplanes Again Swoop Over
hnglisn Provinces Dropping the
UoTnhv t'pon the In locent
People. Killing I l.em
many i:\im nti:i;s in vh>
British Kleet Rises to Alake Attack i
,\i:d Return Sal'elv—Two Kiicmy
Planes Reach I)il)i*rMnt
Parts ol l.omlnn
I ON DON Jan. :'>U. - Another niJ
raid, the second within two nights.!
was made last night by German
planes and bomh> were dropp«*d upon
Kent ana Ks.^ex. Severn’ aerial en
gagements oceurtcci during the pro-!
gress of the mid but all British oa-;
trol planes returned safely.
As on the pievious night, fifteen
German planes participated in hist
night's raid. One German plane.drop-j
jM^J bombs on tne souineasiern oui-ji
*kiits of London and another plane
succeeded in dropping a few bombs j
in the northeast district of the city.
The raider* did not atempt to des-;,
troy any of the militan objectives;
and merely killed civilians, the major- ,
itv being women and children. The,,
property damage was slight, accord- |
ing to a public statement by the Ad
miralty.
leave oi k ships alone
I KY STEAMSHIP MEN
WASHINGTON, Jan. -0. — Repre
sentatives of steamship lines on the|
Great Lakes protested today to the!
Shipping Hoard against the further
removal of boats for ocean service. To!
late forty of the large can i* *s on th< j
Groat Lakes have lieen commandeer
ed.
OFFICIALS OF
COMMISSION
BOUND OUTSIDE!
A special tiain will arrive tonight
from Mile 52 and will have several
prominent officials of the Anchorage
Division of the Alaskan Engineering
commission ^aboard* These officials
will catch the Alaska for the states
and it is under>tood that they will j
take the examination to enlist as of
♦jeers jn the Engineering Corps being
now formed from among Alaskans.
Those on the train tonight are F. H
rlensen. Maintenance of Way Engi
necr of the Anchorage Division; C. Cl.
Jones, ruadmaste; and Superinten
dent of Bridge*; F. U. May hew and
Noble Bowers, resident engineers, and
William Janicke, draftsman.
Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Mayhew are
accompanying their husbands to the j
outside.
NEW VICTORY
BREAD TO SELL
AT LOW PRICES
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WASHINGTON. Jan. 30. — Thf
new victory bread, prescribed by the
Food Administration, must sell at the,
prices now prevailing for white bread.;
This statement is made in reply to re-j
ports that the bakers were preparing
to raise the price on the ground that
the substitutes used would cost more
than the white flour.
LIEUT. PATRICK O’BRIEN
Lieut. Patrick O'Brien, an American
member of the Br’tish flying corps
who was brought down in a one-sided
battle by the Germans, and who had
seen taken into Germany on his wry to
a prison camp, jumped from a t am
which was going 30 miles an hour, and
by many heroic and clever moves man
aged to get into Holland, and then back
to England.
SEN. HUGHES DEAD
WASHINGTON, Jan. '
;or William Hughes, of New Jersey,i
[)emo< ra . died today at Paterson at
x'V a lony: illness. Senator Hujrhes
eim would expire next yeai had he
ived.
BOLSHEVIKI
REPRESENTS
THE PEOPLE
Professor ol Wisconsin 1 niversil\
Ueturninji from Kussia Says
llolsheviki Mo\ement Is
in l avor of the People
HI N Ad ENTS NOT CONNECTED
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 30. —Prof.
Edward Ross, of the University of
Wisconsin, formerly connected with
Stanford, returned today from Russia
where he has been studying economic
conditions for the past live* months.
Prof. Ross says that the Bolsheviki
is not fostered by the Gorman agents
and he secured this information from
talks with the people and Trotsky.
Prof. Ross says that it was report
ed at Petrograd, when he left, that
Tatiana and Olga Romanoff were es
pousing the Bolsheviki cause.
Prof. Ross also stated that the Bol
sheviki movement is purely for and
bv the people of Russia.
ICE GORGE IS
BROKEN-PEOPLE
GIVEN WARNINGS
CINCINATTI, Jan. 30. — The ice
gorge which has been endangering
the city for the past three days, broke
this forenoon and began moving clown
stream. The river steamers Packet
City and the Louisville were carried
down stream and both crashed into
the government boat Ottawa. The
Louisville sank, the Ottawa was en
damaged and the Packet City smash
ed her bow, cleared and then contin
ued down the river. All sections
along the river have been warned of
the breaking of the gorge and high
water.
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GERMAN ALIEN ENEMIES MUST REGIS
TER IN SEWARD WITH POSTMASTER
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The date for registration of all male German
Alien enemies over fourteen years of age in Alaska
has been fixed by Attorney General Gregory for
: March Eighteenth to Twenty-Third inclusive, be- *
tween the hours of six a. m. and eight p. m., of each
daw All Germans who have not taken out their *
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second papers are required under this ruling to reg
ister, and those who neglect or refuse to register *
will bo arrested and in all probabilty interned as
enemies of this country. The Postmaster will reg- *
ister all German Alien enemies.
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THREE COUNTRIES
WILL ORAET M N
FOR WAR SERVICE
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.—An agreement between
the United States, England and Canada, on terms of sep
arate conscription conventions which await only the signa
tares of the representatives of the three governments j
concerned, was announced by Secretary Lansing this af-]
ternoon.
The conventions gives the citizens of each country the
option of returning to their own country for military ser
vice within a fixed period of time and after which they
will be subjected to military duty under the laws and reg
ulations of the country in which they reside.
MEXICO MUST
NOW STOP HUN
PROPAGANDA
MEXICO CITY. Jan. CD. — The'
German propaganda has readied Mich
ja stage that the Mexican government
is forced to take notice. A legislative
committee has been directed to make
a general investigation of the charges j
that Heinrich von Eckhardt, German
Minister, is responsible for the alleg
<d corruption of the Mexican Chamber j
of Deputies.
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ALASKA IS DUE
IN PORT EARLY
j TOMORROW A.M.
: Steamer Alaska is expected in port!
! early tomonow Inoming. The steam
er sailed from Cordova at 7 o’clock
this morning and with usual running
time should reach here within 24
hours. The Alaska has seven days
! mail on Doird and the following pas
sengers who sailed from Seattle: D.
vl. All *n, H. Marcus, Mrs. Anna Lionel,
H. Pasley, E. Jaccard, Miss Meredith
Hamilton, Mrs. W. E. Lee, H. E. Garri
ner, George McDonald and A. llarnes.
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MARQUETTE, Mich., Jan. 30. —
I An explosion, followed by a fue, des
: troyed the alcohol refining plant und
primary buildings containing the
| series of condensers of the Pioneer
Iron & Furnace Company eariy this
| morning. The damage , is estimated
; at five hundred thousand dolars. No
, lives were lost by the explosion and
! fire although a full crew of men were
(at work at the time.
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SPLIT ON PEACE
FAVOR HOLY WAR
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LONDON, Jan. HO. — Dis- *
patches from Petrograd this af
* ternoon state that the Bolsheviki
f officials are split on the question *
of peace. The majority are against *
the German peace terms and favor
a Holy War.
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TWO MEMBERS
OF RED CROSS
DIE AT FRONT
ITALIAN HEADQUARTERS, Jan.
HO. — William Piatt and Richard
Fairfield, both of the state of New
York, U. S. A., were killed last Sun
day when Mestre was bombed by the
Austrian airman. Platt and Fairfield,
both connected with the American
Red Cross, are the first two Ameri
cans to be killed on the Italian front.
TICKNER SAYS
HOODOO HANGS
OVER HIS HEAD
GIRDWOOD, Jan. 30. - Assistant
Superintendent A. L. Tickner is be
ginning to think that a hoodoo is
hanging over him. One of the best
horses of the commission had an eye|
put out today by a flying rock from
a shot at Noal & Co. Last Sunday
another horse cut an artery in its leg.
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! COUNTESS VON BERNSTORFF
This ik Mrs. Marguerite Vivian \
Burton Thomason of Burlington, N. J., j
who w2S married recently to Count ;
Christian von Bernstorff. son of the
former German ambassador to the ,
United States. The countess is about
thirty-five years old and already has
divorced two husbands. The count it
only twenty-six years of age.
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ACCIDENTAL FIRE
W'lEMIXGTOX, Del., Jan. :50. —
Fire this morning in the Carney’s
Point Works of the Du Pont Powder
company destroyed half a million
pounds of powder and also a portion
of the plant. It is estimated that the
loss is $245,000. 'Pile blaze was ac
cidental and there* was no loss of life.
HUNS VIOLATE j
TRUCE-MOVING
MANY TROOPS
American War Department Makes a I
Charge that Germany Is Moving
Soldiers 1 rom the Eastern
to the W estern Front
MW ATT U K NOW EXPECTEDj
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30. — The
War Department today charges that
Germany is violating her truce withi
Russia and is withdrawing troops
5|:n 'the eastern and transferring
them to the Western front. The ;n
Yormation came from Major General
Pershing in France and was trans
mitted to him through Paris from a
neutral nation’s representative at
Berne, Switzerland.
Major General Pershing stated in
his report that all commanders on the
western front were prepared for a
drive of the Germans which would un
doubtedly result from the massing of
more German troops brought from
other fronts.
TO TURN OVER
RAILROADS IN
YEAR AFTER WARj
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30. — The!
Senate committee on commerce decid-j
cd today to amend the administration’s'
railway bill and provide that the gov-i
eminent relinquish control of the rail-!
roads commandeered within one year!
after the end of the war. Several of
the committee, it is understood, had
planned to vote against the original
amendment.
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TROUBLE
SPREADS
WORK IS
GRUMBLE
Industrial Fpheatal Now Growing
Throughout Germany—Forty
Factories Are A fleeted
By the Disorders
PEACE IS DEMAND OF WORKERS
Russian Newspapers Claim Strikes
Are Spreading in the Double
Empire—Separate Peace Is
Asked hv the Austrians
IU LLET1N — LONDON, Jan. :*0.
— Nearly live hundred thousand per
sons are striking in Berlin today, ac
cording to advices. This number is
being added to hourly. The Berlin
\ ossische Zeitung this afternoon said
all workmen in the Kiel ship\ards and
in the Vulcan works at Hamburg, and
thousands of miners hi the Rheindish
and West Phalian districts have
struck.
LONDON, Jan. .‘JO. — All the Lon
don morning newspapers print, in
prom incut display, »eports of an in
dustrial upheaval in Germany. Sev
eral papers, receiving reliable reports
from their Berlin correspondents by
mail to Holland then by telegraph and
cable, says that workmen in forty war
material factories in Berlin struck
last Saturday ami strikes are reported
elsewhere throughout Germany. Grave
disturbances have accompanied these
strikes, tne correspondents report,
but the German government is sup
pressing all details of trouble. The
workers want more pay, more food
and also demand peace.
Disorders in Vienna
PETKOGRAD, Jan. ::0. — The
newspapers of the Bolsheviki and
other parties emphasize the impor
tance of disorders in Vienna and Cra
cow and claim that unrest is spread
ing throughout Austria and Hungary.
The papers declare that Austria -
Hungary has already offered to make
a separate peace with Russia regard
less of what action Germany takes
owing to the internal troubles in the
Dual Empire.
Strike Leaders Arrested
UNDATED — Dissatisfied with the
progress of peace negotiations and th«*
Prussian electoral reforms, the work
men of Berlin and other part* of Ger
many have stiuck. The Imperial Ger
man government has ordered the ar
rest of six leaders of the Independent
Socialist party and sent them to jail
while other strike leaders and strik
ers have been sent to Kiel or else dis
patched to the various fronts.
Many thousands of electrical work
ers struck on Monday seriously ham
pering the work in the aeroplane fac
tories. The great manufacturing dis
trict along the Rhine are affected. At
Essen the workers in the torpedo fac
tories went on a strike and are still
holding out against military rule. All
meetings at industrial centers have
been prohibited.
(t is said that the Independent So
cialists have fostered the strikes.
It is reported this afternoon that
the government authorities have im
prisoned Adolph Hoffman, editor of
Vorwearts.
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HOWARD BOUND OVER
Joe Howard, the messenger, re
cently arrested by U. S. Deputy Mar
shall Isaac Evans on a charge of em
bezzlement by bailee, was this after
noon bound over to the Grand Jury
by United States Commissioner Whit
tlesey. Bail was fixed at $1500.