The Alaska citizen., 1916-07-31
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 NEWS BY WIRE
GROWN PRINCE FLIES.

GROWN PRINCE FLIES.
 AMSTERDAM, July 24-The Ger man crown prince made his first aerOplane flight yesterday. according to reports reCieved in this city The dispatch received here states that the heir to the German throne made the trip for the purpose of survey ing the French lines and to pie ture in his mind the lay of the French positions so as to be able to intelligently lead his forces against the enemy in new giant offensive which the Germans will shortly launch on the western front
 NOTHING FOR IRELAND.
 LONDON, July 24.-Premier As quith announces that the Irish Home Rule bill will not be introduced in the British house this year. and tHat there can be. for the present no definite date fixed for the intro duction of the measure. owing to the war.
 INTEREST ONLY
 BUDAPEST, July 24,-It was an nounced here today that Hungary. to pay the interest on the four war loans which it has made since the beginning of the great conflict will have to raise the enormous sum of S75,000,OO0 during the next veal Taxes will be very high as ar esult
 CHEMIST DIES.
 LONDON, July 24-Sfr William Ramsey, noted chemist who has done much for science and for the British empire. died today after an illness of many months
 BASEMENT DIES SOON
 LONDON, July 25.-Unless King George interferes, Sir Roger Case ment, the Irish patriot convicted of treason, will be hanged on the third day of next month The king alone can save him.
 STRICKEN BY HURRICANE.
 MADRID July 24-The villages of Torreon and Ateca were wiped off the map today by a terrific hur- ricane which swept through the pro Vinces of Saragossa, Coria, Nalle- dolid, Leon Ponte and Vedra Spe- cial legislation has already been en. acted to render aid to the stricken community.
 Telegraphic communication with the district visited by the storm is impossible, but 1t has been ascer- tained definitely that forty people in one town lost their lives in the hurricane.
 M'CLURE ORDERED OUT.
 LONDON, July 26.-The British government has ordered Dr s. s Mcclure. at one time the owner oi McClure's magazine, and now head of the sam S Mcclure Syndicate. D,it, in, h., American publisher and author has penned article which the British gov ernment considers detrimental to the interests of Great Britain, and he must accordingly return on Sunday on the boat which he arrived on from the United States
 NOVELIST ARRESTED.
 LONDON, July Baroness Bet tina von Hutten the well known au- thoress, whose novels are among the "best sellers most of the time. was arrested in this city today because she travelled five miles from her home without getting a permit from the authorities to do so.
 The baroness protested when she was arrested, stating that she was American born and that permit was not necessary in that case. She was Betty Riddle, of Philadelphia, before her marriage.
 SUBMARINES ACTIVE.
 LONDON, July 27.-German sub marines have started war on tim Der laden vessels in the North sea. Four Norwegian vessels have al ready been destroyed there.
 MERCHANT CAPTAIN SHOT.
 BERLIN, July 2S,-Capt. Charles Fryatt, of the Great Eastern railway company's steamship Brussels, which vessel with the crew was captured by German destroyers last month and taken to Zeebrugge, has been executed by being stood up against wall and rfled with bullets after man Courtmartial.
 The death sentence was passed upon the brave English officer be- cause it was alleged that he had previously attempted to ram a Ger man submarine with his ship Fry att was enroute from Rotterdam to Tilbury when captured. The British admiralty had decorated him and he had received a gold watch for his brave conduct on the high seas.
 IS PATRIOTIC.
 OTTAWA, July 2S.-W F. Baldie, of Hamilton, Ontario, president of the Canadian Cartridge company. has returned to the Canadian gov ernment s750000 which he made on war contracts,