SUBMARINES CAUSE
' REIGN OF TERROR
Six Passenger Liners Sent to
Bottom—300 Lives Lost on
Str. Persia—Many on Others
—American Relations with
Teutons at Breaking Point.
Washington, Jan 5—tWireies-s
via Juneau)—The past ten days
have .seen a reign oi terror in tho
Medi'erranean sea as a result of
:he activities of German and Au
triaa submarines, whiih has brought
ahoct a crisis in the foreign re
lations of the United SU'.tts as
intense and important -s ih i w.iiili
immediately followed tile
0 'to Lusitania.
Hardly had tho shock
the sinking of the Auto ,<
when en Monday, L>ce. 21, t-e
Ita».au linor Port Said v.sua*
without ■warning, noaa- Mi'-a w .1
a 1 >ss of sis passengers aad o
meuoor of the crew. S111...I bo.it
rescued the remainder.
Tbe next day the French &ic;n.>r
Vii'.ec?lacietat was sunk 11 •... la
1 alls 1. coast and 79 passeuge;s and
crew were drowned. No warning
was given by the submarine
Wednesday passed uneventfully.
Thursday the British li ■> r Pi
bound westward from the Sutz car.
al mc the same fate near the is
.'aad of Crete, and three hnudred
were drowned. Robert JlcXeol:*,
American consul at Aden, Arabi. .
was tn board and is among tho mis
s'ng and according to ti'.o st • i- t ;
of survivors it is cert.iiu that he
was drowned.
Meagre reports tire r* 1 ■•i\ 1
concerning the sinking in the sarnv
rarnnpT of two other British liners
the Glengyle and tho Stoeswald,
a. d ot the Japanese liner Kenkoku
Man; during the last four days, but
all dttails are lacking.
The situation is further compli
cated *>v the fact that the ideate,
atd nationality of the sub mi -ir. -s
s'nkiug the Persia, Gler-ryle, Si'>
wa!d and Kenkoku Maru are un
known.
Washington, Jan. 4—(Wireless
vi.i Juueau)—President Wilson has
tened U'S return, to the capital to
day u account of unexpected de
velopments in the matter of the
sinking of the steamer Persia. On
a - ivii'g he announced that action
would Le taken the moment tho
lOiiceruing the torpedoing of
•Le Persia and the Glengyle were
fftatlished.
lie immediately called Senator
Stcae, the chairman, and other
momners of the foreign relations
coiuinittee into conference. The
president's secretary, Tumulty, said
• v , y means possible "is being used
to get sit all the facts in both
easos. Ho termed the situation
VTy grave.
Wasbuigton, Jan 4—(Wirless
>:.i Juneau)—Congressmen, con
vening today for the first session
; i'loT ta» holidays axe all Bhowing
ijtPnse interest in the foreign filt
ration, all eagerly awaiting every
l»:t 0f news from the Mediterranean
and discussing the late develop
ments to the exclusion of the con
sideration of all other subjects.
I.on'lon, Jan. 5—(Wireless via
Juneau)—Eleven survivors of the
wrecked steamer Persia who were
lant'ud at Malta yesterday have all
;m ic vffidvits tht tho Persia was
v>ed without warning.
Tte.liu, Jan 4—Regret ia almost
u versi.lly expressed "Acre over
Mil.- sinking of the Steamer Persia
it Is recognized that it will in
rfr.sify (i e crisis and hamper the
diplomatic efforts in progress to
/air tie already strained relations
rvv'stirg between the Teutonic na
tions .~.t.d the United States*
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Petrograd, Jan. 5—The Austrians
have evacuated Czernewitz, the Rus
sians having seized the heights dom
inating the city.
Berlin, Jan. 6—Despeiate at
tenipB are being mado by the Rus
sians to break through the Austrian
lines in Galicia, the fighting having
been severe and desperate for the
past teu adys.
Washington, Jan. 5—The state '
department Is in receipt of official j
advices from Paris to the effect;
that the French government has or
dered 'he Immediate release o£ the
German citizens recently remove^
from an American ship on the fcigh
seas by the cruiser Descartes. Thh
action was taken in compliance with
the request of the United States.
Washington, Jan. 5—A report.
just issued by the war department
6hows that the United States has
seventeen million men of military
af>e, who could be called upon for
service in the case of war.
Seattle, Jan. 5—That saloon men J
who are gelling "lifestaff," a beer :
substitute, will be prosecuted was !
stated at the prosecuting attorney's
office *oday, and It Is understood |
tha* a test case will be brought in
tbo superior court at once.
1-ondon, Jan. 4—(Wireless via
Juneau)—Tho British, cabinet is
facing another crisis, Lord Simon,
secretary of state for the home
department, having resigned, de
3k. a Premier Asquith's pleadings.
Th» conscription issue is still
uppermost and the Tock upon which
the cabinet is dividing. The war
dc .artiuent estimates lliat not quito
million four hundred thousand
men will be available under Lord
Derby's plan, but it is understood
rh; t it or similar plans of limited
conscription will be decided upon.
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.. Detroit, Jan. 5—Henry Ford ar
r;\o4 it home here yesterday and
at once went to his office in the
Fo d automobile factory and held
coherences with his various de
partment heads. He declines to
gi\e out any interview today re
zu ding tho activities of his peac^
co: imission, saying simply that hi:;
ho:'."th compelled his return to Am
er':a at this time.
A! LIES PLANNING TO DRIVE
GERMAN NAVY FROM COVER
Paris, Jan. 3—In a discussion of
various chases of the war at the
recent high council in Paris sug
gestions were made, it is learned,
as ic hew tho German fleet might j
be iorced from Kiel canal. It wfij
fOi discussion of that question, '.t j
w: a said, that Con. Itousaine, chief j
ot the treneral staff of * the Rus
sian navy, was called to Paris.
WAR RISKS ON
SHIPPING REDUCED
Washington, Jan. 3—The govern
ment bureau of war risk insurance
ha3 announced the following re
duction in its rates.
For 6hips plying between the Un
ited States and non-belligerent na
tions in the western hemisphere a
reduction of from H to 1 per cent
to one-twentieth.
For ships plying between Unit
ed Slates western ports and China,
and Japan, from one-tenth to 1 per
cert to one-twentieth.
Wishing
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Happy New Year
to you all
P. H. GANTY
Washington, Jan. 5—An advance
report Just Issued by tho U. S
Geological survey shows that tlie
copper mines of the Unitod State.
iwe in the past year surpassed all
records of previous years, the 1915
output having a valuo of $236,000,
000 more than the valuo of the pro
duction for 1914. The statistics and
estimates received place the out
put of blister and lake copper at 1,
o6i>,600,000 pounds or more than
12),000,000 pounds in excess of
the largest previous production
auC eighteen per cent above last
ypar'j, figures. Only twice in the
history of copper mining lias there
bpi n a larger increase in quantity
of metal produced.
Yhe annual preliminary esti
mates on the production of gold
and silver In the Unitod States,
made jointly by the United States
Ctological survey and the burem
o* tile mint, are not yet complete,
Jsut early figures based on reports
from the mines Indicate an increase
in mine production over that of
1914 of over $7,000,000 In gold,
1 iincipally from Colorado, Califor
ii: Alaska, Montana and Idaho, and
an increase in mine production of
silver of fully 4,000,000 ounces,
cli'ffly from Montana, Utah, and
Ar.zona. Thla Increase In gold
pr. Auction, may bring 1915 up to
lh.. record year of 1909, when the
g: 1 output of this country was
ij<- rly if 100,000,000.
uoroases are shown in every
bt iclx of metal mining, iron, zinc,
lc\ I unci quicksilver all showing
S. 13 of 20 per cent ot better OTer
10 4, making a total Increase In
va' ie of products of approximately
$1 5,000,000.
Perhaps the most notable item
in iyb year's record is the stimula
te i of metal mining in the west
er states. Almost without excep
ts i ihe increases In production
wt e large and In several states
1' ' 5 was the best year on re
co J. Id Arizona, wlllcli leads in
cc,.per, the output of that metal ex
<■?.' led the previous record produc
ti i of 1913. California continues
to "ead in gold and had the larg
est yield in 32 years, and with one
ex option in half a century. In
11 nana and Arizona record out
pn s of silver a'ro reported and in
.A -ska the increased production of
S< 1 and especially copper made
U 5 a much more prosperous year
t!i p. even 1906 when Fairbanks
• Xoise were yielding their great
:fturns of gold from bonanza
ol- eers.
Xf>w York, Jan. 5—The copper."j
jn".rket received another hoost las!
week, reaching the price of 22 cent:;
per pound on Dec. 28, at which ,
point It has since held and present;
indications are that a still higher J
poiu* will be reached within the j
i-ext fow days.
Waslington, Jan. 4—The expect-!
ed attack upon the foreign policy j
ol the administration in its dealings
w h the questions arising out of
11. activities of German and Aus
tri a submarines did not occur in
ly's session of the senate, as
tii f l ody adjourned in ten minutes
ai' or being called to order aa a
is r't of respect to Associate Ju«
»i. ; Joseph R. Lamar, who died
Sv tday.
Vrain wo ara forced to resort to
J] rconigrams which, are relayed by
c:: >ie from Juneau to Skagway for
o- i* supply of news from the out
si c world, the U. S. military cable
b' .'t>g out of commission some
w ere between Sitka and Seattle It
ll y be several days before the ex
a location of the trouble is dte
cc c-red, but It is thought that the
b. 'ak 'o near Seattle.
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