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STRIKES U. S. HIP NEBRASKAN TORPEDOED WHILI PASSING IRISH COAST TURNS INTO LIVERPOOL No Lives Lost as Ship Was Return ing in Ballast and Had no Passen gers Aboard-Steamed Back Un der Own Power But Out, of Con trol. London. England, May 26.-Lloyd announced this afternoon that th American steamer Nebraskan whic) left Liverpool Monday for New Rork was torpedoed and damaged severe ly last night at nine o'clock. ~Thi -Nebraskan had just passed Kinsale famed as the landing place of mos of the survivors of the Lisitania -when she was struck~. The big shil is hardly able to maintain its head way and is reported to be uncontrol able. It is proceding towards Queens town, according to the opinions o these connected with the insuranc agency, and appears to be makin its headway. Judging from the fac that it is proceeding under its ow3 steam it is not thought that the en gines have been damaged. seriously London, May 26.-President San derson of the Internation Mercrntil Marine, has officially confirmed th statement made by Lloyds that th Nebrastan was torpedoed by a Ger man submarine. This was mad known in a statement issued to-night The Nebraskan when struck was fly Ing the. American flag and was re turning to New York in ballast. Th torpedoing of.his ship has caused great stir -in London and the rest o England. Speculation as to the ac ttion of the United States is. r-fi Many think that this will intensit thefeelin& between Germany and th Americans, who are now awaiting th reply' of the Berlin government t their note demanding guarantee against a repetition of the Lusitani disaster aid a guarantee that thei rights on the seas will be respecte hereafter by German submarines an their commianders. Queenstown, England, May 26. The Nebzaskan was sigbted this al ternoon and passed by. this harbo seeking the dod- at Liverpool. Th great ship was proceeding slowli her speed reaching only about eigl. knots. an hour. London, England, May 26.-Earl advices received here this mornin - ere to the effect that the big Ame can liner Nebraskan which saile from Liverpool Monday has met wit serious.accident off the-Irish coa at approximately the same portion c ber- journey that marked the d4 "struction of the -Lusitania. Nothin _ was . said in the earlier news coz eorning a torpedo or a submarin -and it was- positively stated that a jaccident had occurred. The steame is putting back to Liverpool and i erpected to arrive there Thursday. New York, May 26.-A wireles nessage received here from .the caj tan of the Nebraskan; after the shi S..had been damaged, saill that whil the vessel was proceeding on h4 - ourney she was struck by an obsts cle oattside of her hull after she ha reached a point about fifty miles wel oit Fastnet Ireland. The cre ' are reported unharmed, and froi that statement it is Judged. thi the Jiner could not 'have bee -dangerously ~ harmed. No pani .'g-i considered to have resulted. TI captain evplicitly states-that his shi -was hit by a "mine or torpedo which precludes the theory advance Sfrom London earlie.rrin the day the Sthe cause of her injury was an acc .~dent aboard the ship. The captai -.-nnounced his intention to return t SLiverpool. - New York, .May 26.-Word was re ~ceived here this afternoon that th N . ebraskan would put into Qaleent ~-town for repairs before proceedin to Liverpool'but this seems to be cor -tradicted by subsequent .dispatche from Queenstown saying that the ye: 4sef has already passed by that harbc on her way to .aiverpool. London,.:May 26.-The admiralt offlcially announces that there wa no~ lives lost as the result of the to: *.pedoing -of the American liner N4 - raskan off the Irish coast. as th vessel was carrying no passengers. ITALY ENTERS AGREEMENT TO STAND) BY THlE ENTENT -Italian Government Becomes SignL tory Power of Compact Not to Conclude Separate Peace. London, Eng., May 23.-Italy he Sentered into an. agreement with th powers of the Triple Entente and h:2 now become a - full-fledged allyc Great Britain, France and Russi: Each of these nations have agree not to sign any separate peace wit either of their opponents. The fou -great powers wilich have thus bon thmevstogether comrprise a popi tants. EIGiIT GREAT NATIONS FIGHT AGAINST THRE -Ten European Countries Remnai Neutral and Three Are Expect ed on Allies' Side. Eight nations, England; Ital: France, Bclgi m. Ru-sia. Serbia Japan, Montenegro, are fighting Against these thime: German: Austria, Turkey. These ten are netr.al: Norway Denmark. Sweden. Portugal. Spairi Greece. Holland, Ro umania, Swi tzer -land, Bulgaria. And theso threce may join the al lies: Greece, Bualgaria, Roumania. ITALIAN AiRShIP DESTROYED Austrians Bring Down Flyer and Kil Entire Crew. Vienna. Austria, May 26.-Follow ing the successes of. the Auistrians i1 dropping bombs upon Italian town: the Italians this morning attcemptet to drop bombs upon the town o Goercz. The aeroplane was brovah down and the crew slain by the fenders, who were on the lookout !03 such attacks. * Italy Grabs Rich Pri.:s The value of Austrian and Ger man ships interned in' Italin poru and which b'xjome priz's of war arn valued at $.000(.000, according tc * dispa frm name Mnay. SFIQHlTING IN THE ADRIATIC NAVIES HAVE TWO CLASHES Italian Submarines Appear Off Pola, Austrian Naval Base-Italian . Destroyer Surrexplers. Geneva, Switzerland. May 2. Naval activity in the Adriatic in creased to-day when two Italian sub marines appeared off the shore near the Austrian naval reserve station and fortified base, at Pola. The sub marine attempted to attack the Aus trian fleet. but appears not to have been able to reac! 'hem through the - defense of the torpedo destroyers. One Austrian destroyer is reported to have been damaged. though the extent of its injuries are at present unascertained. London. England, May 26.-A dis patch received here this morning from Amsterdam states that .the fol lowing official communication was - issued at Vienna yesterday: "The cruiser Helgoland and three torpedo boat destroyers encountered two Italian torpedo boat destroyers t near Barletta, one of which escaped and the other of which' was struct by a shell and compelled to surren der in a' sinking condition. "Our ,destroyers rescued thirty five men of the crew of the Italiau boats, including its commander, bul e the work of rescue was hindered by the approach of two Italian battle t ships which fired from a range o about thirteen t, )usand yards. "In the ensuing skirmish our de stroyer Csepel was slightly damaged but the Helgoland and the other de stroyers returned the enemy's fir( with apparent success and then re e tired out of range." EMBARGO ON MEAT EXPORTS 1s THREAT OF THE PACKER! f Deman'd Unrestricted Passage of Pro ducts to All Neutral Coun tries of Europe. e Washington, May 25.-Representa D tiv-s of the great- meat packing in d dustry of the United States and Soutt a America to-day threatened an embar. r go on exports to Great Britain an d her allies which may prove more ef d fectual than the German submarin( blockade in starving the Englishmer into submission. Advisers from Ar - mour, Swift, Morris and Sulzberge: -laid their vease before the state de r partment and declared that they con e trol the meat supply from this hemi sphere and that if they decide to de clare an embargo on exports to Grea Britain and her allies starvation wil ensue. It seems that the packers as indi -Lcated in another dispatch from Wash 4 ington are disgusted with the wa: the British fleet has fstopped thei h shipment into neutral Europeal t countries in an 'unjustifiable manner The packers declare that this is con trary to all rights and that their in dustry is suffering grievous -harn from the activity of the fleet of th allies. Theire proposal is that unless Grea Britain yields to terms and allow the exports f rem North and Soutl America unrestricted passage int s the neutral European countries, the . meat packers of North and Soutl America 'will cut off the supply o e meat which is now largely feedini r the British people. Such a coursi . they declare would starve Englant Sunless her statesmen decided to yield SGERMANY ASKS FOR WEEK S TO CONSIDER !IER ANSWEI PConsidered Possible That Note Wi] dbe Dispatched Saturday and Will i be Full of Fricendly Feeling. n London ,Eng., May 25.-A news o dispatch from Amsterdam says tha the Gegnan Imperial government ha: .decided to ask the United States gov emnent to give her another week i: ~which to consider and~ prepare the 0 -uote in reply to the recent communi -:ation of the United States in regarn S:o submarine warfare which culmi Santed in the attack on the Lusitania SIt is further declared in the Am t erdam- dispatch that everything pos r sible is being done by the Germa: ;overnment to prevent friction an< that to avoid further trouble the Ger man submarine commanders arm gain being instructed as to the exac arocedure to follow in attackia~g the ships .which they may destroy. The note which is expected to be forwarded on Saturday will be co-ach ad in friendly terms. The feeling o the German people towards th, American government is becomini ~almnerand it is expected that all pas sible concessions will be mado, a] hough it is believed that the G-er aian reply will point out that fo: t trategic reasons and as a matter o principle the Germans cannot open]: -:ease their submarine attacks. FRONTIER PASSES CAPTURED; ITALIANS PRESS FORWARI d Advancing Troops Capture Severa M ~ore Towns and Gain More Ter d ritory as Defenderts Retreat. iRome Italy, May 26.-The ad vancing I1talian troops have succeed ed in taking possession of the las remairning frontier pass in the Ca dobre district and have occupied sev eral towns fr onm which the Austrial Ssoldiers have treated. The deftendin; soldiers continue to fail back press ed in thie front by invading forces Na pitched battle has yet been fough * by large numbers. but it is only rluestion of tia:e before it is expecte< that the Austrian army will reacl the place where it has determined t< make its stand. Around this sectios Sthere has been little signs of any A us trian offensive. FREIGIIT SIP RAMS LINER; 360 PASSENGERS IN DANGEI Holland-American Liner Bound foi Rotterdam Forced Back Into New 10ork by Accident.. New~ York May 26.-The Holland American liner Ryndam, bound for Rotterdamn from New York. and car -yng a full passenger list of over three huindred and sixty persons. was basdly damged this morning when ii as ramed by the fruit steamle: s (ueno. The liner is limping back into port with its passengers nai is xpr'-td to arrive in safety beu'r .\ ('cloen this afternoon. The emp I r-no is dlamagedl but re ]{ills Wife and Siciides. Chr rFwler. a locomotive engi ner or For Worth. Tox~as. killed his wtfe Monday afternoon with a re volver and then Nlew out hsis ow.n brins. CAPTURE U. S. COAST ENEMY FLEET WINS BATTLE P, AND PLANTS NAVAL BASE ALL REPORTS NOT IN fE fe Rear Admiral Beatty's "Red" Fleet ta d( Out-manocuvres Defending Squad- N g , ron Under Admiral Fletched - and rc Wins Strategic Battle Carried on off Chesapeake Bay. Victory for Rear Admiral Beatty's ir attacking "red" fleet, which out- P manoeuvered the Atlantic fleet. un der Admiral Fletcher, and won a po sition to establish a base in Chesa peake bay, late Tuesday closed the great war game which has been in progress off the coast since last Tues day. e In a laconic telegram to the navy department Rear Admiral Knight, h the umpire, announced that he had h terminated the game at three o'clock Tuesday afternoon. on deciding that the imaginary enemy armada had at- t taied its object. No details were given and Secretary -Daniels and his g aides at the department k'now little more than te general public about what the ships have been doing last week, or under what conditions the "enemy" gained entrance through h the Virginia Capes and established himself within striking distance of Washington. Mr. Daniels said Tuesday .ight he had called on the commanding offi cers for full reports, and when they t were recived he wou!d make public t' as much as possible the story of the operations. There, was much speculation by t naval officers at Washington as to v how the successful plan~ of attack has t] been worked out. Such meagre re- v ports r-s were available indicate that t1 defenders-known as the "Blues"- u were operating off the New Enkland n coast. Consequently the suggestion m most frequently heard was that the fj attacking ships had eluded Admiral m Fletcher and passed into Chesapeake y Bay. while the defenders cruised fruitlessly about waiting for a dash s against Boston and New York. ti The.war game began when the At- y lantic fleet passed out of New York a harbor, after being reviewed by Pres ident Wilson. Virtually every vessel b . on the active list was engaged Ad- e - miral Fletcher having under his P t command for defence of the seaboard b the main body of the fleet, while t 1 Rear Admiral Beatty with cruisers , and auxiliaries, operating under the - fictitious valuations of A'battle cruis- b - ers" and "battleship" fleets, under- e r took the attack. The two forces separated after I leaving New York and the war was - under way when the "Reds," as Ad- 0 - miral Beatty's craft were designated, 1 s had been gipen time to attain a point c 1 five hundred miles from the coast. . Pl-.. for the game had been worked oul.;;arefully by the naval war col t lege and general staff, each com S mander being kept ignorant of the1 1 campaign mapped out for his oppo~ ~ 3 nent. STo make conditions as near as pos- a Ssible what they would be in actual Swarfare, this program of secrecy was s carried to the point of having newt Swireless codes for each side and only e Sabsolutely necessary reports were made to the department. i Three submarines and one battle- -c ship met with accidents and had to I put into port for repairs. The fleet -now will assemble at I Newport, R. 1., to remain a few days. then the ships will separate to under- - go general overhauling at their home 1 yards.' Several British warships, which -were withdrawn from stations near ( the coast so as not to interfere with 1 . the war game, are expected to resume ~ t their posts immediately. It is under- C 3 stood they have been cruising a safe - distance at sea in the meantime, Sguarding the allies' commerce. C I HUNDREDS OF TURKS DROWN IAS TRANSPORTS (i~ DOWN' 1 Britishf,.ubmarinle Slips Into Sea ofs -M>armora and- Wreaks Fearful Toll Tpon Turkish- Vessels. I Paris, France, May 26.-The ex- s ploits of the German submarines have c Smade that branch of the kaiser's navy C -the niarvel of the world but none of them can lay claim to any' greater C Sachievement than that just ecmplet ed by a British submarine in the See t -of Marmora. Leaving her refuge d Monday, this submarine slipped into v -the Sea of Marmora and while there e destroyed three Turkish transports 1 which 'were loaded with soldiers and e ammunition. Many hundreds of the t ITurks w~ere drowned when their boat t Iwent down. Two torpedo boats and f some coaling ships were also lost. t The submarine made its retern jour- v ney in safety. NEW CABINET CRITICIZED; SEE "TOO 5UC11 POLITICS" ' Ba itish Nationalist (Cabinet MIeets Strong Opposition When Fish- p er's Resignation is Known. a -London. May 26.--The new nation- C ialist ninistry, formed yesterday, witha ;Premier Ascuith and Foreign Minis - ter Edward-'Grey has met with con-1 .siderable oppositional criticism in the tBrtish capital to-day. Hostile criti I csm is heightened by the resignationt I of Baron Fisher, as first loi-d of .the " iadmiralty, being succeeded by A. J. t >Balfour. Sir John is known all over .a a England as the father of the modern e - English3 navy. Many of those who a denounce the new cabinet say that there has been too much polities 5lay ed in making the appointments. ESTABLISH STRICT CENSORSIP .Italian Gjovernment Inaugurates Pol icy of Secretary. Rome, May 2.-The Italian gov ernent has established and is en forcing the mlost dirastic censorship - ver e:.rried ou:- in any warring. na tion. Military mnovemients o1 imnpor- sr tance a;re believed to be taking plae w but no one can learn just where the a: first blows are to be struck. Some or think that an effort will be made to w advance alorg the line toward the pi valley of the Isonzo river, with the to (object ive of cutting off the naval H hase of Po)lz vnd the ecapture of Tr- at este. Aus:-hm;~ forces are contentrat e(d at Gouclt to oppose this mnov3. y Italy Suspends Parcel Post. vi Rome. tlaly. May 2 5.--The gov- " emnent parcel post has been suts- th pended .temporarily. Other mail ser- ml vices have been unaffected by the a 'EAKS TO PAN=AMERICANS; . U WILSON TENDERS WELCOME -esident Addresses Body of Dele- Ai gates Gathered in Washington From South America. The program for the opening ses an of the Pan-American finance con- in rence which opened at Washington Of onday was given over to speeches of elcome by President Wilsond Secre- It ry Bryan and responses from the tb legations of each invited country. ti ext came a reception to the dele- ec ttes and their families in the ea*st C om of the White House. to which n( 1 the visitors had been invited by It 0e president. President Wilson spoke as follows: tr "There can be no art of union of w terest if there is a purpose of ex- O oitation on the part of any person t nnected with a great conference of Lis sort. We are not, therefore, try- tc .g to make use of each other, but P] e are trying to be of use to one an- si :her. "It is very surprising to me. it is t -en a source of mortification. that a t )nference like this should have been e > long delayed, that it should never S( ave occurred before, that it should M ave required a crisis of the world to iow the Americans how truly they ere neighbors to one another. If ti iere is any one happy condition, t antlemen, arising out of the present e istressing circumstances of the A orld, it is that it has revealed us to 2e another; it has shown us what it Leans to be neighbors. And I can at help harboring -the hope, the very igh hope that by this commerce of tinds with one ano.her, as well as )mmerce in goods, we may show the orld in part the path to peace. a "It would be a very great thing if U ie Americans could add to the dis- a nction which they already. wear, is of showing the way to peace, to a ermanefit peace. The way to peace )r us, at any rate, is manifest. It is h1 ie kind of rivalry which does not in- s, olve aggression. It is the knowledge S iat men can be of the greatest ser- ; ice to one another and nations of a 2e greatest service to one another e 'hen the jealousy between them is o erely a jealousy of excellnce, and S hen the basis of their intercourse is t] riendship. There is only one way in r hich we wish to take advantage of t ou, and that is by making better e oods. by doing the things that we t ?ek for each other better, if we can, ian you do them, and so spurring e ou on, if we might, by so handsome c jealousy as that to excel us. N "I agp so keenly aware that the t asis of personal friendship is thiE. S ompetition in excellence, that I am f erfectly certain that this is the only asis for the friendship of nations, is handsome rivalry, this rivalry of -hich there is no dislike, this rivalry a which there is noting but the ope of a common elevation in great nterprises which we can undertate 2 common. "There is one thing that stands in ur way among others, for you are iore cdhversant with the circum tances than I am; 'the thing I have hiefly in mind is the physical lack f means of communication, the lack p f vehicles, the lack of ships, the lack f f established routes of trade-the h ck of those things which are abso- t Ltely necessary if 'we are to have r rue commercial and intimate corn- c ercia'l relations withc one another; I nd I am perfectly clear in my judg- t 2ent that it private capital can not v oon enter upon the adventure of es ablishing these physical means of .1 ommlunication the government must t ndertake to do. We can not indef- d citely stand apart and need eacht ther for the lack of what can easily e supplied, and if one instrumenta1- t by cali not supply it, then another aust be found which will supply it. . Ve can not know each other unless d ;e see each other; we can -not deal s rith each other; we can not deal t rith eacb. other unless we communi- i ate with each other. So soon as we ommunicate and are upofi a faxmil- f r foefing of intercourse'with one h nother, 'we shall understand one an- e ther, and the bonds between 'the S mericas will be such -bonds that no s afluence that the world may pro- p uce in the future that the world-may a roduce in the future will ever break t hem. "If I am selfish for America. I at t ast hope that my selfishness is en- C ightened. The selfishness that hurts ~ he other party is not enlightened ~ elfishness. If I were going upon a aere ground of selfishness, I would, ~ eek to benefit -the other part and so E ie him to myself: so that even if t on were to suspect me of selfishness, ~ hope you will also suspect me of ~ atelligence and of knowing the only afe way to establish the things we ( overt as well as the establishment f the things which we desire and :hich ive would feel honored if we. ould earn and win. "I have said these things bccause, hey will perhaps erable you to un erstand how far from formal my elcome to this body is. It is a wel ome from the heart, it is a welcome aspired by what-I hope are the high st ambitions for those who live in tese two great continents, who seek r o set an ex'ample to the world in reedom of institutions, freedom of rade, and intelligence of mutual ser- t ice.'' . . c USTRIAN AEROPLANES ACTIVE ~ taian Towns are Visited by Aero planes-Arsenal Bombardedl. Official announcement was made at V ome Wednesday-that Austrian nero- d lanes have attacked the government- e 1 arsenal at Venice. The aeroplanes t 'ere driven off. Porto Corsini, An- d na. IBarletta and Gesi also were a ttacked.a It is apparent from this dispatc~h at the Austrian aviators have swept t rtlally the entire eastern coast of t aly. From Venice. at the head of' s e Adriatic, they have made their ay as far south as Barlette, a dis mece of :350 miles. .porto Corsini is bout 68 miles south of Venice. An >na is 185 miles northeast ol Rome ad about 140 miles south of Venice. Austrian Fleet Attacks Coast. Austrian warships have attacked .1 l eastern coast of Italy. An offi al communication from the Italian ar office, transmitted to Paris, says te Austrian fleet was forced to ithdraw after a short cannonade. (SQUITII FACES DIFFICULTIES : reier Has Staggering Biurden in c Ii Reorganizing C:~hinet. r A dispatch from London MIonday tr ys Premtier Asqiuith is face to face tr ith staggering ditfir'ulties in re- or istic basis. Wi'istcn Churchill h: 'ganizing his cabinet along a nation- pa hose breaR with Sir Robert Fisher 01 'eipitated the crisis is understood be getting ready to go to the front. e has resigned as first lord of the Imiralty. Baron Fisher absolutely refuses to cpt the post of the admniraltyship less given absolute power. The ~ ews of the veteran sea fighter are S all known and it is plainly evident at if he is to wsumc' cieif comn and hc will take full responsibility on himself. lie positivelysttst at he musthb in ommanr 01 tacj I S. DEEPLY INTERESTED; ITALIAN ENTRY IS CRISIS istrian Government Joins Germany in Asking Switzerland to Look After Interests. Italy's entrance into the war set motion Monday various branches official and diplomatic activity. Count V. Macchi di Cellere the alian ambassador, formally notified e United States of Italy's declara >n of war on Austria, and explain t informallyto Secretary Bryan and )unsellor Lansing the contents of a >te to be delivered to-day, giving aly's reasons for her action. Dr. Constantin T. Dumba, the Aus ian ambassador, also coniferred ith Secretary Bryan, advising him the existence of a state of war be 7een his-country and Italy. A neutrality proclamation similar those maAe early in the war was -epared for President Wilson's gnature, and will be issued to-day. Secretary Bryan announced that e American embassy at Vienna had ken over the care of Italian inter ts there. Ambassador Thomas Nel n Page advised the state depart er from Rome that Spain had been itrusted with Austria's diplomatic terests. It developed that while prepara ons had been made by the American nbassy at Rome to take over Aus -ia's affairs. the final decision of ustria was to place her interests in ie same hands as those of Ger any, which had called on Spain. Notice of formal declarations of ar by Germany and Turkey on Italy ill mean addilional interests for ie United States to take care of in onstantinople and posibly Berlin, [though it is believed Switzerland ay care for Italian affairs in Ger any. When the Italian and Austrian mbassadors arrived at the state de artment Monday, about the same our. Eddie Savoy, the negro mes ,nger. who guards the entrance to ecretary Bryan's door, escorted Mr. umba into the diplomatic anteroom, nd in accordance with diplomatic tiquette, led Count di Cellere into ne of the other offices. - It has been avoy's task since the beginning cf 2e war to keep the diplomatic rep asentatives of the belligerent coun -ies c)pposed to each other in differ at rooms so as to avoid for them 1e embassassment of a meeting. The Italian ambasador has receiv d -no information as to questions of ontraband, but he told inquirers [onday he was confident there would e' no difficulty with the United tates because of the long-standint riendship of the two. countries. TOP MANY SIIPMENTS; MEAT PACKERS PROTESi 2,000,000 Worth of M&t Product, are Tied up by Great Britain's Recent Order in Council. Representatives of American meal ackers, who have been protesting )r months against Great Britain'. olding up of their products shipped o ne'-tral European naions, confer ad at Washington Monday with theii ouncil, Alfred Urion; just back front ngland, where he has bcen trying o bring about release of shipmentb alued at millions of dollars. Monday night's discussion was pre iminary to a sonference to be held -day with law officers of the statg epartment when Ur'ion's negotia ins with the British - authorities til be outlined with a statement : o what the packers expect th( smeric~n government to do. Urior rill leave again Saturday for Lon on. where he hopes to bring about ome relief from the situation whici: ie patekers Monday night character r~ed as "trying." When drion reached. Washingtor rom New York, he met with Arthui [eker, vice-president of Armour and ompany: Gustavus F. Cwith, oi wift and company; Thomas E.. Wil on, presidcnt of Morris and com any; A. R. Browr.; of Schwarzchild nd Sulzberger, and other representa ives of packing 'concerns Reports had been circulated that lhe liackers'were threatening to cui ff meat shipments to the Europear lles unless Great Britain would gree to give them relief in the situ tion that had resulted in tying ui eutral shipments variously estimat d as valued at fifteen million dollars a twenty-five million dollars. Thai ny such threat was made was de IRANTS PACKERS REQU]EST; ENGLAND IS CONCILIATOR1 hips Now D~etained Face Prize Couri June Seventh to Decide Fate of Cargo of Meatstuffs. London, England May 26.-Th< equest of the Chicago and othet .mergan me at packers that the Brit' sh government take some steps to lel iemi know exactly the status of the argoes at present detained in Eng ind and bound for neutral European orts has been favorably acted upor the authorities. The government as granted the request of the inter sted Americans and the Britisi rize court will hear and determinec .e matter on June the seventh. The rst vessels to -:ome before the court 'ill be several ships bound for Scan. inavia, which were halted last D~ec mber while hound for their destina on. Since that time they have been ocked at various English harbors waiting the decision of the military nd civil authorities in order to learn hether they could proceed wvith eir journey without further moles ition from the active and vigilant Barch.gf the navy of the allies. 0 FORWARD IN fiALICIA: GiERMANS NEAR PRZEMYSL ustro-Germian Troops l lave Cr'ossed San andI Are .lpproac'hintg the Fortress o;f Przemysl. Berlin. May 28.--The war office is ied an official statement this after >on, which declares that the Ger ans arid Austrians in Galicia con nue their advance. The troops have ptured Radymo and Siete. They we successfully crossed the San ver on the direct road to Przemysl. In the wvest the British colored oops have captured some German enches northeast of Givenchy-. The her attacks of all the German foes te been successfully repulsed .No ogress was made by themt at any her points. Submarine Causes S. 0. S. The British st eamship Argylliire, nich~ left Sidney, N. S. WX , wireless Livrpool Friday for h'lp after br sigted andI chased by. a Germuan b marine. Nine Fisher'm'en lDrowvned. Nine fishermen were drownedl by e gale which swept the South Car NAVIES IN THE WAR FOUR OF BEST SIX FIGIT ON , SIDE OF THE ENTENTE THEIR AREAS OF ACTION T a Italian Navy Thrown in With that of s a Great Britain, Japan, France and e Russia Against Germany's, Aus- a 0 tria's and Turkey's-The Seas u a Which They Patrol. c c The Italian navy, which is a pro duct of the Tr'ple Alliance of 1882, is sixth in rank-after those of Eng land, 'Germany, the United States, France. and Japan. It was under stood, although not specified in the conversations between Bismarc and various Italian ztatecmtn in the early I eighties, that Italy should so develop her fleet that with the Austrian it should be more powerful than the French and equal to the Britizh M d- 1 iterranean squndron. There was an- i other reason, a national oie, why N Italy should have a large and power- I ful flcet, and even expand it at the t expense of the army. Her land fron- < tier is only 1,202'miles-about as - long as Germany's entire coast line- 1 while the shores of ihe peninzula and adjacent islards touch the cma fcr a distance of 4,160 miles, to which must be added th- African coasts of Libya Italiana-Tripoli and Cyrenai ca-to say nothing of those of the foreign dependencies, Eritrea-, Ital ian Somaliland, and Tienssin. Aside from the fleet, the coast of the.peninsula is protectd by the fort resses of Vado, Genoa, Spezia, Monte Argentaro, Gaeta, Ancona and Brindi si, works -in the Strait of Messina, and at Taranto, while north of the Island-of Sardinia is the Italiau Gi braltar. Maddalena, Venice, too, is fortified ag.inst an attack by sea, but to what extent Is not known. The Ministries of Marine of both Germany and Austria-Hungary have a more or less correct idea of Ital ian naval defenses, acquired in the days when the relAtions between the members of the late Triple Alliance were more cordial than they have re cently become. With Italy's entrance into the war the distribution of the battle fleets of the warring nations, omitting Japan, asumes the following aspect in the four most important - sea areas, reckoned in battleship and zr mored cruiser units, and taking into full account those units which have been lost: Mediterranean. Battle- Ar'red ships. Cru'rs. Italy......... ... .12 14 Great Britain...... , .10 15 France .......... ..20 10 Austria-Hungary. ... .15 3 North Sea. Great Britain.... ..... 8 29 France ............ 8 9 Germany (also for Baltic) .41 4 Baltic Sea. Germany (also for North) . 41 4 Russia ................... . 6 Black Sea. Russia .. ...... ...-.. 6 0 Turkey .. ............6 _0 It will thus be seen that in the Mediterranean Austria-Hun gary, with a total of only eighteen battleships (pre-dreadnought, dreadnought and super-dreadnought) and armored cruiser units faces the allies with a total of eighty-one; in the North Sea, Germany, with a total oi forty-five, is facing Great Britain and France with a total of 104; in the Baltic, where Germany's -theoretical force is the same as it is in the North Sea owing to the -Kiel Canal, she may operate her full number of units against Rus sia's ten; while in the Black Sea the strength of Russia and Turkey is about even. Although the latter has the advantage of the German baee cruiser Goeben, and the protected cruiser Breslau, she is otherwise handicapped* by obsolete or refitted craft. fiERMANS0ON FIERCE OFFENSIVF Petrograd Reports Obstinate Resist ance Given Terrific Attacks. Petrograd, May 26.-The- German and Austrian armies in the east, es pecially in the neighborhood around Przemysl and the river San, continue a most violent offensive against the Russian armies in that section. The fighting along the San is especially bloody and the attacking force of the enemy continues to be strong. -The Russian soldiers, under their com manders, are rendering an obstinate resistance to this new effort to ad vance. They are fighting desperate ly to retain the territory gathered by them after the fall c-f- Przemysl, when they made a rush directly into the heart of the Carpathians. The losses among the attacking forces is heavy.. ITALIANS ANNOUNCE tiAINS; AUSTRIANS ARE 1N4 RETREAT Rome Official Dispatch Tells of Cap ture of Towns and Destruc tion of Houses by Troops. Rome, Italy, May 2 5.--It is offi cially announced by the Italian war office that the invading column of Italian troops have successfully push ed t:he Austrians from the frontier. They have met with but slight re sistance in the occupation of several towals. The retreating Austrians have destroyed many bridges and houses in order to hinder the advance of their enemy. CONSTANTINE DYING Greek Royal Family Called to Bed side of Fast Sinking Ruler. Athens. Greece. May 26.-King Constantine's condition to-day con tinues to cause the utmost anxiety and fear is exnressed that the ruler of the Greeks is dying. The royal1 family has been 5ummoned to tihe edside, where they await the result of his critical illness. Italians at the Daradnelles. Berlin reports Friday that forty thousand Italian troops have been landed at the Dardanelles in order to aid the allies forces now there. French Boat Badly Hurt. The French liner Chilampagne wentt aground .ariday morning but her nine hundred passen~gers were landed safe ly at St. Naazire.f 1King. Constanitine Improving. King Consvantine of Greece is re ported to have improved somewhat. although his condition is still serious. v New Fir'st Sea Lord. Sir IHenry Bradwardine has suc-t eeed Sir John Fisher as first sea d lordA of tile ritish empire. _b ATTLESIP TRIUMPl SUNK IN DARDANELLES ritish Warship Destroyed by Sub marine While Supporting Landing Parties. The British battleship Triumph as been sunk in the Dardanelles. he official announcement was made t London Wednesday night.. The disaster to the Triumph is. de ribed in a brief statement by the dmiralty, which says that while op rating in support of the Australian nd New Zealand forces on the shore f the Gallipoli peninsula the Tri mph was torpedoed by a submarine nd sank shortly afterwards. Most f the officers and men, including the aptain and commander are reported D have been saved. The s-ibmarine was chased by de troyers and patrolling small craft ntil dark. The battleship Triumph was built t Barrow in 1902 for Chile, but was urchased by Great Bri'ain in 1903. he was laid down under the name f Libertad. Since the present war broke out he Tr*umph has been in operation n both Far E.stern and European vaters. As flagship of the British tsiatic squadron she participated in he bombardment of the German base if Tsingtau, China, last October and vas reported to have been damaged y shell fire of the German forts. In the latter part of April the Tri imph bombard d the Turkish trench s on the western end of the Galli oli peninsula and afterwards went nto the Dardanelles to shell the :renches from a different angle. Here ;he came under the fire of a Turkish iowitzer battery on the Asiatic shore, vhich dropped sixteen shells around 2er and threw three missiles on oard. Little damage was done by :he shells, however, and only two men were drowned. The battleship silenced the Turkish battery before ,etiring. A few days later. while landing perations were proceeding, the Tri mph, with other well known war ;hips, in: addition to covering the anding bombarded the forts in the Dardanelles to prevent reinforce ments reaching the Turks from the Dea of Marmora. The Triumph was 3redited in the official reports with aaving set fire to th'e town of Maidos luring this bombardment. The official announcement dbes not my whether the submarine was Turk ish or German, .but it probably was f the latter nationality, as the Brit ish legation at Athens recently offer d a reward for the sinking -of Ger man submarines supposed to be in the Mediterranean. Berlin reports: A Constantinople lispatch to the Hageblatt says that the British battleship Triumph was sunk by'a single torpedo and that she isappeared -in seven minutes. &USTRIANS LEAVE TOWNS; GERMANS WIN IN IALICiA News From Two Fronts To-day Tall of Successes for Invaders Who Press Forward. Conflicting repoits reach Amer ica regarding the plight of the Ameri can liner Nebraskan whiph has put back into Liverpool after being two days on her journey towards Newi !ork. The captain of the ship an noces the safety of all on boar'd and( declares that he -struck a mine or was hit by a torpedo. Berlin' and Petrograd- account for a tremendous Teutonic offensive around the San river, which the Ger mans claimed th-ey have crossed. Pe trograd tells of the strong opposition eing made by the Russian soldiers. Heavy losses are being inflicted. Geneva reports the attack on the Austrian fleet at Pola by two Italian submarines and the damaging 'on an Austrian destroyer. Vienna tells of the destruction of an Italian air raider over Goerz and the loss of the lives of its pilot and observers., Rome announces the capture of all rontier passes in the district around Cadore, followed by the prompt and speedy retreat of the Austrian sol diers, exho continue to fall back, buinin'g houses and bridges. Paris says tlhe Austrians hare evac ated and destroyed at least sixteen towns. Few buildings are left to afford homes to the invaders. An Athens dispatch delayer via Paris tells cf the destruction of three Turkish tranesports, two torpedo boatt and coaling ships by a British sub marine which made a successful dart into the Sea of Marmora and after. wards returned safcly to Tenedos. London advises that considerable hostile criticism is being directedl gainst the new nationalist ministry. which was announced offilcally b3 tie premer for publication in the London dailies this mor'ning. Isgland has granted the request of the meat packers and will expedite the prize court hearings concerning the detained shipment, according to a London telegram. BRITISi SiP BLOWS UP 5eenty-eight Workmen Killed in Sheerness Hlarbor. Lloyds announce that the British ;teamer Pt iness Irene was suddenly lown up Thursday in Sheerness har yor. The Princess Irene was in the overnment service. Sheerness is a iav'l arsenal of Great Britain on the ['hames. The admiralty in con firming the xplosion on board the Princess 'rene says that seventy-eight work nen iust have perished in the disas e. The statement of tihe admiralty as: "The Princess Irene was acciden ally blown up in Sheerness harbor his morning. So far as is yet known nly one survivor was picked up. 'hree men belonging to the ship eren not on board at the time of the isaster. 'Several men belonging to vessels ying close to tile Princess Irene were rounded by falling splinters." :IND TWO DEAD AMERICANS; FU~iIIT MEXICANS TO LAST ordr Guards Have Been Killed by Maraudlers on American Side of the Rio Grande. El Paso. Texas. May 26.-The dead olies of Gene Huien and Joe Stil er. the border guards who were set pon my Mlexican nmarauders yester ay and done to death have been und by searching parties to-day. hey lay on the American side of the :io Grande near Alpine. Texas. The idications are that the Mexicans ho attackedl the two Americans *ere given the fight of their lives as very sign showedl that they had ruggled to th last. This brings up e deaths of Texas Rangers and Bor er Guards to a total of five killed ,- tile Mexvcns this yar. APPEALS fOR HELP WILSON SEEKS FOOD FOR MANY STARVING MEXICANS THOUSANDS FACE DEATH Red Cross Society of United States Takes Change of Situation at Mon terey--Soldiers Seize All Food stuffs-White House May Speak to Villa and Carranza. President Wilson Friday afternoon issued an appeal to the American re public setting forth the conditions which now confront a great number of Mexicans, among whom women and children predominate, and told his fellow-citizens that a great many of these unfortunate people in various parts of the war stricken country to the south would perish through star vation unless the people of the United - States came to their aid. Early in the day the president, who holds the presidency and head of the American Red Cross socety, was ask ed by Miss Mabel Boardman to issue an appeal for funds to be used in .be half of the starving inhabitants of Mexico. It was stated then that the appeal would in all probability be is sued shortly, but evidently the press ing needs of the people require ur gent attention. The president addressed his appeal "To the Public," an&recited the gen erosity of the Amedican people in al leviating the sufferings in Europe -and warmly commended the under taking of contributions for the peo ple who are suffering closer- to our own borders.- .11e stated , that the condition in many sections of that un fortunate country are sueb that'many thousands of people -are on the: verge of starvation and unless aided with foodstuffs- would in all probability perish. The American -Red Cross Society has taken charge of the wor and im mediate steps have been taken- to get In touch with the' situation. S.- F. Morris, acting national dicertor of the association, -left Chicago' Friday to assume personal charge of- distribut ingfi food to thirty thousand people reported to be in a starving conditfoh at Monterey, Mexico. He purchased a carload of beans and a carload of corn -for -prompt shipment into the war stricken area Just before he left. The. Red'Cross urgently appeals to, the citizens to.contribute'money and ' supplies of food. The contributions may be sent direct to the American Red Cross Society, Washington, D. C. At this place the funds will- be mar shalled and the food purchased at points where it can, be secured cheap est and readily transported.wheie it is to do so much good. A dispatch , from Douglas, Arizt. Friday stated. that soldiers under Gen. Calies, a Carrauza chieftain.-, had confiscated seven hundred head pf cattle at Agna rieta, on-the ranch of John Hohstadt, a naturalized citi zen of Mexico. Four American cow boys who said that they were forced to aid in the round-up were held pris oners until Thursday- night, ' when they 'were allowed to cross the boun 'lary line aml go on their ;journey to wards the United States. Such dsturbances as these are hav- A ing a marked influence in .official -- quarters and it is apparent'- among government circles that the continued grasping of all sources of foodstuffs by the rival Miexican commanders will soon reduce the native population of Mexico into actual starvation. A statement from the White House is looked for in some qual'ters and it is freely predicted' that when it comes~ forth it may,.change the attitude of' the administration enough to -de-. -nand that such seizures cease. - It is :nderstood that' nothing like inter vention is contemplated but that the stat4 department, will notify Villa and Carranza that such unlawful ac tions must come to a short end. This is expected to have results. TEUTONS KEEP OFFENSIVE ATTACK ON BOTHl SIES Rutrance of Italy Fails to Stop As saults of Germans at Ypres and River San.. London reports: Although called on to face another enemy in Italy whose troops have crossed the east 3rn border, the Austrians and Ger mans have not relaxed. their efforts on the other fronts. In middle Galicia they have re sumed the offensive against the Rus sians along the River San and claim further success, while in Flanders and Artois the Germans continue, ac-" zordiffg to the French report, their furious attacks in an effort to -re gain ground taken from them in re ::ent weeks and to hold that-'which they took from the British in the re gion of Ypres. Except for the German admission :hat the British have captured part ,f their trenches northeast of Given chy, their reports of the belligerent headquarters continue to contradict each other. So far as the West Is concerned, hovwever, the fighting, as has been the c'ase for months, con sists largely of trench warfare. The Italians. who have crossed the Austrian frontier to the east, along a front of sixty miles, towards the. Isonzo river, have met no serious op positions. In fact, no important bat tle is expected until the invaders reach the River Isonzo, as it is said here that the Austrians are estab lished. BERNSTORFF WIRES BERLIN; AMERICAN PRESS IMPATIENT Admits Cablegram But Denies That He Advised Government to Hasten Note on Lusitania Incident. Ambassador Bernstorff, German ambassador to the United States, ad mitted Friday afternoon that he had sent a-cablegram to the foreign offe at Berlin telling his superiors that the American press was rapidly be coming impatient with the day on the part of the German government in not answering the note to the govern ment of the United States on the sub ject of the torpedoing of the Lusi tania and the other incidents in the submnarine campaign which is now being conducted against the allies. The ambassador emphatically de nied. however, that he advised the home government to hasten its reply and from this response it is taken that the cablegram was more In the nature of a report upon the condition of the sentiment of the American peo ple' than a special communication sent suggest speed in the reply of the govcrnment at Berlin. Found Opium Aboard Ship. Custom inspectors found $1,500 worthi of opium on board the Dutch steamer Ares in the port of New Or lean Satuday. It was seized.