The Colorado statesman., 1916-08-26
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ABOUT THE WAR

Paris reports recapture OF the en-
tire village of F'leury in the Verdun
sector.
King Victor Emmanuel entered
Gorilla under the fire of the Aus
trian artillery.
Powerful German attacks on the
Somme and at Fleury fail, according
to British and French official state
ments.
The sinking of the Italian steamer
Erik, of SS5 tons gross, and the Italian
sailing vessel Dea of 167 tons gross.
is announced.
Passage of Wami river, an import
ant strategic feat, reported by Gen.
SHUTS from the British front in Ger
man East Africa
A British official announcement
says it is believed that German
battleship of the Nassau class has
been sunk by British submarine E-23.
Farther advances for the Bulgar
ians in the Struma Valley on the
Macedonian front are announced. in
the official statement of Bulgarian
army headquarters.
Italian troops have landed in Sa-
lonih to join in the offensive, giving
rise to renewed reports that a dec
laration of war between Italy and
Germany may not be far distant.
Two British light cruisers sunk by
German submarines in an encounter
in the North sea, London admitting
ba I,,t Id, ,b,t
one submarine was sent down also
The allies have captured series of
heights west of the Vardar river on
the Saloniki front, says a war office
statement. On both wings advance
detachments have fallen back before
the counter offensive of the Bull
garians. The armies of at least seven
nations are engaged.
WESTERN
A temperature of 1O4 degrees was
registered by the government ther-
mometer at Wheeling, W. Va, Mon
day.
The National Retail Credit Mems
Association opened a three-day ses-
sion in Omaha with about 300 dele
gates present.
The second case of infantile paraly-
sis was reported at Salt Lake, Utah,
from a neighborhood far removed
from last weeks case.
Two men were killed and $4,000
damage was done in an explosion in
the plant of the Du Pont dynamite
works at Barksdalp Wis
The embargo on dried and canned
fruit shipments eastbound from San
Francisco via gulf ports has been
lifted by the Southern Pacific.
P. A. Valentine, So, prominently
identified with the Armour Packing
interests as New York manager, died
at his summer home at Oconomowec,
Wis, of Bright's disease. Valentine
married the widow of P. d. Ar
mour, Jr.
The police of Chicago sent out a
nationwide notice to search for John
Labello, husband of Mrs. John La
bello, who was found slain with an
ak, in her flat, with her two small
children, near death from starvation,
clamDerlnB over her body.
Lynn and Harold Lovelace, broth
ers, IL and 12 years of age, have con-
fessed twice to the authorities at
Twin Falls, Ida, according to reports
received at Boise, that they murdered
F. Thomas Hamill, teacher from Car
son, New, whose mutilated body was
found at his ranch south of Twin
Falls.
WASHINGTON
By vote of 27 to "a, the Senate
determined to take up the immigra-
tion bill.
The American embassy in Constan-
tinople was instructed by the State
Department to make representations
to the porte in behalf of Armenians
who are threatened by the Turkish
advance into Persia.
The American members of the Joint
commission TO undertake settlement of
differences between the United States
and Mexico will be Franklin X. Lane,
Secretary of the Interior; Judge
George Gray of Wilmington, Del, and
DR.. John II. Mott of New York City.
Processing to see in the British
blacklist an effort to cut short the
rich harvest American commerce is
beginning to reap in South America.
Representative William Bennett of
New York has introduced in Congress
a bill seeking to kill off the blacklist
by making it a crime to recognize its
existence
Scientific Washing on is aroused
over the discovery or noiseless mos.
quitoes. They do not differ in other