Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-02-16
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 views Services.
ABOUT THE WAR

Bombs were dropped by airplanes In
the region of Dunkirk. -Four civilians
were killed.
Constantinople reports that in re-
cent attacks on the Turks nea Kut-
El-Amara, the British lost 1000, aside
from men made prisoners.
The British have taken the highest
point OF Sailly-C aillisel hill and cap
tured a considerable number of Ger
la and one machine gun.
A German attack in the region Of
Vaux Les Palameuf southeast of Yer
dun was repulsed by the French. the
official statement says. Violent artil-
lery actions occurred in the Woevre
region.
Bulgaria has warned the United
States that she will support Germany
IN any eyentuality," according TO the
Berlin correspondent of the Cologne
Gazette, quoted in dispatches received
at Amsterdam.
British headquarters in France re-
port: I'VE carried out successful
raids east Of Vermelles and southeast
OF Ypres. A large number Of the en-
emy's dugouts were destroyed and sev
eral prisoners we're taken.
King George in reopening the Brit
ish Parliament referred to the recent
German peace proposal. Declaring
that their tenor indicated no possible
basis for peace, the king reasserted
that Great Britain and her allies re-
manned steadfast in their determine
ton ito secure the just demands for
r%eparation and restitution in respect
10 the past and guarantees for the
future which were considered essen
tial to the progress Of civilization"
The Teutonic allies in Macedonia
have shown activity along the entire
front. On the eastern front compare
tive calm prevails from the Baltic to
the line in Rumania. In the Carpa-
thians, near Kirlibaba, Petrograd re-
ports the capture of first-line Teu-
tonic allied trenches, which were held
by the Russians despite counter at.
tacks. Rome reports failure Of an
Austrian attack against the Italians
in the Sugana valley and the smashing
by the big guns of the Italians OF
Austrian batteries on several sectors
WESTERN
Eighteen railroads entering Chicago
have granted the demands of the
switchmen's union and the strike that
seemed inevitable will not occur.
Thomas ]. Mooney, labor agitator
was convicted of murder in the first
degree by a jury in the Superior Court
at San Francisco for a bomb explosion
costing ten lives during a prepared
ness day parade, July %.
While motion picture machines and
other cameras click off a pictorial
record OF the event, Gov. James P
Goodrich, with Mrs. Goodrich standing
behind his chair, at Indianapolis
signed a death warrant from the state
of Indiana for John Ba~rleycorn.
The fightingest tar" in the navy
sought to ~re-enlist at the recruiting
station in Chicago. He is Jack Har
vey, CO. who retired in 1904 after thir
ty-two years of continuous service. II,
served on thirty-two ships and wal
with Fighting Bob Evans in the Span
ish-American war and in the Boxel
uprising in China.
WASHINGTON
An emergency appropriation o.
$5OO,0 900 for relief. protection anC
wmamnDwNUHF~n ~ AvanwFoon CFNF-I.s
in Europe was asked OF Congress by
Secretary Lansing.
The British passenger steamer Cali
fornia, Of the Anchor line, bound from
New York for Glasgow, which was
t%orpedoed off the Irish coast, sank In
nine minutes with the loss of forty
one lives.
United States navy recruiting agents
have been instructed Immediately t.
enlist 20, 0 additional men,. The pres
ent actual strength OF the navy is 5S,
600 men, The maximum wartime
strength at present authorized Is 81,
600.
The United Daughters OF the Con
federacy. through its president gen
eral. Mrs. Cordelia Powell Oden
heimer, has rendered President VIII
son the support and services OF iti
10O,O 900 members in whatever manner
they may be available in the nations
present crisis.
A resolution calling for a popular
referendum before any declaration OF
act Of war except I'm case OF insurrec
ton or invasion, was introduced b,
Representative Galloway OF Texas 'by
request following a conference witt
several Of his colleagues.
A formal statement giving assur
ancea that the government has no in
tention OF seising bank deposits o.
other property belonging TO any for
eign subiect-even in the event Of wa
-was issued by the State Department
with the approval Of President VII