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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1915
Page
1
Charles El Bray, a London newspaper correspondent, reports that Allied efforts fail to whip German troops. The dispatch notes persistent German resistance and strategic challenges on the frontline.
C EF Bray argues England lacks patriotism and preparation as war with Germany, Austria, and Turkey tests the nation. He cites scarce shells and guns, cabinet faults, delayed offers of munitions, and strong German readiness, predicting stalemate and a diplomacy-led peace later.
General Maytorena governor of Sonora says his forces will pull back from the Yaqui Valley after reports of American protection against the Indians. He asserts that if Marines land the blame rests with the Carranzistas.
The Legislative Probe Commission urges a seven justice Supreme Court and split districts. It pins blame on Tensas Delta and syndicate for halting the Tensas lang scandal inquiry. It calls for selling Oakley Monticello and Hope penal farms and buying a boll-weevil free cotton farm, converting Angola into a stock and truck farm to feed state institutions. It finds Louisiana Penitentiary system $800,000 in debt and notes Governor Hall’s bond sale will cost $900,000 to $1,000,000. Interstate Bank bid at 95 labeled a straw bid. It also recommends a straight $10,000 salary for the New Orleans District Attorney.
British officials publish emphatic notes rejecting the U S contention that the orders in council are illegal. Officials defend wartime measures as lawful instruments of naval and economic warfare. The exchange underscores diplomatic tension amid ongoing disputes over neutral shipping rights.
Britain rejects the claim that orders in council are illegal and defends wartime blockade as lawful under international equity. Sir Edward Grey notes the need for new understandings of international law due to submarine warfare and German atrocities, asserting the blockade may cut enemy seaborne commerce via neutral ports and urging arbitration for disputed cases.
London reports the Russian rear guard fighting northwest of Warsaw checked the German advance. South of the city General Von Mackensen’s forces press north from Lublin but are locally battered. The eastern front toward Riga shows any German progress, while Warsaw remains in Russian hands, boosting Allied hopes of avoiding evacuation.
President Wilsons reply to Englands notes rejecting US demands for relief from interference with neutral commerce is almost ready to be dispatched to London The reply will continue to contest the legality of taking ships from season voyages to neutral ports.
Paris reports the prize court confirmed the capture of the American cotton ship Dacia this day. The Dacia had been seized last February.
Erie Pennsylvania reports a devastating flood from a late night cloudburst. Glenwood dam burst sending a wall of water through the city. property losses total about three million dollars as gas, telephones, trolleys and power were knocked out. Fourteen bodies were recovered by nine this morning.
Jackson reports results from 315 of 12099 precincts with Reily at 22,800 and Bilbo at 19,226, the remaining candidates totaling about 1,000 votes.
A Lisbon dated July 30 dispatch from Paris notes three separate revolutions in Portugal. The report identifies multiple upheavals across the country, with limited details available in the telegraphic summary.
Manchester city council adopts a resolution demanding that England declare cotton a contraband of war. The move underscores wartime trade and strategic tensions affecting textile exports and national policy.
Sioux City Iowa on August 3rd saw a sharp fall in the day’s temperature to 51 degrees prompting residents to wear winter overcoats and start fires for warmth as cool weather settled over the area.
E K Belk 68 mortally wounded in a conflict with son in law Francis James 44 at James home five miles southwest of Texarkana. Belk died after a skull fracture from blows with a shotgun. James claims self defense and is jailed awaiting a preliminary hearing set for tomorrow.
Torrential rain and a sixty mile gale crippled streets and commerce in New York and throughout New Jersey. Flooding swamped mills and plants, swept away a factory, and left many missing or dead. Rescue efforts led by Mayor Stern faced submerged districts and damaged telegraph lines as rivers rose to five feet and higher, with water reaching second story windows in parts of the city.
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