GERMAN RAIDERS
SINK MERCHANTMEN
Two in English Channel Added
To North Sea Toll.
THE SUBMARINES GET AWAY
Gigantic Struggle Apparently No |
Nearer Decision Than When
Begun.
London. ~The end of the
month of Europe's great war finds the
armies of the belligerent nations com:
of operations or actually engaged in
campaigns the extent of which hardly
of hostilities were made.
land a deadlock stil! existe, but largely
From Destruction in “Under.
Water Emden’s” Latest
Raid.
London. —The toll taken by the Ger-
man submarine U-21 in its raid in the
Irish Sea in the vicinity of Liverpool
still stands at three shipse—the steain-
ers Ben Cruachen, Linda Blanche and
the Kilcoan, the latter a small vessel.
The crew of the Kilcoan was landed
on the Isle of Man by a coastwise
steamer.
In addition, a German submarine
also has torpedoed two British steam-
ers in the English channel, near Havre
-—the Tokomaru and the fearia.
Called Under-Water
The Irish Sea
her escape, and
Emden.
raider easily
shipping interests,
base, ordered a
traffic.
This under-water Edmen is the same
vessel which last September torpedoed
in the North Sea British erulser
Pathfinder, with a loss of 246 Nves,
and later destroyed two British steam.
ers off Havre. She found numerous ;
vessels in the waters to which she has
now transferred her activities.
In addition to the three vessels she
is known to have sunk, at least five
other steamers were chased by her.
These include the steamer Graphic,
with 100 passengers and a crew of 40,
and the smaller boats Atreus, Avia,
Kathleen and Edymion. All these ves
gele ercaped.
Others Warned By Wireless.
The Graphic’'s captain had his pa
sengers don life belts and sent all the
members of the crew to the stokehole
#0 that the steamer could keep up a
full head of steam in flight. The cap
tain also took the precaution to warn
by wireless vessels from coming
the zone of the submarines activity
resumption of
the
into
WAR NEWS IN SUMMARY
One of the features of the war news
as transmitted through London is the
statement of the Austro War Office.
Sweeping claims of victory except in
the far north are made.
It is asserted that in Poland. on
Warsaw front, in Galicia, Bukowina
and Northern Hungary the Austrian
and German forces are battering down
the Russian resistance
No mention is made
sia, where the Russians say
making a new advance.
The Turkish army that invaded
Persia is reported defeated. Tabriz
has been reoccupied by the Russians.
Berlin announces a defeat of the
Russians in two minor engagements
A night attack at Borlimow was re
pulsed.
In France the heaviest fighting oc
curred at the end of the line. Ger
many says further ground was galped
in the Argonne, where the French suf
fered heavy losses. Near Nieuport. in
Belgium, and south of Verdun, saye
Berlin, heavy infantry engagements
were disastrous to the French.
London papers are now doubtful!
about the strength of the reported
Turkish invasion of Egypt.
the
of East Prun
they are
PROTESTS AGAINST PROTEST.
London Daily News Discusses One
Danger To Allies.
London.—The Daily News in an ed!
torial protests against the British Gov.
ernment attempting to stop cotton
shipments to Germany. The editorial
says Germany has an ample supply of
cotton for the making of ammunition
and that, therefore, she would suffer
no great injury as a result of the hold:
fng up of the staple, while nothing |
would be easier than for the United |
States In retaliation to stop the export |
of munitions war, which would seri
ously injure the Allies.
CANADIANS AT FRONT.
tingent’s Movement,
Ottawa, Ont.—The first Canadian
army, consisting of 21,000 men, artil-
lery transport and divisional cavalry,
is now in France or nearing there, ac-
cording to private advices received
here from Enrope. It will participate
in the great spring offensive which has
been foreshadowed for some time.
ee
258 LOST WITH VIKNOR,
———
British Armored Vessel Carried Down
Many Naval Reserves.
London. —A casualty list just {ssued
shows that the British armored mer
chant vessel Viknor, which was lost
off the coast of Ireland several days
ago, carried a crew of 258, composed
of naval reserve men and boys belong.
ing to the mercantile marine, all of
whom perished. Among the crew were
24 Royal Naval Reserve men from
Newfoundland,
sources and the action of Turkey the
sphere of operations has been widely
extended,
Rusgia alone is engaged
hostile armies from Tilsit, far in the
north of East Prussia, to Tabriz, in
Persia, a distance of more than 1.500
miles. Only that portion of her terri:
tory bordering on Roumania is free
from menace, but, according to her re
ports, all is going well with her im.
mense armies. The Russian outflank
| Ing movement in Northern East Prus.
sia Is sald to be gaining momentum
The armies on side of Tilgit
| have cut the German railway between
that eity and Memel, B
On the southern front in E
sia another army is advancing
{the man fortress of
still another is
| trenchments
in fighting
either
altic
Pru
toward
on the
Ant
Ger Thorn,
line
Warsav
burg
holding
which protect
von Hirt
th
which General 1den
hag been trying
months
ring
{and
to batter rough for
Other ar
meet
Aare again
Aust
which is attempting to r«
and
Grand
to roer
force
Bukowina, thereby
Nicholas’ left
gain Galicia
turning Duke
To the eastward the Muscovite
are battling against
Caucasus and Persia
infifcted an
Turkish forces
official report SAYS their
are to Tabriz, while
Hal Seat hes that Rus
have reoccupied that ci
What is regarded as the
campaign,
developing n
brought about by
offensive f
the ‘turk
They ap
de feat
in the
parently have
on the
$s
other
for the Russian
oppons nt
tats the
most
ant howeve
which
pathians,
German
the Russians
wina, thereby
an invasion of Hungary
Germans are said to
is
from Ga
removing
not less than 28 an
venture. So far as
from contradictory of
Russians
Suis heg in
have won
the western pas
Dukia to Wyszkow, while to
they have ced to retir
battles
been for
The
ght in the
superior forces
being
menc
must pass before
fo n ENOow
ing, however
a defi
reached
Battles in the wes
engagements, althe
who apparently
an extensive offensive
local
mans,
for
Allies get their f
field occasionally
serious attacks
all along the front from
Swiss frontier, but always come bach
to that of the line which les
betwee and the French coast
towns
Guinchy,
Brit
the (
day, was at
according a British i
mans were repulsed, Ie
in front of the trenches
capture
deliver r
‘hese ars
the sea to the
portion
them
31
for example, which the
hoid after driving
lerunans, who captured it
cked again Friday
ish now
Mon
and
on
to
aving
they sought te
MISS BRITTON GOING TO WAR.
© Serve As Nurse-—Miss
May Accompany Her.
Washington, I. C--Misa Catherine
Britton, daughter of Alexander Brit
ton, applied at the District Court for
# passport to Europe, where is to
war nurse, It is persistently re
ported in Washington society that
Miss Nona McAdoo, eldest daughte:
of the Secretary of the Treasury,
accompany Miss Britton. They are
expected to sail from New York soon
Miss Britton's application for papers
from this Government has been sent
to the passport division in the State
Department for certification
POISON KILLS WIFE SLAYER.
she
be a
is to
| Suicide Explains Before Dying That
Jealousy Caused Crime.
‘Ward Snyder. the
Lorena
in a sanatorium
died from polson he swallowed
Snyder was the son
of N. 8. Snyder, a Pittsburgh (Pa)
capitalist and oil man. Snyder rallied
at Intervals and anxiously asked when
hig father would arrive. He asserted
his wife had desired to leave him since
last August in order to obtain a
divorce and wed an actor,
TWO MINERS DEAD; 4 MAY DIE
Houston, Texas, -
here,
after the crime.
Car Taking Them Into Shaft Struck
By Runaway Train,
Johnstown, Pa--Martin Holleran
and Angelo Marcorninio were killed
and four other miners perhaps fatally
injured at the mine of the Altoona Coal
Company near Delaney, Pa. A train
of loaded coal cars ran away on a
grade. The miners were entering
the shalt when the runaway train
arashed (nio the cars they orennied
BY RUSSIAN
Follows Lines of Gen Rennen-
kampf's March Which
Ended in Defeat.
CAMPAIGN VITAL TO BOTH
Austrians Expected To Deliver Main
Attack In Bukowina In An
Attempt To Restrain
Rouminla,
ITALY IS GETTING READY.
Rome.—A royal decree has
been issued calling to the colors
the Italian soldiers of the first
category born in 1888 and be
longing to the field artillery and
also the Alpine troops. he sol
diers of the third category, born
1881, 1892, 1893 and 1894, be
longing to tue Alpine troops also
are ymoned
in
sum
France
the
London With the armies in
{and F
strenuous
the
landers récuperating
the
local
in the
fighting of earlier days
week and or ily
rest
ansfer
st
in Eas
i of actions be
tua
Rus
Prussia and t!
Austro-Gert
ing recorded, inte war
| tion has been i red to the
{ slan offens
| attempt
{ Army to
| peror }
ive
¢
Oi Han
Bm
a strong
the troops of
POE; :
dislodge
olas from their
pathians
t Prussia, a
developed in
the renewed
onfirm the belief
definit fort to advance north
| Mazur n # istrict,
viously
Nich
the Car
in E
fensive
north,
Russiaz
the extren
fighting
that a
of the
nas
where
whi
re pre
d
Were eated
©
has been ded no by the Ru 1selan
Carpathian Campaign Vital,
sides, however, is
the Carpathia
of Dukla Pass the
have delivered an energetic
According to thelr account of
Aus tro
behind
attack
: $3
ings
More vital to both
the campaizo n
where southwes
! Russians
attack
the combat, they compelled the
leaving
This
observers,
the Russians to
Teuton allies, If
observers
Germans 10 retreat,
ammunition and stores
nilitary
attempt by
flank of the
successful,
have
ACCOTGINE
Cates
prove
puld
the
serious
Austro-German
the Carpathian
Conee
large
and about
: passes
Russian
| that the
tr
deliver
anticipate
their
exper
will
helr extreme
ikowina in the
{ory
Au
| main attack
| in Western |
achieving a signal
ve Roumania
The only thing
in check at present, it
¢ the uncertainty as to the action
would be likely to take
asserted, is still demand
ing that part of Macedonia. now unde:
rule, as the price of her neu
and Servia is reported unwill-
his concession.
right
hope of
thus
wi
ua
vic and
CaRure 0 pause
Rouminia
rtated,
holding
in
+ 4
iL IN
an
trality
ng to make t
Bulgaria Blocks Roumania
Greece, it is asserted, also objects
taking the ground that this
| would place a wedge between her and
her ally, Servia. Thus, seemingly, the
whole Balkan situation remains in
| volved, and it is stated it is not likely
| to be cleared up until the demands of
Bulgaria are satisfied
A dispatch from Bucharest to
Chronicle declares that Roumania ie
preparing steadily and quietly an ef.
fective entrance into the war
Another skirmish with the
advance guard not far from Suez is re
ported by the British forces in Egypt
It was not of a serious character
at Alexandretta, Asiatic Turkey, and
to have cut the telegraph wires,
SIX-CENT BREAD IN CHICAGO,
Clean Food Club Recommends Rice As |
Substitute,
Chicago. Six-cent bread wie in-
dorased here by the National Associa
tion of Master Bakers, through its sec:
retary, Joseph M. Bell.
Wkile the bakers were considering
raising the price of the Scent loaf,
the Clean Food Club was outlining a
campaign to teach housewives the
economy of home-made bread.
Mrs. H. V. Von Holst, president of
the club, declared that small families
ought to eat more rice, macaroni and
vegetables and less bread if they
wished to reduce the burden imposed
by a six-cent loaf.
DUEL FOUGHT IN DRUG SFORE.
Doctor Kills Restauranteur Who Mad
Slashed Him,
Bynum, Texas--Dr. A, C. Saylors,
standing Inside a drug store here,
fought a duel with and killed Joe Fitz
Patrick, 2 restaurant keeper, who fired
from the sidewalk in front of his
restaurant. The physician returned
to Bynum after recovering from a stab
wound inflicted by Fite Patrick last
December, and this was the first time
since then that the men had wat
A A
[WILSON VETOES
LITERACY TEST
Override President.
Ms ————
BUT SENTIMENT MAY CHANGE
Foliows Example Of Cleveland and
Taft—Doubt Expressed If Con.
gress Can Pass Measure
Over Veto,
Washington, D. c.- President Wil-
son, following In the footsteps of the
{late President Cleveland and former
President Taft, vetoed the Burnett
Dillingham Immigration bill and In a
message . to Congress explained his
action upon the grounds that the
mdasure provided a literacy and other
radical restrictive tests for who
come from foreign shores
their homes in this land
Cleveland and President
proved similar measures
those
to make
President
Taft disap
on the same
ground:
Just before
Velo messag
tive David J. lewis
ed at the White Hous
eleventh-hour appeal to President
the bil iw at least allos t
thie
the
10 RIED to
without
Mr
IIE vel
(nature
told Lewis that he
t
oO and
Ihe one question
hether Congress
¢ Pres
that the friends
CAnnot muster
House
disapproval
sentative C
Would
over ident's veto
is strong
acy test
vole 10
Hepres oady.
give the bill
ajority. Senator John
f Maryland
gard the
who
EAD
Senate
there will
ing the bill
was done in
ut the House
failed
rity
two-thirds mal
margin
“While | have
House on the
Coady, "I have h
vines me that tl
be
large nu
vyoled for
¢ Presid
never overridde
of
bill, bu
Presid
mber
the
override the
dent's
measure are so sirot
views for
I bring
© bill
IR message
they in themselves w
10 the Influences against t}
The President in }
1¥ told the House, which
bill, had no
on the question and was not
gh fo
and ideals of America beller than
body of
knew them.”
If the people
made up their minds to lin
ber of immigrants by arbitrary
and so reverse
{ generations of
gone
Efron 3
frank
nated the
Orig;
that he pride of opinion
foolis}
wishes
the
enog profess to know the
her chosen representatives
of this country have
it the
the policy o
Americans that
them, it their rigi
do #0." he said. “I am thelr servant
and have no license to stand in thelr
way. But | bel that th
have.”
When the message was read in (he
House the attention given was marked
Upon its conclusion there was ap
plause from both sides of the cham.
ber. Similar applause followed =a
statement by Representative Burnett
that at the proper time he would
move for a reconsideration of the vote
{ by which the bill passed and that the
| measure be passed the
| dent's velo,
before in
do not ifve ~y
ores Presi
| ORDERS POSTOFFICE ECONOMY.
i Reduce Expinges Wherever Possible,
is Word From Burleson.
Washington, D. C.— Notice to post.
masters throughout the country to re
| affecting efficiency of mall eervice was
sent out by the PostmasterGeneral
| An official statement save falling reve.
inues are due to the wat and not
ternal conditions,
MOVES TOWARD SUFFRAGE.
a s——-
Tennessee House Passes Resolution
Approved By Senate.
Nashville, Tenn First steps to ex:
tend suffrage to Tennessoe women
were completed by the House, which
passed a Senate resolution for an
amendment to the State Constituilon.
The resolution must be adopted by the
next Legislature and at a popular elec.
tion before {t becomes operative.
WILL TRY BOMB DROPPERS.
Russia Would Establish Lega! Status
Of Act.
Petrograd, via London. The Novae
Viemya states that in order 10 estab.
lish the legal status of bomb dropping
Russia will place the Germans cap
tured in the Zeppelin which recently
attacked Libau, on trial. They will be
charged with dropping bombs on an
undefended town.
Aion
[SEES NEW ERA
OF PROSPERITY
President Addresses American
Electric Railway Men,
Address Before American
Rallway Association a Definition
Of Politics Expected To Guide
Commerce Of the Country.
“FOUR RULES OF GAME.”
The four rules of the business
game as given by the President,
and which received elaboration
in the speech itself, as fol
lows:
1. The rule publicity,
whereby the public may know
what business is doing and may
be able to judge of it according:
ly: tat the public know
tuat none of the
not observing
nest
2. The
ghall have
that they
HiCREUr
pay
are
of
nay
contestants are
the rules of fair
and squs
business
3. The
whereby bn
the honors
“spirit
business
SCIOUBnORR
EeTVice
ongress
is
whil
Athletics
belief the
busines man wanted be
sportsman.” the President
dropped easlly into the parianece of the
athletic field. His audience, made
of representatives of practically all
the large electric railway
country, aroused
pitch of enthusiasm. and constantly
interrupted his remarks with outbursts
Uses Parlance Of
the
hae
the that
Ex pressing
American to
“a good
was
For more than 30 minutes the Presi.
dent held the atiention of his hearers,
carrying them back to the period
when, he declared, business was sur
rounded by an atmosphere of sus
picion and distrust, tracing the years
agitation and uncertainty,
bringing them up to the completion of
Administration's trust program.
If, declared the President, business
observes
we Rocky
‘as high as th Mountains.”
WIFE SLAIN IN SANATORIUM,
{| Husband Beside Body in Comatose
State From Poison.
Houston, Texas Ward 8. Sayder,
waid to be ap oil man of Pittaburgh,
Pa. was found in a comatose state
from poisoning beside the mutilated
body of his wife, who had been a
patient in a sanatorium here. Physi.
cians say Snyder will die. On S8ny-
der's arrival at the sanatorium he was
shown to his wife's room. Ten min
utes later, noting blood tricking from
beneath the door, the narse hurried in,
to find Mre. Snyder dead with her
arms almost severed near the elbows
and her body gashed in numerons
places.
A UO SHAD SS A
BURGLARS WERE PRUDENT,
Made Watchman Report Hourly, Then
Falled To Break Safe.
Fort Wayne, Ind--Compelling the
night watchman to report regularly on
the cleciric signal system, two bur
glars worked four hours in an
to blow open the safe in the Rurode
dry goods store here. At 4 o'clock the
ORDER
LatestNewsHappenings Gather-
etd From Here and There.
IN SHORT
ES ——— A —————
TOLD IN SHORT PARAGRAPHS
Crash in Mine—Rajah Temple
Admits Forty From
Allentown,
Governor Brumbaugh accepted mew
bership on the Boarf of Trustees of
Fisk University, Nashville. Tenn. The
institution is devoted to the educatio
of colored persons. The Governor of
|
i
i
i
Allentown furnished forty
sixty-two novices admitted
#hip in Rajah Temple. Nobles
Mystic
Reading The Alle
went Reading 1
companied by the Al
1647
out of
to member.
of the
Bhrine, at a especial session in
niown nriners
train, arc
lentown Band, the
io ial
Clarenc
Was release
Norristown
awaiting
reed
the death
wreck of a
cha
for
the
of the
freigh
train st Hoyersford
A
concern
of gun cotton
of men are
Warren chemical
work on i
for Eng
working 1
started
the order,
1 Russia
O00 worth of gun cott
concern
compiles
report is ths
Clayvion Ziegler
was held
storekeep
leysville under 85
alleged
and selling cigar
them
Tuesdas
shaw, after
conductir
Ieafak
money atl pool
Orders
Frick Coke
fire have been
ir A Year The
by wey es gy pi éde
tarougn ta ire
1.000 coke ovens which
fo ovens
Con
plants
will
idle
are scatiered
nel district,
being affected
give ment
about twenty
™e
iar
ville
new order
employ fo about 1.000 men
for five days a week
hrismer, 2 member of
of the North:
accidental]
ink { his
blind. He
bury specialist's office,
Raymond (
Senfor Class
High School,
some writing
became
oa
imber) and
3 splashed
io an
Was lm }
and it
will probably never be able
fo see again. The ink believed to
have contained an acid aralyzed
the optic nerve,
{ota ally
Suan
tanker Paraguay from
for Philadelphia, with a
wae in collision with an
outward bound vessel off
Marcus Hook. ¥ight plates of the
were badly damaged above
line. The outward bound
Sabine,
The in
CATRC
un
water
of her damage, if any, is not
The Columbia County Court refused
fifty-four licenses and granted fifty two,
dealing the heaviest blow to the liquor
| interests that had ever been dealt in
the county. Berwick and West Ber
twenty-nine licenses, will
Catawissa lost al
hotels. Practically half the county wil)
With his wile ax the only witness
Deitz was sawing wood
came off. He at
tempted to replace it without stopping
‘he engine and was caught in the main
belt and hurled around the shaft sev.
eral times before his wife could stop
the engine. His skull was crushed
and both arms broken.
While speeding through Girardyille
2 Lehigh Valley passenger train
jumped the track and the engine top:
pled over on its side, striking the house
of William Brain, badly damaging the
property and giving the family a close
tall. Engineer Frank Fritz jumped
and saved himself, but the passengers
were badly shaken up. Had the engine
fallen on the other side, it would have
run down a fiftyfoot embankment, and
In ll probability caused great loss of
Hire.
Four elm trees, planted in the rear of
the Reading postoffice property thirty
years ago by the late George ¥. Baer,
his offies windows, were transferred by
the city to Baer Park, because they are