Gilpin observer., 1917-06-28
THE LATEST IMPORTANT Dis.
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT.
CRISP PARAGRAPH.
STORY OF THE week
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
About the War
Western Newspaper Union rev. service.

Nightly raids harass Germans along
front held by them in Belgium.
The Italians drove the Austrians
back at Mont Settsass with heavy
losses.
Canadians win German first line
trenches in France after violent night
assault.
Germany has imposed fine of $780,
100000 francs on the occupied terri
tory of Rumania.
Russia has formed "storming bat
talions," composed of men who want
to lead in the fighting.
British in Belgium are devoting
themselves to repulsing German at
tempts to recover lost positions.
The Standard Oil tanker John d.
Archibald was sunk by Uboat and
four of the crew are missing.
Norway is on the brink of war and
only awaits the signal from the United
States to join the cause of the entente
allies.
Allied airmen destroy five German
down another. British lose five ma
chimes.
East of Epehy German raiding
party was repulsed by the British.
The Germans left their dead in wire
entanglements.
Haig forces gradually hemming in
town of Lens. Gain of 400 yards on
city made Sunday night. Further prog
ress made Monday.
Russian Black sea fleet sailors re-
volted and seized officers whom they
accused of plotting to put the Gear
back on the throne.
Artillery duels rage between French
and Germans between scissors and
Rheims. Germans hold their infantry
in check following heavy losses.
Germans in the Champagne have
retaken ground east of Mont Carnil-
lat lost last week French report cap
ture of positions in this same sector
American liner escapes torpedo in
Atlantic by narrow margin of twenty
feet. Another South American neu-
trail steamer sunk by diver off Glib.
raltar.
Officers of British steamer which
arrived at an Atlantic port reported
having sunk an attacking German
submarine. The British vessel sent a
shell into the U-boat's magazine, caus-
ing an explosion which parted the un-
derwater boat about amidships. Each
end sank separately. The British
steamer was uninjured.
Western
Colorado people contributed $780,.
600 for the Red Cross fund. Wyoming
raised $4,000.
Southern Oklahoma's corn crop was
saved by rains and its cotton crop is
assured of being normal.
Chester Sawyer negro accused of
attacking white woman, was taken
from jail by a mob at Galveston, Tex,
and hanged.
Ell Tigre. an American-owned min.
Ing camp, about seventy miles south
east OF Douglas, Arig., was formally
taken over by Mexicans.
An appeal to women to reduce by
one-third the amount of wheat they
use for the family was made at Chi
cago by Joseph p. Griffin, president
of the Board of Trade to the womans
committee of the National Council of
Defense.
Washington
The Belgian diplomatic mission has
tentatively arranged a trip through
the United States extending to the Pa.
cific coast.
President Wilson by executive Or
der created an Exports Embargo
Council to administer the export EN-.
barge provisions of the espionage act.
More than half million men have
volunteered in the American army
and navy during the period of less
than three months that has elapsed
since war was declared to exist.
Ambassador Bakhmetieff, head of
the Russian mission, emphatically de-
clared in his address before Congress,
assembled in the hall OF the House,
that the Russian people themselves
oppose a separate peace with Ger
many.
Locomotives. locomotives and still
more locomotives" are the fundamen.
tai needs Of Russia. according to Prof.
Lomonosoff, railroad minister with
the Russian mission at Washington.
quite frankly can say to you, our
American friends" he said, 'give us
locomotives and we shall give you mil
itary success"
The manner In which 1O,000,00O
women of the United States are to be
enrolled to help win the war was ex-
planned by DR.. II. l.. Wilbur. head OF
the Food Conservation Department of
the temporary food administration.