The Monte Vista journal., 1916-04-15
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CATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPH.
STORY OF The week
.uowiNe THE PRooRESe or
eveu7s IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
,,.u,u,, Newspaper Union News Service.
ABOUT THE WAR

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pedoes.
Russian efforts to advance in the
Eraerum region stubbornly resisted
BY Turks.
Paris reports capture of $50 yards
NJ German trenches southwest of
Douaumont
British troops at st. Eloi capture
German trench and retake mine crater
recently lost.
French evacuate Bethincourt salient
at Verdun into which Germans had
driven wedge.
Germany announces the steamer
Sussex was not attacked by Ger
man submarine.
British forces repulsed by Turks in
effort to penetrate to relief of Kut-el-
Amara, floods hampering attack.
Germans seize French trenches east
OF lie Mont Homme at Verdun but are
driven from captured positions in
Douamont-VauX region.
Petrograd reports German plan to
rush reinforcements to Verdun from
Dyinsk front has been baked by new
Russian offensive, which has engaged
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg's en-
tire available force.
Gen. Gavira, CarranZa commander
at Juarez, announced that the forces
of the de facto government were in
position to take immediate control
Of the Villa situation if the American
troops withdrew.
civilian who arrived at Ell Paso,
Tex, Sunday from Columbus reported
that additional troops are being hur-
red south into Mexico from the base
as rapidly as they can be provided
with transportation and equipment.
Twenty thousand Germans were
Killed or disabled in the first forty
eight hours of the new Verdun at
tack and German losses in the Yer
dun offensive total 100000, Paris re-
ported. 1t is admitted that the French
losses have been $4,000.
At Gen. Pershing's headuarters at
tue front renewed reports have been
received that Francisco Villa is dead
and buried. These reports are under
Investigation. Meanwhile the hunt
"r the Villistas is proceeding with
renewed vigor with the arrival at the
'front.' of Gen. Pershing.
WESTERN
l. M. Potter of Norwich, Kan, shot
ana killed his wife because she TOOK
thelr children walking Sunday when
he protested.
fllty persons. including women and
ehlidren, were murdered by bandits
'elween Torreon Zacatecas, March %,
"neh The marauders wrecked the
N"'n on which they were riding, ac-
ooraing to word brought to Laredo,
lex. by passengers.
Neturns from the war baby crop in
EUROPE are being received regularly
:" East hammond, Ind, and foreigners
a1oept iatherhood by proxy in much
"e same way as they hail victory
~" ~, the country of their nativity.
""eil IL is boy, the daddy" stands
he drinks.
ooniirInation of the burning of the
'lVoo'oO0 lumber plant of the Com
aun'' di, MADEIRA. Durango City, by ban
al,'' was contained in a letter re-
.ei'eu by an El Paso busines man. 1t
no. known whether followers of the
'e'a brothers or stray Villista
p"'us attached to Gen. Canuto Reeves
were to blame
A., James Moran, alias Arthur Maggs,
not participate in the robbery of
united States mail truck in New
fo, .A tast February, as he has Con
.n oseu to authorities at Los Angeles
at san Diego, according to Los
e'es H. officers, who said Moran was
nns San Quentin penitentiary at the
mitted. wac 'oin
WASHINGTON
ine House passed 100000 900
Din ana harbors appropriation bill,
,,s o"olilcial and unconsirmed reports
,sa' ae villa is dead reached the Car.
de- embassy and was given some
'e ot credence by officials there.
,wa me Senate passed forty to thirty
heal substitute for House sugar re-
Suoa resolution. extending present
'"5hr tariff INIT, 1noo