Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-03-09
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European War News
The British official statement issued
at London on the fighting in the west.
ern zone says "We recaptured the
trenches at the blum of the Ypres.
Confines canal, which were lost Feb
ruary Ia. and also captured a small
salient in the German line"
The French mine sweeper Au Re-
voir was torpedoed and sunk by Ger
man submarine in the English chan.
mel. All the members of the crew
were saved. says dispatch to Havre.
France.
An Austrian naval squadron ap-
peared off the island of Corfu, but fed
back towards Cattaro when it sighted
fleet of allied warships. according to
dispatch from Athens.
Germany's submarine war against
British shipping was opened on SEIZED
uled time. Before noon word reached
London Of the torpedoing of two mer-
chantmen. They were the Thornsby.
LISP tons. and the Malvina, l,244 tons
All the members of the crew of the
Thornsby were killed.
Germany has sent an ultimatum to
Portugal. demanding the restoration
within forty-eight hours OF the Ger.
man ships recently seized by that
country, according to dispatch from
Madrid to London. A German declar.
alton of war against Portugal is immi
nent.
More than 800 lives we're lost in the
er La Provence. formerly in service as
a transatlantic liner. in the middle
Mediterranean. Four hundred suryiv-
ors were landed at Milo. while 296 or
the crew have arrived at Malta, ac-
cording to an official statement issued
at Paris. 1t is believed the liner was
torpedoed.
Germany's second and greatest sub
marine campaign opened on March l.
1t will be directed against armed mer-
chant ships of the entente powers.
Naval officials in Berlin expressed the
belief that 1t would be even more sue.
cessful than the campaign which
opened year ago.
italy's act of requisitioning thirty
four of the thirty-seven German ships
interned in Italian ports. as announced
In the house of commons at London.
is interpreted as corroborating a re.
port that the Italian cabinet has de-
cided to declare war on Germany
The Turks are hastily evacuating
the important Black sea port Of Trebi-
zond and neighboring cities before the
Russian advance. according tc Tifis
dispatches at Petrosrad.
British casualties In all the war
areas for the month of February
showed total of 739 officers and H.
BAT men. It was announced ct London.
The loss of part Of another import
ant position protecting Verdun, posi-.
ton almost as important as Fort
Douaumont. is admitted in the official
report given out in Paris. Part of the
Cote de Poivre Pepper heights) has
been seized by the kaiser'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 tribesmen
in western Egypt, according to re-
port of the fighting received at Lon.
don
The sinking of the hospital ship
Marechiaro near San Giovanni di Me-
dua. Albania, is reported In dispatch
to London. The vessel struck mine.
There were numerous victims.
Domestic
A quantity of paste oil In the dock
in which the superintendent Nevada
was lying at Quincy. Mass. caught fire
and flames shot I'D 100 feet about the