The true Democrat., 1915-08-14
NEWS MULTUM IN PARvo.

for which Won Hindenburg fought fo
three weeks without success, leadin,
London to believe the Russian retrea
was voluntary, the line having servet
tits purpose until three days after tn,
fall of Warsaw.
Fort Dembe at Warsaw was cap
tured by the Germans, giving them al
advantage on the right bank of the
Vistula.
Berlin adVices said the Germans en-
tered the befiagged city of Warsaw as
liberators, and were received with Joy
by the inhabitants.
Sweden's army of 100000 has been
mobilized, and it was feared that she
might throw her weight with Germany
in the hope of regaining Finland from
Russia.
| Carranza asked recognition in the
peace conference for Mexico, and also
expressed the wish that the conference
be held.
Another earth movement in the Gail.
lard cut reduced the canal depto to
twenty feet and blocked navigation for
"a hours.
President Boyd of L. S. U. and Prof.
D. T. Powers, director of the summer
school of the Louisiana State Univer-
sity, declared the course the most sue
cessful term in the history Of the
university,
Theo. G. Bilbo, according to the fig
ures of Secretary of State Powers, Sc
cured majority of 1131 in Missis-
sippi's primary election last Tuesday.
Attorney General Pleasant reached
the conclusion that the names Of the
Progressive nominees for the Constitu-
tional Convention should be placed on
the official ballot
Twenty-one alleged drug addicts were
arrested from the Office of DR.. Chiffon,
in the Maison Blanche building.
Rudolph Engel, st. Charles printer,
told of the hardships he met when i'm
pressed into the service of Germany.
The Germans continued their relent.
less drive against the Russians in
Poland with the object Of cutting off
their retreat from Warsaw, although
Petrograd asserts that in several sec.
tions the enemy has been driven back
while hundreds of prisoners were cap
tured on the left bank Of the Vieprz in
Southwest Poland.
In Haiti the election of president
was postponed owing to the popular
excitement, while the Americans seized
the customs house at Cape Haitien and
repressed the disorder Of band of
brigands, taking the chief prisoner on
board the flagship.
Mexican outlaws and Texas Rangers
fought battle near Norias, Tex Six
Mexicans were reported killed. A Jail
Watchman was wounded at Lyford and
farmers were fired ON by unknown
persons at midnight.
Directors of the Atlanta regional |
bank district announced the New Or |
leans Federal Reserve Branch would |
be ready September /.
The Germans captured Praga on the |
eastern bank of the Vistula at Warsaw,
which commands the railroad lines to |
Petrograd and Moscow. The Germanic |
allies continued to press the Russians
In Northwest Russia and in Poland, be-
ginning an engagement to drive the re-
force from East Galicia.
The British recaptured trenches
taken from them by the use of fame
projectors in Belgium, and have oc-
cupied 700 yards additional.
The Turkish battleship Barbarossa
was sunk by an Allies submarine most
Of the officers and crew escaping.
Germans evacuated Bitam, giving up
The last part of the part of the Congo
,eded in 1911, French forces taking
possession.
Washington will seek to guarantee
he government to be established in
Haiti, and bring anarchy to an end.
An inventory of the safes seized in
he raid on Hylands gambling house
n Jefferson parish showed big busi-
less was done in lending money on
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