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Late War News
' A large transport steamer was tor-
pedoed and sunk by an Italian war-
bbip In Trieste harbor.
• • •
Violent artillery duels are contlnn-
Ing on both banks of the Meuse on
the Verdun front. The French troops
made two weak attacks on Gumieros
village, but these were easily re-
pulsed.
• • •
Two attacks made by Gorninn troops
advancing from Corbenux wood, on — ------—
the Verdun front, failed. Fifteen Mny n- Among those arrested were
aerial encounters occurred and two **ie Longoria brothers, said to have
Military patrols protecting the
American frontier from the Gulf of
Mexico to Pacific ocean are to be sup-
plied where raljway transportation is
too difficult, by means of motor truck
trains similar to those which have
been used by the expeditionary com-
mand in Mex'co.
• • •
Nine perarna were killed and thirty-
live injured when a northbound pas-
senger train on the Mexican railway
was in collision with a southbound
freight train near Rodriguez, Mexico,
forty miles south of Neuvo Laredo.
The killed were five trainmen and
four passengers, all Mexicans. Sev-
eral Americans were aboard the train,
but nor.e were reported injured.
• • a
News ha« reached Mercedes, Texas,
of the capture of eight Mexicans south
of the Rio Grande, accused of cattle,
stealing. One of the men Is suspected I
of having been connected with the
murder of CurtlB Pales, the American
farmer, near Mecedes on the night o!
KITCHENER
IS LOST ON
German machines were brought down,
one of them falling in flames.
• • •
One hundred and ninety-five neutral
ships loaded with goods from Scan-
dinavian countries for the United
Kingdom, have been cuptured by ttie
Germans and tnken into German ports
since October, 1914, Thomas J. Mac-
in several cattle
been implicated
rustling raids.
• • •
Skirmishes between a small band ol
bandits and constitutionalist troops
under General Jose Cavazos, in the
Tampico district, were reported by
General Nafaratte from Tampico, in
two clashes the bandits lost eleven
The Hampshire
Sunk. Off The
Coast of Scot-
land, With All
On Board.
ARKANSAS SWEEP BIT STORM
ESTIMATEO DEATH LI8T WILL
REACH FIFTY.
Judaonia, a Town of 800 People, R»
Porte Twenty-Five Dead and
Many Injured.
rillVv VJA 1 Will | , Jail, i IHMIltl.H J, u JXJol « It * ell
Natnarn, financial secretary of the ad- billed and ton prisoners. Only one
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miralty, said
tnons.
in the house of com-
A strong attack was made with a
fresh division of German troops on the
Verdun front west of the Meuse be-
constltutionallst was wounded. A
quantity of supplies was seized. Gen-
eral Luis Herrera teported conditions
near Parral quiet.
* * *
American and other foreign owned
tween Dead Man Hill and Cumleres. mining properties at Cuatro Olenagas
The war office statement says there were looted by bandits. The looters
was a Blight French retirement on the previously had attacked Sierra Mo-
Bethlncourt-Cumieres road. All at-jjado and among them were some of
tempts to gain ground on tho posi- the bandits who raided Glenn Springs
lions under attack were repulsed. j and Boquillas. Texas. After pillaging
• • • 11,0 offices, houses and storehouses
A Havas dispatch from Port Ven- they carried their booty to the coun-
dres says that two French torpedo! try between Cuntro Olenagas and San
boats arrived here bringing thirty Pedro, where they went into hiding,
members of the crew of the Italian * * *
^TVa’ 2,n° t0na’ W,liCh WaH General Carr*"« a decree es-
torpedoed by a German submarine Ubllsblng a land 'commission con-
without warning. The crew was slating of five members with head-
abandoned in two lifeboats. The quarters at Torreon whose functions
rp°n,»a !h a Y°rk' May B’ f°r wU1 be ,,ivlll8d amo"K *he cotton and
Genoa with flour. corn haciendas where they will loan
* * * money to small holders in order to
In moving the vote of credit for enable them to work their land. A
$1,500,000,000 as had been forecast. 111 | sum aggregating 25,000,000 pesos has
the house of commons, Premier As- been placed at the discretion of the
qulth commented that this was the commissioners. This money will be
eleventh vote since the beginning of loaned to planters at a rate of interest
the war and the second for tho cur- not exceeding 10 per cent. All land
rent financial year. The total granted seekers will be required to pay 20 per
this year, he ndded. was $3,000,000,000 cent of the principal of their purchase
making a grand total of $11,910,000.- before acquiring land.
000. The premier said that an ex-
penditure nf $1,205,000,000 between
April 1 and May 20—a dally nverago
of $24,100,000 was the highest rate
reached by Great Britain in any such I of'£?„" I**0"''"’ prfl<Ietol
period during the war , , Slnn 1 ein volunteers who was
g me war. found guilty of complicity in the Irish
. revolt, has been sentened to lire Im-
Uomestic j piisonment and the sentence has been
Dallas, Texas, was selected as the conflnned-
London—Lord Kitchener, min-
ister of war, with his entire staff,
was lost when the cruiser Hamp-
shire was sunk north of Scotland
The loss of Kitchener and his
staff was officially announced by
the admiralty.
The admiralty’s statement in-
dicated that the Hampshire was
torpedoed off the Orkney islands.
The admiralty stated that thert
Foreign
Professor John MacNeilt, president
meeting place of the 1917 general as-
sembly of the Presbyterian church in
the United States of America, at At-
lantic City.
• • •
Lieutenant James Vincent Rockwell,
» civil engineer in the United States
navy who was In training hs an avi-
ator here, was killed when a navy
aeroplane he was piloting dived 150
Jeremiah H. Manning, insular treas-
urer, has returned to Manila from
China, where he conducted negotia-
tions for the sale to the Indian govern-
ment of 7,500,000 silver pesos at a
profit to the insulur government of
20 per cent. Mr. Manning went to
China on May 13 with a commission
to sell 20,000,000 silver pesos which
i upuutu tits Wtin JiliUllug UlVPtl liiU ' ~ ~~~w •'*•*'-* pvcim wiuui
feet into the gulf. Lieut. Rockwell, ,he PhillPPlne government had stored
~v.-----at C. rrogidor. There has been a
great shortage of silver in China ano
India which caused the metal to
held at a high premium.
who was 39 years old
• • •
Negotiations have been virtually
completed it is announced between
Germany and a New York banking
house for a new offering in this mar-
ket of $10,000,000 six per cent serial
heernTr n°!e8’ ^ W,U A provisional agreement for the
a 6 J'l I.,.001!,0’ “ *bo“t * amalgamation of the Cunard and the
Washington
Lltle Rock.—At least fifty persons
are believed to be dead and 250 in
Jured in a series of tornadoes tbat
ravaged at least ten counties in Ar-
kansas.
The greatest destruction was
wrought at Judsonla, a town of about
BOO inhabitants about fifty miles north
east of Little Rock, on the Iron Moun-
tain railroad. One-third of the town
was destroyed. Twenty-five Ikidies
and fifty injured have been recovered
from the debris.
The dispatcher's office of the Iron
Mountain railroad in Little Hock re-
ceived a message that eighteen per-
sons had been killed and many injured
at Heber Springs, on the Missouri &
North Arkansas railroad, in northern
Arkansas.
Three white persons and two ne-
groes were killed In Dallas county, in
the south-central part of the state.
At Hot Spr ings four were killed and
eight injured.
Three are known to be dead near
Cabot, between Litle Rock and Jud-
sonia.
A white woman was killed and fif-
teen were injured at Greenland, in
Washington county, in the northwest-
ern portion of the state.
At Morrilton, forty miles northwest
of Litle Rock, two negroes were killed,
a negress was blown away and has
not been found and a white woman
and several children were injured.
Only the extreme southern and east-
ern portions of the state appears to
have escaped entirely.
In Pulaski county, in which Little
Rock Is situated, it is estimated that
about forty persons ^vere injured.
Most of them were negroes, and some
will die. Only the extreme western
portion of the city suffered, although
the storm did heavy damage on all
sides of it.
The meager reports indicate that
the property damage throughout the
state will be enormous.
Class
Tonnage
Cost
Men
Battle Cruiser
27,000
$10,000,000
950
' Battle Cruiser
18,750
$ 8,000,000
900
Battle Cruiser
17,250
$ 8,500,000
731
Armored Cruiser
14,600
755
Armored Cruiser
13,500
704
Armored Cruiser
13,500
700
LOSSES ADMITTED BY BRITISH.
Ship
Queen Mary
Indefatigable
Invincible
Defence
Black Prince
Warrior
Eight torpedo boat destroyers, aggregating 11,160 tons.
Total, fourteen warships, 114,810 tons; 4,540 men (not.in-
cluding destroyers).
ADMITTED GERMAN LOSSES.
Ship Class Tonnage Cost Men
Pommern Battleship 12,977 $ 6,000,000 729
Westfalen and two small cruisers.
One submarine and two Zeppelins.
Eleven Teuton Craft, Including Two Bat-
tleships are Sunk; Number of English
Victims Now Stand at Fourteen
RUSSIANS BEGIN KEW OFFENSIVE
Fierce Attacks Reported Along Entire
Eastern Front.
6.2 per cent basis. The notes it Is
understood will be dated Juno 1 and
will mature April 1. 191T,
• • »
Commonwealth and Dominion steam
ship lines is announced at Liverpool.
• • t
The Missouri public service cominis- , Admlral F,etcher will be assigned
on announced tentative nnnrnvoi r.f .° * 10 navy KeneraI board to succeed
Rear Admiral Badger, retired, when
on June 19, he surrenders command
♦ * *
Indications that nearly 100,000 per
sion announced tentative approval of
the new reorganization plan of the
St. Louis and San Francisco railroad,
with the exception of the clause pro-
viding for trustees to vote the stock
of the road. The voting trust plan aons would march in a preparedness
probably will be submitted to the su- Parade at Boston multiplies with every
preme court for a decision as to its mal1- Women will appear prominent-
validity. The public service connnis- ly ln the ranks,
sion has held in the past that any j * * *
plan by which the stockholders dele-! RaP'd legislative strides, encourag-
gated the control of the road to trus- inB 10 administration leaders, whe
tees was Illegal. ll0Pp for adjournment of congress late
Field Marshal Viscount Kitchener
is little hope that any of the mem-
bers of Kitchener’s staff survived.
It was accepted a's a fact that Kit-
chener himself was drowned.
The Hampshire was a British
cruiser of the Argyll type. Her
complement was 655 officers and
men. She was 450 feet long and
displaced 10,850 tons. Her arm-
ament wajj four 7.5-inch guns,
six 6-inch guns and two torpedo
tubes.
* * *
• • • jn Ju*y or early in August, were made
Lieut. Clarence Alvin Richards, in the llouse- the lower branch out
commander of the United States de- distancing the senate, which is still
Btrover Fanning, was instantly killed in ,he throes of a filibuster against
at Sag Harbon, L. I., by an electric t,le $43-000,000 rivers and harbors ap
shock in the station of the Sag Har- Propriation bill,
bor Light and Power Company. H. D.
Christian, night watchman at the sta- The interstate commerce conimis-
tion, said it appeared to him that the sion in a decision upholds generally
lieutenant committed suicide by tak- the railroads in the fight made by the
ing hold of two heavily charged wires, city of Memphis, the Memphis freight
The American steamship Venture bureau and other organizations for a
reports that it picked up a wireless general revision of class and com
message from the station at Tucker- modity rates between Memphis and
ton. N. J., when 9,000 miles distant points in Arkansas. Missouri and Lou-
from that point. This is said to be a isiana. Certain exceptions to the gen-
world’s record.
eral ruling are found.
State Grange Organized.
Oklahoma City.—The Oklahoma
State Grange—patrons of husbandry—
was organized at a two-day session
here last week. The following of-
ficers were elected:
| State master, C. C. King, Canadian
! county; overseer, Frank Savage, Kay
county; lecturer, Mrs. E. Kearby, Ok-
lahoma county; secretary. T. T. Parks,
Rogers county; treasurer, \V. M.
Hand, Grant county; chaplain, C. E.
Babbitt, Roger Mills county.
Executive committee: C. Gillespie,
Kay county; F. Borelli, Kingfisher
county; J. B. Spitler, Canadian county.
Legislative committee: John Rat-
cliff, Craig county; George Colas,
Washington county; S. B. Jackson,
Canadian county.
One hundred and sixteen Texas na-
The Memphis Furniture Company,
at Memphis, Tenn., which operates _ -----—
one of the largest plants of the kind tl0nal guardsmen w-ho have failed to
4.. ... . respond to the call for service on the
Meiican border will be tried by court
London.—The long expected gen-
eral offensive of the Russians against
the Teutonic allies seemingly lias be-
gun. From bolh Petrograd and Vien-
na come reports that the Russians
are actively engaged over a front
from the Prifiet river, east of Brest-
Litovsk to the Roumanian frontier—
a distance of about 250 miles.
The Russians everywhere are using
large numbers of guns and men and,
according to Petrograd, have achieevd
successes on many important sectors,
taking 13,000 prisoners and a*number
of guns and destroying or capturing
Teuton positions.
Along the Bessarabian front, in the
Dniester region along the lower Stripa
and in Volliynia the Russian attacks
have been particularly violent. In the
region of Olyka in the one of the
Volynian fortress triangle the Russian
guns have heavily shelled a front of
more than fifteen miles in length held
by the Austrian Archduke Joseph Fer-
dinand.
Around Verdun bad weather has set
in and as a result the infantry of both
sides have kept to their trenches and
only bombardments have taken place.
No new changes in position are re-
corded. Around Vaux and Damioup,
northeast of Verdun, the bombard-
ment has continued with considerable
intensity, while to ttie west of the
Meuse the shelling has been only in-
termitent. —
On tho remainder of the front in
France except around Ypres, the sit-
uation is reported quiet. About Ypres,
i however, the Germans and Canadians
are continuing the violent fighting that
has been in progress since last week,
when the Germans under a terrific
rain of shells, captured Canadian posi-
tions, which later were retaken in
hand-to-hand and bombing encounters.
Returning to the attack Sunday the
Germans again forced the Canadians
to relinquish the buTk of the recap-
tured positions, but the Canadians
are disputing strenuously the efforts
of the Teutons to oust them from the
remainder of the positions. Vienna
reports that notwithstanding the
sturdy resistance of the Italians, the
Austrians have made a further ad-
vance into Italy in the Cengio zone
near Asigo. The town of Cesiana and
500 prisoners, three cannon and eleven
machine guns and 126 bomb throwers
were captured by the Austrians.
Rome admits the retirement of the
Italians in the Cengio zone but says
that in the Dalgone valley, the La-
garina valley and on the Posnia front
Austrian attacks were repulsed with
heavy losses.
Only Few Hundred Engaged are Saved;
London and Berlin Fail to Agree
on Size of Fleets Engaged.
London.—The latest reports from
the British fleet, from neutral ves-
sels which witnessed parts of the
great naval battle in the North Sea
and from survivors; cause Great Bri-
tain to believe the engagement was
not so near a defeat as at first re-
ported and in nowise a disaster. The
British losses, with ail the craft en-
gaged accounted for, were three battle
cruisers, three cruisers and eight de-
stroyers.
The German losses are declared to
have been about the same number, in
eluding two battleships, the West-
falen and Pommern; two battle cruis-
ers, unnamed, six destroyers and a
submarine. T he total number of ships
lost by both sides is placed at twenty-
five.
Still In Command of Sea.
British naval experts maintain that
Great Britain continues to hold the
In the south, was indicted on nine
counts in a true bill returned by the __________________
federal grand jury. The federal stat- martial by order of President Wilson,
ute which the company is charged The offense for which they will be
with violation makes a corporation li- tried may be punished by fines or im.
nhle for incorrect description of goods rrisonment as the court may direct,
in shipment. As a result of its prac- with the approval of the president,
tice. the indictment charges the com- So far no steps have been taken to
pany received a much lower freight ward prosecuting the New Mexico and
.rate ihan it should have on shipments Arizona guardsmen, who, like the Tex-
to Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma and ans, have failed to present themselves
ether states. . 1 for muster.
Strikes and lockouts throughout the
United States recently have been un-
usually numerous, according to a
statement by the department of labor.
The last six months produced 1,069,
and in April alone there were 268.
April strikes, according to the state-
ment, affected about 3u0,000 workers.
Reduced rates for civilians travel-
ing to and from military or naval
training camps when train transpor-
tation is paid by the- government
would be made legal by legislation pro.
posed to the- house at the' instance of
the war department.
More U. S. Marines To Santo Domingo
Washington.—The transport Han-
cock at Vera Cruz had orders to pro-
ceed immediately to New Orleans to
take aboard between five and six hun-
dred additional marines for Santo Do-
mingo.
Lopez Executed.
Chihuahua City.—Pablo Lopez, Vil-
la’s chief lieutenant in the raid upon
Cblumbus, N. M., paid the penalty for
his crimes, facing a firing squad of
constitutionalist soldiers at Santa
Rosa, Chihuahua’s place of eexcution.
ADMIRAL VON CAPELLE,
Head of the German Navy.
supreme command of the sea by a safe
margin and that her enormous navy
could better afford the losses it suf-
fered than could the small German es-
tablishment. The first reports of the
heavy loss of life, unhappily, have not
been revised. Great Britain mourns
for more than four thousand of her
best seamen and the whole nation Is
oppressed with sadness. The German
losses are placed at 2,000 men.
Few Hundred Saved.
There were some 6,000 men on the
ships which sank and only a few hun-
dred have been saved. The horrors
of modern naval warfare, far exceed-
ing those when wooden ships fought
and continued to float, even when they
ceased to be fighting units, were re-
alized to their utmost. From five of
the largest ships which went under
with a complement of more than 4,000
men, only seven junior officers and a
few seamen were rescued. Rear Ad
miral Horace Lambert Hood, seconc
in command to Vice Admiral Sir Da
vid Beatty, and Captains Sowerby
Cay and Prowse were lost, with man;
others whose names are not yet knowi
because the government has not s<
far issued any list. There were ni
surrenders and the ships which wem
down carried with them virtually theii
whole crews.
Of some thousand on the Qucei
Mary, only a corporal’s guard is ac
counted for. The same is true of thi
Invincible, while there ace no sur
vivors reported from the Indefatig
able, the Defense or the Black Prince
It is impossible to visualize any co
herent story of the great battle whicl
lasted many hours with the different
units at times fighting scattered eo
gagements. The British and Germai
reports contradict each other flatlj
on the main facts. The British assert
that the German fleet retired when th*
British battle ships appeared, whilt
the German official statement main-
tains that the German forces were in
battle with the entire British fleet.
The British assert that they had
only two divisions engaged and that
all the units of these were not abl«
to participate in the fighting, and,
furthermore, that Admiral Sir John
Jellicoe, commander of the grand
fleet, remained in the area of the bat-
tle after the Germans had retreated
and sw'ept it thoroughly in search ol
enemy ships and survivors.
British Robbed of Victory.
The king’s message to Admiral Jel-
licoe states that the Germans robbed
the British of the opportunity of gain-
ing a decisive victory by retreating im-
mediately after the opening of the
general battle. Admiral Beatty, com-
manding the battleship squadron, pre-
sumably on his old flagship Lion, was
again in the thick of the action. Ev-
ery arm of modern naval warfare was
employed—battleships, battle cruisers,
torpedo boat destroyers, submarines
and even Zeppelins. Whether most
of the destruction was accomplished
by gunfire or torpedoes is not yet
known. British officers say that the
battle was fought by the methods
practiced by all navies. There were
no surprises and no new devices ol
weapons of strategy.
How far the Zeppelins contributed
to the German success is a matter of
dispute. Only one airship came with-
in sight, according to the British ao
counts, and she was soon badly dam-
aged and withdrew. But tho Germans
lay stress on the assistance rendered
by their air service and neutrals re-
port the presence of six Zeppelins In
the North Sea. The popular belief
among the British public is that the
scouting Zeppelins kept the German
fleet informed by wireless of the ap-
proach of their enemy, of his numbers
and formation.
The morning newspapers, yhile ad-
mitting the serious nature of the Brit-
ish loss In the battle off Jutland, in-
sist that the fight cannot have any ad-
verse effect on the naval situation.
Most editorials, moreover, declare that
the battle must rank as a British vic-
tory because the Germans were fin-
. ally compelled to flee:
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