Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-05-27
SUMMARY Of THE
WORLDS EVENTS
IMPORTANT NEWS BOILED DOWN
TO LAST ANALYSIS.
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Brief Notes Covering Happenings In
This Country and Abroad That
Are Of Legitimate Interest to
All the People.
European War News


"The government is resolved to
make good Italy's rights by force of
arms" This declaration by Premier
Salandra at Rome to the chamber OF
deputies following closely upon the
passage by parliament of measure
giving the government full power to
act, was accepted as a promise that
war between Italy and Austria will
be declared. The war measure was
passed by vote of 407 to "a
A dispatch to the London Daily
News from Copenhagen says: 1T is
stated that the Germans have captured
Riga on the Gulf of Riga, in north
west Russia. Riga is Russia's princi-
pal port. aside from Petrograd. on
the Baltic It has a population Of
about 100000.
The allied troops have captured the
town of Maidos, on the European side
of the Dardanelles./ Advices from
Mitylene confirm the destruction Of
the forts at Kilid Bahr. which has
been occupied by the allies.
The French steam trawler st. Just
of Arcachon was torpedoed and liter
ally smashed to pieces near Dart
mouth. Is of her crew being drowned.
The captain was the only survivor.
The British trawler Chrysolite was
sunk by German submarine 80 miles
off Kinnaird's head, in the North sea.
The crew was saved.
1t is asserted at Rome that Prince
Won Buelow, the German ambassador
has insisted that Austria, in the case
of war. shall not intrust her interests
in Italy to the United States. but to
Spain.
Gen. Weber Pasha, German COM
mander of the forts in the Dardanelles,
has died of wounds, according to the
Cairo correspondent of the London
Times.
The attack in Peremysl by the allied
Austro-G German forces has begun. De-
feated and demoralized, the Russians
have been pushed along in Galicia,
leaving their dead in their wake. Ber-
lin military experts assert that this
victory ranks higher in importance
than that OF the Mazurian Lakes.
Dispatches from Mytilene to London
assert that the Turkish fort of Kilid
Bahr on the European side Of the OAR
danelles at the end of the narrows
nearest Constantinople, has been ST.
fenced by the allied battleships, and
the fall of Niagara. opposite. is immi.
cent.
Lieutenant General Count Gadorna,
Italian chief of staff, has arrived with
his staff at vicenza, near the Austrian
frontier All railroad lines in Italy
have been seized for use of the army.
Prince Won Buelow, German ambassa-
dor at Rome, arrived at Chiasso. Swift
zerland.
The British admiralty reports at
London that the British steamer Dunn
fries was torpedoed. The steamer Is
still afoat. Fifty-two members Of the
crew were landed. Two were killed.
The formation of nonpartisan cab
met for England for the period Of the
war is an established fact. The spokes-
man for the two great rival parties.
Premier Asquith and Andrew Bonar
Law, made to the house of commons
at London statements confirming the
reports of a coalition ministry.
Roumania's entrance into the war
will follow that of Italy. says a dis
patch from Bucharest, The Rou-
manian army is on a war footing, and
will strike at Austria through Transyl-
vania-
Lord Kitchener, secretary Of war,
speaking in the house Of lords at Lon
don. indicated the intention Of the al.
lies to use poisonous gases against
the Germans. At the same time he
made demand for 100000 more men.
Every report from German head
quarters to Berlin increases the mag
nitude of the Austro-German victory
in Galicia. Dispatches state that the
Russian army commanded by Gen.
Radko Dimitrieff lost 100000 men. 100
cannon and 300 machine guns.
Anton Kuepferle, the alleged Ger
man spy. who was charged with com.
municating naval and military secrets
to England's enemies. committed sui
eide in his cell In jail at London by
hanging. thus bringing the trial to a
tragic and sudden close.
The London Morning Post CORE
spondent at Petrograd says: Never
since the war began has any one day
brought so grave a bulletin as that
which reached us late last night. The
Russians are retiring on the vistula
river"
A dispatch to the London Central
News from Rome says: "The Giornale
d'Italia announces that Prince Won
Buelow. the German ambassador, and
Baron Won Macchio, the special am.