The Alaska citizen., 1915-05-03
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 GETTING READY.
 ROME. April 26.-Refugees arriv- ing from the frontier report that the Austrians have strongly fortified that portion of the dual monarchy bordering on Italy.
 AMERICAN BOATS SEIZED.
 PETROGRAD. April 26.-Reports received from Athens state that two vessels flying the American flag have been seized by warships of the allied fleet and taken to the Island of Lemnos. It is asserted that the Cargoes of the vessels consist of con traband of war The ships are the Irs ina and the Mazda.
 CHARGED WITH TREASON.
 VENICE. April 26. Charged with attempting 10 sell to foreign powers the railroad plans for the mobilization of the Italian army. two trusted employees of the technical of ice oA tke Italian railroad were placed under arrest today on the chargS of high treason. BREAD RIOTS FREQUENT.
 ROME. April 26.-Advices receiv- ed from Trieste state that many ar rests have been made there in con sequence of the bread riots which have been of almost daily occurrence during the past several days, result ing from the shortage of food.
 DECISION RENDERED.
 MONTREAL, April 27.-The ad- miralty court has handed down a decision today in which the Danish collier Storstadt is blamed for the wreck of the liner Empress of Ire land, which was rammed and sunk in the Gulf of St. Lawrence last May, with a loss of many lives. No blame is attached to the master 1r crew of the liner.
 WOMEN EN ROUTE. ROTTERDAM, April 27. The steamship Noorham. which is bring ing number of women delegates to the Hague peace conference, was released by the British government today and permitted to resume the yoHge to the tribunal.
 USING BOMBS. PARIS, April 27 An internal machine with clockwork attachment, was found today in the office of the Turkish minister of war at Constan- tinople the bomb being timed to ex- plode during the session of the Turkish council. The discovery was made few minutes before the hour set for the meeting.
 The reports received from the Turkish capital state that the allies are suspected of being at the bot tom of what is regarded as a con spiracy to destroy the Turkish gov ernment.
 TORTURE SUSPECTS.
 CONSTANTINOPLE, April 27.- Several attendants of government officers, who have been arrested on suspicion that they know something about the internal machine found, are being tortured in an attempt to force confessions from them.
 Had the bomb exploded according to the calculations of the conspira- tors, Enver Pasha, Turkish minister of war; Field Marshal von de GoltZ and General Liman von Sanders un- doubtedly would have been killed.
 AMERICAN CHOSEN.
 THE HAGUE, April 2s.-Jane Addams, settlement worker of Chi CdSO, IdS Dtcu SSlCSlCu pVI chairman of the International Con- gross of Women, which is now in session here in the interests of peace The choice was unanimous but in other matters there is con siderable dscord among the dele gates.
 SOMETHING COMING UP.
 LONDON, April 2S.-The belief is general in local military circles that the latest German drive toward the French coast was preliminary to a move of greater magnitude,
 SWEDEN PROTESTS.
 LONDON, April 28.-The Swedish government has entered vigorous protest against Germany's action in Dlockading Swedish shipping.
 THEY HAD A RACE.
 LONDON, April 2S.-The British steamship Denady, which has just arrived at Havre, reports having had sensational run from Ger man submarine.
 SURVIVORS LAND.
 ROME, April 29. One hundred and thirty-five survivors of the French Cruiser Leon Gambetta, which was torpedoed yesterday by an Austrian submarine, have landed at Syracuse, on the east coast of Sicily
 Reports received from Cape Santa Maria di Leuca, where 56 of the French sailors were buried with full military honors by Italian soldiers, state that 518 went down with the cruiser, including the commander "ho refused 10 leave the vessel,
 The survivors report that large part of the starboard side of the cruiser was blown away by the tor pedo.
 BOMBS KILL 30
 LONDON, April 29.-Thirty per sons are reported to have been killed at Calais as the result of bombs dropped in that city during the past two days by German aero planes. Several aeroplanes and a Zeppelin passed over the city to- day, but only one of the former dropped bombs.
 The allies retaliated by lombard ing the German Zeppelin sheds at Friedrichshafen.
 Several German and Austrian aero planes are reported to have been captured on tae Russian frontier.
 SMALLPOX IN ARMENIA.
 LONDON, April 29.-According to advices received this week from va rious points in Armenia. that DOT tion of the Eastern war zone is being swept by smallpox and typhus. Thousands of Turkish soldiers are