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Births Reported.

The following births have been re-
ported to the health department in the
last twenty-four hours:
Jaremia and Frieda Zukoff, girl
Roland 3. and Katherine Whitridge,
boy.
William j. and Laura S. White, boy.
Edloe c. and Pearl S. Waldrop, girl.
James C. and Beatrice NJ. Whisman,
girl.
Franklin w. and Mabel L. Taylor,
boy.
Henry B. and Ida Schmidt, girl.
Edgar and Johanna Ryan, girl.
Tony and Elsie Magnetic, girl
George S. and Alice f. Martin, girl.
Hollanf and Lillian Hudson, boy.
Charles w. and Anna H. Hughes, girl,
Edward NJ. and Edith A. Cullinan,
girl.
Richard and Martha L. Cook, girl,
William I. and Margaret S. Baeschlin.
girl.
Charles J. and Mabel A Barrette.
girl.
James v. and Rosie E. Baker, boy.
Arthur H. and Hattie M. Gilbert
girl.
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Tourner, Mrs. Robinson White, Mrs,
Robert Ledbetter. Mrs. Murray Gait
Matter Mrs. William Hitz, Mrs. John
J. Hamilton, Mrs. Azel Ford, Mrs.
William E. Clark and Miss Hilda
ErikSon.
Mrs. Robert Patterson of this city
is in New York.
Gen. and Mrs. ]. H Brinker left yes
terday to spend the week END at oid
Point and Norfolk with friends and
relatives They will return Tuesday
next.
Mr.. and Mrs. Claude Worthington
Owen returned to Washington Thurs
day. after soiourn of four weeks in
the middle west. They visited in NIL
waukee and Minneapolis, where they
attended the wedding of Mr.. ana MIS-
John Walcott Greenman. the latter
formerly Miss Frances Cranmer OF TINS
city. Mr.. Owen continued to the Pa
cific coast on business, later joining
Mrs. owen at the home of her sister,
Mrs. William Cassel Hanson, in Normal,
Ill.
The Bulgarian legation is now estab-
lished at 2131 Massachusetts avenue.
Miss Mary S. Nixon of North Chevy
Chase. who spent about two months IN
California, has returned to her nome.
She attended the expositions at San
Francisco and San Diego.
Mrs. william ]. Kelly. wife of the
United states consul at Rome, gave a
dinner last evening at the GRAFTON.
Mrs Kellys guests were the sollcitor
Of the State Department and Mrs. cone
Johnson, the assistant solicitor or the
State Department and Mrs. Hampson
Gary and Mr.. Mcclure Kelly.
Mrs. whitelaw Reid sailed today on
the St Louis for London, where she
will spend the winter with her daush-
ter, Mrs John Hubert Ward.
Misses Lucy and Sydney Burleson.
daughters of the Postmaster General
and Mrs. Albert S. Burleson, went
to New York Thursday to spend the
week end with Mrs. j. Riley Gordon
at her residence on Riverside drive
The Brazilian ambassador has gone
to New York to join Nine. da Cana
Jonkheer A. w. L. Tjarda van Starken-
borgh- -Stachouwer of the Neither
lands legation, whose marriage to Miss
Christine Marburg OF Baltimore WI,
his ushers and some additional guests
tonight at dinner
Mr.. and Mrs j. Kaufman. formerly of
GEORGETOWN, have moved to 1888 Z4th
street northwest, the Landmore
Miss Elizabeth Garland. whose mar
riage to Mr.. George Wharton Edwards
of Bethlehem, Pa. will take place No
yember "a, was the guest of honor at
a theater party given by Miss Dorothy
Holbrook this afternoon.
The other guests were Miss Esther
whiting, Miss Bette Madison, Miss Mel
lie Hartley and Miss Annis HUFF.
Mrs, Eugene de F. Heald is spending
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Marriage Licenses.

Marriage licenses have been issued
to the following:
Joseph S. Brake of Washington Grove,
Md, and Emma Mae Wilson of this city.
Harry E. Barstow and Ethel Z. Reich
Peter Fritz and Anna Kranauer.
Charles E. Allen and Sadie B. Glover,
both of Waynesboro, Va.
Charles c. Merryman and Louise NJ
Helwig.
John W. Kaiser and Myrtle Z. Clark.
James G. Chambers and Elizabeth B.
Howard
Joseph Horky and Agnes Dobihal,
both of Baltimore, Nd.
Benjamin H. Bailey and Margaret
Acton.
Raymond McCalister and Mary L.
Jones.
Paul H. Butler and Lilly P Beck.
Luther G. Griffin and Lena Warner,
both of Deerfield, Va.
Elmer r. Mangum and Lillian G..
Johnston.
Clifton s. Hutchison and Anna E.
Blackman.
Joseph Esken and Jennie p Weber.
both of Baltimore, Md.
Leonard G. Waters of this city and
Gertrude NJ. Geer of Cherrydale, Va.
William ]. Davis and Frances Bur-
rows. both of Fort Myer. Va.
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LACKS NEWS OF ANC0NA CASE.
Berlin Reports No Information From
German or Austrian Sources.

BERLIN, November IS, via London.
AS am.-There still is an absolute alb
sence of news from Austrian or German
sources regarding the sinking Of the An
coma Nothing has been printed here ex-
cept dispatches from foreign sources. The
German admiralty asserts 1t has no in
formation regarding the case and has
received none from the Austrian ad-
miralty.
here yesterday morning from Vienna said
that up to the time he left the Austrian
capital Thursday night the newspapers
there had published nothing about the
Ancona. He did not learn until his ar
rival here that the vessel had been sunk
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to the wounded whom we were bringing
back on the Ancona. All those wound
ed men, except those saved by the Plu-
ton, remained aboard the Ancona and
went down with her.
I'VE arrived at Bizerta about II
o'clock, but remained aboard the Plu-
ton. the officers placing their cabins at
our disposal. At s o'clock the next
morning we reached the arsenal at
Sidi Dallas. where a temporary hos
pital was erected for us: Here we were
able to rest. 1 will continue to give my
services to the survivors and aid the
physicians"
DR.. Greil was on her way to her
home in New York. She had been visit
ing the Russian consul and his family
at Bari. Italy.
Among the Ancona passengers at Fer
ryville Is Marquis Scerra. who was
wounded in the foot by projectile.
Got s. o. S. From the France.
Another story OF the shelling and
torpedoing of the Ancona was received
by the Havas News Agency tonight
from Ferryville, where it was filed on
November II. 1t follows:
The Ancona left Messina at am,
November s. About 1890 o'clock on
the morning of November she picked
up a wireless distress signal from the
are being shelled.'
THE message ended abruptly without
the position of the France being given
so that it was impossible for the An
coma to go to her aid. The Ancona CON
tinued on her route an hour after
ward, the sea being calm and the
weather misty.
Not Warned Of Shots.
without any sort OF warning the re-
port of a gun was heard and shells
simultaneously struck the Ancona for
ward, causing considerable damage.
THE wireless operator without an in
stants delay sent out a distress signal
with the name of the ship and her po-
sition.
THE submarine approached nearer
the Ancona, keeping up continuous
fire. First the wireless telegraphy
apparatus was demolished and then the
lifeboats were shot to pieces. num-
Der of passengers being killed or
wounded.
Fifty shots at least were fred until
the Ancona stopped.
Hoisted Austrian Colors.
"The submarine then hosted the Aus
trian colors and her commander an
nounced that he would allow ten minutes
for all to quit the ship. The unsmashed
boats at once were lowered and after the
wounded had been placed in them the
passengers and crew followed. This was
going on for half an hour when the sub
marine fred a torpedo which struck the
Anacona on the bow. The ship sank
gradually and disappeared beneath the
waves at 2:30 pm. The submarine then
steamed away.
Toward o'clock in the evening the
mine layer Pluton. which had picked up
the Anacona's distress message. arrived
on the scene. Most Of the survivors
thus were rescued close to the place
where the steamer sank"
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NATIONAL DEFENSE PROGRAM.
Congressional Chairmen to Frame
Administrator Army Ri11

work OF drafting the army appropria-
ton bill in accordance with the admin
istration's national defense program
will be undertaken next week by Sena-
tor Chamberlain and Representative
Hay, chairman of the congressional
military committees
Early in the week Senator Chamber
lain will confer with Secretary Garri-
son on details of the proposed bill, after
which he will cooperate with Repre-
sentative Hay in writing the measure.
I'VE want the bill in shape by the
time Congress convenes so that the
Senate and House committees can get
Chamberlain today. There are many
matters of detail yet to be considered
before the measure can be introduced. !"
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FLAGS MARK BOUNDARY LINE.
Placed There After Villa Troops
Cross Into U. S. Territory.

NACO, Ariz., November 1.-THE
boundary line between Mexico and the
United States was marked at fifty-yard
intervals by American flags yesterday.
This action was taken after a Villa
soldier escaping from Naco, Sonora, had
been pursued by Villa cavalry across
the boundary.
Col. w. c. Brown of the 10th Cavalry.
United States border patrol, arrived at
the Mexican border to protest just as
Gen. Jose Rodriguez of the Villa forces
signaled to the firing squad that faced
the prisoner.
1t was explained that the man exc
cuted was wanted in connection with
a shooting ARRAY and that his pur-
suers were ignorant of the boundary
line.
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BETTER CONDITIONS
PREVAIL IN MEXICO
Recognition of the Carranza De
Facto Government Said to
Have Good Effect.

Mail reports reaching the State De-
partment from Piedras Negras say peo-
pie arriving there from the interior
of Mexico bring word of greatly I'M
proved conditions following the recog-
milton of the Carranza de facto gov
ernment.
The recognition of Gen. Carranza,"
said the report, seems to have con-
siderably changed the minds of many
revolutionists, who now desire to set
tie down in peace and devote their
time to rebuilding the war-torn re-
public"
o. l.. Wise. who has lived in Mexico
City for twenty-one years. called at
the State Department yesterday and
discussed Mexican conditions with Of
ficials, speaking enthusiastically of the
work of restoration now going on.
People in Mexico City" he said.
used to have a hatred for Gen. Car
rama, but now he is very popular.
Gen. Pablo Gonzales the military gov
ernor at the capital. has brought about
wonders in the city and the people
have confidence in him.
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Personal Rights Respected.

THE de facto government is not con-
fiscating property. but is paying for
everything it gets and the personal
liberties and rights of Mexican citi
zens and of the foreign colony are now
being respected. Money is more plenti-
full and Mexicans are paying all I'M
port duties in gold. Automobiles that
have been hidden away are running
about the streets and without the flags
of the nationality of their owners.
which heretofore was necessary for
their protection.
There are 5000 Americans in MeXi-
CO city, practically all in commercial
business They have no complaint to
make of the new government, which is
popular with them. The cost OF food
in the city has been reduced so per
cent from the cost during the Zapata
regime
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Decides Crime Doesn't Paw.

Harry Wilson, colored. who pleaded
guilty to six charges of housebreaking
within two months. was sentenced today
by Chief Justice Covington in Criminal
Division / to serve six years in the penf-
tentiary. The prisoner said he regretted
his conduct. and has reached the decision
that crime does not pay
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DIED.

ALICE BRISCOE. wife of Allen Briscoe
daughter OF the late Martha Douglass and
sister of Emily Douglass Lane.
Funeral Monday, November 10, at o'clock, from
her late residence, 22l9 street northwest. .
COMPTON. Entered into rest Saturday morning,
November 13, 1915, at 2:15. at his residence,
the Vaiois, JAMES WALTER COMPTON, be.
loved husband OF Oneida Compton.
Notice Of funeral hereafter. 15s
DUvAL. Departed this life sitter Q sAoet H.
ness, on Thursday, November IL. 1915, at
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Buenos Aires Meeting in April.

BUENOS AIRES, November 13-The
pan-American congress for the unifica-
ton of the commercial laws of the
Americas will take place here next
April. it is announced. The Argentine
government has abandoned its proposal
that the congress be postponed until
July. since William G. McAdoo. Secre-
tary of the Treasury of the United
States, will not be able to be present in
July.
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number of striking examples Of splen-
did organization work which individ-
ual British executives already have ac-
comp1ished. He gave 1t as his opin-
British efficiency will rank very high
in the scale before the most deadly
and the greatest of all human wars
has been brought to an end.
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Balfour's Wonderful Brain.

Especially high was the praise that
Mr.. Irwin paid to former Premier Bal
four. whom he mentioned as the beau
ideal of the English universities.
There probably is no more efficient
brain-machine in the world today than
that which Mr.. Balfour brings to the
service of his country as member of
the cabinet" he said. Mr. Balfour is
not only a man of wonderful training,
but, also. is the possessor of that men
tai activity that is usually associated
with the French and with the Ameri
cans
Mr.. Irwin spoke with warm appre-
citation of the iraperturbability with
which Englishmen of all classes are
making the tremendous sacrifices
caused by the war. He spoke OF their
raising of an army of 100000 by the
wonderful achievements ever recorded
of national patriotism. There is
tendency in America, he went on, to
the part that Great Brit
ain is taking in the war. just as there
was tendency at the beginning of the
combat to overestimate the part she
was to take.
has experienced since the outbreak of
the war can be laid to their class-sys-
tenn" he said. The classes have been
drifting farther and farther apart for
many years, and, in consequence, have
largely lost the ability for teamwork,
which makes the Germans so strong.
The English are just beginning to un-
between whole peoples, and that they
must mobilize their whole people at
home behind their soldiers in the field,
If they are to win"
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Scarcity of Officers.

Another great difficulty which the
English have encountered is that of
providing sufficient officers, according
to Mr.. Irwin, who said that it was a
British tradition that only gentleman
can make an officer, and that men of
the ranks will only follow one of the
upper classes and not one of their own
class.
england is getting lot of fine. in
telligent, devoted boys as officers at
the front, but they know nothing
about the business of war, and the
business of making these boys into
good officers at the front is fright
fully expensive" he explained
Mr. Irwin spoke of the training of
these boys for their new duties as a
get quick" course. which was
bound to fail of giving satisfaction.
as the officer in modern warfare must
be as well trained product as the
physician or the attorney. The pres
ent scarcity of officers, however. he
thought, would be remedied. as the
apprentices to war are gradually
turned out as finissed products on the
actual firing line.
The light of efficiency is beginning
to shine over the British preparation.
Mr.. Irwin concluded, and he gave
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Benjamin E. Davis. convicted of the
murder of his wife, Mrs. Mary Ann
Davis. died on the gallows at Towson,
Md. yesterday, silently and without q
word either Of hatred or self-pity
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In Memoriam.

FOGLE In sad but loving remembrance OF
GEORGE F. FOGLE who died twelve years
ago today.
Loved in life. remembered in dea tn.
BY HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN.
HALL. In sad but loving remembrance of my
dear mother, MARION L. HALL, who de-
parted this life are years ago tomorrow, No
vember II. 1910
HER DAUGHTER, EMMA L. MILLS.
KNIGHT. In loving memory Of our dear father
and sisters. EDWARD KNIGHT. who died
eleven years ago, May 1s. 1904: Jessie.
October 10, 1904. and LILLIAN, two years
ago today, November b. 1913.
BY DANTES, CHARLOTTE AND EDWARD.
ZIER. In sad but loving remembrance Of our
dearly beloved wife and mother. ELLA r.
ZIER, who entered into rest one year ago
today, November 13 1914.
Oh, the memory of that morning,
As We watched with aching hearts
Our dear mother pierced with
Deaths most cruel darts.
Dearest mother. thou hast left us:
Friends may think the wound is healed.
But they little know the sorrow
That lies within our hearts concealed.
BY HER HUSBAND AND CHILDREN
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BORN

JACKSON. To Mr.. and Mrs. George W. Jackson
November L. 1915, at Arlington, Va, a
daughter.
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Miss Margaret Wilson was the guest
of honor at a luncheon given yester-
day to the board of the National Lii
brary of the Blind by Mrs. Ernest w.
Roberts. The other guests were Mrs
Champ Clark, Miss Ella Lorraine Dor
seN Mrs. Charles H. L. Lowndes. Miss
Edith c. Long, Miss Helen Kellar, Miss
Eta ]. Giffin, Mrs. Duncan U. Fletcher
Mrs. Thomas P. Gore, Mrs. Horace NJ
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.LAUDS WAR SPIRIT.
OF GREAT BRITAIN
Will Irwin Says British People
Will Put Up a Good
Fight.
GROWING IN EFFICIENCY
AS CONFLICT PROGRESSES
Delivers First of the Lectures of the
Season Before the National Geo.
graphic Society.

Will Irwin, who has studied the Eu-
ropean war close behind the battle line
in northern France. in a lecture de-
Hvered at New Masonic Temple last
night told the members of the National
Geographic Society about the part
which the English are playing in the
struggle. The lecture was the first
upon the society's program for this sea-
son. Mr.. Irwin was introduced to his
hearers by Secretary Lane
The speaker began his talk by pre-
senting the big leaders who are guild
ing the British empire through the
struggle. Kitchener he called the mys-
terry of the war, and suggested that the
English idol, probably, had fulfilled his
task much better than is generally be-
lieved.
Kitchener had to struggle with the
toughest bureaucracy that the world
has ever KNOWN Mr.. Irwin said. How
much of the munitioning troubles which
the British experienced are to be set
down to the credit of their inelastic and
inefficient system and how much may
be laid to kitchener's door is an open
question"
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few days with her niece. Mrs LIE Ro,
Goff of 1903 California street.
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State Department in Dark
as to Details of Sinking
of italian Liner Ancona

The American consul at Malta cabled
Secretary Lansing today that forty-one
of the crew and four passengers of the
Ancona none of them Americans, had
been landed at Malta by the British
steamer Brodlea.
This one dispatch was the only over
night information received by the State
Department, whose officials still cannot
understand the lack of oa1cial informa-
tion.
Secretary Lansing's view is that the
delay in official advices is attributable
not to Italian censorship, but natural
difficulties in collecting information.
The Secretary said today that dis
patches when received would be given
to the public promptly. No word has
come from Ambassador Page regarding
his conference yesterday with Baron
Sonnino, head of the Italian foreign
government will make a prompt in
vestigation.
Points Not Cleared Up.
AS yet there is nothing official to in
dicate the nationality of the submarine
which attacked the Ancona. or the cir
cumstances of the attack, including the
issue as to whether there was warning.
Despite the fact that all the diplomatic
and consular representatives of the
United States in the vicinity have been
instructed to report, State Department
officials are almost as much in the
dark as they were four days ago In
the continued absence Of official infor-
nation President Wilson and Secretary
Lansing are Withholding judgment and
avoiding comment. -,
1t is believed details probably will
reach here tomorrow. Ambassador
Pages visit to the Italian foreign Office
is expected to develop at least whether
the Ancona was torpedoed without
warning or whether shots were fired
at the vessel after she had stopped. I'm
til definite information is available on
these points any representations to
Austria Hungary will be withheld.
The impression is strong in official
quarters, based upon press dispatches,
that the vessel tried to escape. and that
those of her passengers who were lost
were drowned in the panic that ensued
when she was halted.
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AMERICANS MISSING
FROM Off ANC0NA

Continued from First Page.)
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Mrs. Mary c. Adams has returned to
the city, after an absence of several
months in the mountains of Virginia
and various cities of her state.
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Miss Marie Peary, who has spent the
summer travelling in California and
in Maine, has joined her parents at
their home on Wyoming avenue for
the season.
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Mr.. and Mrs j. Kaufman. formerly of
GEORGETOWN, have moved to 1888 24th
street northwest, the Landmore.
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AUSTRIANS FIGHT BITTERLY AT PREzEMYsL.

PETROGRAD. March 5.-The Aus trians at Prezemysl are reported to be fighting bitterly hoping to stave off the final assault of the Russians until rein forcements can arrive The Austrians yesterday opened up q terrific bonn bardment on the artillery of the Rus sians and for a time threatened to des- troy the hastily constructed earthworks in which the Russian artillery is em- placed. Machine guns rushed against the artillery positions of the enemy compelled the Austrians to desist
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-03-05
GERMANS PLANNING FOUR
 HUNDRED MILE BATTLE LINE

BERLIN, March Ut is announced that the present movement of the German forces along the cast zone Is m pursuance of a plan te stretch d
 inc of troops from l.ibau southWard across Poland and to the northern angle of Roumania. Aided l., the Aus
 lrian forces the plan embraces the holding of the Galician frontier and the ground now ill the possession of the German forces i'll west Poland. The new battle line will be approximately four hundred miles in length The hombardment of the Ossowetz forts is progressing fiercely The general staff consider the line of Russian forts southwest from Grodno, the
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-03-05
ALLIES LOSE SHIP
 ADRIATIC NAVAL BATTLE.

ROME. March 5.-Reports from the westeoast state that the destroyer fleets of the Austrans and tho allies met in the lower Adriatic yesterday and one of the vessels of the latter was sunk in sight of the Italian shore. The classification of the destroyed vessel has not been learned It has been the waters of the Adriatic are being conveyed by British war ships which indicate that the allies have mined the entrance for the purpose of assisting in the blockade of the Austrian ports
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-03-05
CARRANzA, VILLA
 TROUBLE NEAR END

FL PASO. March 5.-Mexican reports declare that the supreme struggle be- tween the great Mexican factions is fast nearing it's end with the odds favoring Villa as his army greatly out numbers that of Carranza
 The armies oe Villa are rapidly hem ming in the smaller forces of his op- ponent and 1t is said to be only mat ter of days before they will be driven into the last ditto. Fierce roitlng Is
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-03-05
LONDON SAYS THAT BUT LITTLE CHANGE IN SITUATION.

LONDON, March 5.--A summary of the war situation. both naval and mill . tary, for the past twenty four hours shows but little change in the situation. But little hghing has taken place along the east and west battle lines. minor gains following artillery actions being recorded along the west The bonn bardment Of the inner forts of the Dar- danelles continues and the fleet is slowly forcing the passage
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-03-05

MEXICO CITY, March 5.-MeXieo City is once again in the grasp of war and the populace are facing q famine due to the stoppage of supplies by the Zapatjst army which is fast closing in from every side To make the situation of the helpless people worse. the Car ranzists hay split into several factions pitched battles between tho partizans Of either faction being of daily occur
The Nome daily nugget., 1915-03-05
RU9 9SlAN FLEET 6OMeAROS TREZi BOND.

PETROGRAD, March 5.-Russian destroyers bombarded the Turkish city of Trezibond yesterday destroying many buildings and completely wreck ing the shore defenses which have been hastily erected by the Turks The fire of the Russian fleet was continued for over three hours. It is reported that the mine sweepers cleared the waters of many mines before the fleet was able to approach the town