Cheyenne record., 1917-11-22
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOVE AND ABROAD.
FR0E.] ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS. o DIN G 3. ACHIEVE.
MENTs. sUFFERiNGS. HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
ABOUT THE WAR

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Germans report the capture Of 800
Italians in the Monte Prassolyn drive.
The American Red Cross war coun-
Gil announced the appropriation of ST.
$50, 900 for relief work in Rumania.
Only one small sailing vessel of Ital.
ian nationality was lost during the
week ending Nov. IL, it was officially
announced at Rome
The British troops in Palestine are
giving the Turks no rest. Jaffa has
been captured by them, the Ottoman
forces offering no resistance. It is
stated that the Turks are in retire
ment northward.
There has been increased artillery
activity In the sector held by the
American troops. There have been
additions to the American casualty
list some of which occurred when a
German shell hit an American gun
The German naval forces encoun-
tered by British light war craft in
the North sea Saturday were forced
to seek a haven Of safety under the
protection of their battle fleets and
behind the mine fields of Helgoland.
ians are holding the German and Aus
tro-Hungarian armies in check. No
where have the invaders been able to
cross the stream, and at several
places where they previously had
gained access to the western bank
they have been brilliantly counter at
tackled and forced to withdraw to the
rivers edge. The Italians have cap
tured more than 1000 prisoners and
taken twenty-seven machine guns.
Again the artillery duel on the
Flanders front has reached tremen-
dous proportions, and 1t is not unlike
ly that Field Marshal Haig has in
preparation another dash forward
from the region of Passchendaele to-
ward the town of Roulers and the i'm
portant railway line serving the Ger
man front from the North sea south
ward. The Germans are directing
their heavy gunflre on the positions
in the neighborhood of Passchendaele
and Langmarck.
w ES ENN
Andrew H. Jackson remarked Helen
H. Jackson at Crown Point, Cal. 1t
was her sixth matrimonial venture
and his third
Three men were injured: one per-
haps fatally. in the free-for-all ten
mile professional race at the state
fair grounds at Phoenix, Ariz.
The cases against Ex-Governor Fer
guson and c. w. Woodman, former
labor commissioner, charged with per
jury, are set for Nov % at Austin,
Tex.
The Illinois food administration
added whole wheat flour to its list OF
fair prices. The retailer should pay
the wholesaler 30 to 80 cents for a
five-pound sack and the consumer
would pay SO to SO cents.
Kansas women can till the soil the
same as those of France II necessity
requires. This is proved in the case
of Miss Lucy McGinty of Belpre, who
has raised fifty acres of corn that will
make thirty bushels to the acre, and
has sown 12O acres of wheat for 1918.
WASHINGTON
Renewed warnings against spies
have been posted at all navy yards and
stations.
Students who qualified in the Off
GERS training camps now in progress
will receive their commissions about
Nov. 27.
Cotton consumed during October
was 595,332 running bales and 100. 1876
bales of linters, the census bureau
announced
The British steamer Kansas City
is believed to have been lost at sea.
the Navy Department announced. She
has been missing since Sept. 5.
Temporary organization Of Red
Cross agencies in Italy to meet the
present emergency has been per-
fected at Rome.
Funeral services Cor John w. Fos-
ter. former secretary of state and
dean of the American diplomatic
corps, was held. after which his body
was taken to his old home at Evans
Vile, Ind, for burial. A distinguished
party, headed by President Wilson, at
tended the services.
Nearly 100000 men already called
for examination before draft boards
and exempted because of physical de-
fects may find they are not exempted
at all and may be at the head Of the
list for the next national army draft.
under the new draft regulations.
Anthracite operators and miners
agreed on wage increases Of approx
mateIy 20 per cent conditioned on an
increase in prices of coal at the mine
10 cover the raise and submitted their
agreement to Fuel Administrator