The Colorado statesman., 1917-02-24
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ABOUT THE WAR

ABOUT THE WAR
Petrograd reports driving out Ger
mans who entered trenches south OF
Dvinsk.
Turks forced back on Tigris river;
British capturing all of ground In
Dahra bend and taking 1895 prison
ers
The Norwegian collier Dalbeaue,
from Glasgow to Gibraltar, was sunk
by shell fire on the 18th. Two Ameri-
cans were on board.
ut must be repeated again that
whoever dares penetrate the barred
zone perishes," declared the official
government press bureau at Berlin in
a statement discussing the British
claim that the submarine war has
failed.
Lloyd's announces the sinking of
the British steamer Langscar, 2,777
tons; the Hopemoor, 3,740 tons; the
Alton, 1856 tons; the Greenland, l.
753 tons; the Kyunsti, tonnage not
recorded; the schooner Percy Roy
and trawler.
The British smashed the German
defenses near Armentieres and Ypres
on Wednesday. French batteries
wreck German line northwest of Hill
3O4. Artillery duels raging on Italian
front Russians and Teutons lock
horns on big eastern front; no de-
cisive result. English capture one
Turk garrison and put another to
flight on the Sinai peninsula.
H. oy-
elusive of Colonial troops, reported in
the German casualty lists in the
month of January, 1917. totaled 1854
officers and men killed, wounded,
prisoners or missing. These casualties
bring the total of Germans killed and
those who died of wounds or sickness
to 9S8,329, and the total casualties
since the war began to 4,0S7,692.
WESTERN
Governor De Baca of New Mexico
died Sunday.
The burial of Gen. Funston will take
place in the national cemetery at the
Presidio, San Francisco.
Employees of the postoffice in Chi
cago have been order to refrain from
discussing international politics either
among themselves or with the public.
Gen. Funston's mother, Mrs. E. H
Funston, left Emporia, Kan, for San
Francisco 20 attend the funeral of her
son.
Governor Lister signed the bone
dry" prohibition bill in the presence
of officers of the w. C. T. U. and other
advocates of the measure at Olympia,
Wash
Three American duck hunters were
held up in Sonora by two Mexicans
dressed in soldiers uniforms, relieved
of $3.50, two shotguns and a rifle and
one of them was threatened with
death, according to a report from
Yuma, Ariz.
A 17-year-old girl from Salida. Colo,
found IN n disorderly house in Casper,
Wyo, has resulted in the arrest by
members of the United States Depart
ment OF Justice, working out of the
Denver office, of two men and
woman on a charge of violating the
white slave law.
WASHINGTON
A committee appointment of bene-
fit to Colorado has been made in the
transfer of Senator Shafroth of Colo
rado to the Senate committee on pub
lie lands
The Navy Department awarded
contracts to three componies for the
manufacture of 14,200 14-inch shells
for the navy at total price of ST.
100000.
The Navy Department has decided
to equip the Philadelphia and Norfolk
navy yards for the building of capital
ships. An appropriation of S12,000,000
is available for this purpose from the
last naval bill.
President Wilson sent letter to
Chairman Stone of the Senate foreign
relations committee, urging action
during this session of Congress on the
treaty to indemnify Colomb bia for the
partition OF Panama.
Secretary of State Lansing and At
torney General Gregory asked the
Senate judiciary committee to pass
Immediately bill which would give
the President power to handle the
present international situation without
recourse to assembling Congress for
the purpose of declaring war.
Senator Ashurst's bill to make ma
tional park of the Grand Canon of the
Colorado was favorably reported to
the Senate from the public lands com
mittee. The land is now government
owned. About 500 square miles would
be included.
President Wilson and other high Of
ficials az well as army officers gen
orally expressed deep regret over the
sudden death of Mai. Gen. Frederick
rr.,nntnn NJ Cor, Antonio Manu- of