England Rebounds With Brighter News From Dardanelles
Amidaters mood lifts as reports from the Dardanelles indicate improved conditions and steadier morale. Officials credit renewed resolve and better news on operations.
20 May 1915
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1915
Page
1
Amidaters mood lifts as reports from the Dardanelles indicate improved conditions and steadier morale. Officials credit renewed resolve and better news on operations.
Rev. Lewis W. McFarland of the High Point Friends Church resigns to become Yearly Meeting superintendent of evangelistic and church extension work in North Carolina. He will depart July 1 if a successor is found. under his ministry the church grew from 304 to 378 members.
A dispatch reported French forces have landed at Seddul Bahr at the southern tip of the Gallipoli peninsula and are engaging Turkish positions around Krithia. The information, received via Havas from Athens, cites the Greek newspaper Messagard Athens dispatch from Mudros on Lemnos.
President Wilson voiced high praise for the Atlantic fleet after reviewing them in New York. He cited the fleet’s appearance and the quiet efficiency of officers and men, agreeing with Admiral Dewey that the navy is at its best and urging continued strengthening and modernization.
Greensboro May 20 The Episcopal diocese and woman's auxiliary in session select Henderson as next year’s meeting site. Routine business fills the morning with officers to be elected this afternoon. Miss Kate Cheshire reports strongly on auxiliary work. Resolutions express sympathy for President Wilson and a noon daily silent prayer for peace.
Berlin reports via London that Germany will dispatch an answer to Washington soon. The Lokal Anzeiger denies that U S German relations have deteriorated since the note was received and declines to publish any details of the reply.
The Presbyterian General Assembly of the South opened its fifty fifth session in Newport News with about 300 commissioners from fifteen states in attendance. The meeting began with devotional exercises and a business session to organize and elect a moderator to replace W J Martin of Davidson College. Evangelism will be the main topic and early reports indicate progress in evangelical work and a 314 percent membership gain for the past year.
Several hundred delegates arrived for the eighty fifth general assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian church in Memphis as the gathering opened. The assembly and the Women’s Board of Missions convene for a week with Rev. F. A. Brown, retiring moderator, delivering the opening sermon and a new moderator to be elected in the afternoon session.
Rome reports Premier Salandra pushed a war powers bill through the chamber of deputies to empower the government in case of war. Italy rejects Austria's late proposal to delay ceding territory, while Verona dispatches note Italians cross into Austria by the thousands. In London, Anton Kuepferle, once in Brooklyn, commits suicide in Brixton prison after being charged with leaking ship and military information.
Observer describes the April 25 26 clash at Ypres with massive German and Allied artillery. He notes Canadian supply roles and air activity as British planes conflict with Taube aircraft while guns blaze and the Cloth Hall tower glows at sunset.
A Turin dated dispatch in The Gaulois claims Prince von Buelow and Baron von Machhio the Roman ambassadors asked Italy to mediate peace between the central empires and the allies. The report lacks corroboration from other sources.
Reports from Rome say the Italian chamber of deputies by a practically unanimous vote granted full powers to the minister of war.
London dispatch notes Germany has revoked the Vatican backed agreement for exchanging British and German civilian and incapacitated prisoners. The Prussian envoy cites Britain’s refusal to treat German submarine prisoners as ordinary prisoners of war as the reason.
The trial began at Old Bailey with public access canceled for yesterday’s session in the interest of national safety. Accused of attempting to relay military information to Germany, Kuepterte pleaded not guilty. Prosecutors allege he masqueraded as a naturalized American while being German and sent letters to neutral countries with covert enemy information. He arrived in Liverpool February 14 and produced a passport signed by Secretary Bryan issued ten days before sailing from New York. He claimed to be a woolen merchant and traveled via Dublin to London where he was arrested.
A dispatch from Nogales Sonora reports that American colonists at Esperanza were the aggressors in the Yaqui battle. Three Americans died in the clash as Yaqui Indians raided Mexican ranches and were stopped by the settlers.
The British trawler Chrysolite was sunk by a German submarine about 30 miles off Kinaird's Head in the North Sea yesterday. Peter Head, Scotland reported the loss.
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