Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-06-22
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK Or
WIRES ROUND ABouT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST WEEK
RECORD CT IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
Western Newspaper Union views ssrvIes
ABOUT THE WAR

British capture the village Of Gas
pard in Belgium.
Italian airmen are unusually active
against the Austrians.
The French steamer Sequana was
torpedoed and 100 lives lost.
Portion OF General Pershing's staff
In France arranging for camps.
Fort saliff on the Red Sea. has been
captured by British warships.
England has released all prisoners
taken In the Irish revolt Of 1916.
The American mission, headed by
Elihu Root, has reached Petrograd.s
British make advance on two mile
front and capture village Of Gaspard.
Norwegian steamships Soerland,
TordeDvore and Brioid, sunk by sub
marides.
The American tanker Moreni, after
a battle with a submarine. was sunk.
Four lives we're lost.
Nearly 100 killed and more than
$50 injured is the toll of a German
Rirplane raid over London.
The territory regained by the Brit
lsh on the western front since July l,
1916, amounts to 600 square miles.
The British armed merchant cruiser
Avenger was torpedoed and sunk in
the North lei All but me were
saved.
The entente allies have forced the
a%bdication Of King Constantine of
Greece in favor of his second son,
Prince Alexander.
England is spending e7,750,000 a
day G"37.277,5OO) in her warning, Chan
Cellor of the E%xchequer Bonar Law
told the House of Commons.
Weekly British report of vessels
sunk by submarines or mines shows
twenty-five vessels of more thar 1000
Ions and ten of less than 1000 tons.
Great Britain follows the United
States in a note to Russia on war
aims and indorses Wilson's principles
laid down in his message to Congress.
More han 100000 prisoners have
been taken by the British during the
war, James Ian Macpherson, parlia-
mentary secretary to the war office,
announced in the House of Commons.
British have captured portions Of
the Hindenburg line near B%ullecourt
and extended their gains astride the
Ypres-C Confines canal. Since June 7th
the British have occupied the German
front trenches from the River Lys to
the River Warnave on a seven-mile
front for from 500 to 1000 yards. Ger
mans officially admit their retreat be-
fore the British OF the front line be-
tween Ypres and A%rmentieres, east Of
Messines.
WESTERN
Coloradoans bought about $4,000
300 in Liberty Loan bonds.
Roosevelt in vigorous speech at Lin
coin, Neb, drives home principles Of
Americanism.
C~olorado's prosperity never was
more clearly shown than by the result
of the Liberty bond sale. Denver and
the state OF Colorado bought approx
imately $l7,OOO,O 900 OF the bonds.
German newspapers published in
Cincinnati upheld the German air raid
over London in which ninety-seven
persons, among them twenty-siX chill
dren and sixteen women, were killed.
Cheyenne, the capital of Wyoming,
subscribed more than 100000 to the
war bond issue, and Wyoming bank
ers believe that the quota Of ST. 500, 0O0
for the state has been oversubscribed.
Cheyenne's subscription is on a basis
OF SIS per capita.
WASHINGTON
Conspiracy charges preferred against
western lumber dealers.
Congress is to be asked to appropri-
ate 5000. 900, 700 for aviation.
President Wilson in Flag Day ad.
dress exposes German intrigue.
Returns indicate that 9,G24,OOO regis
tered on June 9Th, being 95 per cent
OF estimates.
Garbled version OF message to China
nearly causes break between United
States and japan.
Steel shipbuilders called by the
Shipping Board and Mai. Gen. Goe-
thals, chairman OF the emergency
fleet corporation, were told the gov
eminent would commander immedi-
Ltely all shipbuildiDg contracts.
Food control by the people. instead
OF by Congress, may be necessary, at
least for edibles derived from the first
harvests.
Retail food prices in the United
States jumped on an average Of . per
cent between March 18th and April
10th. " shown in statistics compiled
by the Department OF Labor.
The Liberty loan has been tremen.
dously oyersubscribed. When the
hooks closed on June 18th treasury OF.
ticials estimated that the total would
reach at least $500. 100000 and