The Colorado statesman., 1916-07-22
CONDENSATION
OF FRESH NEWS
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

from Rome.
North of Ovillers, British drive
back Germans on front of more than
half mile.
Germans in night attack on French
in Biaches wood.
Belgian troops reach Lake Victoria
in German East Africa and disperse
Teutons in seven-hour battle.
The British have taken 1900 yards
of foes second line, and advance
threatens third line Teuton defense.
Lloyds reports the British steamer
Euphorbia, the Italian steamer Sirra,
and the steamer Virginia (probably
British) sunk.
Petrograd reports capture Of Bail
urt in Armenia, sixty miles from
Erzerum and one of the main objec-
tives of Grand Duke Nicholas cam
paign in the Caucasus.
Heavy cannonading begins on en-
tire Saloniki front, where more than
100000 French, British and Serbs
have for some time been held in
readiness to begin new drive.
In Caucasus, Petrograd reports,
Russians have disiodged Turks from
strong positions and are continuing
their advance. In some places the
Cossacks have crossed the snow line
in the mountains.
Russians drive Germans across
river Lipa, taking 1900 prisoners.
Austrians admit their advance posts
in Carpathian region have been
pressed back, but declare main posi-
tions are firmly held.
Private X. Tucker, Eleventh infan-
try, shot and probably fatally
wounded Antonio Rodriguez, a Mexi-
can musician, while the Mexican and
a companion were making their way
toward the international boundary
near Douglas, Ariz.
]. Beltran. one of Villas chief lieu
tenants and a participant in the mas
sacre of eighteen Americans at Santa
Ysabel, Chihuahua, last January, was
killed in the engagement at Cerro
Blanco July 12, reports to General
Jacinto Trevino at Chihuahua City
indicated.
WESTERN
Minneapolis was selected as the
meeting place for June rs, 81 and 2S,
1917, at the closing session of the
forty-second annual meeting here of
the Imperial Council, Mobiles of the
Mystic Shrine at Buffalo.
A million acres of corn and peanuts
in the Tennessee River Valley be-
tween Chattanooga and Paducah, KY,
are under from four to fifteen feet
of water as a result of the swollen
condition of the Tennessee river, ac-
cording to advices received at Knox
vile, Tenn.
William Boutwell,, former city
comptroller and recently a special Of
ficer on the water front, was killed
and w. w. Morris and C. V. Harvey
and C. V. Harvey, members of the
prohibition enforcement squad of the
Seattle police force, were seriously
injured in a pistol fight which result
ed from a raid on the bar in the
Ferguson hotel at Seattle, Wash.
WASHINGTON
SoNNOh ubtu ullS WAS OIU,-
466 bales, exclusive of linters, and for
the eleven months ending with June
5,906,039 bales, the Census Bureau
announced.
The annual economic loss suffered
by the United States from typhoid
fever and malaria aggregates $685.
234,SS0, according to estimates given
IN tho Sannta hy Do ~
Louisiana, chairman of the conmit-
tee of public health, in an address on
Rural Health-America's First
Duty"
That meat production has not kept
pace with the increase in population,
and that its failure to do so, COM
bined with increased cost of produc.
tion and the diminished purchasing
power of the money unit, has con.
tributed to higher prices not only in
the United States, but all over the
world, is stated in an exhaustive re-
port on the meat situation by the
United States Department of Agricul-
ture.
Great Britain again has refused a
plea of the American Red Cross for
permission to make conditional ship.
ments of Red Cross supplies to Ger.
many and Austria.
The Senate adopted the enlarged
building program of the naval bill by
viva voce vote. 1t provides for the
construction within three years of 157
war vessels of all classes.
President Wilson will attend the
forma' dedication OF the Elephant
Butte dam on October IA and the
opening OF the International Irriga-
tion Congress at FL Paso. Tex.