, 1917-08-16

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Germans and Turks planning at
tempt to r~ecapture Bagdad.
Liberia, the negro republic on the
coast of Africa. has declared war on
Germany.
Canada's war expenditures are now
about $S50,O0O a day, the total to
July 20 being $685. OO. 900.
Seven German airplanes were
crashed to earth Friday, and another
driven down out of control.
Twenty-one British vessels of more
than 1000 tons and two vessels of
less than 1,GOO ions were sunk last
week.
Russian troops are on the offensive
in the Chotin region on the Russo-Ga.
lician frontier and have withstood
Teuton assaults in the region of
Brody. Two villages have been cap
tured. The Austro-Germans lost 800
men and four machine guns.
The Canadians are holding stub
bornly the trenches at the doorstep of
Lens. The Germans unsuccessfully at
tackled near st. Quentin a sector long
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also failed. Fighting continues in Gal
icia, Bukowina and Southern Mol
davia.
Winning a daybreak battle in brief,
furious fighting, the British forces of
Haig are forging their way onward
through the lines of the Germans in
Belgium, near Hoge, on the fighting
front defending which are the armies
of Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria.
At the same time the French are
pounding the enemy's lines hard. Dis
patches indicate the allies and Ger
mans are engaged in heavy artillery
fighting from Newport to the Franco
Belgian border.
WESTERN
Bisbee people determined to stand
by deportation acts.
Hogs brought SIT at the stockyards
Aug. 10-highest in the history of Chi
cago.
No place for l. w. w. policies IN
der American flag, declares attorney
general of Arizona.
Twenty-one hundred motormen and
conductors of the Kansas City Street
Railway Company went on strike.
Governor Cox will call a special ses-
sion of the Ohio Legislature, if neces-
sary, to enforce reasonable coal and
o prices.
Carl Herman Budde. ostensibly a life
insurance agent, but believed to be an
operative of the Wal Department in
telligence bureau, was found dead at
Billings, Mont, with a bullet through
his heart.
Walter d. Coakley. the postoffice
clerk who fled rom Tucson. Ariz., fol-
lowing the disappearance of a SIC, 1000
package of bills from the local postof-
flee, was arrested at Lebanon, Ind,
charged with theft.
Nine M%olokanas, members of a Rus.
sian religious sect colonized near
Glendale, Ariz., were fined $25 each
and sentenced to twenty-five days i'm
prisonment in the county jail for par
ticipating In draft riots.
WASHINGTON
Special precautions are being taken
to safeguard h food bought for the
navy.
Alaska's trade with the United
States in the fiscal year just closed
set a new record with a total of $780,.
O00, 1000.
The regular army has passed its
war strength figure of 10000 it was
officially announced by the War De.
partment.
A national holiday may be declared
on Sept. 3. Labor day, in celebration
of the e"ntralnment of the draft levies
for the training environments.
Secretary McAdoo is planning to ask
Congress in the lear future for author
ization of a new bond issue of $4,000
100000 at this session of Congress.
Seldom G. Hopkins Of Cheyenne,
Wyo., was nominated by President
Wilson to be assistant secretary of the
Interior. succeeding the late Bo
Sweeney.
oyersubscription of the $4,000, OOO,-
900 issue OF short term treasury GER
tificates of indebtedness" Secretary
McAdoo announced was SOL, 525, 900,
more than ~ per cent
Americas work towards rehabilitat-
ing Russia was taken up by officials
who had before them the extensive re-
ports N advice OF the mission headed
by Elihu Root.
President Wilson signed the food
control bill and Immediately thereafter
announced the formal appointment Of
Herbert G. Hoover as United States
food administrators