The Alaska citizen., 1916-01-03
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COPENHAGEN, Dec. 27.-Gover- nor L. B. Hanna, of North Dakota is confined to his hotel with a seri ous illness, and it is possible that he will not be able to rejoin the Ford peace party, of which he is one of the original members.
 PEACE PARTY BARRED.
 COPENHAGEN, Dec. 27-The Danish government has announced that it will prohibit the members of the Ford peace commission from holding any meetings here Cover nor Hanna of North Dakota, has arrived here, suffering from la grippe
 IS VERY SICK MAN.
 Hanna, of North Dakota, has sev- cred his connection with the Ford peace party on account of bad health He has fever at the present time, which, it Is believed, will turn out to be typhoid.
 u. S. MAIL SEIZED.
 BERLIN, Dec. 28-In report coming from Rotterdam and made public through the channels of the German war office, it was announced today that the British warships had seized the Dutch steamship Nieuw Amsterdam and the Norwegian steamship Christian Nichelsen and taken from these neutral vessels the mail of the United States.
 AUSTRIA STUBBORN.
 GENEVA, Dec. 29.-The latest in formation from Vienna is to the eff feet that the Austrian government is most stubborn regarding the re- ply to the American note. The first American note was drafted in Der lin, it is claimed on the best au thority. but the reply to the second note will be drafted in Vienna and will be entirely different in context and tenor.
 MIME. sCHWiMMER. STOCKHOLM, Dec. 29-Madame Schwimmer, one of the moving spir- its of the Ford peace expedition. abandoned the party today dis agreement with some of the mem bers of the party being the primary cause of her action.
 RATES RAISED.
 LONDON, Dec. 30.-It was for mally announced today by Lloyds that hereafter vessels going through the Suez canal will be charged three times the rate that was charged heretofore. The German activity in Africa and the presence of German and Austrian submarines in the Med iterranean sea are the reasons as signed for the increase in insurance rates.
 The increase in rates becomes ef- fective immediately.
 NEW VlCEROY. WINNIPEG, Dec. BOA special cablegram received in this city from London today states that the Rt. Hon. Lewis Harcourt has resigned his portfolio in the coalition cabinet, to accept the viceroyship of India. which has been rendered him. WRECKED BY QUAKE. SAN SALVADOR, Dec. 31.-The towns of Talgut, La Sulores and San Sebastian, Honduras, were complete | ly destroyed by an earthquake on Thursday The details received are meager, and the total loss of life is unknown, but it is believed to have been heavy.
 AsToR MADE PEER. LONDON, Dec. 31.-Waldorf As tor has been made a peer by King George. The conferring of the title on the expatriated American is con- sidered the fulfillment of the ambi- tion which brought him to England sixteen years ago to become Brit ish subject. There is no one able to recall a former instance of an American becoming a British peer. | DANGER OVER. | VIENNA, Dec. 31.-Oflcials of the Austrian government today express ed the belief that all danger of rup- ture of diplomatic relations with the United States over the AncOna incident has been avoided by the concession made by this govern ment.