The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1915-10-15
WORLDS DO|NGS
Of CURRENT WEEK
Brief Resume Of General News
From All Around the Earth.
UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSHH'
Live News Items Of All Nations and
Pacific Northwest Condensed
for Our Busy Readers.

for Our Busy Readers.
Greece announces policy Of armed
neutrality.
British submarines are raiding Ger
man shipping in the Baltic.
Wilson has formally agreed to the
official recognition of Carranza.
New York seismograph registers a
violent earth shock, probably in the
West Indies.
Bulgaria's entry into the war may
cause Japan to reconsider her position
and change her plans.
More slides have completely block
ed the Panama canal and no date can
be set for its re-opening.
Newspaper editors of Paris have
made a violent protest against the sus-
pension of four papers for disobeying
the orders of the press censor.
A number of prominent Portland,
Z Or, women are spending three days
per week each In making bandages
for wounded European soldiers.
A stockholder of the New York Mu-
tual Life Insurance company has sued
for an injunction to prevent the COM
pany from subscribing to the big Eu-
ropean war loan.
Wilson and Secretary of War Dan
iels have agreed on policy of practi-
cally doubling the U. s.. navy in five
years. The first years program con-
templates the expenditure of $24S, S,0O0,-
900.
A dispatch from Athens says Brit
ish agent has unearthed submarine
base in the Gulf of Nauplia, southeast
Of Greece, from which 1t is believed
here the submarines which recently
sank allied transports have received
their supplies.
A Petrograd dispatch says Russian
forces have pierced the Austro-Ger
man lines on the Stripa river. They
have already taken prisoner more
than 1000 men and 60 officers and
have captured four guns and ten rap
Id firers. The Russian advance Ia be-
ing pushed vigorously.
The following announcement of the
dismissal Of the Bulgarian minister to
Great Britain was issued in London.
"His Majesty's government announce
that the Bulgarian minister has been
handed his passports and that diplo-
matte relations between Great Britain
and Bulgaria have been broken off"
Four boys were buried alive at Mus
catine, Ia, when cave they had ex-
cavated in the side of hill collapsed.
They we're John Gauthier, IA; Charley
Beckey, 13; Harry Davidson, 16, and
Glen Thompson, 13 (colored). The
youths cries brought rescuers, but
they were dead before the latter could
reach them.
The hazing system has been abolish
ed at the Annapolis naval academy by
the voluntary action Of the midship-
men of the three upper classes. Al
though no formal resolution was pass
ed, it was said on authority that there
was practical unanimity of opinion
that the time had come when hazing
should cease.
Aa,n,ss,on tho+ normon Iossos hove
been heavy in the past few days on
the western front is made by the cor
respondent Of the German Tageblatt.
who declares French attacks were car
ried out with unprecedented vigor
and courage.p He Estimates that with.
in brief period the French have fired
more than 100000 shells against the
German lines.
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nusslans sre DoInpalu'ns hungarian
po1'e "isn s'o"s 'n'is5'
Large forces Of Germans and Aus
triahs nave ihsaueu Ho1o'a'
A sbaepv-haired goat oyerestimated
bis f;ohtino ability at the Portland zoo
when he wandered into the buffalo
naddocks and gave battle to one of the
Dig male puil aioes. me sose pas-
ereu re.nains mere .a.en :" sne 'i's
lncinerator ior creiia''on'
Total Casualties Of officers in the
British army from the beginning Of
the war up TO September ~ nave
reached q total OF l!,074 " TINS
number bl76 were killed or had died OF
wounds, while lo, 46S were wounded
and l42s were listed as missing.