The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-06-04
BIG FIGHTING SHIPS
MEET THEIR DOOM
ENGLAND LOSES BIG MEN!o-WAR
IN THE DARDANELLES FIGHT
ING AGAINST THE TURKS.
French AIRMEN MAKE RAID
italians Have Advanced Far Into Aus
tria and Have Taken Several
Small ToWns-Germans
Press Russians Hard.
News of Moment From War Fronts.

News OF Moment from war FRONTS
Submarines play an important part
in the latest events connected with
the European war. The battleship
Majestic has been sent to the bottom
off Gallipoli peninsula by German
torpedo.
The British steamer Morwenna was
sunk not far from the Old Head of
Kinsale, where the Lusitania disaster
occurred, and the Danish steamer
Betty was disposed Of in the North
Sea- both by German submarines.
Another tragedy of the sea has OC.
Cured at Sheerness, where the Brit
ish auxiliary steamer Princess Irene
has been blown up by an accidental
explosion on board More than 800
lives are reported to have been lost
in this disaster, the ship being blown
to fragments.
The British submarine Eli has
made a long trip under mine fields,
part of the way through the Darda-
neIles and the Sea of Marmora up to
| the very waters Of Constantinople, a
distance of approximately 200 miles
In the course of this expedition she
sank an ammunition vessel in the Sea
of Marmora, torpedoed a supply ship
at Rodosto and discharged a torpedo
at a transport along the arsenal at
Constantinople, the effect of which
is not known,
What is officially described as "the
greatest aerial exploit yet accom-
plished during the war" has been car
ried out by a squadron of French aero
planes numbering eighteen, which
dropped bombs on the great explosives
factory at LudWigshafen and an an
mex near Oppau, which are declared
by the French war office to have set
the factory buildings on fire. Short
ly after the raid the entire section
where the factories were located was
enveloped in vast clouds of smoke.
The king of Italy has taken su-
preme command of the army and navy
and now is with his troops at the
| front. On the Austro-Italian frontier
and for few miles in Austrian ter
ritory, the Italian lines stretch for a
distance of fifty miles or more. In
| their forward movement the Italians
have occupied several towns and are
striking eastward toward Trieste.
Another British battleship, the Tri-
umph, has fallen a victim In the op-
erations in the Dardanelles. A tor
pedo, whether German or Turkish is
not known, sent her to the bottom.
The British admiralty reports that
probably most of the officers and crew
were saved.
The British are reported by Paris to
have made fresh advance near La
Bassee. The British war office says
that in this region since May / the
British have pierced the German line
for a total front of over three miles.
The American steamer Nebraskan,
Captain Green, from Liverpool May "a
for Delaware Breakwater, was either
torpedoed Wednesday by a submarine
or struck on a mine at a point forty
miles west-southwest of Fastnet, off
the south coast Of Ireland. The Ne
braskan is on her way back to Liver
pool.
Italy has addressed to the neutral
governments of the world lengthy
communication explaining her reasons
for declaring war on Austria Count
di Cellere, the Italian ambassador at
Washington, presented the document
to Secretary Bryan Tuesday in the
form Of note to the United States
government.
1t reviews negotiations between
Italy and Austria revealing that they
began Immediately upon the dispatch
of Austria's ultimatum to Serbia.
Italy claimed then that the action of
Austria disturbed the equilibrium Of
the Balkans and the peace of Europe
in way that vitality affected Italian
| interests. AS an ally of Austria, Italy
asserts the right to have been con.
suited before the sending of the ulti-
matum, the first news of which was
received through the newspapers
Failing to obtain through diplo-
macy the satisfaction of her territorial
and national aspirations, Italy an
nounces in the note that declaration
of war was the only means of safe.
guarding her position in Europe.
The Austrian cruiser Helgoland
and three torpedo boat destroyers en-.
countered two Italian torpedo boat de-
stroyerS near Barletta, one of which
escaped, but the other of which was
struck by a shell and compelled to
surrender in sinking condition.
The Austrian destroyers rescued
thirty-fiVe men of the crew of the Ital.
ian boat, including its commander,
Rome officially announces that the
Italians have occupied number Of
comparatively important towns and
have compelled the Austrians to re.
treat This in brief summarizes the
first thirty-six hours of the newest