The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1917-12-14
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EvENTo
CONDENSED FOR eUSv
PEOPLE.
ABOUT THE WAR


Jerusalems fall is tremendous
personal defeat for Kaiser Wilhelm,
AT the peace parley the Russians
proposed to the Germans a six months
armistice.
The Italians in a daring night raid
regained several important positions
they lost on the lower Piave.
Ecuador has severed diplomatic re-
lations with Germany. according to an
official announcement
The British casualties reported for
the week ending Dec. IL numbered 49,
256 as compared with 2S,S22 In the
previous week.
The Austrian battleship Wien was
torpedoed and sunk Dec 8, according
to Vienna official statement. Most
OF the crew was saved.
1t is reported at Eagle Pass, Tex.
that Mexican forces headed by Gutter
rez, known as "Gutierristas," have
captured Monclova, Mexico.
telegram from Oporto says that
the revolution in Portugal has ended
with the success of the revolutionsts
and that the government has resigned.
Orders have been issued by Major
General E. Wilson, general officer
commanding. debarring any Canadian
officer or soldier In uniform from
drinking intoxicating liquor.
The Germans have failed to follow
up their success OF last week against
Gen. Byng's forces around Cambria,
and there is nothing of importance re-
ported from the French front
Word was received in London that
the Bolshevki have formally declared
war on the Cossack forces under
Korniloff and kaledines. This brings
about a condition of actual civil war
in Russia
Jerusalem, the seat of the Christian
religion, is in the hands of the Brit
ish after having been under the con
troll of the Moslems virtually 1.20o
years. The city was captured follow
ing an assault
From Ypres to Cambria, on the Brit
ish front, and from st. Quentin to
the Swiss border along the lines held
W Nb' i'INh 'tpopS, lif al lIlitlN
and aerial battle Dec. IL reached a
pitch of intensity that is seldom at
tanned except on the eve of a great
infantry action. There are evidences
in the official statements that not
only Germans. but the British also,
are preparing for great attack in the
west The exact scene of the coming
struggle. however, remains in doubt
as the opposing guns are laundering
at virtually every part of the far
flung line
WESTERN
Thirteen negroes were hanged a.
Fort Sam Houston at San Antonio.
Tex. for completely in the riot at
Houston Aug 23. Forty one others
We're given life sentences.
Alexander Won Girsewald, former
German consul at Seattle. was arrest
ed at San Francisco as a dangerous
alien on a presidential warrant, ac-
cording to federal authorities.
Herbert c. Hoover. National Food
Administrator. has notified all food
administrators of wide and concert
ed effort to discredit the movement to
conserve the meat and wheat supply
of the nation. apparently in the in
terest Of a purpose to raise the price
of meat
The four-day cold snap and accom-
panying gales resulted in at least
thirty deaths, scores of injuries and
millions of dollars in property damage
in the Middle West alone. Eighteen
persons are dead in Ohio, eleven in
Chicago and one in Lincoln, Neb.
More than fifty persons were injured
In Chicago.
ntNGTON
The Austro German offensive
against Italy has failed, an official
cable from Rome declares Arrival of
the French and English troops on the
Italian front was reported in another
dispatch.
Official motion pictures bringing
home the vital Importance OF increased
food production will be shown by the
United States department Of agricul-
ture in hundreds of regular motion
picture theaters throughout the Unit
I'd States.
Decisions defining in general terms
the rights of both organized labor and
the employer were announced by the
Supreme Court in Washington. While
the right Of workmen to organize fol
lawful purposes was reaffirmed, the
court held that employers legally may
operate their plants as open shops
and prevent conspiracies to brins
their non-union employees into labol
organizations.
Thomas B. Love Of Dallas, Tex. wa.
nominated to be assistant secretary o.
tho troaaurv to iii ono NJ the new of