, 1915-06-02
Censored At Jamaica.)

London, May 3Oth..-Further dispatches
from ST. Nazaire state that the French Liner
tLa Champagne" which went aground off
that coast, broke in two aud is u total wreck.
The Elder Dempster steamship "Ethiope"
has been sunk 10y the German submarine
u "a. She was outward bound for the
Gold Coast. The chief officer and sixteen of
the crew have landed at Falmouth. Sixteen
others are missing and ere believed to be
adrift in a boat.
Lieutenant Towers and Naval Constructor
Mcbride, Attaches to the American Embassy
in London, after an examination of the
steamer Nebraska" have reported to Wash
iDgton that she was torpedoed.
A despatch from Friedrichshafen, Lake
Constance, states that the Zeppelin which
raided Southend on Wednesday was struck
by a British shell! and that owing to the ie-
sultant loss of gas it was unable to reach the
mainland and fell into the sea off Heligo-
land. The fate of the crew is unknown. To
replace this vessel a Zeppelin of the newest
type recently completed will leave Friedrich
shafen shortly.
The italian troops invading the Trentino
have occupied the town of Stare and are
now Smelling Riva, on the northern end of
Lake Garda. On the eastern from the invad-
ers have reached Gradisca, sixteen miles
from Trieste. Big guns are echoing through
the Alpine passes east of Lake Garda, where
n violent artillery battle for the possession
of the narrow railway defle leading to Ro-
vcredo has begun. The fighting in the
Adige valley has beer overshadowed by the
conflict along the Isonzo river.
There is q panic among the Austrians in
Trieste as the Italians continue to progress
eastward. The Municipal authorities have
AnI T,Op, kho o;kU laoviuv Mro;o;ooJ oAe.;.o
in the hands of a committee who are unable
or unwilling to check anti-Italian riots, which
seriously threaten the lives Of the Italians
who are unable to depart. The troops have
been withdrawn to the outside of the CITY
and the advance of the Italians on the city
may mean its destruction by the Austrians.
New York, May 30th.- The State Depart
ment at Washington announces that the
United States Ambassador at Berlin has
been informed by the German Foreign Office
that, in view of the fact that during the past
few weeks it las repeatedly occurred that
neutral ships have been sunk in waters
designated as the area of maritime war by
the German Admiralty, especially i'll one
case where it was established that the sink
ing was traceable to an attack by a German
submarine which took a oeutral ship for an
English vessel in the darkness, on account
of the inadequate illumination of its neutral
and distinctive markings, it is therefore re-
commended that American shipping circles
should again be warned against traversing tue
area of maritime war incautiously, and that
they should also be urged to make their
neutral markings as plain as possible and
especially to have them illuminated promptly
and sufficiently at night.
This is interpreted as a declaration of
Germany's intention not to alter her sub
marine policy, while temporizipg regarding
the "Lusitania". It is minated that Pre-
sident Wilson is disposed to require the
cessation of attacks on American lives or
ships as the condition for continuing The
negotiations, and there is some encourage