Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-05-11
TO DATE
IN PARAGRAPHS
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING The PAST WEEK
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
western Newspaper Union news s.rviss.
ABOUT THE WAR

ABOUT THE WAR
China and Haiti declared to be on
verge of entering war.
Vienna declares Russian attack in
Carpathian mountains was repulsed.
British attack on Arras front halt
ed. English and German troops APP
parently exhausted by fierce fighting.
The amount of the first loans to
France and Italy, Secretary McAdoo
announced, will be $1,000 900 each.
1t was reported at Amsterdam that
the Germans are preparing to evacu-
ate st. Quentin on the Arras-Aisne
front.
British drive lines farther forward
in M-esopotamia, while Turks force
Russians to ~evacuate Mush, an impor
tant city in Turkish Armenia.
Friday the French captured the
village Of Craonne along the Aisne
and took first German line on Two
and-a-hslf-mile front northwest of
Rheims.
French war statement admits slight
German success in Hurtebise-C raonne
sector, although the greater number
OF German attacks were repulsed with
heavy losses.
Capture Of Fresnoy, which is four
miles beyond the Vimy Ridge, fell to
the Canadians, giving these troops the
added distinction of having cut their
way through the Hindenburg line.
A compilation from British, French
and German official c~ommuniQues
shows that TIT aeroplanes were shot
down on the western front during
April. The Germans lost 800; the
French and Belgians POI, and the Brit
ish 147.
In the first two months of unre-
stricted submarine warfare more than
1000, 900 tons of shipping was sunk
by the Germans, DIR. Karl Helfferich,
German secretary of the interior, told
the Reichstag main committee at Am
sterdam.
A band Of villa followers led by
Salazar and Quevedo was engaged
and defeated by a cavalry force from
the Juarez garrison under Mai. Vim
cente Sanchez, according to an Off
cial report received at the military
headquarters in Juarez, which added
that the fight took place at Aguaje del
Cache, a point near San Juan Mines.
nine miles south of Fort Hancock.
Tex.
WESTERN
Villa forces concentrating at point
lei Fabens, Tex.
Sixty bodies have been taken
from the Victor mine at Hastings
Colo. where 100 miners lost theil
lives April 9th, by an explosion.
Chicago's first day of welcome tc
Field Marshal Joffre, former Premier
Rene Viviani and their encourage o.
the French commission eliminated II
the Auditorium theater in one of the
most remarkable meetings ever helC
in Chicago.
Five men were arrested at Chey
enne by federal agents on a charge o
) conspiracy to defraud the government
of 5000, 900 through the sale of stoleI
high grade gold ore. Tony Cuaz
another member of the alleged con
spiracy, was arrested in San Fran
cisco.
At the end of the five months gov
ernorship contest, instituted by form
= er Governor G. w. P. Hunt, judgmen
was entered by County Judge Star
ford at Phoenix, Ariz., for Thomas 4
= Campbell, de facto governor, who ha
, held the office since early in the yea
; on an order from the Supreme Cour
sustaining his certificate of election.
WASHINGTON
PIans for great natinnnl service z.