QNo. 282 EIGHTEENTH YEAR SKAtfWAY, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1915 PRICE 10 CENTS
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UNITED SMS HONEYCOMBED IY SPIES
GERMANY SHORT OF WEN 10
HOLD 6ALKANS_AGAINST ALLIES
• Kitchener to Personally Plan Campaign
—Russians Invade Rumania and
Threaten Attack on Railway—Many
Austrian Newspapers Suspended.
Loudon, Xov. 12—Premier As
Quith stated before tlie 6ession of
the House o£ Commons last night
th it Lord Kitchener had not ten
dered his resignation* either to the
Kin*; nor to himself.
In his speech. Lord Asquith stat
bd that Germany- did not have suf
ficient men in the field who could
be taken from critical points to
60lid to the Balkana Lord Kitch
ener u expected to arrive within a
short time in the Balkans, and will
personally conduct the campaign.
London, Nov, 12—Advices re
ceived today state that the Rus
sian forces had successfully in
vaded Rumania along the Danube
river. The forces had disembarked
at Sllistia, and are now threaten
ing the railroad between Varna and
Rustchufc.
Fifty-five Austrian provincial pa
pers have bean suspended by or
der of the authorities, owing to
the comments which they printed in
regard to the food conditions.
Petrograd, Xov. 12—An anor
H23Us Kussiun force is reported to
ha*e succeeded in crushing the
Teuioa defense and are now with
in tcrty miles of Teiieran.
Advices claim that already great
majtfts of the German, Turkish a»d
Austrian forcea are leaving. The
Shaw It is Boid is preparing to
lie®.
CKKMANY >LVV STOP
E XPORTS TO AMERICA
W.isLlrgton, Nov. 11—Unofficial
information. has reached Washing
ton that Germany proposes to stop
ivll i>pxorts from the country. Ameri
can-owped goods made in. Germany
and Austria, valued at $150,000,
000, may be permitted to come
through under special permits if
proof is offered that the goods
were bought and paid for prior to
March 1, 1915.
SICKNESS RETIRES
78,000 SOLDIERS
Loudon, Not. 12—That stories of |
excessive sickness among the.
troops on the Galllpoll peninsula j
had not been overdrawn was re
vealed today Ln the House of Com
mons by Harold J. Tennajit, par
liamentary under secretary for war,
who Informed the house that approx
imately 78,000 officers and men had
been removed from the peninsula ooi
account of sickness between April
25 and October 20.
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SAGRIFICEO_ IN JCONA WRECK
State Department Considers Situation
Very Grave—Two Submarines Said
To Have Shelled Boat Without
Warning*
Washington, Nor. 12—The de
partment of state looks upon the at
tack on the steamer Ancona with
great severity, and Secretary Lan
sing saya that the situation is very
grnvo. Nothing will be done until
tin department is In possession of
full data as to paallculars in the
disaster, whereby It is known that
a number of Americans lost their
lives.
Rome, Nov. 12—It is now defin-'
itely known that only two hundred
and twenty-five lives, out of a to
tal lis« of passengers and crew
numbeiir.p- four hundred and twenty*
el.^bt were saved when the steam
er Ancona was torpedoed off the
copsi of Tunis last Wednesday.
Papebon, Tunis, Nov. 12—Several
survivors from the wrecked ship
Ancona arrived in this place today.
They came in lifeboats. It is
claimed by these survivors that
th« Ancona was attacked by two
submarines and that the vessel was
shelled before any notice what
soever was given the officers or
passengers that an attack was
planned.
BELGIANS MAKE
APPEAL 10 POPE
IlOme, via Parifl, No*. 18— r*opo
Benedict has received a number of
letters from Belgian clergymen and
members of tie church. In Belgium,
imploring him to aid in saving a
number of persons -who have been
condemned to death or to serve long
♦eims of imprisonment
One letter calculates that sen
tences aggregating over 10,000
years of Imprisonment have been
pronounced since Belgium was oc
cupied by the Germans.
GEIMIS
COPPER SUPPLY
Berlin, via London, Nov. 11—One
nf the secondary results of the
Serbisn campaign Is to give Ger
many and Austria control of a
good copper mine from which to re
plenish their supplies of the much
needed metal.
The German troops reached the
mlno last week and tlieir command
er telegraphed to Berlin asking that
mining englneeers be sent and also
shipments of coke so that the opera
tion of the mine might be resumed
immediately.
WILL LLECI
, NEW CHAMBER
Alht.no, Not. IB"
of Deputies have been dissolved,
' and a new election set for December
19, 1315.
The Canadian Klondyke com
pany's fine large steam generating
and heating plant at Bear creek
was burned to the ground early"'
ihia afternoon. The fire started in
the roc' trom one of the three
laigp smokestacks leading from the
tlire,. big boilers Inside the build
ing.
According to tho account of the
fi:e ;is printed in the Dan-son News
of Oct. 29th, the details ;ire as
follows:
Tho company had a fine pump
inj plant inside the building, but
the flames spread so rapidly they
almost immediately onveloned the
entire plant, and the pumps could
nof be used. A large force of men
turned out, but could avail little.
'n addition to the lose of the
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Austrc -Hungarian Consul Tells
of German Plans for
Destruction of American
Munition Plants and Naval
Stations.
Providence, R. I,, Nov. 12—Dr.
Joseph Coricar, a prominent official
in *no .Austro-Hungarian consula'rser
vice for the past fifteen yearfi, to
c'ay maJe a signed statement, which
I was printed in the Daily Journal
of tbia city in which he states that
America is honeycombed with Ger
man and Austrian spies.
Ha states that the spies are
working directly under orders from
General Bernstorff and Consul Gen
eral von Xuber. Every Hungarian
consular in America Is the center
of a l-ropoganda for tbe destruction
of American munition fact>rls6 and
are instrumental In the creation of
strikes and labor differences.
He declares that when he was in.
San Francisco he received Instruc
tions to obtain plans of the defense
of the entire Pacific coast, the op
erations of the nayy yards and to
report on any activity that might bo
going on in the construction of
boats to be used . by the United
States navy.
When he failed to carry out
thes'j orders, he" was summoned to
Berlin *nd before he could do so
be was ordered to report at Vienna.
; Knowing that he would be Im
prisoned for not having followed or
ders, or that he would bo shot as
a traitor, he wedt to Rome and
from there sent in his resignation
ou the twentieth day of December,
1914. He then came hack to Ameri
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AD1INISTRATI0N PL® TO
^ RAISE DEFENBEii FUNDS
Washington, Nov. 12—The signed
statement printed in the Daily Jour
nal has caused a sensation in the
Department o£ Justice. It. was de
cided to immediately hegin an in
vestigation which would he of the
most thorough character.
The administration plans for a
double Income tax, the retention ol
the special war tax, and a tax will
be levied on a" ueigui, »—«
while gasoline will be replaced on
tbe special war tax schedule. The
purpose is for raising of money
tthleli will be used to carry out
plans for defense in case of war.
DIG l l» DRUGS OX BORDER;
TWO ARE ARRESTED
Seattle, Nov. 10—Special treas
ury agents today dug up in, the
lia'.-U yard of a house in Blaine, on
the Canadian border, 58 package
o' cocaine and 37 packages of
morphine, valued at several thous
and dollars.
The agents also arrested Norman
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