The Colorado statesman., 1917-10-20
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST WEEK
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
ABOUT THE WAR


retreat in region about Riga.
The troops of both sides are re-
naming in the trenches in Flanders.
Women of French village present
American commander with U. S. flag.
Dutch shipping to England stopped
pending adjusting of differences be-
tween two nations.
Five officers and fifty-one men were
lost when the mercantile cruiser
Champagne was sunk.
Vice Admiral Won Capelle, the Ger
man minister of marine, has resigned,
according to the Frankfurter Zeitung.
Two hundred and fifty lives were
lost when the steamer Medic was tor
pedoed Sept. 20 in the western Medi-
terranean.
Holland, in defiance of Britain's re-
quest to stop shipments to aid the
Germans N Belgium. has stopped all
shipments to England.
The Baltic fleet has issued a state
ment that it may be expected to do
its full duty in attempting to block
the advance of the enemy.
Violent artillery fighting has been
resumed on the Bainsizza plateau,
over which the Italians conducted
their recent offensive operations.
report that the British steamships
Memphian, of 6.305 tons gross, and
the Bostonian, $500 tons, formerly the
Cambrian, had been sunk reached
New York.
According to news from Berlin an
undated dispatch received by the ad-
miralty by wireless press, Germany is
expected shortly to declare the coasts
Of the United States, Canada and Cuba
war zones.
Paris reports the repulse of several
German attacks around Verdun. On
the Aisne the artillery fighting was
less intense, but the fighting on the
right bank of the river Thearl was es-
pecially severe
The islands of Runo and Abro in
the Gulf of Riga have been captured
by the Germans. The landing forces
on Oesel island have been reinforced
and the Teutons have begun an Of
fensive with the object of taking the
Russian batteries at Serel
Arensburg, the capital of Oesel ISL
and, was captured by the Germans,
and airplanes Joined in the Teuton
campaign on the Riga coast. German
warships attempted to go between
Oesel and Dago islands, but when the
Russian ships drew up to give battle
the German vessels retired
WESTERN
Bandits under Julio Acosta killed
eight Mexican cowboys near Sauz sta
ton
At Marquette, Mich, convicts at the
state prison subscribed for s3,450
worth of the Liberty Loan bonds.
At Fort Dodge, Iowa, A. W. Paige,
95, shot and killed his former fiancee,
Margaret e. Johnson, 32, a stenogra-
pher, and then killed himself
Twelve hundred and ninety-eight en-
listed men of negro cavalry station
at Fort Huachuca, Ariz., have sub
scribed $13O,35O to the second Liberty
Loan.
Thousands of cattle and hogs per
ished in a fire which broke out in
Kansas City stockyards Tuesday morn
ing, destroying ten acres of cattle
pens and hog houses
sheriff's posse is on the trail of
bandits, who held up Western Pacif
ic train en- route from Salt Lake to
Gold Hill, New, robbed the passengers
and wounded Charles Barber of Salt
Lake, who attempted resistance.
WASHINGTON
Two deaths from disease among the
American expeditionary forces were
reported to the Navy Department by
Gen. Pershing.
With fourteen working days gone
and only ten more to come, Liberty
Bond sales were believed by treasury
officials to have touched the $1,000.
100000 mark.
In the face of strike of coal min
ers in Illinois and threatened strikes
in Southwest districts, Fuel Admins
traitor Garfield dispatched a vigorous
telegram to labor leaders in districts
affected emphatically declaring that
STRIKES must not occur"
The governments latest offer of
certificates of Indebtedness of $780,
100000 at per cent has been heavily
oversubscribed
Six months in the workhouse, the
heaviest sentence ever imposed on
White House suffrage pickets, was inn
,osed on four women by Judge Null
lowney in Police Court.
Hearings in the La Toilette investi-
CATION were ended by the Wisconsin
senator's refusal to prove his alleged
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