The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-02-26
TISR SHIP LOST
| WITH Crew OF $50
LAD ADMIRALTY REPORTS
.,o MERCHkNTMAN CLAN
~. ,,...NAueHToN MISSING.
nlIE RUSSIAN DEFEAT
!, Won Hlndenoerg Put Russians
nvsr Prussian Frontier.
French and Germans In
Trench Fighting
~, News From the Front.

u, War News From the Front.
!. london official information bu-
/, announced Wednesday that the
!, NacNaaghton, an armed mer-
i. I, cruiser, is missing. The vessel
!. at heard froL, Feb. 3, and it is
"a that she has been lost.
Is teyt Of the bureaus announce
1t follows:
~ secretary Of the admiralty re-
], % announce that H. NJ. S. Clan
,,s,ughton, an armed merchant
IN Commander Robert Jeffreys,
4 has been missing since Feb. 3,
ie il feared that the vessel has
Il lost
4, unsuccessful search has been
Il snd wreckage supposed to be
Ds Of this ship has since been
aered."
,spng the crew of the Clan Mac
iton we're twenty men of the
sOundland royal naval reserve.
,stg officers anG 26O men were on
"A he yarship. The commander
H lie principal officers. belonged to
ryaI navy, the Others to the
III laval reserve.
esat Britain has submitted to her
s France and Russia, the pro-
As made by the United States gov
neht designed to end the menace
Neutral commerce arising from the
alitCry measures Of the European
lgefents toward each other.
Briefly, the American proposals
hgA have been submitted to both
gland and Germany seek the elimi-
llien by Germany of the recently
aaibed war zone around Great
fain and Ireland, with its dangers
neutral shipping through mines and
lRaflle torpedoes, and the adop-
d b. all the belhgerents u a def
ID policy with re ard to the ship
Ht Of iOOdStuffs destined for the
liaan population Of their enemies.
Four hundred members of the mu-
loVs Indian regiment ai2h revolt
q Singapore on Feb. II have been
a5d as well as seven German pris-
ss from the detention camp, who
isd the natives when offered their
dom, according to reports Of the
ing brought to Mania by passen-
nom Singapore. The mutineers
said to have killed all their Off
save the colonel, and then at
g civilians, several of whom were
including one woman.
Mother American steamer, the
aas been destroyed by a mine
as German cost, while a third
ssslan steamer, the Regin, has
@pedoed or destroyed by mine
over In the case of the Regin
Y crew was saved by British de-
9iss and although not stated in
dispatches from Berlin, it is be-
9 mat the crew of the Carib also
sd.
~ neutral states continue to be
eaIest sufferers from the mine
'a0laaflne warfare. 1t is consid-
@sslOle however, that one or
pl'sa steamers have suffered a
lale' one being overdue and
Oefas reported blown up off
result Of the activity of Ger
asalarInes, the British admiral
announced that the Irish and
suaanels have been restricted
Fsati0R from now on.
So the allies in the west have
ged their offensive which
Y Ooleet the relieving of the
On Russia.
has, however, been some
leaf the coast at Ypres, in
asne district, where the
attempting to push the
back from Rheims.
: going on along virtually
russian front. The Rus
sao have been strongly rein,
Aaee their Defeat in East Prus.
~. reached their prepared posi-
ssen the fortresses of the
y hoYno, Wilma and Grodno,
/. @lssiana, too, are making a
lhe crown land Of BuEowina
correspondents On the Rou-
II Z. a0aller report that the Aus
y advanced beyond Czerno,
2 that city. '''D u'''e''
-. wasp Of modern warfare the
oy means of which Ger.
is,. asslared She will blockade
lsles, daily becomes a fac.
ss ana more Importance in
sea w Of Europe with respect
sS sace on the policies of the
sassd in connection with
seand question, SO vital to