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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1915
Page
7
A Berlin Tageblatt dispatch reports certainty that Italy will open hostilities today. The Italian cabinet wins near unanimous parliamentary approval for a war grant as the Italian Army Chief assumes frontier command and a new list of demands emerges.
Paris reports from Rome that Italy’s chamber of deputies granted full war powers to the minister of war. A Berlin telegram notes rising certainty war begins today. Sonnino outlines minimum Italian demands including Trent and Istria and Trieste with Albanian sovereignty dimmed. King Victor Emmanuel may pardon railway workers, while Italian volunteers pledge for war. Thousands of Italians from Austrian homes flee as hostilities loom. Genoa to monitor German ships interned there. General at Front reports advance orders.
Rome reports D'Annunzio has received numerous letters and messages urging his war mission. A Bari mother writes she represents all poor Italian mothers, offering their children to defend Italy and denounce slavery, while demanding vengeance forBelgium and Lusitania victims.
General Count Gadorna arrives with staff at Vicenza near the Austrian frontier as Italy seizes all rail lines for military use. German ambassador’s baggage arrives in Chiassa, Switzerland. Freight traffic between Italy and Germany via Switzerland halted amid mobilization. Crowds cheer as British news follows.
London reports Anton Kuepferle, a Brooklyn resident on trial for aiding enemies of Great Britain, committed suicide in Brixton prison. He left a slate message praising his trial, said he wished to die a soldier, and could not face the scaffold. The attorney general announced the death at court opening.
Mrs. Frederick Heizer opens the Society of Music Teachers of Iowa sessions at the Hotel Russell Lamson. Recitals move to the Majestic theatre with Miss Lucille Tewksbury Stevenson and Miss Agnes Bodholdt delivering a standout joint recital. John C. Freund of New York sends a nationwide appreciation letter.
Philadelphia officials announced the Liberty Bell itinerary for a San Francisco visit with a parade on July 17 as Liberty Bell day. The bell departs July 5 for a 12 day coast journey stopping in several cities and will be displayed at night so it can be seen in darkness.
Mahonk Lake N Y May 20 Secretary of War Garrison urged strengthening national defenses at the Lake Mohonk conference on international arbitration. He dismissed isolationism as geographical only and argued United States must be prepared to defend its possessions and the valued strength of the nation amid interwoven international interests.
London May 20 A British casualty list lists 179 officers and 1 400 men. Nine hundred Australian casualties on Gallipoli and 160 naval losses. Wounded leader Sir William Birdwood head of Australian forces in the Dardanelles. His career began in 1888 with the Royal Scots Fusiliers and included service in South Africa and India. He was often mentioned in dispatches for heroism and was wounded in South Africa. From 1892 until WWI he served as secretary to the government in India's army department.
President Wilson and his party arrived aboard the yacht Mayflower, docking at the navy yard at 6:30 a.m. today after a voyage from New York. The president resumed duties at his Washington desk following the stop.
London May 20 The formation of a non partisan cabinet for the war period is an established fact. The prime minister and foreign secretary will stay in office and policy of prosecuting the war remains unchanged while cabinet reconstruction preserves political aims. Bonar Law endorses, saying the aim is finishing the war successfully. The change comes amid surprise after Asquith denied reconstruction a week earlier amid pressures abroad and at home. Churchill and Fisher clash at the admiralty amid attacks over army ammunition shortages in a nation-wide strain.
A fragment notes Smoke El Verso and Mavena 1c tpar amid an advertisement glimpse. A lab was driven to the White House for breakfast while the yacht stayed anchored in the Potomac below Washington, providing the president another night on the water before resuming work.
The dispatches describe Teutonic allied gains along the San river with Austrian reinforcements behind the line at Czernowitz and continuous fighting around I Kaernowite. London reports coalition government moves easing public mood as eastern front news improves. French troops land at Seddul Bahr and Krithia, supported by the fleet, in action against Turkish lines at Krithia and Chihaba breading a three and one half mile front.
Davenport May 26 Mrs C Borgues a colored witness in the damage suit of Menelas Cartin against the C RT P Ry Co testifies on the stand that her husband was injured the same day Cartin’s accident. When pressed she says she hit him herself asserting the injury occurred in a fight.
Capt. Lars Uarsen Herland of the American oil tanker Cushing recounts the April 28 attack by a German airship or aircraft. Three bombs fell near the vessel, one striking the tail but causing no crew injuries. The pilot reportedly signaled with a white flag and headed toward the Dutch coast.
Denver reports a third day of snow and ice across Colorado Wyoming western Nebraska and northern New Mexico with temperatures below average. Frost tonight in Utah and rising temps Friday in Colorado and surrounding states. Denver records 30 degrees last night. Continued cloudiness limits fruit and early crop damage.
Washington plans a strongest note to London since war began urging observance of American rights in the war zone. It may demand end to British seizure of cargoes and avoidances of visit and search rules, warning of possible forceful measures to protect U. S. vessels and neutral trade.
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