The Colorado statesman., 1917-12-15
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK or
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD or IMPORTANT GvENTs
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
ABOUT THE WAR

Revolt against Boleshiviki in Rus
sia In spreading.
Jerusalem's fall is tremendous
personal defeat for Kaiser Wilhelm.
At the peace parley the Russians
proposed to the Germans a six months
Armistice.
The Italians In a daring night raid
regained several important positions
they lost on the lower Piave.
Ecuador has severed diplomatic re-
lati0ns with Germany. according to an
official announcement.
The British casualties reported for
the week ending Dec. IL numbered 23,-
256 as compared with 28,822 in the
previous week.
The Austrian battleship Wien was
torpedoed and sunk Dec. 9. according
to a Vienna official statement. Most
OF the crew was saved.
1t is reported at Eagle Pass. Tex,
that Mexican forces headed by Cutter
rez, known as "Gutierristas," have
captured Monclova, Mexico.
A telegram from Oporto says that
the revolution in Portugal has ended
with the success of the revolutionists
and that the government has resigned.
Orders have been issued by Major
General E. Wilson, general officer
commanding. debarring any Canadian
officer or soldier in uniform from
drinking Intoxicating liquor.
The Germans have failed to follow
up their success of last week against
Gen. Byng's forces around Cambria,
and there is nothing Of importance re-
ported from the French front
Word was received in London that
the Bolshevik have formally declared
war on the Cossack forces under
Eorniloff and KalediNes. This brings
about condition of actual civil war
in Russia.
Jerusalem, the seat of the Christian
religion. is in the hands of the Brit
.sh, after having been under the con-
troll of the Moslems virtually 1900
years. The city was captured follow
ing an assault.
From Ypres to Cambria, on the Brit
ish front, and from st. Quentin to
the Swiss border along the lines held
by the French troops, the artillery
and aerial battle Dec. 12 reached a
pitch of intensity that is seldom at
tanned except on the eve of great
infantry action. There are evidences
in the official statements that not
only Germans, but the British Also
are preparing for great attack in the
west. The exact scene OF the coming
struggle. however, remains in doubt
as the opposing guns are laundering
at virtually every part Of the far
flung line.
WESTERN
Thirteen negroes were hanged at
Fort Sam Houston at San Antonio.
Tex, for completely in the riot at
Houston Aug. %. Forty-one others
were given life sentences.
Alexander Won Girsewald, former
German consul at Seattle. was arrest
ed at San Francisco as a dangerous
alien on a presidential warrant, ac-
cording to federal authorities.
Herbert C. Hoover, National Food
Administrator. has notified all food
administrators Of wide and concert
ed effort to discredit the movement to
conserve the meat and wheat supply
of the nation, apparently in the in
terest of a purpose to raise the price
of meat.
The four-day cold snap and accom-
panying gales resulted in at least
.fv-@, he nf tn rio
millions of dollars in property damage
in the Middle West alone. Eighteen
persons are dead in Ohio, eleven in
Chicago and one in Lincoln, Neb
More than fifty persons were injured
In Chicago.
WASHINGTON
The Austro-G German offensive
against Italy has failed, an official
cable from Rome declares. Arrival Of
the French and English troops on the
Italian front was reported in another
dispatch.
Official motion pictures bringing
home the vital Importance Of increased
food production will be shown by the
United States department Of agricul-
ture in hundreds OF regular motion
picture theaters throughout the Unit
Cd States.
Decisions defining in general terms
the rights of both organized labor and
the employer were announced by the
Supreme Court in Washington. While
the right OF workmen to organize for
lawful purposes was reaffirmed, the
court held that employers legally may
operate their plants as open shops"
and prevent conspiracies to bring
their non-union employees into labor
organizations.
Thomas B. Love of Dallas. Tex, was
nnnninated to ha assistant secretary Of