The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1917-11-16
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK o.
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST WEEK
RECORD or IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
ABOUT THE WAR


China is preparing TO send an e1De-
dictionary force to France.
The British have gained further sue
cesses over the Turks in Palestine.
Troops in two Russian garrisons
have pledged loyalty TO Kerensky.
The allies are represe nted on the
new front by some British batteries
from the Carso.
The government has issued de-
cree ordering the closing OF the port
OF Rio Janeiro
In the month of October the entente
powers lost PA airplanes and nine
balloons. according to the official
statement issued by the German war
office.
American troops on the French
front have been gassed for the first
time by the Germans The rain Of
shrapnel between the two forces has
been increased.
Frances confidence that the leu
tonic drive into Italy has been
stopped is expressed in the war office
statement cabled TO the French EN-
bassy at Washington.
The United States is about to add
several hundred thousand tons OF
shipping to the stream of ships carry
ing American troops and supplies to
the aid of the allies.
The Italian forces appeared Tues
day to be holding their own along the
Piaye. The Germans. however. re
port the capture OF two towns. The
Italian forces. according TO the Rome
report, have made their real stand on
the Piaye river and the supreme
struggle is on The British are hold
ing their part OF the line.
\ conglomeration OF reports from
Russia on Tuesday leaves war stu
dents in a puzzling position. Some re-
ports say kerensky has defeated the
rebels and entered Petrograd A dis
patch from the capital declares the
Bolsheviki has defeated the premier's
forces. The American consulate in
Moscow has been the center of the
fight OF Russian rebels and loyalist
forces
WESTERN
Utah raised s16,s2o,ss for the sec
ond Liberty loan
Sixty-three Industrial Workers of
the World were arrested at Omaha in
a raid conducted by federal agents.
Byron Williams, young miner
from Pima, Ariz.. was shot and killed
at Globe. Lynn Marksbury. an en-
ployee of a copper mining company
at Globe, is under surveillance
The Armour Grain Company at Chi
cago declared that only the reduction
of potatoes to so cents a bushel will
prevent fully 100.0oo.0o0 bushels of
the new crop from rotting or being
fed to livestock.
An appeal to the patriotism OF the
members of the International Union
OF Mine. Mill and Smelter workers, in
volved In wage disputes in Arizona
copper districts. and all others be-
longing to the organization was made
by the president of the union. Charles
II. Meyer. who suggests that there
shall be no strikes while this country
is at war until after the disagreement
with an employer shall have been sub
mitted to the government for consid-
Grafton.
WASHINGTON
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion, the Supreme Court held, has au-
thority to compel railroads to estab-
lish through routes and joint rates in
connection with other carriers
President Wilson is expected to
issue a proclamation soon, requiring
every alien enemy within the United
States to register, as a step toward
Kidding the country Of spies and ga
botage.
On seventy-seven of the principal
railroads OF the United States a saw
ing OF 114,110 cars was effected in one
month this year. solely by increasing
the average loading Of less than car
load freight
The effect OF Germany's political
offensive" against Russia and Italy
upon the task ahead of the allies IL
recognized in Secretary Bakers week
ly review OF military operations is
sued by the War Department
Confirmation has been given by the
German government itself to the often
denied reports current for the last
year that young girls of Alsace-Lor-
raine have been carried away from
their homes and forced to labor for
the German army.
More than $4,000 soldiers and sail
ors have applied for government life
insurance aggregating nearly $780,
100000.
President Wilson's speech to the
American Federation Of Labor II to
be printed in various languages and
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