, 1917-12-13
CONDENSED RECORD OF TIL
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS. o oIN c 8, ACHIEVE.
MENTs. suFFERINos, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Wtst"rn Newspaper Union MOVIE oervlce.
ABOUT THE WAR

Seven persons killed by German air
raid on England.
Twelve American engineers injured
in battle before Cambria.
Gen. Byng's plans to withdraw lines
at Cambria and readjust lines have
been carried out in perfect order.
Congress by a virtually unanimous
vote declared war on Austria-Hun-
gary and President Wilson signed the
declaration.
Suspension of hostilities over the
whole Russian front for ten days be.
ginning at noon Dec. Z were arranged,
the Berlin war office announced.
The Berlin war office announcement
asserts that 1000 additional men have
e made prisoners on the Italian
front, bringing the total since the new
offensive began up to $4,000.
The British shipping report shows
sixteen ships of more thar 1000 tons
were sunk by divers or mines during
last week, as compared with fourteen
u vessels the previous week.
Losses of Italian shipping from sub
marine activity during the week end
ing Dec. 2 were one steamer of more
than 1900 tons, one under that ton
mage n three small sailing vessels.
The Norwegian legation reports
that thirteen Norwegian steamers of
a o tonnage of 1902 were lost
in November by causes arising from
the a Forty-one Norwegian lives
were lost.
Lieutenant Anpillntfn pf Tho Tt,l;nn
aviation corps has executed one of the
most daring exploits of the war, teles-
coping an Austrian balloon which was
observing Venice from the Piave line
and passing through the gas bag.
The British steamer Apapa has
been torpedoed and sunk, according
to London advices. Eighty passengers
and the crew of the vessel persisted.
About 100 passengers were saved. 1t
is reported that the submarine fired
on women and children in open boats.
That the Italians are being hard
pressed by the enemy in greatly SUI
perior numbers and in gun power is
indicated by Fridays official communi-
cation. Additional gains have been
made by the invaders in the Asiago
plateau region but again a heavy
price in men in killed or wounded was
paid by the attacking forces. At last
accounts the Italian line still was in
tact.
The cessation of hostilities along
the eastern front has now extended
to that part of the line held by the
Rumanians. An official communica-
ton from Jassy says that as a result
OF the Russians having proposed an
armistice to the enemy 1t had been
decided that the Rumanians should
associate themselves with the Rus
SLAMS and that therefore fighting has
ceased.
WESTERN
Only one person was injured when
three Burlington rains collided neal
Villisca, Ia. Seventeen cars-freight
and passenger-rolled down an en-
bankment and burned.
Three Americans and one German
were captured neal Esperanza, seven
ty miles south of Guaymas, Sonora,
by Yaqui Indians who raided that
town, according to passengers ar
irving at Nogales, Ariz., on a train
from Guaymas.
An unsuccessful attempt to destroy
the family of r. l.. Scimia in Warrior
canon near Globe, Ariz., was made
when a black powder time bomb,
planted beneath the oom in which a
4-year-old girl slept, exploded. The
child vas hurled from her bed into
the room of her narants hut Il nnt
seriously hurt.
The grand champion fat steer of the
Chicago live stock show was Merry
Monarch, a ~two-year-old pure bred
Shorthorn, fed and shown by Purdue
University of Lafayette, Ind. The steer
was sold In the auction ring at $2.O5
per pound, weighing 1,61O pounds. He
brought the record price of $3,3OO.5O,
the highest price on record for a fat
steer.
WASHINGTON
A joint resolution to appropriate
100000 for the relief of the stricken
people of Halifax was introduced by
Representative Tague of Massachu-
sets.
The annua report of the postmaster
general for the fiscal year ended
June 30, 1917, announces an audited
surplus for the year of 1886, 211.9 80,
the largest in the history of the pos
tai service. This is the fourth sur
plus produced in the past five years
and added to surpluses Of $500, 900
for 1918, $~3,5o0,000 for 1914 and S5,-
ON nnu for IQIE mnlaG n total ~ 600