The Colorado statesman., 1917-12-01

Ambassador Jessurand reported that
six German submarines had been
sunk in four days.
President Wilson and his Cabinet
decided to take no steps at this time
toward declaration of war on Aus
tria-Hungary
The reports from the Italian line on
the northern front were favorable.
The heavy fighting is continuing with
the Italians holding in the main.
Two American soldiers were killed
and five were severely wounded in an
artillery combat with Germans on
Nov. 20, Gen. Pershing reported.
The Austrian and German frontiers
have been closed. Both the French
and Italian frontiers already had been
closed for an indefinite period.
The British have taken Bittir sta
tion and Ain Karin, the latter three
and half miles from Jerusalem.
Strong Turk forces are guarding the
highways into the city.
The British drive on Cambria will
be followed up relentlessly by similar
ioffensives along the western front, in
the opinion of officers familiar with
what is in prospect in France.
British troops have repulsed anoth-
er German counter attack in the
northeast corner of Bourbon wood, east
of Cambria, according to an official
report from Field Marshal Haig.
The American steamship Actaeon
was torpedoed Sunday, dispatch
from Corunna, Spain, reports. Twen-
ty-one survivors have arrived at Port
Camarinas Three boats with the re-
mainder of the crew are missing.
The brilliant record of the French
aviators, including the members of
the Lafayette escadrille for the ten
months ending in October, shows that
they destroyed 120 German airplanes
over the French lines and S97 over
the German lines whose destruction
has been fully confirmed.
The peril to the Italian forces
seems to be disappearing. French and
British troops have taken their places
on the new Piave front and the Ital-
ians have frustrated repeated attempts
of the enemy to advance. The Alpini
battalion wiped out their adversaries
in an encounter near Tasson. The
Austro-German forces keep hammering
at the line between the Piave and
Brenta rivers, and every time they
are thrown back by the reinforced
Romans.
WESTERN
BY margin Of PAS votes San Diego,
Calf, voted down a proposed bone
dry prohibition initiative ordinance.
A class of twelve candidates re-
ceived the thirty-third degree in Ma
sonry at the Scottish Rite temple in
Omaha at the close of the Masonic
reunion which has been in progress
for a week.
Mrs Richard A. McGauran, who
gave six of her nine sons for military
service, lost one of the remaining
three in an automobile accident in
Chicago. Her husband was perhaps
fatally injured.
The government has been asked to
issue 6-cent piece for use after the
expected general raise of street car
fares from to 6 cents, according to
statements made to the State Rail
road Commission by street car Off
cials at San Francisco.
The Toledo, Ohio, police announced
the capture of the bandits who held
up a brewery company bookkeeper
and got away with $4,000. The police
also announced the recovery of all the
stolen money. In addition to the six
men a 20-year-old girl, Wanda Urbatis,
is under arrest. She was employed as
telephone girl in the brewery office.
Her brother is one of the alleged ban
dts under arrest.
WASHINGTON
Fuel Administrator Garfield ap-
proved wage agreement between op-
orators and miners of the Illinois bi-
luminous fie1l Is.
A super-war council for the United
States was formed to unity and co-or-
dinate the government branches in the
prosecution of the war.
Twenty-Five Woman's party mill
tants, hunger striking in the District
of Columbia Jail at Washington, were
released long before the expiration of
their terms.
Manufacture of salvarsan under
German patents, recently seized. will
be Immediately resumed in the United
States under government supervision
and at greatly reduced fixed prices,
the Federal Trade Commission an
nounces.
Decorations of any officers or men
Of the American navy by foreign gov
ernments for war services will be OPP
posed by Secretary Daniels. He de-
clared that if asked for an opinion he