The Colorado statesman., 1917-09-22
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK or
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

eo from Laglncourt, Nlmy ana Nleu-
port.
Italians claim to have repulsed vio-
lent attacks of the Austro-Hungarians
on the Bainsizza plateau.
British north country troops assault
ed German lines in Inverness copse
and captured number of prisoners.
Russia has been proclaimed a Re-
public. The provisional government
issued the proclamation Sept. 14th.
Paris reports the recapture of
trench positions lost to the Germans
in their raid near the Neufchatel road
Rumanian forces Tuesday occupied
a section of the Austro-Germ forti-
fled positions in the region of Yer
nitza-
Maj. Gen. Bonch Bruyovich has been
appointed commander-in-chief of the
Russian army in succession to Gen
Korniloff.
Near Riga the Russian forces cap
tured an important position southwest
of Hapsal and also forced the Teutons
out of Sadzen farm.
Uruguayan marines boarded all the
German ships in the harbor at Monte
video, the government having heard
of plans to sink the vessels.
The German minister to Sweden for
mally expressed to the Swedish gov
ernment Germany's regrets in conse-
quence of the Swedish-Argentinian tel
egram affair.
Dugouts and defenses were wrecked
in a successful British raid near
Cherisy, southeast of Arras. Berlin
also admits losses in Flanders on the
Ypres-Meni road.
Premier Kerensky, accompanied by
Gen. Verkhovsky, minister of war, and
Admiral Verdervski, minister of ma
rine, left Petrograd for the Russian
general army headquarters in the
field.
In the recent raid by entente allied
airmen on the Belgian town of Roul-
ers, says the Courier de la Meuse,
newspaper of Maastricht, Holland,
bomb fell on building near the mar
ket and killed or wounded 900 Ger
mans.
The Russian army is driving back
toward Riga along a wide front. With
in the last few days it has advanced
more than seven miles, the Russian
embassy announced in Washington.
The whole Russian military system is
being reorganized under Gen. Alexieff,
who has been given supreme command
of the armies, and discredited COM
manders are being ousted
WESTERN
Arizona mine owners will not arbi-
trate strike differences.
Peace at any price" has been
stricken from the code of William
Jennings Bryan and Flight to a fin
ish" has been substituted.
AS result of the strike of freight
handlers and clerks at the various
railroad depots at Kansas City, aug
mented by sympathetic strike of
teamsters, all of the railroad yards are
said to be packed with freight cars.
Investigators have been sent to No
gales, Ariz., by the United States De-
partment of Justice to inquire into n
claim that Mexicans have been en-
deavoring to induce men selected for
army service to evade service by go
ing to Mexico.
approximately TOO union carpenters,
engaged in government construction
work at Camp Logan and the aviation
camp at Houston, Texas, struck as
result of the failure of contractors to
meet their demands that none but
union labor be employed.
A signed statement of guilt that
Rev. George ]. Kelly is alleged to have
made in the jail at Logan, Iowa, Aug.
81, was admitted as evidence at Red
Oak, Iowa. in the trial of Kelly, who
is charged with murder in connection
with the Villisca AK slayings.
WASHINGTON
To fill the army signal corps, the
War Department may decide to draft
an additional 100000 men.
The s7,OOO,OOO,OO0 war deficiency
bill carrying huge appropriations for
the army, Notifications and shipping
board, passed the House by unani-
nous vote.
Legislation to protect the civil and
property rights of soldiers, in effect
moratorium for the duration of the
war in behalf of men who are serving
their country on the firing line, may
be placed upon the administrations
program for this session of Congress
as necessary element of the raising
of citizen army.
In the very near future President
Wilson will issue proclamation ask
ing the nation to get down on its
knees and beseech the guidance OF AL
mighty God in the war into which the
United States has entered.