Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-04-21
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DURING THE PAST week
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ABOUT THE WAR

ABOUT THE WAR
Six British vessels. one Spanish and
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 5000 British were
killed at Sannyant in effort of Eng
lish to penetrate to relief of Kut-el-
Amara.
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 yerdun and making
claim that 10000 French have fallen
in fifty-day battle.
Germans repealed in three success
sive attacks on British trenches on
Pil-Kelm-Y Ypres road, while Canadian
troops successfully raid German
trenches near Richebourg. L'Avoue.
German attack Russian line be-
tween Lakes Sventen and Ilzen but
are repulsed with hea.y losses. Ger
mans also repulsed in Galacia, south
east of Boutchache. Russians claim
capture of position in Stripa re-
gion.
The American soldiers on whom
the MeXicans at Parral fired were
unarmed. according to an uncon-
nrmed version of the incident current
In Chihuahua and transmitted to
Gen. Funston. According to this
story forty of tie 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 attacking force
pursued them and were met by fire
from the Americans, who were using
a machine gun, killing forty Mexi-
cans
WESTERN
Six inches of snow fell at Santa
Fe. N. NJ. 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 200-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. II
provides that a settler may take u9
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
line and eighty miles east of Jiminez
destroying many thousands of dollars
of American property and looting the
town of everything of value.
The l,oJu pf Rob purp,,p bn ,,ntnd
automobile driver who, with his
mechanician, Eric Schroeder, and .
track guard met death as the result
of the upset of Burmans car in the
Corona race track were sent from
Los Angeles to Emlay City, Mich.
Tuesday for burial.
WASHINGTON
The annual river and harbor ap
propriations bill, carrying $iO,00O,0OO
passed the House by vote of 30 tC
1873, with every item as agreed on un
changed.
Thomas Nelson Page. American
ambassador at Rome. advised the
State Department in a dispatch from
London that he would sail with Mrs.
Page for New York on the steamship
ST. Louis. The ambassador is com
ing home for a vacation.
Champions of a government hydro.
electric plant to produce nitrate for
the manufacture of war munitions
and fertilizer won their fight in the
Senate by inserting an amendment
proposing an appropriation of S15,.
100000 for that purpose into the
Chamberlain army increase bill. The
vote was 43 to %.
The House unanimously passed 4
bill for federal acceptance of the
Kentucky birthplace-house and farm
of Abraham Lincoln from the Me