, 1917-12-27

submarines in the Gulf of laramie.
British casualties reported in the
week ending Dec. IS totalled 1876 Of
ficers and men.
The Italians %repulsed the Austro-
German forces on the Tasson-Col-Del-
Orso front, with heavy losses.
The officers of the Russian army in
France have volunteered as a body to
give their services to the United
States.
Austrians are repulsed in III in
fantry attack on San Marine and Cap
rifle hill, the enemy suffering heavy
casualties.
1t is stated officially that Norway
has lost 5000 sailors during the war,
a Central News dispatch from Chris
tiania reports.
American submarine FL was sunk
In collision with her sister boat, the
F-3. in American waters. Nineteen
persisted, five being rescued.
Ten persons we're killed and seven
ty injured in London during Wednes-
day nights air raid. Outside of Lon
don five persons were injured.
The agreement for an armistice be-
ginning at noon Dec. II and lasting
until Jan. IA was signed by the Boil
sheviki government in Russia and h
Teutonic allies.
Fourteen British merchantmen of
more than 900 tons and three under
that tonnage were sunk by mine or
submarine during h week ending
Dec. 10.
The losses to French shipping by
mine or submarine for the week md
ing Dec. Is were exceedingly light.
Only one vessel under 900 tons was
sunk and none over 1900 tons.
The artillery activity between the
French and Germans in Champagne
and in the mountainous region neal
the Swiss border is increasing in vol
ume, probably forecasting infantry at
tacks at an early date.
Admission that the Cossacks have
captured Rostov was made in the
Petrograd official statement from the
Bolsheviki war office. Orenburg Cos
sacks opposing the Bolsheviki hav
occupied Tcheliabynsk, a junction on
the Trans-Siberian railroad. according
to a report received by the Den.
WESTERN
Mrs. Lorenzo Borino, charged with
violation of the Mann act in having
transported Rosa Pechek, Is years
old, from her home in Winterquarters
Utah, to D~iamondville, Wyo., for i'm
moral purposes, vas found guilty in
the Federal Court at Salt Lake.
A woman bearing the name of Rom
anoff and who said she resembled Ia
tiana Romanoff, second daughter of
the former czar, so closely that she
was detained three weeks in Yoko-
hama until she established her iden-
tity, arrived in San Francisco. She
is Nine. Helene Romanoff.
War will not cause abandonment of
the annual Tournament of Roses at
Pasadena, Cal, on New Years day,
although it will give a martial air to
the great pageant never before at
tempted. Decision to hold the tourna-
ment as usual was not made until ia
vorable word had been received from
President Wilson, to whom the ques-
ton of observing the time-honored
custom had been submitted.
WASHINGTON
The engagement is announced of
Esther, daughter of former President
Grover Cleveland, to Capt. Bosanquet
of the Coldstream Guards.
What purports to be an outline of
the Kaiser's much-advertised Christ
mas peace terms" has been received
through neutral diplomatic channels
in Washington.
Some two score or more kilograms
which passed between Count Won Lux
burg. German minister to Argentina,
and the German foreign office were
made public by the State Department
by agreement with the Argentina gov
eminent, which also published them
at Buenos Aires. Exposure of Count
Won Luxburg's "sink without trace"
telegram by Secretary Lansing was
what caused a rupture of diplomatic
relations between Argentina and Ger.
many.
The United States shipping board is
hard pressed to fill the allies orders
for between 100000 and 5000, 900
tons of shipping in 1918, members of
the board admitted, prior to appear
ing before the Senate inquiry commit.
tee. Chairman Hurley of the board
declared the task would be accom-
plished.
A Red Cross service flag, display
ing three crosses. was hung in a win
dow of the county Jail at Dallas, Tex,
when three women inmates Joined,
Two of the women face murder