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BANDIT PURSUIT

ENDS

Protest

hje

RRITInII ISAII

Uif I I BU11

American Government Can

not Consent to Continuance

Of Policy, Says Note.

BIG VOLUME OF

BUSINESS LOST "

Requires More Than Three

Months to Exchange Let

ters With Sweden Now.

WASHINGTON, D. CL, May 22.

The new note to Great Brit

am, making pretest against In-'f-rence.

with the American mail.

" laid before president Wilson to

.av and probabfy will be s-nt to Lon

ion tomorrow. The general terms of

ie note were framed at the state de--ttment

but the president is includ

nt; some of his own language.

The note Is understood to protest

particularly against the British prat- '

-ire of taking vessels into British

orts and there examining and detain- i

rut mall coing to and from the United

Mates. The American note will make

;ljm that the United States cannot

-ii5er.t to continuances of the policy

which it already has objected. !

' me result cf the British interference

Mi.h malls ba been to virtuall para- j

1-e business between the United I

.-ta'-s and Norway and Sweden. Ad- n ., " '"' wu' cou"

.w from Stockholm state it takes . t,rmon ws obtained today of th

.eeril weeks for a letter to pass be- teports that a sentence of ten years i

wt"n xne unnea iMaies ana weaen,

iti.. tn Irtti tr Beli In jst aIq rr In - i

'.,,. '"'-"", th7ee Sih."."', I

.nd. and often three months and

-ilf are required for an exchange of

t'tfs- Business firms declare it is

ri t Mr to carry on business under

v - Jitionst.

1 1 1LIT1A

GETS AIRPLANE

New Tork, May 22 -The record ,'

: recking twin screw airplane in which j

i-tor Sanson new iron. Viewport j

News to this city in four hours and

one minute, has been purchased by the

xero club of America and will be

supped to the New Me,co national

.fuard at Columbus. N. M, for use by .

the militia regiment.

Tn ,.!. t ik. ,in.r.w .. iiaoaa I

r ... ,,.u . . -i. . . . .

Of this. J4r Is farniPhed by the Aero '

iut or America inc ine remaining !

52j00 by C6L Bronson M. Cutting , '

-.....i i

wealthy publisher of the Santa Fe New j killed, was hurled 50 feet through fl -Mexican

I mg debris, but escaped with minor in

For the present, a regular aamy : Juries.

ivtator ill be assigned to tbe ma- f

dune, which is vastly superior to any j kw ROCK 1M.V.M1 I'l.VN

irpiane n uie array service L. ut.

Kalph Baker of the New Mexico militia

i now taking a course of instruction in

.iviation at Los Ar.geles. but it will

lake him six weeks longer to become

Troficient.

RAILROADS IN TEXAS ADD'

$3,308,440 TO INCOMES

Austin. Tex.. May 22. Income from

the operation of railroads in Texas in

creased from tlT.k42.SOC to $21.i;2.24C

a total of J3.XO8.440. or 1S.34 percent,

during a period of nine months, ending

March 31. 1910. as compared with the

vame penou me previous year. This

is show n in a comparative statement

made pub'ic today by the railroad com

misson The total operatng revenue for the

period was JS5.i9.72. which is aa in

crease of J3.303.1C2 or 4.13 percent;

operating expenses, SC4.447.42S. an In

crease of $64,721 or 13 percent: freight

revenue. fC0.4SS.i71. an increase or I

?2.?7.'2. or ilS percent passenger ,

revenue. S22.O90.088, an increase of

1367.328, or l.2 percent.

AGED Iir.r.AIIIN LEADER

IS DISAU Ik niDVI'EST

London. Enp . May 22 The death at

Budapest. Hungary. Sunilay. of Geiu

Arthur Goergei is reports! in a Central

News dispatch from Amsterdam. O-n

Goergei was commander in chief of the

Hniurarian armv durins- the war of lib

eration. He was also prominent as a i

chemist.

TOOL CHESTS

FREE

We are offering a seventeen piece

tool set of the very highest grade to

boys in El Paso and the Southwest

In exchange for a small number of

new subscriptions to the El Paso

Herald.

This set of tools is ahsolute'v

guaranteed. plain finished, dove

tailed whitewood case, hinged lid.

brass plated steel hinges and brass

. hooks and eyes: stenciled

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Fris, Circulation Manauer :;i ''io

Herald.

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TITOBE

HE'S DEF

m - .

Alienists on Hand When

Trial of Slayer of Father-

inlaw Peck Opens.

kNIL )"rk- M 22. Four alieuists

headed the thronp of witnesses aath-

, ... s B1,ln

ered in the criminal branch of the su-

preme court today for the trial of Pr.

donf.,!" ."" V "" OUnB

dentist, sportsman ad man alout to-...

who is charged with murder, first de-

gre in poisoning his fatherinlaw. John

rsJavL" ,,':",Ufactur'r of

L t" , .

Since he has coi.febfced the mu.der.

the prosecution believe., thai the de-

fence will rely upon a plea of insamtv

To combat thii testimony the stjte ha!

SmlUnBoenedt?i.ras,. "" nJ

Waite occupied a seat betvetn his

attorneys. Walter R. Ieuel. and Jos-ph

F. Crater. Mrs.

-!ara Luie Peck

would be a witness' against i.m7 was

wall, hia wifo whn

not in court.

A crowd gathered but few persons

not connected with the case were ad

mitted to the courtroom.

Mr. Icuel interrogating Laltsnicn.

laid StreSE On Whether nacMmtinn

would be given to evidence calculated i

to show the nrJMinr vaa a 11

mentallj" at the tim.- he administered

germ cultures to l.i f..i.he mlj-

ii, Tr .,.. .. .-., .. .

in prison has been siven in-the ease

-

or "' C. Lynch, an American

citizen, charged with having partici

! pated in the Irish rebellion. The Amer

ican embassy received the information

I today from Uk militarj aut' oritie

( 'entenee Originally Death,

j Washington. D. C. Ma 22. Anibax

t sador Page at LiOndon today cabled tli

Jim riMMrtmnnl that Ka k.il Kn ..t-

TEN MS IS

vwpu ora.Trainri

i i uirn tp i rsiii.i-

LUiun ULI3IL.UL'

ficially advised by the British govern- J Passed by congress last week. He ex

igent that Jeremiah C. I. nch. the na- pects to sign it within a few days. He

iiuiuHo American citizen. convicte i

At ..ah...!!...,-. &.. .k. r..KiiM h.k.nin.

had originally been sentenced to death.

out mat the sentence had been com

muted to ten years imprisonment.

NINE ARE KILLED AND

35 HURT BY TORNADO

M rUntmAH T-.-.- X.- VUa .

kl,w ',, lnJured at Kemp Cit'v,

Okla.. and the town was wiped out Sat-

urday night by a tornado which swe.it

teTu'orl isthe'soTmf Z

recent years that the little town of 3'i

I people

I Bodl

has been the victim of storm, i

"" " some oi mt vicums were

Bodies of some of the victims were '

rouno nunareas oi yaras rrom tne places I

where their homes, had stood. On the I

other hand, the two tear old child nt I

. r . . .

Iir and Mrs. William Rrlnsnn. who wr

. v avoiii I'lHIHri.liM ill'

Ch icago. 111.. Ma 22 Completion of

a plan of reorganization which would

mslr, tuMihl the. tarlr faT nf tha

rh.AovA dul- idanii anA puMtif. fMm

the receivership under which it is the attention of the Irish authorities I French Recapture Ground. j,,,- op ,TIiTvv iilVIsTER

operated is contained in a brief fill before the outbreak. In the region west of Dead Mans . OFWUt is hvtiLy AVOIT.MIED.

todry in the United States distr. t He said he had conferred with Hill several natlv- attacks made ; ft V'LuVut Mor-

court at Milwaukee b solicitors fo- Augustine Birrell. then chief secretar IfyjJ.' rone, son of Gen Paolo MirVone, Ital

debenture bondholdera If the plan , for Ireland, and had strongly urged have beo- 'f5 l'5r .tIJ f"--!' ian minister of war. has been wounded

Prevails it will forestall efforts of the hat the national I volunteers he dis- "" J dangerously In the head and leg during

ZrJZSFJ .??SS. dJ.5re

The plan contemplates the issue ,,f

j.-e-"rf solt-k for the debenture bonis

having the same stanalng as preferred

', - to be issued in return for the

assessment on the common stock e

cept that the preferred for the deben

tures will bear a six percent rate. Th

plan can be modified to take care ot

the first and refunding mortgjco

bonds.

NAVY Gl M"H .I71 KB 47

hit-.. -; miots. im nii..

San Diego. I'alit. May 22 Kortj-

ielen nits out OZ snois at a rane

of 1SC0 yards was the record made by

the three inch gun pointers of the

cruiser Pittsburg at

f elements l-rac-

ence on toe drill

tber ia.'t reek, it

tice in torpedo defe

i.'r.iuiias off this hi

v.is announced toda.

The firing was dene at night under

conditions approximating those pre

. tiling in actual warfare The men

behind the i inh funs scored 3i

hit In S3 shots during day piaitice at

i i vv ; iniB niige.

THE IIAi I.N CO.NGHEvS.

Senate.

"oatlnued lebate on mers

and harbors bili.

Insisteuce on the regular or

der again operated to dela de

bate on the Kenyon resolution

for open session on nominations

House. i

Adopted senate joint resolu

tion inviting Spain and all the

pan-American nations to partici

pate in the San Antonio bicen

tennial exposition in lle.

Set aside I . strict of Columbia

affairs and resumed considera

tion of l he Porto Rican civil

government bill.

i

a Question Of Them Swallowing T. R. Or Swallowing Defeat

GERMANS CHARGE AT HILL

I1E0 PATIENT

! EAVES II NIGHT

, Mexican Escapes From the

j County Hospital, Robed

in Sheet and Blanket.

, of tvpnue. an unknown Mexican.

. . . . w t.. n

who had been brought to Kl Paso from

ConeJos. Texas. Sanda. n,ade his a.

from ,, lsolation , at tae

county hospital early Monday morning,

0, , a sheet . a hlanktt.

, The dlscoverv of his eScape as not

j made , about ; Monday

. morning and up to th.s afternoon he

! ot been found, although the city

.. u.j k

3 nd un,J" pce off,cers nd Deen

I advised and a search restituted

-rk Man Crie - lva Villa."

I The patient was last seen late Sun-

j aJ" niKht when he received attendance

! from a nurse. At the time he was fre-

.mentlv ralllnir out. Viva Villa."

i Th "" n brought from

notei ujeu. alter nis case naa oeen

diagnosed as typhus and his dothinc

was burned, but Supt. J. S. McDaniel

said he had not secured the man's name

or data on his case

Only Two Typhun Cae Known.

This case and one that was dlsco -

red in the 1200 block on Santa F

street Saturday afternoon by the cit

health authortties. constitute tb- onlv

two cases of typhus that have been

found recently. Before their arrial

the isolation camp at the county bo-

.... uwi i.CTn e... ..j i i, ,......, vo

for several days.

The tola! nun.oer of typhus cases

that have been discot -red sice the

scare earlier in the .ear i ' f thlr

umoer-ten naip died

Washincton. P ". May 22 Presi

dent Wilson today began considera

tion of the army reorganisation bill

dillrl,Mej f.ture of

oiscusaea leaiures oi

it today with

chairmen lhr and Chamberlain of the

house and -enate committees on mili

tary affairs.

Representative Hay told the presi-

dent the army appropriation bill would

be ready for the house later this week.

It will approximate $15O.0O,M0. aa in

crease of ISO.000.000 over last year's

bill

The president told senator Cham

berlain that he thought the army re

organization bill was satisfactory.

Senator Chamberlain said that appar-

ently the national guard, called into

service along the Mexican liorder. was !

not meeting expectations and it was

possible that congress would still find

it .nrHi.. t ,.- f.j.rai x...i...,.

- ..- - .

teer bilL

HAD URGED DISARMING

OF THE IRISH VOLUNTEERS

London. Eng., May 22. At the con- i

tinuatiou today of the Royal commis

sions inquiry into tbe Irish revolt, vis

ccunt Middleton described the action

which he said lie had taken to bring

the activities of the Sinn Felners to

the attention of the Irish authorities

th AAtiviti! of th stlnn Felners to

hdn-mS hlL a letter in "Which the ,

:!?ip1utlmrth1: Irish volunte-rs an j

llle1PSody "and put them down by

i"5r?' , in mv onlnion. be a reck- .

less. foolish act arid promote disloyalty .

to a prodigious extent."

mPA rni A CA5C IC '

LUUA LULA UAori IS (

SENT BACK FOR TRIAL '

Wawhinsrton. D. C. May 22. The

supreme court today reversed the Ten

nessee leoerai court s oroer wmcu ir

fused to confiscate, on petition of the

government. 40 banels of oca Cola as

violating the federal pure food law ..nd

sent the case back for presentation to

"'" ' Tditermine whether ffeiae

a "7 i"11' "?," . injurious to :

i,"!a', - ea '" Coc" -oIa " lnJuriou8 to

, health

HOUSE VOTES SUFFRAGE

FOR WOMEN OF PORTO RICO

Washington, Li c. May 22. By :. vote

of CO to 37, the house in the committe

of the whole today adopted an amend

ment to grant suffrage to the women

Of POrtO fttAA 1, ut m ArAAAAAn tlY

Republican leader Mann.

1501 f IN

KUHflDl

ti

V j I'KHMIlTIilllANs IHSCU.S!.

' IIKTKIIOIIOXV OF NKU" YORK

I"! ! Atlautic City. X J.. Mav 22. It was

... evident today that some of the leaders

.;. i of the Presbyterian general assembly

.;, in session here are trying to prevent

.;. . bitter debate on the floor of the con

.;. ention over tbe alleged heterodoxy of

.;. the New York presbytery and have

the matter adjusted without any dis-.-.

j russion on he part of the assembly

.;. ; in open session.

! j There are several compromise over-

lur-s before the committee. One pro-

poses that a committee be appointed

! b) the assembly to go to the New

li ork presb tery and make a thorough

investigation and then report back.

ITRUGGLE FQR.BANDfTS ARE BECOMING ACTIVE

VERDUN KEI

1 1

TERRIFIC

60 German Batteries Pound

At the French Lines On

Dead Mans Hill. .

MUST WIN OR QUIT

TRYING AT VERDUN

Germans A bandon A vocourl

Blockhouses Under Blis

tering French Attack.

PARIS, France. May 22 The battle

of Verdun, the longest and most

bitterly fought indivMaal strug

gle of the war. enters on its fourth

month today. The Germans are ham

mering at Dead Man's IIlll. where the

most furious and bloodv fWhri,- r

I "" lre months conwlict has taken

Place. Clinging desperately to the

j trenches which ih.v h.-. -. j .

,h """ w.nteh ,ne hare wrested from

j ., "" n tlie lower slopes of the

n"1, tn Teutons have hurled .O0

I men. backed by SO batteries of znns

OI ,,, caliber- forw.rrt ... .-

I 111 front frM AnAM.... j - -

mile front from Avocourt wood to ttw. I

Jieuse in a desperate c'fort to seize

the coveted summit

Th HtflMnr 1.. . m .

-- :- Mwveeaea in t

UdtntDC a fOOtlntf- in tkm T .A

line at a coat of severe Isss , bat

judging from the experteaee of the

past it will not be a difficult task for

the French to dislodge them before

they are able to follow up their ad

lanLage. French grenadiers occupied several

niock houses in Avocourt wood on the

verdun front in th itr.

fighting Sunday night.

German Infantry Repol.ed.

H.T.hwa-rrfffc The r oTffce SS

mtnt of tm7fternoon? that the '

German infantrv were renulaed.

That the Gerinans mnslcontlnue I

their treiendliuTnslaught ot Dead '

Man's Hill or abandon th? id., nf It- i

ing Verdun seems obvious. This blood

?"?e? summit and Its sister eminence,

Hill 3M. form the kev of the whole

iystem of Verdun defences.

Mm! Capture Plateau.

The fire from their bateries flanks

Douamoiit plateau across the river.

V ithout the undisputed possession of

this plateau, military critics agree that

no attack on Verdun has any chance

of success.

The blockhouses in Avocourt wood

v. ere abandoned by the Germans.

Feast of the Meuse. infantry fight

ing incurred at the liaudremont guar-

. 4n...i u..H-H .- .w i.--lnft. i

.... ....... e,. 0-..U-, j e ""i.M11.lmi, tAA.v- h,- th. nr nffiee

ine oermans attacKeo uieae posiions j

pulsed wth heavy loss. !

i, an viiark 'lilrun on nermann.

The text of the jctatetnent follows

South of Berry au Bac. French i

forces exploded two mines with sue- ,

ed two mines with sue- ,

cess at Hill 1'S.

In the Champagne district a gas at-

taek by the Germans wan without re-

suit An unexpected turn in the wind

drne it back upon the enemy.

n tlie lett ot tne river jieuse. in- .

fan try fighting continued Sunday three days' march northeast of Alexan

night. In the wood of Avocourt our dretta (on the Mediterranian, In

grenadiers secured some advantages . northern Syria!, where they fear an

and occupied several blockhouses . attempted landing- of entente allies.

,eacuated bv the enemy

. Aneme '

of the ground lost during the night of

r GeVn.cn Trench ensured

"On the right bank of the Meuse.

the Germans delie-.ered repeated coun-

ter attacks upon the positions at the

Haudremont iuarries. captured by Ihe

French Sunday. Each of these ad-

vance movements was cnecaeo ana com.

the :ermans heaw losses. In the out-

skirts of the village of Vaux a small

uuvriiiivii -am.- .... u.v.H.r. r

us in possession of a German trench.

At Eparges severeal German mWes

have been exploded but without caus

ing damage to the French position.

lloelit in mr .vir.

In the region of erdun. r reach

aviators ha-e attacked a nuraner oi

"'Ue n balloons,

"alloons were sent down

an aerial engagement one

&ix ot toese

in fire. In

of our Pilots

'. brought down a German airplane. In

! tl nilnitv of Enarges two other air

i machines of the enemy attacked by j

; French airplanes were orougni to

earth

This morning airplanes of the I

"On the nights of May 20-21 and 22

several operations were conducted by

irro is of French aviators. Shells

wet successfully thrown down upon

the railway stations at Metz-Sabloans,

teAR J1R.KA8IB31E,

DO HANDSOME MEN AVWE

40OI HusEvmsf

Aj-w5ri

VES-THS CANT AFF5RD10

HWE THEIR BEAUTY MARKED

BY A FIAT IRON

! AGAIN II ISTEI I

nv gco. n. cxKinvrs.

RANCUu I'llOVEDENCIA. Chlhua- fired by the bandits, the Americans re

hna. Mex, May 20. v.a wireless to j ""d A,derete major domo of

Colamhns, N. M, May 2. Ban- ti,e Santa Ana ranch, on the Hearst

dlts are again active, though being

m -

hunted .rMnaii h rt.tachment of

,-. , ,

.AaBj. jn epiie di me prepuce in uw

country of Urge bodies of Carranza

troops, Friday night a detachment of

V. 3. cavalry, numbering 15 men. was

jumped while patroling the Mexico

North Western railroad a few miles

south of Temosachic One Mexican was

wounded. The casualties among the

bandits is not known.

After firing in answer to the volley

The War At a Glance

CONTINUING their determined

offensive on the Italian front.

Austrians have made further

progress in the southern Tyrol. The

Vienna uar office today announces

that the peak of the Armentara

ridge has been carried, several ad

ditional villages have been occu

pied by Che Austrians and more

than JOOO more Italians captured.

Fighting of the most intense

character is in progress in the Dead

Man's Hill region, northwest of

Verdun.

Paris records the repulse of re

newed attacks west of Dead Man's

Hill and also the capture of several

blockhouses in the Avocourt wood.

The German steamer Worms is

believed to have fallen victim to al

lied submarines in the Baltic sea.

Violent canonadiBB. heard in the

Baltic off the Swedish coast, leads

to the belief that German and Rus

ahvi warahine have been id aa en

Jsfwenl The British forces in the Sedan

are reported through Constantino

ple to have been defeated by tribes

men in Darfur.

Avricourt and Reyes, and upon muni

tions depots at tnacnes ana cnape-

lotte: on Bivouacs In the vleinttv Of

Azannes. and on the village of jlmietz

nia,?.! 5f iS?'?Miii. 'ot

ISSf,',", HiiA p5SJS.ra

fwo'SuSlVi'bnkveedl

" on the railroad stations and the

railroad lines at Brieulles and Dun.

German, M.rn French Wne.

Berlin. Germany. May 22-German

troops stormed French positions on

. .A 7- i.ti.A. ti..

.re : W' ' "" ."."

-w4nn front nri maintained them

i aralnst reoeated counter attacks, which

are said to have cost the French great

losses.

GERMANS CLAIM CAPTURE

OF BRITISH POSITIONS

Berlin. Germany May 22 CBy wire

less to Sayville. U I. The capture

of several lines of British positions

.... -.. . .. .. .tiA . ii t j

A 1IVIII "I IMU R11U1UCUC0 1 I I

miles near Givenchy-En-Gohelle. ras

j s -

GKRMAW AN Al'TRIA

SRVII TT1IIOPS TO HAfiDAU

London. Eng Mav 22. "Four thou-

sand German troops are expected at

Bagdad in June. says ths Times

Bagdad in June. says ths Times

Bucharest correspondent Twelve

thousand Austrians already are there.

Turks are weakening the defence of

Constantinoule. sending alk nosslble re-

inforcements to Asia Minor and con-

centratmg a large force at Marash.

- Austrian oriensive.

CL0QUITT LEADS IN

CAMPAIGN EXPEDITURES

Vusiin. Tex . Mhv 22. In accordance

i with the law which requires candidates

for the United States senate to file

their expense accounts with the secre-

tary of state's department, the six I

aspirants for this office in Texas have

filed their accounts to date. They

are as follows: R. L. Henry. Jli S.0;

John DaWs. 1794 43 C A. Culberson.

' Hist report. 3252 00; T. M. CampVlL

SS4S.2C: B. Colquitt. 31730.S1: S. T.

Brooks. J1C3S.74. Reports were not

received from George W. Riddle and

I". R. Heller for the present priod.

VGHS AT AHMSNAI. NMLI.

IIB UASUD O.N CHICAGO'S

Washington. D. C, May 22. t"ecre-

tarv of war Baker said today that, upon

I ......1.3 -i urn.... e Ih.

i-;T -.".ri. -i "aaa

be considered in readjusting wages of

Kock Island, I1L. war deparimeni

arsenal employes. Such action

heenTeauested i by the rsenai workers

anl wm Result in matetml S in-

"J, J.'11 reeu,t ,n material pay la (

earlier decision had excluied the

Chicago scale from consideratiOB. GeB.

Crosier, chief of ordn nee. is expected .

had

to announce soon a number of arsenal

scneouiee.

DR. BARHOl It Ii KI.ECTED

.NOIITHBH.N BAPTIST HE. VI)

Minneapolis. Minn . May 22. Dr. C. j

A. Barbour, president of the Rochester I

Theological Seminary. Rochester. N. Y j

was elected president of the Northern ;

Baptist convention without opposition

at the annual meeting here today He

will sui'cced president Shailer Mathews

of Chicago, who was not a candidate ,

for reelection.

I property, led a party of vaqueros on the

' rail r9 na rmv et KastflifD whlAh IraaiV

-ra ". "e party ot Danoits wmen naa

, suudeniy appeared

in the vicinity of the

outlying huts and fired a number of

shots at the occupants.

Another party of bandits attacked a

small party of alleged Carrancistas at

Rancho San Luis, a few miles south of

the American camp at San Geronlmo.

Two Carrancistas were killed and the

others disappeared.

Detachments of Americans sent In

search of the Villistas found that they

had looted a ranch and escaped to

wards Santo Tomas. a point on the

Mexico North Western railroad.

AUSTRIANS TAKE

Berlin. Germany, May 22. Austro

Uungarian troops have carried the

peak of Armentara ridge, the scene )

or come or the heaviest fighting In

the recently inaugurated

offensive

along the southern Tyrol front. This

announcement is made in the official

T N

Austrian report of May 21. 1 fclL,. VT , ' "" enlr Coa

More than :00 Italians were cap- I J" ?" , tBe GI Spring

tured on Saturday by the Austrian. ' '.iJ??1, "Uders- " "

who also obtained possession of eev- I E.'e" Z?" ,to Aertc -eral

vllUge Tnev took 25 cannon i Jro?" ot bo,a CoL sr and Maj.

and eight machine guns, the statement ' "Bho re now -l Boquillas. T. x

ny3 J as- -iccording to advices receiied here

j today. Plble "a commai.d reached Bo-

AUSTRIA IS TO ABANDON , qurl2jtaiJ-ft-r,,SS5-

t diuii civc nvr nrnnrj-r I i-oLslbley broKht with htm te this

ALBANIA, SAYS ONE REPORT side four Mexican prisoner which

Paris. France. May 22.-A neotral ' SSbSTtSS near!n SE? cV

diplomat who has Just returned from hSSn day. ago

Albania, is quoted in a dispatch to the Tno Wounded r n-hi-.i

Matin from Athens as saying that the

i Au9trtans have withdrawn 50.000 troops

I j . :- , .l- , . .' . L

,,. -.ij . .v.. t. i-. -

' conntry are concentrated at Du-

' " T abandonment of the Al-

' 1, ot bTimrimV o'n tomS-i

; impossibility of bringing up supplies.

j

The statement that the Austrians are

7,'?w'", ' m,'?,irCe!.Jr?TO

, Albania apparently conflicts with re-

cent disnatchea from Athens and Parts

WUICH Slated that tDe Teutons were

Vil. -IVaJ .!.. .v" i . ". .

: about to launch an attack in force

against Avlona. the only town that re.

mains in the possession of the Italians.

May 20 the Austrians were reported to

have assembled a fleet of i:o transport!

at Fiume to transport troops and sap

plies to Durazxo.

TOWNSHEND'S ARMY TO BE

ASSIGNED TO TURK ISLAND

I v. -,, A n.. . ,

i . , - ... , ki-w

I! - "" "l"",u'"r "",v

has charge of British interests in Tur

key during the war. sent word today

of the disposition of the British forces

captured by the Turks at Kut-ei-

i Amara. This information is contained

in the following official statement

from the Rritiah nreas bnreau-

from the British press bureau

, -Ambassador Page states that the

! American embassy at Constantinople

i has been informed by the Ottoman

! irnttrnmrm that Gen. Townshend who

was in command at Kut-el-Amara and

I his staff will be brought to Constan-

tinODle and probably will be assigned

to the island of Prinkopo in the Sea

of Marmora where they will be al

lowed full liberty. Moet'of the offi

cers and men are still at Kut and Bag

dad. Some will be sent to Mamascus."

REBELLIOUS TRIBESMEN

BEAT BRITISH, IS REPORT

Berlin. German) May 22. (By wire

less to Sayville.) Constantinople ad

vices to the Overseas News Agency re

port the defeat of British forces in a

battle with rebellious tribesmen In the

province of Darfur. in Anglo Egyptian

Sudan.

It is said the British sent two trans

ports ith Knglish and Hindu troops

to Port Sudan on the Red sea. whence

they advanced to attack the tribesmen

and that thev were defeated by forces

under the Iman of Darfur,

RUSSIAN-GERMAN BATTLE

IN BALTIC IS REPORTED

London. Eng., May 22. Reports from

j Kaimar in Hweden on the Baltic a-

lorwaraeu irom iopennagen to tne Ex

cnange Telegraph company, state that

a violent cannonade was heard Sunday

night and that it is believed a sea bat

tle is in progress between German aid

Russian warships.

HOLLAND HOLDS GERMANY

TO BLAME FOR TORPEDOING

London. Eng, May 22. The Dutch

itrong note to Berlin, holding Germany

responsible for the torpedoing of the

Dutcb 8.eamer Tubantia. savs a dis-

P-" "e Daily Mail from Rotter-

"

government nas aeciaea to send i

Herald Best Of All

Hope. X. M., May 17.

Alitor 1 Paso Herald:

I am enclosing check lor a year s subscription to the r.l Paso Herald.

I read all the newspapers that I can get hold of but find Tlie Herald to be

the best of any of them. Fred Gibson.

Ma). Langhomes Commandx

As Well as Col. Sibley 5,

Returns To U. S.

YAQUI SCARE IS

WITHOUT BASIS

Col. Sibley Brings Prisoners

To Boquillas; Wounded

Left In Mexico.

Br ASSOCIATED PRESS.

. rlSlTHAV fi - .

fc. I 7 . ' -x -- The

t l Y imviima

punitive expedition

WUBan2ed bv 7nX V w oil.

i iw- irn Mt &., t- .

; There were two other prisoners, ud-

tured at the time, but these had been

so badly wounded in the fight that

they were left at El Pino by ilaj.

Langhorne. It is believed thev will

die.

According to arrivals from Boquil

las today, there is no truth In the re

port that the expedition had been men

aced by Yaqai Indians.

The renort emanated from a mes

sage sent by the war department to

I CoL Siblev several days ago advistnt:

w tK.t i aaoa nt V.AAI InniAn. hart

left Cuatro Clnegeas for Boquillas on

the Mexlcaa side.

Langhorne to Fort Blisv.

It Is believed here that since Maj.

Lpnghorne is back on American soil

with two Eighth cavalry txopa he will

be ordered to report with nis command

to Fort Bliss, leaving the work of pa

troling the Boquillas and San Vicente

border points to the Sixth cavalry

which arrived this morning.

CoL Sibley will likely move his head

quarters to Marathon but will dis

tribute his troops throughout the Bo

quillas district to work in conjunction

with the Sixth cavalry command of

two troops.

Two troops of the Sixth cavalry were

today on their way from Marathon to

the border to take up the patrol work.

Troopers Are Flretl Upon.

Two troopers, while swimming in

the Rio Grande Friday near Deemer's

ford, were fired at five times from toe

Mexican side. The soldiers, neither

wounded, scrambled for their rifles to

return the fire, but the puffs of smoke

which had marked the Mexicans place

of concealment had drifted away.

MEXICANS WHO ATTACKED

AMERICANS ARE DEPORTED

Pedro Saenz and Vlctoriano Ramos,

self confessed leaders of a mob of

Mexicans who attacked a detachment

of the 13th cavalry at Parral. Chit, on

Wednesday. April 12. were taken to the

Santa Fe street bridge and deported

Saturday afternoon by military author

ities, cooperating with the local police

department. Saeas and Ramos both

stated to officers I hat they preferred

tn 0-n hapv to 'fevico rather than serve

j.1, a B?th were well supplied with

'-- ??. anTount oVsS Mae foaad

i fu ,.,! "IAt?,' of B

out a sentence for vagrancy in the clrv

in their Dockets.

It is said Saenz and Ramos were ar

rested by the Carranza authorities

when they reached the Mexican side.

CALLES FINDS FOREIGNERS

HOLD LAND IN NEUTRAL ZONE

Douglas. Ariz.. May 22 Gen. P. Ellas

Calles. military commanaer or sonvn,

announced todav that he had discovered

' that immense land grants given foreig

ners during the regime of Po-flrio Dias

I were in direct violation of the federal

law. which does not permit foreigners

to hold lands within the neutral zone,

which, under the Mexican law. is U

miles from the border

Gen. Cr.lles states that he has taken

steps to remedy this condition, but does:

nof say what those step are. It ,s re-

ported from other sources, however

I that he will give the holders of such

I lnds thechoice of T"" '

' .CAaMn-ed en onte 8 CoL I.)