The Holly chieftain., 1915-04-09
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About the War

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
About the War
Belgrade has again been bombarded
by Austrian guns, while Austrian air.
men have dropped bombs on Cettinje,
the Montenegrin capital.
Copenhagen official lists of German
casualties up to March 81 contain l.
100000 names. The official list issued
month before contained 1,25O.0O0
names.
A German protest and threat of re-
prisals on account of the treatment by
Great Britain of the prisoners taken
on board German submarines was
made public at London.
Ministers throughout England ON
Easter Sunday urged people to adopt
prohibition. Labor men resented
charge that delay in getting war mu-
nitions was due to alcohol.
It is officially announced at Petro-
grad that Colonel Myassoyedoff, who
was. attached as interpreter to the
staff Of the Tenth army, proved to be
q German spy. and was tried by court
martial and hanged.
The British losses already reported
for the week ending March 81 were
tive steamers. A sixth vessel was
torpedoed, but reached port. During
the week, however. 1859 vessels en-
tered and sailed from British ports.
Preceding the reoccupation by the
Russians OF salmac plains in Aver
: batjan province. northwest of Uru-
miah, hundreds Of native Christians
were rounded up by the Turks in the
village Of Haftdewan and massacred.
Two steamers. one British and one
German, were sunk Sunday. The for
mer was wrecked by a submarine in
the English Channel, and the German
craft struck mine in the Baltic Sea.
Turkish cruiser Medijidieh sunk by
mine in Black Sea after campaign
against the Russian fleet.
Western
George H. Green, former imperial
potentate of the Shriners, died at Dal-
las, Texas.
The third reduction in the price OF
crude oil within two weeks was an
nounced at Pittsburg, Pa.
Six desperate men in the North Da-
kota penitentiary at Bismarck sawed
their way through bars and escaped.
a. c. Clancy, chauffeur, and Hardy
White, an electrician, we're shot from
ambush near roadside inn fourteen
miles west OF 81 Paso, Texas.
Fire destroyed Whitehall, the $780,.
600 summer home Of Simon Guggen-
helm, former United States Senator
from Colorado. at Elberon, near Long
Branch, N. J.
David starkey, according to Sheriff
Davis, has confessed that he started
the fire which destroyed his house
and burned his wife and baby to death
at Ottawa, Ill.
Many of the postoffices of Wyoming
and Colorado have been given warn
ing to watch out for postal money or
ders stolen from the Station A Of
flee in Portland. Ore, last February.
When Use Ne : Cat, alias Everett
Hatch, the young Piute rebel, goes to
trial before the Federal Court in Den
yer for the alleged murder of Juan
Chacon on the Navajo Springs reser-
vation year ago, he will be defended
as well as prosecuted by United States
officials.
Washington
At least twenty six seamen lost
their lives in Saturdays storm along
the Atlantic coast.
Louisiana's sugar crop for the sea-
son just closed totaled 242,O0o tons,
or about $4,000 less than in 1918.
President Wilson will deliver the
principal memorial address at the
Grand Army exercises in Arlington
cemetery May 80.
7. Practical eradication of the live
stock foot and mouth disease in the
United States was announced by the
Department of Agriculture.
The fight for nationwide prohibit
tion will be renewed with greater
vigor than ever at the next session
of Congress. Senator Sheppard of
Texas announced.
Both Secretary Daniels and Rear
Admiral Bradley A. Fiske, aide for op-
erations. declined to discuss the lat
ter's request to be relieved of duty as
senior military adviser In the Navy