The Colorado statesman., 1917-06-02

Brazil is on verge of war with Ger
many.
Germans ridicule report OF U-boats
in American waters.
Simple American invention is deal
ing death to German submarines.
A new Teuton army of 100000
men is reported nearly ready to strike
France.
The first American combatant
corps went to the front under Capt
E. ]. Tinkham and Lieutenant Scully
of Princeton.
On eastern front Russian artillery
fire against Austrians increases in in
tensity, presaging approach of hostili-
ties on great scale.
A Swedish ship engaged in the work
of the Belgian relief commission was
sunk May 18th, Notwithstanding it
held German permit to sail
From scissors eastward intense ar
tillery duel is in progress between
French and Germans. Since May LIST,
French have taken 5000 prisoners.
The British transport Pennsylvania
was torpedoed on May 4th with the
loss of 413 persons. The Pennsylvania
was torpedoed in the Mediterranean.
Austrian war office says Italian cas-
ualties have been very heavy. More
than 1900 unwounded Italians has
been captured up to Sunday, says the
statement
Artillery duels continue between
French and Germans in Champagne
region. Along front held by British
operations are being carried out main
iy by small raiding parties.
Seventy-six persons were killed and
ia injured in Dover or Folkestone,
England, in the most ambitious raid
upon England yet made by German
aircraft. OF the killed, "a were women
and 23 children.
On Carso plateau above Gulf of
Trieste, Italians smash across Timavo
River and capture village of San Gil
ovanni, two miles northwest of Dunno
To the north, in vicinity of Jamiapo,
Italians capture fortified Austrian
trenches and along Julian front make
further gains and consolidate posi-
tions previously taken.
Western
Whale meat may soon be put on
market in cans.
A gunnysack containing United
States army instructions and regula-
tions was found under a viaduct and
turned over to the police by boy at
San Francisco.
William II. II. Miller, United States
attorney general when Benjamin Har-
rison was President, died at Indian
apolis, aged 76. Death followed an i'll
ness of several weeks.
Tornadoes in three days in seven
states killed approximately $50 per
sons. The injured will total more
than 1900. With the property loss
running into millions, the stricken
communities are preparing to rebuild
Several shots were fired from the
direction of men going to work at the
United Verde mine, after stones were
thrown at them by men in a crowd
of strike sympathizers at Jerome,
Ariz. The shots went wild. All the
workers were disarmed when they
reached the mine.
Washington
Seven cardinal points regarding reg
istration presented by War Depart
ment.
The United States position against
granting passports for attendance up
on the Stockholm Socialist conference
is unchanged.
ha
selection of Amityville, l.. l., and
Greenville, S. c., as concentration
camps for the national army.
With dreams of wealth unrealized,
homesick American negroes have pc
titioned the acting governor of the
gold coast colony in Africa to send
them back to Texas, which they left
in 1914, led by Chief Sam, who pic
tured lives of ease.
Treasury officials closed the inter.
national ledger for May with another
debit to the British government of
$75,O00,000, bringing the total thus far
lent Great Britain up to $400, 900 900
A payment of s75,0U0,000 also was
made to Italy on her credit of $lvU
100000 previously announced.
The administrations food survey
bill, first of the food control meas
ures, was passed by the House Mon
day without a record vote. 1t appro-
priated $14,77O,000 for an immediate
investigation of the country's food re-
sources and for measures to stimulate.
production.
A bill by Senator Poindexter of
Washington to punish malicious stor-
ing of foodstuffs and other necessar-
les, under penalties of from six
months TO three years Imprisonment