The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1916-03-03
WORLDS EVENTS
IN SHORT FORM
BEST OF THE NEWS BOILED
DOWN TO LIMIT.
ARRANGED FOR BUSY PEOPLE
Notes Covering Most Important Hap
penines of the World Compiled
in Eriefest and Most Succinct
Form for Quick Consumption.
EurODear1 War News

European War News
The Peninsular and Oriental line
steamship Maloja, 12,431 tons gross
was sunk in the Straits of Dover by
a mine. One hundred and forty-seven
persons persisted, of whom lit were
Lascars. The steamship Empress OF
Fort William, while attempting to res
cue the survivors of the Maloja, struck
another mine and sank in less than a
half hour. The crew was saved.
Five determined attempts made by
French troops to recapture from the
Germans Fort de Douaumont, one of
the outlying Verdun Notifications.
were repulsed with sanguinary losses,
according to the official statement is
sued at Berlin by the German head
quarters staff. The number OF I'M
wounded Frenchmen taken prisoners.
it was added. totaled $4,000.
Austro-Hungarian troops took full
possession of the Albanian port of Du-
razzo, according to an official an
nouncement made at Vienna. Rome
dispatches reported that all Italian
troops have been withdrawn from
DurazZo.
Gen. Alexei Kuropatkin has been ap-
pointed commander in chief OF the
Russian armies on the northern front,
says dispatch from Petrograd. Gen.
eral Kuropatkin succeeds General
Ruzsky.
Four British steamers have been
sunk with the loss of thirty lives says
a dispatch from London. The Wilson
liner Dido was the largest victim.
A Reuter- dispatch to London from
taken by storm Kermanshah, the i'm
portant Persian city in the neighbor-
hood of which serious fighting recently
has taken place.
Turkish column was attacked and
routed by South African troops at
Agagia, Egypt, according to a British
official statement issued at London,
which adds that the fleeing Turks are
being pursued
The irresistible German and Aus
trian siege guns which smashed Liege.
Maubeuge and Antwerp are raining
shells upon the northern forts Of Yer
dun. The German army stands with
in five miles of Verdun. Paris says
10000 Germans have fallen.
Sixty-seven men, women and chill
dren were killed and 1T wounded dur
ing the German air raid on England on
January 81, says an official statement
issued by the war Office at London.
An official statement issued at
Vienna says: The Italians east and
southeast of Durazzo have been driven
to the isthmus west of the Durazzo
lakes Seven hundred Italians were
captured"
The career of the British steamer
Westburn, which put into Teneriffe,
Canary Islands. in charge of Ger
man crew, was ended forever when
she was taken out of the har-
Dor by her German crew and blown
up within sight of British cruiser
which was lying in wait to recapture
her. The 206 passengers were landed.
The German steamer Hochfeld
which was interned at Madeira early
in the war, has escaped, according to
a dispatch to London from Funchal.
Thirty-six German and Austrian
merchant steamers interned in Port
uguese ports since the beginning OF
the war have been seized by the naval
authorities as a result of information
reaching the government that some o.
them were being prepared for a dash
to sea to prey upon the allies com.
merce.