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Newspaper
The Evening Current
Location
Carlsbad, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1917
Page
1
Secretary Wilson telegraphed San Francisco immigration official Boyes to offer his offices as mediator in resolving the strike by iron workers and ship builders, signaling a federal effort to end the industrial dispute.
Paris reports German troops advancing after a violent bombardment south of Mietteriver near the Neufchatel road. The French statement says a sharp fight followed, Teutons being ejected with heavy losses and taking prisoners. Artillery remained active around the river and Foshewood.
Associated Press report from Washington says Chairman Hurley of the shipping board appeals to President Gompers to halt strikes delaying government shipbuilding on the Pacific coast. A conference is held today between Hurley and Gompers, with Hurley conferring with Secretary Daniels on wage settlements in government shipyards.
Paris reports the new premier Professor Painleve read a ministerial declaration in the chamber of deputies reaffirming France will wage war until Alsace and Lorraine are disannexed from Germany and reparations for damages are secured.
Paris reports from a Paris edition of the New York Herald that numerous French and British soldiers along with Russians perished from typhus at a German concentration camp at Cassel. Albert Champion, a French soldier who recently escaped from Germany, conveyed the information.
Associate Press reports that the seven billion dollar war deficiency bill passed the House unanimously today. The measure carries large appropriations for the army fortifications and the shipping board, underscoring wartime needs.
Amsterdam dispatch reports Entente Allied airmen bombed a Belgian town in a recent raid. A Dolameuse newspaper from Maastricht cites a building near Market as the target, with nine hundred Germans killed or wounded.
Helsinfo reports riots at the Finnish fortified seaport of Wiborg, seventy-four miles northeast of Petrograd. During the disorders soldiers were involved, twenty officers were killed and sixty are missing.
Gottholf Prasse, designer of the German submarine Deutschland, died by his own hand in a Baltimore city jail. He had been imprisoned as an alien enemy after arriving on the craft’s first voyage to America.
The Apostolic Legation announced that Rev. J Henry Tyson, current bishop of Lincoln Nebraska, has been appointed Roman Catholic bishop of Denver. This move formalizes Tyson’s transfer and leadership across the Rocky Mountain region.
Suver City New Mexico date Sept 18 exemption board in Grant County reports two aliens native to Mexico found to suffer leprosy during military draft examinations. Neither knew of illness and both had worked in nominiate camps. Immediate steps taken, likely deportation soon. Ben Acrey and wife visit Carlsbad guests of Mr and Mrs Roman Ohnemus. plan to return to ranch beyond Lovington.
Berlin reports that the German foreign office denied through the Associated Press rumors that Germany had indirectly communicated peace terms to Washington or sought U.S. sentiment. Officials also denied that Germany’s note to the Pope’s peace proposals was en route to Rome.
Two United States marines are on guard at the Union Iron Works plant, the largest shop involved in the strike. Twenty thousand mechanics affiliated with the San Francisco Trades Council participate, and all saloons within a half mile of the plant have been closed.
Mrs Harry Christian accompanied by Mr and Mrs George M Duson left yesterday morning for Pecos to visit Mrs Christian's brother Monroe Kerr and family. They reported reaching there by 2 30 PM after leaving Mrs Duson’s at six o'clock.
Associated Press reports Romanian forces yesterday occupied part of the Austrian German fortified lines near Warnitees in the region of Miocany. In Riga an area change was noted. Stockholm reports Germany’s minister to Sweden expressing regrets over the Swedish Argentina affair.
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