Tombstone epitaph., 1916-08-13

coast of Africa. the remaining defend CTS having crossed into Spanish ter ritory and been interned. The army of East Africa still resists the converg- ing columns of Belgians. French and British but. shut of from re-enforce- ments. Its doom would seem to be sealed.
 On April g Sir Roger Easement. Irish night. tried to land from a Ger man warship on the coast of Ire land. but was captured. The next day a revolt in Dublin and other Irish cities broke out and the center of the Irish capital was burned. The revolt was easily quelled. the British announcing resistance had ceased on May l.
 More successful was the revolt of the Arabs. led by the grand sbereff, against their Turkish overlords. Mec- ca. Medina and others towns have been captured and are held still, probably with British assistance.
 poings in the Air.
 Recent months have seen a cessa- ton of Zeppelin raids on undefended British and French towns. The cause of this is somewhat of a mystery. as ihe Germans have claimed important military results from their attacks
 On September IS there were two raids on London. thirty persons being killed and a proportionate number wounded. Fifty-fiye were killed by ZeppeiIns in a raid on London October 13.
 On January % the German dirigibles Soaiissasr-ttc1 Paris, killing 22 and on February 1 Liverpool and other Eng fish centers were visited and 8 slain.
 On April ? Zeppelin killed 2S In England and was destroyed on the British coast as 1t returned. On March 6 13 were killed.
 On April 6 1t was announced that the fifth Zeppelin raid in six days on the British coast had been made. The Germans declared that war intuition factories and supply depOts had been destroyed.
 Since then England Apparently has been immune from the Zeppelins. This may be due to the large number of dirigibles lost. or to the outcry against the inhumanIty of the practices of the Germans which was raised in neutral countries.
 One other important moral defeat was sustained by the Germans when they hurried Edith Cayell, a British nurse. to execution, as announced by Brand WhitlOck. American minister of Belgium. on October 22.
 The greatest naval engagement of history in number Of men engaged and number slain was fought June 3 near the Skaggerrak, in the North sea. claiming a great victory and the re ports varying widely in estimates of losses on the two sides.
 If the Germans. as they assert, seri- ously crippled the British grand fleet, We will probably soon see them come out of Kiel again. to finish their task. At present, however, the British block ade is broken only by the merchant submarine Deutschland, which reached Baltimore July 9.
 Kaiser Yields to America.
 The year has also been the culmi- nation of the submarine dispute be tween the United States and Germany, which terminated in the kaiser's capit- ulating and promising to warn mer- chantmen before attacking.
 A C-boat sank the liner Arabic Au- gust %. two Americans being among the slain. Two more of our nationals died when the Hesperian was torpe- doed September 6. On November 10 several Americans died In the tOrpe- doing of the Italian liner Ancona. It is thought two Americans were lost in the sinking of the Persia in the Medi- terranean January ?. The crisis was precipitated March %, when the Brit ish channel ferry steamer Sussex was torpedoed without warning. Two hun dred and thirty-five persons were killed and several Americans were in. jured.
 This fragrant violation of the rules of war caused President Wilson to press Germany for sweeping assur. ances, which were given in note May on condition that the United States force Great Britain to conduct her blockade legally. Mir. Wilson nn- swcred he would accept the promise. but without the proviSO.
 The many times heralded Turco-Ger- man invasion of Egypt has not yet ma tcrIalized and probably never will. On the other hand, the Russian grand duke has added to his laurels by cap turing the important inland city of Erzerum February 17, Bitlis March 4 and the seaport of Trebizond April 19.
 The Turks in counter-attacks pressed back the Russians in Persia, but recently the czar's men have ad- vanced rapidly in the northern part of Asia Minor and the resistance of the Turks seems to have been broken. Exploits of the Moewe- Only one German commerce raider net a submarine distinguished itself in the year. The fast Moewe sank many allied ships off the coast of Africa and reached a home port in safety March 6. On February Ger