Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-03-09
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ABOUT THE WAR

ANNAAy IAoAhhnu AAEAh WGAe plaAA
by the British, and 5000 prisoners
and a large quantity OF WA supplies
taken.
Turkish forces In their retreat from
Kut-sLAmara on Tuesday had reached
Aziziyah. about nftytwo miles north
west Of Kut.
On the east bank OF Narayuvka
river, In Galicia, German storming de-
tachments blew up Russian positions
and took 40 prisoners.
Negotiations looking to China's en-
trance into the war against the cen
trail powers now are in progress at
Peking and IA all the entente capitals.
In the fenting in the Ancre region
the British on Friday captured 1873
prisoners. Berlin reports the repulse
Of local attacks near SOuchez and in
the Ancre region.
British troops have made additional
progress northwest Of P%uisieux-au-
Mont, north OF the Ancre, and in the
region of Warlencourt, south Of the
Ancre and toward Bapaume.
In the Val Putna, Berlin records the
Russians made five fruitless attacks
against Austro-G German positions on
the heights north of the valley. PeIro-
grad says the fighting continues north
Of the Jacobeni-K impolung high read.
Rumanian d~etachments were forced
to withdraw, Petrograd says, from a
height north of the river. laval.
German naval and military leaders
in Berlin estimated that the total ton
mage sunk during February would not
exceed 100000 and expressed salts
faction with the achievements Of the
submarines. The announcement was
made by the German admiralty that
1000 troops bound for 'Saloniki per
lshed when the italian transport Mi.
mas was sunk Feb. II.
British headquarters in France re-
port; During February we captured
2,139 German prisoners, including
thirty-six officers. The following viii
lagos also we're either captured or sur
rendered to US by the withdrawal Of
the Germans: Ligny, Thilloy, Lebar-
que. Warlencourt, Pys, Miraumont,
Petit Miraumont, Grandcourt, Puisi-
eux-Au-Moht, Serre and ~Gommecourt."
WESTERN
The Wyoming National guards are
now at Fort Russell.
Three Spanish steamers sailed from
Galveston for the war zone, carrying
cotton.
Fire destroyed $4,000 worth of
print paper when the Franzen paper
warehouse burned at Milwaukee, Wis.
Robbers got from a vault of the
First National bank at Batona, Fla,
S15, 900, and an unestimated amount
Of securities.
Foodstuffs - Potatoes, butter, eggs
and some notwithstanding to be
weak" and easier" on the Chicago
markets, following the boycott.
Reports submitted to the bureau of
food inspection of the health depart
ment show that there are more than
So 900 pounds of beef in the var
ious cold storage warehouses in Chi
cago.
Adjt. Gen. Harry P. Gamble of the
Colorado militia and Maj. Arthur H.
Williams, staff officer. left Denver for
Fort d. A. Russell, Wyo., to inspect
the men OF Battery B and Battery C,
colorado field artillery.
olof II. Ahlgren of Chicago made
seventeen Wills before he got one to
suit him. Now his mother, three sis.
tiers and a brother arc contesting the
seventeenth, because he left them out,
giving all his $3.50, 900 estate to his
wife.
WASHINGTON
The S5S5,UOO. 900 naval a%pproprla-
ton bill was passed by the Senate