The Colorado statesman., 1916-04-08
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.
ABOUT THE WAR
Western Newspaper Union NEWS Service.

missing.
Turkish submarine has sent a
Russian ship to the bottom in the
Black sea.
Five more ships attacked by Ger
man U-boats and United States plans
decisive action.
1t is feared that Mexican bandits
under Gen. Herrera, may unite and
massacre u S. troops.
Austrians have drawn the Italians
from the border ridge between Lob
bialta and Monte Fumo.
Villas force, estimated at 500, was
severely defeated in five-hour battle
at Guerrero on March 30 by Col. Dodd,
Another Zeppelin raid was made on
England Monday night The British
report says no casualties have been
recorded.
The report that Greece has request.
ed withdrawal of the French and
British forces at Saloniki is reiterated
in an Athens dispatch.
The Turks claim to have checked
the Russian offensive in the Caucasus
and say advances are now being made
against the Cars forces.
An attempt by the Germans to drive.
through the French lines in the re-
gion of Douamont, northeast of Yer
dun, has been repulsed with heavy
losses.
NJ. popidladyanoff reported to the
duma that the Russian general Yanus-
hevich assistant viceroy of the eau
casus) had confiscated all the prop
erty of Armenians at Erzerum, and
that more than 10000 Armenians
had been killed by Russians
Surprised during their siesta, one
of the groups of Villas force driven
from Guerrero, was defeated Saturday
by squadron Of the Tenth Cavalry
under Col. w. c. Brown, according
to information secured by Gen.
Pershing and forwarded by him to
Gen. Funston at San Antonio, Tex.
In this second engagement the Ameri-
can troops have had with Villas men
the bandits loss was estimated at
thirty killed. No mention of any
American loss was made.
Sixteen persons were killed and 100
injured by Zeppelins in new raid on
England Saturday night. With the
exception of the big air raid of Jan.
81, when the casualties were sixty
seven persons killed and 1T injured,
the Zeppelin raids of Friday and
Saturday nights caused greater loss OF
life than any previous aerial attack
this year. The total casualties for
the two nights. according to an Of
ficial report, were fifty-nine persons
killed and 166 wounded.
WESTERN
The "drys' made gains in Ne
braska elections.
Gen. Cecil A. Lyon, Progressive ma
tional committeeman, died at Sher-
man, Tex, after an illness of sew
eral weeks.
The Republican municipal ticket
was elected at Santa Fe; the fusionist
candidate was elected mayor at
East Las Vegas, and the Progressives
won in Ration, N. M.
Official admission of the belief that
Villa has fled far beyond the Ameri-
can forces and now is operating south
of Chihuahua City, was made at Gen.
Funstons headquarters at Fort Sam
Houston.
Efforts OF saloon owners in South
Superior, Wyo., to engage Denver
girls as barmaids to carry forward
the "old country" custom of serving
drinks, has resulted in an inyestiga-
tion by the government of advertise
ments appearing in Denver papers.
WASHINGTON
Billy Sunday, the evangelist. was
received by President Wilson at the
White House.
Japan has authorized her marine in
surance companies to make substan-
tial increases in war risk rates.
The news that the Villistas had suf-
fered a second defeat at the hands
of the American troops, this time at
Aguas Calentes, thirty miles north of
Guerrero, was received at Juarez in
markedly sober manner COM
pared with the elation over the first
blow struck by Col. Dodd
The Tenth Cavalry, which fought in
Mexico Saturday, is the army's crack
negro troop, famed for exploits during
the Spanish-American war.
Government agencies investigating
the spectacular rise in the price %
gasoline have virtually concluded pre-
liminary phases of their work and
will report to Congress.
Gen. Funston advised the War De-
partment that he was sending more
troops into Mexico from Columbus,
N. M, to protect the line of commu-
nication with Gen. Pershing.