The Colorado statesman., 1915-12-18
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS,
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF The WEEK
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
Western Newspaper Union News Services.
ABOUT THE WAR

Police in Berlin were forced to DIS
perse a mob making peace demon
stration.
Reinforcements are being daily
landed at Saloniki, now occupied by
the allied troops.
Russians hurrying troops to Ru-
manian border and building ammuni-
ton depots on Danube
An army of 25O,OO0 British and
French awaits battle with the Teutons
in Greece. The clash probably will be
decisive.
u. S. note to Austria demands
prompt denunciation of sinking of An
coma, punishment of submarine com
mander and indemnity for American
lives lost
Bulgars are reported as having
crossed the Greek frontier. Berlin has
asked the Greek ruler to explain his
attitude toward the allies within
Hellenic borders.
German and Austro-Hungarian sub
marines to date have sunk sos ships,
recording to a news dispatch from
Berlin. The total tonnage of the yes
sells sunk is given as 917,S19.
The last ten lists of Prussian casu-
alties contain G5,34O names. The lists
cover the period from Nov. 10 to Nov
&c. The total Prussian losses to date
are given as 2,224.24S.
An order from Athens has COM
mandeered all Greek ships in Ameri
| l., l.
1t is said to transport food and sup
plies of a general nature to Greece.
Reports from Albania indicate that
conditions there are most distressing,
the people being on the point of star
walton, the weakest being Unable to
resist the cold on account of hunger
The United States in note to
France has protested against the seiz-
Cre OF Germans sailing on ships flying
I the American flag. The release of
those taken by the cruiser Descartes
has been demanded.
The British and French have fallen
back into Greece. Berlin claims the
British loFt 10000 men in the last en-
gagement of the retreat. The Innis-
KILN fusileers, famous Irish regi
ment, sacrificed itself to cover the
British retreat. With only their rifles
to oppose cannon and machine gun
fire the lrishmen stopped the Bulgar
advance. Most of them were killed.
/ WESTERN
At Minas and Prieta Villa is said to
have personally directed the looting
of twenty Chinese stores and the ex-
ecution of their owners.
The Los Angeles city board of edu-
cation defeated, by a vote of to 8,
a proposal to introduce military train
ing into the high schools.
Chicago was selected by the Repub-
lican national committee as the meet
ing place OF the 1916 Republican ma
tional convention, juno one week
before the Democratic convention in
st. Louis.
The Oregon Short Line Railroad
| Company has issued a circular can
ceiling its blanket concurrence in the
making of through passenger rates by
way of the Denver & Pho Grande and
Colorado Midland railroads, and has
| issued conditional concurrence
which reopens the Ogden gateway
fight.
An electric railroad from Amarillo,
Tex, to Denver, offering ranchmen of
the vast territory of Eastern Colorado
a direct route to the Denver market
for their shipments of live stock and
grains. and likewise providing mer-
| chants of Denver market which
heretofore they have been unable to
reach, is to be started the first of the
year, according to those Interested in
the project.
WASHINGTON
Senator Chamberlain Introduced a
bill for military training of citizens.
Advices to the State Department say
Villa forces at Escalon and Durango
have surrendered
Ordinary receipts of the United
States treasury in Nov ,mber were
about $12,0OO,OO0 more than in the
same month last year.
Senator Kenyon proposed in n SEN
ate bill to tax rno nufacturcrs of muni-
uons and to prohibit passengers on
-lunition ships.
Senator Cummins practically had
decided to stake his political fate on
the results in the Minnesota presiden-
tial primary in March. He will go to
the voters on a progressive Republi-
can plea and with preparedness plan
of his own.
In his forthcoming annual report
Secretary Lane suggests the need for
a national campaign for better rural
school. He speaks of Young Amer
lea, our 22,O0O,000 school boys and
GIRLS" as the chief resource of the
nation, and asks, Are we doing all
possible to develop this resource?"