The Alaska citizen., 1915-07-26
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 NEWS BY WIRE

lSLWU Dl NuL AERO7LANE TAKEN | ROME. July i9.-While an Aus | trian aeroplane was bombarding Bari, l the fire of the Italian guns and the 1 hot pursuit of the Italian airmcn 1 forced the Austrian aeroplane to seek | safety in the sea. They were picked l ID and their craft was taken to l Bari The men made no resistance. SUBMARINES MAY BE LOST.
 PARIS. July 19-Two Austrian ! submarines that have been recon noitering off the Italian coast have i been lost. according to a report re | ceived in this city today Whether they were sunk. captured or destroyed
 is not stated in the dispatch.
 KING ON FIRING LINE.
 ROME, July 19.-The king has not returned from the firing line. He has | been with his troops most of the l time since the war began, and is still
 with them. l. is not known when l he will return to Rome
 WOMEN PARADE LONDON, July 19.-Fcrty thous- md women paraded the streets of 1 this city Saturday. The women were suffragettes. and it is the first demon stration that they have made since
 war was declared almost a year ago. The parade was a most orderly
 one.
 TRY TO KILL OFFICIAL. HONGKONG. July l9.-An at l tempt on the life of the governor
 general of Canton was made here | today. when an unknown native threw a bomb at the carriage in which the official was riding. The i bomb exploded, injuring the gover- nor His injuries, while painful, are not fatal The would-be assassin was arrested by the authorities. He re l fuses to make any statement. MAY TAKE MINES. LONDON. July 19.-There is a strong probability that the British 1 government will take over the coal mines in Wales. The inability of | the employers and the strikers to ] come to an agreement, and the ab | solute necessity for keeping the mines open at this time make it look l exceedingly favorable for government 1 intervention. Just what the govern ment will do in case the mines are 1 taken over is not known. but 1t is
 supposed that they will allow the companies owning the properties certain sum per ton for the product 1 mined.
 STRIKE ENDS. l LONDON. July 20-According to an announcement made this after noon the strike in the South Wales coal district has been declared off and the mines are now resuming operations. Through the efforts of | Premier Asquith a compromise was reached between the strikers and | the owners of the mines
 FLEET DESTROYED. LONDON. July 20.-A fleet of 59 | Turkish sailing vessels, laden with 1 war material and other supplies des- 1 tined for Trebizond, Turkey in Asia. ! is reported to have been destroyed 1 by Russian torpedo boats. The mem bers of the crews were taken prison | CTS.
 ASQUITH WANTS MONEY. | LONDON, July 20-Premier As quith has made another request for funds for war purposes. He wants | E750 900 600.
 M SlN ' IOOC LiVcS | WASHINGTON, D. C., July 20.- | Official adyices received in this city today from China state that between eighty and one hundred thousand | inhabitants of the provinces adjacent to Canton lost their lives in the floods which swept Southern China several days ago. In addition to the number drowned, thousands are home less.
 FIFTY SAILORS DIE.
 ROME, July 21-The admiralty announces today that five hundred of the crew of the Italian warship Garibaldi which was attacked yes terday by German submarines es- capped with their lives. Fifty went down with the vessel.
 MAY CONDEMN COTTON. LONDON, July 21.-Numerous i leading newspapers of this country are advocating placing cotton on the contraband list as a means of per hitting further interference with the shipping to Germany. A number of government officials look upon the plan with favor
 BOMBS DROPPED. PARIS, July -Thirty-one French dtGopldlleS pdilltIpdttu III ldlu today on the German position at Constanz. Scores of bombs were dropped and considerable damage is reported by returning aviators, all of whom escaped injury
 MORE SHIPS SUNK.
 LONDON, July 22.-The admiralty announces tonight that a Swedish bark and two Norwegian barks are on fire in the North sea as the result of attacks made upon them today by German submarines. The re ports state that the vessels undoubt- edly would have sunk but for the character of their cargoes. The barks were enroute to England. CANADA SORROWS MONEY. MONTREAL, July 22.-Advices received in this city today from New York announce the success of the Dominion governments efforts to se cure a loan of $40,000,000, made necessary by depressed conditions re- sulting from the war in Europe. The loan was negotiated through the firm of J. P Morgan X Go.
 ALLIES PRAY.
 LONDON, July 22.-August fourth, the first anniversary of the com mencement of the present war, has been set apart as a day for the British nation to invoke the aid of the divine Creator There are S50,- OOD n, io5 man now ir, tho ranlyc of