Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1915-12-30
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fighting Continued intermittently all
day Christmas in rain storm, while
the civilians just behind the lines
celebrated to the accompaniment of
artillery.
The German soldiers at Lille APP
plauded the hope of peace before next
Christmas, altho a captain predicted
that they would still be fighting. He
said: 1--WE are fighting four great
world powers, and may soon be fight
ing a fifth 1t is said the captain
evidently referred to the United
States.
The English shells blew the Christ
mas trees from the German trenches.
The French commander at Alsace
said that France was fighting for
what Kris Kringle represents, for
good will between neighbors.
LONDON, Dec. 27.-The Italians
who recently landed at Avlona, have
crossed the Albanian mountains and
reached the Greek frontier, between
that country and Southern Albania,
according to an Athens dispatch.
LONDON, Dec. 27.-The Turks
have been defeated with losses of up
wards of 600 while attacking Kut-
ei-Amara.
Constantinople has reported that
they were attempting to surround the
British base.
ROME. Dec. 27.-King Peter of
Serbia was taken off an Italian war
ship today in an armchair and landed
at Brindisi.
He has turned over all his author
ity to Crown Prince Alexander.
ROME. Dec. 27.-At least 10000
Albanians have starved to death in
the past year and the same fate is
waiting for an equal number next
year, according to w. W. Howard,
the' owner of the American relief
schooner Albania, which recently dis
tributed two hundred tons of flour
among the population. To the normal
Albanian population has been added
100000 Serbian refugees and 10000
Austrian prisoners all without food.
LONDON, Dec. 27.-Using the
slogan that Lloyd George was too
late in taking hold of the situation,
the influential newspapers here have
demanded reorganization of the cab
met. Lloyd George will probably be
the head of the cabinet if Premier
Asquith is forced out. The papers
have limited that prompt and decisive
action on the part of the premier re-
agarding CONSUMPTION can save him
from being ousted.
Despite the optimistic reports, it
is believed that the Derby recruit
ing campaign has failed The fact
that the results of the campaign have
been withheld from the public con-
firms this belief.
The advocates of CONSUMPTION de-
mand that there be no further side
stepping. They are against the sub
mission Of the question to the PEG,
pie at a general election and threat
en- that unless the cabinet meets the |
issue squarely they have threatened
to renew the fight on Asquith by
citing the Dardanelles and Balkan
failures.
QUEENSTOWN, Ireland, Dec. 81. |
"A number of American victims of
the Lusitania, mostly women and
girls, buried in cheap coffins in one
of the dreariest Irish cemeteries, |
have since been identified by the
post norton photographs.
The council of Queenstown, COM
posed of shopkeepers, saloonkeepers
and cabdrivers, has refused the pa
thetie pleas of the relatives to let
them take the bodies to America for
decent burial.
They opposed disinterment from
the consecrated ground, ostensibly
because of the danger to the public
health, altho the leading physicians
have said no danger could be expect
ed.
Appeals to the American consul
and Lord Wimbourne have been fruit
less.
NEW YORK, Dec. 27.-The British
liner Aranza, of $4,000 tons register,
which was sunk by mine off Arch
angel on December 10, is believed to
have been Communicated at the out
break of the war. This belief has
suppressed the alarm of the neutral
shippers.
The ship was the largest victim of
the war beside the Lusitania and the
Arabic.
The Holland American liner Nieuw
Amsterdam. from New York. was