Tombstone epitaph., 1917-08-26
THE WORLD IN
PARAGRAPHS
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS ANeFoR.
EIGN COUNTRIES
IN LATE DISPATCHES
poiNGs AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
ABOUT THE WAR

ABOUT THE WAR
In Flanders, artillery fighting con
tinues.
China declares war as pope urges
peace.
British los, 2I.72e men in two weeks
in August
German attack on Aisne front re-
pulsed with losses.
Lone English aviator wins fight
with three enemy planes.
Hotbed Of German propaganda is
discovered in Mexico.
The American bark Christiane was
sunk off the Azores by German
submarine. The crew was landed.
Nine hundred and thirty-three Scan
dinavian ships have been destroyed by
iorpedoes or mines since the begin
ming of the war.
Booty captured by Germans include
l5G cannon. 1856, 900 rifles. s.352 ma
chine guns. 2,2ss airplanes and ls6 bal
looms, says Berlin
Fighting in southwest Moldavia ap-
parentiy is lessening in intensity II
the mountains the Russians and Ru-
manians have given up height west
OF Ocna to the AustroGermans
Additional japanese naval units
have Joined the allied forces in Euro
pean waters. the japanese naval at
tache al London announced.
The Russians and Rumanians have
checked, for the time being, the Of
fensiye OF Field Marshal Won Macken-
sen in the region of Fukshani.
German air planes raided the Eng
lish coast Sunday. killing twenty three
persons, including nine women and six
children. About sixty were injured.
Five Americans and fourteen others
were killed when the British steamer
City Of Athens struck a mine near
Cape Town. South Africa -Four Of
the Americans lost were missionaries.
Arthur Dackworth, his wife and six
children Of Denver were among the
victims.
A great battle ragged in the city of
Lens. The Canadians. taking by storm
the north, advanced into the city it
self, engaging the Germans in des
perate fighting at close quarters. after
advancing on two-mile front to an
extreme depth of one mile Several
weeks the Canadians slowly have been
closing in, preparing for the supreme
effort 10 capture this center OF the
coal field of the Pas de Calais. Early
"Wednesday they stormed Hill 80.
swept on toward Lens from the north
west and captured several suburbs.
entering the western part OF the city.
The Germans tried desperately to
check the advance, but five counter
attacks were in vain. Suffering only
slight casualties. the Canadians in
flicted heavy losses on the Germans
and captured prisoners.
WESTERN
Some futures in wheat barred from
Chicago exchange.
Condition of William Howard Taft
continues to improve.
Government trap catches arch con-
spirators at San Francisco.
Chief Justice o. n. Carter assumed
duties as director Of coal for Illinois.
Time fuse was attached TO powder
magazine which blew up at navy
yard.
Striking employees OF United Rail
roads, San Francisco. prepare to sub
nit demands to company.
Butte, Mont, waited to see what
action Miss Jeanette Rankin, congress
woman from Montana, who arrived TO
investigate labor conditions. would
take.
Several hundred japanese. born in
Hawaii, have organized military unit
and offered their services to the
United States government, ii was an
nounced at army headquarters In San
Francisco.
More arrests were expected at San
Francisco in the alleged conspiracy
to liberate former German Consul
Franz Bopp and ether Germans from
the Angel Island interment camp. fol
lowing a startling series Of dis
closures.
WASHINGTON
Creation of a food administration
grain corporation with $5e,ooo.o00 cap
ifal 10 conduct government wheat pur
chases and sales was officially an
nounced.
McAdoo asks Congress TO provide
$1,000. 100000 war fund.
Congressman jeanette Rankin say,
satisfactory progress is being made
for war.
Led by women, crowds destroyed
woman's party banners before thu
White House as fast as the picket.
appeared
Official notice OF China's declara
ton Of war on Germany and Austria
Hungary was received at the Chimes
legation in cable dispatches from Pek
king.