Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-05-03
Effort to Prolong Peace Ne
gotiations Is Believed
Decided Upon.
HOPE FOR SETTLEMENT
Rome Officialdom Is Prepar-
ing What Is Termed "In-
evitable Decision"

lHt Oh US
tend secuted over Dover and Folk
stone at noon today. They were
driven off by gunfire. A Zeppelin
! airship is reported to have passed
/ over the island of VIietand, on the
! northern coast of Netherlands, at
| 10 this morning in the direction of
/ England.
The Norwegian steamer Bald
win was sunk by a German SUBJ
marine Sunday. The crew was
saved.
Athens, May 3.-French troops
which landed in the Asia Minor
side of the DardanelIes retired
after a battle OF two days.
London, May 3.-It is believed In
Rome that Austria and Germany have
decided on another effort to prolong
negotiations between Italy and the
central empires In the hope of reach
ing peaceful settlement of their ter
ritorial dispute For this purpose it
is said Count Goluchowski, former
Austrian-H garian foreign minister,
will go 10 Rome from Vienna. The
Italian cabinet has not decided to
postpone the assembling of parlia-
ment May u, and it is thought In
Rome that parliament may assist the
cabinet in reaching "a decision which
appears now to be almost inevitable"
Information from the Dardanelles
by way of London IS that great dam
age was inflicted upon Turkish forts
Saturday by warships of the allies.
The town of Dardanelles is said TO
have been destroyed The Turkish
war office. however, states no action
was attempted by the allied feet that
day. French troops are reported to
have made another landing on the
Asiatic side and 10 be advancing rap
idly.
Turks Damage War Vessels.
Constantinople, May 3-Oficial: I'm
consequence of attacks proceeding
for US the enemy has not
succeeded in improving HIS positions
on the coast OF Gallipoli peninsula
Fire of our batteries against the en-
emy at Seddul Bahr shows good re-
suits" The statement claims the
French battleship Henry " and the
British battleship Vengeance have
been damaged by shells from Turkish
forts. and says the Russian Black sea
feet demonstrated for an hour off
the BosphOrus, then retired rapidly.
Again Using Poisonous Gases.
London. May 3.-Oficial: "At Z D.
n, May 1. Germans attacked hill so.
southeast of Ypres. and yesterday eve
ling they attacked the neighborhood
II st. Julien. Both attacks were re-
pulsed. We lost no ground and in
iicted heavy casualties on the enemy,
n spite of the fact they again used
poisonous gases. A German aeropiane
afternoon was chased by
me of our machines TO within rife
'ange of our trenches, then was
brought down by our fire.
Paris. May 3-Oficial: Germans
DAY 2 made two attacks with as
gases. one north of Ypres,
lear st. Julien, the other south OF
ypres. near hill so. Neither accomp-
ished anything. There is nothing to
eport from the rest OF the front"
Three More Vessels Sunk.
Aberdeen. Scotland. May 3.-Trawl-
rs making port today declare a Ger
nan submarine sang two trawlers
Tithin so miles of Aberdeen Sunday
he crews are believed 10 have lost
heir lives. The submarine ran amuck
mOng the Aberdeen fishing fleet. In
ddition 10 sending two to the bottom
chased three other trawlers 20
liles. a patrol boat was seen ap-
roaching, whereupon the submarine
London. May 3.-A Rotterdam dis
atch says the Swedish steamer
lhda, timber laden, Helsingborg for
Iuli, was torpedoed in the North sea
y a German submarine. She went 10
le bottom in less than three minutes
ixteen men and two women on board
arely had time 10 escape in one of
le small boats