The Colorado statesman., 1917-11-24
DURING The PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
ABOUT THE WAR

One more American soldier was
killed in a fight between patrols in
. No Mans land.
On the Piave front. on the Isletin
front at Folina, three machine guns
and several rifles were taken.
Gen. Pershing has reported to the
War Department that two men were
killed in action on Nov. 13. Three
were severely wounded and three
slightly wounded.
Capture of 1900 Austrians who
crossed the Piave river is announced
in message from Gen. Diaz, the Ital-
ian commander-in-chief, to his army,
received by cable.
Germany has refused to treat for
peace with the new soldiers and
workmen's government in response to
a recent proposal, according to the
newspapers at Petrograd.
Sinking of the American destroyer
Chauncey in a collision in the war
zone with a probable loss of twenty
one lives was announced by the Navy
Department at Washington.
Shifting his offensive to the south,
Field Marshal Haig has delivered a
series of attacks against the Germans
in the region between ST. Quentin and
the River Scarpe, in France.
The British rapidly are encircling
Jerusalem in their Palestine cam
paign, having now brought their
forces to points twelve miles north
west and fifteen miles west of the
ancient city.
Unmistakable signs of Great Brit
aims willingness to forsake its defen-
sive naval policy and heed the sugges-
tions of the United States and other
nations warning with Germany have
reached Washington.
Germans, who previously have used
only light field pieces against Diaz
troops, are now bringing up the heav-
lest howitzers and laying the stage
for tremendous assault before the
full strength of allied help arrives.
The struggle between the Austro-
Germans and Italians at Monte Tomba
and Monte Monfenera, in the noun
famous region of northern Italy, con-
tinues, it was officially announced by
the Italian War Department The in
vading forces were driven back four
times when they attempted to take the
Italian positions on the Monfenera
spur.
WESTERN
Constitutional prohibition was de-
feated in the Oct. Is election in Iowa
by a majority of 932 votes, according
to the official canvass.
P. d. Armour, III, grandson of the
founder o. the Armour packing indus
try, enlisted at Chicago in the United
States aviation corps and was given a
commission as first lieutenant.
At st. Louis, Oliver Wilson of Pc
oria, ILL.,, was reelected president of
the National Grange, Patrons of Hus-
bandry. Among other officers chosen
were assistant steward, John Morris,
Golden, Colo, and chaplain, w. e.
Deal, Nampa, Idaho.
Returns from eighteen of the twen-
ty-eight counties of New Mexico show
a majority for the prohibition amend
ment of 1855, majority against the
tax amendment of $3.50 and major
ity against the judicial district amend
ment of 3,0S7.
WASHINGTON
Secretary Daniels told the President
that more submarines have been de-
stroyed in the last two months than
in the entire year heretofore"
Messages from Ambassador Francis
at Petrograd and Consul General Sum-
mers at Moscow, received at the
State Department, said all Americans
in the principal Russian cities were
safe. Conditions in both places were
represented as quieter, but still cha
otic.
A roundup of suspected Germans,
mainly in seacoast and lake port
cities, is in progress under authority
of President Wilson's new proclama-
ton forbidding alien enemies within
100 yards of docks, requiring their
registration and Imposing other re-
strictions on their movements.
Wilson, Taft and Roosevelt stopped
in the same Washington home. The
prospects are that they will remain
there permanently. Antinetto and Clio
vaninni Riccobono, heads of this
home, were extremely elated. Wilson,
Taft and Roosevelt are triplets-the
first treble birth on record in Wash
ington in fourteen years.
Railroads of the nation agreed to
the principle of arbitration of wage
disputes, and government officials
now are convinced that there will be
NO railroad strike.