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About the War

The German admiralty issued
statement admitting the loss OF the
submarine U-24.
A big submarine that dashed
through heavy sea at incredible
speed sank the steamer Northlands
off Beachy Head in the English chan
mel.
Peace talk was rampant late last
week in Washington and in diplo-
matte quarters it was persistently as
serted that the end of the war was
close at hand.
The nations now at war have lost
5,95O.O00 men in the first eight months
of the conflict and spent 00,O00,000
In the first six months, according TO
figures prepared for the Avanti,
Paris Socialist organ, by its military
expert.
The French offensive in the Woeve,
which, according to official reports
from Paris, continues to make pro-
gress, although the Germans reiterate
that all the French attacks have been
repulsed, 1t is believed is only the
prelude to big general effort in the
west.
A further casualty list issued by the
British war office adds 1,03S names
to the list of British soldiers killed or
wounded in the battle of Neuve
Chapelle, France, last month. This
latest list brings the total British cas-
ualties in the fighting at Neuve Cha
pelle SO far announced to 6,561. OF
this number 2,051 men were killed.
The British steamer Harpalyce, the
first relief boat of New York state
and under charter to the commission
for relief in Belgium, has either been
torpedoed or sunk by a mine In the
North sea. The Dutch steamer Eliza
beth picked up twenty-five of the
crew of the Harpalyce seven miles
northeast of Noordhinder and took
them to Rotterdam.
Western
The Iowa Senate passed the Klinker
bill, which provides that absent voters
may send their ballots to their home
precinct by mail.
Charles Johnson, alleged to be
member Of the Henry Starr gang of
bank robbers, was arrested at Paw.
huska and taken to jail at Chandler,
Okla.
There will be flood of immigra-
tion to the United States and Canada
at the conclusion of the European
war, according to Sir Thomas o..
Shaughnessy.
Three members of the family of M
Marlin Of Seymour. Webster county,
were injured and property valued at
$4,000 was destroyed by tornado
that struck Seymour and other parts
of Webster county, Mo.
Gustavo di Rosa, Italian consul at
Boston, and Miss Maude Cupples
scudder, granddaughter and heir of
the late Samuel Cupples, millionaire
manufacturer, were married at the
Scudder home in st. Louis.
After being married for forty-eight
years and having given birth to seven
teen children. Mrs. Clements schmailzl
of Lincoln, Neb., has been granted
divorce because her husband, accord
ingto the testimony, has long been an
habitual drunkard.
An explosion, at first believed to
have been caused by bomb, wrecked
the seyensstory cooling building of
the Cudahy Packing Companys plant
at Kansas City, causing a loss esti-
mated at $750,000. Two men en-
ployed in the building at the time
were injured.
Washington
General Carranza has finally mott.
fled the United States government,
through Consul Silliman, that he can.
not agree to the naturalization of
either Mexico City or the railroad
from the capital to Vera Cruz. To
both Of these suggestions the Villa
Zapata authorities had given their
consent.
Count Won Bernstorff, the German
ambassador, made public the text of
the note he recently presented to the
State Department declaring that If
the American people desire to OBJ
serve the neutrality they will find
means to stop the exclusive exporta-
ton of arms to one side, or at least
to use this export trade as a means to
uphold the legitimate trade with Ger
many, especially the trade in food
stuffs."