The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-03-03
European War News

M4Ubeuge 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 we're killed and III 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 a 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 a British cruiser
which was lying in wait to recapture
her. The zoo passengers were landed
Five French villages within a radius
Of seven miles of the Verdun forts
have been captured by the crown
princes army ii was officially an
nounced at Berlin. They are Brabant-
Sur-Meuse. Haumont, Samogneux,
Jood and Herbe. Samogneux Is six
miles north of Verdun on the east
bank Of the Mouse.
The German steamer Hochfeld,
which was interned at Madeira early
In the war, has escaped. according to
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 Of
them we're being prepared for a dash
to sea to prey upon the allies COM
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Foreign Minister Sazonoff reviewed
the war situation in most optimistic
way. although he declared 1t was
more difficult now than ever before
to foresee the end Of the world
struggle
The entire crew of the Zeppelin air
ship brought down by French guns
near Brabant-le-Roi, twenty-five in
number, persisted, according to a
Havas dispatch to Paris from Bar-le-
Due.
According to special dispatches to
London from Petrograd the Turks are
said to be evacuating Trebizond.
German newspapers print dispatches
from Italy saying that Japanese fleet
has arrived safely In the Mediter-
ranean sea, together with great num-
Der of aircraft.
Domestic
John d. Shoop, superintendent Of
schools of Chicago. was elected presi-
dent of the department of superinten-
dence OF the National Educational as
ISOLATION, which held its annual con
vention at Detroit. Mich.
United States Senator Albert b
Cummins of Iowa filed affidavit with
the secretary of state at Des Moines
as a candidate for the presidency OF
the United States on the Republican
ticket
Henry Morgenthau, American am
bassador at Constantinople, arrived at
New York on board the steamship
Frederik VIII of the Scandinavian
American line from Copenhagen.
A lone robber gained admitance to
tn Camden Park State bank at Mime
sofa, Mimi, locked the cashier in the
vault and escaped with 500.
Myron T. Herrick OF Cleveland, for
mer United States ambassador in
Paris, 6led with Secretary of State
Hildebrant at Columbus, o., his dec.
laration of candidacy for the Republic
an nomination for United States sena-
tor.
John 2. Lowe. Jr., internal revenue
collector of the district comprising
the lower part Of Manhattan island,
estimated that the internal revenue
tax collections from that district for
the year ending June 80 would amount
to $35, 200. O0O-possibly $4,000, 900.
An interlocutory decree of divorce
was granted to Princess Evelyn Part
ridge Engalitcheff, daughter of
Charles w. Partridge OF Chicago, In
her suit against Prince Engalitcheff