, 1917-12-20

An OlIlCldl turkish statement re-
ports a victory in Mesopotamia over
the British.
~Bolsheviki troops have occupied Ia
manovka and Kaluga, according to a
Reuter- dispatch from Petrograd.
1t is reported at Eagle Pass, Tex,
that Mexican forces headed by Gutter
req, known as "Gutierristas,' ave
captured Monclova, Mexico.
The Black Sea battle fleet is co
operating with the Bolsheviki forces
in the fighting at Rostoff, according
to dispatches received at Petrograd.
Two of Austria's battIeships have
fallen victim to the most daring naval
raid of the war-the forcing of the
harbor of Trieste by two intrepid
Italian torpedo BOAT destroyers.
The big guns are doing most of the
work on the Italian front. In Thurs
days fighting the enemy in attacks
between the Brenta and Piave rivers
again made an insignificant gain, but
only under huge sacrifices of men.
Bolsheviki power in Petrograd is
being menaced more seriously as the
opposition becomes solidified. There
is unrest in Petrograd and Moscow,
the extremist strongholds. and the
Cossacks already have advanced from
the Don northward.
Aerial bombs dropped on a town be
hind the British front by German air
men resulted in the death of a num-
Der of American railway engineers. In
another town German aviators at
tempted to bomb a marching column
of Americans but all the men escaped
unscathed.
There has been everywhere a great
decrease in h activity of the infan-
try, but artillery duels of huge pro-
portions continue. To the east of
Ypres the Germans in a local attack
have captured British front line
trenches on a front of 300 yards,
while the Germans, according to the
Berlin official communication have
repulsed a British attack in the Cam
brai sector east of B%ullecourt. The
Germans are massing large forces and
carrying out a heavy bombardment
in the latter region.
WESTERN
Buy Red Cross Christmas Seals.
The welfare fund of the knights of
Columbus has reached 1884 at Salt
Lake.
Sunday II Thursday are to be
"lightless nights" for the Nation u
ing the war.
Alexander Howat was reelected
president of the Kansas miners dis
trict, No. Il, United Mine Workers of
America.
The November record of oil produc-
ton shows heavy decreases in the
Oklahoma, Kansas and Gulf coast
fields and also shows the largest total
of new rigs up and wells drilling in
the Rocky Mountain section in his
tory.
For the first time in history, the
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul rail
road Dec. IA suspended trains at
Mitchell, S. D., on account of a short
g of coal. Freights bound east were
annulled and other traffic was cut
down or delayed.
Low temperature records for De
cember were smashed in South Dako-
ia Dec. 10 and IA. WATERFOWL report
ed 80 degrees below zero; Aberdeen
80 below; Madison, 80 below, and
Yankton q below. The thermometers
at Sioux Falls recorded rs below
zero.
" ASHINGT0N
Congress will recess from Dec. Is
to Jan, 3.
Secretary Bakers annual report for
the Wal Department constitutes only
a brief historical review of the year.
Secretary Lane announced Pres
ident Wilson's approval to the restor-
alton of more than 25O,OOO acres OF
withdrawn Ignite coal land in the
eastern part of Montana and the
southwestern part of North Dakota.
The United States guard will be the
name of the $4,000 auxiliary force of
troops authorized by the War depart
ment to supplement state and other
forces guarding war supplies IL do
ing police duty essential to the con.
duct of the war.
The ]postoffice appropriation bill ag-
gregating 1888, 0O0, 900, including ST.
100000 for censorship of foreign mails
n without any appropriation for
pneumatic tube service in New York,
Boston OF elsewhere was passed by
the House.
Small silver producers must receive
at least 81 an ounce or shut down
their mines, Director Baker of the
mint vas old by a delegation of pro
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ferred on the governments plans for
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