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ABOUT THE WAR

takes 1884 prisoners.
The English east coast was again
-aided by German aircraft. Six per
IONS were killed and twentythree In
lured
The Norwegian steamer Albis. 1851
tons gross. and owned in Christiania.
has been sunk by a submarine. Her
crew was saved.
The Russian war office in an Off
.ial communication admits the evacu-
alton of the towns of Sokolow. Siedlce
and Iukow, to the east OF Warsaw.
General Villa notifies United States
government he will agree to truce
with his opponents during time re-
quired for holding peace conference.
The British transport Royal Ed
ward was torpedoed and sunk. Six
hundred men were saved out OF 1850
troops and 220 other persons on
board
Reports received in London from
Rumania, Bulgaria and Greece show
that military preparations in those
countries are being carried on with in
tense activity.
The Russians are beginning to evac-
uate the fortified railway center of
Bielostok, one OF the vital points on
the Kovno- Brest-Litovsk line. before
the onward rush of Won Hindenburg's
armies.
Governor Ferguson Of Texas ap-
pealed to President Wilson for more
troops in Rio Grande valley, declaring
all 10
doubtful if state forces can control il.
"Peign of terror exists on border" he
says.
The Russian fortress of kovno is
believed about to fall before Won Hin
denburg's attack. German troops I'M
der Gen Won Eichhorn have stormed
and captured the Notifications defend.
ing kovno, between the Niemen and
Jesia rivers, taking 1000 prisoners
and 24o cannon.
The most significant news concern
ing the near Eastern situation was
contained in a brief dispatch from
Athens stating that former Premier
Venizelos had won a decisive victory
over the government in the organiza-
ton OF the Greek Chamber OF Depu-
ties Zayitzatnos was elected presi-
dent, and the Grunaris government
resigned.
WESTERN
Jay H. Neff, former mayor of Kan
sas City, died of heart disease at
Cody, Wyo. He was in Wyoming
looking after his stock interests.
Pawn tickets found in his posses
sion led to the arrest OF Manuel Pedis
a Mexican and escaped convict from
the New Mexico state penitentiary, in
Denver
Twelve business houses, constitut-
ing about half of the mercantile SET
ton OF Upper Rochester. New. was
wiped out by fire. The loss is said to
be over $500. 600
Forty Texas beeyes, the latest that
could be found We're killed quartered
and dressed for the big barbecue
when Houston becomts the newest OF
the worlds seaports
The Ogden gateway, closed by the
Union Pacific in furtherance of a pur.
pose TO develop its own territory. has
been declared legal in decision rem.
dered by the Interstate Commerce
Commission.
Former President Taft, in an ad-
dress at St Louis before the Business
Mems League. criticized the chairman
of the Industrial Relations Commits
sion for his statement that he did not
have judicial poise
Galveston, Tex. is safe and the wa
ter in the streets is reced;ng. accord.
ing to wireless message direct from
Galveston The message estimated
the loss due to the flood at more than
100000. Three persons persisted
WASHINGTON
The State Department made public
the reply OF the United States reject
ing views set forth by the Austro-
Hungarian government in recent
note contending that expectation OF
war munitions from America to Aus
trias enemies was conducted on such
scale as to be not in consonance
with the definition of neutrality"
Though friendly in tone the note
fatty denies the Austro Hungarian
contentious.
Destitution and starvation face the
women and children of Haiti. Admiral
Caperton advised the Navy Depart.
ment.
The United States, in a note to
Austria Hungary, published. firmly
but politely declines to accede to the
request of the Vienna government
that the export OF arms to the allies
be stopped.
In round numbers there were %.
100000 persons enrolled in educa-
tional institutions in the United
States in 1914. according to the an
nual report of the commissioner OF
education.