Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1915-05-21
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present crisis is expected. Riotlng oc"
Cured In several cities in Italy. Rome
has been occupied by the military.
The week OF battle drawing to a
close has left both sides exhausted
and breathless, says the Daily News
correspondent in the north Of France
To-day, Ascension day." he telegraphs,
we are burying our thousands and
the Germans perhaps their tens OF
thousands. The fury Of the lighting
has been unbelievable and the death
roll is appalling, but our line is estab-
lished firmly"
lnternment Of the 10000 Germans
and Austrians in Great Britain was
begun by Scotland Yard at London
and the special war constables,"
working under the direction of the
home office. Many Of the women and
children and men too old for military
service will be deported.
The damage caused by the riots
which have taken place all over Brit
fish South Africa since the sinking or
the Lusitania is estimated at more
than 100000, Hardly a shop or no
tel owned by German has escaped.
Lieutenant Won Muecke and land
ing party of SO men from the German
cruiser Ernden, which escaped when
their ship was sunk In the Indian
ocean on November 10, have arrived
at Damascus, Syria, after six months
of adventurous wandering. All have
teen awarded the iron cross.
Visc0unt Haldane, lord high chan
cellor of England, intimated in the
house of lords at London that the gov
eminent was considering the necessity
of departing from the voluntary sys-
tenn of military enlistment and resort
ing to general service throughout the
kingdom.
The British ship Goliath has been
torpedOed in the Dardanelles. It is
believed $50 lives have been lost; 1870
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 a 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 a furious conflict,
in which the Germans fought CALAMITY
and lost heavily, the French took COM
p1ete possession Of Carency. Berlin
admits that the French occupy Car
ency.
The following statement was issued
at the American embassy in London:
LAS to the sinking of the Lusitania, it
appears from All statements which
have been secured that no warning
was given. A torpedo hit amidships
on the starboard side. Seventy-nine
Americans were saved and one hun
dred and eighteen are missing"
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
lacks on Germans. principally upon
their shops in London, Liverpool, Man
chester, Birkenhead, Glasgow and 9th
er places
Murder. lust and piIlage prevailed
over many parts Of Belgium on a 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 VermelIes." the
chapel of Notre Dame de Lorette, and
all the trenches south of 1t, part Of
Carency.
Twenty-eight additional bodies OF
Lusitania victims were brought to
Queenstown. A torpedo boat landed
the bodies of seven men, four women
and one boy. The tug Stormcock
brought eleven men, four women and
one baby.
The German war office at Berlin an.
nounced that I'm the recent fighting In
Galicia and Russian Poland 143,500
Russians had been captured Austrian
and German forces continue their adj
vance eastward in Galicia, and are APP
preaching the fortress of Przemysl.