The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1916-10-19
Happenings
Of the World
Tersely Told
European War News

LUZ OpSS%SS " 90 A"STS
German troops in a salient project
ing toward the town of VermandOvil-
lers, south of the River Somme, have
been cut off by the French forces, it
was stated in the German official state
ment issued at Berlin.
Two Americans have been killed in
the Avenue Georges Henri, Brussels,
by German guntire directed against
British aerOplanes, according to the
Amsterdam Echo Beige.
German casualties from the begin
ming of the war to the end of Septem-
Der were 3,556,O1S, according to an Of
fetal British compilation given out at
London.
Brig. Gen. Philip Howell has been
killed in action, says a dispatch from
London. He was only thirty-nine years
old. and had had a distinguished career
in India.
The total British casualties on all
fronts for the week just ended are an
nounced by the war office at London to
have been 22,S52 of all ranks, killed,
wounded and missing.
The Dutch government, it was
learned at The Hague, on the basis OF
facts already ascertained, will immedi-
~ fp aX-n1oin tho sink
ing Of the Dutch steamer Bloomersdijk
in the Atlantic off the New England
coast.
Italian troops fighting in the CarsO
region, southeast Of GOritz, have re-
sumed their march toward Trieste, cap
turing several lines of Austrian
trenches and more than 5000 prisoners,
says the official statement issued by
the Rome war office.
Athens reports that Vice Admiral
Dartige Du Fournet, commander OF the
Anglo French fleet in the Mediter-
ranean, has presented an uIimatum to
Greece demanding that Greece hand
over the entire Greek fleet.
French forces south of the SOmme
river resumed their drive on Chaulnes.
Gains of mile and half north of
the beleaguered city were made, the
official Paris report says, and the town
of Bovent and part of Chaulnes woods
were captured.
Continuing their advance in Tran
sylvania the AustrO-German forces
under General Won Falkenhayn have
captured the passes in the Hargitta
and Carole mountains, according to
the official statement issued at Berlin.
The United States has refused to
accept the contention of the entente
allies urging that neutrals deny the
use of their harbors to all submarines,
whether merchantmen or warships,
Counselor Polk of the state depart
ment announced at Washington.
A conference between President Will
son and Count Won Bernstorff, the Ger
man ambassador, at the summer White
House at Long Branch, N. j., revealed
the following facts regarding the sit
uation of the United States with re-
spect to the activities of the 'U-53 off
Nantucket lightship: President Will
son will hold Germany to all it's prom
Uses regarding it's conduct of subma-
rine warfare. Ambassador Won Bern
storff promises that Germany will hold
sacred all it's promises to the Ameri-
can government.
With allied cruisers guarding the
steamship lanes off the New England
coast, submarine raiding ceased. Rear
Admiral Albert Gleaves, commander Of
the torpedo-boat destroyer flotilla,
says there was only one German
raider.
Six hundred and thirty-eight men
persisted when the French transport
Gallia was torpedoed in the Mediter
ranean by a German submarine, says
q dispatch from Paris. The ship car
ried 1000 French and Serbian SOL
diers.