, 1917-06-14

Three American seamen are lost on
torpedoed vessel.
Kronstadt garrison s%urrenders and
incident is closed.
American and French gunners sink
two German U-boats.
Rumania has recognized g army
and is ready to fight again.
Maj. Gen. Pershing and 100 navy
%aviators have arrived in France.
Million ons of high explosives set
off at beginning Of new British at
tack.
Increasing number of submarines
are being sun declares French Of
ficer.
North of Ypres the Belgians and
Germans are engaged in violent artil.
lery duels.
Men of Ulster and from the south
of Ireland fought side by side and are
praised for their work in the Belgian
drive.
The naval collier Jupiter has ar
rived in France, Secretary Daniels
announced, laden with 10000 tons of
wheat and other supplies.
British Friday held all gains made
in the big drive in Belgium and re-
pulsed all counter attacks. Among
more than 6,4OO prisoners are 1872 of.
ficers.
Germans admit Withdrawing their
lines from before the British in Bel
GUM. Austrians are withdrawing
troops from the Russian fronts and
massing them against Italians.
London papers figure that 713 aero.
planes were shot down on the west
ern front in May, of which 442 were
German and 271 British and French.
h total air losses in April were esti-
mated at 7O9.
According to information received
by h Norwegian Legation It Lon
don, forty-nine Norwegian steamships
with a gross tonnage of 1887, were
sunk in May. Twenty-Five lives were
lost.
Field Marshal Haig's resumed of
fensiVe swept forward VIGOROUSLY ov-
er a front of nine miles in the Mes
sines-Wytschaete sector. Everywhere
we captured our first detectives" the
British commandments reported.
A Paris official announcement says:
THE French navy greets with joy on
their arrival these new brothers in
arms, who, under the flag of the great
American Republic, nave come to par
ticipate until final victory in the strug-
gle against the common enemy"
WESTERN
Chicago clubs will respond to any
request by the government to bar
liquors during the war.
Colorado is to have one delegate and
New Mexico one at the American Jew
ish Congress, which is to meet in
Washington in September.
Tornado casualties June G were:
Missouri, % dead, 100 injured; Kan
sas, Is dead. 40 injured; Michigan,
3 dead, 30 injured; Kentucky, 5 dead,
20 injured.
Subscriptions TO the Liberty loan
to June Sth appreciate $1,000, OOO, 900,
or $700, 900 less than the total
amount desirSd, according to a state
ment issued At New Orleans by Sec
rotary McAdoo.
The highest good roads meeting ev-
er held in the United States will be
staged July 10th and 18th on the sum
init of Pixies Peak, when the midsum-
mer gathering of the Pixies Peak
Ocean to Ocean Highway Association
will take place.
WASHINGTON
Confederate veterans re-elect com
mander-in-chief.
New stamp taxes on bank checks
added to war revenue bill.
Government outlines policy regard.
ing training reserve officers.
The Mexican embassy announced
that Gen. Carranza had ordered all
possible lane under cultivation to pro.
vide against the world food short
age.
President Wilson nominated these
brigadier generate to be major gen.
erals: John f. Morrison. William l..
Sibert and Charles G. Morton. Eight
cen colonies were promoted to be
~brigadiers.
Federal recruiting stations We're or
dered by Washington to deal stringent
ly with all slackers applying for en-.
listment.
Americas 1917 wheat crop, as fore
cast by the Department of Agriculture,
will fall far below normal, despite a
prospect for a more than ordinary
yield of spring wheat.
Brig. Gen. Frank Mcintyre, chief of
the lnsular Bureau Of the War Depart