DOlNGC AMONG CHINESE,
JAPANESE AND RUSSIANS
PEIPING.—A Chinese division un
der the command of General Yang
Yi Cho has occupied Lulung, in the
Euan river triangle, attacked and
captured Liuchiakow, and is engaged
in battle with the Japanese for the
possession of Chienchangy, a com^
munique issued by General Ho Ying
Ching. war minister, said today. The
Japanese military machine has sud
denly reversed itself in occupying
strategic positions within the 250
square-mile Luan triangle of China
proper. Long Japanese columns ad
vanced behind artillery and airplane
bombardment into territory they had
begun evaeuatinig earlier in the
week.
HARBIN, Manchuria. — Forceful
blockade of the International railroad
stations at Pogranichnaya and Man
chuli will shortly be enforced by
Manchukio, it was announced today
after a stormy meeting of Chinese
Eastern Railway directors. The dras
tic step was made more ominous by
reported concentration of Manchu and
Japanese troops on one side of the
Manchuria-Siberian border and sim
ilar soviet concentrations on the
other side.
MOSCOW.—Word that Manchou
kuo officially disputed Moscow’s sole
Dr. C. D. Carter
DENTIST
Will return to McGrath early
in the summer, after which he
will visit Takotna and Ophir.
Will {be in Flat about the mid
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ownership o fthe Chinese Eastern
Railway in Manchuria today added
fuel to the Russo-Japanese war talk
here. The Soviet Union’s ownership
of the railway in North Manchuria,
center of the controversy, hitherto
had been unchallenged.
PEIPING.—Japanese troops start
ed a terrific ocensive against Chinese
troops entrenched at Nankenmet,
north of Peiping, today, and threat
ened to continue on to Peiping if the
Chinese counter-attacked Japanese
troops in the Luan triangle. The
other sector of the Nipponese mili
tary operations in China proper con
tinued their withdrawal. The Luan
triangle is east of Peiping.
ALASKA APPOINTMENTS
COMING UP WITHIN MONTH
JUNEAU.—Territorial Committee
man Connors, who returned here re
cently from Washington, states that
he made the following recommenda
tions to President Roosevelt and ex
pects the appointments will be made
within a month. Mr. Conners, it is
understood, is slated to become Alas
ka’s next collector of eustoms:
First Division—Judge, Simon Hel
lenthal; Hugh O’Neill cmfw vk gkqq
lenthal; William Holzheimer, district
attorney; William T. Mahoney, U. S.
marshal.
Second Division—O. D. Cochran,
judge; Hugh O’Neill, district attor
ney; Thomas Gaeney, U. S. marshal.
Third Division — Harry Morton,
judge; William Whittlesey, district
attorney; C. J. Todd, U. S. marshal.
Fourth Division—J. Harry Pratt,
judge; Ralph Rivers, district attor
ney; Joseph McDonald, U. S. mar
shal.
Magistrate—And why do you think
I should be lenient with you ? Is this
your first offense?
Prisoner—No, your worship, but
it’s my lawyer’s first case.—Answers
(London).
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grave and A. B. Blue.
BARCEIiONA.—A general trans
portation strike paralyzed Barcelona
today.
FOLSOM PRISON, Calif.—A. C.
Burke, under sentence from Merced
county, today committed suicide by
placing his head under the wheel of
a large prison truck loaded with rock.
I He was killed instantly. Fellow con
i victs told Warden Court Smith they
! noticed Burke working near the back
of the truck, but were unable to stop
him when he threw himself beneath
the wheels.
LONDON.—Thousands of gallons
of rum blazed in the Thames river
today. It came from the West India
rum docks, and was completely de
stroyed during the night in London’s
most spectacular fire in years. Dam
age was estimated at $15,400/100.
Firemen estimated the fire would
burn for three days.
LOS ANGELES.—Claiming that
she was deceived and coerced into
signing a property agreement with
her former husband, Jack White, mo
tion picture producer, Pauline Starke,
actress, today filed suit to set aside
the settlement. Miss Starke com
plained she was led to believe her
husband could break her in the mo
tion picture industry if she did not
sign the agreement. The actress
asked invalidation of the property
agreement and division of community
property, which she valued at $250,
000.
COSENZA, Italy.—A French hy
droplane, which was wrecked on Sun
day while en route from Corfu to
Italy with eight tpersons aboard, was
found today in five inches of snow in
the mountains. Three persons were
round alive, weakened by exposure
and starvation in the frigid cabin of
the wrecked plane. The other five
were found dead underneath.
DETROIT.—-A suit to collect $500
was filed in common pleas court here
today against Mayor Frank Murphy,
appointee to the governor-general
ship of the Philippine Islands. The
suit charges that.Mr. Murphy failed
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