The Colorado statesman., 1917-10-13
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK oF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EvENTe
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
Western Newspaper Union News psrvis&
ABOUT THE WAR

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passports.
American destroyer sinks German
submarine.
A German submarine interned at
Cadiz escaped.
The government has declared o
state Of war in Turkestan.
Twenty thousand airplanes for
America are under construction.
The Austrians are bringing up new
forces in expectation of q new Italian
drive on the Bainsizza plateau.
Along the Aisne and Champagne
front and on the left bank OF the
Meuse intense artillery duels are still
in progress.
There is still considerable artillery
and infantry activity between the Rus
SLAMS and Germans around Riga.
Neither side made any attempt to ad-
vance Tuesday.
Official dispatches report Austrian
troops gathering in great force on the
southern boundary IN anticipation of
the renewal of the Italian drive over
the Bainsizza plateau.
An American patrol boat has fired
upon an Italian submarine, which
failed to respond to signals, and killed
one officer and an enlisted man. Sec
retary Daniels has expressed the re-
grets of the U. s. to Italy.
With Uruguay's relations with Ger
many broken there are now 100000
Latin Americans lined up on the side
OF the United States. Other South
Americans are expected to fall In line
in the next few months.
British forces captured the town of
Poelcapelle and advanced two miles
through the German lines at this sec
tion of the front in Flanders. French
troops, who burst into the fighting
Tuesday morning, captured the Flan-
ders villages of st. Jean de M,--gelare
and Veldhoek and pushed their line
forward for a gain of one and a quar-
ter miles. At many other points along
the west front the British kept up
their deadly assault against the stag
gered Germans and went through their
defenses for important gains.
WESTERN
At Minneapolis, Mimi, flour prices
declined, fancy patents 80 cents a bar
rel and first clears rs cents.
Brigadier General Hiram M. Chit
tenden, U. S. A, retired, former mem
ber of the Seattle Port Commission,
died following brief illness. He was
SO years old.
Peter Alarid, son of Police Chief
Alarid of Santa Fe, N. M, was placed
in the county jail in Denver, pending
a hearing on an information charging
him with bootlegging.
The highest price paid for cotton
seed since the Civil war was obtained
at Shreveport, La, when sixty car
loads, averaging twenty-five tons to
the car, were sold for SIT per ton.
A plan to dismiss all Nebraska
schools, including the State Univer-
sity, for a period of three weeks dur
ing corn-husking time, was discussed
in Lincoln at a meeting called by w.
H. Gustafson, president of the Nebras-
ka Farmers Union.
WASHINGTON
Gen. Crowder is preparing for a sec
ond draft.
The fuel administration is prepar-
ing to modify the embargo on coal
shipments to Canada.
The United States made a loan of
S15,000,000 to Great Britain it was an
nounced at the Treasury Department.
Giant Caproni airplanes rained
bombs upon the great Austrian naval
base at Cattaro, starting fires among
the buildings in the navy yard and
causing damage to Austrian ships in
the harbor.
With reports on bread prices all
over the country showing the widest
divergence, the food administration
and the Federal Trade Commission are
moving toward q proclamation fixing
bread prices as they fixed coal prices.
The Post Office Department author
izes the following: 1t is essential that
Christmas packages for American sol
diers in France be mailed not later
than November 18th in order to in
sure their delivery on Christmas morn
ing.
Berlin's reported new peace man
euver was regarded by officials in
Washington just as all her previous
Acknowledgment to save her present
holdings before the crash comes and
to discourage Americas war prepara-
tions.
Representatives Timberlake and
Taylor of Colorado are going to the
fighting line in France to size up the
war conditions at close range.
Eleven suffragists arrested in con-
pection with picketing the White
House gates got q suspended sentence