The Colorado statesman., 1917-08-11

LedueT Oh TelredtluS huSSldu aAmJ
is ordered shot.
Germans and Turks planning at
tempt to recapture Bagdad.
Kerensky will save Russia is belief
of Russian political leaders.
Premier Kerensky has completed
the formation of his new Russian
Cabinet
Liberia, the negro republic on the
coast of Africa, has declared war on
Germany.
Canada's war expenditures are now
about $s50,00O a day. the total to
July 20 being s623, 900.
Northeast of Ypres, after intense
bonn bardment, the British re-estab
lished themselves in the town of st.
Julien.
The BerIIn papers still look upon
the Cabinet changes with lukewarm
enthusiasm, and say the shakeup will
bring no real relief.
Having driven the Russians out of
most of Galicia and Bukowina, the
Austro-Germans have begun an as
sault in Moldavia, hoping to gain Bes-
sarabia.
The German crown prince failed
again to win territory from Gen. Pc
tains forces on the southern front in
France. In the Champagne the French
have penetrated the German lines at
three points.
In an offensive near Baian, east OF
Czernowitz, the Russians were win
ners and captured 500 prisoners and
thre machine guns. In Bukowina the
Russians are still fleeing, and the en-
emy has taken several towns.
The Liberal press of Germany says
there is no hope for reforms because
Of the shakeup in the cabinet DR..
Won Kuehlemann, the new foreign
secretary, is said to oppose ruthless
submarine warfare.
Canadian outposts around Lens
have established new lines in group
OF houses within few yards of the
enemy's front line. Advances were
! made through the German curtain
fire by the daring Canadians.
WESTERN
]. w. Lambert of st. Louis COM
mitted suicide.
} Under President Wilson's order, the
Oklahoma National Guard automatic
ally became units of the federal
forces.
An investigation into the cost of
flour was begun at Minneapolis under
supervision of the Federal Trade Com
mission.
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William H. Taft, who became ill at
Clay Center. Kan. was announced by
his physicians as improving.
The Loyalty League of America
was organized in Phoenix, Ariz. The
! avowed purpose of it, as set forth in
the constitution, is ito exterminate
the !. w. W."
Three hundred Slavonians, many of
whom are American citizens, voted to
return to work, at a meeting held at
Miami, Ariz.. in response to a call is
sued by ]. D. Pavich, leader of the
Slavonian colony. Pavich is also a
miner
With the arrest of more than fifty
draft resisters, including two chief
agitators of the Working Class Union.
officers in Hughes. Seminole and
Pontotoc counties. Okla, settled down
to a tireless combing of the hills for
stragglers who, starved out, slowly
are giving up.
WASHINGTON
Friendly aliens may join U. s. army
declares Gen. Crowder
Crews of seven sunken vessels
brought to American port
Time is not yet ripe for discussions
of peace, declares President Wilson.
The Senate war revenue measure
as drawn will raise a total of ST.
0O6,970,OOO.
Speaker Champ Clark says that
America needs, among other things, a
real national anthem with a punch.
Provision to protect harvesting
! from shortage of hands due to the
mobilization OF the national army has
been made by the government in reg
ulations to district exemption boards.
With the national prohibition prom
ised or threatened, members of Con-
gress who hunt sources of revenue
have been looking into Americas
soft drink bill and they have discov-
cred that the people of this country
pay $174,0O0,000 annually for ice
cream, soda water and other soft
! drinks
Resources. of the national banks at
the last call, June 20, reached the
highest figures ever recorded, Comp
troller Williams announced, totaling
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lhan June 80, 1916.