The Colorado statesman., 1916-05-27
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF THE WEEK
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVEIITs IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
ABOUT THE WAR

and dlSlodge from POSITIONS IN the
Taurus mountains.
German successes in repelling the
French attacks on Dead Mans hill are
reported by Berlin.
Six persons were killed and sixteen
wounded by bombs dropped in Ger
man air raid on Dunkirk.
A force of Russian cavalry broke
through Turkish lines and joined the
British on Tigris river in Mesopo-
tamia
Thirteen troopers of the Seventh
cavalry were fired upon Saturday
near the town of Temosachic and one
was wounded
Rome admits retirement of italian
troops in good order, but not pressed
by the Austrians. Scattered advan-
tages over the Austrians are claimed.
The Italian troops we're forced
across their own border for the first
time by Austrian offensive in retreat
from Borgo, according to the Austrian
war office report. Vienna says the
drive is successful at all points.
The battle of Verdun ragged Tues
day with fiercer intensity than has
characterized the struggle at any
stage of its three months duration.
Occupation by the French of the ma
jor portion of Fort Douaumont is re-
garded as an advantage of great
moral and strategic value. The Ger
mans are launching desperate in
fantry attacks, preceded by heavy
bombardments, in the effort to dis
lodge the enemy.
Fighting of a desperate nature was
reported from the three principal the
aters of war Monday-Verdun, the
Italian front, and the British line in
France. In Italy the Austrians are
hammering at southern Tyrol with
artillery of immense caliber and n
powerful army. Vienna reports gains
though the Italians are resisting he
roically. Paris recorded the capture
of German trenches along a front of
more than one mile on the Meuse
with the capture of many prisoners
and the occupation of a portion of
Fort Douaumont. The British were
forced to evacuate trenches on a
front of two kilometers near Geven-
chy-en-G Gohelle.
WESTERN
Reports from Newton, Mo, said
one man was killed and six injured
in a cyclonic wind that destroyed
three homes.
If he will consent to make the race,
VIM. j. Bryan may be selected as
the candidate for president of the
Prohibition party according to a Chi
cago report.
RienZi C. Dickens was found guilty
of the second degree murder of his
father, William ii. Dickens, wealthy
Longmont banker and pioneer builder
at Boulder, Colo.
More than $4,000 applications have
been received from the 10000 or H.
600 seats available in st. Louis con-
vention hall for the Democratic ma
tional convention.
A prospective yield of los, 900, 900
business of winter wheat in Kansas
this year was forecast in a report
covering conditions up to May II, is.
sued by j. c. Mohler, secretary of the
State Board of Agriculture.
WASHINGTON
President Wilson nominated Jo...l
p. Golden of O'Neill, Neb, as register
of the land office at O'Neill.
Congressman Benjamin Hilliard of
Colorado, is now member of the
Bar of the United States Supreme
Court.
Secretary Baker has not decided
what action shall be taken regarding
the 116 Texas guardsmen who de
clined to enroll in the federal service.
The Carranza government has or.
dered 10000 troops into the region
south OF the border to exterminate
bandits, according to information re-
ceiyed at the State Department.
Secretary Baker sent to Congress a
supplemental estimate of S533,000 for
construction in connection with the
proposed ordinance depot in the Pan
anna canal zone, and 100000 de.
ficiency estimate, including $250,0O0
for the signal service, made neces.
sary by operations on the border in
Mexico.
The Munich Neueste Nachrichten
publishes wireless dispatch from
Madrid which says that negotiations
are in progress there, among Kins
Alfonso, the Pope and President VIII.
son for the purpose Of arranging an
armistice among the belligerent ma.
tions with the object of discussing
peace terms"
The federal reserve board voted un.
animously to defer till July 15 the in.
auguration of the new countrywide