The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1914-09-11
NEWS NOTES OF
CURRENT WEEK
Resume Of Worlds Important
Events Told in Brief.

Z; Martial law is tightly drawn in
Butte, Mont, where minersare riotous.
The Japanese government has pass
ed bill for war fund Of about $685.
100000.
Russians declare Austrians lost 100, :
900 men and 81 cannon in battle near
Lemberg.
President Poincare, of France, sue
ceeds in reaching his new seat Of gov
ernment at Bordeaux.
Seventy-two thousand Russian sold
iers join the allies, being transported
through Scotland and via sea,
Heavy transforms do slight damage
in Western Oregon and Washington,
but will benefit the late fruit.
The British cruiser Pathfinder was
sunk by striking mine in the North
Sea and 242 men are reported lost.
Kudyard Kipling in an address at
Brighton, England, referred to the
German attack as organized barbar-
ism.
Richard Harding Davis, war corres-
pondent, who was arrested in Germany
as a spy, says he was released by MAX
ing "bluff."
One hundred and ten Chinese stu
dents, including ten girls, arrived at
San Francisco en- route to various
American colleges.
The French government is furnish
ing free transportation to all who will
leave. Paris, and it is estimated that
over two million have gone.
The burgomaster Of Louvain says
the Germans have promised to cease
hostilities against the city, and that
residents may safely return.
Turkey advises United States not to
attempt to send the cruiser North Car
olina through the Dardanelles, because
the waters are heavily mined. I
3 The steamer Isthmian this week
sailed from Pacific Coast ports to
New York via the canal with 500 tons
of wood pulp for paper making.
The sinking Of fishing trawler,
which struck mine ii the North Sea,
is reported. The skipper and fire
man were drowned. Ten others were
rescued.
The Turkish ambassador to Ameri-
ca says the proposed visit of American
warships to Turkey is deliberate at
tempt by England to involve America
in the war,
1t is reported the Marconi Wireless
Telegraph company will erect the
largest and most powerful wireless
plant in the world on Young's Bay,
near Astoria, Or.
A London Post correspondent de-
clares he saw letter from German
officer on sick. leave, in which it was
stated that the German losses had
been over ,S5o,0O0.
The Municipal Charities commits
sion at Los Angeles has refused per
mission to the Salvation Army to con-
tinue its solicitation of money and
supplies in that city.
1t is reported on good authority that
the entire sugar crop of the Hawaiian
Islands will be refined in California
plants, and $5,0O0,000 is to be spent
in 'enlarging the establishments.
A. Hayas agency dispatch from Zu.
rich, Switzerland, says that the news
papers there announce that Germany
has rejected Austria's request for a
loan and that the bankers have taken
similar action.
A Dutch professor at Stanford Uni
yersity, CAL. who was in Holland at
the outbreak of the European war,
says that country was saved from a
German invasion only by the remark
ably quick mobilization Of its army.
six hundred Germans have been
captured on board the Dutch steamer
Tambora. Among them are 33 off
GERS and doctors, who are in prison
at, Chateau Brest The Tambora sail,
ed July 80 from Batavia for Rotter-
dam.
China officially notified the state
department at Washington of its in
ability to participate in the naval rem
dezFous at the Panama Pacific Expo.
sition.s Conditions arising because OF
the war were given as the reason and
the. Chinese foreign office expressed
its deep regret. -,
The correspondent of the Reuter-
!. Telegram company at Rome says that
a dispatch has been received there
from Naples saying: Steamers ar
riving from Egypt report that German
emissaries are melting the Mohamme
dams against England, saying that
Germany is everywhere victorious"
Reports arriving here say that de
sertions from the Austrian army are
increasing daily. This is said to be
especially true along the Roumanian
frontier, and 1t is declared also that
many Austrian soldiers have reached
Switzerland through the Tyrol. It Is
said that 81 per cent of the men Of
the Mechlay regiments have disap
Fsared.
Germany grants Americans leaving
Berlin passes to ride on military trains
in order to escape the country.
Germany opens her ports to. neutra
ships, but advises them to stay II
miles to sea until pilots are furnished
The first cablegram received a
Washington from Ambassador Morgan
thau, at Constantinople, in severa
days, has reached the White House. I
nHde no mention Of any declaration q
war. It was dated September 2 AM
said the ambassador had succeeded il
sending home all Americans who de
sired passage.