The Alaska citizen., 1916-07-24
INTERNATIONAL NEWS BY WIRE
SCIENTIST DIES.

SCIENTIST DIES.
 PARIS, July l7.-Professor Hi, Metchnikoif the famous bacteriolo gist. died here yesterday of heart disease at the age of Il His hobby was the prolongation of life. and he advocated the use of sour milk by all who wish to attain an advanced age.
 WILL NAME THEM.
 LONDON, July 17.-Tomorrow the British government vii publish the names of the eight American trade firms with which Engli5hmen are forbidden to trade.
 ENGLAND BANKRUPT.
 LONDON, July 17-Reginald Me Kenna, chancellor of the eXchequer reports that the government is spending about $50 0O0,oO0 a day He says that the British govern ments borrowing power is exhaust ed, and that unless something is done by Thursday England will face bankruptcy.
 MISSIONARIES KILLED
 TOKYO, July 17.-ReV. w. A. F. Campbell and his wife, two Canadian missionaries, were stabbed to death by burglars at their summer cot tage at Karuiazawa.
 WANT CONFIDENCE VOTE.
 LONDON July 1S.-The German general staff is asking for a vote of confidence. declaring that never in history were such battles fought or such hardships Withstood by men as during the past few months of the war.
 VISITING THE FRONT.
 PARIS, July 1S.-President Poin- care and General Pierre Roques, the minister of war. are visiting the troops on the Mouse and Somme fronts.
 HOLIDAYS POSTPONED
 LONDON, July 18.-By organized labor 1t has been voted to postpone order that the workers may speed up the output of munitions of war
 WILL RESUME SERVICE.
 LONDON, July 1S,-The Pacific Mail Steamship company has an nounced that it will resume it's ser vice between San Francisco and the Orient on August 19 with three ships. The company suspended it's service when the recently passed Seamens act became operative, as sorting that the terms of the law were such as to compel such action
 QUAKE DESTROYS TOWN.
 LONDON, July 18.-The seaport town of Plume, Austria, about forty miles to the southeast of Trieste, Is reported to have been partly de stroyed by an earthquake. The town has a population of about 3O,000
 TO HELP SOLDIERS.
 PARMA, July 19.-A society of women are giving up thcir skin to diers. They are submitting to surei- cal operations today to have the skin removed from their thighs. It will then be sent to the various hospitals throughout the country.
 HISTORIAN WAR VICTIM.
 LONDON, July 2O.-Sir Hugh Gun life, the official historian of the Boer war, is victim of the enc my's bullets according to the an nouncement made by the British war office. The well known Englishman was fighting with the British in France and lost his life in the German advance on the Delville wood.
 NEW JAP AMBAssADoDR
 TOKYO, July 2O-The Japanese foreign office today announced that Aimaro Sato had been appointed Japanese ambassador to the United States and stated that the diplomat would leave his native land for Washington early in September
 Aimaro Sato was the secretary to the Japanese legation at Washing ton 25 years ago. He likewise served as secretary of the Portsmouth peace conference. The new dipplomat knows the United States very well having spent several years in Am erica.
 FISHERMEN DROWNED
 LONDON, July 20.-Word was re- ceived here today that two hundred the coast of Colombo Ceylon. dur ing big storm.
 ANOTHER LOAN
 LONDON, July 2l.-lne report mas reached this city that the Russian is about to attempt to float another $100000 900 loan in the United States, It is believed here that practically all arrange ments have been made to secure the money from big Wall street firm of bankers.
 SEIZE A STEAMER
 LONDON, July 21.-The British in a statement issued to- day states that the American tank schooner Prinz Valdemar, bound from the United States to Sweden with a cargo of oil has been seized by the German cruisers. The schoOn- ar is owned by George w McNear of San Francisco, one of the firms