Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-10-26
CONDENSED RECORD or TIE
PROGRESS or EVENTS AT
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MENTs. sUFFERINes. HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
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to Moscow.
Germans have full possession Of
Oesel island in Russia.
France repealed several attacks
around st. Quentin.
The Norwegian steamer Themis has
been sunk In the Mediterranean.
Seventy lives lost when U. S. trans
port Antilles was t~orpedoed n sunk.
Germany has sent forty divisions to
aid Austria in the campaign against
Italy.
American destroyer torpedoed by
German submarine; one killed and
five wounded.
Ten persons were killed and forty
wounded in bombardment Of Nancy by
German aviators.
Friday German airships raided
northeastern counties of England, but
were driven off before reaching Lon
don.
Two hundred and fifty lives were
lost when the steamer Medic was tor
pedoed Sept. % in the western Medi-
terranean.
The Petrograd government has au-
thorized the expectation to the Unit
ed States Of all merchandise hereto
fore prohibited owing to the exigen-
cies of war.
P%etrograd announces that at least
ninety German warships were en-
gagged in the battle OF Moon Sound,
oct. nth and that German troops
landed on Dago island.
In the naval engagement, in which
the Russian warships were outclassed,
the Slav battleship Slava vas sunk.
but nearly all the members of the
crew were saved by the torpedo boats.
Two German torpedo boats have
been destroyed while running through
the mine field in Moon sound. The
civil population already is evacuating
Reval, one of the principal Russian
ports of the Gulf of Finland.
The British and French artilleries
are still pounding the German posi-
lions before them in Belgium with the
Germans answering the fire vigorous.
ly at various points, especially along
the Menin road and at Zonnebeke.
Air fighting between French and
German machines has been unusually
intense in the past few days. Last
week thirty-six German machines
we're driven down by the French.
some of them destroyed and others
badly damaged.
WESTERN
over 1900 telephone girls called on
strike at San Francisco, Cal.
The heavy frost caused a jump OF
35 cents in potato price at Duluth.
MINI.
An egg census by the Chicago But
ter and Egg Board revealed there are
2,114,52S,O4O eggs now confined in 400
storage houses, or twenty & & fol-
each person with 76,S78,46O left over
Sonora state troops have 500 Yaqu.
Indians and their families surrounded
at Vican, a settlement on the Yaqu.
river. according to at telegram re
celved by Mexican consular officials
at Douglas, Ariz.
When Rock Island train No. 8 left
Kansas City Thursday night Their,
was only ons passenger in lower four
When the train passed through Rule
ton, Kan, there were two; at Kanor
ado, near the Colorado line, Their,
were three, and when Peconie Siding
Colo. wal reached there were four pas
sengers in the section. Mrs. j. G. Al
klnson OF Seattle. Wash, was tn.
original occupant. The well know
stork paid her a triple visit en- route
WASHINGTON
The japanese Parliamentary Mis-
sion was formally received by Pres.
dent Wilson at the White House.
American soldiers and the army civ
lillian employees purchased more tina
1872. 10000 Of Liberty bonds up to o.
tober 18th.
The American transport Antilles
homeward bound, was t~orpedoed In tn
war zone Oct. 18th, and went dow.
with a loss OF about seventy lives.
Every one Of the sixteen nationa
army cantonments will have heatln
apparatus by Nov. 1, according TO
statement issued by the War Depar
ment.
Gen. Bliss ends practice Of con
kissioning officers nom civil life an
calling them into active service b.
fore actual need for their servic
ends.
A. Mitchell Palmer OF Swarthmor'
Pa. former representative in Coz
gress. was appointed alien propert
custodian under the trading with IN
enemy law.
Appointment Of Jesse II. Jones,
Houston. Tex, business man. as d
rector general Of military relief Of tn
American Red Cross. was announce
by the Red Cross War Council.