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Summary of Most Important News Events European War News French ministry of marine announced at Paris that a German submarine probably had been destroyed in the English chann by a French cruiser. British statement says the U-8 had been sunk off Dover. French captured a fort and trench in Alsace, captured a company of Prussian guards and 600 meters of trenches in the Perthes region and regained ground north of Arras, and the allies have repulsed 12 attacks of Germans in Belgium, according to statement issued by the war office at Paris. According to the London Daily Ex. press it is reported the Dutch steamer Noorderdyk, which was returning to Rotterdam with broken machinery, after having sailed for the United States, has been torpedoed in the Eng. glish channel. Four thousand Canadian troops have reached the British Isles on the steamers Megantic, Southland and Missanabie. Their safe arrival was announced at Montreal. The steamer Pacific, carrying cot. ton from Galveston for Rotterdam, has been held up by a British warship and taken to Deal, according to a message received at Boston by the Emery Steamship company, owners of the vessel. The Bucharest correspondent of the London Evening News telegraphed that the Russian offensive movement in Galicia had forced the Austrians to evacuate Czernowitz, the capital of Bukowina. British troops suffered heavy losses south of Ypres. Attempts by French to regain ground in district of Badonvillers failed. French lost over one thousand killed northeast of Celles, according to a statement issued by the war office at Berlin. Official dispatches received at Washington announce that the Turks are erecting fortifications all along the Sea of Marmora, and massing for a desperate defense of Constantinople. Ambassador Morgenthau is trying to have a neutral zone delimited in case the allied forces reach Constantinople. The German submarine U-18 has been sunk by destroyer belonging to the Dover flotilla, according to announcement by the French ministry of marine at Paris. Members of the crew were taken prisoners. Domestic Helen Burke, eight-year-old daughter of Clarence Burke. held by the po, lice of Aurora, III., on suspicion of slaying Emma Peterson, told Chief Michels her father did not come home the night of the murder, and that he had blood on his hands and coat sleeves. William Rockefeller, who is said to be ill at Jekyl island, Ga., entered through counsel a tentative plea of not guilty at New York to the superseding indictment charging him, as a director of the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad, with violating the Sherman antitrust law. The North Dakota legislature passed the measure abolishing capital punishment and sent the measure to the governor, who is expected to sign it at once. The legislature adjourned. a Princeton university will offer voluntary course in military training after Easter. The closing of the German National bank of Pittsburgh, Pa., by order of the comptroller of the currency was followed by a run on the East End Savings and Trust company in East Liberty. The German National December 31 reported deposits of $5.024,923 and surplus and undivided profits of $594,265. It is capitalized at $500,000. Brigadier General Scott, chief of staff of the army, left Washington for Utah to attempt a peaceful settlement with the recalcitrant Plute Indians. Nine men had been taken alive and one dead from the Layland mines of the New River & Pocahontas Coal company of Hinton, W. Va., after an explosion. Majority of the men entombed, about seventeen in number, are Americans. Johnny Bingham and George Wakefield, two ex-convicts of international repute, believed to be the ringleaders in the $386,000 robbery of the branch
