The Colorado statesman., 1917-05-26
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ABOUT THE WAR

Nicaragua has severed diplomatic
relations with Germany.
French torpedo boat was sunk by
a mine in the Adriatic May 15.
American marines have been or
dered to proceed to France.
The Germans used burning liquid in
futile attack northwest of Rheims.
Americas second section of fight
ing men went to the front from Paris.
Furious fighting on Isonzo front
yields small gains, both to Italians
and Austrians.
Volunteer now in the regular army
or national guard service or be draft
ed after June 5th.
Our troops successfully raided the
enemies trenches east of Vermelles,"
says the war office statement from
London.
The Italians on the Isonzo front
captured one of the crests of Mount
Vodice, the key to the Austrian de-
fenses north of Gorilla.
The repulse of the British attacks
near Bullecourt and Croisille, and of
French attacks near Nauroy, is re-
ported in Berlin's official statement.
The Russian provisional government
announced that it unitedly rejects a
separate peace but aims at a general
peace without annexations or indem.
mites.
Germans launched offensive on
Russians at Mitau but were stopped
by heavy gunfire. Russians also drive
back Teuton attacks east of Koveika
in Rumania.
With the fall of Bullecourt, the cap
ture of the chemical works, the occu-
patton of Roeux and the general even
ing up of the British line, the first
phase in the new British offensive in
France is over.
A regiment of veteran United States
marines equipped as regular infantry
will go to France as part of Maj. Gen.
John ]. Pershings command. There
will be approximately 1900 men in
the regiment, probably the largest
numerically that will be engaged on
the western front
Colorado and Wyoming recruits for
the United States army have passed
the 1000 mark since April 1st, total
ing 1,O47 men. Tabulation completed
under the direction of Maj. C. N. Bar
ney from April 1st to May 18th, show
that in proportion to the assigned
quota, Wyoming ranks seventh and
Colorado sixteenth of all the states
contributing to Uncle Sans service.
WESTERN
]. Ogden Armour subscribed for
S1,0OO,0OO worth of the Liberty Loan
bonds.
Armed resistance to conscription is
conspiracy alleged in portion of
Texas.
Many Americans in Washington Re-
ported crossing border into Canada to
escape conscription.
Antonio Armenia, miner, shot and
killed Juan Callanes, also a miner,
and, heavily armed, started to shoot
up" the Rosemont mining district
near Tucson, Ariz.
A new venire of 200 men was called
at Ell Paso, Tex, in the trial of Will
lam B. Sands, charged with the mur-
der of Sergt Owen Bierne, Twenty
third United States infantry, Sept. %,
1916.
A mob at Macon road, near Mem
phis, Tenn, avenged the murder of
a white girl by burning to death her
negro murderer, Eli Persons, and
helping to capture two other negroes
implicated in Persons confession.
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WASHINGTON
Southern representatives defeated
proposed tax on raw cotton
The Italian war commission, headed
by Prince Udine, first cousin of King
Victor Emmanuel, arrived in Wash
| ington.
Measures to force down anthracite
prices will be taken, the Federal
Trade Commission announced, if pro-
ducers and dealers do not adhere to
their recent promise to cease extor-
tionate practices.
With six engineering schools turn
ing out aviation cadets and $500
aeroplanes promised by the manufac-
turers for the first year, the United
States soon expects to be sending a
steady stream of American fliers to
| France.
The most extensive publicity cam
paign ever conducted in this country
is under way to place before the peo-
pie the necessity of purchasing Lib
erty loan bonds.
Contracts for thirty-eight vessels,
twenty-six wooden and twelve steel.
have been let by the Emergency
Fleet Corporation in the shipping
boards shipbuilding program
Senator Thomas, Colorado, Monday