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WASHINGTON, D. C.—“The situa
tion is one of extreme seriousness,”
was the way Secretary of State Lans
ing characterized the submarine ques
tion Wednesday.
He is not alone in this opinion.
Other officials have come to see that
the submarine menace not only
threatens the welfare of Great Britain
and France, but also of this country.
These conclusions have been reached,
not only from conferences with mem
bers of the two commissions in Wash
ington, but from the events of the past
w*ek. The sinking of a tonnage
amounting to 400,000 in the last seven
days has brought officials to realize
that if some means is not found speed
ily to remove the submarines from
the sea, the purpose of the German
^pvemment will be carried out.
President Wilson is fully cognizant
of the situation, both from the re
ports and the conversations he has
had with members of the missions.
The best ihventive genius of the land
is being exerted, night and day, to
devise some mechanical means to re
move the submarine menace. Secre
tary Daniels is hopeful that this will
be found.
The rapid increase in the toll of
ships sunk by German submarines is
ascribed to the longer periods of day
light and shorter nights, a condition
that will favor submarine operation
for a number of months.
It has been explained that upon the
solution of the submarine problem de
pends all else that the United States
may do in the war on the continent.
A way must be found to get food, coal
and steel, with manyo ther commodi
ties to the allies, and the way must
be opened also, it is seen, for the
^jjafe transport of troops to the other
side.
GOVERNORS ARE WARNED.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—President
Wilson received at the white house,
Wednesday, representatives of all
the states of the Union, including 10
conferring with the national council
of defense on plans for obtaining
close co-operation between federal and
state governments in the war.
It was in the course of the con
ference of state officials that Secre
tary Lane made known the fact that
the government has learned that 400,
000 tons of shipping was sunk last
week by German submarines.
Secretary Lane told the governors
^h^t the federal government had
heard that 400,000 tons of shipping
had been sunk last week by Ger
man submarines. The destruction, |
Secretary Lane said, was not only
threatening the existence of Eng
land and France, but was alarming
the United States. Study of inven
tions to combat the submarine menace
is being diligently pursued in the
interior department, he said. The
United States must build ships as rap
idly as possible, he told the delegates.
“If we don’t fight the war on the
other side,” he said, “we shall have
to fight it on this side of the Atlantic.”
Secretary Lane declared he believed
the war would last several years and
that every resource of the country
must be brought into play to bring it
to successful conclusion.
“Many persons thought,” he said,
“that all we had to do was to issue
bonds and that Germany would bow
her head in submission. Nothing
could be further from the truth. We
do not know when this war will end.
It may not be a one-year war. Per
sonally I believe it will last several
years. Herbert C. Hoover has in
formed this government that Germany
has food enough to last two years,
perhaps longer. Germany has put up
the greatest fight of history and she
hasthe advantages of now fighting a
defensive warfare. Don’t go back
home and inspire your people with
the thought that immediate action can
bring this war to an immediate end.
Your people must look to this year’s
crop and the next year’s crop and the
next after that.
“We can’t afford to fail in this war.
Every man in this country is involved
in this work, and every man in the
country- is a soldier. The French hope
to break down the morale of the Ger
man armies. Our concern is to see to
it that our own morale rises.
“This is a war of right, and France
and Italy are fighting for the stand
ards set up. The United States now
is a mother country and our children
are fighting for standards laid down
in the Declaration of Independence.
It was that Declaration of Independ
ence that made democracy possible.”
ALASKA BOATS ARE
BEING SEARCHED
SEATTLE, May 22.—All Alaska
steamers leaving here are being
searched before departure by federal
officers for the purpose of preventing
slackers leaving for the North to es
cape conscription. Several men have
been taken off the boats and held to
register on June 5. So far no date
for registration has been set for Al
aska, but it is expected the order will
be forthcoming in the near future.
Deny Slackers Leaving.
SPOKANE, May 22.—Immigration
officials here deny the report that
hundreds of Americans are rushing
across the line into Canada to es
cape registration under the conscrip
tion bill or that Canadians are com
ing to the United States to escape the
conscription law which will undoubt
edly be passed by the Canadian par
liament.
WEST COAST TO
AIO IN BUILDING
WOODEN SHIPS
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.—For the
purpose of gaining information re
garding the construction of a huge
fleet of small, specially designed
wooden freight-carrying vessels, pos
sibly 1000 in number and costing per
haps $200,000,000, to run the German
submarine blockade, Theodore Brent,
vice president of the United States
shipping board, is now on the Pacific
coast conferring with lumber and
shipbuilding interests.
While it has not yet been definitely
decided to construct this fleet it is
thought that the decision to do so
may be made at any time, and all
necessary information is being gath
ered by the shipping board. The
necessity for this is apparent, said Mr.
Brent, when it is realized that if this
blockade of England becomes effective
the effect upon the United States
would be calamitous. In fact the ef
fectiveness of this submarine cam
paign in the destruction of shipping,
he said, is much more extensive than
is generally supposed, making it im
perative that something be done to
rehabilitate the merchant marine.
W'ith the supply of lumber practic
ally unlimited, with the large num
ber of expert shipwrights who have
come to this coast from the East in
response to the recent revival of
wooden shipbuilding on the Pacific,
with the large number of yards al
ready in operation ready to turn over
their entire capacity to the Govern
ment, and considering the facility
with which new yards may be estab
lished, it was determined at a recent
conference that more than one-half o'1
the proposed 1000 ships could be con
structed on the Pacific Coast within
five or six months. One yard on the
Columbia river, for example, has a
capacity for eight ships at a time, and
the California yards, while now lying
four keels at a time, could be in
creased so that 15 could be con
structed simultaneously. In regard to
the labor supply, little difficulty is!
anticipated, as wooden ships are now |
being constructed successfully on the
Pacific by using a large proportion of
men skilled in other lines of wood
working than shipbuilding.
The vessels to be constructed will
be of standard type, the specifications
and plans to be prepared in Washing
ton. Some of the types proposed at
the conference, or that are now being
constructed on the Pacific include the
following: In Columbia river yards,
a type of vessel 270 feet long, pro
pelled by a semi-Diesel engine,
has proved very successful. One
type recommended, somewhat barrel
ALSO A PATRIOT.
—Donahey in Cleveland Plain Dealer.
shaped, with a capacity of 10,000 to
25,000 tons, could be built in two or
three months. It was the general con
sensus of opinion that under ordinary
conditions a wooden vessel 220 to 230 ]
feet long, with a cargo-carrying ca
pacity of 5000 tons, and costing per
haps $75,000, could be built in five or
six months.
In case engines or motors for these j
vessels are not to be obtained at the i
time of the completion of the vessels, j
it is proposed that the ships could j
be used as sailing vessels until the j
motor power is ready to be installed.
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JOHN MILLER’S FUNERAL
WAS HELD TUESDAY
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(Seattle P.-I.)
The funeral of John Miller, well
known Alaska mining man who died I
Saturday, was held Tuesday after
noon at 3 o’clock from the Bonney
Watson parlors under the auspices of
St. John’s Lodge, No. 9, F. & A. M.
Interment was at Lake View ceme
try. A great many Alaskans were
in attendance, at the services, for
“Jack” Miller, of Miller’s gulch, was
as widely known as any successful
gold seeker of the rush of ’98.
Miller was bom in Ireland forty
eight years ago. In the first gold
rush to the north he succeeded where
others met failure ar.d d’’r"f°r, owing
to a stalwart tenacity which carried
him over glaciers, up wild streams and
through every hardship. Finally lo
cating the little gulch, which still
bears his name, he struck gold in pay
ing quantities, and stayed on the job
until he developed a property from
which a fortune has been taken, and
which still has big possibilites. He
was a large property owner in Seattle
and Aberdeen, and traded successfully
in local business properties on sever
al occasions.
Miller had added improvements to
his Alaska properties this year, and
expected to go north next month. He
was stricken with appendicitis, but it
was believed the danger had passed
and he had been taken home from the
hospital, when a sudden relapse came
and caused his death. A widow and
two small daughters survive him.
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