, 1917-09-27
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS. D DING 9, ACHIEVE.
MENTs, suFFERINes, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union News Services.
ABOUT THE WAR

ing argentine affair.
Over 1000 prisoners taken by Brit
ish in days fighting.
American regiment takes place of
French on battlefront.
The unarmed American schooner
n J. Trainer was sunk.
Russia recognizing army to make
firm stand against Germans.
Two German submarines nave been
sunk by British naval forces.
Argentine Senate votes to break off
diplomatic relations with Germany.
Italians break through Austrian line
east OF Trent and capture 200 pris
oners.
A Toxic dispatch says Japan will
soon a her first step in her plan
to furnish shipping aid to the allies
In the war.
On the southern end of the western
front the German crown prince has
suffered severe losses in an unsuccess-
ful attack on Mont Haul, in Cham
payne.
The German minister to Sweden for
nally expressed to the Swedish gov
eminent Germany's regrets in conse-
quence of the neutrality-suspicious. tel
egram affair.
Convinced that a declaration of war
against Germany will be made by the
government, Argentina army officials
are going ahead with tentative plans
for the immediate dispatch of an army
to Europe.
In the recent raid by entente allied
nirmen on the Belgian town of Roul-
ers, says the Courier de la Mouse, a
newspaper of Maastricht, Holland, a
bomb fell O IN a building neal the mar
ket and killed or wounded 900 Ger
mans.
Opposing armies were bitterly en-
gagged Saturday from the North Sea 10
Switzerland in the west; from the
Baltic to the Black sea in the east; in
Macedonia, and from the Austro-Ital-
ian mountains to the Adriatic. The
British are holding the new positions
taken from the Germans Thursday,
and besides consolidating these gains
have captured 1000 more prisoners,
making 5000 men taken since the big
drive began.
WESTERN
Crowd of soldiers wreck l. W. w.
headquarters in LOS Angeles.
Approximately 10000 men had been
received in Camp Funston at noon Fri
day, the majority from Kansas, Ne
braska and Colorado.
Federal authorities are carefully
scrutinizing he speeches delivered by
Senator La Toilette and President A.
c. Townley of the Nonpartisan League
at a mass meeting in st. Paul. MINI.
Rioting broke out in half a dozen
sections of the Mission district Friday
in connection with the strike of the
United Railroads platform men al San
Francisco. A crowd of 800 persons
attacked a street car with rocks and
other missiles.
WASHINGTON
Wilson orders investigation made of
coast labor troubles.
Japan again assures United States
b is on side of allies to win war.
President Wilson calls on school
children to Join Junior Red Cross.
Washington officials are disposed to
accept Sweden's messages of regret.
The warning world and a large por-
ton of the neutral nations are on ra-
lions today.
The $11.0 900 1000 war credits bill
conference report was adopted by the
House and the measure sent to the
White House for the Presidents sig
nature.
Loans of $4,000, 900 to Great Brit.
ain and $780, 900 900 to France were
made by the government, bringing the
total thus far advanced to the allies
mp to 1891, 400. 900.
Twenty leading flagmakers in differ.
ent parts of the country were form
ally charged by the Federal Trade
Commission with making exorbitant
profits out of American patriotism by
concerted illegal action to raise flag
prices.
Reduction of sugar prices was as
sured when beet sugar producers
agreed with the food administration to
sell to wholesalers at Beabonrd refin-
ing points for IA cents a pound, max
imum. instead of the prevailing price
Of 8 40 cents.
Renewed assurances of the strength
Of the Russian government and OF the
new demooracy's determination to
fight unwaveringly with the allies I'M
I'll the var is victoriously concluded
have been given Secretary Lansing by
Boris ~Bakhmeteff, the Russian ambAs-
Sador.