Tombstone epitaph., 1917-05-13
THE WORLD IN
 PARAGRAPHS
4 BRIEF RECORD or PASSING EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
 EiGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
ooiNos AND HAPPENINGS THAT MARK rhE PRooREss
 OF THE AGE.
ABOUT THE WAR


 ABOUT THE WAR
 The amount of the first loans to France and Italy, Secretary McAdoo announced, will be Sloo,ooo.0o0 each Berlin admits loss of Gohelle but declares all other positions have been regained, with extraordinarily heavy losses to the allies. British drive lines farther forward in Mesopotania. while Turks forcs Russians to evacuats Mush. an impor tant city in Turkish Armenia
 French war statement admits slight German success in Hurtebise-Craonne sector, although the greater number of German attacks were repulsed with heavy losses. French drive another salient into the German front east of Mont Haut, capturing more than 200 men. Ger man trenches in Avocourt Wood. Yer dun sector. also invaded
 Capture of Fresnoy, which is four miles beyond the yimy Ridge. fell to the Canadians. giving these troops the
  way through the Hindenburg line.
 A compilation from British, French and German official communiques shows thai 7i7 asroplanes were shot down on the western front during April The Germans lost 3es; the French and Belgians e01. and the Brit ish 147
 In the first two months Of unre- stricted submarine warfare more than 1.6o0.0o0 tons of shipping was sunk by the Germans. Dr. Karl Helfferich. German secretary of the interior. told the Reichstag main committee at Am eterdAm.
 During April says the official re- port from British headquarters in France, we have taken 19,3i3 German prisoners. including 393 officers In the same period we captured 257 guns and howitzers, including 9s heavy guns and howitzers, 227 trench nor tars and 40 machine guns.
 Fourth period of intensive fighting since the spring offensive began has started on the French front. the Brit ish reporting important gains on a Emile front, including the capture of Bullecourt and Fresnoy, positions at line. All captured positions held. in the face of whitening machine gun fire and desperate counter attacks, ac- cording to the British statement. Der lin says attempts of the British to break through the Hindenburg line failed at all points: entente losses de scribed as tremendous.
 WESTERN
 Thomas Maher shot and killed in Cheyenne, Wyo, by highwaymen-
 Proposed increases in rates on can ned goods frcIn San Francisco sus- pended.
 Wyoming has b. .en transferred from the Central Army Department to the western department, with heakauar- trs at San Francisco.
 Thirty-two bodies have been taken from the Victor mine at Hastings. Colo, where I20 miners lost their lives April 27th, by an explosion.
 James Caldwell. who gained nation 'J. c. R." case, and his wife, were murdered by a farm hand, who then shot himself The killing occurred near Taylor, N. D.. where they lived and followed the discovery of an at tack on their daughter.
 At the end of the five months gov ernorship contest, instituted by form CT Governor c. W P. Hunt. judgment was entered by County Judge Stan ford at Phoenix, Ariz. for Thomas E. Campbell, de facto governor, who has held the office since early in the year on an order from the Supreme Court sustaining his certificate of election. WASHINGTON
 In the fisheries of Alaska the United States may find millions of pounds of food for the war emergency.
 The American sailing vessel Mar garet was destroyed off the Irish coast on April 27th by submarine, being set on fire.
 There no longer is any hope among American officials that the war will end this year with Germany suing for peace. There is little hope that Germany can be defeated by the end of next year. A three-year war is now contemplated.
 Secretary McAdoo announced that the first offering of bonds authorized under the war finance law would be sz.e0o,o 100000 liberty loan" issue open to popular subscription at par, and that subscriptions would be re ceived till June 18th next The bonds will be dated July 1st and will be ready for delivery on that date.
 Absolute authority to regulate in it's discretion the production. distribution and prices of food and ether necessi- ties during the war was asked by Congress by the administration.