The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1914-12-11
NEWS NOTES OF
CURRENT WEEK
Resume Of Worlds Important
Events Told in Brief.

The strike in the Colorado coal fields
has been called off.
Russians claim defeat Of Turks in
fierce battle near Batum.
William W. Rockhill, distin-
guished American diplomat dies at
Honolulu.
Fully 10000 starving Belgians in
Brussels are depending entirely on
American aid.
Army and navy officials insist that
United States artillery and warships
are equal to the best.
General Funston, recently in COM
mand at Vera Cruz, is visiting his
aged mother at lola, Kan.
Oil ships crew of 36 was burned to
death when it was necessary to run
the vessel ashore off the coast of Eng
land.
The chief of the army engineers
having the work in charge urges haste
in extending the Columbia river
jetties.
The Panama government has agreed
with the United States the boundary
line separating the canal zone and
that country.
The German ambassador at Wash
ington charges that dumdum bullets
are being used by the allies, and
claims he can name the factories maxi
ing them.
Mayor Albee, of Portland, has es-
tablished a scholarship in honor of his
son who was killed recently, and who
was student of the high school. The
fund begins with 81, 900.
Brigadier General Christian Fred
erick Beyers, one of the leaders of the
rebellion in the Union Of South Africa,
has been shot, it is officially an
nounced. He is believed to be dead.
The steamer Rochambeau, of the
French line, on which Myron T. Her.
rick, ex-ambassador to France. is
passenger, reached New York after
dark Wednesday and anchored at quar-
antine for the night. She was day
late, having been delayed by storm.
A dispatch to the London Daily Mail
from Rotterdam says that a lombard
ment of the Belgian coast between
Ostend and Nieuport by ships Of the
allies began at 8 o'clock Tuesday. The
fleet was operating in conjunction with
the land forces.
/ 1t is announced in London that the
government would permit expectation
to the United States of Australian
Merino wool bought during the present
sales or at other times, provided satis-
factory guarantees were furnished that
the wool would not be forwarded to
hostile countries. ".
A correspondent says "The Ger
man divisional headquarters was re-
moved from Rouliers when shells be-
gan to fall in the town after the Brit
ish had recaptured Passchendaele, IL
miles northeast of Ypres. This indi-
Gates distinct and important advance
by the allies.
Arizona liquor men are preparing to
make determined legal fight against
prohibition.
i The Italian premier advises policy
of armed neutrality, with "iust aspir-
ations" in mind.
! Zapata soldiers, many poorly clad
and barefooted, are keeping perfect
order in Mexico City.
i Ex-senator Patterson blames Gov
ernor Ammons, Of Colorado, for the
labor troubles in that state.
1 German Socialists express regret
that their representative in the reichs-
tag voted against the war credit.
Many families in Alsace are divided
by the war, brothers fighting against
brothers and fathers against their sons.
Servian losses since the beginning
of the war are said to amount to 100,-
600, or one-third her military strength.
Prominent Russian economists ad-
vocate an income tax to replace the
revenue lost by prohibition in that
country.
Arabs reported to be threatening the
Suez canal are believed to have re-
tired and the canal seems in no danger
from that source.
/ David Lamar was found guilty Of
, impersonating Congressman Palmer,
J of Pennsylvania, for the purpose of de-
8 frauding J. P. Morgan & Co. and the
: United States Steel corporation, and
! was sentenced to two years in the PEN
! itentiary.
Official reports from Petrograd con-
, firm previous dispatches to the effect
: that one and half German army
: corps, about 10000 men, were sur
q rounded by Russians, but succeeded in
! cutting their way out after enormous
I losses, many of their trenches being
found piled with dead six deep.
Japan ANNOUNCES that very small
J amount of booty was captured at the
! ! fall Of Using Tau, all ships in the har-
Dor having been destroyed by the Ger
: mans.
Statistics compiled by the depart,
Z ment of commerce seem to bear oui
the claim that the Underwood tariff,