The Colorado statesman., 1917-09-15

Italians take 10000 prisoners in re-
cent battles.
German engineers bridge River Aa
In lower Livonia.
Two British ships of more than 81
900 tons have been sunk by subma-
rines.
From the Belgian coast well down
into Flanders the artillery duels con-
tinue of most violent nature.
Casualties in the British ranks re-
ported during the week ending Sept.
IL show a total of 26,626 men.
Russian batteries have shelled Ger
man ships in the Gulf of Riga, COM
pelling them to withdraw.
Korniloff has announced himself
military dictator. Petrograd has been
declared in a state of war by Keren-
sky
Germany will shortly be able to pub
lish her peace terms, according to DR..
Georg Michaelis, the German chancel-
lor.
Italians are holding their positions
In spite of violent Austrian attacks.
Some infantry fighting is reported in
Trentino.
Furious fighting continues for the
Monte San Gabrielle stronghold. The
Italian official statement denies the
claims made by Austria several days
ago OF recapturing ground near Her
mada.
According to reports from the Pet
rograd Winter Palace, where the
Government Council was in session,
a considerable force of supporters of
Gen. Korniloff already have passed
Luga on the way to Petrograd.
German aviators continue their.
shelling of allied hospitals behind the
lines. Monday night they carried out
their latest raid in the region of Dun
kirk, where bombs which fell on a
hospital wounded five women.
The war commission of fifty prom
inent Chinese, headed by Lu Cheng
Haiang, has advised the government
to join the entente allies, to sign the
London agreement against a separate
peace and sign the Paris economic
compact.
Around Verdun the fighting be-
tween the French and the Germans
has died down to intermittent artil-
been a resumption of somewhat vio-
lent operations in which Gen. Petain's
forces have won successes.
The Russians have launched an Of
fensive near Riga and temporarily
checked the advance Of the Germans.
A death battalion" put the Teutons
to rout northeast Of the big seaport.
Rumanian forces also have assumed
an offensive and delivered repeated
attacks against the enemy in the Tro-
tus and Oituz valleys.
WESTERN
The most extensive strike in the
packing house industries in the his
tory of South Omaha was settled salts
factorily through the efforts of Fred
erick L. Feick, government mediator,
and the men all returned to work.
Unidentified persons who ap-
preached the Crystal lake dam of the
Cheyenne-Fort Russell water works
system, and who fled when challenged
by the military guard, were fired upon
by the guard. Six shots were sent
after the intruders who escaped.
Roderick M. Kennedy, "a, Mime
apolis, Mimi, private in the Third
aero squadron, training at Fort Sill,
Okla, was probably fatally burned
when his machine plunged 200 feet to
the ground. Kennedy was injured by
the fall, and wreckage of the machine
caught fire and the aviator's eyesight
was destroyed.
WASHINGTON
New government crop report shows
Increased production.
The big war tax bill is back in the
hands of the House, following it's pas
sage by the Senate. The measure
passed the House May % and now is
in conference. The Senate added
more than s500,0o0.00O to the bill.
1t will cost the United States ap-
proximately 100000 a year for the up
keep OF the Virgin Islands, formerly
the Danish West Indies, for which
America paid $25,000,000, according to
the first report OF Capt James H.
oliver, the temporary governor.
Negro troops of the national army
will be organized in separate units, as
Is done in the regular army, and so
lar as possible will be trained in the
states where they are raised.
The war revenue bill-proposing
the greatest single levy on taxes in
the history of the world-was passed
by the Senate. The measure provides
revenue totaling $2,411 $4,000.