The Colorado statesman., 1917-12-08

Germans suffer heavy casualties in
nine attacks against British.
London says East Africa has been
completely cleared of the enemy
The expected drive of the Austro-
Germans in Italy has not begun.
Americas Rainbow Division is in
France, along with other National
Guard units.
On the Aisne and Meuse fronts the
French and Germans are continuing
their artillery duels.
In Palestine the battle between the
British and the Turks for the posses
sion of Jerusalem has not begun.
Ten divisions strong, the Belgian ar
my is ready to take its part in the
offensive in Flanders whenever the
word is given.
A forty-eight hour armistice be-
tween Russia and Germany was
signed at the headquarters of Prince
Leopold of Bavaria.
The Germans evidently have
stopped their tactics of sacrificing
men in an effort to break through the
The Germans realize that they can
not much longer endure the strain of
trench warfare imposed upon them by
the allies. They must attempt to
bring the war to a crisis
The Germans claim the capture of
5000 men and 100 guns around Cam
brai, but the British war office says
the number of captured prisoners on
each side is far in excess of that fig
ure.
The Norwegian legation reports
that thirteen Norwegian steamers of
a gross tonnage of 1902 were lost
in November by causes arising from
the war. Forty-one Norwegian lives
were lost.
The British steamer Apapa has
been torpedoed and sunk, according
to London advices. Eighty passengers
and the crew of the vessel perished.
About 120 passengers were saved. 1t
is reported that the submarine fired
on women and children in open boats.
Thirty-five Mexican bandits were
killed and many wounded in battle
dL bueld NlSItt, 1 leA., UelWeeu OHlLeu
States cavalrymen and force of 200
Mexicans which crossed the interna-
tional line and attempted raids ON the
cattle ranches. One U. S. soldier aud
two ranchmen were slain
WESTERN
were advanced by the purchasing
agencies at Pittsburgh, Pa.
DR.. r. H. Treacy of Bismarck, N.
D., chief of the animal husbandry div
ision of the department of agriculture,
died in hospital in Chicago.
The balloon which broke from its
mooring at Fort Sill was brought to
the ground safely at Rush Springs,
Okla, about thirty miles from Fort
Sill.
Jacob l. Fulton, 5S, commercial
traveller from Lincoln, Neb., was
crushed beneath his automobile and
killed at point on the Greeley road
fifteen miles south of Cheyenne, Wyo.
Butte, Mont, is soon to witness a
triple execution, when Sherman A.
Powell, colored, Frank Fisher and
John O'Neill, all convicted of murder
in the first degree, will be put to
death.
Otis D. Slane, % years old, who
said he formerly lived at Bonanza,
Colo, was found guilty at San Diego
Cal, by jury in the Superior Court
of murder in the first degree for the
killing of Israel Botwin. an automo-
hiIa ctoga driuar. op Oct
WASHINGTON.
e. Bishop Grandin, II, prominently
identified with oil and lumber inter-
ests, died at his home in Washington
from pneumonia.
Regulations to restrict the trans
mission to or from the United States
of letters or communications except
through the regular course of the
mails were issued to customs collect
ors by the treasury.
Increases in freight rates on iron
and steel articles ranging as high as
40 per cent were allowed to Western
railroads by the interstate commerce
commission. The increases, however,
were not so great as the railroads
asked.
Nationwide prohibition and nation
wide woman suffrage constitutional
amendments will be voted on in the
House judiciary committee.
Representative Fitzgerald of New
York, chairman of the house appropri-
ations committee, announced his res
ignation from Congress to take effect
Dec. 81.
A blacklist of 1,600 firms in twenty
Central and South American countries