The Ordway new era., 1917-08-31
coMDRMsEo REcoRp OF TIL Z
PRooREss OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM all SOURCES
SAYINGS, D o IN q 3, ACHIEVE.
MENrs, sUFFERiNes, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
ABOUT THE WAR

Since April 3 the entente aiies
lave made prisoner 167,7S0 men OF en-
envy armies.
In Rumania the Russo-Rumanian
front is stiffening and further Ger
man gains have been blocked.
Eleven persons were killed in air
raids on the British coast Three
enemy planes were shot down.
Berlin reports the Russians have
been driven from the Aa river. Petro-
grad says the fighting Friday was con-
fined to fusillades.
Gen. Cadorua is still hard after
the Austrians all along the lsonzo
front, and seems to be going toward
its objective at will.
The Germans have begun an often
siye on the eastern front. Berlin re
ports some success near hemmern
and along the Dvina.
Dead Mans hill, famous in the Yer
dun fighting, has been captured by
the French. together with Avocourt
wood and other German strongholds.
Incendiary bombs, which were
dropped by two German ayiators on
two hospitals behind Verdun killed
ten wounded men, one woman nurse
and nineteen trained male nurses.
In the week which ended August
10, five French steamships of 1000
tons or more were sunk by mines or
submarines. according 10 the weekly
official report. Four vessels under
1000 tons were sunk. No fishing
ships were destroyed.
British forces were driven from the
positions gained on the Ypres-Menin
road in their violent drives of We'd
nesday and Thursday by furious
German assault Friday. The Germans
made great sacrifices, and official re-
ports tell of enormous losses under
the fire of the big English guns.
Around Lens the struggle is contin-
uing with the British and Canadians
advancing their positions steadily
The French captured the famous Hill
304 in the Verdun battle Friday and
thereby took from the Germans the
most important point in their posses
SION without this hill they are IN
able to watch the movements o! the
French army.
WESTERN
Miners are again at work at GzluP.
N NJ
Al Tucson. Ariz-, the district e1zop-
ton board held siztE-six married uzn
who had previously been sIc-z=d
Six hundred soldiers Ct the ba5czE
ion of the TEeatE-fc1rIh negro 1Ea1-
Try were dissne-t as EezuIc ot
Thursday nights race -tSEs At Eous-
ton, Texas
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children were vouodes Il -o- ~
Houston. Texas. ot negro solcs-s ..
the Twentysourzh United S-stsx II
fantry.
Smith n Falls. battalion ss-EsG--
recruiting station for the fas- to-
months, has been transferred 10 Cas-
ger, wyo Private Roy G Snyder. alsc
an attache OF the Denver station. sas
transferred as an assistant 20 Ssr
geanf-Ma5or Falls.
WASHINGTON
The governments shipbuilding pro
gram calls for total Of 1910 ships o
7.e6s,eVo TONNAGE
President Wilson may address Con
s.ess at the same time ne answers In.
pope's peace prooosals-
Belgians VII get food quickly ans
neutrals win hare some OF their want
supplied through an agreement en
tered into by the food commission ant
the governments Of the neutral Euroo
eAn countries.
Henry A Garfield. coal adniniEsrs
ton. snve warning that all the mAchin
W u The government win be used IL
carry the benefits Of prices the Presi
u Jent - fixed On coal. through to fh.
a1aef, ard that II necessary to &C
& Il 1ls6 this end the government vii
- the mines. Mr. 0arf5elt
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