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equal 1y the A despatch Ewom Venice says: Report‘s received from Trieste say -t:hat the Austrian troops in Trenâ€" tino are. in a. miserable condition, being penniless, hungry and ill- olad. Their pa. has been out from foul-pence per 3‘ to twopence, and their rations from five loaves of bread a. week to two loaves, it is said. Men considerably over forty years of age, the reports say, are being sent into the trenches, ill- equipped and their uniforms old and tom. after only a. month of . All four men were unanimous in asserting that a, grave error had been made in arresting him, and lmve made representations to the State Department, accompanied by affidavits to prove that, Swoboda.’s mission at Paris was solely for the purpose of submitting samples of American goods to the French sy Indicate . ' A despavtch from New York says: Raymond Rolfe Swohodal, arrested in Paris, charged with setting fire to the steamer La Tour-nine, is an American citizen, and represented in this country a French syndicate engaged in purchasing supplies for the French Government and the civilian population. This was at- tested to by R. K. Mayclea-n, of this city, formerly textile expert of the Federal Tariff Board; by Thomas Hooper, of Victoria, BC, 3. Cana- dian, and by Eugene Davis and W. F. Mohr, bot/h Americans, of this city, all of whom said they were associated with Swoboda in the purchase of supplies. Police Think He Caused an Explosion in Baggage on Steamer ARRESTED AN AMERICAN The Germans in the north are covering the period until a fresh corps arrives from the west by restless and futile raids. The enemy’s exasperation at the steady crushing of his Niemen campaign is unmeasured. General von Bue‘low’s artillery has been evacuating its positions to the northwest of 0550’ wetz for several days. Once twenty batteries were shelling the outer sector of the fortress, but now only four remain, and even they are quiescent. All ‘Uhe heavy morta-rs‘ have been withdrawn slowly along tact A despatch from Petrograd says: On the new Russian base along the line of Uszok, Lupkow and Bartfeld substantial beginnings of the spring campaign are visible. A Russian column moving into Hun- gary along the .Ondava River caep< tured two full regiments and a field battery. The Austrians are now bringing la-rge reinforcements from the south. The first stages of the battle, which is engaging great nnEz-bers, are now developing. SEEK T0 CHECK ’RUSSIAN MARCH persons not connected With the army were arrested at the sa’me time as accomplices, and are awaiting trial. 1 Col. Miassoyedoff, who was hanged as a traitor, used to be the Kaiser's guest at shooting parties every time the German court visit- ed East, Prussia. He possessed sevâ€" eral personal gifts from the Kaiâ€" ser. it is understood. Miassoye- doff's treachery enabled Hindemâ€" burg to circumvent Gen. Gulga- kofi‘s corps in the operations in 'l‘ho Austrians Arc Sending: 'I‘I'oons Nm'thwurd in Hungary. RUSSIAN COLONEL IS HANGED hange Kaise every ed Ea Found to Have Been Kaiser’s Friend and to Have Caused Mazurian Lakes Defeat German sp court-martl It Is alsu the A despatch from Petrograd says: t is officially announced that Colâ€" nel Miassoyedoff, who was attach- d as an interpreter to the staff of he tenth army, proved to be a alerman spy, and was pried by Austrian Troops Arc Pcnnilcss 1 consmierably over i ge, the reports say. ; into tflm trenches. and their uniforms after only a. month ruling. The conditio )opulation is said to :etched. Private let zen were unannnous in at a, grave error had in arresting him, and represgnt-atio‘ns to the 16 y, and was ml: 31, and hanged. announced that s )t connected wit arrested at the accomplices, and my th at n 1t [13.1011 Ld to thh the the sdme and are M a n y )e p001 crib and make the l able at any price, and t of war bread is quite in 'flhe bakers’ shops are early in the morning, but strong and aggressive, tzl say, succeed in getting a fe The shopsm‘hen close for Disorders are said to be the people are literal-1y starving Palatable Wheat bread is unobtain able at any :plfice, {mdAthq suppl; Swoboda, was traced to Paris and arrested by a French secret service ofiic’ial. and it is said that letters in German found in his room at a‘ hot/8:1 will.furnish important evi- dence. The despatches state that he was well known in Paris finan- cial circles, Where he had served. as foreign representative fur a. broker named Morrison. He was supposed to be a, Russian, and of- ten spoke in Paris of family conâ€" nections in Petrograd and Moscow. as a result of evidence brought out at the official enquiry into the fire on the Tourxaine, which broke out March 6 while the steamer was en route from New York to Havre. The fire is said to have been traced to an explosion among the first. class baggage in the hold, and Swo- boda was declared by fellow-pas‘ Sengers to have made peculiar statements before the time of the accident. mont/enegro A despatch from Rome (says; Deâ€" spatches received heresfrom Cetâ€" tinje. the capital of Montenegro. indicate that Austria-Hungary is endeavoring to cut off Montenegro from all communications with the outside World, and thus starve her. The Dual Monarchy is described as surrounding this small state with overwhelming forces of Croats on the mountains, in addition to a garrison of 40,000 men at Cattaro, which prevents any communication with Herzegovina and the Adriatic. Against about 100,000 Austrians Montenegro can dispose only 15,â€" 000 men, with limited artillery. Someflhiug like 70.000 people from villages in 'Bosnia burned by Ausâ€" trian troops have taken refuge in the Lyck Road. The field troops re‘ main in a. corner of East Prussia. The Austrian cavalry, in moderate numbers, crossed from Czernowitz into Bessarabiar, a Russian province ~which formerly belonged to Ron- mhnia. In the direction of Khotin they moved from a point where- Austria, Russia and Roum‘a‘nia meet,‘a region where the Russians did not consider it expedient to place any force. but the raid is now being countered. Apart from the obvious political purposes of im- pressing Roumania, it is possible that the Austrians thought it might. in fluence the movement of Russian troops. st are arrested It has now been learned that the inteipreter not only misled Baron Sievers in indicating the course the Russians were taking into Gerâ€" mziny. but also furnished informaâ€" tion to Marshal von Hindenburg. With this information at hand the German commander knew at just what time to strike. When he struck he caught the tenth army in a trap, several regiments being slain ghte red . ron Si‘evers, commandin His duties became inc-re port-ant after the Russi the frontier into East I 1n According to the Paris despatch- Swoboda has been arrested there t! ebb ‘ southern Ma: 11 in February. 101. Miassoyedo *ter attached to ut any arrests r the pnce: The Into conf quite inadeqlfaâ€"te aid il‘ frequent only the Le letters w loaves. rding t begieged 1k A despatch from Simla; India, says: Ten thousand tribesmen, composed mainly of Zadraus, co]- leoted with a View to attacking Tochi, near the Miranshah Post. Government troops, under Briga- dier-General Vane, engaged the natives, repulsing them completely, killing 200 and wounding 300. A subsequent reconnaissance showed no trace of the band. Russians Lost 149 A despat»: An official 4 ing the rece the Meme] Therbfore it is regarded as ex- tremely probable that the case will eventually have to be taken up with the German Government. Officials here are of the opinion that a strong case can be presented, so far as the law in the matter is conâ€" tar as cernec British Indian Force- Rout 10,000 Tribesmen The first question about which it was thought there might be some doubt, Thrasher’s citizenship, has been answered. Investigation at the State Department showed that Thrasher obtained a passport June I, 1911, giving his residence as Hardwick, Worcester County. Massachusetts, where his mother resides. Carl Barnes, also of Hardwick, endorsed his applicaâ€" tion. This passport has since been renewed in London. It is not doubted in the face of this evidence that Thrasher's citizenship can be established beyond question. It was made plain, however, that the State Department will move with extreme deliberation and care in the Thrasher case, No effort will be spared to obtain every fact having a bearing on the case, par- ticularly with reference to the cir- cumstances under which the Falaba was sent to the bottom and more than one hundred persons, includâ€" ing Thrasher, lost their lives. It has been realized ever since the despatch of the communication to the German Goveinment notifyâ€" ing it that the United States would hold it, to a strict accountability for the acts of its naval authorities that; this Government was practi- cally committed to serious action in the event of such a, case arising as was indicated in the American note. It is now believed that a, case has occurred falling within the pur- view of the American note. Ambassador Page is giving his attention to the case and will for- ward all the facts. Because of the gravity of the issue raised by this first American death resulting from the German submarine programme, officials refused to_make any com~ ment on Atlie'cais-e for publication A despatch from Washington says: The reported death of Leon C. Thrasher. an American citizen, as the resudt of the. destruction of the British ship Falaba by a Gerâ€" man torpedo, are. viewed gravely in official quart,an here because of the serious possibilities involved. VIEWED GBAVELY BY WASHINGTON M urdor of an American (‘ilizon by GvrmnnAPiratos Stirs I'm-lo Sam. A strange little incident of the war is shown in our photograph. While in action‘. one of our troopers had a clip of cartridges which he was carrying in his bandolier trans- fixed by a, German bullet. How narrowly the soldier escaped death can be judged by the course taken by the enemy bullet. sch from commur ‘ent R us: district ronk of the War. Me In Memel Retreat Municipal Councilor of Prague Among a Score of Citizens Convicted of High Treasofi CHARGED WITH HIGH TREASON A despateh from London says: Two German submarines, the Uâ€"28 and another, the number of which has not been ascertained, which have been operating off the west coast of England during the past two days, have added two more!l British steamers, the Flaminian and Crown of Castile, to their list of victims. 'llhere was no loss of life on the Flaminian and Crown of Castile, the crews of each being given barer time in Which to get into their boats. In the case of the latter vessel, however, the sub- marine fired before the crew left the steamer and shells passed along the bridge‘ on which the captain and an apprentice were standing. The Crown of Castile was sunk by shell-fire, but this did not prove suflicient to send the Fleminian to the bottom, and a, torpedo had to Mun SUBMARINE SINKS TWO VESSELS A Renter despatch from Stock- holm says the German steamer Grete Hemsoth -has struck a mine in the Baltic and sunk, and that 25 members of her crew were drowned. The Grete Hemsoth was Mines were responsible for the sinking of a German steamer in the Baltic Sea, with a loss of ‘25 lives, and the American steamer Greenbrier, which went to the bot- tim of the North Sea. all her crew being rescued. ' A despateh from London says: Four more civilian lives have been sacrificed in the German submarine campaign, only twelve having sur- vived of the crew of 16 of the Dubâ€" lin steamer City of Bremen‘ sunk by a hostile undersea, boat in the English Channel. A French fishing schooner and a, Russian barque also have been sunk by submarines, but their crews are reported to be safe. {VERSIUNUF GERMAMIMS THREE VESSELS ARE SUBMARINED Four More Civilians Drmuwd on a Dublin Steamer Sunk in the, Channel. “It is freely acknowledged that Germany started the war, but opin- ion seems to be divided regarding her intention to occupy Belgium “Conversation with captured offi- cers and the better educated pri- soners has thrown considerable light on the views of the general situation now held_ by the German army. cording to these officers Austria must pay for the failure of her arms. It is said in addition, by these men that Germany will insist upon the annexation of Belgium to a new German confederation, to in- clude all Germanic peoples and the Scandinavians. Antwerp, accord- ing to these views, which are pro- nounced with great assurance, is to be made an international port, and the whole of this. scheme is to be brought about through the offices of the Pope. 7 - need rews of Each Were Given Barely Time to Get Into Boats Th mplre E it .9 unishment for Emperor Joseph Not Having Kept His End Up In the Conflict anc c ,gomg hermany hlgh trea; 9 terms of from three e men 'rs10u from ( itch news 5213' 5111‘ 31'i tvi that the Au e dismembered Italy and part This is the pric aptured that t r London says or Matejouvu un m London ’5 official e sh front 5 In and sen impnsonmen I‘d emp rman alms, German ofliâ€" he Austrian 11bered, part 1d part of it sea and nt sends : prlce, ac- rs Austrm. 9.515 \Vlt be used. As an offset to this, a. French destroyer rammed and, it is believed, sank a. German submarine off Dieppe. The members of the submarine’s crew, it was asserted by the men from the Crown of Gas- tile, boasted that during the four days previous to the sending of the Crown of Uastile to‘the bottom they had sunk sex-en British vessels, in- cluding the steamer Falaba. “We thought at first.” one of the Ger- man officers is quoted as having said, “that we would sink you with all hands; but it was decided ulti- mately that we would give you a chance." As the boats were leaving the the crew say that sc mans jeered at the steamer 31nd snem “Britannia. rules tr} she if! The‘Turkish protect-ed cruiser Medjidieih has been sunk in the Black Sea, near Odessa. by strik- ing a minex The Mehjidieh formed part of the Sultan’s squadron which has. been attacking Russian Coast towns since December. She was an American-built boat, havâ€" ing been laid down in Philadelphia. in 1903. She was not a. large ves- sel. and her armament was com- parativer light. She was 331 feet long and 42 feet beam. and had a. displacement of 3,432 tons. She was armed with two 6â€"inch gun‘s, eight 4.7-inch guns, six 3-poun’ders. six Iâ€"pounders, and two torpedo tubes. Her complement was 302 H16 [1 . A friend is one who doesn't wait for you to call for help. . A Russian barque was torpedoed 1n the Channel. The crew was saved. The st-ear’n‘er City of Bremen, of Dublin. has been sunk by a. Ger- man submarine off Wolf Rock, in the English Channel, about 15 miles south of Land’s End. Cornwall. Four members of the crew of the steamer were drowned. Twelve survivors have arrived in Pen- zance. a. vessel of 1,554 tons. She was en- gaged 1n traffic between Sweden and Germany. that since the Austrians have failed so badly in the present- war and have had to be bolstered up by the armed strength of Germany she will have to pay for it and must bleed. “The German prisoners hold that the. Austrian Empire will cease to exist. The Germans will give away some of its territory to Italy, and will include the Germanâ€"speaking portion of Austria in the German Empire, and also Luxemburg: “The Germans will welcome the Duchy of Poland as a buffer beâ€" tween themselves and Russia, and will insist on Belgium joining the German’ zollverein, Antwerp beâ€" coming an international port.” 1‘0“ 1n the Vosges must be 1m “The most important pc views now held is a. frank that since the Austrians h so badly in the pie'senb have had to be bolstered armed strength of Germar have to pay for it and mus I'l‘( art already Speaking that Ge! in the VI permanent she would Meuse if neutral, b through S<‘ burg, thin] take it: in ‘ Germany f1 nden thinkin n the right y maintaine ) territory occupied ; people. rmavny's st 1 Ln} but w South cortesponder mned fifty-trv : fight way, as long as intained that she de- ritory in Europe not :upied by German- )ple. It is admitted y's strategic frontier ; must be improved. important point in the id is a frank admission 'ould have aflvanced Belgium 23nd Luxem- Great Bntmn would have or land had The ere leaving the the members of ;ome of the Ger- 8 men from the 1m mtess Hana nte Wfl-VE romalned advanced erme nprh “ted. does urt een the )D that the