Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-08-10

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board Air Line at meeting held In
Baltimore yesterday, entirely remod-
eled the financial structure Of the
system by executing a mortgage au-
thorizing an issue of $30O,OOO,OOo
bonds, and by absorbing the Carolina /,
Atlantic and Western Railway.
The government of the Neither
lands has been. receiving a steady
stream of munitions for months past
from an American munition factory
that is supplying the allies. The re-
ports from London are to the effect
that Holland has called every avalla-
BILE man to the colors.
1t is announced officially in Petro-
grad that German fleet, consisting
of nine battleships, twelve cruisers,
and a large number of torpedo boats.
attacked the entrance to the Gulf of
Riga on Sunday. The fleet was re-
pulsed. One cruiser and two torpedo
boats were damaged.
A Laibach message says 10000
Italian troops, with powerful artil-
lery, conducted fve-hour attack
upon the Gorilla defenses today.
Numerous Austrian batteries were
silenced by the Italian cannon. At
ter a final bayonet attack, the Aus
trian troops retired toward the town,
leaving 1000 dead and 800 prisoners.
The navies of the air have again
and a French aeroplane
squadron has beaten off mosquito
fleet of German "aviatiks," lombard
ed the railroad station and factories
at Saarbruck, on the border Of Rhine
province, on German soil, and sailed
away through a dense fog, leaving
great clouds of smoke and flame ris-
ing from the earth below.
The British have recaptured all the
trenches they loss to the Germans in
the region of Hooge on July 30 and
nave further extended their front a
distance Of 1000 yards, making net
gain for Sir John French's troops of
fully a mile in front. Rpulse of a
furious German night attack north
IF the railway station at SouchesZ,
in which the invaders lost heavily, is
Secretary of State Lansing declares
hat "a very definite policy" had been
agreed upon at the two Pan-Ameri-
IAN conferences on the Mexican stu
atom. Latin America will cooperate
in every peaceful way in aiding in
The restoration of law and order in
Mexico. If peaceful means fail,
Latin-American governments will
lend their passive moral support to
armed intervention by the forces of
the United States.
Strike will be called at nnoa Thurs.
lay at the plant Of the Lccomobile
Company at Bridgeport, Conn. ur-
less the eight hour day and a 20 per
cent wage increase is granted. Two
plants busily engaged iii United
States government work-the Ameri-
can and British Manufacturing Com
oany and the Lake Torpedo Boat
Company-are threateend. Demands
will be made on them tomorrow for
wage increases.
Employees of the five Washington
orewer.ies, who have been out on
strike for four months. expect to re-
turn to work next week. it was STA
I'd following the regular weekly meet
ing of the Central Labor Union last
hight. Although no conferences have
been held between the brewers and
the workmen for neary two months.
it was said that both sides are will
ing to recede from their original po-
sitons.
Serbia is expected to be the next
object of attack by the Germans and
Austrians in full force. All indica-
tons from the eastern battle front
lead to the conviction that Emperor
is preparing to launch al
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