The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-08-27
NEWS NOTES.

day.
The Federal Trade Commission
will begin study of South and Cen
trail American tariff laws within a
short time for the purpose of fur
thering trade relations.
Nine. Catherine Breshkovskaya,
the grandmother of Russian revolu-
ton, is to be sent 1000 miles north
of the last exile settlement in Siberia
to spend the rest of her days.
Germany is facing the necessity of
reducing its meat consumption 40 or
SO per cent, according to report
received from the American Associa-
,tion of Commerce in Berlin.
Gen. Carranza is moving his seat of
government from Vera Cruz to Mexico
City and his answer to the Pan Amer
lean peace plea will be, it IS said, de-
mand for the recognition of his faction.
Announcement has been made official
ly that the entire mechanical depart
ment Of the Nashville, Chattanooga &
st. Louis Railway, including engine ter
minals, has been transferred from Chat
tanooga to Cravens.
In an actual account of what took
place when Leo M. Frank was
lynched, denial is made of the state
ment that Frank was "maltreated, !"
and it is stated that confession was
obtained prior to the mans death.
The storm that devasted the Texas
coast last week struck St. Louis, caus-
ing a flood that drove hundreds from
their homes and impaired interurban
and through train service. An appeal
for aid for villages near Galveston was
issued.
In review of the first year of
the war from a Teutonic standpoint,
issued in Washington, the statement
is made that "the position of Austria
Hungary and Germany is most en-
couraging from military, economic
and financial point of view"
The real question in the sinking
of the Arabic has been ignored, says
w. J. Bryan in a signed statement.
He questions the attitude of a few
American citizens i'm putting their
convenience or even their rights
above the nations welfare.
American newspapers in their COM
ment upon the sinking of the Arabic
forecast unanimously that it means a
breaking off in diplomatic relations be-
tween the United States and Germany.
The German American newspapers sug-
gest an embargo ON arms or warning
from the President that citizens of this
country should travel only on vessels
flying the American flag.
The naval battle in which German
and Russian warships have been en-
gagged for several days in THE Gulf
of Riga has resulted in the German
feet withdrawing, after having lost
the battleship Moltke, warsfip of
the DreadD0ught type, three other
cruisers and seven torpedo bnGts, ,ac-
eording to a statement credited to-
the PresidAMt of the Russian Duma.
Petrograd records for the Russians
an advance ON the river Ankhaxe,
Asiat5c Turkey, and the rep1lse of
a Turkish caEtack near Olti. In ad-
dition the Russian Black Sea fleet
destroyers have sunk over 100 Turk
ish boats.
Recent activities of German subma-
rlnes had no apparent effect on trans
Atlantic sailings from New York sSatur-
day. Four liners, flying American,
British, French and Italian flags, with
over 1900 passengers on board, sailed
OF prepared to sail before night. The
GUARD liner 0rduna, with 275 passen-
gers, of whom seven are Americans,
left at 1880 a. M, for liverpool. The
American liner New York, with 40
the French liner La Tou-
raine, with 22o passengers, for Boar-
ieaux, and the Italian liner Stampalta,
with 1,OS7 passengers, were to sail. The
on the stampalla include
over LOCO ia the third class, the ma
iority of whom are men going to Italy
TO enlist. The 0rduR2 carried 5000
IONS of cargo, officials said, bat they
added that there were no explosives or
war munitions aboard. 1t was said
hat the sinking of the Adriatic result
ID in no cancellations, and several per-
sons booked passage just prior to the
sailing.
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