The Colorado statesman., 1917-12-29
THE WORLD IN
PARAGRAPHS
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EiGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DoINGS AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
Western Newspaper Unlou News service.
ABOUT THE WAR

A compromise mas Deen erected De-
tween the Bolsheviki and the Social
Revolutionists and a coalition govern
ment is being formed, the telegraph
agency announced at Petrograd.
Col del Rosso and Monte Val Bella
on the Asiago plateau We're recap
tured by Italian forces in counter
attack Dec. &c, but it was found i'm
possible to hold them, the Rome war
office announced
The British armed steamer stephen
Furness has been torpeaoed and sunk
by German submarine in the Irish
channel, it was officially announced
at London. Six officers and ninety
five men were lost.
A British air squadron dropped a
ton of Jmbs on the great commercial.
city OF .nannheim. ON the Rhine, in
Germany. Numbers of fires were
started. One British plane was
forced to descend.
The War Department at Washing
ton has made public fifteen more
deaths in the eXpeditionary forces
abroad. OF these two were killed in
action, one the result of wounds re
ceived in action and another in an
airplane accident.
The losses to British shipping show
a material decrease for the past week
According to the admiralty report
eleven British merchantmen of 1000
tons or over were sunk by mine or
submarine, as well as one merchant
man under that tonnage and one fish
ing vessel
Increased cannonading near Yer
dun. especially around Douamont, the
Chaume wood and the Caurieres wood
which a year ago were the scenes of
some of the fiercest fighting of the
war. indicates apparently the inten
tion of the Germans to attempt to
break the line there. The allies are
making every preparation to meet the
attack
While their guns lombard the west
ern front, the Germans are taking
troops from the eastern front for use
elsewhere, despite the provision OF
the Russo-German armistice prohibit
ing such action. The artillery activi
ty in France has been moderate over
most of the front and more violent
on the right bank of the Meuse, north
east of Verdun, the scene of the Ger
man attack nearly two years ago.
WESTERN
The Government, through a mediat-
or, now controls all labor conditions
in every packing plant in America.
Fred Green and Miss Jessie Whar
ton were killed almost instantly near
Butte, Mont, when a train struck
their automobile
The Great Western Sugar Company
paid out $4,000 to a hundred farm
ers in Bitter Root valley. At Billings
the company distributed S560,000.
The Mountain States division of the
Red Cross has enrolled 100000 new
members in the weeks campaign ac-
cording to estimates at headquarters
in Denver
Six thousand acres of beets have
been signed up to insure erection of
a sugar refinery at Blaine Idaho. New
refinery of Utah-Idaho company at
Boise completed.
The annual fees for grazing per
mits in the national forest will not be
raised for the coming season, accord
ing to information received from
headquarters by the Denver forestry
office.
Arrival of Vilhjalmur Stefansson at
Fort Yukon apparently ends voyage
of Arctic exploration that began when
he left Victoria, b. c., June II, 1913,
at the head of a Canadian government
expedition aboard the steamer Kar
LUX.
\. 4SHINGTON
Secretaries Baker and Daniels sent
Christmas greetings to American
fighting forces.
President Wilson Joined with his
grandchildren in celebrating Christ
mas at the White House.
The new draft machinery was in
voked for the first time when Pro
vost Marshal General Crowder made
public instructions to all governors
calling for the mobilization of 1000
bricklayers. urgently needed by Gen.
Pershing at once.
Federal officials found packages of
ammunition, several hundred rifles
and a number of bags filled with re-
volvers buried under tn cargo of
hides in the Shilka, Russian freight
er. which arrived at Pacific port
under control of its Bolshevik crew
Expenditure of more than $5S,O0O.-
600 for land and buildings for housing
all the governments activities in
Washington with an outline of gen
eral building plan has been recon-
mended to Congress by the public
buildings commission in its first re-