The Seward gateway., October 14, 1916, Image 3

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NINE SHIPS SENE EO THE BOTTOM
AND SIB STOPS II. S. VESSEL
SHIPS SUNK OFF U. S.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9.—The British steamers
Stephano, Stratluiene, Westpoint and Kingston, the Du -
cti steamer Broomersdyk and the Norwegian ship Chi is -
ian Knudson have been sunk or crippled and three others
liave been reported sunk, apparently by Geiman submai
ines, oil' tlie east coast of the United States in the past
twentv-four hours, flic whole story is not yet known but
a tlotiila of American strips has been ordered out to rescue
the survivors. British cruisers arrived on the scene at(
2 this morning but no sign of the destroying vessels have
heen seen. President Wilson is said to be greatly con
cerned over the occurrence but there is nothing to indi
cate yet that any international complications might ensue.,
STOPS U. S. SHIP j
NEWPORT, Oct. i). — A still greater sensation was
eauseu touav when u was learned mat the German sub-;
marine U-53 stopped the United States steamer Kansan
southeast of Nantucket. Nothing more has been learned
of the event and the naval radio has been closed to press |
investigations so that very little can be found out unless,
what it announced from Washington. Captain 61111th of|
the Kansan says the submarine was without colors, it
was halt an hour before the same submarine encountered,
the Stratluiene which was sunk at six this morning.
Twentv of the Stratluiene s crew were rescued but ntteeuj
are stul missing. The Kansan says the Westpoint is sink-j
ing now and she is going to her aid sixty miles away, i he
Stephano was a ship 01 tin* Red Cross line. She was the
biggest of the ships sunk and carried forty-four first and
tortv second class passengers, tier crew numbeied eighty ,
Admiral Knight reports that American Destroyers res
cued all the passengers. i\Irs. Elsie \ anderbilt and other
society women are housing tlie people saved from the
wrecks. Four U. S. destroyers brought in two hundred;
and sixteen of the survivors yesterday.
tNote: It will be remembered by Gateway readers
1 hat the submarine which arrived in the L nited States last
Saturday before the sinking of the ships was learned of
was the U-53. This boat is now said to be the one that
held up the United States ship Kansan and if such is the'
case it places her in the belligerent class, which means,
, f course, that siie will not be regarded as a merchant-j
man like the Deutschland.)
TOOK SEVENTEEN DAYS ;
WASHINGTON, Oct. 8—Observers believe that the
arrival of the submarine with mail for Bernstorff has
some connection with the story that Gerard is on the way
from Berlin with peace proposals. l'he sub took only,
seventeen days to cross the Atlantic but she had aboard|
provisions for three months and many think she escorted:
the Bremen amt lett her outside some place. Commander,
Rose permitted the Associated Press correspondent to go|
aboard todav and even entrusted him with the mail for
Bernstorff, which was in one big single envelope. Rose |
,-s he had heavy seas during most of the trip until he:
came near Newfoundland but the trip was uneventful.
The submarine was investigated today and it was found
that her construction permitted two guns four and att
and four torpedo tubes. The commander was questioned
at length by the authorities and during the questioning he
remarked casually that he might never get home. Lieut- j
enant Waeker, the second in command, today accepted a;
silk flag of the Irish Republic from James O'Brien, a
leader in Irish circles. Taking the flag Waeker said he
would hoist it in honor of Ireland when he sank the next
British ship.
CREWS UN LOCATED
BOSTON, Oct. 9.—The whole country is amazed to
day by the news of the destruction of shipping right at
the doors of the United States by German submarines.
From the first reports it appears as if Germany had turn
ed her whole submarine arm to the task of' ravaging ship
ping in these waters. It is believed, however, that no lives
have been lost although the crew of the ship Kingston are
still missing.
BROUGHT OFFICIAL MAIL
NEWPORT, Rhode Island, Oct. 7.—Commander
Hans Rose, captain of the newly arrived German sub
marine, paid an official visit today to Rear Admiral Knight
at the Naragansett Bay naval station. Captain Rose says
he just put in to deliver the official mail for the German
ambassador and he declined to say whether he had come
to search for the Bremen or not.
SAW SUBMARINE NAME
NEWPORT, Oct. 9. — Mrs. Henry Wilson, of Wil
liamstown, Mass., who was a passenger on the Stephano
says that an officer of the vessel told her that he distinctly
saw through his glasses the name U-61 on the submarine
that sank the Stephano. The executive officer of the U.
S. Destroyer Ericson has returned from Nantucket and
reports that nine ships were sunk in the first swoop and
that three German submarines were operating.
THINK WHOLE FLOTILLA HERE
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9.—Officials express the opin
ion that too many torpedoes were used for the sinking of
the nine ships to make it seem possible that only one sub
marine was operating, and the opinion is that a flotilla of
undersea vessels are now in these waters from Germany.
PRESIDENT CONFERRING
LONGBRANCH, Oct. 9.—The officials are said to be
deeply concerned over the destruction of vessels by sub
marines in these waters and it is known that Count von
Bernstorff is to visit the President today although it is
I not known whether it is to talk about the submarines or
about the Polish relief. Wilson has also made an engage
ment with Jusserand, the French ambassador, for today.
The ship Strathdene was a vessel in the lumber trade
formerly between the Pacific coast and Australia.
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ALLIES ADVANCING
PARIS, Oct. 8.—By joint attacks the allies last night
advanced two thirds of a mile on the Somme. The British
also advanced a thousand yards between Gaudecourt and|
Lesbouefs.
ROUMANIANS CROSS AGAIN
ROME, Oct. 8.—Reports from Petrograd confirm the
news that the Roumanians have again crossed the Danube
and have repulsed the forces of Mackensen. No official
notice of this has been received.
ROUMANIANS WITHDRAW
BUCHAREST, Oct. 9.—The Roumanian armies that
invaded Transylvania, it is admitted, have been with
drawn all the way from Hermanstadt to Brasso to the
Carpathain frontier to defend the passes into Roumania
against an Austrian invasion.
STOC KS DROP
NEW YORK, Oct. 9.—Stocks declined three to seven
points today as a result of the submarining of toe snips oi.
this coast.' The situation is regarded as very serious.
GREEK FLEET JOINS
ROME, Oct. 9.—The entire Greek fleet has joined the
allies and is now actually in a state of war with the Cent
ral Powers.
TRANSPORT SHIP MINED
PARIS, Oct. 9.—The transport ship Gallia with muni
tions and two thousand Serb and French soldiers was sunk
two days ago by a mine in the Mediterranean. Nearly all
the soldiers are believed to have been drowned.
SERBS ADVANCING
LONDON, Oct. 7—The Serbs have reached within
sixteen miles east of Monastic and are reported to be still
advancing. Reports from Sofia are that the Russo-Rou
manian attacks in Dobrudja have been futile. This even
ing's word from the Somme front shows that things are
quiet there.
DENY GERARD STORY
BERLIN, Oct. 8.—The officials say the story that Am
bassador Gerard is on the way to the United States with
peace proposals is unfounded.
TEUTONS CAPTURE KRONSTADT
BERLIN, Oct. 8.—The Teutonic allies have recaptur
ed Kronstadt in Transylvania and are now progressing
fast in that theatre while the Roumanians are falling back
faster than they advanced in the beginning.
REPEATS GERARD STORY
NEW YORK, Oct. 7—Charles Sabine, president of
the Guaranty Trust, has reiterated the story that Ambas
sador Gerard is really on the way across with proposals
for peace from the Kaiser. Sabine says he makes this
statement to safeguard Wall Street.
SITUATION GRAVE
LONG BRANCH, Oct. 10.—Lansing and Wilson are
discussing today the whole question arising from the sub
marining of ships off the American coast and it is believed
the situation is grave. Ambassador Bernstorff visited the
President today and spent fifteen minutes with him but
they spoke only of the question of Polish relief and the
conference was quite friendly. Bernstorff said nothing of
ficial on the question of the submarines. The President
has, however, cancelled his engagement to be present at
the third game of the world’s baseball series and will hold
a conference today with Secretary of the Navy Daniels.
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U. S. SUBS. ON THE SPOT
NEWPORT, Oct 10.—It is reported today that the
American submarines arrived on the scene of the shipping
disasters so quickly that they were once so thick as to
make it necessary for the commander of a German sub
marine to ask them to make way for him. Some American
submarine sailors say the crews of the sunk ships were
given full time to escape. Later accounts indicate that
only five ships were sunk altogether and that the U-53 was
responsible. The fact that the U-53 had the nerve to put
in at an American port when it was actually engaged in
work of destruction is the sensation.
LINES CANCEL SAILINGS
NEW YORK, Oct. 10.—The British consul general re
ports that the Germans sank the Strathdene and the
Knudsen without warning. He asserts that the German
submarine commander even refused to talk. Shots were
fired by the submarine at the Strathdene and when the
crew took to the boats the submarine turned its attention
to the Knudsen and again later came back and finished off
the Strathdene which it had disabled. At about the same
time the Kingston was sunk and its crew has not yet been
located. Five Trans-Atlantic lines cancelled their sailings
today in fear of destruction by submarines which are still
Wet to be hovering off the coast. The Cunard line and
the French and Italian lines still continue their sailings
I and more disasters are expected to be heard of today.
ANOTHER GERMAN SORMARINE
COMES TO THE UNITED STATES
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ADMIRAL LINE LO
SPREAD FURTHER
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 9.—President
Alexander of the merged steamship
lines announced today that he is now
negotiating for a merger or a work
ing agreement with the Atlantic,
Gulf and West Indies Steamship Com
pany with a view to inaugurating a
Pacific steamship inter-costal service
via the Panama canal. It has also
been learned that President Galen
Stone of the Atlantic Line was as
sociated with Alexander in the recent
consolidation.
YUKON MINING MAY
CHANGE BY NEW SYSTEM
LONDON, Sept. .'10.—Advices were
today cabled to the White Pass & Yu
kon railroad at Skagway, Alaska, that
evyry effort be made to get in before
the close of navigation a 270 ton ship
ment of dredging machinery consign
ed to A. N. Treadgold, of Dawson, Y.
T. This machinery carries a device
for placer workings which it is claim
ed will revolutionize the Klondike
mining.—Ex.
FROZEN FISH FROM LAKE
IN ALASKA ALIVE
PORTLAND, Ore. — Swimming
cheerfully in a hotel bathtub today
are seven Alaska fish which spent
eight months frozen solid in a block
of ice. S. R. Brebner, representative
of a salmon packing company, is
authority for the statement that the
fish were thawed out of natural cold
storage. He says they are *a species
that inhabit lakes in the vicinity of
Nushagak, Alaska.
FLOOR GOKS IT TO
A VERY HIGH PRICE
The representative of the Fisher
Flour Mills Company who is in Sew
ard received a cable today advising
him that the flour market has ad
vanced another 40 cents a harts* I al
though flour is generally lower at this
time of the year. The price has now
reached the highest mark for the year
1916.
CHRIS VIAVICH SHOT CHRIS
VAVICH DOWN AT DOUGLAS
DOUGLAS, Sept. oO.— Just before
12 o’clock today there was a shooting
scrape in the Victor Bar on rront
street when Chris Viavich took one
shot at Chris Vavich. Fortunately
the bullet struck the pocket of Vavich
in which was a bunch of silver coins,
the result being that the latter was
practically uninjured by the bullet ex
cept for a bruise, the money stopping
the force of the ball.
Viavich was immediately arrested
and taken to jail. He is an elderly
man and has a bad reputation. He
had been drinking heavily for several
days. Roth Viavich and Vavich are
Slavonians.
Chris Vavich, the man shot, is a
brother of Nick Vavich who former
ly conducted the Victor bar who died
in Oregon early in June having gone
there for his health three weeks pre
vious to his death.
Chris Vavich, although an American
citizen left here more than a year
ago for his old home in Europe and
while there enlisted in the war. He
was shot twice while in service, once
in the hand anil once in the mouth.
At the time of the latter wound he
was behind a stump and the ball pass
ed through a portion of the stump and
through his check. By that time its
force was spent anil Vavich says he
just spit the bullet out the same al
though it had been a chew of tobacco.
After spending a few months in the
war he was released through the in
tervention of the American consul.
He returned to America, coming on to
Douglas about three months ago.
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INDIAN, HEATHEN FOR 128
YEARS, CHANGES HIS FAITH
CASS LAKE, Minn., Oct. 5.—Ka
be-na-gi-wes, an Indian chief said to
be 128 years old and a heathen all
that century and a quarter, won’t be
buried in the Spirit I>and of the Chip
pewas’ Happy Hunting Ground, he de
clared today. He has taken the name
i of John Smith, and turned Christian.
GERARD HAS PEACE PLEA
CHICAGO, Oct. 7. — The Post published on what it
calls the most trustworthy authority the story that Ger
ard, the American ambassador to Germany, is now on
the way hurrying to the United States and will arrive on
i'uesday bringing a peace plea from the kaiser to Presi
dent Wilson. The Post is the only paper to publish the
story, however.
KNOWS NOTHING OF GERARD
WASHINGTON, Oct. 7.—President Wilson says he
knows nothing about the rumored tfip of Gerard with a
peace plea but he states that he has an engagement with
Ambassador Bernstorlf today to take up the question of
Polish relief.
GERMAN SUBMARINE ARRIVES
NEWPORT NEWS, Oct. 7.—The German submarine
ij-53 arrived here today after being seventeen days out
from Wilhelmshaven, Germany. Her arrival was entirely
unexpected. She is believed to be a regular submarine of
the fighting kind but the official description has not yet
been given out.
SLAVS LOST Sl\ MILLION
IiliRLlN, Oct. 7. — Conservative estimates made by
Danish oMicials give the number of the Russian losses in
two years as six million men. The losses of the Slavs in
recent lighting have been horrible. At Koryuitza, tor in
: stance, our troops advanced over veritable mountains ol
Russian dead and had to step from body up to body as on
’ steps of stairs.
RUSSIANS ATTACK VIOLENTLY
LONDON, Oct. 7.—The Russians have now been at
tacking for thirty-six hours continuously on the eastern
front and the attacks are described as the most violent
since the beginning of the war. The chief fighting is tak
ing place near Kary, Truca and Zublino on a fifty kilo
i meter front. The Germans used sixty thousand shells in
i the lighting there in the time stated.
ROUMANIANS RECROSS
LONDON, Oct. 7.—The Roumanian army at places,
it is reported, recrossed the Danube into Roumania witli
; out the loss of a single man after the first great disaster.
They also succeeded in destroying Bulgarian depots.
BRITISH ADVANCING
LONDON, Oct. 7. — The British advanced east of
Eaucourt last night. Fighting with artillery and gas pro
ceeded south of A acre but no other activities are reported
m that quarter this morning. On the Macedonian front
j the British have succeeded m re-crossing the Strumna
river and have occupied Nevolyen.
NICHOLAS FOR DOBRUDJA
STOCKHOLM, Oct. 7.—It is reported on good auth
ority that the Grand Duke Nicholas has been transferred
from the command in Asia Minor to the command of the
Russians and Roumanians on the Dobrudja front which is
regarded of greater importance.
ROUMANIANS RETIRED
BERLIN, Oct. 7.—Falkenhayn has retired the Rou
manian army behind the river Aluta in Transylvania.
This means that they have been driven far south of Her
manstadt and close to their own border again. It is ad
mitted officially that the British have crossed the Strumna
river in Macedonia.
FRENCH FIGHTHING
PARIS, Oct. 7.—Violent fighting is proceeding south
of Monastir, Serbia. Last night, the official announce
ment this morning says, we made a slight advance east
of Bouchavesnes.
RUSSIANS TAKE POSITIONS
PETROGRAD, Oct. 7—The Russians yesterday cap
tured positions south of Brzezany.
RUSSIANS DEFEATING MACKENSEN
PETROGRAD, Oct. 7. — The official announcement
was made here today that the Russians have defeated
Mackensen in Dobrudja and have occupied Karabka and
Besaul and the heights between. Counter attacks by the
Bulgarians and Germans were repulsed with heavy losses
and tigTiing is still going on. Enemey counters are also
j reported to have been repulsed in the Zlota region and at
j Shibalin. Brusilloff is now evidently preparing for a re
| newal of his offensive on a larger scale than ever.
GREECE STILL SILENT
ROME, Oct. 7—The Greek government is still silent
as to its future course of action but the Venizeloists are
apparently satisfied that a decision will be arrived at in
a few days.
TO AID FRENCH SUFFERERS
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 7.—W. A. Clark, Jr., is keep
ing a fund of two million dollars to aid the sufferers in
France after the war.
ITALIANS TAKE POSITIONS
ROME, Oct. 7. — The Italians have taken a strong
position from the Austrians at Dolomites, it is officially
announced.
DOUBT ABOUT KINGSTON
NEW YORK, Oct. 10.—There is a doubt now whether
any vessel such as the Kingston was attacked at all by a
German submarine. The vessel is not registered and the
failure to find any sign of her or her crew has caused the
belief that the rumor of her destruction might not be well
• founded at all.