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ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE THE KAISER
Submarines Sink 1,000,000 Tons Shipping a Month
KAISER WILHELM NARROWLY ESCAPES
DEATH, WHEN A WOULD-BE ASSASSIN
' FIRES THREE SHOTS DIRECTLY AT HIM
ROME, May 9.—-A dispatch from Zurich, Switzerland, to
day says: Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany narrowly escaped death
by assassination while out motoring in the vicinity of Berlin
yesterday afternoon. The would-be assassin, from a place of
concealment in a heavily-wooded section, tired three shots at
the emperor, none of which took effect, but the bullets lodged
in the tonneau very close to where the monarch was seated. At
tendants took the man in custody, but his identity was not re
vealed, nor was anything given out with respect to the attack,
other than the barest details. The emperor is not a well man
and he was out motoring for the benefit of his health. Indeed,
liis condition is such that lie is unable to attend to his official
duties.
CARRIED SUPPLIES TO ENEMY DIVERS,
IS CHARGE AGAINST TRANSPORTATION w,.
WASHINGTON, May 9.—The federal government has be
gun a rigid inquiry into charges that the American Transport
company is employed in transporting supplies to enemy sub
marines on the European coast of the Atlantic. The charges
are such as to warrant investigation, said a department of jus
tice official today, but further than that, he declined to dis
cuss the matter.
COUNT VON 8ERNST0RFF WILL AGAIN
BE HONORED BY' GERMAN EMPIRE
BERLIN, INI ay 9.—Count von Bernstorff, former German
ambassador to the United States, will be sent as ambassador
to a neutral country, it is officially announced today. Bem
storff stands high in the councils of the German government
and his reappointment is an approval of his acts while ambas
sudor to the United States.
FRENCH TAKE 5,300 GERMAN PRISONERS
PARIS, May' 9.—The French forces advanced four miles
along the road from Soissons to Laon, driving the Germans
from their positions and taking captive 5,300 prisoners, says
a French report of the operations on the west front yesterday.
RUSSIAN DUMA TO BE CONVOKED IN
EXTRAORDINARY SESSION, TO HANDLE
SITUATION GROWING OUT OF REVOLT
I* FT ROOK Al), May 9.—The Duma will he convoked in
extraordinary session immediately, to handle the internecine
situation that has arisen, growing out of the May Day note is
sued by the provisional government officials. The socialist
and anarchist elements, led by a radical named Chedize, are
seeking the overthrow of the provisional government. For
eign Minister Miliukoff today declared that the authorities
have the situation well in hand and no further disturbances or
uprisings are anticipated. The people as a whole are behind
the provisional government officials and it is to appease or
quash the activities of the rabid elements that the Duma will
convene in special session, to determine governmental policies.
Petrograd presents a busy scene today. Preparations are
being made to resist a threatened German attack.
DR. ALFRED HULSeIrOOKS ASSIGNED
TO DUTY IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY
WASHINGTON. May 9.—Dr. Alfred llulse Brooks, chief
of the United States geological survey work in Alaska, has been
assigned to duty in the United States army, and has been grant
ed extended leave of absence from his ordinary duties. During
his absence, the survey work will be in charge of Dr. Martin,
who, in times past, has been in charge of the work, in the ab
sence of Dr. Brooks.
EXPLOSION IN GREAT POWDER WORKS
AT OSAKA KILLS FIFTY EMPLOYES
SAX FRANCISCO, May 9. Fifty people were killed, d.
000 residences were destroyed and .'19 factories and warehouses
were demolished as a result of an explosion in the great pow
der works at Osaka, Japan, Sunday, according to a private
cable today to the Japanese American New.-, published in San
Francisco.
UNCLE SAM LOANS FRANCE HUNDRED MILLION
WASHINGTON, May 9.—Secretary of the Treasury Mc
Adoo yesterday afternoon handed Ambassador Jusserand, of
France, a treasury warrant for $100,000,000, tin* first loan that
has been made to France by the American government.
ZIMMERMANN
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The administration officials have
never officially revealed as to how the
famous Zimmermann note to Mexican
Minister Von Eckhardt came into their
possession. The April number of Cur
rent History gives the following, con
cerning the capture of this important
document:
The authorities have given no inti
mation as to how the Zimmermann
note was procured, but an unconfirm
ed explanation was given that four
men of the First Indiana infantry, a
noncommissioned officer and three pri
vates, doing patrol duty along the Rio
Grande near Llano Grande, Texas, had
overhauled a messenger sent by the
German ambassador, Count von Bem
.storfT, and found the note on his per
son. The details as related in a dis
patch from Houston, Texas, are as fol
lows:
“Just opposite where the messenger
Attempted to sneak across the river
was stationed a squad of thirty-five
Carranza ‘rurales,’ fashioned after the
organization of ‘Texas Rangers.’ How
ever, the messenger did not meet the
‘rurales,’ but four men of Company G,
F’irst Indiana infantry, and they got
the Zimmermann note and other pa
pers from his person. They caught him
near the town of Progreso, where he
was arrested on Feb. 21, when he at
tempted to cross the Rio Grande, 12
miles below San Juan ferry and 25
miles west of .the,International bridge
at Brownsville, Texas, the two regula
tion crossings. Since the patrol of the
border was begun no person is allowed
to cross without being questioned,
. searched, and minutely examined by
’ the patrol bodies, made up of four men
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and covering every foot of territory
from Sam Fordyce, Texas, to Browns
ville, Texas, along the Rio Grande—
a distance of 106 miles. The messen
ger doubtless was following explicit
instructions as to where to cross, and
in so doing he aroused the suspicions
of the militiamen.”
It is stated, and not officially denied,
that the document was in the hands of
the president when he broke off rela
tions with Germany by dismissing the
ambassador, but its absolute authen
ticity was not established until a day
or two before it was made public.
GERMAN U-BOATS AND MINES SINK
MILLION TONS OF ALLIED SHIPPING
IN FOUR WEEKS, SAYS NAVAL BOARD
WASHINGTON. May !f. The ('nited States naval con
-lilting hoard officially reported toda\ that enemy .submarines
and mines had destroyed a million tons of shipping for the al
lied and neutral nations for the four weeks ending Saturday
last. I his statement is made public for the purpose of arous
ing the people of the I nited States to the necessitv of greatly
increasing shipping facilities and to speed up shipbuilding in
this nation, in order to convey food supplies to our allies. At
the rate of a million tons a month, it would not take long for
the Germans to practically annihilate Rritish shipping', but now
that the l nited States ha> entered the world war and has un
dertaken to supply allies with tonnage and supplies, the sub
marine menace, while serious, is not regarded as fatal to the
hopes of the allies.
SENATE AND HOUSE CONFEREES IN A
DEADLOCK OVER ROOSEVELT AMENDMENT
W ASIHNGTON, May !). -Tin* conferees having charge of
the army hill are in a deadlock- over the senate amendment per
mitting Col. Roosevelt to raise an American division and take
it to France, and late yesterday afternoon they suspended
consideration of the bill and returned it to the house. The
house has heretofore defeated this amendment, hut it was re
stored in the senate, and was in the measure when it reached
the hands of the senate and house conferees. The house con
I forces refused to recede from their position of opposition, while
the senate conferees were equally obdurate in insisting that the
amendment remain in the bill.
NINETY-SEVEN PROMINENT SEATTLE
MEN NAMED OFFICERS IN RESERVES
SKATTI.K, May !). Ninety -even prominent business and
professional men of Seattle have been appointed as officers in
the I nited States army reserve corps and have departed for the
training camp to he established near San Francisco. Among
tin* number is Clay Allen, Cnitcd States district attorney, who
has been granted an extended leave of absence.
ADMINISTRATION ASKS CONGRESS FOR
BILLION DOLLARS TO BUILD SHIPS
WASHINGTON. May 9. Tlu* administration lias asked
the congress for an appropriation of one billion dollars for the
building of a merchant licet to overcome the enemy submarine
campaign, in accordance with estimates made by the federal
shipping hoard. According to the hoard's plans, b,000,001) tons
of steel and wooden vessels will be constructed by the govern
1 ment within the next two years.
MRS. SULZER AND SON WILL JOIN
THE DELEGATE IN NATIONAL CAPITAL
SEATTLE, May 9.—Mrs. Sulzer and son arrived here from
Juneau yesterday, en route to California. Later, they will go
to Washington to join Delegate Sulzer. The son has but re
cently recovered from a very severe illness.
WOMAN APPROACHING MOTHERHOOD IS
WAYLAID AND OUTRAGED BY A FIEND
SEATTLE. May 9.—Mrs. R. T. Hoag, while returning to
her home late last night, was seized by a thug, taken to a va
cant lot and outraged. The victim is in a very precarious con
dition. She is approaching motherhood.
PROMINENT DEMOCRAT OF NORTHWEST
DIES SUDDENLY AT HIS SEATTLE HOME
SEATTLE, May 9.—.John C. Whitlock, one of the most
prominent democratic politicians in the state of Washington,
passed away at his home here last night, following a brief ill
ness, lie was a federal court commissioner.