The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1915-05-27
SHORT NEWS ITEMS

Italy is now in the big Euro
pean war, having declared war
ON ustria-Hungary, and Ger
many has declared war on Italy.
This makes eleven nations now
in the war. Several other small
er nations will probably enter.
In the east the RIssians are report.
ed to have been severely repulsed by
the German and Austrian armies in
the Carpathians.
Dissension prevails in the English
cabinet. Winston Spencer Churchill,
first lord of the admiralty, and Lord
Kitchener, head of the war office, are
both now out of favor on account of
recent losses on land and sea. A Goa.
lition cabinet is expected to be form
ed that will embrace all parties. Ar
thur ]. Balfour, former premier at the
time of the Boer. war, Id considered
Churchill's probable successor and b.
mar Law is mentioned to succeed
Kitchener.
Fierce lighting is goipE on in the
Dardanelles, but no decided gains are
reported on either side.
While on his way to dinner at the
Spanish embassy, the Italian ambas-
sador to Berlin was attacked in the
street by a patriotic German young
ster, who knocked off his hat. The
boy was arrested and the imperial
government apologized.
Three heads OF the Bonaparte fam
lily in France, Belgium and Portugal,
all grand nephews of Napoleon the
great, have volunteered their personal
services to Italy in case Of war
The archbishop Of Canterbury has
announced no candidates for the cler-
gy in the Church Of England who are
Of military age will be ordained dur
ing the war; that all must enter the
governments military service.
The Austro- German forces, recently
under personal supervision OF Emper-
or William, have driven the Russian
armies, stretching for length Of two
hundred miles in the Galician hills in
northern Austria, back into Poland ac-
cording to advices from Vienna and
Berlin. The report was somewhat con-
peror Nicholas from Petrograd to the
front. The Teutonic forces claim to
have crossed the San river.
Emperor William himself narrowly
escaped death from Russian Shell
in Galicia, according to a Budapest
dispatch The imperial chauffeur was
killed
The London and Paris war Offices
claim the Anglo-French forces and
feet in the Dardanelles are gaining
daily An Athens dispatch states tho
Turks have been out Of ammunition
for fortnight, but have been re.
plenished with an ample supply of war
stores from Berlin.
Another English merchantmen, the
Drumcree, has been sunk by Ger.
man submarine, torpedoed in the Eng.
lish channel.
The English parliament shows re.
luctancy in passing a conscription act
which is being urged by Lord Kitchen.
er and the Asquith ministry
Italians have clashed with Austrian
troops at Pola. Both the Austro-Hun-
garian and German ambassadors at
Rome have asked for their passports.
Declaration of war is expected any
moment. 1t has been definitely an,
nounced that the old triple alliance is
now shattered
The German imperial chancellor, in
addressing the reichstag, said all had
been done by Austria to keep peace
between Vienna and 9tome, but with
out success.
The London admiralty Office ad.
mts that an Australian submarine,
making its way into the Sea OF Mar.
mora, was sunk by the Turks. A
crew OF thirty was lost