Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-08-17

Western Newspaper Union News service.
ABOUT THE WAR
French make gains on several bat
tie fronts.
Fierce artillery duel still in progress
in Flanders.
Russians check tide Of Austro-Ger.
man advance in Galicia.
Germans and Turks planning at
tempt to recapture Bagdad.
Liberia, the negro republic on the
coast of Africa, has declared wal on
Germany.
Canada's a expenditures are now
about $S50,OOO a day, the total to
July 20 being 1923, OO0, 900.
Seven German airplanes were
crashed to earth Friday, and another
driven down out of control.
Twenty-one British vessels of more
than 1000 tons and two vessels of
less than 1000 tons were sunk last
week.
Russian troops are on the offensive
in the Chotin region on the Russo-Ga-
lician frontier and have withstood
Teuton assaults in the region Of
Brody. Two villages have been cap
tured. The Austro-Germans lost 300
men and -four machine guns.
The Canadians are holding stub
bornly the trenches at the doorstep of
Lens. The Germans unsuccessfully at
tackled near st. Quentin aeseetor long
idle. German attacks along the Aisne
also failed. Fighting continues in Gal
icia, Bukowina and Southern Mol
davia.
Winning a daybreak battle in brief,
furious fighting, the British forces Of
Haig are forging their way onward
through the lines of the Germans in
Belgium, near Hoge, on the fighting
front defending which are the armies
Of Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria.
At the same time the French are
pounding the enemy's lines hard. Dis
patches indicate the allies and Ger
mans aye engaged in heavy artillery
fighting from Newport to the Franco
Belgian border.
WESTERN
Bisbee people determined to stand
by deportation acts.
Hogs brought SIT at the stockyards
Aug. 1O-highest in the history of Chi
cago.
No place for l. w. w. policies un-
der American flag, declares attorney
general of Arizona.
T~wenty-one hundred motormen and
conductors of the Kansas City Street
Railway Company went on strike.
Governor Cox will call a special SEES.
sion of the Ohio Legislature, If neces,
sary, to enforce reasonable coal and
food prices.
Carl Herman Budde, ostensibly a life
insurance agent, but believed to be an
operative of the War Department in
telligence bureau, was found dead a
Billings, Mont, with a bullet through
his heart.
Walter d. Coakley. the postofficC
clerk who fled from Tucson, Ariz., fol
lowing the disappearance OF a 5000
package of bills from the local postof
flee, was arrested at Lebanon, Ind.
charged with theft.
Nine Molokanas, members of a Rus
sian religious sect ~coloniEed neal
Glendale, Ariz., were fined S25 eacl
and sentenced to twenty-five days i'm
prisonment in the county jail for par
ticipating in draft riots.
w AcuTNCTnN
Special precautions are being taker
to safeguard the food bought for tn,
navy.
Alaska's trade with the United
States in the fiscal year just close,
set a new record with a total Of 500,
100000.
The regular army has passed til
war strength figure of 3OO,O 900, It wal
officially announced by the War De
partment.
A national holiday may be declare,
on Sept. 8, Labor day, in celebration
] of the entrainment of the draft levie.
for the training cantonments.
! Secretary McAdoo is planning to asI
, Congress in the near future for author
ization of a new bond issue of $4,000,
000,0 900 at this session of Congress.
=, Seldom G. Hopkins of Cheyenne
Wye, was nominated by Presiden
: Wilson to be assistant secretary of tn,
interior, succeeding the late b.
Sweeney.
Oversubscription Of the $4,000, 900
900 issue of short term treasury Gel
tificates of Indebtedness Secretar,
McAdoo announced was SCI, 1926, 200
more than 20 per cent.