The Colorado statesman., 1916-04-22
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS.
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT.
CRISP PARAGRAPHs.
STORY OF THE week
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTs IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
ABOUT THE WAR

ABOUI IHE WAX
Italians take Austrian trenches in
Sugana valley and Carso region.
The Norwegian steamer Repelera
was sunk. Her crew was rescued.
British gain further ground along
Tigris river in effort to relieve Kut-
| El-Amara.
French redouble airsh1p activity,
shelling many German positions from
aeroplanes.
Germans reported driven back with
loss of large quantity of war mater
ials in Galicia by Russians.
Austrian hoops storm Italian posi-
tion at Mrzlivrh but are forced to
evacuate position south of Sperone.
Italians destroy Austrian position
on top of the Col di Lana, while Aus
trians rout foe from advanced posts
in the Sugana valley.
Russians capture Trebizond, most
important port on the Black sea, after
long campaign, and push drive to iso-
late Turkish forces in Mesopotamia.
The German losses since the begin
ming of the war are placed at $780,
916, according to figures which are
taken from lists prepared by several
London newspapers.
THE French have captured the
submarine which torpedoed the Sus-
Eek and have made prisoners the cap
tain and crew." says the London
Daily Mail
Operations at Verdun impeded by
the weather, but both Paris and Ber-
lin report heavy bombardments, while
Iermans claim capture of 1,646 men
md 46 officers in infantry attack.
Gen. Funston is sending to Gen.
Pershing more than 1000 additional
| troops and there is reason to believe
that even more will be placed at his
disposal il the campaign against Villa
Is continued.
The sinking of neutral ship and
British steamship was reported by
Lloyds. The Norwegian ship Glen
doom was sunk by gunfire The lost
British steamship was the Harrovian,
which was unarmed.
Francisco Villa is dead and his
body, disinterred some days after his
burial, is in possession of Carranzista
troops, according to series of tele-
graphic messages received at JuareZ
Sunday by Mexican officials.
WESTERN
George w. Peck, former governor
of Wisconsin and author of "Peck's
Bad Boy" died in Milwaukee.
| Con Roll ranprfipu frpD, Daeo
to Gen. Funston, gave it as his opin
ion after as thorough an investigation
as he could make that the report of
| Villas death had been manufactured
in JuareZ
According to announcement made
at Grand Rapids, Mich, typhus germs
have been found in the blood of Mrs.
Arthur Warren Waite, wife of the
dentist awaiting trial in New York
for the murder of his father-in-law,
John E. Peck of Grand Rapids. Mrs
Waite has gone to sanitarium for
treatment. Her condition is not con.
sidered serious.
1t is expected that three governors
| will be present at the festivities at
tendant upon the official opening of
the new Wolf Creek highway from the
San Luis valley to Pagosa Springs
and Durango some time early in
July. Governor Carlson has promised
to attend the celebration, and Gov.
ernor Mcdonald of New Mexico and
Governor Hunt of Arizona have been
invited, and it is believed they will
attend.
WASHINGTON
President Wilson, speaking before
the Daughters of the American Revo.
luton, declared that the only excuse
"or the United States ever to fight
would be in the cause of humanity.
The German embassy demanded of
the State Department the immediate
return of papers and documents
seized by agents of the department
of justice in New York from the of.
flee formerly occupied by Capt. Franz
Won Papen, the recalled military at.
tache of the embassy. At the same
time the embassy requested the re-
lease of Wolf Won Igel, Won Papens
former secretary, arrested by the au-
thorities in New York on an indict-
ment charging conspiracy to blow up
the Welland canal.
An army reorganization bill that
will produce regular army and reserve
military forces in the United States
aggregating a million men was passed
by the Senate without a record vote.
1t is a substitute for the Hay bill,
passed by the House, and the differ
ences will be worked out in confer
ence.
The administration is waiting on
further reports from American Off
GERS in Mexico before deciding