The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1914-08-28
NEWS NOTES OF
CURRENT WEEK
Resume Of Worlds Important
Events Told in Brief.

American tourists are fast leaving
Europe.
Plans are forming.in Rome. to elect
a new pope.
General Carranza is now the provis-
ional president of Mexico.
German cavalry is reported to have
entered the city Of Brussels.
]. P. Morgan tells U. s. Treasury
department business is improving.
Austria has called to arms all able
bodied men from 20 to AZ years Of age.
Namur. aprincipal city in Belgium,
has fallen into the hands of the Ger
mans.
The German ambassador, Count Won
Rex, at Toxic, Twill sail for Seattle,
Wash.
The burgomaster of the city Of Brus-
sells, has surrendered the city to the
Germans.
Nearly all German manufactures
are idle and the daily loss is said to be
S., 900, 900.
The warning nations are buying the
Chinese eggs intended for shipment to
this country.
Chauncey Depew, stranded in Eu-
rope, sat nine, hours on fiatcar in
drenching rain.
The French war office admits Ger
man victory and the recovery Of Lor-
raine and Alsace.
The French fear an attack on the
Louvre and have placed all valuable
pictures in vaults.
A persistent report is to the effect
that the Grown Prince Of Germany
was killed in battle.
4 Five persons were killed by tor
nado in Pennsylvania, and much dam
age to property was done.
The French government is permit
ting 5000 Americans to leave France
via Paris, to the United States.
i Every ship that sails out Of New
York for English ports sails light,
though England is begging for food.
The Japanese liner Shinyo Maru
sailed from San Fancisco to Japan es-
corted by Japanese armored cruiser.
Mexico City cheers Justify when Car
ranza's army enters the city. The par
ade was six miles long and everything
orderly.
1t is reported that Germany will re-
fuse the ultimatum Of Japan to evac-
uate Kiau Chau, China, and will fight
to the last.
Bob" Burdette, the famous humor-
ist, is reported dangerously Ill at his
summer home in Pasadena, Cal. He is
70 years of age.
The Montenegrin troops, with bay
onet charge, repulsed fresh Austrian
attack at Rahovo, taking 100 prisoners
and killing 800 Austrians.
A proclamation was issued formally
from Washington setting forth the
neutrality Of the United States in the
war between Belgium and Germany.
In Paris 6O0,0 900 are out Of employ
j ment, and the government proposes to
| put to work finishing buildings under
construction, all youths and old men.
Red Cross society Of the United
States is urging mayors Of large cities
to aid the campaign to secure funds to
care for the wounded in the European
war.
Washington administration officials
: are preparing new proclamation set
! ting forth the neutrality of the United
States during hostilities between Japan
! and Germany.
According to information from Ber-
: lin, the Spanish government has noti-
fed Germany of its strict neutrality,
!, denying at the same time having any
= treaty with any power.
q A war appropriation Of $4,000, 900
r. has been put through the Canadian
r house Of commons. There was no OPP
q position or criticism. The proceeding
/ occupied just one minute.
+ Speaker Clark issued warrants for
e the arrest Of absentee members Of the
J. house of representatives. Many mem
bers were found at the baseball park,
cool cafes and other resorts.
The correspondent Of the London
n Daily Telegraph at Amsterdam says it
r Is estimated that the total loss Of the
m Belgians, up to date, has been 10000
le in killed, wounded and prisoners.
u The Servian government in a pro-
: test to France declares that the Aus
Il trian army during its retreat along
q the Drina river committed cruelties
! upon old men, women and children in
i violation of the rules of warfare. The
, Drina forms the greater part Of the
~ y boundary between Bosnia and Servia.
D. Another Boxer uprising in China ID
feared by the government and precau
tions are taken to protect foreigners
n European nations at war are said tt
= = oppose the United States plan to buy
= : ships for international commerce pur
|, poses.
IN The tramp steamer Mazatlan, which