The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1917-04-27
VOLUME XXXVI.
u. S. CUNNERS
SINK GERMAN
SUBMARINE
First Gun of War Destroys
U-Boat About to Attack
American Ship.

LONDON, April 26.-Captain Rice,
of the American steamship Mongolia.
which has arrived at a British port
told the Associated Press that the
Mongolia had fired the first gun of the
war for the United States and sunk a
German submarine.
The naval gunners on board made a
clean hit at 1000 yards. The peri
SCOPE was seen to be shattered.
The submarine, Captain Rice said,
was about to attack the great liner,
in British waters. on April 10.
He declared there was absolutely No
doubt that the U-boat was hit and
that there was every reason to be-
lieve it was destroyed.
LONDON, April 26.-Two British
destroyers on patrol duty in the Eng
lish channel off Dover on the night of
April 90 came upon a flotilla of six
German destroyers and then ensued an
encounter which will live long in the
history of naval engagements. The
German destroyers were torpedoed and
rammed: every gun aboard the com.
batants was working, sweeping the
decks and tearing gaps in the sides OF
the opposing craft. There was the
locking together of British and Ger
mar DESTROYER. and the men fought
furiously in the hand-to-hand battle.
The story OF the engagement has been
made public in the form OF an official
report
LAREDO. TEXAS, April 26.-Pedro
Gonzales. a former resident OF NueVo
Laredo. Mexico. but recently living
here. was indicted on a charge of con-
spiracv to set on foot an armed ex
petition against a friendly nation
Gonzales is said TO have been the
leader of the band of alleged followers
of Felix Diaz who crossed into Mexico
near here last winter and caused dam
age to the Carranza forces and TO towns
He was arrested in Laredo several
weeks ago.
FROM A STAFF CORRESPOND
ENT OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WITH THE BRITISH ARMIES IN
FRANCE, via London, April ZG.-The
intensely bitter ground fignting OF
the last few days has been reflected
in the air and the British loyal flying
corps recently established new rec
ord by bringing down forty German
machines. Fifteen of these were act
ually seen 10 crash, while twenty-five
collapsed or fell in spinning nose dives
completely out of control.
The fight took place 1900 feet In
the air. from which distance it is
barely possible to see the ground, AMI
wholly impossible to see an adver-
sary crash unless the pilot dellber-
ately follows down.
PITTSBURG, PENN, April 26.-Ar-
thur Kuhn. a mechanical engineer,
with offices here, was arrested By
agents of the Department OF Justice
and confined in the Allegheny County
Jail for the period of the war.
Officers who searched his home, in
a fashionable district, said Kuhn was
an officer of the German army, and
that he was in possession Of valuable
military information because OF MS
knowledge of the explosive manufac-
turing industry in his district.
Documents written in German were
found among his papers.
NEW YORK, April 26.-Resolu-
tions requesting Congress to eliminate
the press censorship laws in the espl-
onage bill because it strikes at the
fundamental rights of the people ana
is full Of peril to free institutions
were adopted unanimously by the
American Newspaper Publishers AS
sociation at its annual convention mere
PICKING. April 26-At a conference
of Provincial and Military Governors
at which the Premier presided, 1t was
voted unanimously that China should
enter the war against Germany. A
canvass shows that Parliament is over
whelmingly in favor of China declar-
ing war. but President Ii Yuan huhs
is still undecided on the question.
NEW YORK, April 26.-Approxi-
mately $4,000 men have applied thus
far and been found to meet the neces-
sary requirements for membership IN
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt's proposed
army division, it was announced here
az enrolment headquarters, which
which were opened some time ago
with the former Presidents approval
NEW YORK, April pa cablegram
quoting an Athens newspaper with
the statement that Greece is on the
point of entering the war as an ally
of the Entente Powers vas received
by The Atlantis, a Greek daily news
paper here.