The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-03-15

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men.
Senators still hope that war with
Germany will be avoided, but say that
the issue rests entirely with Germany.
European War
More than ten million men are re-
corded as killed, wounded, captured
Or missing in the European war.
| The entente's losses are given as
6,31S, 400 against 3,384,8 for the CEN
trail empires. The reason for the great
discrepancy is the relative unprepar-
edness of the entente, the disastrous
retreats in France at the beginning
of the war, in Russia from the Maui
| rian lakes and the Carpathians and
in Roumania.
The entente's dead total is 100000
against 1,55O,8O0 for the central en-
pires since the beginning of the war.
war.
Russia since the beginning of the
war has lost over three million men.
Lack of hospital facilities in Russia
is given as one reason why there have
been so many deaths on the Russian
side.
Bagdad has fallen into the hands
of the British. Gen. Frederick Stan
ley Maude wired the home office in
London that the British entered Bag
dad with practically no opposition.
The fall of Bagdad, according to the
military experts for the entente, is
the greatest victory of the war, as
it stems all hope of Germany to be-
come great eastern power, and pre-
vents an attack on the Russians in the
rear.
The Turks in Mesopotamia are de-
moralized, and have offered no serious
resistance since the fall of Kut-el-
Amara.
London says that by the fall Of Bag
dad British prestige has been re-estab-
lished in the east, and it is confidently
expected that Turkish interest in Teu
tonic affairs will wane from now on.
The fall of Bagdad is the most well
come news for many day in the cap
itals of the entente allies, and the peo-
pie on the streets exhibited intense
enthusiasm.
Dispatches from Copenhagen say the
captain r he Danish steamer Ros-
borg has egraphed the owners of
the vessel that it has been sunk Six
of the crew were killed The remain
der we're rescued and landed in Nor
way.
Holland newspapers publish a state
ment from Zimmerman, the German
foreign secretary, in which he observes
that the German government has spok-
en- it's last word to the United States,
and that the whole matter is now up
to President, going so far as to say
that Germany is determined to carry
the submarine war to the end, the re-
suits of which have been satisfactory
to the central powers. He says that
the condition of all the armies of the
central powers is perfectly satisfactory
to Germany.
The British government makes no
secret of it's intention to purchase the
Canadian wheat crop, and the British
premier says that unrestricted subma-
rine warfare will in no way hamper
the delivery of the crop to British
ports, as the English navy is better
equipped now than ever before to
Great Britain bought the Australian
wheat crop last year, but it is pointed
out that three trips can be made to
and from Canada while one is made
to Australia, and that as a matter of
expediency the Canadian crop is the
most accessible.
The last of the Americans TAX
en- from vessels sunk by the German
raider in the south Atlantic and taken
to Swinemuende in January on board
the captured British steamer Yarrow-
dale have been released and are now
on the Swiss frontier, where they will
be cared for by American consuls.
Bitter fighting is reported in the
Champagne sector, and the French re-
port that the Germans have been re-
pulsed at every point, and some pris-
oners taken.
The British officers in Mesopotamia
report that the Turks are democrat |
lied, and are leaving behind them |
large quantities of stores. War ma
terial abandoned by the Turks is said |
to be strewn over eighty miles of ter |
ritory.
The British transport Mendi, carry
ing South African native laborers, sank |
after a collision on February p, and |
the report is that 625 persons lost their |
lives. The collision occurred off the |
Isle of Wight.
Count Zeppelin, the inventor of the |
airship bearing his name, is dead at |
near Berlin. Death |
resulted from Inflammation of the |
lungs, superinduced by pneumonia.
The counts death is mourned by all |
Germany, as he was considered the !
Edison" Of the imperial empire, and |
his place in German industrialism will |
not be filed for many years.