The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1914-11-20
NEWS NOTES OF.
CURRENT WEEK
Resume Of Worlds Important
Events Told in Brief.

bad dancing.
Exports of food to Europe have in.
creased $25, ,O00, 900 more during Oc'
tober this year than last.
President Wilson predicts a bright
future when the new Federal banking
system is given fair trial.
A Portland traffic policeman was run
down and killed by large motor truck
while on duty at street intersection.
The occupation of Belgrade, Servia,
by the Austrians apparently is immi-
nent, according to an official announce
ment made public in Berlin.
Prohibition of the expectation of tir
plate to Denmark, Holland and Sweder
will mean the closing of 35 mills and
will directly affect 100 men.
Press dispatches received in Berlir
describe the proclamation at Constan-
tinople of a holy war as arousing great
enthusiasm in the Turkish capital.
Girl graduates of the Portland JEFF
ferson high school voted to dress ir
nothing but cotton, from stockings tc
hair ribbons, on commencement night.
A coterie of Holland damsels in
Portland, dressed in Dutch costume,
are soliciting aid for the relief of Bel
gians who have taken refuge in Hol-
land.
Among the Russian prisoners cap
tured by the Germans in the battle OF
Kutno were the governor of Warsaw
and his staff, according to a Berlin
telegram.
The casualties on the Australian
cruiser Sydney, which destroyed the
German cruiser Emden in the Indian
ocean, were four men killed and one
officer and Ia men wounded.
Prince Oscar, the fifth son of EN-.
peror William, who has recuperated
from recent attack of heart trouble,
is returning to the general staff head
quarters for duty in the field.
An Amsterdam paper prints an ap'
peal to Queen Wilhelmina, of The
Netherlands, and President Wilson, tt
use their respective offices to bring
about peace in the European conflict.
1t was officially announced in Londol
that the Prince of Wales had been ap
pointed aide,de camp to Field Marsha
Sir John French, the commander o
the British expeditionary forces on tn
Continent.
The Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Couran
quotes letter from Galician prizes
t saying that 40, 900 Austrians had bee
: buried in one day in grave six an
a one-half feet wide and little NOR
e than four miles long.
The Swedish steamer Andrew struc
mine in the North sea Thursday an
S sank. Eighteen survivors, includin
t two women, after having drifted abou
r in boats for IL hours, were rescued b
3 liner and landed at Hull.
The German government has issue
denial of the report that German
had refused American aid for tn
suffering population of Belgium. 0
the contrary, the government is highl
pleased with this American assistance
1t is reported that launch from tn
cruiser Tennessee in the Mediterra
mean, was fired on by the Turkish fort
but the Washington government
thinks there was misunderstanding
as there were no official orders to et
feet landing.
Ecuador is admonished by the allie
to maintain strict neutrality.
! A wildcat which has slain 81 goat
, in Linn county, Oregon, has bee
killed.
Belgians abroad have subscribed
+. fund of 5000, 900 to aid their stricke
brothers.
1t is said 1000 alien enemies are |
the British empire and are causin
, much trouble to that government.
, Japan's ire is stirred by demand q
China to evacuate Using Tau, jus
taken by the Japanese from the Gel
mans.
l The official newspaper of Berlin pull
. fishes decree forbidding the expoi
: of leather, horse skins and calf skim
shoddy and tinplate.
A dispatch received at Montevide
: from Valparaiso, Chile, says that th
Japanese squadron seen recently o
Easter island in the Pacific by me
chant vessel consisted of eight vessel
Field Marshal Lord Roberts, of Kal
, dahar, is going to France. The officii
announcement making this fact publ
says the famous general is going int
9 the war zone ito see the India
: troops" Lord Roberts was born
I Cawnpore, India, SO years ago.
Washington government has decide
to hold Vera Cruz for the present, ar
a guarantee of guarantees is now d
: manded Of the tangled Mexican go
:, ernment.
r Passengers who were on the Britis
I steamship Vandyck when she was ca
II tured off the coast Of Brazil 0ctob
!. 26 by the German cruiser Karlsrul
!. are being brought to New York.
The German authorities again re
!. ommend that all Eglish subjects
!, women, children and girls under l
. . clergymen, doctors and other men ov
). So years Of age--leave Germany.
+ Members Of the Investment Ban
ers' association in session in Philad'