Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 18, 1915, Page 1

PART ONE. NEWS SECTION PAGES ONE TO FOURTEEN. THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE VOL. XLIV—NO. DEFINITE MOYE IN | DIRECTIONOFENDING. STRIKE EXPECTED President of Carpenters Says He Will Offer Arbitration to Contractors on Own Hook. ! DEALERS DISCHARGE WORKERS Lumber Dealers and Brick Making Plants Laying Off Men Waiting Demand for Material. RUMOR ABOUT ARBITRATION BULLETIN, CHICAGO, April 17.—A definite move in the direction of settling the big Bullding Trades strike here was expected before morning. John A.| Metz, president of the Carpenters’ | union, said he would offer arbitration to the contractors independent of the other trades, | | CHICAGO, pril 17.—Lumber dealers of Chicago began laying off | teamsters and laborers today as a re- | sult of the industrial war that broke out openly yesterday between build- ing trades unionists and their em- ployers. Brick yards in Chicago and surrounding territory also gave evi- | dences of an approaching cessation of work when announcements were posted that hundreds of employes of | those establishments would have to | be taken off the pay rolls until the: demand for building materials is re-: sumed. { i Dealers Discharge Employes. The Lumber Dealers' rounced that 5,000 assoclation an men would be dis- | charged pending a settlement of the! strikes and lockouts. These men have! rad no part in the contentions botween | the Huilding Construction Employers’ as- scelation @nd the union forces which re- | fosed to bind themselves to a three-year | contract deslgned to prevent sympathetic | sirikes and their attending evils, 1 Tt was said that there was no close com- OMAHA, submarine. ARBOR DAY T0 BE ——— SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 18, 1915—FIVE SECTIONS FARM STUFF RATES . HIGHER Charges Already Greater Than for IN LINES RUNNING -~ DOWN 10 THE F4 Rescue Worker Unable to Come to ' Surface and Another Man Sent Down to Help Bring Him Up. ACCIDENT LATE IN THE DAY According to Reports Reach- | ing Honolulu. PHYSICIANS ARE OFF TO SCENE HONOLULU, April 17.—One of l(hl‘ divers working on the submarine F-4, submerged outside the harbor since March 26, became entangled late today by one of the lines at- tached to the submarine and is un- | able to return to the surface, ac- ‘rnrdh\g to report received here. An- other diver has been lowered to make 3““ effort to rescue him and two phy sicians from the cruiser Maryland Ihlvo been hurried to the scene. \German Paper Says ' Duke Nicholas Is | Shot by Siever BERLIN, April | Sayville, N. Y.)—The General Anzeigor {of Dulsburg, Rhenish Prussia, says it |learns “from an absolutely unimpeach- |able source” that the reported sickness |of Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholalevitch, | commander-in-chlef of the Russian forces, was due to a shot in the abdomen fired by the late General Baron Slever of the defeated Russian Tenth army. i The General Anzeiger says that General | Blevers was summoned by the |duke to explain the defeat of the Rus- islan Tenth army. A heated colloquy {took place, the newspaper says, and the grand duke gave General Slevers a box |on the ear. The latter therevbon drew {® revolver and wounded the grand duke, | subsequently | turning the - weapon upon TURKISH CAMP OFF FORTY-FOUR PAGES | Plunger Can't Get Away from Cable, | 1T.—(By Wireless to | srand | SINGLE C ON BOARD THE FALABA JUST BEFORE THE TORPEDO was fired by the German yDIVER ENT”GLED ‘CRUISER—ORDERED I Passengers wearing their life-belts waiting to be taken off by the boats. The survivors speak highly of the perfect order which prevailed on board. 10 TURTLE BAY ‘Comn\lnder Irwin of the New Or- leans Instructed to Report on Activity of Jap Ships, | | ‘| | VESSEL IS DUE THERE TODAY‘: \ WASHINGTON, April 17.—Ad- miral Howard, commanding the Pa- cifie fleet off the west coast of Mex- ico, reported to the Navy department today that he had ordered Com- mander Noble E. Irwin, on the] crulser New Orleans, to proceed at| once to Turtle Bay, Lower Californi and report on the activities of Japa: ese naval forces there, The New Orleans was due to reach | Turtle Bay today and Commander Irwin is expected to report the result | of his inquiry by wireless. Secretary Daniels had telegraphed | Admiral Howard a summary of re-| ports alleging that, while the ostenai- ; ble purpose of Japanese activities in/ Turtie Bay i# to salvage the grounded crulser Asama, the real objective of operations i{s to occupy the bay and adjoining shores as a base of opera- tions. ‘Berlin Says Aerial Bombs Sink British - Patrolling Vessels' | | | BERLIN, April 17.—(By Wireless to! | #ayville, N. Y)—Included in the items | glven out today by the Overseas News agoncy 18 the following: | “Private telegrams recelved here from England by way of Holland, say serfous | damage was done by the Zeppeling which recently flew over England. Bombs trom the airships killed or wounded the of- ficers and crew of patrol boats protecting |ship yards, a fact which indicates that the bombs fell near the docks. The British censor prevented tranemission of | further detafla | “Three Zeppelin alrships have been en- |®aged in the recent raids by night over | England. One German naval aeroplane | flew over towns in Kent pesterday drop- ping bombm. It was fired at, but es. THE WEATHER Unsettled OoPY AIR OPERATIONS CENTER AR INTEREST Each Side Insists that It Inflioted Real Damage On Other and that It Was Punished but Lit- tle in Return. BRITONS EXPECTING ZEPPELINS Weather Conditions Seem to Have Halted Operations in the Oar- pathian Mountains. ACTIVITY IN THE DARDANELLES FIVE CENTS | PRUSSTAN NEWSPAPER says Grand Duke Nicholas, mander-in-chief, has been shot in e ahdomen by General Barer feated and driven from east Prus- win last Febroary., The general in sald to have committed suictde, GERMAN statement of OFFICIAL roached mno rty miles from the FRENCH MINISTRY OF MARIND wnces farther naval opeva- against the Turkish foroes which proceeded agninst Bgypt. | GREATEST BATTLE of the war—at e wo far ber of men concerns the num- engaged—is being k3 a will attack fon between the Carpenters’ union NEXT THURSDAY i o ENOS Is SHELLED‘NMM‘M. caped unhurt. that country’s deter- ‘.":n‘ "nh':» :l:\:e:‘nmat‘:l w:srrk!arl. pa:nters | g Carrying Other Com w4 | The fact that General Blevers had com- A French flyer appeared yesterday enter the war become end lathers’ organfzations, officlals of | TR modities. W, i mitted _ulclde, the General Andelger | VX Rottwell, Wuerttembers, and drop- - Which refused to sign the three-year |Great Tree Planting Day of the Na- ¢ ¥ arships of Allies ?.emme OPera- | continues, was learned at tho time of hia :;:: m“"a:‘:l'.:“:n':":::' "’:“:“‘;’:" w‘:: ENGLAND IS EXPECTING another ugreement. { tion Founded by a Nebraskan |JUDGE ~HELM - 18 WITNESS ms on Sultan’s Defenses B oM 1 o ORIy oy | Ot hit. The fIyer was bombarded, but by German airships tollowing In some quarters it was hinted that the Years v ) 1 Along the Dardanelles. - ‘been onlY | made his escape.” ree attacks in rapid suecess. The situation might be sitplified by an arbi. . Ago. ; gfl% LN P "‘.’;: just become known. B g i '::h-:: nerinl attack 'ylut-::v on tration of the carpenters’ wage dispute, | kot C.&'|'4f the objections to the. pr adv WILL OCOUPY MYTELENE ISLE . by e 3 f | g ¢ o 2 ny, France, resulted the # ' PRANT A MILLI M p S L ] E General Sievers as the commander of ]'Iny fl' Killing of seven persans and brons & giibpis e 1453 arhagle "_mft FALERANL A ON TREER| o1 cont, “h‘.' SR T | . %3 ;u-.;.'. aita o | the Russian Ten(h drmy’ whioh, in m! nEt,l slhl tv Th toB d w!'-ul-. of elwnt, o \ 3 & ¢ 2 LONDO! ~=Cabling from middle of February, met with a severe | e he carpenters demanded 70 Wents. The | He that planteth a tree |s the servant of | tye . > and || INDON, Api & | 1 ousan cc‘fnuclorl offered a 24-cent increase for| : c::ml for the | y y Mytelene, lland of “Lesbos, under|defeat at tha hands of the Germans in | y LLONDON, April 17.—The allies on P 3 state the first elghteen months of the proposed | 1'® PinSe(h & kindness for many geners-| o SEL L gt sl i Crcume In frelght | date of Thursday, April 15, a corre- | the Masurian lakes region of East Prus-| ules in Nebraska one side and Germany on the other, S— X N | #a. ‘The report that the .general had | \Etevgeer gt Gaiect, {Ana faces that he hath not seen shall | tarites sought by forty-one wegtern rall- | spondent :of- the ‘Times says that on are today taking inventories of the P } bless _him. 5 ) b o % L & [ ¥ o ; M | committed suicide appeared n the Frank- — 3 R o 4 L G .8, Chisdie 08yt :‘:‘:‘! Thursday, April 22, is Arbor day "I‘::"'“‘ 0 ) ford | Wodnodday * and | Thuraday. e | furer Zeitung on Mareh 12 The news:| KANSAS CITY, Mo, 17.~Ofders | 'DJUTIeS Inflicted by the recent adrial Tnited Staten’ sald & M. Crate o¢ the|in Nebrasks, and. prohably severall witers: Gominsres | Weather fn ‘the Dardaneiles wag fa- | PADST said it had recetved a dlapatch from |for 8,000 mules for ase i the Britin |OPerations, dnd with the usual con- United States,” sald . Cralg € e ' oriTiiba Binated 1. thiK ko : ; oo 4. = .0 |Rettograd intimating that the Russian [ormy have been placed with -local live | tradictory peaults, The statements B N s Milltey rep M e, ¥ e i [ P officér had endod his own life. The au- |stock dealers: by agents of the Brt | claim that thelr : [ contractors cannot afford to pay high| giate. s v ey SE || Tths peportad heve thomn the 301804 | yioriy. . gop - thi: - taference, ' however, | government, acosding &0 Minouncdments have. W e wago at present but figured they could| " 1oy tuted By 1. Sterling MOFtOR. | fote v toree ot e e e ook af- llof ‘TmbFes. that fen ' Dattiguhips 're: | seomed to rest on the fact that reports | made. today. The orders are for deltvery | o e resulted ‘in the 1 PR & CENL InCrease, 48 AR OFIOTSL”! Nebraska ploneer, this most useful|west more than sny othér e lcently &pprosched the port of Brios,| had been in - circulation concerning & |covering the next six monthe. military ‘transport ‘ and equipment,, i“d practical of .'“ ourvhotidays has| "It Wil be 1o the coinm! jthat [on the morth side of the Gulf of |mourning service which was held for the | The anfinals are to. be assombled ut | While the defenders report that the Supposed German spread ail, Gvef Sos cotmyy, anilt[ 2 S s of ithe of [Saros. Two of them entered the bay| 5**Tsl In a Lutheran church and the | Grahd Isand, Neb., and shibped from | only tangible effects of these epors.: Spy Remanded LONDON, Aprll 17.—Ludwig Paul Sel- | bach, claiming to be an American citizen, was remanded to custody in London today on the charge of being an allen enemy, who had failed to ragister himselt in accordance with the British regulations. Selbach admitted that he was born in Hamburg, but he produced his prelimin- ary declaration of American cltizenship, dnted in July, 1800, | The police declared that Selbach had | residcd In FEast Bourne, a prohibited ! area for two month. Selbach pleaded that | ke had contributed $250 to the national re- lief fund, but the magistrate declded that further inquiries were necessary and hu' was remanded. | WASHINGTON, April 17.—State de- | partment officlals said today a search of thely flles for the 'ast two years falled to show any record of u passport lssued to Ludwig Paul Selbach. Three Killed by Explqfii_gn in Mine RODERFIELD, W, Va., April 17.—Three | men were killed in & mine of the Davy | Pocahontas Coal company near here to-| day when a pocket of gas was exploded by & shot. Only six of the 200 miners usually employed in the pit had gone to werk. The explosion killed three. The other three made thelr way to the sur- face. | The Weather Forecast till 7 p. m. Sunda; and Vicinity For Omaha, Council Blufi For Sunday—Unsettled and cooler. Temperature at Omahp— Hours. Deg. Gam. . 6l 6a m. Ta.m m.. . m. H m. 13] . m. g n| w0 | .8 L] Local Weather Record. 1915. 1914. 1918. 1912, Lowest last nig! .8 B B B Precipitation .. Normal tempe: rees. Deficiency in precipitatien since March 68 of an luch. Deficlency corresponding perfod, 1914, 111 inchem The weatber is cooser ®rom the Mis- sissipph 1 river east over the lakes and temperatures are slightly lower in the extreme southwest; no important change in temperature has occurred in other sec- tohs. Rains are general in the south- is ure favorable for in #nd unsettied weather, | is vicinity tonight and y and cooler Sunday. The weather is fair in the eastern and southern states. L. A. WELSH, Local Forecaster. ,originated , the idea. often referrell to as ‘“Nebraska's gift | now it is observed in every state, And {1t Is a matter of great pride to, Ne- braskans that a citizen of this state Arbor day is to the states of the unfon.” Need of Trees. As early as 184 G. P. Marsh of Ver- mont, our representative at the courts of Italy and Turkey, pointed out the ab- | solute need of forests in this country and their great influénce on climate and rain- fall. “In Europe the forests are regarded as the most valuable erop,” he said. J. Sterling Morton i started the first practical, strong anovement for the establishment of a set day for the plant- Ing of tree and vined, The first Arbor day proclaimed in the United States—or the world—was pro- claimed in Nebraska, April-10, 1572.. It is estimated that 1,000,000 trees were planted on the treeless plains of Nebraska that day. In the sixteen years immediately follow- ing that, 350,000,000 trees and vines were planted in Nebraska. And up to the pres- {ent time more than a thousana million | {Lrees and vines have been planted in Ne- | braska. Fooled .the Scientists. It was & great movement to be started in a state where there were hardly any trees and on whose soll spectacled and high-browed sclentists solemly declared trees would not gro Probably in this e mother of invention” and the real and geruine need of trees prompted. - the pioiieer to start the movement to have trees. The first Arbor day to be officially pro- clalmed by ah executive was that of 1574, when Governor Robert W. Fumas named the third Wednesday in April of that year to be Arbor day. The day was prociaimed annually .in Nebraska. after that, until 158, when the leglslature passed an act designating April 2, Mr. Morton's birthday, to be Arbor Jay and made it a legal hollday each year. Tree Planting State, The legislature 595 deslgnated N braska as the “Tree Planters' State and adopted the golden rod as the fioral emblem. This state even made a change in its constitution providing that the n- creased value of land by resson of live fences, fruit trees and forest trees should not to taken into account In levying assessments for taxes. The school children in all the Omaha sohools will ha pecial exercises in cel- ebration of the . There will be songs and. recitations and ceremonies and tree plantings. Most of the city schools have ample trees planted In their grounds now and flourishing like the green bay tree, these being there now as a result of by- gone Arbor days and standing as living examples of the beneficent ‘effects of tree planting. In grounds of some of the newer schools trees provided by Board of Education will be planted The state department of public instruc- tion issues a book on Arbor day which is necessity was the {Continucd on Page Two, Columa Ome) | the | | wheat, dorn, oats, rye and barley in the | Urlited States s about One-third“of the entire production of thése crops in the warld; that the gross tonnage produced per mile of road And thé relative propor- tioh of the products of agriculture handled by;the carriers In the east; that the pres- ent rate on the grain products are higher than average of rates on, all tonnage, while the operating ratio of cost to rev- enue is lower than upon almost. any class of carload freight; that the present and proposed ratés on grain and grain prod- ucts in the west are much, higher than the rates for similai distances in eastérn tegritory. i *'We shall show that the products herein involved now sustain more than thelr full share of the burdens.of transportation and that any addition to these charges will be unjust tothe farmers of the west.” W. M. HopKins, a traffic expert em- ployed by the national council, Farmers' Co-Operdtive - associstion, —with - -whieh 250,000 farmers are affiliated, was called to tho stand: He said that his opimion that grain fates should not be advanced was based on two general propositions. “First, sald Mr. Hopkins, “grain is not ecconomically handled by the carriers. There are methods of handling which would save for the shippers possibly more than the proposed advance ‘would net them. ) “Second, the transportation of grain now pays the carriers more than a fair share of the total freight revenue.” Irishman Wanted to | Blow Cudahy Plant i UpCrack at Britain KANSAS CITY. Mo, April 1T-John Mulvehill, held by the police in Kansas City, Kan., In connection with'the wreck- Ing of the cooling plant of the Cudahy Packing company last Sunday night, de- nied he wrecked the bulldink, but admitted he was on his way to dynenilte another part of the plant at the time of his ar- rest, according td a statement made to the police today. Mulvahilt, who' is & laborer, asserts he was educated In King's college, London. “U'm an Irishman,” he sald, sccording to the police. “All Irishmen should op- poso Britain in this war. The first na- tion: to feel hunger will fall. I wanted to prevent the Cudahy people filling. meat Orders for English conssmption.™ !German Shells Fall ! Into Switzerland | DELEMONT, Switseriand @ia Paris), { April 17.—German shells fell on Swiss ters ritory Tuesday for the third time since lm. outbreak of the war, says the news- paper Democrate. The Germans were try- |Ing to destroy a French observation post ot Pfet ausen, but the gunners’ atm | was bad and the projectiles overshot their tasget, dropping around the town of Beurnevesain. report was not confirmed from any other source. Indian Office Says British Defeated the and ghelled and'destroyed a Turkish ‘camp. The long-talked-of occupation by the allies of the Mytelene island was sald to be imminent, Spotted typhus has reached here, two cases already having been reported. . . | sasacee ot chrintians mepeciea. | LUTK i Mesopotamia || OTABRIZ, Persia, April 16.—~(Via Petro- e grad, April 17)—Engagements between! LONDON, April 17.—The British Indlan Armenians and Kurds are frequent in: troops have Inflicted another defeat on the Vicnity of Van, in Turkish Armenia, | the Turks in the vicinity of Shaiba, Meso- {according to reliable information reach-, potamis, although at considerable loss to [ing Trublz, and a general massacre of | themselves. Thelr casualtis were about Christians is expected in the province of | 700. This. announcement was made by Bashkala... The. Armenians of Van are| the Indian office in a report {esued to- {hurriedly trying to ralse volunteers in | night. Aserbaijan | province, Persia, to help| The report says that after clearing the therh against, the Turks and Kurds. Turks out of their positions north and After soveral - stubborn engagements west of Shaiba last Tuesday the British tween Russians and Turks to the north | on Wednesday continued their offensive of Dilman, in Persla, the Turks retreated | in the direction of Zoberr, four miles to the south of Dilman. The Turks are | south of the Shaiba fort. reported to have retreated from the dis- | “fére,” says the report, “the enemy, trict of the Choruk,river. Wwhose strength fs estimated as at least There is said-to be ‘growing ‘hostility | 15000 men, between the Turks and Kurds, the !om'r; talions, with six guns, had ocoupled a deprecating the inhumanity of the latter. | sories of well-concealed trenches, from Turkish soldiers and even the younger | which they were able to direct & heavy Turkish - officers are protesting against | the countenancing by higher Turkish of-| {ficers of the outrages committed by tho Kurds. Therg are several instances of Turkish soldiers having Iynched Kurds Eullty of unusual atrocities. (Irrigation Dam Goes Near Roswell; Part , 0f City Is Flowed@Ship g 7 ROSWBLL, N. M., April 17.—~A part nf{ chased by Subsea the diversion dam of the Kondo reser- | voirs” a government Irrigation project Dear here, gave way today, followink | 1 ONDON, April 17.—The steamer Mg- eavy rains in the mountaine. Portions of 1antine of Newcastle, went aground yes- I and the surrounding COUNLEY | torday at Filey, on the North Sea, in were flooded and. residents of low IyIng | the county of York, while being chased Sections ‘rled for their ‘lives. The prop- anq endeavoring to escape from a Ger- erty damage is considerable, but no 1088 | man submarine. The crew of the steamer of life was reported. | was saved Raliroad traffic was interrupted by the flood, and there were indications that | N T i~ Y0 the oaweit aintriet misht e cut o, JONN Bunny is On from raflroad commuuication for several - Way to Recovery days. i NEW YORK, April 17.—John Bunny, Aviator Drops [ e, i s, o 2 Twelve Bombs !said today to have passed the crisls of his Into Strassburg ..., {lliness and to be on the way to recover, AMSTERDAM, Holland, April 17.—(Via | London.)~A hostlle airship at 1:30 this morning, dropped twelve bombs on the oity of Btrassburg, capital of Alsace Lor- | uality list contains a total of 1% names rane. Of this number seventy-one men were Searchlights showed It disappearing in | killed and 117 wounded and six are miss- a northerly direction, under bombard- ing. The list cvovers the period from ment of anti-aireraft guns. March % to date. number added to ‘Two persons in Strassburg were slightly \llnI- Issued previously, gives a total of wounded, otherwise no damage was dome | 1,915 officers killed, 3,418 wounded and by the bombs from the airship, 78 missing. rifle and machine gun fire on our ad vanced troops. “Nevertheleas, our attack drove { enemy out of these trenches at the point of the bayonet and the whole line of his position was finally captured, though not without heavy loss to our side. “The casualties are belleved to amount | to about 700 men of all ranks. On the | other hand, the Turks were so meverely 'handled that they retired to Nakhaflah, | nineteen miles northwest of Zobeir.” AL CASUALTY LIST OF THE BRITISH ARMY LONDON, April 17.—An official cas- tncluding six * regular bat- | the | there to the seaboard In Canada, it was | usserted. | British remount officers announced |also that inspection quarters would be re- moved from Kansas City to Denver. This will be done, it was' pointed out, that buyers may Invade the range territory while farmers in this section are using their animals for harvesting purposes. Two Men Found Guilty in the Riot Cases at Boulder BOULDER, Colo.; April'17.-<The fury in the case growing out of the disorders at the Hecln ‘mine durifig the coal miners’ (#trike retumed a verdict today. Willlam Knowles was found guilty ‘of assault to {murder, Dan Griffith was convicted of | assault and Gus Brack and Arthur Spen- |low were ‘acquitted. ‘The Jury had delfb- | |erated since 4 o'clock Thursday after- ' noon. A recommendation for lenfency was : | made in the Knowles verdiot. \ The four men were brought to trial in connection with the killing of Pete Stan- eff and the wounding of W, L. Bucklin, | in the battle at the | \General Kerrera Killed by Horse| LAREDO, Tex., April 17.—General Mac- lovic Herrera, Carranza commander, op- erating near here, has been killed by a { klck frdm his horse and his body has been | brought to Nuevo Laredo, the Mexican | town opposite here, according to reports | here today. Later in Neuve Laredo the death of Herrera was confirmed. The body, which authentic sources declared was that of Herrera, was closely guarded. Jewus Herrera, father of the general, lives In Kl Paso, Tex., and has been notified of his son's death, it was sald here General Monclovio H Carranza commander, who, it was ve- | orted several days ago, caused the execution of some 200 Villa soldiers and camp followors, men and women, after defeating Villa troops negr Hulsachito, thirty miles scuth of here. ‘The Garransa authorities donled reports of these' ex- ecutions. Herrera was the FUNSTON PREPARING TO TO LEAVE BROWNSVILLE BROWNSVILLE, Tex., April 17.—Major General Punston, who has been here awaiting the Vills assailt on Matamoros, | made preparations today to return to San | Antonlo as soon as movements of Vifia troops - confirm thelr apnouncement of last night that they intended to abandon the Matamoros campalgn. Reports today sald new bands of Villa troops had appeared far south of Mata- wmeros, ln the direction ef Victoria, tions have been casualties to eivil- fans’ and slight damage to property. The people of England, under the influence of thelr recent experiences, are today looking for repetition of an aerial attack from German Zeppelin or Taube machines. Up to noon no fresh occurrence had been reported. Halt in Carpathians. Weather conditions seem to be the cause of the present halt In the operations n the Carpathian mountains. A corre- spondent of the Associated Press pass and straightening out the ‘Austrian wedge which had been driven into the Russlan line near Uzsok pass. The is made that'the Russians suffered full lokses In making thetr supreme fort to gain the Hungarian plains, casualties being particularly heavy among the noble born officers of crack pegi- ments. In any event it is the opinfon of British observers that whatever may be retarding the Russians, u:oou streams and impassable roads In the Car- pathians are ample proof for the present delay. Aetivity in Dardanelles. With news of the resumption of me- tivity by the allled fleet off the Dar. | danelles comes a report thet the Grecian press s giving the Impression of s pos- sible modification of the present policy of Greece. The British colonial office has fssued jan officlal report claiming vietory for an invading British Indian force over the Turkish is Mesopotamia. On the western front signs are growing that the Germans may anticipatc the long predicted allied general offensive, but actual operations #eém to have relapsed into the status of midwiuter qulet. Seven Killed in Amiens, AMIENS, France, April 17.—Seven per- sons were killed and elght wounded by . bombs dropped by two German -aere- planes which flew over this city yester- day, one In the morning and one in the . evening. The cathedral, apparently, was the target of the missfles, but it was net damaged. The first alicraft appeared at 6:4 and dropped five bombs, The of the projectiles were fatal the American ambassador to ace companied by Mrs. Guthrie, left hama todey for the United board the steamer Manchuria, bassador is on leave of absence, he expected to return before the ton of the which is set sarly part of st