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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1916
Page
3
In the center Col lector of the Port Hamilton carries a United States release order. To his left stands German Vice Consul Von Schelling and to his right Prince von Hatzfeldt. Photo by American Press Association.
London parliamentary papers publish translated von Papen materials from the former German attache in Washington. They include bank entries, letters criticizing James W Gerard and Americans, and notes from Fox and Viereck. Simultaneously German war activity reports note sunk warship in the Kattegat, Allied bombardments at Boesinghe, and ongoing attacks across Europe and Mesopotamia.
President Wilson is understood to hold that the British steamship Appam, in Hampton Roads with a German prize crew, should be treated as a prize of Germany under the 1828 Prussian American treaty. State department support is noted, while some officials favor keeping the liner at Newport News until war’s end per German contention.
The Peking government reports victory over Chinese revolutionaries near Tzuliut sing in Szechuan province. About two hundred rebels from Yunnan were killed and many machine guns captured.
The British foreign office released a letter from Sir Edward Grey to Herbert Hoover and cablegrams between Chicago Polish relief societies and Premier Asquith show no relief agreement yet between belligerents. Britain demands a no export guarantee to Germany. Hoover’s reply to the foreign office was also published. The unsettled talks leave Poland’s civilian relief plans highly uncertain as Britain guards against German seizure of relief stores.
German soldiers captured by Russians claim a Krupp gun works branch has been established at Shavli in Kovno. A large portion of the male population and several French prisoners are compelled to work there under the stated order.
Private Stewart B Eaton of Seattle is reported killed in action while Corporal John Mo Boucher of Aberdeen and Private Reynold Hardy of Bellingham, both Washington, are listed among wounded in the overseas casualty list published by the militia department of Canada.
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