The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-04-09
NEWS NOTES.

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er victory. Starting westward from
the Galician stronghold Immediately
after it's fall, the Muscovites now
have entered the Beskid mountains,
range which connects the Little
Carpathians with the Eastern Car
pathians and forms part of the
boundary between Galicia and Hun
gary, and have driven out the Aus
trians, who for some time past had
stubbornly held the passes and
heights. Brief is Vienna's acknowl-
edgment that this vantage point, the
gateway to the plains of Northern
Hungary, has been evacuated.
The Dutch steamer Schieland was
blown up in the North Sea on the
east coast of England. One of the
crew was killed and seven sailors are
missing. Three Tyne trawlers were
sunk by the German submarine
U-10. The crews escaped. English
shipping firms made demands for
reprisals, proposing that German
prisoners of war be placed aboard
all English vessels traversing the
German war zone" as a safeguard.
A protest was submitted to Great
Britain concerning the United States
by Germany concerning treatment of
prisoners taken off German subma-
rines
The tug Edward Luckenbach sank
off False Cape, on the Virginia coast,
and sixteen of the crew of eighteen
are reported lost. The Clyde line
steamer Lenape brought into
Charleston, S. c., Capt. Murphy and
six of the crew of the Alice Muir
ply, rescued in a violent storm, off
the Carolina cost. The coast storm
claimed ten victims in the vicinity
of Delaware Capes.
Sinking fast were the last words
heard from the Royal Dutch West
Indies steamer Prins Mauritis, sup
posed to have been lost in the At
lantic with all hands, including four
passengers. Steamers which went to
the assistance of the Prins Mauritis
reported that they had received no
response to wireless calls.
The sinking of the Turkish arm
ored cruiser Medjidieh by striking
a mine on the Russian coast is re-
ported from Petrograd. The cruiser
is a veteran of the Turkish Black
Sea fleet, which is credited with the
sinking of many Russian vessels.
The railroads of the country have
issued a reply to the declaration of
the Postmaster General that the
roads were being overpaid for haul
ing the mails in comparison with
paid for similar service by
the express companies.
The Department of Agriculture
announced that on April 1 not a
single case of foot and mouth disease
was known to exist in the country.
Orders modifying the quarantine
regulations in Kentucky and other
States were issued.
President Wilson's invitation to
the countries of Central and South
America to participate in a Pan
American financial conference has
been accepted by Argentina, Chile,
Uruguay and Salvador.
A final test of the diving tube
which is expected to play promi-
lent part in efforts to raise the sub
marine F-4 in Honolulu harbor is
Diver Agroz descend
ID 200 feet.
Paris dispatches report that Ser
,ia has protested to Bulgaria be-
,ause of the invasion of Serbian ter
'itory, where the irregulars were
lriyen back with considerable loss.
Gen. Jose Robles, follower of
Gutierrez, has surrendered to Villa
With his entire command. The Viii
a commander at Matamoras is
waiting the arrival of artillery.
Three expert road engineers have
,een assigned to Kentucky in re-
ponse to request by the Governor
md Commissioner Terrell for aid in
Kentucky highways.
All messages relating to trade in
ontraband or noncontraband to
which a resident in an enemy coun-
ry is a party will be stopped on
British cables.
The German steamer Crete Hem
9th struck mine in the Baltic and
ank. Twenty-Five members of her
rev drowned, according to Stock
olm dispatch.
The steamer City of Bremen, OF
dublin, was sunk by a German sub