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WEEKS NEWS BY
TICK AND FLASH
What Interests the World Chron-
icled by Telegraph and Gable.
GLANCE AT FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Washington Looms Large as a Center
OF Observation-Disclosures Busy In
& Many States-The Lights and
Shadows OF the News.
GLANCE AT FOREIGN AFFAIRS
War b uIIe

Constantly bringing up reserves, Ger
mans hacked away at the solid British
French-Belgian line which bars the
way to the Channel ports, in a deter
mined effort to bring the war nearer
to the English coast.
Both Paris and London tell of in
letting heavy losses on the Germans,
who are again said to be using as
phyxiating gases, but make no definite
claims OF any great progress.
Nothing daunted by their enormous
losses, the Germans continued their
desperate efforts to break the Allies
line north of Ypres and thus open a
road to Dunkirk and Calais on the
English Channel.
Canadian regiments were badly cut
UP in the fighting around Ypres. Ac-
cording to official advices the ~severest
losses occurred when the infantry
charged the German lines and recap
tured four heavy pieces OF artillery.
British submarines essayed to raid
the German naval base in Heligoland
Bay, but were driven back, leaving
n of their number a. the bottom OF
the sea, according to an announce
ment by the German Admiralty.
The Allied fleet bombarded Turkish
encampments neal Bulair, the posi-
ton of which previously had been
indicated by aviators. An allied aero
plane dropped bombs on Tchesme, in
the Gulf of Smyrna.
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Washington

The national board of management
of the Daughters of the American Rev
olution met in Washington to consider
the foundation of a national university
by the society.
AS a result of about 80 failures
among prospective West Point cadets
In the March examinations, Secretary
Garrison ordered an additional exam
nation for May 25 next, to be held at
16 army posts in all parts OF the
country.
Smallpox, typhus and other diseases
are spreading in Mexico City, adding
largely t the death roll caused by the
revolution, according to advices re-
ceived at the State Department.
The Department of State has given
out a notice containing the conditions
which must be complied with by AM
erican purchasers of merchandise in
Germany in order to enable them to
obtain their property.
According to a statement issued at
the Swiss Legation at Washington,
business conditions are practically
normal again, and there is an abund-
ant supply of foodstuffs in Switzer-
land.
Application to organize the Atlas
Exchange National Bank of Chicago,
capital 5000, 900, was received by the
Controller Of the Currency.
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CLAIMS ON CHINA
MORE STRINGENT
Toxic ReVises Many Demands
in Her Latest Note TO Pekin
GROUP v. MADE STRONGER
China Charges That Foreign Minister
Was Trapped = Statements Made
by Him Now Regarded
by Japan az Pledges.

Peking.-Pledges that China shall
ask Japan to appoint many Japanese
advisers" in time of crisis and that
the republic shall grant Japanese the
right to rent or lease land are re-
quired in the new draft of Tokio's de-
mands submitted to the Chinese gov
eminent. The Chinese say this last
provision would open the entire coun-
try to the japanese.
The new draft is in the hands of the
Chinese Foreign Minister, Lu Cheng-
Hsiang. President Yuan Shih-Kai and
his advisers have carefully examined
the demands as amended, but no de,
cision has been reached, and they are
likely to be the subject Of further dis
cussions.
Group l of the original demands has
not been altered from the form to
which the Chinese government has al
ready agreed.
The second article of Group 3,
bearing on the property rights and in
terests Of the Hany Ehping Company.
is eliminated, but the first article Of
that group is made stronger by requir-
ing that China shall promptly compel
the shareholders Of the Hany Ehping
Company to accept the formation of a
joint company, which shall include the
two nations.
The new draft entirely reconstructs
Group 5 in a manner which the Chi
nese representatives declare is more
m%enacing, because, they say. the
amendments are based on statements
which Lu Cheng-Hsiang made in the
conferences with the Japanese Min
lister Ekihioki and NJ. Obata, and
which, it is alleged. the japanese are
attempting to designate as pledges
from China.
1t is further declared that the Chi
nese Foreign Minister permitted him
self to be drawn into a discussion OF
these demands, which Yuan Shit-Kai
had instructed him to refuse to dis
cuSS.
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WORLDS NEWS IN
CONDENSED FORM

ADVANTAGEOUS sIaton has
received more than $4,000 letters ask
ing clemency for Leo NJ. Frank, SEN
fenced to die as the slayer OF Mary
Phagan.
WASHINGToN.-An appeal for re-
lief of Armenian Christians in Turkey.
following reported massacres and
threatened further outrages, was made
to the Turkish Government by the
United States.
LoNDON.-The British Government
has prohibited the expectation Of raw
cotton % foreign ports in Europe. ON
the Mediterranean and on the Black
Sea.
NEW YoRK-John Bunny, the fa-
nous comedian of motion pictures.
died at his home in Flatbush, Brook
Ign, after a Jour weeks illness, of q
complication of diseases.
WASHINGTON. = Greece offered
$17.5OO.O00 to Argentine for the new
dreadnought Moveno. recently com
pleted at Camden. N. J.. for the South
American republic.
LONDON.-The steamer Noordams
with forty American women delegates
to The Hague Peace Congress, is an
chored in the Downs, unable to OBJ
tain permission to proceed to Rotter-
dam.
NEW YoRK=Frederiek W. Sew
ard, son of William H. Seward, Preai-
dent Lincoln's Secretary of State, died
in the e~ighty-hfth year of his age, at
his home, Montrose-on-the-H Hudson.
RoME.-The Naples police have dis
covered a cargo of army uniforms and
material, boots and foodstuffs consign-
ed to Austrian shippers, cunningEy
concealed in wine barrels.
5ERLiN.-The negotiations with the
United States for the removal OF the
German prohibition OF the expectation
of potash salts have reached the stage
where a successful issue seems prob
able
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Sporting

The owners of the motion picture
rights of the Willard-Johnson fight are
about to make a determined effort to
bring the fight films into this coun-
try in spite of the Federal statute
which prohibits the importation of
prize-fght pictures.
Melbourne Inman, the English bill
lizard champion, met with a big III
prise in his first game in London since
arriving from his extended tour of the
United tSates and Canada. Conced-
ing Faulkner 5000 points start in a
game of $500 UP, the champion lost
by SIS points.
Harry Vardon and Edward Ray, two
of Great Britain's premier profession
al golf players, will sail for the Uni
ted States May Is. They will compete
in the American open championship.
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PITH OF THE
WAR NEWS

The forest of Argonne, the Meuse hills,
the forest of Ally and Hartmans-
Weilerkopf were some of the places
attacked by the Allies.
In the eastern war zone the campaign
at present occupies a secondary po-
sition to the operations in Flanders
and against the DardanelIes. Aus
tria announced a IulI in the fighting
following a Russian reverse
A Turkish official communication said,
when the enemy's fleet approached
the Straits our fire sank one of their
torpdo boats and damaged another
81 severely that it had to be towed
to Tenedos."
In both London and Paris it was said
the German sweep was costly to the
Allies and hard work lies before
their armies in order to restore the
situation.
The Germans with augmented men,
bers and undated vigor pushed
their offensive in the heights of the
Mouse, but failed in several at
tempts to capture Les Eparges.
The assaults of the Germans on the
Allies in France has caused a mark
ed increase in the number OF en-
listments in Great Britain "Men"
and "stilI more men" Is the cry of
the British Mar Ministry.
The heavily reinforced Germans made
another rush in the Woevre. The
sending of the large bodies of troops
to the west was made possible by
the state of the ground on the east
ern front.
Dispatches from L~emberg, GaIicia,
state that Emperor Nicholas, accom-.
panied by Grand Duke Nicholas and
his staff, visited Przemysl.
From Mytilene it is reported that two
German a~eropianes which threw
bombs on Tenedos were both hit by
shraPnel and brought down. The
fate of the airmen was not mention
ed in the dispatch.
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GERMAN SUCCESS NEAR YPREs.

London.-An announcement by Ber-
lin that the Germans had captured four
villages near Ypres, 1000 French and
British troops and thirty cannon, in
GLIDING four heavy British guns, was
followed by an admission by Field
Marshal Sir John French that the AL
lies had met with a reverse.
The British commander attributed
the retreat of the Allies to the S by
the Germans of bombs generating an
asphyxiating gas which overwhelmed
the soldiers with their fumes. Hhe
charged the Kaiser's army with violat-
ing the terms of The Hague conven-
ton.
In the neighborhood of Bixshoote
and Langemarck, on the north side of
the Ypres salient, the Allies were
driven back to the Ypres Canal.
The German attack marked the be-
ginning of a new battle for Ypres.
The effect of the gas bombs is said
to have been felt about a mile and a
quarter behind the French line.
General French asserts the front of
the Allies remained intact except on
the extreme left, where the British
had to radjust their line to conform
with the new French line.
Following their failure to recapture
Hill No. 60 after repeated Attempts in
which they inflicted and sustained
heavy losses, the Kaiser's forces have
begun an offensive from the northeast
against the Anglo-French line north
of Ypres, which was the scene of many
bloody encounters last fall, and also
against the Belgian line further west.
Paris announced the capture of al
most half a mile of German trenches
near st. Mihiel, the southern extrem-
lty OF the German wedge, which they
were attempting for several weeks
to force back.
Heavy artillery duels were in pro-
gress in the distcirt between the
Mouse and Moselle, and the French
were admitted by Berlin to have pene-
trated parts of the advanced German
trenches between ALLY and Apremont,
where fighting at close quarters con
tinues.
A bombardment by the French also
forced the Germans to ~evacuate the
village of Embremeuil to the west of
Agricourt.
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General

Chicago's new mayor, William Hale
Thompson, was inaugurated with a
parade having 10000 in line.
After voting it's approval of the big
gest budget in the history of the State
of New York, the Legislature ad-
journed..
Preparations have been made to re
move the bronze horses on top of St.
Marks at Venice to safety in the event
of Italy entering the war.
A new worlds record altitude flight
of 10000 feet in a hydro-aeroplane was
made by Lieut.. p. N l.. Bellinger, at
the navy aeronautical station at Pen
sacola, Fla.
The Tilton Manufacturing Co., mills
at Valley Falls, R. l., idle for two
a were sold to R. A. Dana for
$177, 900 and will operations
at once.
The Council of Bellefonte Penna,
has prohibited fishing from sidewalks.
The town is the only one in the State
where a trout stream runs directly
through the business section.
A memorial addressed to President
Wilson, signed by 10000 Belgian refu-
gees now in Holland and expressing
gratitude for the aid America has e
tended to Belgium, was mailed at The
Hague.
Mrs. Charles Withers Sumpter of
Roanoke was selected by the Confed-
crate Veterans of Virginia as the
| States sponsor at the United Confed-
crate Veterans reunion, to be held at
Richmond ON June 2
An earthquake shock rocked build
ings and created a panic in Tacoma,
Wash. No serious damage was re-
ported.
BY the margin of one vote, that OF
the speaker, cast to decide a tie. pro
hibition in Halifax, N. S., was de-
feated.
Cornelius Vanderbilt will be chair
man of Mayor Mitchel's committee to
welcome the Atlantic Fleet during its
maneuvers off New York Harbor.
Twelve persons were killed, and
more than a score injured when two
retail stores at Birmingham, Ala.
were demolished by a falling wall.
Eight well filed ice houses on the
shore of Crystal Lake, Newton, Mass.
were burned at a loss of 5000.
Leo M. Frank, under sentence OF
death in Atlanta, for the murder OF
Mary Phagan, filed with the State
Prison Commissions secretary his pc
tition for a Communication to life i'm.
prisonment.
Marquis de lena, Spanish foreign
minister. announced at a Cabinet
meeting held in Madrid that France
had consented to allow the free tran
sit of aniline dyes, oxalic acid and
other chemical products between Italy
md Spain
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GERMAN DRIVE IN FLANDERS IS CHECKED
BRITISH RETAKE LOST TOWN OF LzERNE
ALLIED TROOPS CAPTURE DARDANELLES FORT
Kun KaIe Occupied by Landingforce After Violent Land
and Sea Attack
pETRocRAD CLAIMS AUSTRIAN REPULsE IN THE cARPATHIAM

Paris.-Kum Kale, the Turkish for.
tress at the entrance to The Darda-
nelles on the Asiatic side, was cap
tured by the Allies after an exceed.
lngly violent and spectacular assault.
Allied battleships bombarded the
Turkish position from both sides of
the Gallipoli Peninsula, covering the
advance of the landing party, while
the Turks responded vigorously.
The British Wal Office and Admir-
atty said Troops landed in Gallipoli
Peninsula are thoroughly making
good their footing with the effective
help of the navy"
The German rush north of Ypres,
which gained them three miles seems
to have spent its strength and the
British assumed the offensive in a
strong effort to dislodge the enemy
before he had a chance to dig himself
IN his newly gained positions.
Apparently the Allies attack met
with success at some points. The Ber-
lin n London reports agreed that
the Germans were forced out of Ii
zerne, their lately captured position on
the west bank of the canal nearest
Calais, and the British War Office
said the French also retook Het Sas,
on the east bank, which means they
crossed the canal.
h German official bulletin record.
ed no gains. but seemed to indicate
that the Allies, in a general offensive
move, launched many new attacks.
All of these, the bulletin said, failed
to gain.
P~etrograd told of a severe Austrian
repulse in the Carpathians and the
capture of an Austrian battalion near
Stry.
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The Uruguayan delegates to the
Pan-American Financial Conference.
arrived at Santiago, Chile, on their
way to the United States.
Five hundred extra hands were
placed at work to fill large war or
ders by the American Wooden Co., at
Moosup,. Conn.
John Bunny, popular movie" come
dian, died at his home in New York,
aged So.
DR.. Pablo Desdernine, Cuban Secre-
tary of State, will represent Cuba at
the Pan-American Financial Confer
ence in Washington on May "a.
Fire that broke out in the army hay
stores at Florence, Italy, was discov-
cred and extinguished before much
damage was done. The fire was in
cendiary.
Secret Service agents have been in
New Rochelle, Port Chester, and
White Plains, N. Y, trying to get
trace of c~ounterfeiters who are circu-
lating spurious IS bills.
Despite the fact that the West Vir-
ginia Legislature failed to appropriate
funds for the support Of the State
militia after June 30, most of the
companies now in service will o
tinue.
The gunboat Concord, one of the
Manila Bay battle fleet, and one of the
first steel ships of the navy, was
turned over to the Treasury Depart
ment for use as a quarantine ship in
Puget Sound.
The Norwegian bark Vile de
Dieppe, Havre for New York, crashed
into the United States dispatch boat
Dolphin at quarantine in New York
harbor. Neither was seriously in
jured.
John Shackleford, 16, champion boy
golfer of New Jersey, died at Atlantic
City after an operation for injuries to
his spine received in making a dive
in a swimming race
William H. Reed, instructor in geol-
ogy and paleontology at the University
of Wyoming, died at his home in Lara
ME, Wyo.
DR.. Richard P. Strong, professor of
tropical diseases in the Harvard Medi-
cal School, arrived at Nish, Servia, to
fight the epidemic of typhus.
The crew of the German "warship"
Aysha, composed of men who escaped
when the cruiser Emden was sunk by
an Australian warship in the Indian
Ocean on November 10, escaped again
from allied patrol ships and arrived at
the Arabian harbor of Lidd.
Seized with religious mania, Clar-
enc Dalters, twenty-four, hot and
committed suicide at Springfield, Ohio.
German provinces adjoining Switzer-
land are taking comprehensive meas
ures against the spread of disease
through the medium of flies and mos
puitoes.
About 300 men, idle six months, re-
turned to work when furnace No. 3 of
the Carnegie Steel Co., at Newcastle,
Pa, was placed in operation.
Inspector Faurot and sixty detec-
tives left New York Police Headduar-
tiers and arrested SO persons who are
at the heads OF So-called med1ca in
stitutes."
Governor Philip of Wisconsin or
dered the shutdown of the State pris-
on binding Irvine factory, as he asserts
that it is being operated at an annu-
al loss of 100000.
Congressman John M. Faison of the
Third North Carolina District, was
found dead at his home at Goldsboro,
N. c., with a bullet in his head. No
weapon was found near the body.
President Wilson committed the SEN
tence of Joseph P. Clark, of New York,
sentenced to seven years for counter
feiting, so that the sentence will ex-
pire when he has served a year and a
day.
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Foreign

Out of lat charitable organizations
formed in Paris since the war began,
76 are swindles, according to the
Paris "Matin."
The Society for the Protection of
Animals in Rome announced if Italy
goes to war, it will maintain four big
hospitals for sick and wounded horses.
Chinese residents of Honolulu 1T a
mass meeting decided to send appeals
to President Wilson and the British
Foreign Office asking them to aid
China in resisting japanese demands.
The trawler Envoy, believed to have
been sunk by a German submarine,
was brought safely into the Tyne.
A son was born to Lady DecteS of
London, formerly Miss HelaE Vdvien
Gould of New York.
Residents of the province of Avez-
zano. Italy, were panic stricken by a
severe earthquake shock.
In the name of the Frenchwoman's
Crusade, leading societies in France
declined invitations to them to partici-
pate in the Women's Peace Confer
enc at The Hague.
Berlin tsolice seized the books of the
Women's bank, there, in connection
with proceedings instituted against the
bank by the Crown Prosecutor for al
legged fraud and misuse of deposits.
Adele Hugo, youngest daughter OF
Victor Hugo, the poet, died at her
villa in S~uresnes, a suburb of Paris.
Three transatlantic steamers were
held up at Glasgow by a strike of 500
seamen.
The French Cabinet decided that
war orphans should be cared for by
the State.
Estimated value of German property
in Great Britain now in the custody
of the Public Trustee was given as
about $425, 900, 900.
A famous Stradivarius violin sold in
London for the benefit Of the Red
Gross. brought S19.500
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London.-The winning or ground
near Ypres. in Flanders, by the Ger
man army, reinforced by half a million
fresh troops; the announcement OF a
general attack on the Dardanelles by
the combined ieet of $50 ships OF all
grades supported by a big allied army
and a renewal OF active operations in
the Carpathians under improved
weather conditions were the dominant
features of the developments in the
war situation.
The tremendous battle, begun by the
Cerman attack on the arc-like front
of about fifteen miles around Ypres on
the plains of the Belgian province, con-
tinued with undated fury.
The British official report admitted
that the village of St. Julien, for
which a terrific struggle was made,
had been taken by the Germans and
that the British lines ran south OF that
place.
London said the British troops to
the east of Ypres bore the brunt of re-
peated heavy attacks which they stub
bornly opposed in an entirely unex-
pected situation and met with gallan-
try and fortitude.
The British repulsed several charges
in which they faced asphyxiating gas
es and captured several German off,
GERS and men.
The military critics unite in calling
the present clash on the western front
the greatest battle Of the war"
Whatever are the intentions Of the
Germans, they are admitted to have
made a successful coup, which, al
though it did not break, did dent the
allies line.
The Canadians, who were holding
the British part of the lines, were the
first to recover themselves, and in a
counter attack ~recaptured the ground
they had been compelled to give up.
Since then they have successfully
withstood the German assaults.
The British War Office and Admir-
atty issued a report on the operations
in The Dardanelles, which said that
in spite of serious opposition troops
have been successfully landed at va
rious points on the Gallipoli Peninsula
and that their advance continued.
The allied airmen played an import
ant part in the operations, in search
ing out and dropping bombs on the
Turkish guns and trenches and direct
ino tho fro of tho warshiDS which Gov
cred the landing of the troops.
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RAIDER ENDS CAREER
Kronprinz Wilhelm Interns at New
port Long Before Time Expires.

kronprinz Wilhelm Interns at New
port Long Before Time Expires.
Misunderstanding under orders
from the German government, and
many days prior to the expiration OF
her time, the Krorprinz Wilhelm end
ed her sensational career as a COM
merce destroyer by interning at New
port News.
This action came as a surprise to
naval officers, who had believed. be-
cause the Kronprinz was faster than
the Eitel and because she started
loading 1,400 tons of coal. that she
would make a dash to sea.
Notice of the Kronprinz's decision to
intern was delivered to the govern
ment within an hour Of the signing by
Secretary Daniels of the report by Of
ficials of the survey board on the
amount Of coal and supplies, and the
the repairs necessary for the Kron-
prinz to reach the nearest German
port. This report would have allowed
the Kronprinz 1,400 tons of coal and a
vast quantity of supplies.
When the Eitel put in her requisi-
ton for supplies, one of the items vas
a large quantity of beer. With twice
the crew of the Eitel. the Kronprinz's
failure to ask for any beer was joking
ly said to be absolutely indicative that
the Kronprinz intended to intern. or
that she had a small brewing plant
on board.
There was much speculation in navy
circles as to why the decision of the
Kronprinz to intern was so promptly
announced. 1t was argued that had
she kept her intentions quiet she
would have held the five allied war
ships off the capes until she interned.
which would seem to be good strategy.