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VOL. 2. NO. 155. ANCHORAGE, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 2. 1!>17. PRICE TEN CENTS
GERMANY TO OFFER PEACE, SAYS REPORT
Submarine Campaign Feature of Ally-American Conference
RUMORS ARE PERSISTENT IN NATIONAL
CAPITAL! AT PRESIDENT WILSON AS
RECEIVE PEACE OFFER FROM GERMANY
WASHINGTON, May 2.—There are persistent rumors,
credited in certain quarters, that peace overtures were made
* late yesterday afternoon by Germany to President Wilson,
through the Swiss minister to the United States, who is acting
as the representative of the German empire since the break in
diplomatic relations. The rumors are to the effect that the
peace proposal was indefinite as to terms.
PEACE TERMS MODEST, SAYS NEWSPAPER.
THE HAGUE, May 2.—‘“The world will be astounded at
the moderation of the German peace terms,” says the l.okal
Anzciger, a newspaper published at Dusseldorf, Germany, to
day, quoting a dispatch from Berlin from its correspondent in
that city.
PRESIDENT OVERRULES GENERAL STAFF
AND WILL SEND EXPEDITION TO FRONT
WASHINGTON, May 2.—Overruling the general staff,
•President Wilson, '•* is officially announced today, will sem1 r,
small military expediton to the French front, the moment the
allies deem it advisable to divert ships that are now employed
in carrying food supplies from the United States to Europe. In
making this decision the president is acting on the urgent re
quest of the French commissioners, Yiviani and doff re, who de
clare that the moral effect of sending American troops to
France would be tremendous and give new heart to the allied
soldiers who are bearing the brunt of the lighting against the
Germans.
AGITATION IN RUN FOR STRONG MAN
TO BE PLACED AT HEAD OF GOVERNMENT
AMSTERDAM. May 2.—The Weiser Zeitung, of Bremen.
Germany, today says: Reports from Berlin indicate a crisis in
government circles in certain quarters. There is a strong agi
tation in favor of placing a strong man at the helm, to replace
Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg. There is also vigorous
opposition to Foreign Secretary Zimmermann.
PRESIDENT WILSON SAID TO FAVOR
PLAN TO SEND SOLDIERS TO FRANCE
WASHINGTON, May 2.—Following a short cabinet mod
ing yesterday afternoon, held immediately after the president
and Viviani, the French commissioner, held a conference, it
became known that President Wilson is inclined to favor the
the sending of an expeditionary force to France as soon as pos
sible. He thinks that the moral effect will justify the plan.
VIVIANI AND JOFFRE RECEIVED ON
FLOOR OF SENATE AND MEET SENATORS
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WASHINGTON, May 2.—M. Viviani, minister of justice
in the French cabinet and chairman of the French commission,
and General Joffre, of the French commission, were received
#>u the floor of the senate yesterday afternoon, where they met
many prominent senators.
I. W. W. CASES AT SEATTLE DRAWING
TO CLOSE; TRACY CONCLUDES TESTIMONY
SEATTLE, May 2.—The testimony of Thomas H. Tracy,
a defendant in the I. W. W. cases, which have been on trial
here for the past three weeks, was concluded yesterday after
noon. The witness was subjected to a grilling cross-exam
* jnation by the prosecuting attorneys conducting the case.
LITTLE DETAILS AVAILABLE CONCERNING
THREATENED MAY DAY STRIKES, BUT '
IS KNOWN SERIOUS TROUBLE OCCUR ING
TIIK HABIT’., May '1.—Kssen, tlit* home of tin* great
Kni|)p munition works, is shut off from the rest of (Iermam
ami completely isolated, in order to prevent the slightest info:
mation about a strike at that point to leak out. Strikes are
; general in small towns near the Dutch frontier. The first Ma\
Day strike in that section of Belgium held by the Bermans is
reported from Moris, which is located in the heard of the Bel
gian coal fields. The Helm de Beige, a newspaper of Belgium,
announced today that the miners of Mons have struck as a
protest against the food shortage. Due to the strict censorship
maintaining, very little news is obtainable with reference to
t tile labor situation in (Iermam- and Austria I lungary. follow
ing the May Day demonstrations. All that is definitely known
at this time, the morning after the Labor Day celebration, is
Mint socialists and labor leaders had planned a general strike
n both countries. Whether their plans were successful, can
not be known until the news leaks out. in various ways, from
j t liese nations.
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CRITICAL DAY IN EUROPE. —
LONDON', May 2.—Yesterday, May I. was Kurope's crit
jieal day. Socialists and workmen held May Day demonstra
i lions in practically all the capitals and the principal cities of
1 Hu rope. Widespread trouble was feared in some of the im
i portant cities, before the day passed, and miltary precautions
! were taken by the governments. In (lermany and Austria
Hungary, where the labor situation is acute, the radical social
ists and discontented toilers, in some of the cities, initiated a
general strike and made manifestations in favor of immediate
I peace. In the Rhine provinces, especially, more than half of
I the munition workers declared a strike, to be effective today.
GERMAN PLOTTERS THAT SOUG CO
BLOW UP WALL STREET . OF PLAN
NKW YORK, May 2.—-Wolf 11 irseh, a (human chemist cm
ployed at the Roosevelt hospital in this city, who in company
with another employe, (ieorge Meycringer, planned to blow up
the Wall street district, gave details of the plot today, lb
said that the plan was to blow up the Morgan offices, tap the
telegraph trunk lines between ('hieago. Washington and New
York, and send out false reports of I‘resident Wilson's assas
sination and I boat raids on the Atlantic coast, and then dis
nipt the wires to prevent immediate denials. The false re
ports were to be sent out to affect the stock market, and by
'.speculation, he and his colleague expected to clean up a lor
tune.
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SESSION OF ALASKA LEGISLATURE ENDS
THURSDAY; HOLDING NIGHT SESSIONS
.H'N'KAl , May 2.—-The session of the legislature ends
Thursday night and in an effort to wind up business before
then, the senate and house are boding night sessions. The
house yesterday passed the wolf bounty bill, allowing $15 for
each wolf killed, the forearm only to be sent, with certificate
from a IT. S. commissioner to the territorial treasurer. The bill
allowing a free choice of doctors and hospitals to employes of
companies was laid on the table in the house yesterday. The
house passed a bill granting an appropriation of $10,000 for
searching for lost or missing persons; passed a bill giving lo
cators of mining claims rights to waters of streams adjoining
or crossing their properties, over future water rights of locat
ors; passed a bill amending the revenue laws; passed a bill pro
viding for the registration and restriction of contagious dis
eases.
IN THE SENATE.
The senate passed a bill providing for a uniform school j
system; passed a bill providing for marriage licenses and the;
registration of weddings; passed a bill providing for an ex
pression of opinion of electors as regards the general eight
hour law, whether it shall apply to all wage earners in the
territory or exclude certain industries pursued only during the
short summer period. The senate voted down the appropria
tion for the purchase of a law library’ for the attorney-general,
but will reconsider the vote today'.
SUBMARINE MENACE FORESHADOWS OTHER
PROBLEMS AT CONFERENCE ATTENDED BY
ALLIED COMMISSIONERS AND OFFICERS
WASHINGTON, May The submarine menace over
shadowed the puestion of sending American soldiers to the
front in France yesterday afternoon, at the war conference par
ticipated in bv tneiiihers of the British and French commis
sions. Secretary of the Navy Daniels, Secretary of War Baker,
and high officers of the I nitod States army and navy. The
British war expert. Lord Fustace Percy, informed the Amor
ican government that the situation was very serious, largely
due to the submarine campaign. Percy intimated that the
Germans were sinking allied ships faster than tin* allies could
build them. The figures In* submitted, while not given out
for publication, were appalling. It was the concensus of opin
ion of the conferees, after facts had been presented by the Brit
ish war experts, that the immediate detail to be worked out was
the standardization of ships being built, and to be built, by
Great Britain, the I nited States. Panada, Japan and France,
and to push construction as fast as possible.
JUDGE ADVOCATE GENERAL FINDS E 10R
IN CONSCRIPTION BILL, AND REPASSED
WASHINGTON, May J.—Senator Chamberlain, of Ore
gou, chairman of the senate committee on military affairs, who
is in charge of the selective conscription bill, introduced the
'measure for re-passage yesterday afternoon. “Fpon the ad
v ice of the judge advocate general. I desire to amend the bill.”
said Chamberlain, “so as to substitute the word ‘emergency’
for the word ‘war’ wherever it a pours in the bill. The reason
given me, is that the bill now applies only to a war with Ger
many, and if we were drawn into war with other nations, it
would not apply to those."
After a brief discussion, the bill as amended was passed
by the senate and sent to the house for concurrence.
UNITED STATES HAS ALREADY PLACED
SHIPS AT DISPOSAL OF ALLIED NATIONS
WASHINGTON, .May Lord Eustace Bercy. the Brit
isli war expert, announced toda\ that the I'nited States has al
ready placed a considerable ship tonnage at the disposal of the
allied powers, but lie declined to say what the tonnage consist
ed of, or if. as generalh believed, it consists of the German
'hips seized by the I nited States government.
LARGE QUANTITIES OF STEEL AND IRON
PRODUCTS ORDERED FOR COMMISSION
SEATTLE. May 2. Steel rods for bridge construction, tie
rods, iron castings and other steel products, to the value of
$132,000, comprehending various orders, were placed by Bur
chasing Agent Doyle, of the Alaskan Engineering commission,
today. The steel and iron products are for the Anchorage di
vision of the government railway work.
BRITISH TRANSPORT BALLARAT SUNK
BY DIVER, BUT ALL TROOPS RESCUED
LONDON, May 2.—It is announced by the British admi
ralty today that the British transport Ballarat, conveying
troops from Australia to England, was sunk by a German sub
marine recently. All of the troops were rescued by patrol
boats.
BOMBS WERE DROPPED ON TOWN IN
DUTCH PROVINCE; MUCH DAMAGE DONE
THE HAGUE, May 2.—Bombs were dropped by an un
known aeroplane on Zifikz.ee, in the Dutch province of Zeeland,
last night. Three persons were killed and much material dam
age to property was done.