Tombstone epitaph., 1917-04-08

To full war strength.
 Raider Moewe adds long list of ships to her victims.
 National Guard regiments sum moned beginning to mobilize.
 Russian attacks in Volhynia re pulsed with heavy losses.
 Rome claims repulse of Austrian at tempts to advance on the Trentino.
 Three British destroyers sunk: two by submarines and one in a collision. Total of thirty-two National Guard regiments called into federal service. Seventeen allied airplanes shot down in days fighting. says Berlin. An Amsterdam dispatch says sep arate peace offer has been made to Russia.
 British in France report capture of Melville Bourionyal, ten miles north of Roisel
 French barrage fire breaks down German attack on positions west of Monastir.
 Violent artillery engagements re ported at Verdun and near Dixmude in Belgium.
 West bank of the Disc from La Fere to Vendeuil, a distance of four miles, occupied by the French
 French capture 100 yards of Ger man trenches in Macedonia. Bulgari ans repulsed at Cerna Bend
 British inflict severe defeat upon Turkish army of 2O,0OO men in Pales- tine. Nine hundred officers and men captured.
 Comparative calm sets in on the Franco-British front. Vital phase of war" entered upon with British ad- vance upon Cambrai, according to Lon don official report
 The sinking of twenty-five more steamships. fourteen sailing vessels and thirty-seven trawlers, with an az gregate gross tonnage of S0,000, in the last few days, is announced by the admiralty at Berlin.
 General Robertson, British chief of staff. and General Nivelle. French chief of staff, return from Italian front, where they conferred with General
  man offensive, but is prepared and predicts disaster worse than Verdun for the Germans.
 On Wednesday the British captured two more villages north of Roisel in cavalry attacks. Army now virtually in control of the St. Quentin Cambrai road. Germans, in determined counter I vancing army in Champagne Attempts on positions at Maisons de Champagne repulsed with heavy losses. Heavy ar tillery duels reported west and south west of St. Quentin. Japan officially to recognize new Russian government WESTERN
 Maj. Gen. Frederick Funston left an estate of about s30,O00.
 Railroad paymasters busy disbursing back pay to railroad men.
 Private Lee Hoffman. U. s. infantry, drowned in Rio Grande river.
 Death list from tornado at New Al bany, Ind, reaches thirty-seven.
 Two men seriously injured by ex- plosion at cartridge factory at Alton, H.
 Statewide prohibition referendum bill defeated by Illinois house of rep resentatives.
 Theft of s40,0O0 worth of jewels from William Wrigley, Jr., announced at Pasadena, Cal.
 As a result of gold nugget being found in the street, Helena, Mont, witnessed gold stampede.
 bone dry" bill barring liquor ab solutely from the state except for med icinal, mechanical and sacramental purposes was passed by both houses of the Georgia legislature. WASHINGTON
 It is stated that American legation in Brussels is under complete isola- ton.
 Dutch steamships in British ports were reported to have been confis- cated by the British government
 Rear Admiral James H. Oliver, chief of navy intelligence, was named by Secretary Daniels as governor of the Danish West Indies.
 House leaders. Democrats and Re publicans. all paving the way for quick action on appropriation bills and Iegis- lation. bearing on the international crisis
 Hope of averting war between the United States and Germany has been dissipated by Chancellor von Beth mann -Hollweg's address to the Reich stag in the opinion of nearly all ad- ministration officials
 The United States marine corps needs more than 1000 men to fill up jts ranks to a war strength of I7.s0A