Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-09-22

coast of Africa. the remaining defend.
erS having crossed into Spanish ter
ritory and been iuterned The army Of
East africa still reSiStS the converg-
ing columns of BelgiarS, French and
British but, shut off from r~e-enforce-
mentS, its doom would seeIL to be
sealed.
en- April * Sir Roger Easement,
Irish knight, tried to land from s 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 sherefl,
against their Turkish overlords, Nee
ca. Medina and others towns have been
| captured and are held still, probably
| with British assistance.
Doines in the Air.
Recent months have seen a cessa-
ton of Zeppelin raids or undefended
British and French towns. The cause
| of this is somewhat of a mystery, rs
| the Germans have claimed important
military results from their attacks,
On September rs there were two
| raids on London, thirty persons being
killed and a proportlonate number
wounded. Fifty-flve were killed by
| 2eppelins In a raid on London october
10.
On January 90 the German dlrigibles
bombardcd Paris, killing % and on
February / Liverpool and other Eng
lish centers were visited and 80 slain.
On April . a Zeppelin killed IS in
England and was destroyed on the
British coast as it returned. On March
G IL 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 wal munitlon
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 cutlery 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 Cavell, n British
nurse, to execution, rs announced by
Brand Whitlock, American minister Of
Belgium, on October 30.
The greatest naval engagement OF
history In number Of men engaged
and number slain was fought June 3
lea the Skaggerrak, in the North sea.
The result was inconclusive, each side
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
AIDE is broken only by the merchant
submarine Deutschland, which reached
Baltimore July 8.
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 capt.
ulating and promising to warn mer-
chantmen before attacking.
A U-boat sank the liner Arabic An
gust 20, 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. 1t
is thought two Americans were lost In
the sinking of the Persia in the Medl-
terranean January 2. The crisis was
precipitated March 20, when the Brit.
ish channel ferry steamer Sussex was
torpedoed without warning. Two hun
bred and thirty-flve persons were
killed and several Americans were in
jured.
This fragrant violation Of the rules
Of wal caused President Wilson tc
press Germany for sweeping assur
ances, which were given in n note May
6 on condition that the United States
force Great Britain to conduct hel
blockade legally. Mr.. Wilson an
swered he would accept the promise
but without the provlsO.
The many times heralded Turco-Ger
man invasion Of Egypt has not yet ma
teriallzed and probably never will. Or
the other hand, the Russian grant
duke has added to his laurels by cap
turing the important inland city o.
Erzerum February II, Bills March
and the seaport Of Trebizond Aprl
10.
The Turks In cOunter-attack'
pressed back the Russians in Persia
but recently the cars men have ad
vanced rapidly In the northern part o.
Asia Minor and the resistance Of thu
Turks seems to have been broken.
Exploits Of the Moewe.
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