The Colorado statesman., 1917-01-06
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About the War

About the War
French forces made counter attacks
on the new position captured by the
Germans on Dead Man Hill northwest
of Verdun.
In the Verdun sector east OK the
Chambrettes farm the Germans at
tempted a strong surprise attack
against the French position, but were
repulsed, according to Paris.
The battle of the Somme is pictured
as a sweeping triumph for the entente
allied arms, in a detailed report by
Gen. Sir Douglas Haig, which covers
operations from July l to Nov. is.
Carranza forces met and defeated
Villa command at Bustillos, fifty miles
west of Chihuahua City, on the Mex
lean Northwestern railroad, Dec. 27, a
Carranza official from Chihuahua City
who arrived at Juarez stated
Villa partisans at Ell Paso, Texas,
announced Friday that forces operat-
ing under the banner of Villa had oc-
cupied Saltillo, the capital OF the state
of Coahuila, located between Torreen
and Monterey. The report was denied
by CarranZa officials,
Around Braila, oa both sides of the
Danube, the invaders have further
driven in the defenders of the terri
tory. Near Fokshany and thence south
east to the Danube, Petrograd reports
the Russians and Rumanians have
taken up new positions without pres
sure from the Teutonic allies.
The Teutonic allies have captured
RimnikSarat, thirty miles southwest
of Braila, Rumania's oil and grain
center on the Danube. The guns of
the Dobrudja army are hammering on
the bridgehead of Matchin, on the
east bank of the Danube opposite
Braila. Previous to the fall of Rim
nik-Sarat the Teutonic allies defeated
the Russians on a front of ten and a
half miles southwest of the town.
Germans continued on Tuesday to
push back Russians and Rumanians
at most points in Moldavia and Do
brudia. Russians hold positions and
repulse attacks between Buzeu and
Danube rivers. London Daily Mail
condemns Salonih expedition and
urges his recall as futile, saying
troops sent there might have turned
tide on western front. Macedonia sit
uation unchanged. Vigorous artillery
duels in Austro Italian theater Pa
troll parties cause chief activity on
western front, British repulsing
strong patrol action near Vermelles.
Wacterp
Thomas E. Campbell, Republican
was inaugurated governor of Arizona
Monday
New Orleans bank clearings for 1915
totalled $1,3S1 ,073,O94, exceeding those
of 1915 by s4OS,907,51S.
Fifty-four persons were lynched in
the United States in 1916, according to
records of Tuskegee institute at Tus
kegee. Okla.
Private Matthew e. Sawyer of Com
pany F, First Arkansas infantry, died
at the base hospital at Deming, N. NJ.
of pneumonia. Sawyer enlisted at
Hope, Ark.
Stanley B. Clifford, New York CAPT
talist, with large holdings in sugar
plantations in the lower Rio Grande
valley, died at Brownsville, Tex, OF
appendicitis.
On a street crowded with theater-
goers, John Stearns, proprietor of a
restaurant at Lincoln, Neb., shot and
instantly killed Mrs. Nora Nelson, a
dressmaker, and then shot himself
dying in few moments.
Washington
e. c. DeBaca took the oath of office
as governor of New Mexico Monday
Four eclipses of the sun and three
of the moon, the greatest number pos
sible in a single year. will occur in
1917.
The administration has refused to
receive a new ambassador from Tur-
key until the sublime porte releases
several hundred Amricans from virtual
detention in Syria.
Assailing the Federal Farm Loan
Board for not locating a farm loan
bank in Colorado or adjacent territory,
Senator Shafroth introduced a bill to
create a thirteenth farm loan bank
district to include Colorado, Wyoming,
Utah and New Mexico and establish
the bank in Denver.
Belief that the neutral nations of
the world should unite at once to
force cessation of the European war
by economic pressure was expressed
by high official representative of
one of the neutral nations in Europe,
who said that this view also was
shared by at least some of the South
rmerican countries.
Congress got back to business to
find that President Wilson Is deter.