Omaha daily bee., 1915-04-02
The Days War NesCs

A FRENCH SHIP was torpedOed I'm
the English channel, and 30 fnr es
known only two members of ats
crew of tweRty-one were saved.
A DUTCH CARGO BOAT suspected
OF having supplied fuel oil 90 the
submarines hns been captured by
british torpedo boats.
TURKEY EXPECTS other Balkan
nations 90 enter the war ON the
side OF the aliics.
RUSSIAN AND AUSTRIAN reports
concerning the great struEEie I'm
the Carpathinns are completely at.
variance, although they agree
that heavy fighting is continuing.
RUSSIAN BLACK SEA FLEET has
bombarded Turkish towns in Asia
Minor.
GERMAN WAR OFFICE announced
today that $500 Russians were
captured in March.
THE HOLY WAR has resulted in a
further massacre of Christians In
PersiR. In one village the bodies
OF 72O Christiana were found by
the Russians.
HOsTILITIEs BETWEEN Russian
and Turkish armies I'm nOrthwest-
erR Persia have been resumed. In
battle last week $4,000 Turlxu
were killed, wounded or captured.
LONDON. Aprfl THE war on
alcohol. an outcome Of the labor sit
uation in Great Britain, has defi-
nitely taken precedence over the
much-talked-of spring advance of
the allies in the west" the reason
being that the problem of ammuni-
ton has become more pressing than
that of recruiting.
To sound Public Sentiment.
The pronouncements OF cabinet leaders
and tho letter OF King George on the
question OF temperance are intended 10
pave the way and Sound public sentiment
preparatory to either shutting off abso-
lutely the saie of drink throughout the
country. except on physicians prescrip-
tions, or the adoption OF some measure
which, while perhaps not called absolute
prohibition, win have almost as drastic
an effect.
War Secretary Kitchener has announced
that no alcoholic beverages shall be
served in his household for the duration
OF the war.
The battIefields In the east and west
afford little news today and. although
the allies are reported as having resumed
operations In the Dardanelles. nothing
official is forthcoming. Today being the
centenary OF the birth OF Bismarck, the
newspapers reviewed edltorially the
career OF this German statesman. ending
I'm tho break with the present emperor.
and speculation what might have been
the outcome OF the war to date had Bis
marck been at the helm.
Austria would seem TO be strengthening
It's forces IN Bukowina with the idea OF
thwarting a formidable Russian advance
in the Carpathians. and this. according
to the British view. explains the Austrian
inclrsion into Russia over the Dnlesfer
river at a point near czernowitz.
PETROGRAD. April 1.--(via London. J..
The German bombaFdment of the Russian
position at ossowetz in Russian-P Poland
has been definitely abandoned, according
to semi-official dispatches published here
today.
For some days past the German artil-
lery fire on ossowetz has been weakened
and ON March 90 II was discontinued. The
cessation OF these operations Is regarded
in Petrograd as an Indication OF the end
Of the German offensive movement in
the north. The argument is advanced
that In abandoning the siege OF Ossowetz
tho Germans viii appear to have given
up the hope OF establishing connections
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