The Elbert County tribune., 1915-04-09
GERMANS ExPEL
CLIFFORD PINCH0T
HAS BEEN ACTING AS SPECIAL
AGENT FOR STATE DEPART
MENT IN WAR ZONE.
TURK FORTS SINK SHIP
ITALIAN VESSEL scUTTLED AND
GENOA DEMANDS VENGEANCE.
TROOPS MASS ON BORDER.
Western Newspaper Union News service.

ex chief forester of the United States
who, il is understood, has been acting
as special agent for the State Depart
ment at Washington in the European
war zone. has been expelled from Bel
GUM by the German authorities, ac-
cording TO dispatch from The Hague.
German submarine has sunk the
Italian steamer Luigi Parodi, which
left Baltimore Jan. % with a cargo of
coal for Genoa, according to word re-
ceived here from Genoa. The report
has caused a profound impression in
Genoa and there are many expires.
sions of resentment. Great excitement
prevails there and the authorities
have taken strong measures to pro-
tect the German colony and German
ships from the possible reprisals
Nothing is known as TO the fate OF
the crew of the Luigi Parodi, which
was made up entirely OF Genoese.
The Glasgow steamer Ollvine and
the Russian bark Hermes were sunk
by German submarine Sunday after
noon off the Isle of Wight The
crews of the two vessels took to their
boats and were rescued by British
torpedo boat destroyer
A report from Athens says the Brit
ish battleship Lord Nelson, stranded
inside the Dardanelles straits, has
been destroyed by the fire OF the
Turkish guns on shore.
A council of war held by the
British and French admirals, the Ath-
ems dispatch continues, decided to
postpone the attempt to force the
Dardanelles.
The assembling OF Italian troops on
the Austrian frontier is continuing
with the greatest activity, according
to dispatches from Chiasso, Switzer-
land. All houses of peasants in the
districts bordering the confines affect
ed have been occupied by soldiers.
Beyond the bare admission that the
Austrian forces in the Beskids have
been compelled to retreat, Vienna has
given no indication of the status OF
affairs along that section of the Hun
garian frontier
Teetotalism will be enforced in all
the Kings households. An official an
nouncement. dated April G, says:
by the Kings command no wines
or spirits will be consumed in any Of
His Majesty's houses after today"
London, April 5.-The British
steamer City of Bremen, of Dublin,
has been sunk by German subma-
rine off Wolf Rock in the English
Channel about fifteen miles south OF
Lands End, Cornwall Four mem
bers OF the crew of the steamer were
drowned. Twelve survivors arrived at
Penzance. Available shipping records
do not contain the name of the
steamer City Of Bremen of Dublin.
A Reuter- dispatch from Stockholm
says the German steamer Crete Hem
soth struck a mine in the Baltic Sea
and sunk, and that twenty-five mem
bers of her crew were drowned. The
Crete Hemsoth was a vessel of 1,554
tons She was engaged in traffic be-
tween Sweden and Germany.
dispatch from Malmo, Sweden,
says Reuters Copenhagen correspond
ent, asserts that two German coast
ing steamers during the last few days
have struck floating mines and sunk
in the Baltic Sea in immediate prox-
unity to the route between Trelleborg
and Sassnitz, with which points traf-
fic has been temporarily suspended.
Crews of the steamers were saved.
The sinking of the Turkish arm
ored cruiser Medjidieh is reported
l TD.t... :. II r.I.
Company. A sem:-official communica-
ton from Sebastopol to Petrograd
says that the Medjidieh struck mine
near the Russian coast and went
down. The Medjidieh was a member
of the Turkish Black Sea fleet which
has attacked Russian ports on several
occasions and sunk Russian vessels.
Serbia demands punishment of Bull
garian irregulars who raided frontier
and captured important posts before
they were finally driven away.
Prince Won Buelow continues ef-
forts for peace. despite fact that Italy
refused offer to let Switzerland hold
territory in question until after war
and then turn it over to her.
Fighting also continues in the for
est of La Petre, which has been the
scene of long and sanguinary battle
Foreigners Slain in Mexico City.
San Antonio. TeN.-Eleven foreign
ers have been assassinated recently in
the City of Mexico. according to Ar
thur Rullard Johnson, an attorney rep
resenting the international committee
of the capital district, who arrived
here. The persons assassinated, says
Johnson, were an American, a Swede
three Ottomans and six Spaniards.
partial list of other alleged recent out
RACES include "one French woman, at