Gilpin observer., 1917-02-08
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS.
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF THE week
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
Western Newspaper Union news Service.
About the War


Troops on the border are being held
pending further orders from Washing
ton.
The Germans are continuing their
attacks in the north, the Petrograd
war office announces, but have made
no gains.
Army of 100000 men Will be raised
by conscription in the event of war
with Germany, according to plans
worked out by general staff at Wash
fngton.
American line steamships Philadel-
phia and Finland arrive safely at Liv-
erpool and only two American passen-
ger ships, Kroonland and New York,
are now at sea. Liner st. Louis again
delays sailing.
German troops in q counter attack
recaptured from the British the great
er portion of the trenches east of
Beaucourt, on the Somme front that
had recently been lost, the war office
announced at Berlin.
The Housatonic was summarized All
Ah Tic OlllCcIS anu CISW WSIe SdNeu
by British armed steamer The Hou-
satonic was sunk near the Scilly ISL
ands. The Housatonic sailed from
Galveston Jan. and from Newport
News Jan. 16 for London.
Prepare for war but hope for
peace" is attitude of Washington ad-
ministration. While navy is made
ready for instant hostilities and gen.
eral staff works plans for mobilizing
volunteers, President Wilson main
tains that act which would cause con-
flict must come from Germany.
Germany yielded TO Wilson's de-
mands for Immediate release" of
seyenty-two American seamen taken
from British merchantmen and held
as prisoners of war. Washington also
learns that Germans were within
rights in sinking Housatonic, which
usual precautions to prevent loss of
Americans aboard vessel.
Berlin press declares Germany can
not spare lives of Americans at sea,
and look upon war with the United
States as inevitable. Other neutrals
prepare protests against Germany's
submarine order. Brazil Is said to be
ready to send drastic document, but
II lis not believed Holland and Scandi-
navian nations will be so severe in
their protests, through fear of Ger
many's military might. Switzerland
will observe strict neutrality.
Western
relegrams report the presence of
two Japanese cruisers off Cape Flat
terry.
The embargo imposed by snow
drifts in the Medicine Bow district,
In Western Wyoming, has been final
ly lifted and Union Pacific traffic is
again practically normal.
Fire originating in a gasoline explo-
sion in restaurant at Thermopolis,
Wyo.. swept through the principal
block of the business district, doing
damage estimated at 100000
Sarah Bernhardt expressed the hope
that when Count Won Bernstorff
leaves this country for home he will
be forced to sail on an unmarked ship
and take chances on becoming n vic
tim of a German submarine.
Fire, swept by fifty-twomile gale,
caused approximately 100000 dam
age and serious injury to five persons
within few feet of the spot where
the Missouri Athletic Club was
burned to the ground with loss of
thirty lives three years ago in st.
Louis.
Washington
The Court of Appeals OF the Dis.
trict of Columbia has decided that
Congressman Frank Buchanan and
his co-defendants must stand trial in
New York on the German plot con.
spiracy charges.
On Feb. 13 the whole corps of Ger
man officials in the United States, in
cludine Count and Countess Won Bern
storff, the embassy suite and consuls
from all parts of the country, will
sail from New York for Germany.
While no decision has been reached
officially. there is decided sentiment
in all official quarters to abandon the
public ceremonies of Inauguration or
March and simply have the Presi
dent take the oath OF office In tn,
White House on Sunday, March 4.
Congress, aroused to patriotic sup
port of the President, calmly awaits
developments in the diplomat,
breach with Germany Ready to ac
quickly and adequately in any emer
gency, administration leaders are II
constant touch with executive depart
ments, with Legislative machiner.
prepared for expeditions disposition
OF extraordinary revenue and defen
sfve measures.
President Wilson addressed Cor
gress on the 3D. notifying that bod