The Colorado statesman., 1916-09-16
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 rsw. ssrvic
About the War

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On the Caucasus front in the re-
gion of Sakkiz the Russians have oc-
cupied the town of Bana.
Bulgarian troops occupied in con-
solidating trench lines west of Var
dar river near Majadgh.
Bulgarians reported unofficially to
have evacuated forts at Kavala, on
the Aegean sea, which they occupied
in August.
French assaults repulsed with san
culinary losses in Berleux-Belly sector,
Berlin claims. Nine allied aeroplanes
brought down.
German and Bulgarian forces oper-
ating in Rumania capture strongly
fortified town of Silistria, sixty miles
from Bucharest.
Paris reports repulse of repeated
German attacks on the Somme, in
which the assailants used liquid fire
in large quantities.
German casualties in the war dur
ing the month of August, according
to a compilation at London from the
German casualty lists, totalled 24O,-
900.
Reports from Balkan front indicate
allied offensive from Saloniki has
started in earnest. Allied effectives
ready for duty on that sector now
said to number 100000.
French forces, resuming their often
sive on the Somme, smashed German
line in attack lasting half an hour,
capturing first trench system and
taking 1900 prisoners.
Teutonic allies have made further
progress in Dobrujda in their advance
through Rumania, according to official
statements from Berlin. Russian Of
fensive movements in Carpathians
and In the Kovel sector defeated, the
statements say.
German and Bulgarian troops have
captured the RumAnian stronghold of
Turtakai, with 10000 prisoners and
100 guns. Both armies lost heavily
in the battle for possession of the
fortress. Vienna admits retirement
on both the Russian and Rumanian
fronts under pressure.
Western
The Sioux City unit of the Ameri-
can Red Cross will see service on the
border. Ten women have been or
dered to report at Llano Grande, Tex.
The press mill of the Dupont Pow
der Company's plant at Oliphant, near
Fairchance, Pa, blew up. Only a hui
man foot was found of three men who
were at work in the mill.
A date for the execution of Oscar
w. White, sentenced to be hanged for
the murder of Anderson Coffee near
Casper. Aug. ~, 1913, is to be set by
the Wyoming Supreme Court
The heaviest Neutrality-suspicious. rain
in fifteen years, following Fridays
steady downpour, sent desert streams
coursing across the Salt River Valley
In Arizona.
e. P. Ripley, president of the Atch-
ison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad,
announced in New York that he would
bring suit to test the constitutionality
of the recently enacted eight-hour law.
Artillery target practice, directed
by modern field telephones, was be-
gun at Ell Paso, Tex, by Pennsylva-
MIA National Guard batteries, using
regulation ammunition. The range of
firing was nearly three miles.
preliminary inventory of the es-
tate Of the late James ]. Hill, the
railroad financier, obtained by the
Probate Court at ST. Paul Mimi,
shows Minnesota holdings approx
mating $4O,0O0,000. involving an in
heritance tax of s1.25O,OOO
Washington
Maj. Gen. James B. Aleshire. quar-
ter master general of the army since
July, 1907, was placed on the retired
list on account of physical disability.
Representative Heating of Colorado
asked the United States Geological
Survey to make survey around Pu-
eblo. Colo, with view to developing
oil and gas.
Proclamations requested by Con.
gress were issued by President Will
son designating Oct. 81 and 22 as spe-
cial joint days on which funds will be
solicited from the American people
for relief of starving Syrians and Ar.
menians in the war zone, and Nov. |
as similar day for contributions for
the Lithuanians.
President Wilson lent his personal
touch to aid the efforts of the Ameri-
can-Mexican joint commission I'm seek
ing permanent foundation of SYM
pathy and understanding upon which
may rest the future relations OF the
United States and Mexico Putting
aside for one nour his own cares anu
his vigil at the bedside of his sister
who Is dying. Mr.. Wilson exchanged
calls with General Carranza,s renre-