Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-06-07
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patriotic duty.
Forty persons dead and zoo IN
iured are the toll Of tornadoes and
storms in various States during the
rast "a hours. In Missouri % are
dead, in Kansas 9, Kentucky 5, Mich
igan 8 and l in Pennsylvania. Prop
erty loss will run into millions.
From the North Sea to the Fran
co-Belgian frontier the entente allies
and the Germans are engaged IN
artillery duels, which are especially
violent around Dixmude and between
Steenstraete and Het Sas and in the
region of Wytschaete, south of Ypres
On the north bank of the Scarpe
River to the east of Arras the BTU
ish have captured from the Ger
mans, trenches over a front of about
mile and made 1872 prisoners.
protect US from fate similar
| to that of Belgium" This was the
appeal addressed to President Viii
zon yesterday by the Franco Dusom
Bourgeois Committee made up OF
refugees in Paris from the Duchy
Of Luxembourg The petition was
forwarded by American Ambassador
Sharp at Paris. 1t recites the wrongs
suffered by Luxembourg at the hands
of the Germans. eve have been
subjected to. the greatest cruelties,"
says the appeal. ,"our railroads have
been made use of by the invader
our nationals taken prisoners, our
factories diverted to fill Germany's
needs. We appeal to the United
States to save US from fate SINH
lar to that of Belgium"
At a conference of members of
the Seamen's and Firemen's Union in
London yesterday Indignation was
aroused by the recital. of two recent
sinkings of steamers in the
North Sea. In one case British
ship was sunk and eleven members OF
the crew were killed by shell fire.
In the second case, after torpedo
ing the ship, the Germans fired a
surface torpedo through a small
boat which was carrying the crew
to a rescuing steamer and killed
all on board.
Serious rioting broke out in Stock
holm on Tuesday. Ten thousand la
borers, among them many Socialists,
took part. Soldiers and police at
tackled the mobs, and in the fight
ing that followed. many were wound
ed. The rioters surrounded Parlia-
ment Building, making ugly demon
STATIONS. The disorders were at
tributed to the refusal of the premier
to allow the Socialist leader, Brant7
ing, to be elected to the upper house.
A dispatch from ~Pernambuco,
Brazil, says Germans Tuesday night
set fire to steamer Cap Vilano, which
was transferred yesterday from the
German to the Brazilian flag. The
steamer is the second largest of the
interned German merchantmen in
this port. The twelve other German
steamers were transferred to the
Brazilian flag today.
American: naval gunners on an
armed merchantmen have sunk a
German submarine. Official an
nouncement to this effect was made
at the State Department yesterday.
The location of the action between
the merchant vessel and submarine,
which lasted an hour and half, was
not given. Neither was the name Of
the American ship.
E. J. S. Schee, IS, of Pennington,
Iowa, until recently manager Of the
Port Barre Timber and Tie Com
pany. was shot and killed by R. O..
Harsh, "a, president of the company,
in the dining room of the Port Barre
Hotel, Opelousas, La, yesterday
morning, Marsh firing five shots.
Schee was recently discharged by the
company. President Marsh alleges
that Schee had threatened his life
several times since his dismissal, and
that when he went to the hotel yes
terday morning and opened the din
ing room door Schee reached for his
pistol Both men are married and
have families. Mr.. Marsh came from
Washington, D. c., six months ago.
To activity of American naval
forces in the barred zone can be at
tributed the recent falling off in
sinkings due to German U-boats.
Seaplanes are aiding in the fight
against the undersea menace. The
seaplanes swoop down to the surface