Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-02-10
NEWS OF THE DAY.

j Seyenty.fve vessels with tota
Homage of 150;478 have been sunk
i by German submarines since the Ger.
i man declaration Of "barred zones,
4 on February l.. :
! A Madrid dispatch says that the
1 German government has announced
\ that it grants a further delay OF AZ
; hours for neutral ships at sea tore
! gain neutral ports.
4 The Eastern Shore Of Maryland is
4 isolated by water route from Baltl-
\ more because of the ice, which is
from ten to eighteen inches thick on
/ the upper part of the Chesapeake
Bay.
| After a long series of negotiations
Germany has consented to pay In
IDENTITIES for the loss of lite on
! Norwegian ships torpedoed. N the
| Arctic and also on Norwegian YES
sells sunk in the North Sea last
| fall.
Thomas j. Mooney, labor agitator,
was convicted of murder in the flrst
degree last night at San Francisco,
! by a Jury in the superior court Tor
a bomb explosion costing ten lives
during a preparedness parade july
20, 1916.
Senator George A. Whitney's joint
legislative committee investigating
the use, distribution, and sale of mar
| cotics in New York State, has COM
piled statistics which show that there
are in the neighborhood of lOO,o0O
persons addicted to the use of drugs
/ in the Empire State.
Only about half as much tonnage
as during each of the last three days
was reported sunk in Lloyds dis
patches received at the department
Yesterday. Whether the sudden drop
was due to better British partolnng
armament OF destruction OF submar-
ines is not known.
twenty-five of the crew OF the tor
pedeod British steamer Vedamore
pcrished with the sinking of the yes
sci, The survivors have been landed.
They number 35, and all suffered
greatly from exposure, having been
for ten hours in open boats in eX-
tremely cold weather. Many of the
women were only half clad.
Complete and absolute authority
for the President to commander al
of the railroads of the country, in
case of actual or threatened war"
would be provided by the revised ad-
ministrat!on railroad bill recon-
mended to the Senate for passage
Yesterday by the Interstate Com
merce Committee
The Swedish nress yesterday gave
its approval to the governments sub
marine n@tc, reahirming Swcden's
country's neutrality. 1t has been felt
all along that Sweden, as well as the
other Scandinavian countries and
Holland. would reject the suggestion
of President Wilson That all neutrAls
sever diplomatic relations with Ger
many. ,,.
Eighteen railroads entering Chi
cago have granted the demands OF
the Sw!tchmen's Jnicr. and the
strike vote, taken recently, was an
nullcd bv Vice President James Muir
dock, Of the Brotherhood Of Railway
Trainmcr. The strike threat, if car,
ried into effect, would have paralyzcd
transcontinental shipping through
Chicago.
Spccial measures have been ia <2n
nv the japanese naval department Isl
NJ eject Japancse shipping from Ger
nan submarines. While details OF
the governments plars are kept
secret, for obvious reasons, 1T is I'M
dcrstood that several steamers ply
ing between Japan and England
by way. of the Suez Canal will be
armed with three-inch guns manned
by naval gunners.
With the temperature below zero,
Chicago is facing serious coai
shortage. Embargo on all freight
from the East, except the most urg-
cnt foods, has resulted in ticlng up
many cars Of coal en- out-of-the-wa?
sidings, and as a result the supply. III
Chicago is nearing the exhaustion
point. Hundreds of persons living IN
flat buildings are without heat as a,
result of the shortage, while the sup
plies of coal of the utilities com
panics is reported running low: /
A special train, leaving Berlin. att
$40 this morning took James W.
Gerard, former Ambassador OF the
United States out of Germany. with
him will 20 some 200 Americans;
From Switzerland they will proceed
90 a Spanish port, where Mr.. &C.
,r,, ,ronovcs tn take the first avail
able boat for the United states
Every possible convenience has been
provided for the Americans enroute.
The party will be accompanied to the
Swiss border by two representatives
Of the foreign office.
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