The Parma herald. (Parma, Idaho) 1903-1917, 1914-10-15
news OF THE WEEK
General Resume Of Important Events
Throughout the World


II said to b. serious.
Canada = first consignment Of troops
TO aid the allies has arrived ut South
ampton.
A cargo Of dyastuffs consigned to
America and seized by the Germgas
hrs been released.
British war Office reports large loss
Of officers, 236 are killed, b86 wounded
and 322 missing.
1t II reported that the king Of Bel
gium has marched out Of Antwerp at
the hssd Of \ portion OF his troops.
Leaders Of the opposition party in
] Japanese legislature are opposed to
limiting Japanese activity In the war.
BorRerhaut, suburb Of Antwerp,
has been set on fire by the German
bombarximent. according to dispatch
from Amsterdam.
A German aeroplane flying over
Paris and suburbs Saturday morning
dropped two bombs, one of which
wounded three persons.
Among the few neutrals remaining
in Antwerp, where not alone shells
from the guns of the Germans, but
bombs from their aircraft, are falling,
are Fl. w. Diedrich. the American con-
sui, and the members of his staff.
A dispatch to the Havas Agency
from Cettinje says: 1T is reported
here that the Roumania Prince Ghika,
who has arrived at Scutari, will try to
profit by the present critical moment
to have himself proclaimed Prince of
Albania.
1.-THE communal council of Ostend
has passed unanimously declaration
that the town Is ready for every sacri-
flee in order to resist the German adj
vance to the last moment" says the
London Daily Telegraph's Ostend cor
respondent.
The French authorities have seized
food supplies valued at between ST.
500, 900 and SO, 900, 600 which had been
deposited on the docks at Havre by a
German firm. The action was taken
to prevent the supplies from being
taken abroad.
A Petrograd dispatch states that a
member of the Russian duma, who has
just returned from Galicia, declares
that the Russians captured the heights
between four and five miles from
Przemysl and that the Austrians have
several times vainiy attempted to re-
take them.
A dispatch received In Rome from
Russian headquarters says that the in
timation has been given to the Aus
TRANS holding the town of Przemsyl,
Galicia, that they will be permitted tc
surrender with military honors, but
that IL they refuse the Russians will
give them no quarter.
A dispatch from Petrograd says the
Russians have driven the Germans
from Wloclawek, Russian Poland, 81
miles southeast of Thorn, East Prus
STA, and have fortified themselves
within a few miles of the fortress OF
Thorn. The German left wing il
Poland 10 said to have been partly en-
vesoped.
A dispatch to the Havas Agenc,
from Rome says: sit is reported tha
at meeting of 81 Liberal and Demo
cratic members of the chamber O
deputies, resolution was adopted de
claring that armed neutrality cores
ponds with the exigencies of the mo
ment. The resolution also expressed
confidence in the government. -
German newspapers publish articIe
expressing satisfaction that the British
and Japanese attacks on Using Tau
the fortified position in the German
leased territory of Kiau Chau, hav
been repulsed. They declare that tn
splendid defense of the Using Tau gar
rison 10 an Indication that the promis
of the governor of the colony to defen
the territory to the bitter end is beinI
carried out.
A Petrograd dispatch to the Tele
graph, dated Saturday night, says tina
nothing Ia ascertainable there of tn
reported battle at Cracow. News ha
been received at Petrograd, says tn
dispatch, that Archduke Frederick ha
been replaced AS commander in-chie
of the Austrian forces by the heir pre-
sumptive to the Austrian throne
Prince Charles Francis.
/ Tslegraphing from Ostend. CORES
pondent says: The steamer Arc
mount. loaded with grain, which lef
Dover for Zebruge, Holland. struck
mine. Her crew of IS were saved.
The steamer, vessel of 1910 tons
commanded by Captain Ronald, sale
from Galveston September .. TIL
Ardmount was owned by the Ashmour
Steamship company, Glasgow.
The outer forts of Antwerp are sal
to have been pierced by the Germans
heavy guns.
Lieutenant Tassoni. under-secretar
of state for war of Italy. has resignes
owing to disagreement with Generi
Grandi, the war minister.
General" Charles T. Kelley, WI
started to lead an army of 1900 unen
| ployed men to Washington last sprinI
and whose followers were dispersed
. Sacramento. CAL, by police officia
q and fire hose, was released from ii
I county Jail after completing a 81
months sentence for vagrancy.
An official message from Constant
nople transmitted from Amsterdam
Y the Central News says that the vi
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