The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-01-21
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1t is officially announced at Rome
that the French submarine Foucault,
attached to the Italian fleet, torpedoed
and sank in the Adriatic sea an Aus
trian scout cruiser OF the Noyara
type. The cruiser was sunk near Cat
faro. the Austrian naval base.
The Montenegrin government has
evacuated Cetinje. Last reports from
the Montenegro front, coming through
German sources, were that the Aus
trians were within six miles of the
Montenegrin capital. The entire Aus
trian fleet, including three dread
naughts. has been concentrated in the
Gulf Of Cattaro This is a grave
menace to Italy's activity in the
Adriatic.
Together with our king and en-
peror we march toward the turning of
the road sure of victory" declared
Chancellor Won Bethmann-Hollweg in
his address opening the 1916 session
of the Prussian diet at Berlin.
The shooting down of four British
aeroplanes, the repulse of British at
tack near Armentieres and the de-
struction of German trenches near
Lille are the stirring war events chron-
icled in official reports from Berlin.
Two Italian steamships, the Brin-
dist and the Citta di Palermo, have
been sunk by mines in the Adriatic
sea- Half of the passengers on the
Brindisi were lost. The crew was
saved. Nearly all on the Citta di Pal
ermo were saved, according to dis
patches from Rome.
A Central News dispatch to London
from Rome indicates that the long de-
ferred advance on Saloniki has begun.
1t tells of attacks from the direction
of Dorian, Guevgheli and Monastir,
Just beyond the Greek border.
Dispatches TO London from Rome
state that French warships have seized
the Island of Corfu to prepare the
way for the landing Of the Serbian
army. The French disembarked an
ample landing force and have occupied
the island in considerable strength.
Corfu is a Greek possession.
The British steamer Clan MacFar-
lane, of 1923 tons, has been sunk in
the Mediterranean. Thirteen persons
persisted when the ship was torpedoed.
Twenty-four others have been rescued.
Domestic
Col. John T.. McGraw. Democratic
national committeeman from West
Virginia, and Charles r. Durbin were
indicted by the grand jury which in
vestigated the closing of the Grafton
bank at Grafton, w. Va.
verdict of not guilty was returned
by the jury in the case of the Menace
Publishing company at Aurora, Mo-,
and four of its alleged officials, who
were charged in federal court at Jop-
lin, Mo-. with misuse of the mails.
Five persons, including one woman,
were indicted by federal grand jury
at New York charged with conspiring
to ship rubber secretly to the German
government in violation of United
States customs laws.
Maj Gen. Leonard Wood, command
er of the department of the East, was
elected president of the Army and
Navy club at it's annual meeting in
New York.
AS political entity the Progressive
party will have no existence in the ma
tional campaign for 1916 if the Repub.
licans grasp the olive branch which
was proffered to them by George w.
Perkins in the meeting OF the Progress
sive national committee in Chicago. He
said it is hoped both parties will agree
upon somebody and that it will not be
Roosevelt. The convention will be
held at Chicago on June T.
Progressive leaders selected for
their convention hall the Auditorium