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LONDON, Feb. 7.—Eiverindghe,
Belgium is being suWecfed io a
fcoffifear^ment of tho Germane
and Ypres was yesterday aeroplaned.
Airmen report that the Gorman ar
my ci>rfcentrntlori still continues. Ac
tivities' proceed along thO entire
western ?rqnt.
PARIS, Feb. 7.—The British are
noF shelling with high explosives
the trenches between Ancre ana
Somme river. The French are also
bombarding tbe entire Hue between
Solssons and
The belief is growing here that
the Germans have made up thoir
minds' to drive toJCalals at all cjists
whence If successful they will• in
vade England.
LONDON, Feb. 7.—The Teuton
Invasion scare which some papers
are working up is bolieved to bn
fomented with t£a Intention of mak
ing the eohucrititioi trtU a pleading
pill to swallow' among the workers
The people are now told rby military
experts that should' the Gerbians
ever succeed in breaking through
to the Channel coast, Jib invisibh
would be not only possible and prob
able but a certainty.
BERLIN, Feb. 1.—The Germans
are bombarding the British lines in
Flanders. Elsewhere the Allies are
active, mainly with' the 'intention or
relieving the Teutoh pressure on
the North Where the Allies are fear
ing the Gernians may drive through
tto assaults occurred today, but the
preliminaries of an Allied offensive
are being worked out.
GOT TIIE NEWS ftlGHT. READ
THE UPKKWW
LEVEE BREAKS AND TOWNS
LITTLE ROCK. Ark.. Feb. 7.—|
The great White river ieveo brofc*)
here yesterday morning, and no*
five tons are inundate^ in the low
lands. The Inhabitants had been
warned to evacuate before the levee
broke and It was expected that" the
waters would break through before
they actually did. Flooded (jon'dr
tlons are still extremely serious.'
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SWITZERLAND MAKES
^C T P r ..r": '''ft t" 1 >•»«■—<
BERNE, Feb. 7.—In order to pay
the expenses of her continual mobi
lization, the government has capital
ized the sugar monopoly of the gov
ernment tor a torm of ten yonrs.
The payment of a largo sum to
liquidate the immediate costs of
mobilization will be secured in re
turn tot {he capitalization of the
monopoly. Prices may not be raisen
without authority from the govern
ment
PETROGRAD, Feb. 7.—Tho
struggle on the middle Stripa river
is now growing acute. The Ger
mans and Austrians have united
forces in a desperate effort to move
the^luSsiang froth the banks ^hich
they have gained possession of.
Desperate assaults took place which
did not atlctt6eed in dislodging the
Russians although accompanied by
enormous losses.
PETROGRAQ, feb. 7.—The Gor
mans are moving huge ammunition
supplies to' their positions south ed
the Dvina. Although the intensely
cold weather prevents any possibil
ity of the active field operations of
some months ago, the Germans art
accumulating Vast supplies for an
Safly spriUgtlme advance, the attach
'Being set for about March. * J
ROME, Feb. ?.—The Rumanian
parliament proposes now another
forty million dollar loan. It is be
lieved that this foreshadows some
war movis Urhl’ch chn only be conjec
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LONDON, Feb. 7.—The Russian
government la now beginning to
move a portion of its new army to
the eastern front where thoy will be
given active Held service. For this
reason It is anticipated that small
and local attacks' as at the Middle
Strips will reported front tliiie
t t r ■ • »* -i ri ' • *
to time.
Almost afj tjie men engaged |n
the operations on the Strips river
are recruited from the new army
being raised by Russia.
Let as
oa year ISe Wars
BERLIN, Feb. 7.—Tho startling
intelligence la made tonight by the
government that the negotiations
tpr a separate peace ^rjth Belgium
are mailing great headway.
tTtte hdWa halt greatly fe&couraged
those who are urging pogcp.
LONDON, Fob. 7.—No oignlflcr.nce
is attached here to the'fceport that «
separate peace with Belgliitn' Is task
ing headway. Even' tpongh it' |g»
plies the Intention of Germany to
forego annexation of the territory
directly, it 1# only regarded as o
sop to encourage the Gormans 'who
kre dick df' the war.
BERLIN, Feb. 7.—Otto Ruflhle,
one of- the fohner members of' the
Reichstag of social democratic per
suasion, has quit the party1 anko
u being that he possesses the same
vfeWS ort the War ag Dr. Uebkehcht.
In any event Ruehle would sobnpr
or latel* have fared the same way its
Liebknecht: been expelled.
PARIS, Feb. 7.—The British dis
patch of a coaling fleet to Itaty has
relieved what at once seemed a
threatening situation. Thesupply
of coal is now all that could be de
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LOhipON, fob. 7.—f}o reports
have been published today “from
Salonika, Asiatic Turkey, Mesopc
tamla or Alpanja.
WAJPttJSraF. * C.. feb- 7—
President Wilson Is now on decK
Speeding bis drdparc'dness plans.'
It I* stated tonight tb»t tatro
dnctlon of tbe preparedness plans
will start sopn and tjbe bill will be
rushed through.
It now develops that tbo bill will
encounter fllllbusterlng In bot,h
Houses, tbe 'flllbhSter being encour
aged by the demdcrats.* Claude
Kltcbln Will Ot>po*e It and many
dther democrats <toe showing sj£ns
of getting off the fiance where tbe
It to even questioned
for some
. r_
whether Wilson will oirry tho dp»
mocratic convention after hie trip.
An interesting fact Ig that t^e
preparationlsts urge that they
strike while the iron is hot frOm
iff w# * *>#j
all before Bryan starts to back gre
the* administration policy.
jieatlerday1 r siid A fche'kaftUl.
S2fciFy|» WbtK ft;’had he
earlier ' voiced0 * SiW
sonled • support of the Wl
son program ho might
hotr osythe'BnpreSii. Bench or
tho wag Instead of tyula M. Bran
Taft praised Wilson's courage,
strength of mind and doflance ot
the reactionary democrats who trieo
to control tie party, tie ahso said
among oth<
army would
revolts against
strikes as well as protection in ip
ternational disturbancas. The
former
that a
deterrent of
authorities during
REPORTED CRUISER TAKES
GERMAN RAIDER ATLANTIC
NEW YORK, Feb. 7.—An uncon
firmed dispatch states that the
British cruiser Drake after a run
ning fight captured a German
cruiser in the Atlantic and baa
taken the prize to Hamilton, Ber
muda. #hll4 the report is uhoiflcla)
the presence of a German cruiser in
the Atlantic: has Veen long suspected
and the report is therefore receding
credeffce. ’ ■ ” 'r ' ’* M ?
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WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 7 --
The Appam case is still hanging fire,
but it is likely that it will be de
cided in favor of its captors.
Notes are being exchanged on the
subject.
WASHINGTON. D. C., Feb. 7.—
Stone declared today that tbe Lusi
tania difficulty is practically .settled
by the concession ot all the United
States demands.
THE HAGUE, Feb. 7.—A prompt
expfanation of the attempted Ger
man torpedoing of the Dutch steam*
er Artemis 1b demanded by (be
Netherlands government.
BERLIN, feb. 7.—The Germans
claim that when a British trawler
winged a German Zeppelin jRjring
over the Nori,h Sea causing the big
airship to founder, the British sail
ors stood by and refused to rescue
the struggling ZeppeUnlsts in the
water. T£o trawler souhde'^ its
syren and pulled out allowing the
unfortunates to sink for ay they
cared.
SEATTLE, Fe{>. 7.—A really dang
erous cbndltloft has arisen with ttU
advont of A very warm wind, the
Old reliable Chinook, and, plenty ot
rain tjMf morning which continues
In a downpour all day.
ThA floods that have boon swell
ing the (streams are now running
over and the valloys are all covered
with wader.' ^om Everett to Sno
homish * kc0or4 ing to ’d^spKtchej' gl i
the lntefvaAfng strotcli df valley *1S
under water while from the Mea
dows to Tacoma similar conditions
prevail. M|loe Of track have ^e/led
careful rip-rapping of other years
along the Great Northern and
Northern Pacific, and slid bodily
into the streams along which the
railroads are routed.
Even worse conditions are re
ported in the hills'. Avalanches are
everywhere. Mud, snow iuid rocks
blockade the Great Northern for
miles, the Northern' Pacific and the
Chicago Milwaukee and Puget Sound
are ho better! being 'hopelessly
blocked with the slides that keep
coming down.
PORTLAND, Fob. 7.—This tow a
expects to see the Wlliamotte before
nightfall claim a good many streets
as part df the'river. It has now
reached the high water mark, goods
have been removed from the locks
and the water Is lapping the stlfoets
in many places. The loading anu
unloading of ships ie temporarily
Interrupted and freight is being
Z . ,\n f'*i' • . ‘
held back from the warehouses on
the water fropt. The preoent state
of the Willamette Is the highest
February record.
LONDON, Feb. 7.—The British
admiralty Insists upon maintaining
|tS b|ockac|e even to the extent! ot
preventing supplies reaching the
Teutons through noutrals. Today
the Norwegian! steamer Bo>6tau
laden with cotton and general cargo
stupe of. which1 Is direct contraband
‘ destined" for DrF.mmensfjoM
and
was taken Into Kirkwall.
Irtish
ST. JOHN’S Feb. 7.-^Bocau»s she
cleared with contraband of wkt on
^ »»<: pw?
lean port, the Norwegian steamro
Ontoneda was refused sufficient
coal to reach Baltimore, Maryland,
whore a cargo of cotton for iSurope
awaits heir.
Although flying the Norwegian
flag, tho Ontoneda Is claimed to be
Qerman owned apd to have been
shipping cotton an<£ other contra
band systematically through Banish
ports.
£he Ontoneda we* formerly a
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put out by the action ot
much
lie Aam
ralty which has absolute control ot
the coal supplies at this port.
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