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ABOUT THE WAR


fall into the hands OF the Germans.
President Wilson is the man chosen
By the neutral nations 10 make peace
in the European war.
Russian claims of great German
losses In the naval battle in the gull
Of Riga are repudiated in semfofil
cial telegram received from Berlin
which says that no dreadnought or
cruisers were sunk or damaged.
A dispatch to the Central News from
Petrograd says The President OF the
Duma has announced that the Ter
mans lost the battleship Moltke, three
cruisers and seven torpedo boats in
the Riga battle
Marquis di Garroni. Italian ambas-
,ador to Turkey, Saturday handed TO
The Porte note declaring Italy con
sidered herself in a state OF war with
Turkey and demanded his passports.
according to an official telegram from
Constantinople
The White Star liner Arabic, car
rying lsl passengers and crew OF 2iz
and bound for New York, was torpe-
ioed and sunk by a German subma-
rine. off the southwest coast OF Ire
land. near Fastnet Thirtytwo persons
are reported missing.
Count Won Bernstorff, the German
ambassador at Washington, communl-
Gated to the State Department instruc-
lions from his government expressing
regret and sympathy II Americans lost
their lives in the sinking or the inner
Arabic and asking that the United
States delay taking definite stand In
regard to the affair until Germany
could be heard from.
Germany Is indulging in the first
thought OF possible defeat which she
has countenanced since the war be-
gan While the German fleet at Riga
was meeting with decisive defeat,
Gen. Won Moltke, former chief of staff,
was telling a secret conference OF
German cabinet ministers that the
possibility of complete Russian defeat
could not be hoped for by those well
informed on the situation. At the
same meeting Chancellor Won Beth
mann Hollweg and Karl Hefferich,
secretary OF the treasury, announced
that the empires financial resources
are in danger OF exhaustion and ad-
yised the preparations of acceptable
peace proposals The chancellor
threatened to resign when the confer
ence refused to adopt a moderate at
titude in the Reichstag.
WESTERN
Eight are reported dead and 5000
marooned in floods at Newport, Ark,
The total number of visitors to the
Panama Pacific exposition has reached
100000.
Two troopers were arrested at
Douglas. Ariz for attempting to kill
John Peters.
At Marietta, Ga, the coroners jury
returned verdict that Leo NJ Frank
was hanged by parties unknown.
Just before his departure from Port
land, former President William II
Taft, who was en- route to San Fran
cisco, declined to receive a party OF
Congressional Union suffragists at his
hotel on the plea of lack OF time
The Salt Lake City Commercial
Club has addressed letters to all com
HfFclal ORGANIZATIONS anu tHe leauIHs
newspapers of the Middle West, ask
ing them to interest themselves in a
project to keep open the San Fran
cisco and San Diego expositions next
year
\ total OF 256 known dead resi-
dents of southeast Texas coast points
and crews of wrecked craft of all
wrecked craft of all kinds sixty-fiye
persons missing. many of whom are
believed to have persisted. and prop
erty damage close to $50 900 600 was
the toll taken by the hurricane which
swept Galveston. Tex, and the Gulf
coast section.