The Colorado statesman., 1916-04-01
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS.
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF THE WEEK
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EvE,lTs IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
Western Newspaper Union vows servies.
ABOUT THE WAR

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Berlin reports assert Russians have
lost $4,000 men in drive.
German destroyer rammed and
sunk by British cruiser in battle.
The cars troops are still chasing
the Turks out OF the Black sea coast
region.
Fighting between British and Ger
mans at st. Eloi is intense. British
hold ground
Villa is fleeing south, where it is
believed he is trying to mass large
army and fight Americans.
British capture small Turkish fort
in Mesopotamia by surprise attack.
Turks lombard Kut-el-Amara.
Germans made another determined
effort to break through French lines
at Verdun Tuesday, but were repulsed
with heavy losses.
Water and gasoline stations are be-
ing established between Columbus,
N. M, and the fartherest outpoint, be-
lieved to be about $50 miles.
The Germans are making stubborn
resistance to the Russians between
Dvinsk and wilma, but have lost two
lines of trenches near Postavy.
The Germans, after a period OF
comparative quiet, have again begun
shelling Bethincourt, LIE Mort
Homme and Cumieres, west of the
Meuse.
The British expeditionary force
campaigning against German East
Africa is making further progress in
its aggressive operations, according
to an official statement at London.
dispatch to the Exchange Tele-
graph Company from Copenhagen
says the German armed trawlers sunk
by the British outside Sylt harbor
were named Braunschweig and Otto
Rudolf.
The British have blown up about
100 yards of German trench in the
yegion of st. Eloi They have also
captured GOO yards of first and sec
ond line German trenches in bayo-
net charge.
WESTERN
Progressives in Kansas will hold
their state convention at Topeka on
May 25.
Delegates to the Texas Cattle Rang
ers' Association appropriated 100000
to aid the countrywide campaign for
betterment of livestock marketing
conditions.
Five men, four of whom are Off
GERS or members of the Butte, Mont
fnr nrha
nection with the dynamiting of
cut-rate barber shop.
Mrs. Olivia Scobey Harmon, wife OF
Judson Harmon, former governor of
Ohio and former attorney general of
the United States, died at her home
in Cincinnati, Ohio.
The commercial club of Thermopo-
lis, Wyo., sent an invitation to the
Denver Civic and Commercial Asso-
citation inviting the Denver people to
attend the annual convention of the
Wyoming Stockgrowers' Association
in that city on April 13 and ID.
Returning American refugees and
cattlemen at El Paso, who know the
country where Villa has taken refuge,
are unanimous in their expression
that Villa will never be taken. The
nature of the country and the fat
that Villa Is among his own people,
who idolize him, make the bandits
capture unlikely. thoy declare.
WASHINGTON
A total of 1888 recruits have been
added to the army in the last ten
days, the War Department announcno
By vote of 1913 to l the House
passed the army deficiency bill, car.
rying SS,C00,000 to cover the cost of
the Mexican expedition.
Plans are under consideration IN
the War Department for a civilian
training camp at Fort Crockett, Gal,
weston, Tex, from May to 2S.
Senator Pittman of Nevada was
elected TO the vacancy on the foreign
relations committee caused by the
death of Senator Shively of Indiana
The literacy test was kept in the
immigration bill by the House work.
ing in committee of the whole by a
vote os 225 to 80, which defeated a
motion by Representative Sabbath oI
Illinois to strike it out
BY vote of 10 to the House Judi
ciary committee voted to postpone in.
definitely consideration of all suffrage
and prohibition proposals now before
1t.
The United States has inquired of
Germany, through Ambassador Ge
rard, whether any of its submarines
torpedoed the British channel steamer
Sussex.
Thomas ]. Pence, secretary of the
Democratic national committee. who