The Colorado statesman., 1916-01-22
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.
Western Newspaper Union Views Service.
ABOUT THE WAR


Reports from KEW indicate the
evacuation Of Lutsk by the Germans.
Leyland liner Huronian torpedoed
by submarine near spot where Lusi-
tania sank
Germany officially announces Kaiser
has recovered from illness and re-
turned to war front
The Greek army is believed I'M
friendly to the King and the populace
have rioted against royalty.
The French marked the surrender
of Montenegro by an air raid on Bull
gar positions northeast of Saloniki.
They killed or wounded hundreds OF
Bulgarians.
Germany notifies Great Britain re-
prisal measures will be adopted for
alleged shooting of crew of German
submarine which was sunk by the
patrol boat Baralong
Russians lose heavily in new at.
lacks on Austrians and, according to
reports from Vienna, fail to gain inch
= of ground. Cars men advance in
columns twelve to fourteen deep and
odyOu llBulihS 10 lTeQueuJ.
Reports from Berlin, Athens and
London indicate the allies have deter
mined to force the Greek ruler to aid
them or quit his throne. Allied forces
control Corfu, Saloniki and Corinth.
giving them bases that practically
surround Greece.
On the heels of an Austrian report
90 ha aff hot
conditionally sued for peace, comes a
statement from Zurich, Switzerland,
that King Nicolas has refused to con-
slider peace terms from the Teutonic
powers.
WESTERN
At Newton, N. j., Charles Ashford
Schaefer, 103 years old, died from
paralysis.
Billy Sunday closed a successful
campaign at Syracuse, N. Y. Net re-
turns, s23.112.27.
An Illinois Central passenger train
jumped the track near Pisgah, Iowa.
Four persons were seriously hurt and
a score injured.
The Bessemer and Lake Erie rail.
road has placed an order with a Pitts
burg company for 1000 steel cars to
cost about 100000.
A verdict of not guilty was re-
turned at Joplin, Mo-, by the jury in
the case of Menace Publishing Com
pany of Aurora, Mo-, and four OF its
officials.
Three persons were drowned when
the buggy in which they were driving
furiously to escape the floods between
Anaheim and Fullerton, Cal, was
swept from the state highway.
The Alainza Hispano Americana
which is said to have a membership
of 5000, extending over New Mexico
Texas, Arizona and California, held
national convention in Albu-
querque, N. M.
Two men were reported drowned
and hundreds of persons were home.
less Monday night as a result of the
heavy rainstorm which has caused
almost every river and stream in
southern California to overflow its
banks and inundate the lowlands.
WASHINGTON
Secretary McAdoo asked a deficien-
cy appropriation of $4,000 to com.
plete the approaches to the Lincoln
memorial
The House military affairs commit
tee will give hearing on the Keat-
ing bill to establish an $4,000 900 mu.
nitions plant at Pueblo.
Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, the
British suffragist leader detained by
New York immigration authorities,
was ordered admitted to the United
States Internationally.
The second of the administration
conservation measures, a bill under
which more than 700,0O0,000 acres of
public lands would be thrown open
for lease by private interests, passed
the House without roll call ImmeGi-
ately afterward the 640-acre home.
stead bill was taken up with pros.
pect that it would be passed. Oppo-
sition to the land lease bill was con
fined principally to far western rep
resentatives, as in the case of the wa
ter power leasing bill, passed a few
days ago.
Secretary Lansing announced that
the Berlin foreign office had informed
Ambassador Gerard that all German
submarines in the Mediterranean have
reported. and that none was concerned
in the destruction of the British liner
Persia.
Establishment of neutral zone in
northern Mexico to be Jointly policed
by the forces of Mexico and the Unit
ed States unless disorders are
speedily controlled, is proposed in a
resolution introduced nv Senator