The Colorado statesman., 1916-09-30
THE EST IMPORTANT DIS
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF THE week
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EvEITs IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
Western Newspaper Union rsws service.
ABOUT THE WAR

Strong Russian attacks in Volhynia,
Galicia and the Carpathians repulsed.
says the Berlin war Office.
British and Serbians report gains
in the Macedonian zone against the
Bulgars and Teutonic allies.
British cross the river Struma at
three places and take Jenmita. driv-
ing the Bulgars before them.
Allied transport laden with troops
sunk by q submarine in the Mediter-
ranean. says Berlin admiralty report.
Storming of trenches in the Canal
du Nord region gives French import
ant advantage in their advance to-
ward Peropne.
Situation In Greece still tense, in
surrection headed by former Premier
Venizelos threatening to break forth
at any moment.
Thiepyal has fallen into British
hands. as has also the fortified town
of. Gaudecourt, according to the Brit
ish official statement.
German zeppelins in night air raid
on London kill thirty persons and in
jure 116. eleven women and children
being among the slain.
Allied war offices report continued
successes in the Macedonian caLa-
paign. Serbian troops cross frontier
and carry on fighting in their own
country.
Combles, pivotal point in the Ger
hn IN
Bapaume. now is entirely in the hands
of the allies as the result of COM
bined attack.
German pilots shoot down twenty
four entente aeroplanes and allied
sviators bring down twenty-six Teu-
ton planes in the aerial encounters on
various war fronts.
German official statement admits
conquest of villages necessary to
capture Of Combles, but gives great
praise to troops who defended these
important possessions.
Two British subjects and thirty-six
out OF thirty-eight Carranza soldiers
were killed when Villistas raided an
oil camp near Tuxpam Sept. 16, ac-
cording to officers of the tank steam
er Topila. which arrived at Calves
ton. Tex.
WESTERN,
President Wilson will speak in Chi
cago on Oct 10.
An order issued at Washington di-
recting Troop A. Kansas cavalry, to
tn hn
at post headquarters at Fort Riley,
Kan
According to the official advices,
tungsten and molybdenite have been
added to the list of goods that are pro
hibited to be exported from Japan
without special permit.
Three of the mail pouches stolen
from Santa Fe train near Syracuse,
Kan. several weeks ago, have been re-
covered by postoffice inspectors from
the Denver and Kansas City offices.
The most severe frost since 1883
visited Wisconsin on three successive
mornings, caught the tobacco crop
still standing and is destined to cause
financial loss to growers of close to
s1.500.00O.
A report that the family of E. o. Or
pet, father of William Orpet, recently
acquitted of the charge of Staying Ma
rion Lambert, was about to remove
to California was denied both by Or.
pet and by Cyrus Mccormick at Chi.
cago.
Within the week the proposed in.
crease in the cost of bread will be put
into force in Chicago. Bakers In
other big cities are expected to fol-
low in another week. and within
month the jump will be declared uni.
versal.
WASHINGTON
The State Department was official
ly advised that Burton Wilson, a
prominent American and president OF
the American Club of Mexico City,
has been thrown into Jail by Car.
rama
A most curious land case turned up
a few days ago. when it was learned
that an Indian tribe was trying to Sc
cure the return of 100000 acres o.
choice South Carolina land which It
leased to that state ninety-nine years
ago.
Health reports from the border for
the week ending Sept. 23 shows the
per cent sick of the National Guard
was 232 with six deaths as against