The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-03-09
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
European, Wa" N e,vS
Mere than 80 lives were lost in the
sinking of the French auxiliary cru1s-
er La Povence, formerly in service as
a transatlantic liner, in the middle
Mediterranean. Four hundred surviv-
ors were landed at Milo, while 296 Of
the crew have arrived at Malta, &C.
cording to an official statement issued
at 2;.ris. It IS believed the ii: er was
tOrpedoed.
Germany's second and greatest sub
marine campaign opened on March l..
1t will tie directed against armed mer-
chant ships of the entente powers.
!. val officials i'll Berlin espresso the
BELIEF that it would be even more sue
cessful than the campaign which
opened year ago.
Italy's act Of reQuisitiOning thirty
four of the thirty-sever German ships
informed in Italian ports, as announced
j., the house of common at London,
is interpreted as corroborating re-
pert that the Italian cabinet has de-
cided to declare war on Germany.
The Turks are hastily evacuating
the important Black sea port of Trebi-
zcnd and neighboring cities before the
Russian advance, according to Tit1is
dispatches at Petrograd.
British casualties in all the war
areas for the month Of February
showed total of 739 officers and IT,
BAT men, it was announced at London.
The loss of part of another import
ant pos ton protecting Verdun, a posi-
ton almost as important Fort
Douaumt mt, is admitted ! the official
| report given in Paris. Part of the
Cote de Poivre pepper heights} has
been seized by the ,,.ai1er's troops.
Nuri Bey, brother of Enver Pasha
Turkish war minister, was killed in
the battle between British South Afri
| can troops and Turkish-led tribesme1l
in western Egypt, according to e.
port of the fighting received at Lon
| don.
Germany has addressed sharp note
| to Portugal in protest against seizure
| of German merchant vessels by the
| Portuguese authorities. This measure
is characterized as violation Of Ger
many's treaty rights and the hope is
| expressed that Portugal will rescind
| it's action.
The sinking of the hospital ship
Marechiaro near San Giovanni di Me-
Qua, Albania, is reported in dispatch
to London. The vessel struck mine.
There were numerous victims.
! 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 III 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
half hour. The crew was saved.
Austro-Hungarfan 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.
A Reuter- dispatch to London from
Petrograd says the Russians have
taken by storm Kermanshah, the i'm
portant Persian city in the neighbor
hood of which serious fighting recently
has taken place.
SiXty-seven men, women and chill
dren were killed and III wounded dur
ing the German air raid on England on
January 81, says an official statemen,
issued by the war office at London
An official statement issued a,
| Vienna says: THE Italians east and
| southeast of Durazzo have been driven
to the isthmus west of the DuraZzC
lakes. Seven hundred Italians were
captured"
Domestic
Two were killed and two fatally hur1
when an automobile struck a street
car at Milwaukee. Doctor Eisen anC