Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-05-20
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IMPORTANT NEWS BOILED DOWN
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Brief Notes Covering Happenings In
This Country and Abroad That
Are Of Legitimate Interest to
All the People.
European War News

The British ship Goliath has been
torpedoed in the Dardanelles. 1t is
believed 500 lives have been lost; 1SO
were saved. Announcement of the
fate of the Goliath was made in the
house of commons at London by Wins
| ton Spencer Churchill. Mr.. Churchill
also announced that British subma-
rine sunk two Turkish gunboats and
a Turkish transport in the Sea of Mar
mora.
"A brilliant success has been
achieved north of Arras," says an Of
fetal statement issued by the war Of
fee at Paris. After furious conflict,
in which the Germans fought CALAMITY
and lost heavily, the French took COM
plete possession of Carency. Berlin
admits that the French occupy Car
ency.
where desperate fighting with the Teu-
tonic allies has been in progress for
the last few days is reported in the an
nouncement of the Petrograd war Of
fee.
The following statement was issued
at the American embassy in London:
"As to the sinking of the Lusitania. 1t
appears from all statements which
have been secured that no warning was
given. A torpedo hit amidships on the
starboard side. Seventy-nine Ameri-
cans were saved and one hundred and
eighteen are missing"
The secretary of the British admir-
atty says that on May l two German
torpedo boats and a British destroyer
were sunk following an engagement.
The British lost 16 officers and men.
A dispatch from Cracow to the Jour
nal de Geneve says that the losses OF
the Austrians and Germans since May
/ are 165, 600 officers and men. Losses
of the Russians in prisoners are placed
at $4,000.
The sinking of the steamer Lusi-
tania has aroused to a violent climax
the smoldering hatred and suspicion
of Germans living in England. This
luminosity has found expression In at
tacks on Germans, principally upon
their shops in London, Liverpool. Man
chester, Birkenhead, Glasgow and 9TH
er places. Many Germans were in
jured.
Murder, lust and pillage prevailed
over many parts of Belgium on scale
unparalleled in any war between civil
lied nations during the past three CEN
turies," declared the British govern
ment commission headed by Viscount
Bryce, former British ambassador to
the United States, in "a report given
at London on alleged German atroci-
ties in Belgium" presented to Premier
Asquith.
French troops captured "a veritable
fortress" at Notre Dame de Lorette.
says the war office report from Paris;
IAN important German work and an
entire system of trenches along the
road from Loos to Vermelles." the
chapel of Notre Dame de Lorette, and
all the trenches south of it, part of
Carency.
The Austrians have taken the pas
sage of the Wisloka and reached Lin
evernik, Haligrad and Bukowsho. The
total loss of the Russians is at least
10000, says Vienna.
Canada had 10S, 760 men under arms
at the front and in Canada May /,
says an official announcement made
at Ottawa, Ont. The government ex-
poets the number will be increased to
10000.
While England was mourning for
the dead lost In the Lusitania disaster,
Germany launched another aerial at
tack upon towns between London and
the east coast. A feet Of aeroplanes
and Zeppelins bombarded several
towns and villages, setting fire with
incendiary bombs. A woman had
been killed and many civilians were
injured at South End
The German war Office at Berlin an
nounced that in the recent fighting in
Galicia and Russian Poland 143,500
Russians had been captured Austrian
and German forces continue their ad-
vance eastward In Galicia, and are ap-
preaching the fortress of Przemysl.
The semiofficial Berlin News agency
issued the following statement: THE
steamship Pennsylvania, which left
New York, belongs to the category of
ships which carry contraband and,
therefore, is liable to attack by German
submarines"
Official announcement was made at
the German war office at Berlin that
the city OF Libau, in the province of
Courland, Russia, has been captured
by the Germans. Libau is an import.
ant seaport and Industrial center.
Webb Ware, who was the British
representative of Alfred Vanderbilt,
was informed at Queenstown that
Mr.. Vanderbilts body has been re-
covered. The reports came from a