Tombstone epitaph., 1917-02-18
4 BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
 EIGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DoINGs AND HAPPENINGS rRAT MARK THE PROGRESS
 OF THE AGE.
ABOUT THE WAR

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 Along both sides of the Ancre river west of Bapaume further progress has been made. including the capture Of a trench near GEandcourt.
 Constantinople reports that in re- cent attacks on the Turks near Kut- EEA-aara, the British lost 2.000, aside from men made prisoners.
 The British have taken the highest point Of Sailly-Caillisel hill and cap tured a considerable number Of Ger mans and one machine gun.
 In Galicia, south of Kiselin and southwest of Brody, the Germans es saved attacks against the Russians, but, according to Petrograd. all of them failed.
 Germany will not back down on sea war, declares minister. and Foreign Secretary Zimmerman expresses hope that there will be no war between United States and Germany.
 Prepare for war but hope for peace" is attitude of Washington ad- ministration. While navy is made ready for instant hostilities and gen eral staff works plans for mobilizing volunteers, President Wilson main tains that act which would cause con fict must come from Germany
 Germany yielded 10 Wilson's de mands for immediate release" Of seyenty-two American seamen taken from British merchantmen and held as prisoners of war. Washington also learns that Germans were within rights in sinking Housatonic, which carried contraband, and exercised un. usual precautions 10 prevent loss of Americans aboard vessel
 King George in reopening the Brit fish Parliament referred to the recent German peace proposal. Declaring that their tenor indicated no possible basis for peace. the king reasserted that Great Britain and her allies re- mained steadfast in their determina- tion ito secure the just demands for reparation and restitution in respect to the past and guarantees for the future which were considered essen tial to the progress of civilization"
 The Teutonic allies in Macedonia have shown activity along the entire front. On the eastern front compara- tive calm prevails from the Baltic to the line in Rumania. In the Carpa- thians, near Kirlibaba, Petrograd re ports the capture of first-line leu tonic allied trenches, which were held by the Russians despite counter at Jacks. Rome reports failure of ar Austrian attack against the Italians fin the Sugana valley and the smashing by the big guns of the Italians of Austrian batteries on several sectors. WESTERN
 Henry D. Fletcher, American am- bassador to Mexico, conferred with President Wilson before leaving for his post
 The Senate, by a vote of 7s to 5, indorsed the action of the President in severing diplomatic relations with Germany.
 The so-called bone dry" prohibi- tion bill designed to become effective Jan. l, 1918, was killed by the lower House Of the Wyoming Legislature.
 American munition manufacturers used SSs.015 equivalent 500-pound bales of cotton fiber. including Iinters and hull fiber in 1916. the Census Bu- reau announced.
 George W. Oakes. one of the few survivors of the battle of Beecher Is- land, which was fought in eastern Colorado in the eos, died at his home in Tucson, Ariz.
 WASHINGTON
 An emergency appropriation of S600.000 for relief. protection and transportation of American citizens in Europe was asked of Congress by Secretary Lansing.
 The United States Senate passed Senator John F. Shafroth's bill re- moving the limitation of $10,O00 a year to be spent upon the Rocky Mountain National Park.
 The British passenger steamer Cali fornia, of the Anchor line, bound from New York for Glasgow. which was torpedoed off the Irish coast. sank in nine minutes with the loss of forty one lives.
 Villa bands under (salazar have oc- cupied the Mormon settlement of Colonia Juarez, sixteen miles south west of Colonia Dublan, former head quarters of the American puitive ex- petition, according to American cat tIemen arriving at Columbus. N. M.. from Mexico.
 Cornelius Ferris Jr, United States consul at Mannheim, has been ordered out of Germany by the department In the general order withdrawing all con- sulsr officers. Ferris is accredited to the consular service from Fort Collins. Colo.