The Colorado statesman., 1916-08-05
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 rervics.
ABOUT THE WAR

sector between Delville and the
Somme.
Russians continue to advance in
Volhynia, south of Dniester and in
Galicia
British casualties reported in July
in all the war are as totaled 1854 Of
ficers and 1851 men.
British official statement Tuesday
reports situation unchanged between
the Ancre and the Somme.
Armies of central powers driven
back along sixtymile front, says Of
ficial Petrograd statement.
French make clean sweep of Ger
man positions on three-and-a-h half
mile front from Hardecourt to Somme
river.
Attacks by Serbian troops against
Bulgarians on the Macedonian border
repulsed, according to announcement
from Sofia.
Austrian surprise attack against
Italians on Mount Cimont, 1000 feet
above sea level, fails, says report
from Rome.
Two clashes between Villistas and
government troops, in both of which
the bandits suffered heavy losses,
were reported to Gen Trevino at
Chihuahua City.
The Austrian army has been almost
completely cut in two by the triple
advance of the Russian army and now
faces total collapse, according to the
Petrograd official statement tele-
graphed to London.
Furious German attacks preceded
by artillery bombardments on the
Meuse river near the Thiaumont work
repulsed by the French troops. Sixty
Germans taken prisoner in action
south of the Somme
Two Americans were killed in
clash between a patrol detachment of
Troop F, Eighth United States cav
airy, and party of Mexican bandits
at the Sanchez ranch, one and half
miles below Fort Hancock, Tex.
Total losses of the allied armies
since the present offensive began on
the river Somme estimated by Berlin
at 100000 men. Paris estimates the
average German losses at one division
daily since the drive was inaugurated.
Russian attacks west of Lutsk have
ceased, obviously owing to heavy
losses" says the official Austrian
statement, which adds that other
fierce Russian attacks have been re-
pulsed without exception.
WESTERN
x,r;11 l.. l.
yer Aug. 26, and then spend week
in Estes park.
Clyde Stratton, noted convict, and
two other prisoners escaped from the
Illinois penitentiary at Joliet.
Five men employed in road con
struction work near st. Helens, Ore,
were killed by an explosion of dyna-
mite
Miss Julia Mary Cross of Douglas,
Wyo., was nominated by President
Wilson as receiver of public moneys
at Douglas.
The Louisiana State Progressive
convention, held at New Orleans, in
dorsed the nomination of John NJ.
Parker for vice president.
Copper dividends OF s63,515,6 ,6S3
were paid in the first six months of
1916 by thirty-three dividend paying,
strictly copper-producing companies.
Clifford Tuttle was shot and killed
by his divorced wife in the street at
Scots Bluff, Neb., in a quarrel after
the couple had returned following a
years absence.
WASHINGTON
Nearly 100000, 600 for national de-
fense in the fiscal year 1917 is the ag
gregate of proposed appropriations in
the Senate.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion refused to order Southwestern
railroads to establish milling in-tran-
sit rates on logs originating at tap
lines.
IF the governor of South Dakota
deems it necessary to bring the state
militia home from the border to
handle l. w w. disturbances, we can
arrange 1t for him." Secretary of War
Baker said
A warning against dirty hands was
issued by the United States Public
Health service, which asserted that
If the average individual would learn
to keep his unwashed hands away
from his mouth he would escape
many of life's ills.
The State Department has begun
an investigation of reports of an un-
pleasant character concerning the
forcible removal from Lille and vi
cinity of several thousand young
French girls and women by the i'm
perial German military authorities.