The Colorado statesman., 1916-11-18
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.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
ABOUT THE WAR

AbOOI IdE WAX
American members of French am
bulance corps again cited in dis
patches for bravery.
Another advance made by British
near the Butte de Warlencourt, three
miles south of Bapaume.
Rumanians admit reverse in Tran
sylvania, but claim Teutons were
checked on other fronts.
Report from Madrid, via London,
appears to confirm claim that German
submarine sank American steamer
Columbia
Austro-Germans have occupied the
village of Bumbeshti in the JUL valley
and forced the Rumanian left wing to
retreat near Dragoslavele.
Hard fighting reported from the
Macedonian front, where the Serbians
apparently have inflicted a severe
check on the BulgarG Germans.
A Petrograd official statement says
that majority of German vessels
which took part in a bombardment in
the gulf of Finland were sunk
The British report the capture of
another town-Beaucourt-in new
drive on the Ancre. Offensive is be-
ing pushed with vigor and more than
5000 prisoners have been captured.
Germans vigorously Smelling French
positions in region of Pressoire and
the Biaches-La Maisonette sector
French guns responding with equal
vigor, says the official Paris state
ment.
Austrians have driven Rumanians
from the right bank of the Danube,
allowing greater measure of freedom
for navigation of the river at the juno
tion of the Austrian, Serbian and Ru-
manian frontiers.
There has been much aerial fight
ing on the western front. Berlin re-
cords the destruction of seventeen en-
tente airplanes and Paris asserts that
ten German machines were brought
down.
An indiscriminate massacre of near
ly 100 women, children and Carranza
soldiers who were travelling on train
near Contreras, state of Morelos,
which was attacked by Zapata follow
ers, is reported in Mexico City news
papers received at Laredo, Texas.
WESTERN
The enormous increase in Idaho's
vote, estimated at about 81, 900 over
the vote of two years ago, has led to
official inquiries and a careful can
vass of the entire situation.
Denver postal inspectors received
word from Bitter Creek, Wyo., that
the postmaster at that place had dis
appeared some days ago and the de-
partment has been asked to search
for him.
Warrants for the arrest of States
Attorney Hoyne and the city editors
of five Chicago newspapers were
asked by Chief Justice Olson of the
Chicago Municipal Court, who charged
criminal libel.
The price of hides hoped upward
again, further intensifying conditions
in the American leather industry and
lending support to prediction that
within a few months Americans may
be paying s15 and $40 for shoes of
ordinary quality.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. ]. Bryan departed
from Lincoln, Neb., for Miami, Fla.
Rumors that the Bryans were going
to make their permanent home in the
South, presumably North Carolina,
were denied by Mayor @. w. Bryan,
brother of w. ]. Bryan Of Lincoln.
WASHINGTON
Cnnpraauor uanr,.
son of Henry George of single tax
fame, died in Washington after long
illness.
President Wilson blamed middlemen
for the high cost of foodstu1fs in
speech welcoming the convention of
the National Grange.
The name of Edwin F. Sweet was
sent to the president by Secretary of
Commerce Redfield for reappointment
as assistant secretary. Sweet resigned
TO run for governor of Michigan and
was defeated
Reelection congratulations have
be en- received by President Wilson
from rulers of several foreign nations,
but their names will not be given out
vntil the presidents reelection is for
tually conceded by the Republicans.
President Wilson was back at his
desk in the White House Monday after
an absence of two months, prepared to
take up important foreign problems
which have been held in abeyance.
These included the German submarine
situation and the Mexican problem.
Deportation of Belgian civilians into
Germany for forced labor has reacned
such serious proportions that Amer.
lean Charge Grew, in Berlin, has been