The Wrangell sentinel., 1918-03-21
CABLE NEWS.

klaWack today purcnaSeO the A ton gasolene ship Dart which will | be operated as d mail carrier be- tween Wrangell and points on the West Coast of Prince of Wales Island.
 SEATTLE.-The steel freight CT StOlt Nelson was torpedoed in the war zone according to cable message received today from the Norwegian owner, This is the first Seattle built vessel to be sunk. She was launched in May.
 SEATTLE.-Logan and Fred l Billingsley voluntarily returned to Daniel Kelleher, director for the State of Washington and Alaska for the sale of War Sa, wing Stamps, reports of heavy sales of Thrift and War Saving Stamps.
 WASHINGTON. - All Dutch shipping in American waters is ordered seized in a proclamation issued by the President. Holland d refused the American ultimatum for the transfer of ships accord ing to the original agreement which Germany blocked. All i Dutch shipping in British waters is being reauisitioned simul- taneously.
 A M RIG AN ARMY IN FRANCE. A German aeroplane flew over the American sector northwest of Toule and dropped rubber balls eighteen inches in diameter filled with liquife mustard gas. This is the first time an aeroplane has been thus employed. The effect of the gas is not serious, but the Amer iean troops were infuriated by what they termed dirty warfare.
 WASHINGTON. The Presi. dent signed the daylight saving bill. Clocks will be set forward one hour at 2 o'clock in the morn Ii ing on March 31, and at the end of October will be turned back one hour.
 | LONDON.-British aeroplanes dropped ten bombs on the city of Mannheim, according to official announcement. LONDON. - British aviators have made 255 flights into Ger. many and lost only ten machines the parliamentary secretary an- nounced today.
 LONDON.-A dispatch to the British general staff states that German troops are so massed on battle front from the North Sea to the Swiss frontier that there are few places where additional units could be utilized. New or ganizations from the east are held in reserve behind the front and at the railroad functions. The entire front line of trenches is held by picked shock troops. LONDON The total Allied and neutral shipping losses from the beginning of the war to De- cember 31 were 8 per cent of the total tonnage which was thirty three million, Geddes, First Lord of the Admiralty announced to- day.
 LONDON. - Eighteen more mutinous Russian sailors were removed from the freighter Toula and locked up today. PETROGRAD. - Foreign Min ister Tchicherin declared today that the Soviet commissaries have considered the probability that the United States will oppose Japanese intervention.
 MOSCOW. Germany has in- creased her demand on Rumania and now asks that Rumania sur render to the Central Powers all her own war munitions as we'll as those left in Rumania by Allied troops.
 AMSTERDAM. We are at the decisive moment of the war and one of the greatest moments in German history,' said Emper- or William in a telegram to the Rhenish provincial council.
 NEW YORK. - Proposals of peace have been made by Ger many and Austria to Italy, ac- cording to a dispatch published in the Progresso Italo Americana today. The dispatch which is from a well known Italian cor respondent at Rome says: l am dental examination of school children to take place. However, tb A v,, o ;or;%x, Df &bo c.hoolc ,ro