Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-03-09
NEWS OF THE DAY

! ChlneSe premier Se'eial uaSS "So
and proceeded to Tientsin, returned
to Picking yesterday and conferred
with the cabinet and the president,
A compromise has been reached SO
that parliament may decide whether
China shall break off relations with
Germany and join the entente. Inc
foreign minister now is approaching
all the ministers of the entente and
asking the conditions under which
tho entente will jointly accept China
as an ally.
A dispatch from Amsterdam last
might said it was reported in dis
matches from Berlin that Count Fey
dinand Won Zeppelin, famous dirigi-
ole inventor, died yesterday morning
1T Cesarlottenburg, near Berlin, from
a lung affection.
After a long, weary voyage, the
| Iredcrik VIII, which count Johann
| Won Bernstorff and the dismissed re-
representatives of Germany in the
| United States on board, yesterday
hove in sight Of the Farce Islands on
the passage to Europe. The ships
officers declared that the Frederic
VIII would be at Christiania today
and would deck at Copenhagen, where
! Count Won Bernstorff and his party
will lcave the ship on Saturday.
The traction companies Of WASH
ington have refused to recognize the
employees union and last night it was
rumorcd that an army of strike
breakers was on the way to the city.
The employees will meet at midnight
tonight at the Lyceum Thcater, ana
feeling is general that the moiormen
and conductors will vote to strike I'M
less the company meets the demands
contained in the new working schcd-
ulc to become operative after March
III.
Yesterday school authorities or
Newark. n. j., are investigating u
strike by school children in public
school here against singing 'Ihe
Star Spangled Banner When the
teacher announced that the pupils
would sing the national anthem, the
school children sat in sullcn silence,
THE school is located in district
largely inhabited by Gcrman-AmerI-
cans. Social and civic leaders are
greatly incensed against the action
of the scholars and are demanding
drastic action by school authorities.
George ". Guthrie, American Am
bassador to japan since 1913, died
suddenly OF apopleXy yesterday
at Tokyo.
Evidence designed to show that
Dr.. Chandre Chakraberty, a Hindu
physician, and Ernest Sekunna,a Ger
man chemist, received more than $50,
900 from Wolf ven igc!, member
CT the staff of Count Won BernStorI,
former German Ambassador in tie
| United States, upon the order OF d..
Alfred Zimmerman, German Foreign
Minister, with which to fonent re-
bcllion in India, was reported last
night to have been presented 20 Q
special Federal grand jury in New
York.
Joseph B. Conner, past grand char
cellor and past supreme representa-
tive of the Knights of Pythias of the
District of Columbia, died yesterday
afternoon, at. George Washington
University Hospital, Washington,
where he had been i'll Tor sevcrat
weeks.
Seven hundred thousand dollars Tor
one snow storm is some bill, but that
is what New York ciIy will have to
pay for one old Father Wintcd serv-
ed up to the city, not q Ia carte. This
particular snow storm started last
Thursday and, with only a. few inter-
missions, kept up until Tuesday. in
fact, statistics show that this storm
will go down as the most expensive
OF the winter, and may take c.ose to
81 100000 out of the citys pocket
book before the last vestigc has been
removed.
Gen. Jose Miguel Gomez, formenter
Of the present revolution in Cuoa,
has been captured, together with his
entire staff. With its leader and his
chief licutehants prisoners. the back
b,nc of the revolution is regarded as
broken.
A movement to oppose the custom
of display of new attire on Easter
was begun in Chicago Wednesday by
1875 officers of the Christian EndeaTaT
Union. The use of this day for sar-
torial display was deplcreG on gen
cral principles, but particularly ne
cause Of the European war.
Germany threatened General Car
rama with '.thc most Formidable re-
yolution he had ever lsno"ia," II he
,,I IN ro5l.a war. on the united