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ABOUT THE WAR

WNAANAh 1
ABOUT THE WAR
II is reported In Paris that Amerl-
can in Austria nave been warned
from Washington to leave that u
try.
Representatives OF the American
commission for relief in Belgium will
not withdraw from the occupied Dor-
tons OF Belgium and northern France
as previously had been ordered.
Carrying safe conducts from Great
Britain and France for himself and
party, Count Won Bernstorff, the retir-
ing German ambassador to the United
States, started on his way for Berlin.
Lloyd's announces the sinking of
The British steamer Langscar, 2,777
tons; the Hopemoor, 3,740 tons; the
Alton, 1,156 tons; the Greenland, l.
1853 tons; the Kyunsti, tonnage not
recorded; the schooner Percy Roy
and a trawler.
The negotiations between Frederic
c. Penfield, the American ambassa-
dor at Vienna, and the Austro-Hun-
garian government have been broken
off, according to the Berliner Tage-
blatt, as quoted in an Exchange Tele-
graph Company dispatch from Copen-
hagen.
Striking at the French line in Cham
payne, midway between Verdun and
Rheims, troops of the German crow
prince have axe ground to a depth
Of a half mile on a front of a mile and
a half. The attackers captured S5S
prisoners and twenty machine guns.
The latest French official statement
mentions only artillery activity in the
vicinity Of Maisons de Champagne.
Except for raids by British, French
and German troops at various points
along the front in France and two
small engagements in Galicia, there
has been no important infantry fight
ing on the other battlefields. Official
communications report much aerial
activity on the western front.
WESTERN
Ten thousand garment workers in
Chicago launched a peaceful strike.
An increase of 331s per cent in the
price of canned goods for this year is
announced by wholesale grocers.
Army and marine recruiting stations
at Chicago report enlistments as
breaking all records since the break
with Germany.
Two masked men held up the West
lake branch Of the Home Savings
bank at Los Angeles, Cal, and es-
capped with about $4,000.
More than half a million dollars
worth of shells for the United States
navy were taken from Chicago to the
sea coast on a special train.
Robbers locked the cashier of the
National Bank of University place, a
suburb of Lincoln. Neb., in the bank
vault and escaped with $500.
The fate of the three Mormon cow
boys, Andrew p. Peterson, Hugh
Accord and Burton Jensen, captured by
Mexican raiders on the Corner ranch
on the border below Hachita Feb. ~,
was disclosed late Thursday when
their mutilated bodies were found by
Rearchers on Mexican territory, about
three miles west of the ranch. The
bodies, stripped of their clothing, lay
about fifty feet apart on the Mexi.
can side Of the boundary. where the
captives had been taken to be killed.
WASHINGTON
Notice of a dangerous area in the
North Sea because OF operations
against Germany has been given by
the British Admiralty.
Containing a drastic provision
against the importation OF liquors in
prohibition states and appropriating
1880, 900, 900, the postoffice bill passed
the Senate.
President Wilson is authorized tc
commander the railroads in time Of
national emergency and to draft train
crews and officials for their operation
in a bill reported to the Senate.
President Wilson sent a letter Of
congratulation to Dr.. Anna Howard
Shaw, honorary president of the Ma
tional Woman Suffrage Association
on the occasion Of her seventeen
birthday anniversary.
II the United States is forced to g,
TO war the sea coasts and the shores
OF the Great Lakes will be guarded b.
a mosquito fleet" made up o
thousands OF fast motor boats quail
fled TO act as submarine chasers.
Gen. Pershing reported to the Wa
Department that twenty-one Mexican.
captured by his force while in Mexicl
and held in connection with the raj,
on Columbus. n. NJ, last year, will b.
turned over a. the Department of JUS
tice.
All German sailors I'm this countr.
who were temporarily placed In Gus
tody when information was secures
showing attempt to sink German vel
sells and block American harbors, hav
been released except In those case