Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1916-04-21
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST WEEK
RECORD OF IMPORTANT RVENTs
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
ABOUT THE WAR

~
one Norwegian sunk by mines or tor
pedoes.
British drive back Turks from one
and a half to three miles in Meso-
potamia.
French ~evacuate Bethincourt salient
at Verdun into which Germans had
driven wedge.
Turks around Erzerum ~repulsed
with heavy losses by Russians and
fall back In great disorder.
Turks claim 1000 British we're
killed at Sannyant in effort of Eng
lish to penetrate to relief of Kut-el-
AmaTa.
United States cabinet decides to
send note to Germany on Sussex and
other ships believed to have been
attacked by submarines.
British official communication says
Canadians In gallant fighting during
the past week inflicted heavy losses
on the Germans near st. Eloi.
Both German and French offensive
movements before Verdun break
down before heavy artillery fire.
Neither side claims important gains.
German war office issues state
ment denying French figures on Ger
man losses at Verdun and making
claim that 10000 French have fallen
in fifty-day battle.
Germans repealed in three success
sive attacks on British trenches on
PilKelm-Ypres road, while Canadian
troops successfully raid German
trenches near Richebourg, L'Avoue.
German attack Russian line be-
tween Lakes Sventen and Tlzen but
are repulsed with hea' ~ losses. Ger
mans also repulsed in Galacia, south
east Of Boutchache. Russians claim
capture of a position in Stripa re-
gion.
The American soldiers on whom
the Mexicans at Parral fired we're
unarmed, according to an uncon-
firmed version of the incident current
in Chihuahua and transmitted to
Gen. Funston. According to this
story forty Of the troopers entered
Parral, presumably to purchase sup
plies, and were fired upon; two were
killed and the remainder retreated to
the main body of troops, encamped
outside the city. The ettacking force
pursued them and were met by a fire
from the Americans, who were using
a machine CUR, killing forty Mexi-
cans.
WESTERN
Six inches of snow fell at Santa
Fe, N. M. Friday.
Several Americans have been killed
or wounded in bandit raids in the vi
cinity of Guaymas, Sonora, says a
naval radio message received at San
Diego, Cal.
Water pouring through a 2OO-foot
break in the Drury Township levee
near Muscatine, Ia, threatens the in
undation of 5000 acres of cultivated
farm land in Illinois.
Senator John F. Shafroth intro
duced in Congress his bill providing
further development of the lands in
non-irrigated sections of the west. 1t
provides that a settler may take no
by desert land entry 800 acres OF
land, and prove up in three years.
/, A large band of Villistas, number
ing possibly 1000 sacked Sierra Mo
jada, five miles across the Coahuila
2 line and eighty miles east of Jiminez
. destroying many thousands of dollar:
! Of American property and looting the
town of everything Of value.
The body of Bob Burman, the noted
automobile driver who. with his
mechanician, Eric Schroeder, and 9
( track guard met death as the result
!. Of the upset Of Burman's car in the
Q Corona race track were sent from
Los Angeles to Emlay City, Mich.
Tuesday for burial.
b WASHINGTON
|. The annual river and harbor ap
, preparations bill, carrying $4,000, 900
passed the House by a vote Of 21O t
1873, with every item as agreed on un
changed.
T Thomas Nelson Page, American
I ambassador at Rome, advised the
d State Department in a dispatch from
e London that he would sail with Mrs
e Page for New York on the steamship
st. Louis. The ambassador is com
Ing home for a vacation.
I Champions Of a government hydro
U electric plant to produce nitrate FOL
? the manufacture of war munitions
I'D fertilizer won their fight in the
senate by inserting an amendment
, proposing an appropriation Of SIS,
o 10000 for that purpose into the
Chamberlain army increase bill. The
vote was 43 to %.
The House unanimously passed f;
bill for federal acceptance Of tn,
!, Kentucky birthplace--house and farm
of Abraham Lincoln from the Me
mortal Association which has main
tanned the homestead.