The Colorado statesman., 1915-08-21
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ABOUT THE WAR

The English east coast was again
raided by German aircraft. Six per
Bons were killed and twenty-three in
iured.
The Norwegian steamer Albis, 1881
tons gross, and owned in Christiania,
has been sunk by a submarine. Her
crew was saved.
The Russian war office in an Off
rial communication admits the eyacu-
alton of the towns of Sokolow, Siedlce
Ind Lukow, to the east of Warsaw.
General Villa notifies United States
government he will agree to truce
with his opponents during time re-
Quired for holding peace conference.
The British transport Royal Ed
ward was torpedoed and sunk. Six
hundred men were saved out of 1850
troops and 22O other persons on
board.
Reports received in London from
Rumania, Bulgaria and Greece show
that military preparations in those
countries are being carried on with in
tense activity.
The Russians are beginning to evac
uate the fortified railway center of
Bielostok, one of the vital points on
the observation-disclosures line, before
the onward rush of Won Hindenburg's
srmies
Governor Ferguson of Texas ap-
pealed to President Wilson for more
troops in Rio Grande valley, declaring
situation perilous and grave, and is
doubtful if state forces can control it.
"Peign of terror exists on border" he
says.
The Russian fortress of Kovno is
believed about to fall before Won Hin
denburg's attack. German troops I'M
der Gen. Won Eichhorn have stormed
and captured the Notifications defend
ing Kovno, between the Niemen and
Jesia rivers, taking 1000 prisoners
and 240 cannon.
The most significant news concern
ing the near Eastern situation was
contained in a brief dispatch from
Athens stating that former Premier
Venizelos had won a decisive victory
over the government in the organiza-
ton of the Greek Chamber of Depu-
ties. Zavitzatnos was elected presi-
dent, and the Grunaris government
resigned.
WESTERN
Jay II. Neff, former mayor of Kan
sas City, died of heart disease at
Cody Wyo. He was in Wyoming
looking after his stock interests.
Pawn tickets found in his posses
sion led TO the arrest of Manuel Pedis,
Mexican and escaped convict from
the New Mexico state penitentiary, in
Denver.
Twelve business houses, constitut-
ing about half of the mercantile sec
ton of Upper Rochester, New, was
wiped out by fire. The loss is said to
be over 100000.
Forty Texas beeves, the latest that
could be found, were killed, quartered
and dressed for the big barbecue
when Houston becomes the newest of
the worlds seaports.
The Ogden gateway closed by the
Union Pacific In furtherance of pur-
pose to develop its own territory, has
been declared legal in decision rem.
dered by the Interstate Commerce
Commission.
Former President Taft, in an ad-
dress at ST. Louis before the Business
Mems League, criticized the chairman
of the Industrial Relations Commits
sion for his statement that he did not
have judicial poise.
Galveston, Tex, is safe and the wa
ter in the streets is receding, accord
ing to a wireless message direct from
Galveston. The message estimated
the loss due to the flood at more than
$5OOO,OOO. Three persons persisted.
WASHINGTON
The State Department made public
the reply of the United States reject
ing views set forth by the Austro-
Hungarian government in recent
note contending that expectation of
war munitions from America to Aus
tria's enemies was conducted on such
a scale as to be mot in consonance
with the definition of neutrality"
Though friendly in tone the note
tlatly denies the Austro Hungarian
contentious.
Destitution and starvation face the
women and children of Haiti, Admiral
Caperton advised the Navy Depart
ment.
The United States in a note to
Ausria-Hungary, published, firmly
but politely declines to accede to the
request of the Vienna government
that the export of arms to the allies
De stopped.
In round numbers there were 90
100000 persons enrolled in educa-
tional institutions in the United
States in 1914, according to the an
nual report OF the commissioner of
education.