Gilpin observer., 1917-10-25
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About the War

Seventy lives lost when u. s. trans
port Antilles was torpedoed and sunk.
Ten persons were killed and forty
wounded in bombardment of Nancy by
German aviators.
Nineteen German aeroplanes were
put out of commission by the British
Saturday and Sunday.
The call for the second increment
of the draft army will probably come
late in December or early in Janu-
ary.
Gen. Haig's report says series of
successes were attained Monday along
the Ypres road and that all objectives
were taken.
The Germans have followed up
their gains Oh Dago and Oesel islands
and report that 10000 Russians have
been captured in the campaign.
The London war office announces
that $50 persons, in addition to the
1876 lost on the two British destroyers,
were killed when two German raiders
sank eleven ships in the North sea-
British warships Sunday bombarded
Ostend, the submarine base for the
Germans in the North sea- The move
was regarded as the beginning of the
combined land and sea drive for this
important point on the Belgian coast.
Four Zeppelins, possibly five, were
brought down in France Friday dur
ing an attempted raid on London. One
airship succeeded in reaching the city
and n bomb cast into the capital killed
twenty-seven and wounded fifty-three
persons.
Two German dreadnoughts, one
cruiser, twelve torpedo boats and one
transport were put out of action by
the Russians in the fighting around
the islands in the Gulf of Riga last
week, but their ultimate fate is un-
known, says an official statement is
sued by the Russian admiralty. 1t
has been established that at least six
German torpedo boats were sunk in
the fighting. The Russians lost the
battleship Slava and a large torpedo
boat.
Following dispatches from Europe
Monday that the British and French
had launched combined drive
against the Germans in Flanders,
came an announcement from Secre-
tary Baker that the allied offensive
would be continued all winter The
war secretary declares resources were
in the hands of the allies to overcome
weather conditions and other OBJ
stacles and that there would be no
let-up in the fight until Prussianism
was crushed.
The Federal Commission has ended
the Arizona copper strike in the
Globe-Miami district.
Mrs. Kate l. De Young, wife of NJ.
II. De Young, publisher of the San
Francisco Chronicle, died at the fam
lily residence in San Francisco, after
a long illness.
A wigwam several hundred feet
high has been suggested as an appro-
pirate memorial to the late Col Will
liam F. Cody. Buffalo Bill" on Look
out mountain.
Eight hundred and thirty-six SOL
diers stationed at Columbus, N. NJ.
subscribed for s103,40O worth of
Liberty bonds. This is an aver
age OF $119 per man. A majority of
the men are foreign parentage and
many were born abroad.
In order to reduce the reproductive
power of the French people, 1900
youths have been sterilized by the
German invaders of northern France,
according to statement made by
Edward F. Trefz. personal represent.
ative OF Herbert G.. Hoover, who Wis.
tied Denver.
Washington
Fuel Administrators Garfield an.
nounced that the coal miners strikes
in Illinois, Indiana and Ohio were
practically at an end.
Every man wounded in the trenches
of France will be decorated with q
ribbon to be worn as badge of hon
or on his left breast.
The five classifications into which
men awaiting draft will be divided
under the new regulations approved
by President Wilson. have becom,
public.
Four thousand persons were killed
and 10000 injured in the explosion o
powder magazine on June 10th, a
Steifeld. Austria. according to officia
dispatches from Rome.
Double hulls and deck high bulk
heads will make some thirty.five new
ships the United States Shipping
Board is building as well-nigh unsink
able as vessel can be.
A Christmas good cheer bag. packe,
by Mrs. Woodrow Wilson. wife Of tn
President. win be the Christmas gif
to some lucky American soldier o
sailor In active war service.