Tombstone epitaph., 1917-04-01

ABOUT THE WAR
 A German gunboat in the harbor of Tsin Tau, China, was blown up and sunk.
 Both Paris and London report stiff fening Of the German resistance in France.
 According to a Danish newspaper, a revolution has broken out in Ham burg. Germany.
 Important action reported on Mace donian front where French score con siderable success.
 Russians admit important German success on the eastern front but claim some captured positions were recap tured.
 Beach Thomas. in a dispatch 10 the London Daily Mail. describing the German retreat in France says at least 300 villages have been burned to cinders.
 Berlin official statement declares present retreating movement Is part of general strategic scheme designed 10 revolutionize the war on the west ern front.
 A British commune alton says that for the week ending March IS. sixteen British ships, each of tonnage Of more than I.50O. were sunk and eight of tonnage under l.6OO tons. Twenty one fishing vessels also were sunk.
 Paris reports the total amount of French territory liberated from the German invaders by the Somme offen- sive up to March Fist is S53 square miles situated in the four departments of Pas-de-Calais, Disc. Aisne and Somme. Ii includes 36G towns and vil- lages, the homes of lSl,935 French men. The Germans are still in posses sion Of 7,l26 square miles of France. WESTERN
 A military battalion for use in case of war was formed by students al the University of Utah at Salt Lake
 Seven persons were killed and eight injured when a tornado swept the country in the vicinity of Delarde, Ark.
 Military traiking will be adopted for the coLTscts in the Oregon peniten- tiary within a few months. Warden Charles A. Murphy announced at Sa- lem.
 Capt Jack Bonavita, one of the rfp was so badly mauled and clawed by a young polar bear at Los Angeles that he died al the Angelus hospital
 A barred zone" regulating decol- lete gown exposures in bathrooms will be established by the state of Illinois, if an amendment offered by Senator Denvir to a dance hall bill is accepted.
 The Central highway through Colo rado will no longer be organized un- der the name "The Lincoln Highway Association of Colorado" but will in the future use the name The Colo rado Division of the Pike's Peak Ocean-to-Ocean Highway" This de cision was made at the sixth annual convention held at Colorado Springs. WASHINGTON
 The government bond issue of s1sO,- oe0. 1000 to meet the naval expendi- ture will not be issued before sum- mer. Secretary of the Treasury Me Adoo announced.
 Thirty thousand cases of smallpox rage in Germany and the disease is spreading, according to the speech Of a Socialist member of the Reichstag Herr Hoffman, received by the State Department.
 The War Department is perfecting plans with the Department of the In terior for the use of big reclamation projects in the west as possible in ternment camps for persons to be ar rested upon the outbreak of war.
 Patriotic students in Central high school at Washington tore from the walls of class room picture of Elm peror William of Germany and hung in its place a photograph of President Wilson. decorated with two American flags.
 Accession to the throne of Abys- sinia by Empress Za1ditu, succeeding Menelik H. was reported in a procla- nation from Foreign Minister Cagna- match Baiane Iemer dated Addis- Abeba, which reached the State De- pertinent.
 Production of wheat in Argentina, Australia and New Zealand, the prin- cipal producing countries of the south ern hemisphere, shows a 30 per cent. reduction for the 1916-19I7 season, but is only 7.7 per cent. less than the five year average.
 The government war risk insurance bureau. which heretofore has insured only non-contraband. announced that it would broaden the scope of its op- erations" and hereafter insure practi cally all forms of contraband for European countries except arms and ammunition.