Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-05-04
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
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

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back north Of Samara.
Seven Americans were killed in the
first day Of the battle Of Vimy ridge.
Forty German airplanes reported
brought down in days aerial actions.
Austria aircraft make raids on Tren-
tino front and engage Italian scout
flyers.
French gain near Cerny despite
desperate efforts Of Germans to make
stand.
Since April LIST, $4,000 shells have
been fired by the Germans into
Rheims.
United States steamer Mongolia
sinks German U-boat in British
waters.
British capture Quarries in night
attack neal Hargicourt. German at
tack near San Quentin fails.
Bulgarian war office vic
tory in battle between the Vardar and
Lake Dorian. British retake old posi-
ton near Doldzelli.
The expenditure of gun ammunition
in the second week Of the Arras bat
tie was the greatest in the history Of
the world, 1t is stated.
German torpedo boat destroyers
fired 100 shells in the region Of Cal
ais. Some civilians we're killed. Twelve
persons were slightly wounded.
The British hospital ships Donegal
and L~anfranc, with many wounded
aboard, were torpedoed without warn
ing. They were sunk on April II.
Many thousands of German dead
strew the battlefields over which the
British and Germans have been en-
gagged in titanic struggles for mas
terry.
Bonar Laws son reported captured
by the Turks. Allies continue drive
in Mesopotamia, consolidating posi-
lions along the Tigris in the vicinity
OF Jerusalem.
Active artillery fighting along the
Riga front, particularly in that sector
where Russia started her December
offensive, was reported in P%etrograd
official statement.
Official advices to the State Depart
ment said the Mexican government
bad warned Germans in Mexico that
any concentration Of Germans near
the American border will be followed
Immediately by their arrest.
WESTERN
Colorado and Wyoming, with POI
naval recruits for the week, stood third
among the stations of the western
division.
Francis X. Bret Harte, last surviv-
ing son of the California author and
poet, died at Monte Carlo, according
to word received at San Francisco.
At Onalaska, Wis, the council has
decided to allow blowing up of the
city's back streets for the cultivation
Of potatoes. The highways will be
cultivated by high school boys.
A car OF No. 2 red wheat was sold
in the sample department of the Chi
cago Board Of Trade Friday at 1904,
and at ST. Louis a car of the same
grade brought 1910. These prices far
outstrip all previous records.
Reports that 119 men had been i'm
prisoned in the Victor-American coal
mine No. 2 at Hastings were received
at the state mine inspectors office in
Denver at moor Friday. State Inspec-
tor Of Mines Dalrymple at once de
parted for Trinidad to investigate.
The estate Of the late James J.
Hill, subject to probate In Minnesota,
is valued at S51, 179, sS9. So, according
TO a report Of the appraisers filed at
st. Paul. OF this sl.373,779.53 is real
estate. The inheritance tax will be
approximately H,4S9,37O.
WASHINGTON
Action to prevent even a suspicion
Of graft In the disbursement OF $4,000,
900 army funds has been taken by the
Wal Department.
President Wilson has approved re
quests from France and Italy for i'm
mediate financial aid, and from $500,
100000 TO $500, 600. 900 win be LEM
them by the United States.
With enactment of the selectiy,
draft army bill the War Department
Is preparing to set machinery m mo
ton without delay to produce under
the measure within two years Z
trained army Of 10000 men.
Substantial increases in the war tal
were made by the subcommittee O
the ways and means committee. Tn,
bill is devised to raise about $500,
100000 yearly.
The Irish home rule question, II be
came known. has been discussed a
the conferences between members o
the British commission and American
government officials.
Joseph Letter. president OF tn
Army League. has appealed to Col
Roosevelt 10 withdraw his offer Il
raise and lead a division OF volunteer