Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1916-10-20
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THE WORLD.
CURING THE PAST WEEK
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTs
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Western Newspaper Union News Service.
ABOUT THE WAR

tacks on the Cerna river.
British advance guards renew &C
tivity in Macedonia and gain local
successes.
Austro-Germ troops are steadily
forcing back the Rumanian second
army toward It's frontier.
Vienna comedies the capture OF No
vovas by the Italians, but claims the
capture Of 2,7OO prisoners.
Italians gain further successes in
the vicinity OF Gorilla, repulsing
heavy Austrian counter attacks.
Rumanians are in retreat along the
entire Transylvanian frontier, and
also in the north. Attacks repulsed,
says Bucharest.
The French and British were re-
pulsed in new offensive against the
German line between the Ancre and
the Somme on Friday.
German casualties from the begin
ming Of the war to the end of Sep
TENDER we're 3~,556,O1S, according to an
official British compilation given out
at London.
Allied warships seized the entire
Greek navy, with the exception Of
three vessels, as precautionary meas
ure for protection Of entente fleets in
Greek waters.
Italians report important advance
in region of Gorilla, with the capture
Of LII Austrian prisoners. Total of
SO,SS1 prisoners taken since the Of
fensive started, Aug. G.
Forty French and British aero
planes dropped four tons Of explosives
on the Mauser rifle works at Obern-
dorf, Germany, on the Neckar river
the war office announced. Six Ger
man machines defending the works
were shot down.
WESTERN
Army headquarters received infor
nation considered reliable that an at
tack upon Juarez has been planned
and the date agreed upon.
John Coleman, 20 years old, who as
a bridegroom last summer shot and
killed a member of a charivari party
on the night Of his wedding, was par
doned from the Arkansas peniten
tiary.
The necessity Of linking various
sections of the United States in or
der to have complete development
was the theme Of President Wilson's
address at the luncheon given IL
honor OF him at Indianapolis, Ind.
Clyde Burran Pearson, under sen
tence of execution for the murder o
Frank b. Roach of Cheyenne, Wyo.
in Larlmer county last May filed
bill of exceptions and a record in tn,
Supreme Court automatically securing
a stay.
Warren X. Billings, convicted of tn,
murder of Mrs. Myrtle Van Loo IL
connection with the Preparedness Da,
parade bomb explosion at San Fran
cisco, July %, in which ten person
lost their lives, was sentenced to lf
imprisonment.
WASHINGTON
Aimaro Sato, the new Japanese an
bassador. was officially presented t
Secretary Lansing and other official
at the State Department.
Brig. Gen. Montgomery Meigs Ma
comb, U. S. A., president of the arm
war college, was retired from activ
service, having reached the age or G
years.
Prices of farm products continue t
rise. Producers were being paid q.
per cent more Oct. l than a year age
the Department Of Agriculture al
nounced.
Secretary Lane announced that /
September more than $4,000 acres /
Colorado we're designated under Tn
enlarged homestead act. chiefly 1
Bent and Prowers counties.
Secretary of the Navy Daniels sal
that the destroyer fotilla OF the A
lantic fleet is making a careful scare
up and down the coast for hide
submarine bases and secret wireless
plants.
r A hearing will be held Oct. 20 b
, the Interstate Commerce COmmissio
/ on the petition Of the express con
panies for authorization to maintai
/ rates on the basis of the declare
value Of shipments.
The State Department has notifie
: the Serbian government now 1
France that Ljoubomir Michailevitc
will be acceptable to the Unite
States as minister OF Serbia in thi
country. The new envoy formerl
represented Serbia in Montenegro.
: More general use OF potatoes /
making bread is recommended by Ii
baking specialists OF the Departmer
Of Agriculture. Bread ~containin
boiled or mashed potatoes was foun
during experiments to be Just as nj
tritious as wheat bread and to hav