Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-04-14
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EvENTs
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
Western Newspaper Union news Service.
ABOUT THE WAR

Lord Robert Cecil denies Germany
ever made peace overtures.
German submarine sunk by French
and British warships and crew cap
tured.
Several more neutral ships report
ed destroyed by submarines in the
war zone.
Official report of American attache
supports theory steamer Sussex was
torpedoed.
Austrians have drawn the Italians
from the border ridge between Lob
bialta and Monte Fumo.
Washington to await German reply
on Sussex before taking further action
In U-boat controversy.
Prince Nicholas of Greece in a let
ter to Lord Burnham pleads for better
treatment, of Greece by the allies.
Germans capture Haucourt in cam
paign to capture Verdun, while
French retake trenches lost in attack.
British capture town of Felahie In
Mesopotamia from Turks in advance
to relieve besieged English force at
Kut.elAmara.
The report that Greece has request
ed withdrawal of the French and
British forces at Saloniki is reiterated
in an Athens dispatch.
The German losses before Verdun
have reached 100000 men, one of the
greatest losses in the whole range OF
warfare, according to estimates made
rublc from Paris semi-official
source
The French war office officially on
nounces that during the month of
March q total of thirty-five German
aeroplanes were destroyed and that
the French aerial losses amounted to
only thirteen aeroplanes.
Not only have the Germans been en-
gagged in heavy fighting with the
French around Verdun, but they have
launched a strong attack against the
new British positions near St Eioi
which lies few miles south of Ypres,
in an endeavor to regain GOO yards
OF trenches which the British won
from them ten days ago.
WESTERN
Warren G. Harding. of Ohio. has
been selected for temporary chair
man of the Republican National Con-
vention at Chicago. June Z.
Father Angel Maria Barcelo. age G5
years, whose death is attributed by
his friends to broken heart, be
cause of his exile from Sonora more
than a year ago, was buried at Doug
las, Ariz.
Joseph C. Bentley. head of the Nor
mon Colony at Colonia Juarez. Mexi-
CO. addressing the Mormon conference
at Salt Lake City. Utah, said the name
Of villa strikes terror to all hearts
in Mexico. regardless of race. creed or
color.
Fifty persons, including women and
children, were murdered by bandits
between Torreon Zacatecas. March 2S,
when the marauders wrecked the
train on which they were riding. ac-
cording to word brought to Laredo,
Tex. by passengers.
A Villista band, under Simon Reyes
and Chacon, attempted to surprise the
garrison in the mining town of Par
ras. several miles east of Torreon,
Mex. The garrison, under Col. j. NJ.
Gonzalez, drove off the bandits, kill.
ing forty-two and capturing a quan.
tity of arms and number OF horses
WASHINGTON
A joint resolution directing the
Census Bureau to collect and publish
statistics of raw and prepared cotton
and its products consumed in manu-
facture of explosives passed the
House. 100 to 129.
Laws forbidding interstate com
merce in prison-made goods were
urged before the Senate labor commit
tee by representatives of manufactur
ers who declared they were unable
to compete with convict labor.
Col H. ]. Slocum, who commanded
the American troops at Columbus. is
endeavoring to convince the War De
partment that treachery on the par,
of Mexicans supposedly hostile to
Villa caused the United States SOL
diers to be surprised in the Villa raid
Two former residents of Denison
have been shot as spies by the Can
adian government, according to ad
vices received at Denison, la.
Acceptance by the federal govern
ment of the Kentucky farm and cabin
where Abraham Lincoln was born
with an endowment fund of about
$4,000 in bonds on the city of Louis
Vile. was urged in the House.
Pergistent renorts that the Ameri
can forces in Mexico might be re
called soon are emphatically denied
by Secretary of State Lansing and
Secretary OF War Baker. Both de