THE WEATHER
CLOTTDT TO-NIGHT
AND TO-MOKBOW
OktaU«« Ktcport, Pas* •
okt a " ,^" ed vol. 77—NO. 104.
WILLARD WON; KNOCKOUT
Cowboy Takes Heavy
weight Champion
ship From the Negro,
Jack Johnson, in the
2 6th Round, of a
Fierce Pugilistic En
counter in Havana
MOVIE MEN HAVE
MACHINES ON JOB
Cuban Troops of In
fantry and Cavalry
On the Scene to Guard
Against Any Appar
ent Disorder—Great
Excitement at 11
O'clock When It Is
Discovered That No
Gong Is Provided
For the Starting and
Stopping of Rounds
By Associated Fress,
Ringside, April 5 Jess Willard,
the Kansas cowboy, is the new heavy
weight champion pugilist of the world.
He knocked out Jack Johnson, the
black champion, in the 2«th round of
their championship bout here to-day. II
was Johnson's light all the way until
the wind-up.
The knockout was a terrific right
swing to Johnson's jaw.
Ringside,.l^a,Vjui3,\ffiil 5. —Johnson
entered the ring at I.la p. m. At 1.11
(1.40 New York time) Johuson made
liis appearance, beiug applauded by the
enthusiastic Cubans. One minute later
lie crawled through the ropes, clad in
a gray bathrobe and wearing his usual
golden smile. The negro's first move
was to ascertain where his wife was lo
cated.
The attendance is estimated at about
15,000. Only a few of the S2O seats
arc- still vacant. The sun began to
lieat down hotly and all danger of rain
geems past.
Willard entered the ring at 1.20
P- ro
tting Side, Havana, April 5. —In the
challenger's corner were the following
seconds: Tom Jones, Willard's manager;
Tex. O'Rourke, Jim Savage, Walter
!Monahan. Johnson, seconded by Tom
Flanagan, George Munroe, McVey, Dave
Mills, Bob Armstrong and Colin Bell.
The two pugilists shook hands for the
movies. The ring gradually cleared of
all except Referee Jack Welsh, sec
onds and principals.
Johnson objected to a woman spec
tator in the press ringside stand and
she retired to an adjacent qjox. The
negro stripping bathrobe, showed him
self clad in bright blue trunks and 110
belt. Willard wore dark blue trunks
and an American flag as a belt.
Both pugilists got on the scales in
the ring. Willard's weight was 23-8;
Johnson's 225. The negro appeared
considerably heavier.
At 1.28 the ling was ordered clear
ed. The pugilists then shook hands.
Time was called at 1.53 New York
time.
ROUND ONE
Johnson feinted and landed his
left on Willard's jaw. Repeated upper
cuts with rights to jaw. Willard was
very nervous. Johuson was laughing.
Wiilard drove two lefts to the body.
Johnson drove right to Willard's
body.
ROUND TWO
Johnson easily blocked Willard's
lead, feinting and scoring right and
left to jaw. Willard replied with a
thrashing right to the negro's body.
Johnsou then hooked a left to the
stomach. Johnsou then landed three
lefts to the body. Willard laughed.
Johnson then drove Willard to the
ropes with a tattoo of left to the face.
BOUND THBEE
After much feinting Willard missed
a right swing and both laughed. John
son rushed and scored a left on the
■body and a right to the jaw. Johnson
landed the left 011 body. Willard ask
ed if that is the way you do it.
BOUND FOUB
Willard lunged inaffectually. John
son lauuhed at his clumsy effort. John
son landed a left to the ribs and
swung his right and left to the bodv
and his left to Willard's face. Wil
lard's lips bleeding. Willard scored a
left to Johnson's nose.
BOUND FIVE
Johnson hooked left and right to
Willard's face. The referee ordered the
lighters to break from a clinch. John
son smashed hard to Willard's ribs
and drove three blows to the cow
boy's stomach. Johnson rushed Wil
lard to the ropes, scoring punches to
the head and to the body. Willard was
badly distressed. Willard was rattled
and boxed like an amateur.
BOUND SIX
The negro was calm at the opening
of this round. He beat Willard to the
ropes with lefts. On the break John
sou landed smashing 'blows on tho
Sl)e Mat- JtAjgjfe Snftcpcnbcnt
THE GIANTS WHO BATTLE TO-DAY
FOR HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP
JACK JOHNSOM. JESS WILLARD •
jaw. The negro rubbed Willard's cut
lip at every opportunity. The negro
lauded three crashing blows to Wil
lard's unprotected body. At the bell
Johnson was hammering hard at Wil
lard's body. The cowboy's left cheelt
was cut.
BOUND SEVEN
Johnson was using every chance to
force the fighting. He rushed Willard
to the ropes, slugging with both bands
repeatedly. Willard's long left tem
porarily blinded the negro's left eye.
Johnson came back with a series of
swings to the body. It w-as a very
clean flight so far.
BOUND EIGHT
Willard was gaining confidence and
tried his hand at forcing the pace.
Johnso.u accepted his challenge. The
pugilists battered each other across
tht- ring, the having the better
of it. Willard lauded on Johuaou's
mouth. Then Johnson up per cut Wil
lard over the heart. Willard bounded
off the ropes and landed a left to the
jaw. The round ended with the negro
swinging blows to Willard's head.
BOUND NINE
Willard assumed the aggressive.
Johnson started one of the cow
boy's ears bleeding, but the cham
pion lauded frequently, but bis blows
ajpeared to lack their old-time power.
Amidst feinting the crowd shouted:
"Kill the black bear." Johnson im
mediately started a rally by driving
three hard swings to Willard's mouth.
A left by Willard started the negro's
mouth bleeding. The latter clubbed the
white man to the ropes.
BOUND TEN
Johnson was slow in coming from his
corner. Willard scored two lefts to the
.face. Jess was blocking better as his
nervousness wore off. Johnson swung
a left to Willard's ribs and sent half a
dozen blows vo Willard's body and jaw.
The negro knocked Willard to the ropes
with rights to the stomach. A hard
right staggered Willard.
BOUND ELEVEN
The crowd derided Johnsou who was
fighting and answering their sallies at
the same time. Willard drove a left to
th 6 negro's mouth and took a right
hook to the body in return. Johnsou
smashed the cowboy with a left to the
jaw. Jess blocked several swings.
Johnson then tried to rattle Willard
by talking. Thelatter angrily replied
in time. Johnson then tapped the
giant's shoulder at the end of the
round. It was a slow round.
BOUND TWELVE
The negro opened with a left to the
body and right to the jaw. In a clinch
he smashed Willard three times with his
left. Johnson then drove rights to the
body and a left to the head. His blows
apparently had no effect on Willard.
Johnson drove Willard to a corner with
a swing to the head. Willard's ear and
cheek were bleeding. He walked spry
ly to his corner at the bell.
ROUND THIRTEEN
Willard's body now was red from
the effects of the negro's punishment.
Johnson ducked linder Willard'e leads.
Willjrd drove Johnson into a corner
and landed a straight left to Johnson's
face. The negro got a left hook to the
jaw in return. He next hooked his
left to Willard's body, repeating his
blows a minute later. The champion
landed right and left to the head
when the bell rang.
ROUND FOURTEEN
The round opened with Willard
rushing and missing a right uppercut.
The challenger was the aggrensor and
tried to force the flighting Johnson
slammed Willard 011 the mouth with a
left on the body. Jess laughed. Wil
lard drove a hard right tp Johnson's
ear. Johnson smashed hard at the
bell.
ROUND FIFTEEN
The crowd kidded Johnson who
rushed Willard to the ropes and scored
five bard swings, remarking "What a
grand old man." Jess grinned at the
remark and also at the blows. The bell
found both pugilists fighting in the
center of the ring.
ROUND SIXTEEN
Johnson missed a left to the head
and they clinched. The challenger
blocked the negro's rushimg. Amid
much fighting the blackmail said
"Willard is a good kid," and then
rushed Jess to the ropes, scoring two
hard punches to the body. The negro
drove terrific swings to Willard's side.
The challenger was a trifle unsteady
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in going to his corner at the end of
the round.
BOUND SEVENTEEN
Johnson hooked a left to Willard's
jaw and a right uppercut to the same
place. Willard landed a right to John
son 's body and a left to the head. Wil
lard again scored a right to the body
anil blocked the negro's return. Jack
drove Willard to a corner and landed
two swings to the head. Johnson again
hooked a right to the body and followed
it up with two punches to the head.
BOUND EIGHTEEN
After playing a tattoo on Willard's
chest and stomach, the negro drove
toward the corner where the negro
smashed him twice on the jaw. Wil
lard 's leads were easily picked off by
the champion. After several tries Jess
la.nded a straight left to Johnson's
face and a right swing to jatv. At the
bell Johnson landed a punch to the
bodv and another to the jaw.
BOUND NINETEEN
Both meji slowed up, Willard took
the aggressive. Johnson stood in the
middle of the ring and blocked Wil
lard's blows. During the first minute
not a single hard punch was landed
and Johnson seemed unable to block
Willard's early lead. Both then start
ed a rally, landed two lefts to the
body and a riig'ht to the jaw.
BOUND TWENTY
Willard opened the round with two
light blows to the negro's face. The
latter laughed and said, "Lead again,
kid." Willard did and smiled also.
The crowd around the ring yelled,
"Hurry up, we want to see the races.'-
Willard stabbed and pawed until he
finally landed a swing on tihe negro's
jaw. The negro immediately cut loose
and they battled across the ring. The
crowd went frantic when Willard drove
a hard right and left to the negro's
body at the bell.
ROUND TWENTY-ONE
After a minute of posing and feint
ing. Johnson hooked his left to Wil
lard 's ibodv and sent a right swing to
the head. Willard replied with a
straight left to the negro's face, John
son rushed, but Willard protected him
self well, and they fell into a clinch.
.Johnson walked around the ring. Wil
lard missed a right swing and they both
laughed. Both were fightiug fierce at
the bell.
ROUND TWENTY-TWO
The fight at this point had degene
rated into a slow sparring and clinch
ing battle. In a clinch Willard bat
tered the negro's body With rights and
lefts. Willard continued working for
the negro's stomach. Jack grinned at
the shrieking crowd. Nevertheless,
Johnson was showing the effects of the
p»ce.
ROUND TWENTY-THREE
Willard rurihed into a clinch. John
son held 011 until forced to break by the
referee. The challenger shot two lefts
to the negro's face. They clinched
again and wrestled about the ring.
Jess added two more lefts to Jack's
face and clinched. Up to this point
Johnson bad not struck a blow in fclie
round.
ROUND TWENTY-FOUR
The crowd yelled to the fighters to
fight, but instead they clinc'hed. Wil
lard laid his weight on Johnson at every
opportunity in tlbc clinches. Johnson
pushed Willard back in t'he same man
ner as he did Jeffries at Reno. Johnson
missed two weak swings. The prowd
howled with disappointment. Willard
then smashed Jotonson with a left to the
face at the bell.
ROUND TWENTY-FIVE
Johnson's actions might 'have indi
cated flint lie thought 'he could knock
Willard out and was trying to ge<t the
decision on points alt the end of the
45fh round. Willard hooked the negro
with a right to the heart. He then
clipped Johnson on tihe jaw with a left
and started forcing tfhe pace. Johnson
was conserving every 'bit of his energy,
Willard again landed a left to the
mouth and then repeated it. Johnson
stepped around (backward at the 'bell
and dropped heavily into his seat.
ROUND TWENTY-SIX
Willard opened with a smash to
Johnson's body. The referee forcel
them to break from a clinch. Willard
rushed and slammed Johnson right and
left. In a clinch the latter looked
over his shoulder at his wife. Willard
smashed Johnson. Willard wins on a
knockout. The great crowd rushed
into the ring and menaced Johnson.
Beveral squads of soldier* hurried on
to the platform and cleared the crowd
away to protect the fighters.
By Associated Press.
Ring Side, Oriental Park, Havana,
April s.—The son broke through a
darkly overcast sky as the crowd be
gan to arrive at the scene of the
world's heavyweight championship
fight between Jack Johnson, of Texas,
and Jess Willard, of Kansas. The set
ting for the battle was picturesque.
A ring had been erected on the race
track in front of the big steel grand
stand which furnished the principal
seating facilities.
In front of the grandstand the long
slope leading to the track was covered
with seats like those of * circus. About
Continued on ISlnfh Piixr
0. S. DEMANDS $228~000
FROM GERMANY FOR EITEL
SINKING THE STEAMER FRYE
Washington, April s.—The American
note to Germany on the sinking of the
sailing ship William P. Frye by t!he Ger
man auxiliary cruiser Prinz Eitel Freid
rich was made puwic here to-day. It is
very brief. It is confined principally to
a recital of the legal aspects of sinking
of the'Frye and in polite and diplomatic
language suggests t'hat Germany make
''reparation." This is the text' ot the
instruction to Ambassador Gerard:
"You are instructed to present the
following note to the German 'Foreign
office:
"Under instructions from my govern
ment I have the honor to present a
claim for $228,0'3C.54 with interest
from January 2>B, 1915, against thq
German government on behalf of the
owners and captain of t'he American
sailing vessel WdMiam P. Frye for dam
ages suffered by fhem on account of the
destruction of'that vessel on the 'hig'h
seas iby the German armed cruiser Prinz
Eitel Friedrick on January 28, 1915."
LATE WAR NEWS SUMMARY
Loss of another member of the allied
fleet which is attacking the Dardanelles
is reported from Athens, by way of
Berlin. The British battleship Lord
Nfc'son is said to have been stranded in
the straits and then destroyed by the
Turkish forts.
A German submarine sank the Brit
ish steamer Olivine off the Isle of
Wight yesterday. The Russian vessel
whose sinking was made known last
night was identified to-day as the bark
Harmes. The crews of both ships es
caped.
The French War Office announced
that in the British raid on German
positions in Belgium last month two
German submarines were destroyed and
the naval construction yards at Hobo
ker damaged badly. It Is said that
forty German workmen were killed and
Blxty-two wounded.
The German official statement says
several attacks by Belgians and French
Contlnurd on Sevrnth race.
BOTH MARRIED TWICE BEFORE
Couple Obtain License to Wed, Bach
for the Third Time
When Irvin M. Kissinger and Jen
nie 0. Masterson, both of this city,
obtained a marriage license at the
Court House this morning, it was a case
in which both were planning their
third plunge into matrimony. Kissinger
is 42 years old and his bride-to-be is
three years his senior. His first wife
died in November, 1899, and a di
vorce separated him and his second on
November 4, 1914.
Mrs. Masterson lost both her former
husbands by death, the first having
died in September, 1890, and the sec
ond in January, 1905.
The only oth«r marriage license is
sued to-day was obtained by George E.
Wolf ' ~ Mesoinger, both of
Williams town
100DEAT1T0LL1
STORM OR COAST
Prins Maurits, With 49
Aboard. Believed to
Have Foundered Off
Cape Hatteras
15 PERISH WHEN
TUG IS WRECKED
Ten Men Drowned When Two Barges
Are Founded to Pieces Off Cape
Henlopen, Del.—i:t on Barge Tam
plco Believed Lost
By Associated Press.
Xew York, April 5. —Latest reports
received here of the effects of the great
storm which swept the Atlantic coast
Friday and Saturday indicated that the
toll of human life would reach nearly
100 persons.
The steamer Prins Maurits, with 49
persons aboard, is believed to have
foundered off Cape Hatteras.
Fifteen of the crew of the tug Ed
ward Luckenbach perished when the tug
was wrecked off False Cape, Va.
Ten men were drowned when two
barges were pounded to pieces oft' Cape
Henlopen, Del.
Thirteen men aboard the barge Tam
pico, which broke away from her tow,
arc believed to have been lost.
Dozens of barges, schooners and oth
er craft went ashore at various points
albug the coast, whose crews were res
cued by other vessels or coast guards.
Terrible Effects of the Storm
Norfolk, April 5. —Every possible ef
fort, both f rom land and from sea, was
being made to-day to learn the fate of
(he Royal Dutch West Indies Com-
Contlnurd on Mnth I'nit'e.
COT BMONTBS' SENTENCE
FOR 'HILACKWELL
Lewis, Who Hit Colored Political Lead
er of Steelton Over the Eye With a
Beer Bottle, Must Also Pay a Fine
of $5 and Costs
James Lewis, the colored man who
swatted Peter S. Blackvvell, Steelton's
picturesque negro politician, over the
eye with a beer bottle because Black
well attempted to "shove" him out of
a Steelton club room, was this moraing
sentenced in the Dauphin county court
to pay a fine of $5 and the costs and
to spend eight months in jail. Lewis
said:
'' He pushed me agin the corner of a
table and made me mad, and I soaked
him.''
Henry Davis got a month for con
ducting a gambling joint where "penny
poker" was played. It was the second
time Davis had been charged witih gam
bling.
Samuel P. Baker, a Harrisburg Rail
ways Company conductor, was paroled
after confessing to "knocking down"
trolley fares. Baker was caught after
he had failed to register Jf'o-O fares.
Charles Chane got a mouth for strik
ing his wife
3 LIQUOR LICENSES DENIED
Court Bejects Applications Made for
Hotels in Middletown, Berrys
burg and Paxtonia
The applications for hotel liquor li
censes made by Harry White, Ann
Street hotel, Middletown; Harry F. Eck
inger, Paxtonia Inn, Paxtonia, and
William H. Bowman, St. Lawrence ho
tel, Berrysburg, all were rejected in or
ders filed at noon to-day by Judge Mc-
Carrell.
The Middletown and Berrysburg ho
tels were licensed hostelries for years
prior to March 1, last, while the Pax
tonia Inn bar was closed following the
then proprietor's withdrawal of his li
cense application a year ago last Feb
ruary. Kckinger has since purchased
the inn.
The court without tomnient disposed
of the applications, which have been
pending since the annual license court
session which was held on February 19,
last. No reason whatever is given in
the court's order for not granting the
licenses.
When hearings were held on the li
cense applications during 'he latter
part of February it was charged that
the proprietor of the Berrysburg hotel
violated the liquor laws by selling liq
uor and beer to persons of known in
temperate habits and to minors. The
Middletown hotel, of which White be
came the proprietor early in February,
succeeding John A. Haas, witnesses in
court declared to be a disorderly placo
when Haas was in charge.
The question of necessity only was
taken up on the Eckinger application
and witnesses differed in their views on
that point.
7 Perish, 10 Missing In Mine Horror
By Associated Prcan.
Greenville, 111., April 5. —Seven men
are known to have perished iu an ex
plosion in the mine of the Shoal Creek
Coal Company near here to day. Ten
are missing. The bodies of the aeven
men have been recovered.
lOJHGIH
OPIUM
That Is the Estimate of
the Local Committee
of the Anti-Liquor
Forces
THREE MEETINGS
WILL BE HELD
Scheduled For To-morrow at 10 A. M.
and 8 P. M. in Chestnut Street
Hall and 2.30 P. M. at Capitol—
May Be Overflow Session
Three local option meetings will be
held in Harrisburg to-morrow, the first
in the Chestnut Street Hall at 10
o'clock, the second at the C'a.pitol be
fore the ljaw and Order Committee of
the House at 2.30 o'clock to discuss the
local option bill, aud the third at Chest
nut Street Hall in the evening at 8
o'clock, the principal speaker at the lat
ter to be Governor Brumbaugh. The
speakers at all of the meetings will be
decided on at a meeting of the State
committee of arrangements to be held
to-night
Large delegations are coming from
all parts of the State and it is esti
mated by the optionists that at least
ten thousand advocates of local option
will be here from out of town. The
delegations will be met in the morning
by the Commonwealth band and es
corted to t'he Chestnut Street Hall and
also to Capitol Hill. In the event of the
crowds being too big for the hall an
open air meeting will be held, both
morning and afternoon, in Market
Square, the speakers to occupy an au
tomobile.
Tho first controversy on the saloon
issue may come in the House to-night
when Representative Glinti, of Venango,
is expected to call up his resolution to
probe into the expenditures by the
liquor interest during the last political
campaign.
Governor Heads Option Speakers
The Local Option Committee an
nounced to-day the following speakers
for the conferences: Governor Martin
G. Brumbaugh; George E. Alter, former
Speaker of the House, Pittsburgh;
William McCoach, City Treasurer,
Philadelphia; Judge J. M. Galbraith,
Butler; Father J. J. Curran, Wilkes-
Barre; Congressman S. H. Miller, Mer
cer; Alba B. Johnson, president of
Baldwin locomotive Works, Philadel
phia; A. Mitchell Palmer, Judge of the
Court of Claims, Washington, D. C.;
Congressman W. D. B. Ainey, Montrose;
George B. Heimensnyder, attorney, Sun
burv; F. H. Rockwell, former member
of the House, Wellsboro; Congressman
Andrew 3. Brodbeck, Hanover; Con
gressman Frank L. Dershem, Lewis
burg; Congressman Robert K. Diefen
derfer, Jenkintown; Congressman M.
Clyde Kelley, Braddock; Congressman
Fred E. Lewis, Allentown; Coagress-
Conllniiril on Seventh I'ngr.
FOES OF LOCAL OPTION
HAVE 9-MILE PETITION
They Plan Counter Demonstration
Here To-morrow and Will Be Rep
resented By Speakers Before Law
and Order Committee of House
A petition nine miles in length,
containing 500,000 names, will be pre
sented to the Houise Law and Order
Committee to-morrow afternoon at the
local option hearing before that com
mittee, asking for the defeat of the
Brumbaugh county unit local option
bill. Dauphin county contributed 9,-
000 names to the petition, according
to an officer in the State Wholesale
Liquor Dealers' Association.
This association which hits members
in every county in Pennsylvania where
liquor is sold, is planning a demonstra
tion for this city to-morrow which it.
hopes to make equal to that of local
option supporters.
Special trains will carry anti-local
optionists from Philadelphia, Pitts
burgh, Altoona and Wilkes-Barre. Two
of these trains wi'll come from Phila
delphia, leaving that city at 7.00
o'clock in the morning.
No meeting of the anti-optionists
it< planned for Harrisburg but the peti
tion will be carried through the
before it is presented to the
committee and representatives of the
association will appear before the
committee to-morrow.
The first delegation to arrive will
■be the Pittsburgh delegation, which
ie expected here some time to-night.
LARGE SWANS SEEN OX RIVER
Sportsmen Aro Able to Get Within
Fifty Yards of Flock
The attention of many persons who
happened to be strolling along the river
bank <luring the last two days was at
tracted by what appeared on first sight
to be a flock of wild ducks or geese,
but which proved to be nine of the larg
est swans seen in this vicinity for many
yea rs.
Bird hunters and trappers of this city
as well as photographers took advan
tage of the opportunity and wore able
to got within fifty yards of them to
take snapshots.
FINAL
EXTRA
PRICE, ONE CENT.
ISTURKEY
NOW MOVING
FOR PEACE?
Believed Sultan's Min
ister, Now In Switz
erland, Is Seeking to
End Conflict
125 KILLED IN
BULGARIAN RAID
Glasgow Steamer Olivine and Russian
Barge Hermes Sunk by a German
Submarine Off the Isle of Wight
Yesterday Afternoon
Rome, April 4, 8.50 P. M., Via Par
is, April 5, 1.20 A. M.—lu spite of
various official denials from some of
the belligerent nations that prelimi
nary steps have been taken to conclude
peace, especially by Austria anil Tur
key, without consulting Germany, the
report that Djavid Pasha, Turkish Min
ister of Finance, who is now in Swit
zerland, is on a mission of peace, finds
credence here.
It is pointed out that Djavid Pasha
i was one of the first Turkish envoys to
undertake at Ouchy, Switzerland, the
j conclusion of an Italo-Turkish peace
! and that ho conducted his preliminary
j negotiations by roundabout methods
; through neutral diplomats. While he
1 had denied emphatically that he is at
. present engaged in a similar mission it
is considered here that this denial
should not be taken too seriously be
cause he scarcely could admit at this
time that his government seeks a ces
sation of hostilities. Similar denials
were made by him when he first under
took the task of bringing about an
agreement between Italy and Turkey.
Bulgarian Irregulars in Rala
Paris, April 5, 5.30 A. M.—The Bul
garian irregulars who raided Strumitsa,
Serbia, are estimated to have numbered
about a regiment and a half, says a
dispatch to the "Matin" from other
Nilsh cirrespondents. The total Ser
' bian losses in the fighting are estimat
jed at 125 killed and wounded, includ
| ing five officers.
I A Bulgarian diplomat interviewed
jby the newspaper "Odjik," the dis-\
i patch savs, declared the raiders were
j discontented Bulgarian irregulars wear
; ing old uniforms. He explained the
tact that part of their equipment was
iof recent manufacture by stating that
j several regimental armories near the
i frontier recently had been entered by
j burglars.
Submarine Finks Two Vessels
f London, April 5, 1.55 I'. M.—The
{Glasgow steamer Olivine and the Rus
isians barge Hermes were sunk by a
I German submarine Sunday afternoon
| off the Isle of Wight. The crews of the
two vessels took to their boats and
were rescued by a British torpedo boat
I destroyer.
London, April 5, 4.12 A. M. —A
i Russian bark, the name of which is un
j known, was torpedoed yesterday in the
I English Channel, -according to the
| "Daily Mail," which says the 15 nirtn
bers of the crew were saved.
Turks' Sink Two Russian Ships?
Berlin, By Wireless to London, April
5, S..">o A. M.—A dispatch from Con
stantinople says the following state
ment ha£ been issued by the Turkish
j war office
"Our fleet yesterday sank two Rus
sian ships, the Provident of 2,000
| tons and the Vastochuaja, of 1,500
! tons, at Odessa.
"Our batteries off Kum Kale sank
an enemy mine •■weeper which attempt
ed to approach the entrance to the Dar
danelles."
Neither the Provident nor Vastoch
uaja are mentioned in the latest ship
ping records.
BSC BRITISH WARSHIP SUNK
BY FIRE OniJRKISH GUNS
Berlin, April 5, By Wireless to Say
ville. —A report received in Berlin
from Athens says the British battle
ship Lord Nelson, stranded ineide the
Dardanelles straits, has been destroy
ed by the fire of the Turkish guns on
shore.
This information was given out to
day by the Overseas News Agency.
A council of war held by the Brit
ish and French admirals, the Athens
dispatch continues, decided to postpoue
the attempt to force the Dardenelles
on account of the insufficient strength
of the landing expedition.
This dispatch contains the first in
timation of the lows of the Lord Nel
son. Her name has not been mention
ed in any of the dispatches concerning
the Dardanelles operations.
She was 410 feet long, displaced
16,500 tons and was built in 1906.
She was armed with 4 12-inch, 10 9.2- .
inch and 13 3-inch gims and carried
865 men.