, 1915-02-13

were counted. Among Gno LrOpuleS cap
tured near Kazon were three mine throw
ars. At Rawka, near the railroad to Skier
niewice, our infantry threw eight bombs into
the German trenches causing great destruc-
ton, and our ~aviators threw bombs on Ger
man troop trains near Rawka."
At Petrograd it is estimated that the Ger
mans lost $4,000 killed and four times that
number wounded in last weeks battles along
the Borgimow line.
Reports from Friedrichshafen, by way of
Geneva, state that one of the newest Zeppe-
Inns, which was missing for four days, fell in
to the North Sea off the coast of Denmark
during a storm, all the crew being drowned
and the airship destroyed.
New York, Feby. 11th-The passen-
gers by British steamer "Orduna", which
has arrived here, say she few the Uni
ted States flag upon leaving Liver
pool. Her officers decline to discuss the
Admiralty orders. The Cunard Com
pany's agent says she was flying theJAmeri-
can flag from her foremost and the British
ensign from her ~taffrail when she left Liv-
erpool, and was flying the same flags when
she entered New York, and that there was
no truth in the report that she had displaced.
her national flag by the American colours.
The "Orduna" sailed just after the Ger
man submarine raid, and apparently the
German reference to a secret order by Che
British Admiralty related to her, as contrary
to custom she few the United States flag
for the entire voyage.
London, Feb. i1th.-The death is an
nounced of General Lord Seymour.
Mr.. Young and Mr.. TT. Williams, Liberals,
have been elected members of Parliament
for Norwich and Swansea respectively, un-
opposed. It is not expected that the eight
pending elections, namely, Wisbech, Chister-
ton, Luston, Saffron Walden, Wigtonshire,
Scarborough, Thirsk and Howdenshire will
be contested,
Major Arthur Morrison Bell, of the Scots
Guards, M. P. for the Honiton Division, De-
vonshire, who was reported killed on End
instant, has since wltten to his wife that he
is safe and a prisoner in Germany.
Dispatches from Pretoria report that
Colonel Maritz has been executed by the
Germans He had been negotiating for a par
don, but was told that conditions we're not
available for his surrender and he departed
with the understanding that he would try to
bring in the German artillery. In a German
attack upon Kakamas it is believed that he
made an attempt to deliver the Germans, who,
discovering his treachery, executed him
without ceremony.
At the annual meeting of the Liverpool
Underwriters Association the Chairman said
the past six mon ths' losses were six TO seven
million pounds, instead of the anticipated
eight millions. The insurance of hulls upon
time charters has been unsatisfactory, but
The war risks business had been good.
Dispatches from Berlin state that DR.. Won
Lentze, Secretary ct Finance, upon introduce
ing the Budget in the Diet said that Germany
was economically able to support the war
for a long time. Herr Hirsch, a Socialist,
SAID the Socialists refused to further support
he Government. This war, he declared,
was desiled by the people in none of the
belligerent lands and its end was everywhere
lopged for by the people. We cherish the
confidence that the voices demanding peace