Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-01-28
DURING The PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
ABOUT THE WAR

marine base on corfu lSlaHu.
British submarine sinks Austrian
torpedo boat in upper Adriatic.
Russians push forward in Persia to
l50 miles southwest of capital city.
Teutonic allies claim to have cap
tured 3,0G0.00O prisoners since war
began.
Belgium reports 1S,2O7 houses
burned by Germans since they in
yaded country.
British relief column within seven
miles of Kut-El-Aamara and big bat
tie with Turks expected.
Kaiser's proposed invasion of Egypt
appears definitely settled as Ger
many's next big move in war.
The Russians have captured Hassan
kalah in Caucasus and driven Turks
twenty miles to forts of Eraerum.
Petrograd announces great victory
over the Turks in the Caucasus. The
Moslems suffered heavily, according to
the Russian report.
The French marked the surrender
of Montenegro by an air raid on Bul'
gar positions northeast of Saloniki.
They killed or wounded hundreds o:
Bulgarians.
Late reports indicate the announce
ment of the Montenegro surrender
was premature. The Balkan nation
found Austria's terms too uncompro-
missing and King Nicolas has fled to
Italy.
Reports from Berlin, Athens and
London indicate the allies have deter
mined to force the Greek ruler to ali
them or quit his throne. Allied forces
control Corfu. Saloniki and Corinth
giving them bases that practically
surround Greece.
WESTERN
Billy Sunday closed a successful
campaign at Syracuse, N. Y. Net re-
turns. $23.112.27.
The Bessemer and Lake Erie rail.
road has placed an order with a Pitts
burg company for 1000 steel cars to
cost about 100000.
One dead, thousands homeless and
property damage estimated at more
than $1.0G0.000 was the toll Friday OF
floods IN northern Illinois.
Five negroes taken from the Worth
County Jail at Sylvester, Ga, were
hanged to one limb of a tree on the
outskirts of Starkville, Ga.
Townspeople of Vandervoort. Ark,
armed with shotguns, pursued and
killed an unidentified man VINO
robbed the Bank of Vandervoort.
Eight states were storm-swept last
week. Five persons were drowned in
Oklahoma. Shows in Arizona and
New Mexico tied up railroad trains.
A resolution calling for the submis-
sion of woman suffrage constitution
al amendment at the South Carolina
General Assembly was defeated by a
vote of 81 to 81 in the lower house.
Surrounded on north, east and west
by flood waters and faced by the Pa
eific ocean, Long Beach, California
summer and winter resort of 10000,
was temporarily converted into an is
land, with its industrial section in the
lowlands covered with from three to
eight feet of water.
WA0ulN1lON
Secretary McAdoo asked a deficien-
cy appropriation of S594,00O to com.
plete the approaches to the Lincoln
memorial.
Sixteen submarine bases, divided
between the Atlantic and the Pacific,
are among projects in the naval pre-
paredness program, Admiral Stanford
Iaf
Committee.
Germany's proposal to incorporate
in the settlement of the Lusitania case
a reservation of any admission of
wrong-doing by her submarine COM
mander is understood to have been
rejected by the United States.
Secretary of the Interior Franklin
K. Lane has announced the creation
by President Wilson of three new oil
and gas Withdrawals in the West. Two
of these are in Montana and total
49S.000 acres. The other is in North
Dakota and embraces $4,000 acres
total of $4,000 acres.
President Wilson plans to speak in
in Pittsburg. Cleveland, Chicago, st.
Louis, Kansas City st. Joseph, Des
Moines and Davenport on the first
trip he will take to lay his national
defense program before the country.
He expects to leave Washington Jan.
IS and remain away one week.
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.