The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-03-07
BRITISH CRUISER
IS SUNK BY SUB
TWO OFFICERS AND FIFTY MEN
WE'RE LOST.
THREE HUNDRED SURVIVORS
British Make More Successful Raids
On German Trenches, /switzer
land Is Hard Hit. On Verge
of Starvation.

London, March 6.--The Auxiliary
mercantile cruiser Calagrian, of II,
SIS tons was torpedoed and sunk, Fri
day, the British Admiralty announced
today
Two officers and fifty-six men were
lost.
The Calgrian was sunk off the Irish
coast. torpedoes were fired at her.
More than three hundred survivors
have been landed, many of whom
were landed Saturday.
Another Big Ship Lost.
London, March 6.-The British
| steamship Kenmare has been subma-
rined, the admiralty announced to-
day. Six persons have been saved.
Output Less Than Destruction.
| London, March 6.-The whole out
put of shipping since the beginning of
the war has not been sufficient to re-
place the losses due to summarizing.
| Sir John Ellermann announced in an
annual meeting of the Chapter of
Shipping tonight.
British In Successful Raids.
London, March 6.-"Raiding activi.
ties took place all along the British
front last night" Field Marshal Haig
announced in his official war office
statement frNm the front this morn
ing.
ITO the east of Bullecourt the Eng
fish troops conducted successful
raid this morning taking several pris-
oners and two machine guns Haig
stated. "Our casualties were light.
North of the Scarpe and in the
Ineighborhood of Lens the British
made successful raids last night. South
east of GouzeanCourt a raiding enemy
party was repulsed. Additional ma
chine guns were captured and some
prisoners TAKEN" the report conclud-
ed.
American Artillery Active Again.
By Fred S. Ferguson, With the
American Armies in France, March 6.
The effectiveness of the American
artillery was demonstrated early to-
day in the biggest cannonading to
date in this sector.
The Boche guns were silenced with
the American fire. Starting at one
81 81 all DF
can guns massed in this sector open
ed up a brisk fire and upwards of
three thousand shells were hurled
into the German defenses.
During the heighth OF the lombard
ment enemy soldiers located in a
woods nearby were peppered by gun
shells and high explosives while sew
enty-five guns poured rain of metal
over the trenches and the support
lines.
Americans Repulse Another Attack.
American troops now holding the
trenches with the French in other po-
sitions of the Lorraine front rather
than those in the American sector
brilliantly repulsed German raid
yesterday. Heavy losses were in
fiicted on the Huns.
This is the first announcement that
has been permitted to be made public
that the Americans are entrenched
in this sector.
I Gemans in the Majority.
London, March 6.-The Germans
now have superiority of fifteen di-
visions on the western front General
Maurice director of military intelli-
gence told the United Press in an in
terview today. The enemy however
is still numerically inferior but this
inferiority is decreasing steadily he
added.
Switzerland Hard Hit.
! BY William Philip Simms, Berne
Switzerland, March Switzerland
has been harder hit by the war
than any of the other allied nations
except in the matter of money spent
and men killed.
Had 1t not been for her wonderful
organization she would have been
starved She would also have been
frozen and in revolt.
With almost everything that she re-
quires coming from the warning ma
tons, Switzerland by maintaining a
neutrality and feeding her own popu-
lation, has come to the conclusion that
Democracy is worth fighting for.
This country is rationed more strict
ly than in France. which has the great
est battle field of the world
Bill Of Fare ie Limited,
have eaten several good meals in
French cities that have been hit hare
\ by the war. which We're better thar
anyone could get here in the fines