Taiban Valley news., 1917-08-31
CONDENSED RECORD OF tn c
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DoIN q 8, ACHIEVE.
MENTs, sUFFERlNGs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union News service.
ABOUT THE WAR


Since April 8 the entente allies
lave made prisoner 167,7S0 men of en-
emy armies.
In Rumania the Russo-Rumanian
front is stiffening and further Ger
man gains have been blocked.
Eleven persons were killed in air
raids on the British coast. Three
enemy planes were shot down.
Berlin reports the Russians have
been driven from the Aa river. Petro-
grad says the fighting Friday was con-
fined to fusillades.
Gen. Cadorna is still hard after
the Austrians all along the Isonzo
front, and seems to be going toward
its objective at will.
The Germans have begun an often
sive on the eastern front. Berlin re-
ports some success near Kemmern
and along the Dvina.
Dead Mans hill, famous in the Yer
dun fighting, has been captured by
the French, together with Avocourt
wood and other German strongholds.
Incendiary bombs, which were
dropped by two German aviators on
two hospitals behind Verdun killed
ten wounded men, one woman nurse
and nineteen trained male nurses.
In the week which ended August
10, five French steamships of 1000
tons or more were sunk by mines or
submarines, according to the weekly
official report. Four vessels under
1000 tons were sunk. No fishing
ships were destroyed.
British forces were driven from the
positions gained on the Ypres-Menin
road in their violent drives of We'd
nesday and Thursday by a furious
German assault Friday. The Germans
made great sacrifices, and official re-
ports tell of enormous losses under
the fire of the big English guns.
Around Lens the struggle is contin-
uing with the British and Canadians
advancing their positions steadily.
The French captured the famous Hill
304 in the Verdun battle Friday and
thereby took from the Germans the
most important point in their posses
sion. Without this hill they are un-
able to watch the movements of the
French army.
WESTERN
Miners are again at work at Gallup,
N. M
At Tucson, Ariz., the district exemp-
ton board held sixty-six married men
who had previously been excused.
Six hundred soldiers of the battal
ion of the Twenty-fourth negro infan-
try were disarmed as a result of
Thursday nights race riots at Hous-
ton, Texas.
Because of the strike of smelter
Een at the Washoe works at Anacon-
da, the Anaconda Copper Mining Com
pany announced another shutdown of
it's properties in Montana.
Word was received in Denver of the
sudden death of Private Franklin c.
Smith of Battery B while he was Wis
iting his father, the Rev. Franklin C.
Smith at Lander, Wyo. He was 21
years old. Appendicitis was the cause
o. his death.
Twelve white men, among them
civilians, police officers and national
guardsmen, were killed and more
than a score of men, women and
children were wounded in a riot at
Houston, Texas, of negro soldiers of
the Twenty-fourth United States in
fantry.
Smith M. Falls, battalion sergeant
major, attached to the Denver army
recruiting station for the last four
months, has been transferred to Cas-
per, Wyo. Private Roy G. Snyder, also
an attache Of the Denver station, was
transferred as an assistant to Ser
geant-Major Falls.
WASHINGTON
The governments shipbuilding pro-
gram calls for total Of 1870 ships of
100000 tonnage.
President Wilson may address Con-
gress at the same time he answers the
pope's peace proposals.
Belgians will get food quickly and
neutrals will have some of their wants
supplied through an agreement en-
tered into by the food commission and
the governments of the neutral Europ-
can countries.
Henry A. Garfield coal administra.
tor, gave warning that all the machin-
cry of the government will be used to
carry the benefits of prices the Presi-
dent has fixed on coal, through to the
consumer, and that if necessary to ac-
oomplish this end the government will
take over the mines. Mr.. Garfield
warned the public that the govern
ment would not have it's purposes