British Forces Take
Positions East
of Ypres
Loadon, Sept. 2t}.—Field Marshal
H&Jc reported thl$ morning that be
iud renewed his offensive la West
Flanders on a wide front and
Ui*t British forces ha.d carried po
sition* o&dt of Ypres. It Is believ
ed the present British stroka will
*a ths greatest ever undertaken.
Allied foraai are driving across the
coast line of Belgium headed from
Ypr«« in the direction of Zebrugge
with the probably effort to take
tie large submarine base which the
Q«rm*a* have at Zebrugge.
IK SEATTLE
DRAFT
Seattle, Sect. 20.—Four men j
who war# drafted far the Nation
al army and called to report yes
torday for m old ligation filled to
»BP«ar. They are of Norwegian,
Iriaii, Garmaa ami American extrac
liua asd will bw arrested ®nd court |
martial ed.
OAY EIGHT
MILLION
Saattle, Sept. 20. — The first
day's deposits In the Seattle branch
of th« federal reserve bank exceed- |
•d tight million dollars .
Juhur Ireland, gvoernment em
&tey« in the Immigration service,
was a passenger on the Peterson
this moraiug for Haines.
HIGH PRICE PilD
IIE55EL
Seattle, Sept. 20.— Tharodyke &
Trenholme, shipping concern, to
day sold the Pacific American Fish
eries Company's new steamship
Rosewood to French, interests. The
Rosewood ia a three thousand ton
ship, aad the price which French in
teres ta paid for the vessel is de-1
clared :c be one of the highest ever j
paid for a wooden ship of her size.
Tlie same interests are negotiat
ing for th§ purchase of two other j
Pacific American. vessels.
OF 111. ARE
Los Angeles, Sept. 20— Announc
ing to Secretary McLoughlin, of
the Industrial World Workers, their j
plamj, a crowd of soldiers thisj
morning demolished the headquart- ^
era of the local I. W. W. while the j
men withdrew ill au. orderly mau-^
ner.
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BRITISH SHIPS
LondOA, Sept. 20.—Twenty-nine
British vessels, eight of them over ^
1600 tons, were sunk by hostile sub
marines during the week ending
last night. This is an increase of
11 ships over the previous week.
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SENATE OF
ONLY ONE VOTE AGAINST SEV
ERING RELATIONS WITH GEB
MANY OVER LUXBURG AFFAIR
Buenos Aires, Sept. 20.—With
only; one dissenting vote the Senate
today voted to break rlationg with
Germany over the Count Luxburg
affair. The resolution now goes
to the Chamber of Deputies.
Berlin, Sept. 20, via London. —
The managing committee of the
German Social Democracy jhas issu
ed a condensed report which is to
be submitted to the party's conven
tion at Wurzburg next month.
The record covers the three years
ending March 31.
The outstanding feature of the
record is the appalling drop in
the party's active membership. On
March 31, 1914, this numbered 1,
085,900. In March of this year
the membership was but 243,000.
The report say^ that at the
outbreak of the war half the male,
membership of the party wag call
ed to the colors, and that since
then fully 76 per cent of the party's
roll members haw been drafted.
The i uuture in the party's ranlcs
brought on by th§ defection of in
dependents also has been responsi
ble for the loss of members.
Three years ago the party count
ed 174,750 women members and
now this number has decreased to
66,600.
WAR'S COST PROVES
HEAVY TO SWITZERLAND
Berate, Sept. 20.—According to a
Swiss official statement the Swiss
debt on account of the war and the
mobilization to guard the frontier
amounts to 920,000,000 francs.
ALLIED FOOD REPRESENTATIVE
MARES VISIT IN SKAGWAY
Wilfred B. Wainwrlght, a food re
presentative of the Allied powers,
is making the round trip on the
Princess Sophia. Mr .Wainwrlght
has spent some time in Prince Bu
pert and Ketchikan investigating
the fishing Industries, aad lately
came tr Juneau Investigating other
foods for the Allies. He Is now
returning to Prince Rupert, by way
of Skagway. Mr. Wainwright's
title is "Food representative for
England and the Allte(S."
Capt A. L. Bell, of the North
west Mounted Police, arrived in
Skagway on the train last night
and departed on the Peterson this
morning for Haines.
CANADA TO GALL
or
Vancouver, Sept. 20.—A tele
gram. received lie re today; from the
Minister of Justice at Ottawa states
It is the intenion of the Canadian
government to call out for service,
ag soon, ag possible, the first class
of men under the new conscription
act.
Washington, Sept. 20.—Practical
ly all the news-print paper that is
received by Peru, Bolivia, and Ecua
dor now comes itom the United
States. Ev§n before the war it
formed the bulk of the Amreican
shipments to the first-mentioned
country, and represented almost
one-third of the total Peruvian im
ports of paper. Since the outbreak
of the war there hag been a heavy
increase In the imports because of
the fact that news print is admit
ted free of duty and, with the rise
in the price of all other grades of
paper, the retailers have found it
the cheapest kind that they can ob
tain f'T wrapping purposes. Now
that I*-._ has gained extensive use
for this purpose, it i3 believed that
the imiiorts will continue to Increase
even after cheaper wrapping paper
is again available.
WILL NAME SUCCESSOR
TO SCOTT
Washington, Sept, 20.—Secretary
of War Baker announced today the
successor to Chief ofthe Army Staff
Gen. Scott, who retires this month,
will be announced in a few days.
Carcross Sends
Sack of Shoes
SHOES WILL BE PACKED TO
MORROW AFTERNOON AND
WILL BE SHIPPED SATURDAY
A large sack of old shoes was
shipped on the train yesterday from
Carcross to James Kennedy & Co.
to be added to the shoes from Skag
way lor the suffering people of
France and Belgium. There are now
hundreds of shoes on hand, and
they will be boxed tomorrow after
noon and be ready for shipment
Saturday. Any one who ljas shoes
to add to this shipment is asked
to leave them with Kennedy or
with Dortero & Son by 4 p. m. to
morrow.
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Soatile, Sept. 20.—A great mid- j
day parade took place ia this city
today noon in, honor of tha 738
Seattla and King county aceond
quota of selected men departing
for Camp Lewis. Baskets contain
ing lunches and flowers were pre
sented to each man a» they parad
ed dowu Second avenue to entrain.
Seattle, Sept. 20.—Th© first train
carryiue the second quota of draft
ed mt-n departed for Camip Lewis at
two o clock this afternoon.
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BOND REPORT
Washington, Sept. 20.—The sen
ate this afternoon adopted the con
ference report on the eleven and
one-half billion dollar bond bill
and it will probably go to the
house tomorrow. 1
rati is
New York, Sept. 20.—John Pur
■roy Mitchell, mayor of this city,
and fusion candidate for re-elec
tion, also won the Republican may
oralty nomination in yesterday's
primaries.
Soldiers from Ft. Wm. H. Sew
ard arrived today on the Peterson
and left on the train to relieve men
who have been on guard duty at the
big bridges of the White Pass.
Files Control Wires
of Airplanes To
Breaking
Point
New York, Sept. 20. — Today's
New York World' publishes a story
that a lew days ago nine Canadian
aviators went to their death In
Camjj Borden through the work of
a German spy. who filed the con
txol wires of a number of airplanes
until they were at the breaking
point. While flying In these Uam
aged machines the control wires
completely broke, thus sending the
aviators to their death.
SffEDOMSSUES
PROTEST TO
GERMANY
Stockholm, Sept. 2U—Tihe Swed
ish minister to Berlin has been in
structed by his home government
to present a protest to Germany
against the Luxburg incident. Tha
grounds on which the protest • is
based pre that German officials
abused the confidence of Sweden.
kobnilofTwill
BE TRIED (IT
FRONT
Petrograd, Sept 20. — Former
commander in chief of tlie Russian
armies, General Korniloff, will be
court martialed at the front, and.
have a jury trial, instead of being
tried in Petrograd. ;
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