Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-04-13
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 Service.
ABOUT THE WAR

President Wilson issued war procla-
nation Friday.
Brazil ahgered at sinking Of ship
and considers war.
French continue to advance against
Germans around st. Quentin.
French make notable gain on six
mile front near st. Quentin.
Army and navy being pushed to in
creased efficiency and numbers.
Cuban President urges Cuban Con
gress to declare wal on Germany.
Government orders arrest Of sixty
alleged German plot ringleaders.
Turkish troops are reported in re-
treat in Mesopotamia before the Rus
sian and British forces.
The Belgian steamer Trevier from
New York with Belgian relief supplies,
was torpedoed without warning.
In operations near Ronsscy, ten
miles north Of st. Quentin, Field Mar
shall Haig's men have captured Lem
pire.
The German successes at the To
holy bridgehead on the Stokhod in
Volhynia are reported by Berlin 70
have resulted in the capture of $50
Russian officers and $500 men.
British efforts to reach the Cam
brai-St. Quentin road and to drive a
salient into the German lines between
these two important points, out
thanking both, continue successfully.
Sinking without warning of the UNI
armed American steamer Missourian,
which left Genoa. April 4, with thirty
two Americans among her crew Of
nfty-three, was reported to the State
Department by Consul General Wilbur
at Genoa.
One hundred and ten persons, in
Guiding two women and one baby are
missing from two British steamships,
the Trevose and the Alnwick Castle,
each torpedoed without warning by
German submarines. There were no
Americans on either vessel.
German raider in South Atlantic
has captured eleven enemy ships and
sunk them. according to 2s5 prisoners
landed at Rio Janeiro. Several Amer
leans reported killed on the SnOwden
and the Crispin. sunk without warn
Ing by a submarine.
WESTERN
William Brandt, % years old, was
killed when he fell on a rotary coal
saw in the Model mine near Sheridan,
Wyo.
Sugar made a new high record
price at San Francisco when 1t sold
to jobbers for 1925 for a %1OO-pound
sack.
Good evening, allies" was the
greeting of Alfred Noyes, the English
poet, opening an address at Chicago.
He was roundly cheered.
An army OF 5000, 900 men was advo-
Gated by John r. Mott, general secre.
tary of the International Y. NJ. c. A.,
at a meeting OF 500 Y. M. C. A. secre-
taries in Chicago.
The buildings, campus and all facil-
tiles of the University of Arizona were
offered to the governor Of the state
for war purposes by the board of re-
gents and the President.
Scores of Germans are being de.
tanned at FL Paso, Tex, by Depart
ment OF Justice agents in connection
with Investigations OF German plots
against the United States in Mexico.
The sixteen-dollar hog took his
place alongside two-dollar wheat al
Chicago on the 9th. Hogs grading az
choice heavy sold at $1,000 at the
opening Of the livestock market ut the
stock yards.
The Nebraska State Senate passed
By a vote OF IS TO IA the House pro
hibltion bill after amending 1t so ma
t~erially as to make what was intended
as a bone dry" law, one giving q
large latitude in the use OF i~ntoxicantt
in the state. which becomes prohibit
ton May \
WASHINGTON
Consul Lorrie reported to the STATE
Department the unwerned sinking o
the Portuguese bark Argo, New Or
leans TO London.
Outrage was added to outrage In thu
sinking without warning OF the Ley
land horse transport Canadian, upoI
which there were fifty-six American
citizens. a cable from Consul Frost a
Queenstown revealed.
President Wilson made It yer!
plain IN a statement given to thu
umua,.wap. .rd . .a...f.tlc,.
that the ultimate end Of America II
the world war is that peaee-when 1
comes-wm last forever.
A saving Of $751; 900 in the navy
bill for steel during 1917. and OF NOR,
than $2.OOO,OOO in a single order 70
tOrpedoes was represented in prize
Agreements effected with the manu-
lecturers by Secretary Daniels
Secretary Of agriculture tackles