Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-08-10

coast of Africa. the remaining defend
ers having crossed into Spanish ter
ritory and been interned. The army OF
East Africa still resists the converg-
ing columns OF Belgians, French and
British but, shut of from REINFORCE
ments, its doom would seem to be
sealed.
On April 25 Sir Roger Easement,
Irish knight, tried to land from a Ger
man warship on the coast Of Ire
land, but was captured. The next day
a revolt in Dublin a& ether 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 1.
More successful was the revolt Of
the Arabs, led by the grand shereff,
against their Turkish overlOrds. Nee
| ca, Medina and others towns have been
captured and are held still, probably
with British assistance.
Doings In the Air.
Recent months have seer a cessa-
ton of Zeppelin raids on undefended
British and French towns. The u
of this is somewhat Of a mystery, as
the Germans have claimed important
military results from their attacks.
On September 7-8 there were two
raids on London, thirty persons being
killed and a proportionate number
wounded. Fifty-ive were killed by
Zeppelins in a raid on London October
10.
On January 20 the German dirigibles
bombarded Paris, killing % and on
February 1 Liverpool and other Eng
lish centers were visited and SO slain.
On April 2 a Zeppelin killed % in
England and was destroyed on the
British coast as it returned. On March
6 IL were killed. w
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 war munition
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 wher
they hurried Edith Cavell, a British
nurse, to execution, as announced by
Brand Whitlock, American minister O.
Belgium, on October %.
The greatest naval engagement o.
history in number of men engaged
and number slain was fought June ;
near the S~kaggerrak, in the North sea
The result was inconclusive, each sid'
claiming a great victory and he re
ports varying widely in estimates o
losses on the two sides.
If the Germans, as they assert, seri
ously crippled the British grand fleet
we will probably soon see them com
out of Kiel again, to finish their task
At present, however, the British block
: ade is broken only by the merchan
, submarine Deutschland, which reaches
!. Baltimore July 8.
. Kaiser Yields to America.
: The year has also been the culm.
nation of the submarine dispute. BIZ
tween the United States and German!
which terminated in the kaiser's CAPT
!, ulating and promising to warn me,
chantmen before attacking.
:, A U-boat sank the liner Arabic Al
gust 20, two Americans being anon
: the slain. Two more of our national
o died when the Hesperian was torp'
4 doed September 6. On November
: several Americans died in the torp'
doing of the Italian liner Ancona.
is thought two Americans were lost
u the sinking of the Persia in the Med
u terranean January 2. The crisis we
precipitated March 20, when the Bri
Il ish channel ferry steamer Sussex wt
torpedoed without warning. Two hui
bred and thirty-ive persons wei
u killed and several Americans were |
y jured.
This fragrant violation of the rult
u Of wal caused President Wilson
e press Germany for sweeping assn
ances, which were given in a note Ms
e 6 on condition that the United Stat
y force Great Britain to conduct h
L blockade legally. MI. Wilson a
II swered he would accept the promis
: but without the proviso.
l. The many times heralded Turco-Ge
e man invasion of Egypt has not yet m
IL terialized and probably eve will. {
the other hand, the Russian graz
le duke has added to his laurels by ca
TX turing the important inland city
VI Erzerum February II, Bitlls March
n and the seaport Of Trebizond APP
ii 10.
y The Turks In counter-attac
pressed back the Russians in Persl
er but recently the cars men have q
m vanced rapidly in the northern part
he Asia Minor and the resistance of t
r Turks seems to have been broken.
Exploits Of the Moewe.
'A Only one German commerce raid
net a submarine distinguished itst
in the year. The fast Moewe sal
lg many allied ships off the coast
f. Africa and reached a home port
ID safety March 6. On February 2 a G.
ne man prize crew brought the Appam,
d. British capture, into Hampton Roa'
e. having come all the way across the
k lantic with her. The ownership Of Il
Vessel is still in the American cour
at Two more nations have been dra'
be into the war. The entrance Of b
e. garla has been described. On Mar
10 Germany declared war on Porting
he Portuguese and German troops h
In clashed in Africa some time befC
n and Portugal had Just seized the G