The Tomahawk., 1915-12-23
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Bulgarian troops in small detach-
ments have crossed the Greek frontier
I'm pursuit of the FrancoBritish forces
Withdrawing on Saloniki. This news
Games from Paris and Rome dis
patches.
Two British divisions. approximate
1y 10000 men, are reported by the
Berlin war office to have been prac-
tically annihilated in the greatest de-
feat inflicted upon the Franco-British
allies in the Balkan campaign.
Russian artillery destroyed Zep-
pelin airshp the night OF December .,
near the station Of kalkun on the
Libau-R omin railway. All members or
the crew persisted, says a dispatch
from Petrograd.
The British steamer Orterlc,
Bank liner of 6,565 tons. was sunk by
a submarine. it is announced at Lon
don.
The official statement issued at Ber-
lin is as follows: The Anglo-French
troops, after suffering a series OF decis-
i've defeats by the army of General
Todoroff, are retreating in m1seraDle
condition over the Greek frontier.
Their losses in men and material OF
all kinds have been extraordinarily
heavy.
Three English battalions were sur
rounded by the Turks and surren'
dered, acco:d:n. to a Constantinople
dispatch. The English are expected TO
retreat still further south.
According to information received at
Washington from Athens the Greek
government has agreed to withdraw
its troops from Saoniki.
Domestic
United States District Attorney
~
apolis that he would retire from office
January /. Mr.. Daley will enter one
OF the large law firms Of Indianapolis.
George Horn, prominent politician
of Irvine, KY, was assassinated as ne
walked along the streets OF that town.
80 For
cholera serum manufactured and tur-
nished by the state laboratories at
Springfield, ILL.,, central Illinois IS
threatened with an epidemic of hog
cholera.
Fifteen hundred engineers, t1remen
and trainmen of the Belt railway or
Chicago have declared strike. Freight
transfers, affecting the entire country,
are tied up in the freight yards about
the city. The men were provided with
no service train to the yards and they
objected to walking.
Edward Barry and his wife, josie
Barry and Aaron Barbara were burned
ito death by fire in a rooming house
mt 1851 East Grand avenue, Chicago.
Pawn tickets for jewelry aggregat-
ing $4,000 were found by the police OF
Des Moines, Ia, on Raymond FRANKIE.
Walter johnson and Mrs. Edna HUI
sleton, captured in raid on hotel.
Charles p. Cummings. superinten-
dent of public schools at Lansing.
Mich. and one of the states best
known ed GATORS, accidentally shot
himself with shotgun. He may not
recover.
The plant OF the La Crosse (Wis.)
Knitting works, rushed with war or
siers for the allies. was partially de-
stroyed by fire, with 100000 loss.
Indictments were returned by the
federal grand jury at San Francisco
against Baron George Wilhelm Won
Brincken. c. c. Crowley and Mrs. Mar
earet Cornell, who are alleged to be
the ringleaders Of band of plotters,
pro-German in sympathy. who nave
sonspired to wreck ships.
Mayor George E. Ellis of Grand Rap
ids. Mich, ordered Police Commits
sioner Carroll to rigidly apply the
Michigan blue law passed IN 1882
Sunday all places of business except
drug stores were ordered closed and
all except theater managers obeyed the
mandate.