The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-03-19
lREAT BATTLE LINES
NEUROPE TIGHTEN UP
..e NILES OF BATTLE FRONT
AL !, an, AND GREAT ACTIVITY
" is BEING MANIFESTED.
llNES ACTIVE IN FRANCE
,..lI,b. French and Belgian Soldiers
~ ~, Gains at Certain Points,
ubIl. at others Germans Made
prooress--Navies Active.

.bIie Wednesday by the state de.
s.1mant. constituting the entire cor.
.,,ondence of the past few weeks
s.,vsen the United States and Ger
...,v and between the United States
N Great Britain and France rela'
i. h the Abandonment Of submarine
,H,eks on merchant ships, the ship
m.,t of conditional contraband and
enastuffs to civilians In a belligerent
nnairy. the use of neutral flags by
bsrigerent owned merchantmen, the
nuogal Of mines and a proclamation
IA virtual blockade by the allies
,aIBst Germany, The communica-
ioss revealed that the United States
nysrment, realizing the difficulties
maintaining an effective blockade
ia close guard of an enemy coast
account Of the newly developed &C
Elty Of submarines, asked that "a
sdIus Of activity" be defined.
Great Britain and France replied
yih the announcement that the ope.
glIons Of blockade would not be con-
l1,tsd outside of European waters,
aiadlng the Mediterranean"
While Germany agreed, it was dis.
closed, to abandon her submarine at.
hcAs on mercantile Of any flag" ex-
sp. when they resist visit or search,
BvYided foodstuffs were permitted to
nlth her civilian population, Great
Britain and her allies rejected the
proposal originally made by the Unit
q States government in an effort to
hing the belligerents into an arrange.
Hait which would safeguard the in
lsrests Of the neutrals.
President Wilson has indicated that
strong protest would be made by the
United States government against the
aton Of Great Britain and her allies
b subiecting neutral commerce to the
MHerOus restrictions imposed upon it
3 British order in council just is.
aei.
Latest War News From Front.
The British steamships Leeuwar.
ia, Atlanta and Fingal have been
alpsdoed and sunk by the German
Rbnarine U-2S.
WIKI the increasing activities of
o British, French and Belgian ar
peg the temperance on the coast
Belgium Of British and French war
Ps and the time drawing near for
y effort in the west, the public is
moving With renewed interest the
AAE reports Of the operations.
Rslans, who are being supported
ne warships of the allies, have
elldated the ground which they
Y won in the last few days, while
oIlllsn have done likewise with
'ap o. territory which they took
ae Germans near Neuve Chap
ana have recovered most, if
W q the trenches which they
= z me region Of St, Elol.
simultaneously there has been
lighting north of Arras, in
.lpagne, in the Argonne and in the
n which both French and
u4ls Claim to have been success.
a'enent issued by the German
49,, :. washington Tuesday night
y mat the German cruiser
ssa' sunk by British squadron
coast Of Chile, Sunday, appar-
ga waters. - '-0'''l u
n asas Britain made known to the
a0aday in formal procIama.
med in council by the king
u rom Buckingham palace,
'as PROPOSES to sever All the az,
yea commerce to and from
~ " during the period of the war,
W officials frankly called the
~ : blockade, the foreign Of
I'M. sS'lolng it as an effective
y differing from the effective
-. = history only in that the
seized will not be conffscated
lnall,, Cue proceeds
" going to the owners.
- a Ter dispatch from Berlin to
], aonday by way of Amsterdam
i. ~ S g minister of the in
.9a ~ Vice Chancellor Clemens
= az declaring in a snnacb in
-, chamber Germany's inten.
'lnae the war until she OBJ,
guarantees she desired.
8 satisfied merely with re.
ss,a e enemy" said the vice
we should soon have
y We can not rest satisfied
.a ole we shall not sheath
eatll we obtain guarantees
9enies viii not attack rs
easslon of these gnaran.
'ssent moment would not