Tombstone epitaph. (Tombstone, Ariz.) 1887-current, 1916-04-16
THE WORLD IN
PARAGRAPHS
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
ElGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
poINos AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK TIE PROGRESS
OF The Age.
U-.t~rn N.v.nspsr Union News -.ryie
ABOUT THE WAR

U-.t~rn Nsw.rspsr Union news service
ABOUT THE WAR
German submarine sunk by French
and British warships and crew cap
turei.
Spanish cabinet meets to discuss
torpedoing of Spanish vessels 10y sub
marines.
official report of American attaohe
supports theory steamer Sussex was
tornedoed
Austrians have drawn the Italians
I from the border ridge between Lob
biaita and Monte Fumo.
France issues official statement
that thirty-fiye German aeroplaues
were destroyed during March.
Villas fierce, estimated al oG5. "aa
I severely defeated in a fiyc-hour battle
at Guerrero on March % by Col. Dodd.
Another Zeppelin raid was made on
England Monday night The British
report says no casualties have been
recorded.
/ British capture town OF Felahie In
/ Mesopotamia from Turks in advance
10 relieve besiegcd English force at
/ Kut el-Amara
/ The report that Greece has request
/ ed withdrawal Of the French and
/ british forces at Saloniki is reiterated
in an Athens dispatch.
/ Germans capture village of Hau-
| court, northwest of Verdun French
{ take large section of the Care woods
and also drive Teutons back in Ges-
perate underground fight
/ Surprised during their siesta. one
/ of the groups OF Villas force driven
/ from Guerrero, WAS defeated Saturday
I by squadron OF the Tenth Cavalry
I under col ". c. Brown, ACCORDING
/ TO information secured by Gen.
Pershing and forwarded by him -
Gen Funston at san Antonio. Tex.
! In this second engagement the Amsri-
/ can troops have had with Villas men
4 the bandits loss was estimated at
thirty killed No mention OF any
American loss was made.
WESTERN
The "drys" made gains in Ne
braska elections.
Gen Cecil A. Lyon, Progressive na-
I tional Committeeman. died at Sher-
man. Tex. after an Illness of sew
eral weeks.
I Official admission of the belief tina,
| Villa has fled far beyond the Ameri-
can forces and now is operating south
Of Chihuahua City, was made a Gen
| FunstCn's headquarters at Fort Sam
| Houston.
The Grand Army OF the Republic
turned the half-century point in its
| existence, and a nation acknowledged
It's love and respect for the men VINO
between 1861 and 1865 faced death on
the battlefield that the unicn OF states
might be preserved.
Fifty persons, including women and
children, were murdered by bandits
between Torreon and Zacatecas on
March 2S, when the maurauders
wrecked the train on which they were
riding, according to word brought to
FL Paso. Tex, by passengers.
The bodies Of Mrs. Corrine Wheeler,
&c years old, and Mrs. Kate b. Swift,
aged 50, were found in their home at
Seattle, Wash, by H. s King, their
nephew. The heads OF both women
had been crushed and $1,000 suppose =
to have been hidden in the house was
missing.
Two hundred ard fifty women will
go into military encampment on the
United States Preside at San Fran
cisco June /, for six weeks under
strict military rule, to learn the ways
of war, says an announcement by Mrs.
Frederick n. Colhurn of the women s
section OF the Navy League.
WASHINGTON
Government agencies investigatinc
the spectacular rise in the price of
gasoline have virtually concluded pre-
Iiminary phases OF their work and
will report to Congress.
Gen. Funston advised the War De-
partment that he was sending more
troops into Mexico from Columbus.
" n. to protect Tire line of commu-
nication with Gen. Pershing.
A definite public statement OF sup.
port from two Republican senators
and under the hat" statements from
half dozen others that Col. Roose
welt is the probable Republican nomi
nee. we're made after the colonei's re.
eeptive statement.
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