The Colorado statesman., 1917-08-18
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING The PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
Western Newspaper Union News service.
ABOUT THE WAR

Another allied warship sunk Tues
day.
Lone English aviator wins fight
with three enemy planes. A.
Hotbed of German propaganda is
discovered in Mexico.
The American bark Christiane was
sunk off the Azores by German
submarine. The crew was landed.
Nine hundred And thirty three Scan
dinavian ships have been destroyed by
torpedoes or mines since the begin
ming of the war.
Additional Japanese naval units
have joined the allied forces in Euro
pean waters, the Japanese naval at
tache at London announced.
The Russians and Rumanians have
checked, for the time being, the Of
fensive of Field Marshal Won Macken-
sen in the region of Fokshani.
German air planes raided the Eng
lish coast Sunday, killing twenty-three
persons, including nine women and six
children. About sixty were injured.
The Austro-German drive in south
ern Moldavia has eclipsed all the
fighting on the other war fronts The
Russo-Rumanians seem to have lost
their hold.
The American steamer. Campana
} was sunk by a. submarine and five
Americans, including the captain, are
believed to have been taken prisoners
on the diver.
French accommodating parties have
penetrated the German lines near
Rheims in two places. Elsewhere in
Champagne, as well as at Cerny, on
the Aisne front and in the Carspach
sector, the French repulsed German
surprise attacks.
Five Americans and fourteen others
were killed when the British steamer
! City of Athens struck a mine near
Cape Town, South Africa. Four of
the Americans lost were missionaries.
Arthur Duckworth, his wife and six
J children of Denver were among the
victims.
No great changes took place Tues
day on the battlefields of Europe.
Northeast of Ypres, in Flanders, Brit
ish troops forced German posts to re-
J tire across the Steenbeke river Field
. Marshal Haig's men held their gain
and re-established their line on the
eastern bank of the river. Elsewhere
from the coast to st. Quentin, the ar
tillery firing increased in some sectors
and the British carried out a number
OF successful raids, the most import
ant being in the environs of Lens by
, the Canadians.
! WESTERN
No disorder occurred when strikers
deported 400 strike breakers from
! Kansas City.
Authorities started search for 447
men who failed to appear before the
county examining board at Bisbee, Ari-
zona The records show that only
two-thirds of the men called appeared
) for examination.
James Bell, a miner, employed by
the Copper Queen company, was
stabbed twice in the back during an
alteration in front Of his home which
l peace officers said arose over the re-
s cent IW.W troubles in Bisbee, Ariz
The charter of the Anaconda local
of the International Union of Mine.
Mill and Smelter Workers. was torn
from the wall in the course of o
stormy meeting at Butte, Mont, at
which it was announced that strike
vote against the Washoe smelter Of
the Anaconda Copper Company had
failed.
WASHINGTON
! Herbert C. Hoover, food admins
traitor, announced the plans for the
! control of wheat, flour and bread.
Congress soon will be asked to au-
thorize another loan of between 3d.
100000 and $4,000, 900 to the al
lies.
Decisive steps to curb high coal
prices are expected from President
Wilson and the Federal Trade Com
mission.
General debate in the Senate on the
{ $4,000, ,000, 900 war tax bill has virtu-
ally ended, and such rapid progress
was made on the finance committee
amendments to the House bill That
leaders predicted the measures pass
age next week.
Sugar will probably follow wheat in
Herbert Hoover's food control The
5 canning and packing industries will
also soon be under his fire.
Official notice of China's declara-
) tion of war on Germany AND Austria
Hungary was received at the Chinese
legation in cable dispatches from Pek-
king
J American labor will be supplied for
harvesting the Canadian grain crop,
nndar arranpement reached he