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LONDON, Wednesday.—For t irst time since the
battle off Jutland the sea forces of Germany and England
met in open combat late yesterday, when squadrons of
light high speed craft engaged in a spirited light while
racing across the North sea.
Reports from the British squadron chiel indicate
that his light cruisers and destroyers intercepted German
war vessels of similar t\pe in an attempted raid on the
English coast.
One German destroyer was sunk and the others scat
tered.
One British destroyer was sunk by a torpedo, the ex
plosion killing three officers and 11 ot the crew.
Reports indicate that the fight was spectacular in the
extreme most of the individual actions heirg fought at a
speed of 30 knots or better with the light craft racing to
avoid being pocketed or to gain positions.
Shortlj after the tight opened the Germans took a
general course toward Heligoland bigot, out zigzagged
• back and forth scattering during single lights until they
reached mined waters.
The official announcement made public . t
alty gives the loss of the officers and men througn one hit
by an enemy torpedo." but does not mention losses by the
enemy squadron.
GERMANS SAY ONLY ONE BOAT DISABLED
BERLIN, Wednesday.—Success by a raiding attack
on a squadron of light British craft is reported by the
German admiralty today, in which it js stated that the
German destroyer squadron sank one and completely dis
abled another of the enemy fleet.
The German losses reported mention the disabling
of one German boat of the V’ type, which was forced to
put into Ymuiden, the others suffering only slight dam
age and being able to return to the base.
Reports tiled with the admiralty by the ship com
manders state that one British destroyer was blown com
pletely out of the water with a torped > disappearing in a
smother of foam and that another was so raked with shell
fire that she was “down by the head and apparently sink
ing when last seen."
SNOWFALL AIDS TEUTON ADVANCE
BERLIN, Wednesday.—Heavy snow on all fronts has
helped rather than retarded the movement of German
troops.
Severe fighting is reported from the Rumanian lines
with the advantage on the side of the Central powers.
Activety is noted in the Riga sector where Russian
efforts to conduct an extensive winter offensive have not
gained much headway.
FOIL WHITE CLAD RAIDERS
PETROGRAD, Wednesday.—German troops wear
ing white overalls to prevent their being discoteied at
temtped a raid on the Riga front tooa\ l*ut wne beaten
back.
War office reports state that the clever ruse might
have succeeded in serious loss along the outposts had it
not been for a desultory shrapnel fire on the German line.
Hits were scored on a squad of the advancing raiders and
groans of agony disclosed their presence.
JAPAN PREPARING TO
HOLD CAPTURED ISLES
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TOKIO,. Wednesday.—Foreign Minister Motono, ad
dressing the diet today, intimated that Japan would le
tain the colonies taken from Germany in the Pacific.
Kiachow is to be retained and this added to the Mar
shall is lands will add considreablv to the territorial gain
by the empire for its part in the war.
U. 8 NAVY HAS
FLAN TO TRAIN
10,000 MEN
WASHINGTON, I). C., Jan. 24 —
At least 10,000 civilians are to re
ceive a course of one month’s train
ing for the naval reserve next sum
mer if present plans of the Navy De
partment are carried out.
1 localise of the success of last sum
mer’s cruise plans have been broaden
ed for this year’s training so that ci
vilians in any part of the country may
take the work if they desire.
, The department plans to establish
training camps at Chicago, Newport,
Norfolk and San Francisco. Cue
ci-.'ise to be given reservists will no
similar to that given recruits for the
navy.
CAN ADA PLANS TO
REFINE OWN METAL
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OTTAWA. Ont., Jan. 24.—Another
-itep iu the process ot transferring
I from the United States to Canada the
business of munition making for the
Fntente Allies will be taken at the
approaching session of the Dominion
! Parliament, it was indicated nere by
Finance Minister White.
It is expected that a government
bill will be introduced which will pro
| vide aid by bounty or traiff for the
j refining of lead, copper and zinc in
Canada.
Great supplies of metals required
for shell manufacturing exist in the
ore in the Dominion, but most of the
refining of it is done in the L nited
State.-. The proposed plan of govern
ment encouragement is attributed to
the increasing volume of the muni
tion business in Canada.
IMEN PRESUME i
TO CHALLENGE
REAL EXPERTS
Recently the men, who allege that
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they are considerable some pumpkins
when it comes to playing bridge, were
entertained by the ladies of the bridge
club. After that foray, aforsaid men
having acquired a still better opinion
of themselves, issued a challenge to
the ladies to play. The challenge was
promptly accepted and on Friday
night at o’clock the big event is
scheduled to occur.
Some 110 of the “more dangerous”
will be on hand to prove that the
mere men are not informed even m
the rudiments of the game.
Mayor Sauers who is in charge of
the committee on arrangements has
issued an official manifesto to the ef
fect that any host, who brings his
guest to van Gilder hall, the scene
of combat, after 8:“0 o’clock will
thereby inflict upon her and himself
the penalty of having to play at one i
of the four tables to be reserved for
tardy couples—and worse than this,
the tardy ones will not be eligible for
the grand prizes but can only com
pete for the consolation prizes. “Hot
ter come on time,” says the mayor,
who has named the following commit
tees:
Reception Committee: F. L. Bal
laine, Horace C. DeLine.
Program Committee: Isaac Evans.
Erich Lucas, Leon C. Booker.
Refreshments and Finance: H. J.
Haasch and W. M. Sauers.
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first unit of I
DOCK COMPLETE
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Pile driving on the dock was com
' pleted this mornnig and the first unit
of the structure will be entirely com
plete in a few days.
Original plans for the dock allow
for another 600 foot unit to be built
west from the first as soon as the
traffic warrants it.
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N’o word lias been received at An
chorage concerning Ihe tug 1<. Roscoe,
laden with oil and explosives and now
that the opportunity presented by the
long thaw to get through the ice has
parsed it is not expected that she can
reach there before tin* tides change.
Old timers who have had consider
able experience on the ice say that
'he tug is probaMy at Seldovia.
There was no ice in the harbor at j
\nchorage for a week belore she
tarted and this, iliey say, irdicaten
that it had drifted down below the;
hot elands. The soulhwestor which
blow the day before the Roscoe start-,
ed probabh jammed tin's ice about the 1
Korol i ids leaving no nines for tin |
tug to get t'rough.
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Vv Eli’ LEAVES ON
INSPECTION TOUIt
R. G. Weir, engineer in charge of
this division went out the line this;
morning and it is reported that he
M ill o-o on through to Anchorage for
a conference with the construction
chiefs at that end.
Progress reports from new work
between Kern crook and Girdwood in
dicate that good results ae being ob
tained by the winter crew on the hard
rock work.
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While cutting wood late Monday,!
L ( . made a misstroke with I
the jiv" : ml cut of the end of his left I
the. !>. It was a clean end of his left;
squaring o!7 the end of the hone the |
doctor patched it and ‘twill be about
half an inch shorter than the other
thumb.
PROF. HERSCHELL PARKER LEAVES FOB YENTNA
DISTRICT; PLANS CONQUEST Or MT. EVtfiEsi
Hershel C. Parker, former profes
sor of Physics at Columbia Univers
ity, inventor, scientific writer, con
sulting engineer, and explorer of
mountains in Washington, British Col
umbia ami Alaska lett this morning
on the train for Mile 40 enroute to
the Yentna district, to act as con
sulting engineer in testing mining
claims for himself and certain New
York owners.
Inventor of Helioscope
Professor Parker is a physicist by
vocation. “Mountain climbing" as
! sured the professor, “is not exactly a
! lucrative occupation. If one could
give assurance that there was a moth
er lode of mineral on the top of a
certain mountain, he could get an
abundance of funds for an expedition;
^ but the mere idea of climbing is an
entirely different matter.
In his spare moments he invents.
Among his recent accomplishments in
this line is the helioscope. This is a
device used in submarines for looking
under the water. He has offered this
patent to the U. S. government, with
the provision of retaining certain
commercial phases of it.
The government is now making use
of one of Prof. Parker’s previous
ideas. This is the so-called “motor
destroyers,” a type of under-sea speed
boat, operated by but two men and
capable of hurling torpedoes as well j
as traveling at a rate ot forty miles
i an hour, it was regarding this in-.
vention that Henry Ford became in
volved in a controversy with Prof, j
Parker, just before the former's fam- j
i ous peace ship sailed for Europe.
In 1S97 Prof. Parker sketched the:
| first map ever made covering the;
! country north of the C. P. R., in
i which district he ' did considerbale j
mountaineering. He has to his credit;
jin that country, the successful con-;
quests of Mt. Goodsir, near Dawson,
[). C., and mountains Hungabee, Del*
: toform, Biddle and Lefroy in Alberta.;
! He also climbed Mt. Olympus, in
Washington state in 1907.
Prof. Parker, it will be remember
' <yt, won world wide fame by being
the man heading the first party to;
! reach the highest point of Mt. Mc
Kinley. This he accomplished only
after three different expeditions, fin-,
ally reaching the highest of the sev-,
erat peaks in 1912. He was with Dr. j
Cook earlier; but after Dr. Cooks ,
false claim to have reached the top j
of Mt. McKinley, Parker’s association i
with the doctor were severed.
“The spot photographed by Dr.
Cook,” said Prof. Parker at tht Sew- j
ard Hotel yesterday, and claimed by
j him to be the summit, was a rock 250 (
feet high and twenty miles from the!
base of Mt. McKinley. 1 bad taken «i
photograph from almost the identical
spot; and with this testified before a
board of scientific inquiry in 191G.
To Conquest Mt. Everest
“My exploring days are not
over,” affirmed Prof. Parker, “and as
soon as my engineering work in the
Yentna district is completed, I intend
to begin the conquest of the hitherto
unattainable, the assent of Mt. Ever
est in Asia.”
Nobody has yet even reached the
base of Mt. Everest, because of the
net work of rugged peaks that so
completely interlace the approach.
Mount Everest may be approached
only from the Tibet side; and rises
29,002 feet above the sea level, the
loftiest in the world.
Prof. Parker was formerly vice
president of the Explorers Club of
New York, and was acting president
last year. He was also a member of
the very exclusive British Alpine
Club, as well as many other mount
aineering and scientific clubs.
He will return to Seward some time
in March, though his work in the^
Yentna country will no doubt keep;
him in Alaska more or less for thej
next few years. He will bring equip- j
ment for the work some time in the
spring.
WASHINGTON, Wednesday. — An attempt to set
aside a time for general discussion of President Wilson’s
world peace plan, was beaten in tiie Senate today, when
sutiicient oojection was raised to prevent actn .. much to
the chagrin of Senator Cummings, author of the resolu
tion.
When the senate declined to act on his resolution to
consider the president’s plan commencing next Monday,
Cummings stated that he would call it up every da\ until
opposition was withdrawn.
While the resolution was under discussion Senator
Weeks remarked tiiat President Wilson had used the 1 .
6. Senate as a megaphone through which he addressed the
world.”
Officials and diplomats in Washington now believe
that when the president addressed tile Senate, he had in
ais possession information leading lum to believe that he
could eventually bring about peace.
Just what this information is, or its exact source is
not known but it is known that Washington has been in
conference with the governments of Kuropean powers,
and that a great deai of the information has not been dis
closed.
BRITISH PRESS COLI) ON PEACE
LONDON, Wednseday.—With tlie exception of the
Manchester Guardian and the London Daily News tli •
leading papers of England received President Wilsons
peace address in the senate coldly.
Most of the leaders are open m the statement that
they are puzzled as to the real meaning behind certain
passages from the address.
CAUGiff iiT ATTlMPItO ROBBERY
SEATTLE, Wednesday.—Floyyd Mathews a shingle
weaver and Frank Wilson a longshoreman were arresteu
last night as they were about to hold up the Ballard
branch of the Scandinavian American bank. 1 hey con
fessed that they intended robbery after being taken to
police headquarters. _
RIVAL SHOT; OILS IN ARMS OF GIRL
SAN BERNARDINO, Cal., Wednesday.—Frank
•Jiminez, shot Dolphin Montez today when the two mot in
front of the home of Viola Munroe. whom both were
courting. Montez died in the arms ol Miss Munroe and
Jiminez is in custody, and according to the police has a
good chance of ending his life at the end ol arope. i here
were other witnesses to the shooting beside the girl who
says that the attack was unprovoked except by jealousy.
FREIGHTER LAUNCHED AT SEATTLE
SEATTLE, Wednesday—The Louie B. Elsen, a !>,
000 ton freighter was iaunched at the yads ot the Skinner
and Eddy corporation today.
COMMENCE COUNT OF
4TH, SO LIEU'S LEAD 28
JUNEAU, Wednesday—With the count of all pre
cincts at hand complete in the- First, Second and Third di
visions except Utica in the Second, Sulzer is leading by 28
votes. ....
The official count of the Fourth division is under way
today. ... . 0 .
The passed precincts in the Third division gives Sul
zer 63 and Wickersham 63. The Third division complete
without Bristol bay gives Sulzer 1607 and Wickersham
1945, This is a loss from newspaper returns of 9 for Sul- -
zer and 20 for Wickersham.
These returns do not include Bristol bay, Marshal or
Unalakleet none of which have arrived so far, but are ex
pected in the next mail.
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