The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-07-27

lTaineu minus throughout the country.
Miners are coming into the Warren
(Arizona) district at the rate of fifty
a day to find work in the mines and
mills Of the copper acmp.
| Official announcement is made that
the United States transport service is
taking over control of the French
railroad lines from the port bases to
the permanent camp and the front
Tracks are being laid and sidings en-
larged
WASHINGTON.
In response to protests against
training of northern national guards
men in southern states, letter from
Secretary Baker, read in the senate,
said the arrangement had been made
for climatic reasons and that the
guardsmen probably cannot be sent to
| France before cold weather.
Selective CONSUMPTION was put into
effect July 20 when national lottery
fixed the order of military liability
for the 100000 young Americans
registered for service. To accomplish
the result, 10000 numbers had to be
drawn one at Il time, a task which be-
gan in the morning and lasted far
into the night.
Roland s. Morris of Philadelphia
has been nominated by President VIII
son as ambassador to Japan.
Sixteen women sent to the work
house for participation in a suffrage
| demonstration Saturday at the White
! House accepted pardons from Presi-
dent Wilson and were released after
serving two days Of their sixty-day
sentences.
The United States has been official
/ ~ invited by the allied governments
to participate in the inter-allied CON
! ference to be held in Paris some time
this month, but has decided that for
the present it will not be necessary
TO take part in such meetings not di-
rectly affecting this country's part in
the war.
Either presidential intercession for
the sixteen sutfragists sent to the
worlShouse to serve sixty days for pick
citing at the White House or appeal
| of their cases appears certain.
FOREIGN.
4 German troops have pushed forward
4 through three strong Russian zones Q
r defense between the sereth and Ziot
Iipa rivers in eastern Galicia, the wa
d office at Berlin announced July =
n TIL Russians suffered heavily, III
: statement adds, and are retreating
i disorder. The Germans took fe'
e thousand prisoners.
e Chancellor Aichaelis, in mis- address
e before the reichstag, July 10, said Gel
!. many would not continue the wa
f day longer if it could obtain al
honorable peace. Americas interven
! ton was not regarded with serious
concern.
Dissatisfaction among Russian troops
has resulted in an important gain OF
ground by the Germans and Austrians
in the region of Zlozhoff, east Of
Lemberg, the Galician capital.
Complete quiet has been restored in
Petrograd and plans for the recon
struction of the cabinet on the same
basis Of party representation as before
the crisis are now under way. accord
ing to semiofficial dispatches
Three French merchant vessels Of
more than 1900 tons and two OF less
than that tonnage were sunk last
week by submarine attacks, the weekly
Official statement says.
The German casualties reported In
the German official lists during June
are given out by the war office here
as follows. Killed and died OF WOUNDS,
2S,919; died Of sickness, 321o; prison
ers (and missing), $500; wounded
95,906.
The munitions factory of the Hun
garian iron and steel rolling mills at
Engelsfied, Budapest, was completely
burned Sunday. The entire stock was
ruined. The damage will exceed
million crowns.
According to information available
Mt Amsterdam, which must, however,
be treated with necessary reserve, Two
Americans were shot recently on the
charge of having attempted TO take the
German emperor's life.
Fourteen British ships of over 1000
tons were sunk by submarines or mines
lin the last week, according to the Of
fetal report July is. Four British yes
sells under 1900 tons We're sunk, and
eight fishing vessels.
The North and South agency re-
ports that a Russian destroyer mas
sunk a German submarine in the Bal
tic by dropping bombs on 1t and that
the crew of the submarine was
drowned.
President Ii Yuan Hung, in an
nouncing his resignation, urges the
country to support Feng Kwo Chang