Gilpin observer., 1915-11-25
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING the PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
Western Newspaper Union Views Service
ABOUT THE WAR

Vanclng SLOWLY IN Efforts TO cut OIL
Serbian army.
Four allied ships were torpedoed
by the Germans, and twentythree
killed and forty wounded.
Italy decides to give British and
French sufficient support in Balkans
to assure "a complete triumph"
Russians thrown back to old posi-
tions in Galicia and 6,000 taken pris-
oners. according to Austrian report.
Germans are falling back from
Dvina river in Russia and Russians
are attempting an outflanking move
ment.
Bulgaria and Turkey protest to
Greece against continued landing of
large forces of British and French at
Saloniki
One hundred and thirty thousand
Germans and Austrians captured by
Russians in last five weeks along
southern end of battle frcnt.
Kitchener was assailed in the house
of commons for "blunders" by Ma
tionalist member, who says 10 per
cent of British commanders should
be removed.
British and French troops attack
Ing the Bulgars in the south of Serbia
suffered a crushing defeat Their
losses were enormous, according to
Berlin dispatch.
The Bulgarians have extended their
grip on the Belgrade-Saloniii railway
north and south of Nish, and have oc-
rupied Leskovac, south of the cap
tured capital, and Aleksinao to the
north.
The Italian steamer Ancona was
torpedoed by an Austrian submarine.
About 312 passengers are believed
lost. The sinking OF the vessel raises
crisis in Washington similar to that
of the Lustania. The acton of the
United States is based on whether or
The Earl of Derby. director of re-
cruiting says eff young men medi-
cally fit and not Indispensable in any
business of national Importance or
any business conducted for the gen
eral good of the community do not
come forward voluntarily before Nov.
80, the government will after that date
take the necessary steps to redeem
the pledge made on Nov q"
WESTERN
One hundred Villa officers left
Douglas, Ariz,, for Piedras Negras,
having accepted amnesty.
The Georgia senate passed bill
prohibiting liquor advertisements and
making them misdemennor.
Four Chicagoans were killed when
a passenger train struck their automo-
bile at grade crossing near Elgin,
Ill.
Henry W. Ford, automobile manu-
facturer, who believes in the uplift OF
the convict and practices his belief by
employing him, spent strenuous day
in Denver on his way home from a
trip to the Pacific coast, where he and
Thomas A. Edison hobnobbed with
Luther Burbank and refused all invita-
tions to make public speeches.
Because of their youth the death
sentences of Atha Leonard and John
Tomlin, each aged about 20, convicted
several months ago of murder, were
commuted to life Imprisonment by the
Arizona state board of pardons and
paroles at meeting in the penitenti
AIRY at Florence. The board declined
tc act in the cases of William Flatlin,
to be hanged Nov. &c, and Mamon VII
lalobos, under sentence to die Dec. TO-
WASHINGTON
A hydroaeroplane record of II 900
feet, made by Lieutenant Saufley at
the Pensacola naval aviation station,
is announced by the Navy Department
Secretary Lansing announced that
he expected American Minister Whit.
lock would return to Brussels. Bel
GUM after his vacation in the United
States.
The nations principal farm crops
this year are worth about $500, O0O,-
300, exceeding by more than $500 900.
300 their value in 1914, the previous
banner value year.
Charles Taber Martin of Los An.
geles a son-in-law of Secretary Nc.
Adoo died OF pneumonia at the secre.
tary's home in Washington. President
Wilson went to the house to extend his
sympathy.
Definite overtures by group of
leading neutral nations to the belliger.
ent powers for the purpose of bring.
ing about cessation of the European
war Will be under way by Christmas,
This prediction was made at the
White House by DR.. David Starr Jor.
ian OF California, president of the In
ternational Peace Conference which
recently met at San Francisco.
Viscount Chinda, the japanese am.
bassador. gave an elaborate reception
at the embassy In honor of the corona.
ton of Emperor Yoshihito.