, 1917-11-08

FAST VI pres utllldu guns oitii'"
British lines.
Austrians repulsed by Russians
southwest of Brody.
Eight killed, twenty-one injured in
air raid over London.
The Germans have lost 100000
men during three years of a
British casualties reported during
the week ended October goth totaled
24,O91.
British make minor gains west OF
Passchendaele and southeast of Peel
capelle in Flanders.
The United States has mad a loan
TO Italy and will work out other plans
to aid the Italians.
Berlin announces Withdrawal of
German troops from billy front in re-
Bion of Aisne river in France.
British report troops are holding
position north of Beersheba in Pales-
tine and in another raid have killed
many Turks.
Ten German airplanes were brought
down by the French or compelled to
land in damaged condition, the Paris
war office
Italians and Austro-Germans engage
in battle on the Tagliamento river.
Italians apparently holding their bat
tie line, from Carnic Alps to Adriatic.
The Americans are continuing to
shell the German lines but no import
ant action is reported. The United
States troops. according to Secretary
Baker, will be trained for night fight
ing.
The torpedoing of the homeward-
bound army transport Finland in the
war ION resulted in the death of two
members of the naval armed guard.
two army enlisted men and four of
the ships civilian crew.
In a battle on the Bainsizza plateau
10000 Austro-G Germans were killed, in
Guiding two generals. The Italian
losses have increased 10000 men.
bringing the total up to 100000. One
thousand five hundred guns nave been
lost.
Sir Eric Geddes, first lord of the ad-
miralty, declared in London that since
the beginning of the wal nearly half
of the German U-boats had been sunk
by the allies. He said the German
tonnage losses were about so per cent
while the allies had lost only about
IA per cent.
WESTERN
Three thousand oil workers in Loui-
siana go on strike.
Strike called of oil workers in the
Gulf district of Texas.
Photographers on Rock Island system
granted increased salaries.
Rumors that poison stamps have
been circulated by enemy agents
among residents of Santa Rosa, Cal,
caused considerable excitement.
Indiana distillers will be set in mo-
ton to save forty million bushels of
frost-bitten corn now standing prac-
tically worthless on farms throughout
the state.
Henry II. Lyon, state senator from
the Los Angeles district, died from
bullet wounds for inflicting which
Miss Marie Edwards, known also as
Marie Pinzon, was arrested.
Twenty-nine draft resisters re-
ceived sentences of from sixty days in
Jail to ten a in Fort Leavenworth,
Kan, federal prison, following their
trial in the Federal Court at Ardmore,
Okla.
WASHINGTON
Mrs. Minor Hull Morris, whose fore.
BILE election from the White House
during President Roosevelt's first
term created an uproar of national
proportions, was burned to death in
the rooming house where she lived.
The food administration branded as
impostors men in various parts of the
country who nave attempted to buy
home-canned products put up by
housewives, representing themselves
as food administration agents.
Secretary Lansing authorized the
statement that neither on the basis of
official advices to the government,
nor on the basis of Premier Keren-
sky's statement, could it be said that
Russia was about to quit the war. A
loan Of $31, 100000 to Russia was au.
thOrized.
Holders of alien property given un-
til Dec. s to file inventory.
A credit of S25,OOO,O 900 extended to
Great Britain by United States.
At midnight, Nov. l, the capital of
the nation went dry under the Shep.
pard act.
Three more casualties were report
ed to the Wal Department from Gen.
Pershing's headquarters.