The Colorado statesman., 1917-09-29
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DURING The PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
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Western Newspaper Union News Service.
ABOUT THE WAR


support.
Some of American forces under fire
in France.
British destroyer sunk near home;
all but fifty are lost.
Argentine mobilizes her navy and
military forces are active.
Five steamships and two destroyers
sunk by German U-boats.
German columns were decimated in
the battle of Menin road.
Korniloff rebellion controversy
proves sensation at Petrograd.
Turkey demands that peace must
not change her territory.
Another Austro- German attack has
Trent.
American soldiers will be literally
armed to the teeth when sent to the
trenches against the Germans.
At Buenos Aires the Chamber of
Deputies voted in favor of rupture
with Germany. The vote was So to IS.
The Italians have repulsed attacks
on the Bainsizza plateau and the Rus
slams blocked an attempted advance
on the Riga front.
Total casualties of all British ranks
In all the war theaters for the week
ending Sept. 20 are reported officially
to have been 23,035.
Crown Prince Rupprecht's army
made repeated assaults on the British
in Flanders and succeeded in gaining
foothold, from which they were later
driven with heavy losses.
On the Riga-Dvinsk sector the Rus
SLAMS continue their efforts to drive
the Germans back toward the Dvina.
Petrograd reports the capture of Ger
man positions near Silseme.
Capt. George Guynemer, the noted
French flyer, and Lieut.. Vosse, the
German accredited with forty-two en-
counters, are believed to have been
killed in the recent fighting.
North of Ypres the German assaults
have increased, but Paris reports all
attacks have failed. The Germans
used liquid fire in attempt to repel the
French, but were unsuccessful.
London was raided by airplanes
twice Tuesday night, making the third
assault on the capital in two days. In
the raid Monday night fifteen persons
were killed and seventy injured.
WESTERN
Fifty men fought a forest fire ten
miles east of Deadwood, S. d.
Spokane, Wash, coal dealers re-
duced coal so to 75 cents ton.
Revolution of over two million per-
sons financed by forty-eight organiza-
tions.
Prediction of attempt by Germany
to conquer the world made to Ad-
miral Dewey fifteen years ago.
The Wyoming State Fair, held at
Douglas. was by far the most success
full exhibition yet held by the state of
Wyoming.
Military necessity will be cause of
many regiments of state troops losing
their identity in the reorganization of
the divisions
Two men were killed at Richmond,
Cal, in an explosion which tore out
the forward works and superstructure
of the Standard Oil tanker ]. A Moi
fett as she lay at her pier.
WASHINGTON
House orders committee on suffrage
formed.
Secretary Lane started on Liberty
bond campaign.
The s11,50O, 100000 war bond meas
ure is law. President Wilson has
signed the bill.
Flat embargo on American gold ex-
ports to Spain has been put into ef-
fect by the United States government
Without a rollcall and after brief
debate the Senate passed the sS,OOO,-
100000 war deficiency appropriation
bill.
Germany will be convicted further
before the world on charges of high
handed intrigues against the peace of
other nations.
Uniform steel prices for the Amer
lean government, the public and the
allies, which represent reductions of
from 40 to 70 per cent in present mar
ket quotations were approved by Pres
ident Wilson.
The Federal Reserve Board has
taken preliminary steps to abolish
longtime credits in this country dur
ing the period of the war, to conserve
the financial resources Of tht country
in a more liquid condition.
A plea for concerted efforts to OBJ
tain a maximum production of coal
during the war was made by Dr. H. A.
Garfield, the fuel administrator, at the
opening of a conference Of central
field operators and miners to discuss
D proposed wage increase.