The Colorado statesman., 1915-09-11

the positions along the Belgian coast
rs far as Ostend Tuesday morning.
The early evacuation of Riva, at
the head of Lake di Garda, by the
Austrians, is expected to follow the
fall of Rovereto.
The army of Field Marshal Won Hin
denburg has captured Grodno, the last
of the strong Russian fortresses to
hold out, making twelve within a
month. beginning with Warsaw on Au-
gust ;.
The French steamship Bordeaux
has been torpedoed and sunk, twelve
miles outside the mouth of the
Gironde, off the western coast of
France. Its crew was taken aboard a
pilot boat
The German submarine U-27 tor
pedoed and sank a small British
cruiser west of Hebrides islands on
Aug. 10 and is believed to have her
self been sunk several days later, the
admiralty announced in Berlin.
An Athens dispatch to the Elk
change Telegraph Company says that
British submarine operating in the
sea of Marmora has sunk a Turkish
transport which was carrying 2S-centi-
metre guns from Constantinople to
Gallipoh.
1t was announced at Brownsville,
Tex, that Maj. Gen. Frederick Funs-
ton of the southern department is to
issue orders placing practically the
entire Rio Grande country in the
Brownsville section in the hands of
the L. S. army.
The immediate objective of the Aus
tro-German campaign in Russia be-
comes clearer with the growing indi-
cations that the invaders need the
Baltic port of Riga, not only as a base
for present operations in the direction
of Petrograd, but as winter quarters
in case the attempt to reach the Rus
sian capital should be postponed I'M
til next spring.
Six second cabin passengers, six
third passengers and thirteen of the
crew of the steamer Hesperian tor
pedoed $50 miles off Queenstown were
unaccounted for Monday night, accord
ing to the revised official figures is
sued by the Allan line. This brings
the probable death list, including Miss
Carberry of St Johns, n. F., whose
body is at Queenstown, up to twenty
six.
WESTERN
Fire destroyed the st. Francis Girls
directory, a Catholic orphanage, at
San Francisco, with the loss of at least
five lives.
A. n. Barnett of Douglas, Ariz., and
Clarence Sullivan of Denver, arrested
as spies while looking over the Car
rama defences at Aqua Prieta were
released. II was announced that here
after foreigners must have passports
If they cross the border.
In a speetch at home coming
celebration at Rochester, ILL., United
States Senator Lawrence Y. Sherman
praised the policy of President Wilson
in dealing with international ques-
lions and denounced the utterances of
former President Theodore Roose-
welt to the administration.
The Rev. Father A. ]. Schiller,
bishop-elect of Ell Paso, will be CON
secrated bishop at the Cathedral of
Immaculate Conception Sept. q in
Denver Fifteen bishops and archbish-
ops will officiate in the services, and
Archbishop Pitival of New Mexico and
Bishop Matz will bestow the papal
commission.
WASHINGTON
Secretary McAdoo has appointed a
committee of treasury officials to in
vestigate and make recommendations
to place the department on a more
efficient, economical and business
basis"
The Interior Department announced
that homestead entry may be made,
under the reclamation law, on 157
farms of eighty irrigible acres on the
uncompahgre valley irrigation pro-
ject in Colorado.
The resignation of John A. Mar
shall as United States District Judge
for Utah was received at the Depart
ment of Justice. Judge Marshall gave
no reason for resigning He was APP
pointed by President Cleveland in
1896
Twenty-four carloads of troops, in
Guiding infantry, cavalry and artillery
men. and twenty carloads carrying
tools of war passed through New
Orleans on the way to the Mexican
border from the East the majority
OF the troops being from Alabama,
Georgia, Florida, Arkansas, North and
South Carolina and eastern posts and
forts.
Chairman Flood of the house for
eign affairs committee declares that
the State Department must have
largely increased appropriations on
account OF the war.