The Colorado statesman., 1915-11-20
CONDENSATION
OF FRESH NEWS
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 ssrvicsL
ABOUT THE WAR


Austrian submarine sinks Italian
steamship Bosnia
Serbs take town of Tetove, but Bull
gars recapture it.
Austro-Germans pierce Russian line
on Styr river and take 1,500 prison
ers.
The Serbians have recaptured Kali
handel, taking 526 prisoners and large
quantities OF ammunition.
One hundred and thirty thousand
Germans and Austrians captured by
Russians in last five weeks along
southern end of battle front.
Austria declares Ancona was given
warning and tried to escape. Italy
declares no warning preceded shots.
Nine American passengers not &C
counted for.
The French have checked the Bull
garian advance after battle on the
Cerna river. The Germans and Aus
trians, however, are slowly pounding
their way into the heart of Serbia.
Americans arriving from Colonia
Moreles, fifty-siX miles southeast of
Douglas, Ariz., report the rout of the
Villa army from Chihuahua in Sonora
is marked by the bodies of men, wom-
en- and animals
Fighting on the west front has been
resumed. The Germans claim to have
captured 300 meters of French
trenches near Eucurie. The French
claim gains in the Labyrinth and in
Champagne.
The attitude of the Greek govern
ment has increased the worry of the
allies as to the probable action of the
Hellenic ruler in the event the allies
are forced to retreat to Greek soil. Il
is feared the Athenian government
will make an effort to disarm the
soldiers.
Lord st. Davids told the House of
Lords the British general staff was
composed of men who should be in the
ranks. He asserted the officers
passed their time playing bridge and
sleeping, when they should be at
tending to duty. He added that wom-
en- were frequent visitors at the staff
headquarters and ended bv saying the
lldl ItSullpu nave wasted
thousands of British lives.
WESTERN
Chicago was covered with two
inches of snow Tuesday, the first of
the season.
Thirty-one miners were killed in the
Northwestern improvement Com
pany's coal mine at Ravensdale, Wash.
The death of Mrs. Marion Johnson
Increased to eight the list of deaths
resulting from a tornado at Great
Bend, Kan.
dispatch announcing the voluntary
closing of the Banco Nacional de Mex
leo at Mexico City was received in
banking circles at Ell Paso, Tex.
Funeral services for Booker T..
Washington, the noted negro educator,
were held at Tuskegee Institute, Ala
bama. Burial was in the grounds of
the institute.
The Liberty Bell arrived at Los An
geles from San Diego and remained
for seven hours before starting East.
More than 10000 school children
Viewed the relics. The bell is en- route
home to Philadelphia.
You'll be laughing when you come
out" read sign over Madison street
picture theater in Chicago. James
Hackeby OF Pueblo, Colo, paid his
dime and went In. He came out, but
sans the advertised laughter. He re-
ported his pocketbook with s1S5 had
been "pinched."
WASHINGTON
Wheat production in twenty coun-
tries, which ordinarily produce so per
cent OF the worlds crop, is placed at
3.793,000,000 bushels by the Depart
ment of Agriculture.
President Wilson is now hard at
work preparing his message to Con-
igress. He plans to have 1t completed
by Nov. 25, and will deliver it in per-
son, probably Dec. before a Joint
session of the House and Senate.
Immediate publication of the report
of the army general staff on the mill.
tary needs of the country, differing
materially from the administrations s
continental army scheme, will be
urged upon President Wilson by Secre-
tary Garrison.
The fourteenth neutrality proclama-
tion issued by the United States since
the beginning of the European war has
been promulgated. 1t covers the hos.
tilities between Great Britain, France,
Serbia and Italy on one side and Bull
garia on the other.
Ambassador Penfield at Vienna was
instructed by cable to ask the Austro-
Hungarian foreign office for state
ment In detail of the circumstances
OF the torpedoing of the Italian liner