The Colorado statesman., 1916-04-29
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PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
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STORY OF THE WEEK
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
ABOUT THE WAR
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

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recently lost north of Ypres
The British steamship Parisiana of
4,763 tons gross has been sunk.
Turks report British lost 5000 men,
1000 killed, in repulse at Telahie.
Turks report defeat of Russians
south of Biths and east of Mush.
Russians capture important Turk
ish position so miles west of Erzerum.
1t is announced officially that Sir
Roger Easement was taken to Lon
don for trial.
An infantry assault by Russians in
strong force beaten off at Garbun-
ovka, Berlin says.
British column in German East AT
rica occupies town of Kondoa, driving
Germans before them.
Hostile airships raided the counties
of Essex and Kent, according to
London official statement.
London reports capture of Sir Roger
Easement, Irish Separatist leader, in
effort to smuggle arms into Ireland
with German aid.
A German battle cruiser squadron
bombarded Lowestoft, England, Tues
day, but retreated quickly when Brit
ish warships appeared. Four dead.
Austrians enraged by Italian aerial
attack on Triest in which monastery
containing hundreds of noncombatants
was destroyed and several killed.
Heavy artillery action continued
| Tuesday in the region of Verdun.
French report German attacks on Hill
No. 304 and La Chapellotte, in Lor-
raine, repulsed. Four German aero
planes brought down.
The revolt of the Sim Fein party
in Ireland, with the attack on Dublin
and the killing of twelve men, is an
important development of the war.
Reports from the Irish capital say the
insurrection was quickly brought
under control, but the rebels hold sew
eral positions in the city.
WESTERN
Peter ]. Smith of Cleveland, Ohio,
convicted in the dynamite conspiracy
cases at Indianapolis, Ind, was re-
leased from the United States peni-
tentiary at Leavenworth, Kan, be-
cause of i'll health.
Selection of ]. Bruce Kremer, Demo
cratic national committeeman from
Montana, as secretary of the National
Democratic convention, has been
made, according to private advices
made public at Butte.
New Mexico's delegation elected at
the state convention at Albuquerque,
will go to the national Republican
convention uninstructed. Political
leaders declared, however, that five of
the six delegates were for Roosevelt.
The seven Villistas who were cap
tured after the raid on Columbus and
convicted of murder in the first degree
were condemned to death by Judge
Edward l.. Medler at Deming, N. NJ
The date of the execution was set for
May 10.
Ralph Bertram and Fred Jones, the
two young holdups who were cap
tured by posse of cowboys and Off
GERS after they had shot William H.
Cabler, a watchman at the Denver
stockyards, were held for Cabler's
death by coroner's jury in Denver.
William L. Carlisle, the Union Pa
cific train bandit who held up three
trains in six weeks, and was cap
tured by a posse near Fort Steele,
Wyo, Saturday afternoon, was taken
from the Rawlins Jail to Cheyenne on
a special train Monday and arraigned
on an information of five counts
charging robbery of passengers on
Overland Limited train No. 1, near
Cheyenne, April 4. He pleaded not
guilty to all counts, but his counsel
reserved the right to change the plea
later and his trial was set for May s.
WASHINGTON
Woman suffragists flocked to the
Senate galleries to hear Senator Shat
roth of Colorado urge adoption of the
Susan B. Anthony amendment.
President Wilson returned to Wash
ington after days trip to Princeton,
N. j., where he voted in the presi-
dental primaries, planted tree in
honor of Abraham Lincoln, and deliv-
cred brief address eulogizing the
martyred President.
Americans arriving at Ell Paso from
the Parral district attribute the recent
attack on American soldiers at Parral
to the desire of a Mexican girl for
revenge on Mayor Jose de Luz Her.
rera. The girls brother was shot and
killed by the late Monclova Herrera,
son of Mayor Herrera more than n
year ago.
Twenty-Five thousand kilograms.
protesting against action which might
mean war with Germany poured in on
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