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S. WAR SECRETS KNOWN IN BERLIN
Montreal Faces Martial Law, Due to Fight on Conscription
GERMAN SPIES IN UNITED STATES '
•HAVE SURE AND SWIFT MEANS OF
COMMUNICATING SECRETS TO BERLIN
WASHINGTON, May 28.—Four days before the Aiueri
\ can torpedo boat destroyer fleet arrived abroad, Berlin knew
5 the fleet was on the way and to what port the boats were en
route, and a day before the fleet steamed into Queenstown, Ger
man submarines had strewn mines about the harbor’s entrance.
This startling information, which reveals that German spies in
this country still have a swift and sure means of communicat
ing war secrets to the fatherland, comes in a cablegram from
Admiral Sims at London, to the navy department. The admiral
says his information is positive. With the knowledge of tins
latest leak in its possession, the deparmtent will make a vigor
ous effort to seek out the spies concerned in the revelation.
WAR MINISTER KERENSKY WILL INDUCE
SOLDIERS TO AGAIN TAKE UP ARMS
PETROGRAD, May 28.—General Ruzsky, who has resign
ed from the command of the northern front in Russia, and has
readied Petrograd, said today that he believed that M.
Kerensky, minister of war and marine, would be successful in
inducing the Russian troops to again take up arms in defense
of £heir country, and in this event, he said he believed that the
Germans would be forced to terms before the fall season sets in.
ITALIAN FORCES ON JULIAN FRONT
ACHIEVING VICTORIES OVER ENEMY
ROME, May 28.—A great battle on the Julian front, be
tween Italian and Austro-Hungarian forces .is raging today.
The fighting extends from the sea to Plava. In two days’ fight
ing, Friday and Saturday, the Italian forces made substantial
advances and captured 10,000 prisoners. Sunday, further gains
were made on the coastal front, and 3500 prisoners were taken
GERMAN OFHCIAL REPORT' SOF
AERIAL RAID ON TWI GUSH TOWNS
BERLIN, May 28.—“Our air squadrons yesterday drop
pedASbmbs on Dover and Folestone, in England, and our troops
improved their positions on the Chemin-Desdames-Aisne front,
capturing 544 French prisoners,” says an official German re
port today.
FORMER PREMIER ASQUITH REFUSES
. CHAIRMANSHIP OF IRISH CONVENTION
LONDON, May 28.—Former Premier Asquith has declined
to accept the chairmanship of the proposed Irish convention in
Ireland, to adopt a constitution for the government of that
country. The honor was tendered him by the crown, at the sug
gestion of Premier Llovd-George.
STATE DEPARTMENT WILL LOOK INTO
MATTER OF EXCLUSION OF SALMON
WASHINGTON, May 28.—Secretary of State Lansing to
day instructed American Ambassador Page to inquire into the
reports that there are restrictions imposed against the imports
tion of canned salmon into the United Kingdom.
GOETHALS ASKSAND IS PROMISED
CO-OPERATION OF BIG STEEL MEN
NEW YORK, May 28.—General Goethals, in an address
before the big steel men of the nation Saturday evening, asked
their assistance in the ship building campaign. He said that
under the selective draft system, he had been called upon to
turn out a thousand wooden ships in eighteen months, but as
the birds are now nesting in trees that will go into the building
of the vessels, he found the task assigned to him an impossible
on^^ffii that some of the ships must be built of steel. General
Goethals was assured by the steel men that they would co-oper
ate in all ways possible with him in his ship building campaign.
TERRIFIC TORNADO SWEEPS OVER
SOUTH AND CENTRAL KANSAS AND
50 KILLED AND 100 ARE INJURED
WICHITA. Kan., May 28.—A terrific tornado passed over
the south and central portion of Kansas Saturday night. While
complete details are lacking, due to interrupted communication
with some of the stricken points, the best information available
is that at least fifty persons were killed outright and that a
hundred more were injured. In one town, Andale, seventeen
people were killed outright and fifty were injured. This place
appears to have been the worst sufferer. The damage to pro
perty has not been estimated, but will reach a big sum in the
aggregate.
HUNDRED KILLED IN ILLINOIS.
MATTOON, May 28.—A hundred people were killed in
the tornado Saturday night in central llinois and northwestern
Indiana, according to more detailed advices received from the
stricken districts today. (Ireat damage to property resulted
and thousands are suffering through the ruin wrought by the
elements. Modesto, Charleston, and Mattoon were the hardest
hit of any of the towns in the tornado’s pathway.
TORNADO HITS ILLINOIS TOWN.
ALTOONA, 111., May 28.—A tornado hit the town of Mod
esto, llinois, Saturday night, and it is reported that many
| casualties occurred. Details are lacking.
SOCIALISTS IN CLEVELAND ATTACK
POLICE AND PITCHED BATTLE FOLLOWS
CLEVELAND, May 28.—In attempting to prevent anti
war speeches by socialists in the public square in Cleveland
yesterday afternoon, the police were attached by a mob com
posed of three hundred persons. ^"pitched battle ensued, clubs
and missiles being employed. After a desperate encounter, the
mob was routed, and several of the ringleaders were taken into
custody.
SEATTLE CONCERN GETS CONTRACT
TO BUILD EIGHT BIG STEEL SHIPS
WASHINGTON, May 28.—A contract was signed today
whereby the Skinner-Eddy Corporation of Seattle will build
six steel freighters of 8,800 tons each, for the government.
Eight million dollars is the contract price for the siv vessels.
TRANSPORT CROOK, WITH 260 PEOPLE
AND MUCH FREIGHT, LEAVES SEATTLE
SEATTLE, May 28.—The transport Crook, with 260 pas
sengers, sailed last night, en route to Anchorage. The freight
cargo consists of 2,000 tons, composed of rails, forage, cement,
etc. Sixty horses for the commission are on board.
GOLD ROWING INTO TREASURY THIS
MONTH EXCEEDS ALL FORMER RECORDS
WASHINGTON, May 28.—The amount of gold flowing
into the United States treasury from ordinary sources of taxa
Lion eclipsed all previous records during the first twenty-four
days of May. The aggregate sum reaches $159,057,267.
JAPANESE CRUISER REACHES TRISCO,
BEARING REMAINS OF U. S. AMBASSADOR
SAN FRANCISCO, May 28.—A big Japanese croiser ar
rived in San Francisco port today, bearing the remains of
James W. Guthrie, former United States ambassador to Japan,
who died at his post recently.
COL. E. H. FOX, PROMINENT
MILITARY MAN, REACHES END
SEATTLE, May 28.—Colonel Edward Hugh Fox, at one
time adjutant-general of the Washington state militia, died in
California last night, according to telegraphic advices received
in Seattle today.
MARTIAL LAW MAY BE DECLARED ANY
HOUR IN MONTREAL, DUE TO CRITICAL
SITUATION OVER CONSCRIPTION BILL
.MONTREAL, May 28.—Martial law may lie invoked in
Montreal. Canada, to handle the situation growing out of the
proposed conscription hill, which the government is seeking to
have passed by tin* parliment. The French members of the
cabinet and house have received letters threatening them with
sure death it they dare to vote in support of the conscription
bill. Three members are seriously considering resigning from
their seats. Police are guarding the English newspaper offices,
which are advocating the conscription measure. French mem
bers of the parliament, returning to the capital from Quebec
towns, today impressed upon the government authorities the
fact that the situation is a serious one.
JAPANESE FLEET DESTROYS THIRTEEN
GERMAN AND THREE AUSTRIAN WARSHIPS
SEATTLE, May 28.—A cablegram scut from Japan to the
Seattle Times, and which passed the Japanese censor, says that
the Japanese naval forces in the Mediteranean sea fought an
engagement one day last week with a German-Austrian fleet
and that fourteen German submarines and three Austrian war
ships were sunk. Details are lacking.
GERMAN SUBMARINE SINKS SPANISH
STEAMER AND 133 PERSONS ARE LOST
LONDON, May 28.—One hundred and thirty-three per
sons are reported to have perished by the sinking of the Span
ish steamship K. de Erzaquirre by a German U-boat yesterday,
it is expected that following this sinking, Spain will declare
war on Germany and join the entente allies.
BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS TODAY
DEBATING FOOD CONTROL MEASURES
WASHINGTON, May 28.—Both houses of congress are
today devoting most of the time to a discussion of various food
bills, with especial reference to the government control of food
products of the nation and with power to fix minimum and
maximum prices therefor.
PEOPLE OF NATION BEHIND THE
FINANCIAL PROGRAM, SAYS M’ADOO
WASHINGTON, May 28.—Secretary of the Treasury Mc
Adoo, who returned from his tour of campaigning in favor of
the Liberty Loan bonds, last night, declared today that the peo
ple of the nation were behind the program in raising $18,000,
000,000 for war purposes by taxation.
U. S. RAILWAY COMMISSION, BOUND
FOR RUSSIA, REACHES TOKIO, JAPAN
TOKIO, May 28.—The United States railway commission,
headed by John F. Stevens, arrived at Tokio yesterday, on
their way to Petrograd, to place themselves at the service of
the Russian government. The Americans are being entertain
ed by the Russian and British ambassadors.
MOTHER AND DAUGHTER SHOT AS
SPIES BY THE GERMAN GOVERNMENT
GENEVA, Switzerland, May 28.—La Suisse, a local news
paper, reports today that the German authorities arrested
Mine. Peister and her daughter, aged 22 years, on the Swiss
Alsatian frontier, on the charge of being spies of the allies. At
the trial, the two women promptly admitted that they had
smuggled letters, without knowing their contents from Al
satian families to relatives in Switzerland. This was done, they
said, as a friendly act. without political or malicious purposes
in view. Both women were shot at Mulhausen. The mother
was a horrified witness of the execution of her daughter, before
her turn came.