Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-05-21
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ABOUT THE WAR

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lairnie, which arrived at Blythe, Eng
land.
| According to dispatches from Con
stantinople, the Turks have lost in
killed and wounded during four days
in the Dardanelles nearly $4,000 men.
not counting those in Smyrna, which
was bombarded.
The latest available figures of the
Lusitania disaster show: Dead, pas
sengers and crew, 1,150; saved, pas
sengers and crew, 767. OF the latter
465 were passengers and 3O2 were
members of the crew.
Advices from the Dardanelles, as
| conveyed from sources favorable to
the allies, say the French and British
| forces are continuing to gain in the
land fighting. although it is conceded
| the decisive phase has not been
reached,
Premier Salandra convoked coun-
Gil of ministers to make decision
relative to the present crisis. The
agitation in Rome has assumed almost
a revolutionary character. The entire
city has been occupied by troops and
the city under martial law.
The British battleship Goliath was
torpedoed and sunk at the Oar
danelles by Turkish destroyer. with
the loss of about 500 lives. Official
announcement to this effect was made
in London, together with the state
ment that two Turkish gunboats and
Turkish transport had been sunk.
WESTERN
Boise, Idaho, is exemplifying the
get-together spirit in promoting even
ing meets in the schools.
At Milwaukee. James Morrison Oar
nell, a Kenosha, Wis, minister. was
found guilty of violating the Mann
while slave act.
Laurence Seaman, bishop OF the
Salt Lake City diocese Of the Roman
Catholic church and pioneer mis-
sionary of the West, died at Salt Lake
after a long illness.
The Southern Sociological congress
at Houston. Tex, adopted resolutions
indorsing President Wilson's stand
Fin the present critical situation" and
expressing confidence in him.
Three thousand striking Detroit
street railway employees voted to re-
turn to work Immediately, pending
settlement of their differences with
the Detroit United Railway Company
by arbitration.
The Navy Department, according to
n message received at Los Angeles,
has instructed Admiral Howard to
send a warship to Tebari bay, Mexico,
to succor the American colony at Es-
peranza. which has been attacked by
Yaqui Indians.
Maury !. Diggs and F. Drew Can't
netti was granted a stay of execu-
tion OF their sentences under the
Mann act at San Francisco by the
United States Circuit Court of Ap-
peals to permit appeals to the United
States Supreme Court.
Opposition to the worldwide move
ment known as the Baraca and
Philathea classes for young men and
young women respectively was voiced
in the report of the Sunday school
board at the opening session at Hous-
ton, Tex, of the Southern Pacific
convention.
Former President William Howard
Taft, speaking at the Worlds Court
Congress at Cleveland, Ohio, outlined
his plan for the establishment of a
League of Peace and Arbitration
Court with the object of settling by
arbitration differences between the
nations of the world and preventing
further wars.
WASHINGTON
Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia
called at the State Department again
to inquire into the situation relating
to seizure of cotton cargoes by Great
Britain.
Acreage planted to watermelons in
North and South Carolina, Georgia,
Florida, Alabama, Texas and the I'm
perial valley, California, this year,
was 96,S00. as against los, 400 in 1914,
the Department Of Agriculture an
nounced Acreage planted to canta-
loupes in the same territory was 49,
$50, compared with 1880 last year.
The Russian port of Archangel is
open, the American consul at Petro-
State Department
A telegram received at the State De-
partment expressed the sympathy of
the convention government in Mexico
for the loss of American lives on the
Lusitania.
Fifty men were killed in fight be-
tween followers of Generals Antonio
Barona and Juan Banderas, Zapatista
chieftains. in Mexico City, according
to a statement by the CarranZa
agency in Washington.