Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1915 — EUROPEAN WAR NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

EUROPEAN WAR NEWS IN BRIEF

From one end of the long battle front in Belgium and France to the other Belgians, French, British and Germans are fighting bitterly for strategic points, preparatory to the great effort which is bound to come when the roads are dry. The munitions have been brought up and the men are ready. The Russians in Poland are conducting an active campaign along both banks of the Orzye river, but they are being met by the Germans with equally hard blows. Through the Chancellor of the Exchequer the British government announces that it intends to take over the factories in England for the production of war supplies. The state department at Washington has made public the six notes exchanged between this country and Germany “ and with Great Britain and France relative to submarine warfare, the use of neutral flags, the removal of mines, the question of food shipments and the proclamation of a blockade by the allies. Three submarines at various times eideayored to torpedo the Anchor Line steamer Cameronia on her trip through the Irish sea to Liverpool from New York. The steamer’s speed saved her. German under-water craft, however, have succeeded in sinking two additional steamers and badly damaging a third. A Dardanelles dispatch reports the loss of three mine sweepers and one sailing vessel and considerable damage to a British cruiser in the fighting in the straits. The British admiralty announces that 23 men were killed and 37 wounded on board the cruiser Amethyst. * Peking reports that Russia and Great Britain have told Japan that if she attempts to press demands upon China other than those given out at Tokyo further diplomatic relations will be difficult. It also is reported in the Chinese capital that America looks with displeasure upon the Japanese demands as infringing upon the Chinese-American treaty.