The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1914-11-13
NEWS NOTES OF
CURRENT WEEK
Resume Of Worlds Important
Events Told in Brief.

England repeats call to all voters tt
declare their attitude on enlistment il
the army or navy.
A Portland, Or, banker predict
better times by spring In spite O.
handicaps caused by unwise and freal
Legislation.
The idle of Belgium is told to go t,
work by the German governor unde
penalty that all charitable organiza
tions feeding them, will be dissolved
The German cruiser Emden, forcet
to run ashore by an Australian war
ship, had destroyed 20 merchantmen
and other small vessels before she wa'
finally captured.
Reports received in Berlin from Co
penhagen set forth that the Russian
government is protesting to Pekir
against the concentration of troops OF
the Manchurian frontier.
General Villa in command of $1,000
men, is said to be marching from the
north on Mexico City, ostensibly t.
oust Carranza who has an army of 49,,
900 to resist the attack.
The Norwegian steamer Pluton
bound from London for Christiania
was sunk by mine Sunday off Var
mouth. Nineteen men of her crew
and three passengers were rescued by
a Dutch lugger.
The Sheik-ul- Islam, head of the hier
archy in Turkey, has prepared an an
nouncement to all Mohammedans il
which he declares that every Moham.
medan fighting on the side of Great
Britain, France and Russia is not {
warrior but murderer, and liable tt
religious punishment.
The situation along the battle line
in France proper, from the standpoint
of the allies, was summed up in a dis
patch from an observer with the In.
dian corps" who says there has beer
no marked change anywhere, though
he processes to see gradual weaken
ing of the German attacks.
Every county in the state of Oregon
has voted "dry."
Woman suffrage is believed to have
won in Montana and Nevada.
There is technical point raised
against prohibition in Arizona.
Emperor Nicholas has arrived al
army headquarters at the front.
London is again promised raid by
German Zeppelins some time this
month.
Admiral Cradock's ship is believed
sunk in the engagement with the Ger
mans off the coast of Chile.
The Russian army marches 80 hour
in deep snow in mountains, and it il
claimed its front is 100 miles long.
A Marconi wireless dispatch from
Berlin says that in Egypt the English
have abandoned the Arabian frontier
and withdrawn across the Suez canal
A dispatch to the Amsterdam Tele.
graaf says Prince Joachim Albrecht,
of Prussia, son of the late regent Of
Brunswick, has been wounded ir
France.
According to the London Daily
Mails Rotterdam correspondent the
inhabitants of 0stend have been or
dered to take to their cellars with five
days provisions.
Fog was responsible for the loss OF
the German cruiser Yorck, which
struck mine in Jade bay, an inlet Of
the North sea, November a. This
statement is made by Berlin papers.
Lieutenant Murray lost his life in ar
aeroplane accident at the English avi-
alton school at Avon. 1t is believed he
miscalculated the distance while land.
ing, after making flight over Rushall
Down.
Two German officers and two men OF
the crew of the German cruiser Geier,
now at Honolulu, who have been held
for some time at San Francisco, will
be paroled, but must remain in the
United States until the end of the
war.
Wireless dispatches from Berlin say
that Shanghai newspapers report the
German artillery fire is systematically
destroying the entrenched positions oc-
cupied by the Japanese around Tsing
Tau. The Japanese have postponed
indefinitely their attacks. The waters
around Using Tau are sown with mines.
A wireless dispatch from Berlin to
Vienna officially reports that in Rus
sian Poland the Austrians captured
over 1000 prisoners, including 20 off,
GERS. On the Galician front 500 Rus
slams surrendered. During the opera.
tions against Servia n officers and CSC
men were taken at Roumania, as well
as much war material.
An Amsterdam dispatch to the Reu-
ter Telegram company in London, says
that the Dutch newspapers confirm the
statement that Germany is transfer.
ring cavalry and artillery from the
western to the eastern frontier.
A heavy snow has fallen in the Vos-
ges mountains and the Black forest.
The Germans are said to have had
difficulty in removing their reserve
field artillery from defensive positions
on the heights into the valleys. Their
removal is considered in some quarters
to indicate that the army is preparing
for retreat.
A dispatch from Vienna says that
preparations are being rushed for the
second siege of Przemsyl. 1t is re.