Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1916-04-14
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ABOUT THE WAR


ever made peace overtures.
German submarine sunk by French
and British warships and crew cap
tured.
Several more neutral ships report
ed destroyed by submarines in tho
war zone.
Official report of American attache
supports theory steamer Sussex was
torpedoed.
Austrians have drawn the Italians
from the border ridge between Lob
bialta and Monte Fumo.
Washington to await German reply
on Sussex before taking further action
In U-boat controversy.
Prince Nicholas of Greece in a let
ter to Lord Durham pleads for better
treatment of Greece by the allies.
Germans capture Haucourt in cam
paign to capture Verdun, while
French retake trenches lost in attack.
British capture town of Felahie in
Mesopotamia from Turks in advance
to relieve besieged English force at
Kut-el-Amara.
The report that Greece has request.
ed withdrawal of the French and
British forces at Saloniki is reiterated
in al Athens dispatch.
The German losses before Verdun
have reached 100000 men, one of the
greatest losses in the whole range of
warfare, according to estimates made
public from a Paris semi-official
source
The French war office officially m
nounces that during the month of
March a total of thirty-five German
aeroplanes we're destroyed and that
the French aerial losses amounted to
only thirteen aeroplanes.
Not only have the Germans been en-
gagged in heavy fighting with the
French around Verdun, but they have
launched a strong attack against the
new British positions near st. Eloi,
which lies a few miles south Of Ypres,
In an endeavor to regain 600 yards
of trenches which the British won
from them ten days ago..
WESTERN
Warren G.. Harding, of Ohio, has
been selected for temporary chair
man Of the Republican National Con-
yention at Chicago, June z.
Father Angel Maria Barcelo, age IS
years, whose death is attributed by
his friends to a broken heart, be
cause of his exile from Sonora more
than a year ago, was buried at Doug
las. Ariz.
Joseph G. Bentley, head of the Nor
mon Colony at Colonia Juarez, Mexi-
co, addressing the Mormon conference
at Salt Lake City, Utah, said the name
of Villa strikes terror to all hearts
in Mexico, regardless of race, creed or
color.
Fifty persons, including women and
children, were murdered by bandits
between Torreon Zacatecas, March 28,
when the marauders wrecked the
train on which they were riding, ac-
cording to word brought to Laredo.
Tex, by passengers.
A Villista band, under Simon Reyes
and Chacon, attempted to surprise the
garrison in the mining town of Par
ras, several miles east Of Torreon,
Mex. The garrison, under Col. ]. NJ.
Gonzalez, drove off the bandits, kill
ing forty-two and capturing a guam
tity of arms and u number OF horses.
WASHINGTON
A joint resolution directing the
Census Bureau to collect and publish
statistics of raw and prepared cotton
and It's products consumed in manu-
facture Of explosives passed the
House, 1863 to 129.
Laws %forbidding interstate com
MERGE in prison-made goods were
urged before the Senate labor commit
tee by representatives Of manufactur-
ers who declared they were unable
to compete with convict labor.
Col. H. ]. Slocum, who commanded
the American troops at Columbus, is
~endeavoring to convince the Wal De-.
partment that treachery on the part
Of Mexicans supposedly hostile TO
villa caused the United States SOL
diers to be surprised in the Villa raid.
Two former residents of Denison
have been shot as spies by the Can
adam government, according to ad-
vices received at Denison. la.
AcceDtance nv the fadera1 oovarn-
ment Of the Kentucky farm and cabin
where Abraham Lincoln was born,
with an endowment fund of about
$4,000 in bonds on the city Of Louis
Vile, was urged in the House.
Persistent reports that the AmerI-
a forces in Mexico might be re-
called soon are emphatically denied
by Secretary Of State Lansing and
Secretary Of War Baker. Both de-