Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1915 — EUROPE WAR IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

EUROPE WAR IN BRIEF

All the Alpine troops of the first category have been called to the colors by the Italian war department for 45 days. The forces of the Triple Entente arc still arrayed at various places in heavy battles against the troops of the Teutonic allies. The latest official reports show that severe engagements are waging ,in northern France, northern Poland, in the Carpathian region and in the vicinity of the Black Sea in the Caucasus. German submarines again are operating in the Irish Sea, and it is believed that at least one more steamer has been sunk by them. Upward of 137 iives were lost in the sinking by German submarines of the African liner Falaba and tho British steamer Aguila bound from Liverpool for Lisbon. The Falaba was torpedoed in St. George’s Channel Sunday afternoon. An official list supplied at tho offices f of the Elder Dempster Steamship Company shows that so far as is known at present fiftytwo first class passengers, thirtyfour second-class passengers and forty-nine of the crew of the Falaba, were saved. Four of the passengers and four of the crew are reported killed and sixty-one passengers and forty-three of the crew are missing. The Aguila had a crew of fortytwo and three passengers, and of these twenty-three of the crew and all the passengers were lost. A measure of vast importance is virtually forecast by the conference which British ship owners have had with David Lloyd George. The Shipbuilding Employers’ Federation unanimously urge the total prohibition of the sale of intoxicating liquors during the period of the war. The chancellor, in describing drink as the greatest of “three deadly foes,’’ declared lie was convinced that nothing but “root and branch methods’’ would be of the slightest avail in dealing with the evil. The Russians continue their drive toward the plains of Hungary, with the Austrians apparently being forced back on the western mountain front, hut,- with the aid of the Germans, holding their positions on the eastern line. In northern Poland the Germans have taken the town of Tauroggen, which has changed hands several times, while on the front west of the Niemen river the Russians report that the German counter offensive has been stopped.