The Elk Mountain pilot., 1918-02-07
|U-BOAT SINKS
BRITISH SHIP
SEVEN OFFICERS AND 217 MEN
LOST WHEN GERMAN sUBMA-
RlNE ToRPEpoED LoUvAIN.
TWO AMERICANS KILLED
AUsrRoeERMANs SUFFER ENoR-
NOUS LOSS TO REGAIN
GROUND WON BY ITALIANS

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
London.-The British armed board
ing steamer Louvain, Lieut.. Com. NJ.
G. Easton commanding, was torpedoed
and sunk by German submarine in
the eastern Mediterranean on Jan. 81.
Seven officers and 217 men were lost.
With the American Army in France.
Feb. A German barrage fire at sun
down Saturday night opened the
heaviest bombardment of many days
along the American sector. the Amer.
ican artillery replying shell for shell
as the firing OF heavy guns spread
along several kilometers of front.
Two Americans were killed and nine
wounded during the bombardment. and
one suffered from shell shock.
Italian forces have repuloed with
heavy losses violent attack Of the
Austro-Germans launched in an effort
to regain ground lost on the Brenta
River front. The Twenty-first Rifle
division had 5000 men put of action,
while Austrian divisions had casual
ties amounting approximately to 50
per cent. The heaviest loss WAS re-
ported by the One Hundred and Six
tieth landsturm, which, of several
thousand men, has only a few hundred
left.
French forces brought back prison
ers in a raid north of Mortier wood.
Artillery duels were the principal &C
tions on the rest of the French front.
London reports a successful raid by
Liverpool troops southeast Of Armen-
there's. An attempted raid by Ger
mans near Passchendaele was re-
pulsed. -
The warning proclamation issued
by the Berlin military superior in
command follows:
Having now introduced a more
drastic state Of siege. l shall not have
a population In doubt that l intend to
suppress every attempt to disturb
peace and order with all means at my
disposal. l, therefore, warn every or
derly citizen not to take part in any
way In public meetings.
Everyone must quietly carry out
his duties and keep away from crowds.
II arms have to be used, no distinc-
ton can be made between disturbers
Of order and those who are not taking
part in such disturbances"
Washington.-Germa war chiefs
are using strong means to quell the
unrest in her great manufacturing
centers and prevent its development
in the army. Evidences of unrest in
the desertion to the allies Of Alsa-
tians In the Fifty-fourth reserve in
fantry regiment OF the Eightieth re-
serve division in the last few days re-
suited in an order to put all Alsace-
Lorrainers to hard labor Jan. 25.
Amsterdam.-Dr. Alexander Weker-
le, Hungarian premier. In addressing
the Diet, declared:
Our readiness for peace Is sincere
and earnest We never strove nor do
we strive for conquests,"
Rome, Feb. 2.-Austrians endeavor-
ed to evict the Italians from new posi-
tions on Monte. di Val Bella, in the
Asiago plateau sector. but were re-
Pui5Cu bCiOAo thCy CouiN ACoSh ING AAAO
of the defenders. Previously the Ital-
ians by q quick stroke. masterfully
carried out. had pushed further for
ward their line in this region to the
head of the Telago valley. The Aus
trian losses in the past few days
fighting, not including the men made
prisoner, are estimated at between s.
600 and 5000.
London. Feb. 1.-Kiev, which for
some time past has been invested by
the Bolshevik troops. who are en-
gagged against the Ukrainians. has sur
rendered, according to an Exchange
Telegraph dispatch from Petrograd.
Peking.-Yochow, the stragetic key
to the upper Yang Tse Kiang. has
been captured by the southern rsyolu-
tionists, according to . report from
Hankow.
London.-The broad features Of the
news filtering in Thursday from Ber
lin are, first. that the strike move
ment undoubtedly is extending. and.
second, that the German authorities
are endeavoring to minimize its i'm
portance. The strikes in Hamburg
and Kiel have resolved themselves in
to hunger demonstrations.