THE NOME TRI WEEKLY NUGGET
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N0ME' ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY, 12th, 1919 TELEPHONE MAIN 114
SEATTLE STRIKE ENDED TUESDAY
JAPAN IS THREATENING TROUBLE
Wilson to again visit
France in March
Special to The Nome Nugget by The Associated Press.
PARIS, Feb. 11—(Associated 1* ress Special Leased Wire and Cable
Service)—Announcement, was made today that President Wilson is planning
to return to France for a second visit during the month of March, for tin
purpose of concluding the final arrangements regarding the Society of Nation*
organization and to take part in the peace dealings with the Teuton nations.
Wilson contemplates returning from Washington about March 15 and
expects to give his personal attention to the work of the Stiprcmo Executive
Council, which promises to become the most important feature of the pence
conference after the Society of Nations is concluded and in effective operation.
Supreme Executive Council About lo be Organized
PARIS, Feb. 11.— (Associated Press Special Leased Wire and Cable
Service)—Preparations are under way at the Peace Conference to commence
the organization of the supreme executive body which will have the direction
of the Society of Nations operations and constitute the general business or
ganization of the league.
Immediately after formation, the Supreme Executive Council is ex
pected to give its consideration to the French and Belgian proposals that
Essen and other German industrial towns he occupied by the forces of the
Allies to prevent the manufacture of munitions, arms and ammunition, the
two nations holding that to prevent the Germans employing their vast arms
and munitions establishments in manufacturing war implements is the surest
way of preventing them from making further trouble in the future.
The British believe that the French and Belgian war losses should be re
couped by means of cash indemnities rather than by stopping German indus
tries and propose that German industry shall not be hampered in any manner
Which will tend to reduce revenues which may be diverted to the payment of
the German war debts.
The Inter-Allied Council has already appoinVjM^w^emmittee of eight
members to study the- jneblems (lie reliVtiotf re
German Industrial issues. ■* V
CANADIAN PACIFIC SPENDS FORTUNE SEARCH
ING FOR BODIES OF SOPHIA VICTIMS
Special to The Nugget by The Associated Press.
VICTORIA, Feb. 11.—Capt. Throup, Manager of the Canadian Pacific
railway coastal steamship service, testified today before the Sophia inquiry
board that the Company has spent to date not less than seventy eight thou
sand dollars searching for the bodies of those who went to their death when
the company steamer went down in the waters of Lynn Canal last fall.
Capt. Throup produced wireless and telegraphic messages passing be
tween his office and the officials at Juneau showing that the stated amount
had been spent in searching for the Sophia victims and for other items of
expense in connection with’ the search. Throup said the company has done
everything that was humanly possible to recover the dead and relliN* the sur
vivors.
Clyde Strikers Ordered
to Return to Work
fc'peolal to The Nugget by The Associated Press
LONDON, Feb. 11—Announcement was made at the local headquarters
• of the British Trades council that the strike in the Clyde ship yards will be
ended tomorrow' morning, bringing to an end one of the most important
British labor strikes of years.
The suspension of the strike is the result of the recent conferences with
the leaders of the various associated unions and the men have received orders
from their leaders to return to work in the morning.
MILITARY IN FI/LL CONTROL OF BUTTE SITUATION
Rpecftal to the Nugget By the Associated Press.
BUTTE, Feb. 11—The strike situation is now well in hand and only
minor disturbances have occurred as a result of the I. \V. W. efforts to prevent
the miners resuming their labors.
The I. W. W. have sought to induce the paper carriers union and alsc
the metal workers union to vote on calling a sympathetic strike, but havi
gained no response. Officials of the Metal trades /mlon say the union is
with-holding action.
Armed guards are on duty at all of the mines^and accompany the
paper carriers on their routes, owing to the prospect that they may be attack
ed by the striking element, w h ich Is receiving much newspaper opposition.
Owing to the wearing of army tiniforms by many of the union pickets
Major Jones, commander of the regulars here, has given orders that all dis.
charged soldiers shall discard their uniforms. •
Soldiers Leave Camp Lewis for Butte
TACOMA, Feb. 11—Four machine gun sergeant’s and eight soldier:
left Camp Lewis today enroute to Butte to join the regular army forces en
gaged la maintaining quiet in the strike district. One commissioned office]
accompanied the troops on their journey.
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i SEATTLE STRIKE
OFFICIALLY ENDED
Associated Press Service.
SEATTLE. Feb. 11—The great
sympathetic strike, which has tied up
the industries and commerce of Seat
tle for the greater part of the past
week was officially ended at noon to
day. The situations is virtually nor
mal again, except that the ship yard
workers are still on strike, with little
present prospect that their walkout
will soon end.
Discussing the strike in a front
page editorial today, the Seattle Post
Intelligencer says that the attempt to
use the Seattle workers to fonu-nt a
revolution has failed and further de
clares that the strike is over.
GERMAN ASSEMBLY ADOPTS
PROVISIONAL CONSTITUTION
WTEMA.lt, Germany, Feb. II.—
(Associated Pro* Special I .cased
Wire and Cable Service)—The provi
sional constitute i presented • the
German assembly here has been ad
opted by a hiri'-'f majority. Details
regarding the osiul <>f the document
,l..ive not yet ' wbi given nut.
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AMERICAN TANKER IN
DISTRESS AT SEA
Associated Press Service.
HALIFAX. Feb. 11—The Am rican
oil tanker J. M. Ouffney, has so it out
wireless calls from the vicinity of
Cape Knee, according to report? from
the government wirelesss station loca
ted near that point.
The Guffney reported that il shin
was taking water through «h» fore,
hold, but gave no details regard: ■; the
manner in which she b came in. nlved
her present dini .ultiesT
MINERS HOME CLUB
Card party and Dance at liners
Home Club Hall Thursday ever ng at
8:30 p. m. Dancing begins at 10 o.
m. Public invited.
COMMITTEE.
IT IS MORE ECONOMICAL TO
EAT
AT THE ARCTIC BAKERY
THAN TO COOK AT HOME.
WANTED
Young Woman wants work: will
ing to do housework, etc. Inquire
Nugget Office.
DRESSMAKING
Plain and fancy dressmaking.
Reasonable Prices. Mrs Madgwick,
238 Third Avanue.
IT 18 MORE ECONOMICAL TO
EAT
AT THE ARCTIC BAKERY
THAN TO COOK AT HOME.
TELEGRAPH LINES DOWN.
Owing to the breakdown in tele
graphic communications, the Nugget
is able to give its readers in the pres
ent Issue, Only news of yesterday’s
vintage. Up to the hour of going to
press, no press messages had been re
ceived today. *
Jap Attitude Causing Allies
Much Apprehension
Special to the Nugget P.y the Associated Press
WASHINGTON. Feb. II -(Associate,| Press Special Leased Wire an.!
I Cable Service) Officials connected with tin- diplomatic service the atti
tude of Japan toward Chin.. the Intel-Allied • confer nee is caushc;
According to the statements of the officials. Japan is virtually threaten
ing to make war on China if the latter country makes public In-,- secret
treaties with Japan and fails to carry out tlm agreements contained therein,
to make Japan lew successor in the German rights to certain important and
valuable property concessions which Germany held ,t the time the war broke
out.
.The Japanese delegates are said in !>>• firmly insistent, that China shall
do as she agreed and will countenance no attempt on the part of the Chinese
republic, to repudiate the treaties or secure their annulment by the peace
CHINESE PEACE DELEGATES DECLARE COPIES OF
SECRET TREATIES STOLEN FROM BAGGAGE ENROUTE
Special to the Nugget By the Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 — (Associated Press Special leased Wire and
Cable Service)- Diplomatic- reports reac hing Washington from Paris today say
the- threatened clash between China and Japan over the sc-j-et treaties regard
ing the former German eonsessions in China. concluded between the two nat
ions after the commencement of the war. was : iven a m-u turn today b\ the
announcement of the Chinese*, delegates, who arrived in r. ris yesterday, that
copies of the treaties contained in their baggo-.c a ere si,den while the del •
gat ion was enroute to the peace- conference
'Pile- announcement was made by the Oniosc dele-rates while replying
arrival of the Chinese delegation. The Chines, claim th. I tin- treaties were
stolen while they were passing through Japan cm their way to the I'nlPM
States, but the loss was not discovered until limy w-re crossing the Pacific.
Owing to this reason, the Chinese announced that they are unable to make
public the treaties, which have become a consider M source of apprehension
Japanese to insist even to the point of going . r with China shall keep
her promise- to make Japan the heir to 11>.• i . German property , un
officially, is one of opposition to tin* desires > f Japan to annex the 'former
German Islands in the Pacific-..
The islands, for the most part, lit- within the island groups known
as the Marshall and Caroline islands. They 1 i• * almost directly cast of the
Philippines and their possession by Japan would directly menace the Ameri
can occupancy of the Philippine group, in the event that Japan should become
hostile to America. The insistence of the .Japanese- that they he given th*
islands Is causing serious concern to the American pence delegation
Allies Repulse Bolsheviki
in Archangel Region
’Special to the Nugget By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Feb. 11—War Office announcements today say ihe Allied
forces in the Archangel section repulsed a heavy and Midden attuek mu.Ip b\
j the Bolsheviki infantry against the Allied positions in tin- vi.-inity of the town
[of Sredmakreng, situated southeast of Arcliang. I.
Tho Bolsheviki ntlark was laun.-liv.l Salnnl.ij l.ut was h.-al.-n ..IT wilii
slight losses to the defending forces.
Announcement has also been made that tho Bolsheviki I’mvi-s were
given a heavy defeat by the Allies in tho region of Kadish on Friday last. TIip
Bolsheviki are said to have lost a large percentage of their forces. The \llip<
are in firm possession of the positions south of Kadish and are improving them
daily' by sharp attacks which are forcing the Bolsheviki guards to rclenquish
further ground.
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KING GEORGE URGES LEGISLATION
AGAINST POVERTY AND UNEMPLOYMENT
Spec’ial to the Nugget By tho Associated Press.
LONDON. Feb. 11—In a speech from the throne to the House -if
Parliament today. King George urged upon tho parliamentarians the passage
of resolute legislation which will tend to reduce poverty among the working
masses by reason of unemployment.
The King urged the lawmakers to adopt such legislative measures Im -
mediately as will inure to the benefit of the working people and relieve them
from the frequent periods of unemployment which have heretofore kept :■ large
portion of the people in a constant state of semi-poverty.
* The king also urged upon parliament to institute measures for improv
ing the national health.
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