Spray courier. (Spray, Or.) 1???-19??, 1915-05-13
WORLDS DO|NGS
OF CURRENT WEEK
Brief Resume Of General News
From All Around the Earth.
UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSHELL
Live News Items From All Nations,
Pacific Northwest and Our Own
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Berlin newspapers view pessimist-
ically Italy's attitude on the war.
Ex-president Taft commends Presi-
dent Wilson's policy Of strict neutral
ity. .
A Pennsylvania labor leader says he
advised his followers to learn to shoot,
to resist constabulary.
Portland makes arrangements for
the usual Rose Show to be held during
the coming Rose Festival.
Bryan issues statement reiterating
this country's intention to adhere to
the open-door policy in China.
Germans report driving allies from
the ALLY forest, with heavy losses in
killed, wounded and prisoners.
Fighting in the DardanelIes is being
pressed by the allies with satisfactory
results, reports the British commander.
Germans prepare to attack the Rus
sian ports of Libau and Riga and
threaten communications with Petro-
grad.
Abbas Hilmi Pasha, deposed as khe-
dive of Egypt when Turkey entered
the European war, believes he will re-
gain the throne.
Two women suffragists besieged
President Wilson all day in the White
House, but were unable to gain an au-
dience with him.
Vienna dispatches declare the Rus
sian army in the Carpathians is in
trap from which it cannot escape, and
is doomed to capture or annihilation.
The locks around the falls of the
Willamette at Oregon City were
turned over to the government and
dedicated to the free use of the people.
Japan insists that her national dig
nifty" is of more Importance than the
observance of her treaties with other
nations regarding the independence of
China.
Portland will vote at the coming
June election on the question of in
stalling water meters for all consum-
ers, the project involving an outlay of
about 100000.
Upon receipt of a dispatch from
Berlin, the German school in Rome
was closed and the teachers, with
number Of German residents, left i'm
for Germany.
The left front wheel of Portland
iitney bus came off and the machine
overturned on the streetcar tracks,
Killing one of its passengers instantly.
The driver was injured but the three
,ther occupants of the car escaped
With slight shaking up.
The steamer Undine returned to
Portland, Or, Thursday, after success
ully making the round trip from that
ity to Lewiston, Idaho, and return,
through the Cascade locks and Cello
anal, demonstrating the completion
md great Importance of the latter
'roject.
Forest fires in Washington state are
eported serious.
A German aeroplane sinks British
ubmarine in the North Sea.
w. ]. Bryan's brother, C. w., has
cen elected mayor of Lincoln, Neb.
Associate Justice Hughes denies
eing candidate for the presidency.
Allies are reported making gains in
urkey, and Smyrna is ready to sur
ender.
Military preparations are being made
Or the defense of Pekin. According
, Chinese officials, whose statements
ave been corroborated in other cir
es, the government is making no
-eparations elsewhere than at the
lpital for defense, considering that
le Chinese will be unable to oppose
le Japanese should they make an at
Ick.
Two resolutions, one memorializing
'ngress to seize the nations food sup ;.
y for the purpose of preventing its !.
lportatoin to the belligerent coun- =.
les, and the other request that
resident Wilson use his influence to
I'd the war, were adopted in the lower
,use of representatives Of California.
he resolutions were of Socialist
igin.