The Colorado statesman., 1916-02-05
CONDENSATION
OF FRESH NEWS
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.
western Newspaper Union news
ABOUT THE WAR

Allies arrest former German consul
at Retimo, Crete.
Austria has concentrated soldiers
coup by Rumania
The British war casualties pub
lished in January totaled 1,079 Off
GERS and 1924 men.
A Zeppelin raided Saloniki Monday
night. A Greek warehouse contain
Ing oil and sugar was destroyed.
Zeppelins again raid Paris. Twenty.
four persons were killed and twenty
seven injured il Saturday nights raid.
Essad Pasha and 10000 Albanians
effect junction with Italian army and
prepare to hold back Austro-Hungar,
ians.
The United States sent a note to all
belligerents proposing new rules to
govern submarines and merchant YES
sells.
French troops are still landing on
Greek soil. The allies appear deter
mined to strengthen their position in
Greece until it is practically impreg-
nable.
The Russians have placed the Turks
in a precarious position at Erzerum.
Eighty thousand men are tied up in
the city with only two weeks pro
visions.
Fifty-four persons were killed AMI
sixty-seven injured in Monday night'G
Zeppelin raid The figures were con.
tanned in an official statement is
sued at London
Rumania is about ready to form an
alliance with Greece against Bulgaria,
according to Russian reports. Ruma-
Man troops are under arms and are
Eassed on the borders of the central
powers.
A German raider, the Moewe, loose
on the seas, with known record of
seven enemy's ships sunk and another
captured, at a time when the Ger
man naval flag was believed to have
been swept from the ocean, except for
submarines, is the most startling fea-
ture that attracts attention to the
capture of the British liner Appam
and her daring dash across the At
lantic to haven at Hampton Roads
WESTERN
Clovis, N. M, voted dry" 337 to
273.
Railroads in southern Colorado are
using dynamite in an effort to clear
the tracks of ice and snow.
Grating and extortion were re-
ported at San Diego to have broken
out in connection with the relief
work for flood sufferers in the Otay
valley.
President Wilson, speaking at Des
Moines, Ia, Tuesday night, dealt with
the futility of messages and words of
protest to meet breaches of interna-
tional law.
Churches in Newport, Ark, Sunday
night abandoned service and virtual
1y every able-bodied man Joined in
the work on the levees, which are be-
ing strengthened against the threat
ening floods.
The Rev. Madison Slaughter, pas.
tor of Chico, Cal, church, who was
indicted at Oroville for alleged of
lenses against Gertrude Lamson, a
minor, was at liberty on $4,000 bail
following his arrest at Chico.
A sermon by the Rev. DR.. Mark A.
Matthews, pastor of the First Presby-
terrain church, and formerly modera-
tor of the Presbyterian church of
North America, denouncing the raid
ing OF private residences in search of
contraband liquor, was a subject of
much comment at Seattle, Wash.
WASHINGTON
The Supreme Court recessed until
Feb 81.
The poatoffice bill carrying $1,000
900 increase over last year, was re.
ported in the House.
By vote of So to IA the Senate re-
fused to eliminate from Philippine
bill provision under which naval base
would be retained in islands.
Senator Shafrotn introduced a Dill
in the United States Senate provid-
ing for a munitions plant at Pueblo,
Colo. The bill calls for an appropria-
ton OF s10,000.000, and directs the
secretary of war to appoint three of.
ficers to select suitable site.
Three million bales of cotton were
consumed in making gunpowder dur
ing the last year, 100000 in Europe
and 100000 in the United States.
Appropriation of 100000 and use of
army tents and equipment for relief
of flood sufferers in Mississippi val.
ley proposed by Representative Rus
sell OF Missouri.
The conviction of David Lamar,
the wolf of Wall Street." for imper-
sonating member of Congress was
sustained by the Supreme Court when