The Colorado statesman., 1915-04-17
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ABOUT THE WAR

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Decorations have been conferred by
the emperor of Russia upon sixty-one
French officers, 500 non-commis-
stoned officers and 700 soldiers, all
of whom have distinguished them
selves in various ways since the war
began.
The bombardment of GAIA marks
the development of hostilities in
new quarter, GAIA is in southern
Palestine, near the Egyptian frontier.
The city lies two miles inland from
the Mediterranean and forty-eight
miles southwest of Jerusalem
In sortie Tuesday the Carranza
garrison at Matamoras inflicted
heavy blow upon the Villa army be-
sieging them. Gen. Saulo Navarro,
second in command of the Villa
troops, was taken to Brownsville,
Tex, dangerously wounded, and the
CarranZa consulate there claimed that
the Villa dead numbered 300.
With the capture by the Russians
of Hill 992 and the rest of the main
chain of mountains the battle of the
Carpathians, which has lasted up
ward of eighty days, has apparently
come to an end over one extensive
front, for the Russians are now NOV
ing by railways and roads and along
the rivers and streams, down the
southern slopes on the plains of Hun
gary.
German submarines have again
haGn a
Harpalyce which, according to one
member of her crew and the officers
of another steamer, was torpedoed,
they have attacked since Saturday
night the British liner Wayfarer, the
French steamer Frederic Franck and
the little steamer President The
Wayfarer reached Queenstown in
sinking condition; the Frederic Franck
was towed into Plymouth, and the
President was still afloat when her
crew OF ten left her.
Reports from Carranza officers and
soldiers in Nuevo Laredo, Mex, state
that $50 Villa soldier, who sur
rendered after the battle between
Villa and Carranza armies near
Huisachito, thirty miles south of the
border, as well as a number of Mexi-
can women, variously estimated at be-
tween ten and eighteen, were sum-
marily executed by the Carranza
forces. 1t was stated that a Carranza
general ordered machine guns turned
on one party of surrendering Villa
men, resulting in the death of seventy
six in the party while the wounded
were bayoneted.
WESTERN
At Madison, Wis, the assembly
passed the anti-tipping bill.
Edward Preston Moxey, formerly
special bank examiner for the United
States government, died suddenly in
Chicago
Governor w. C. Mcdonald of New
Mexico wired TO Governor Carlson
that New Mexico has lifted its stock
quarantine against Colorado, Arizona
and Texas.
The bodies of Mrs. Luther A. Leon
ard and her four children were found
in the family home at Spokane, Wash.
The police reported Mrs. Leonard had
poisoned her children and then had
poisoned herself.
The trial of Charles Ebenbach. an
Idaho ranchman, charged with having
perpetrated the sensational Yellow
stone park stage robberies last sum-
mer, was started in Sheridan, Wyo.,
at special term of the United States
District Court held in that city.
An indictment charging forgery in
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grand jury at st. Louis against A. II.
Frederick, president-elect of the first
board of aldermen chosen under the
new city charter. The minimum
penalty for this offense is ten years
Imprisonment
WASHINGTON
Authorities at Hong Kong require
all persons passing through that colony
10 show passports.
Secretary McAdoo of the treasury
and Comptroller of the Currency John
Shelton Williams were made defend
ants in proceedings begun in the Dis
trict of Columbia Supreme Court by
the Riggs National bank of Washing
ton. ID. c., which alleges that these
officials have combined and conspired
TO wreck that institution
Department of commerce statistics
show ia vessels of all classes, with
an. aggregate tonnage of 153,32S were
built during the last nine months,
while in the same period year ago,
S91 vessels. with a total tonnage of
2I5,059 were built.
Notification was received by the
State Department of the virtual set
Element, without prize court proceed
inEs, of the case of the American
steamer Wilhelmina, held up at Fal-
mouth, England, while bound for Ger