Taiban Valley news., 1917-06-22
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST WEEK
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
ABOUT THE WAR

ABOUI IHE WAX
British capture the village of Gas
pard in Belgium.
Italian airmen are unusually active
against the Austrians.
The French steamer Sequana was
torpedoed and 100 lives lost.
Portion of General Pershing's staff
in France arranging for camps.
Fort Saliff on the Red Sea, has been
captured by British warships.
England has released all prisoners
taken in the Irish revolt of 1916.
The American mission, headed by
Elihu Root, has reached Petrograd.
British make advance on two mile
front and capture village of Gaspard.
Norwegian steamships Soerland,
Tordenvore and Brioid, sunk by sub
MARINES.
The American tanker Moreni, after
battle with a submarine, was sunk.
Four lives were lost.
Nearly 100 killed and more than
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airplane raid over London.
The territory regained by the Brit
ish on the western front since July l,
1916, amounts to 600 square miles.
The British armed merchant cruiser
Avenger was torpedoed and sunk in
the North sea. An but one were
saved
The entente allies have forced the
abdication of King Constantine OF
Greece in favor of his second son,
Prince Alexander.
England is spending 97750,000 a
day ($37,277,500) in her warning, Chan
cellor of the Exchequer Bonar Law
told the House of Commons.
Weekly British report of vessels
sunk by submarines or mines shows
twenty-five vessels of more than 1,6OO
tons and ten of less than 1,6O0 tons.
Great Britain follows the United
States in a note to Russia on war
aims and indorses Wilson's principles
laid down in his message to Congress,
More than 100000 prisoners have
been taken by the British during the
war, James Ian Macpherson, parlia-
mentary secretary to the war office,
announced in the House of Commons.
British have captured portions of
the Hindenburg line near Bullecourt
and extended their gains astride the
Ypres- Confines canal. Since June 7th
the British have occupied the German
front trenches from the River Lys to
the River Warnave on a seven-mile
front for from 500 to 1000 yards. Ger,
mans officially admit their retreat be-
fore the British of the front line be-
tween Ypres and Armentieres, east OF
Messines.
WESTERN
: Coloradoans bought about $4,000,
600 in Liberty Loan bonds.
Roosevelt in vigorous speech at Lin
coin, Neb., drives home principles OF
Americanism.
Colorado's prosperity never was
more clearly shown than by the result
, of the Liberty bond sale. Denver and
, the state of Colorado bought approx
, imately $17,O0O,O0O of the bonds.
German newspapers published ir
Cincinnati upheld the German air raid
: over London in which ninety-seve1
persons, among them twenty-six chill
dren and sixteen women, were killed
= Cheyenne, the capital Of Wyoming
subscribed more than 100000 to the
! war bond issue, and Wyoming bank
9 ers believe that the quota of $2,500,O0(
q for the state has been oversubscribed
v Cheyenne's subscription is on a basis
of SIS per capita.
e WASHINGTON
= Conspiracy charges preferred agains
> western lumber dealers,
Congress is to be asked to appropri
!. ate $600,000,00O for aviation.
n President Wilson in Flag Day ad
X dress exposes German intrigue.
l. Returns indicate that 9,624,000 regis
e tered on June 5th, being 95 per cen
g of estimates.
II Garbled version Of message to Chin;
e nearly causes break between United
States and Japan.
Steel shipbuilders called by th
Shipping Board and Maj Gen. Goe
thals, chairman of the emergenc.
!, fleet corporation, were told the gov
= ernment would commander immedi
). ately all shipbuilding contracts.
,. Food control by the people, insteat
' of by Congress, may be necessary, a
o least for edibles derived from the frs
e harvests.
s Retail food prices in the Unite,
States jumped on an average of 8 pc
" cent between March 18th and Apri
10th, as shown in statistics compile
y by the Department of Labor.
The Liberty loan has been tremeT
d dously oversubscribed. When tn
books closed on June 18th treasury o.
ficials estimated that the total woul
re reach at least $2,500.000,000 an