The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1917-03-23

revolution has broken out in Ham
burg. Germany.
Important action reported on Mace
DOMAIN front where French score con
siderable success.
French battleship Of 5000 tons sunk
In Mediterranean. British merchant
ship Bray Head. 1900 tons, sent down
By submarine.
Beach Thomas. in a dispatch TO the
London Daily Mail. describing the
German retreat in France says at
least 300 villages have been burned to
einders.
Berlin official statement declares
present retreatins movement is part
OF general strategic scheme designed
TO reyolutionize the var on the west
ern front.
Further notable gains reported
Tuesday for the British and French on
the somme front Latter four and
half miles from st Quentin British
capture fourteen more villages
British and French forces pressing
Germans closely in Somme sector,
former capturing forty villages and
the French twenty. French penetrate
village OF Ham, twelve miles beyon.
St Quentin German front between
ST Quentin and LaOn threatened by
this development. Germans deyastat-
ing country through which they are
retreating, burning villages and de-
stroylne farm land Thousands Of in
habltants left destitute
British forces in their latest push
on the western front have Tetakeu ap-
proximately $50 square miles OF
French territory occupied by the Ger
mans since the beginning OF the Var
The following are the more import
ant OF about eighty towns and vii
lagos recognized by the British: Ba-
paume. CLEANLINESS, Peronne. Greyiliere,
Fresnes, Horgny, Yillers Carboneile.
Barleaux, Eterpigny. lie Draasloy. La
Maisonnette, Biefyillers, Bihucourt
Achiet-Le Grand, Achiet-Le-Petit, Abb
lamsevile. Bucuoy, Esserts. The
French, in cooperation with their
British allies in this new thrust, have
retaken and are in possession of
about 525 square miles OF territory
formerly held by the Teutons The
following are the more important
towns reported as occupied by the
French: Noyon, Crouy. Carlepont.
Morsam. Nouvroningre. Roye and Las
signy.
WESTERN
Top hogs sold on the 2lst on differ
ent markets at from sl5.85 to si5. 40
per cWt.
Military training will be adopted for
the conyicts in the Oregon peniten-
tiary within few months, Warden
Charles A. Murphy announced at Sa-
lem.
Sister NJ Evelyn. daughter of w. S.
Carter, president of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Firemen and Engine
men, died at St. Joseph's Acad envy. at
Nazareth, Mo.
Capt Jack Bonayita, one of the
worlds most noted animal trainers.
was so badly mauled and clawed by
a young polar bear at Los Angeles
that be died at the Angelus hospital.
The Central highway through Colo
RADIO will no longer be organized IN
der the name The Lincoln Highway
Association OF Colorado. but will in
the future use the name The Colo
RADIO Division OF the Pixies Peak
Ocean-to-O Ocean Highway" This de-
cision was made at the sixth annual
convention held at Colorado Springs
WASHINGTON
President Wilson has advanced the
date for the special session OF Con
gress to April 2 to consider German
action in sinking three American mer-
chant ships with loss OF life.
Secretary Daniels ordered naval
commandants at shore stations and all
recruiting offices to be prepared to en-
list women in the actual naval service
in case of an emergency.
Ambassador Francis at Petrograd
cabled the State Department that no
Americans had been reported injured
during the revolution and that the en-
bassy and staff were undisturbed
The note to Gen. Carranza declining
his proposal for neutral action TO
bring peace to Europe by cutting off
exports of supplies TO belligerents was
made public at the State Department
Patriotic students in Central high
school at Washington tore from the
walls Of class room a picture OF En-
peror William of Germany and hung
in its place a photograph of President
Wilson, decorated with two American
flags.
Production of wheat in Argentina,
Australia and New Zealand, the prin-
cipal producing countries of the south
ern hemisphere, shows a 80 per cent.
reduction for tia 1Ql6-lqli aea son hut