The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1916-03-31

The United States soon VIII make,
for the information Of the nations of
the world, a complete statement of its
position in regard TO the conduct OF
submarine warfare and the arming of
merchant ships for defensive pur-
poses.
FOREIGN.
The auxiliary ship Aurora Of the
Shackleton Antartic expedition has
been damaged and is proceeding TO
New Zealand for repairs, according to
wireless dispatch from the vessel
received b. the Lavy department at
Melbourne.
DR.. Karl Helfferich, secretary of
the imperial treasury, told the reich
stag that the fourth German war loan
lad been a brilliant success. the sub
seriptions hay.hg reached mere than
lO.600. 100000 marks.
It is still in the French and Rus
sian war theatres that the heaviest
battles are in progress. but fighting
also continues in the Austro-Italian
zone, in Serbia, near the Greek from
hAtAf anu III EAotAliN
The number of widows or British
soldiers who have thus far been re-
ported to the army council is Al 500,
according to William Hays Fisher,
parliamentary secretary OF the local
government board, in speech to the
house OF commons on the widows
pension bill.
The London Daily Sketch says that
a German invasion OF England is like
ly TO be attempted within the next
few weeks.
Walter Runciman, president OF the
London board OF trade, announced in
the house of commons that the British
government was contemplating the
prohibition of the importation of hops.
c. H. Cawthorpe, member of the
Saskatchewan legislature, was ordered
held for trial at the next sessions Of
the supreme court when he appeared
in police court at Regina, Sask., to
answer TO a charge that he accepted
$500 for his vote to defeat the gov.
eminent banish-the-bar liquor bin in
1918.
Advices from Hongkong indicate
that the state department mandate
announcing abandonment of the plan
TO resume the monarchical form of
government in China has met with a
mixed reception in South China.
Infantry attacks northwest of Yer
dun, preceded by a vigorous lombard.
ment. have enabled the Germans to
gain a foothold on the small hill of
Hancourt, which lies just outside the
village OF Malancourt and between that
town and the eastern edge of the Ma.
lancourt wood.
Replying to the formal protest of
the United States against the seizure
of American securities. the British
government will claim the right TO
make much seizure because their sale
by Germans gives them credit and this
places the bonds in the same category
as gold shipments.
Gen. Luis Herrera, until recently
Carranza military governor OF Chihua-
| hua, has renouneed Carranza and an
nounced in favor of villa, taking the
field In western Chihuahua with 1000
troops. according to reliable informa-
ton received at Columbus, N. NJ.
A state department mandate issued
at Pekin announced the abandonment
Of the monarchy and resumption OF
the Chinese republic. The mandate
says the revolution shows that the de-
mand for a monarchical form Of gov.
eminent is not unanimous and that
therefore Yuan Shi Kai rejects the EN-
perorship and resumes the presidency
A dispatch to the Politiken from
Berlin says that great concentration
OF Russian troops is occurring in
southern Poland. It is supposed thai
the Russians are preparing an attack
on the line from Cratorysk to Koyel