The Colorado statesman., 1915-09-25
CONDENSED RECORD OF TIL
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, o o N G 8. ACHIEVE
MENTs, SUFFERINGS, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
About the War

An Austrian submarine torpedoed
and sank large British transport in
he southern Adriatic.
Russian ships have sunk German
submarine which has been operating
recently in the Black sea.
1t is reported by the Overseas News
agency that the Serbian government
has declared the o-Bulgarian
frontier district war zone.
The Berlin Frankfurter Zeitung re-
ports that large British transport
from Egypt for the Dardanelles has
been sunk by German submarine.
Official reports from Austrian and
German headquarters and dispatches
from the Balkan capitals show that
the long-eXpected Teutonic campaign
against Serbia has now begun.
Gen. Won Hindenburg has cut the
Vilna-Baranovitshi railroad, over
which the Russians hoped to retreat
FROM Wilma, according to an official
| announcement from the Berlin war Of
flee.
The Lausanne Gazette at Geneva
says it has learned that the German
government has decided to issue a
| declaration anneXing to the German
empire the occupied territories in
France and Belgium
A new vote of credit for s1,25O,O00,-
600 was asked in the House of Com
mons by Premier Asquith. This
brings the total up to S6,310, 200, 600.
The premier announced that nearly
100000 men had enlisted.
The Germans have lost twenty sub
marines since the beginning of the
war; according to an editorial note ih
the London Motorship and Motorboat,
while the British losses have been
only seven, including the Ell.
According to the most recent finan-
cial report, NJ. Ribot said, the average
monthly war expenses of Russia were
1,S00,000000 francs 1880, 200, ,OOO);
Germany's monthly war expenses ap-
proach 2,500,O0O,O0O francs (s5O0,O0O,-
| 000), while Great Britains exceed this
amount
Western
Attendance at the Panama-Pacific
Exposition has reached the 1900, 900
mark.
Bankers in session at Denver en-
dorsed the U. S. war loan to France
and England.
| Arkansas City, Kan, is the proud
parent of the youngest oil territory in
the mid-continent field, and oil men
from all parts of the country are
swarming in.
INT D,;p
ton, which lay at the bottom of Pago
Pago harbor for seventy days last
year, has arrived at San Francisco
from the Samoan port.
The steamship Eastland which cap
sized in the Chicago river July "a
drowning S12 persons, has been or
dered sold by Federal Judge Lands to
satisfy claim of s34,5OO for the work
of raising the boat from the river bot
tom.
The eight flag-draped caskets con-
tanning the dead of the FL. which ar
rived at San Francisco aboard the
United States steamer Supply, were
sent away, the four identified bodies
to their homes, the seventeen frag.
mentary bodies in four caskets, to the
National cemetery at Arlington, Va.
Washington
President Wilson and former Secre-
tary of State Bryan had conference
over peace matters on Wednesday,
General mobilization of all military
forces in Bulgaria for the purpose of
armed neutrality, has been ordered by
the Bulgarian government
Recognition of the Carranza govern
ment is urged by the executive coun-
Gil of the American Federation of La
Dor. President Gompers has been au-
thorized to draft resolution urging
recognition of the Carranza govern
ment as the expression of the best
ideals of the Mexican people for self
government" for presentation to
President Wilson
An appeal from American citizens
in Mexico City, urging the American
Red Cross not to discontinue its re-
lief work there, was made public by
Miss Mabel T. Boardman. chairman
of the Red Cross National Relief
Board.
A four-line "ad" in Washington
paper discloses that William ]. Bryan,
former secretary of state, is done with
Washington as place of residence.
The "ad" is as follows: For rent
furnished, Calumet place, Thirteenth
and Clifton streets. N. w. Apply at
premises. w. ]. Bryan
Big cereal crops this year in nearly
all OF the worlds chief agricultural
countries are forecasted in cable re-
ports received at the Department of
Agriculture from the International In
stitute of Agriculture at Rome.