The Colorado statesman., 1917-09-08
DURING The PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service
ABOUT THE WAR

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Verdi has been sunk with the loss Of
six of her crew.
Forty German divisions, approx
mately 100000 men, have been forced
put of action in the Flanders and Yer
aun fighting alone since July l.
The Italians have captured the great
mountain fortress of Monte San Ga
briele in the drive on Triest This is
,f great strategic value to Cadorna.
The third air raid in three days was
launched on towns in England by the
German flyers. In Mondays raid 107
persons were killed and eighty-six in
Iured.
Austrian losses in the fighting on
the road to Trieste are 125,000 men
and $500 officers, according to dis
patches received at the Italian embas
sy in Washington.
Continuing their raids over Belgium,
British aviators Sunday night made
attacks in the vicinity of Bruges. A
British airplane fought six Germans
and shot down one of them.
Russians are demanding a new die
tator following the loss of Riga and
the flight of the Slav army. Petrograd
is menaced further by the rout of Slav
troops from points on the Jaegel
river.
British casualties reported in the
last week are 1854. They are divid-
ed as follows: Killed or died Of
wounds: Officers, 364; men, $3.50.
Wounded or missing: Officers, SAG;
men, 10,524.
The population is evacuating West
Flanders as the British keep up their
violent assault on the German center.
Important gains were made by the
Canadians and British in the fighting
around Lens while the French report
new success along the Aisne and near
Verdun.
Riga, the great Baltic seaport, has
been captured by the Germans, open
ing the way to Petrograd, If the Teu-
tons can spare enough men to attempt
this 350-mile drive. Reports of the ad-
vance of the German forces across the
Dvina and the remaining fifteen miles
to Riga show the Russians voluntarily
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the gains easy for the kaisers forces.
WESTERN
Charlie (Chick) Shorten, Red Sox
center fielder, enrolled as firstclass
yeoman at the Charlestown navy yard.
Springfield, ILL.,, was quiet under mil
itary guard after night of street car
strike riots which resembled the de-
structive riots of 1908.
Fire in the Mexican and Austrian
quarters of Jerome, Ariz., destroyed
thirty buildings including several
rooming houses. 1t was estimated by
city authorities that 700 people had
been made homeless.
| Mrs. Helen Swift Morris, widow Of
the late Edward Morris, packer, was
married at Chicago to Francis Neil
son, former Liberal member of the
British House of Commons for the
Hyde division of Cheshire.
Drafted men from Missouri, Kansas
and Colorado in the fourteenth divi-
sion cantonment at Camp Funston at
Fort Riley, Kan, will dig trenches and
drill in blue overalls, If a suggestion
made to the War Department by Maj.
Gen. Leonard Wood is adopted
WASHINGTON
President Wilson, having spoken de-
cisively to the pope rejecting his pro-
posals of peace. Washington now
awaits with keen anticipation reports
from Berlin and Rome which may in
dicate the next move in the direction
OF peace.
The President of the United States,
head erect, chest thrown forward,
eyes forward, marched Tuesday at the
head of the most impressive parade
ever seen in the streets of Washing
ton, leading Americas new army into
the war against Germany.
Capt. Albert Oliver of the American
tank steamer Campana and four of the
five members of the naval gun crew
who were taken prisoner when their
ship was captured and sunk Aug.
by German submarine are in a pris-
on camp at Brandenburg, Prussia, the
American Red Cross was advised by
cable from Geneva.
Substantial gains are recorded for
organized labor during the past year.
The State Department report of the
earthquakes at Bogota, Colombia, says
800 houses were reported destroyed.
Militants of the National Woman's
party made the procession in honor of
men drafted for the national army the
occasion for more picketing of the
White House.
Soldiers of the national army were
welcomed into the nations service
by President Wilson with a mes
sage of affectionate confidence and a
prayer to God to keep and guide them.