Rocky Ford enterprise., 1916-09-29
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING The PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
Western Newspaper Union. vsws service
ABOUT THE WAR

says a report from Athens.
German airmen sink Russian tor
pedo boat destroyer in the gulf OF
Riga.
London reports gain north of Vardar
river. Bulgarians falling back nine
miles.
Turkish report chronicles British
losses OF 1000 men in offensive in
Mesopotamia.
Official statements declare allies
have won a series of successes on the
Macedonian front.
French assaults repulsed with san
culinary losses in BerleuN-Belly sector.
Berlin claims. Nine allied aeroplanes
brought down.
Germany and Austria are planning
to send 100000 and 100000 fresh
troops, respectively, to aid the Bull
gars in the Balkan operations.
Combles, one of the important Ger
man bases in the Somme region, is
further threatened by new gains by
the French, who captured LIE Priez
farm. Its capture is imminent
Berlin report mentions violent fight
ing in Somme region but declares all
allied attacks have been repulsed with
sanguinary losses. Successes for Teu-
tonic arms in Balkan region claimed.
French capture important trenches
north of the Somme. driving salient
into the German lines east of the
Bethune -Peronne road near Boucha-
toll. 1af
British and French in assault on
Somme drive Germans Lack on six
mile front, capture three villages and
threaten to trap German army holding
Combles. Greater part of High wood
and BouleauX wood taken.
Four giant Russian aeroplanes
lombard German seaplane station
on Lake Angern in the gulf of Riga.
dropping seventy-three bombs. Eight
German machines which attacked the
Slav flyers were put to flight.
WESTERN
William ]. Bryan addressed an audi
ence of 5000 persons at Tucson, Ariz.,
advocating the reelection of Wilson.
Aransas county. Tex, moved into
the prohibition column, the "drys"
winning in a local option election by
. majority of fifty-six votes.
Mrs. Frances C. Axtell was NOM
mated for Congress in the Second
Washington District on the Demo
cratic and Progressive tickets.
Levy brothers, stock and grain
brokers, doing business in Denver and
Bisbee, Ariz, have suspended. 1t is
said they owe s1,250,0O0 on 269 ac-
counts.
On the face of incomplete returns,
William Lorimer is defeated by about
1000 votes by Arthur w. Fulton for
nomination for congressman from the
Sixth Illinois district.
The Ford Motor Company an
nounced that the bonus usually made
once. In the aggregate SS60,000 will
go to employees as reward for their
services and results obtained through.
out the year.
Seizures of horses and supplies
from the Mexican people by the Con-
stitutionalist garrison in the region
which the punitive expedition cleared
of bandits have been reported to the
American headquarters at Columbus,
N. NJ. Only Mexicans are said to
have suffered from these highland
ed methods, which. according to the
reports. have seriously interfered
with the restoration of prosperity and
order in these districts.
WASHINGTON
The Department of Agriculture will
make a nationwide inquiry into the
increase in milk prices.
Apparent increase of typhus and
yellow fever in Mexico. particularly at
coast ports, is reported in official ris-
patches.
The superdreadnought Arizona, Just
completed at the New York navy yard,
will be commissioned under command
of Capt. John d. Mcdonald, Oct. Is.
Colorado congressional candidates
have filed reports of expenditures as
follows: Alvin H. Pickens, S196.S5;
James II. Brown, nothing; w. o. Pc
.erson, s63.75.
Senator Chamberlain of Oregon said
he is getting many new evidences of
the extent of the activities of the Brit
ish government in its discrimination
against American trade.
The Turkish government, in a COM
munication received at the State De-
partment, consents to shipment of re-
lief supplies from the United States
to famine sufferers in Syria.
The Department of Commerce re-
ported that 1sS foreign-built vessels
of 62S,644 gross tons had been ad-