The Alaska citizen., 1916-05-15
GENERAL NEWS
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 fear ot any rupture in the diplo- ma,lc relations between the United States and Germany by carefully peuned goo word message addressed to the imperial German govern meur. forwarded this morning
 iu hls uo'- the President accepts Germany's declaration Of the aban douLent by the German submarines of the policy of warfare that has been pursued tn the past. IL is be leyed that by that Is meant that the Uuted States will expect Ger. many to refrain from attacking with u4t a i..r warming boats ttat are car rying passengers or boats that have Americans .Ened on a. members of the crew.
 The President takes Il for granted that Germany does not imply in the note sent 10 the United States that the German government will employ and follow strictly the pol icy announced i'll the note sent the United States contingent upon the result of negotiations with othe. nations.
 "BOW VOWS" FOR GERMANS.
 NEW YORK May S-Herbert Hoover. originator of the Belgium relief fund and he man to whose executive ability and business stand ms many BeIgians owe their very lives. reached this city today fol l,wIug toul ot Belgian territory. He states that the troops o1 the kaiser .n northern France have been forced 10 ca dog meat, no other meat beins obtainable al the time.
 APPOINTMENT MADE.
 WASHINGTON. D. C. May S- President Wilson today nominated Eugene Reed Of New Hamps hire for place on the Philippine commit tea l.e appointment will probably be confirmed by the senate without a fight
 FROST DAMAGES FRUIT.
 SAN FRANCISCO, May S.-Ad- vices received from the southern part of the state indicate that the frost which visited California last night did damage to the extent of over Sl000O00 to the fruit trees and flowers. IL .. believed that the loss will be even larger when the full reports are received.
 AUSTRIANS NOT TO BLAME.
 WASHINGTON. D. C., May H.- The American government is in re- ceipt of a communication from the Au.tF.au government in which the latter denies positively that the Rus sian bark Imperator which carried two Americans among her crew, was atachtd by an Aus rjan torpedo boat without warning. The Austri- ans assert that full and sutticien, warning was given the Russian bark. and that the crew had ample time to and cid escape.
 NEW MAN NAMED.
 WASHINGTON, D. C, May S.-- The new assistant secretary of war William lngraham, look up his du- tits this morning.
 GERMANS FIGHTING.
 NEW YORK. May S.-Robert Fay Walter Scholz and Paul Daeche were today indicted by the grand jury. The men are charged with conspiracy to destroy munition ships.
 Carl Luderilz, the German consul at Baltimore, was indicted for pro curing false passports.
 Von Goltz. Wolfe yon Igel, Walter Scheele and Franz von Rim elin were indicted for falsifying ships mani fest relative 10 a cargo of oil.
 All of the Germans will be de tended by the ablest attorneys that money can secure, and fund for their defense is already subscribed.
 CYMRlC IS LOSS.
 WASHINGTON, D. C., May g. United States Consul Frost, located a.. Queenstown, has reported to the state department the loss of the White Star liner Cymric. and the death of five members of the crew of the vessel There Were TOT men in the crew when the German tor pedo entered the side Of the ship. The explosion which followed caused the death of five Of these members. The remaining 1O2 made land in safety They landed at Bantry.
 Consul Frost states in his tele- gram to the state department that, as far as he has been able to as certain the liner was torpedoed 138 miles west of Fastnet. From the stories which he has heard he in fers that the vessel was struck with out warning, and that the presence of the submarine was not known unril after the boat was hit. The captain Ol tue NtNStl Hdo iiN' y'' made a statement, and the full de tails of the loss of the ship are not known to the public.
 NOTED AUTHORITY OPlNES.
 NEW YORK, May 9.-Rex Beach, the well known novelist, who re- gently returned from a visi to the Panama Canal, states that two or dinary battle cruisers would require but eleven hours to render the Pan ana canal absolutely worthless and to destroy the great wal erWay to such an extent as to render 1t ab' solutely useless. The author has made a careful study of the prep arations that the government has made to pro' ect the canal and be- ieves that an enemy, under present conditions, would have no trouble at all in permanently crippling the canal if it was necessary to do so. JAILED FOR SELLING BOOZE.
 SEATTLE, May 9.-Two women, proprietresses of hotels in this city, were sentenced to jail sentences for violating the dry law. The women were Rose Tarre and Mrs. Bessie Greenwald The police authorities appeared against the women, told of obtaining liquor on the premises. of a subsequent seizure of the goods, and of the arrest of the women The judge sentenced Rose Farre to IS, and Mrs. Greenwald to ten