Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-08-31

envy armies.
In Rumania the Russo-R umanian
front Is stiffening and further Ger
man gains have been blocked.
Eleven persons were killed in air
raids on the British coast. Thres
enemy planes were shot down.
Berlin reports the Russians have
been driven from the IA river. Petro-
grad says the fighting Friday was con-
fined to fusillades.
Gen. Cadorna is still hard after
the Austrians all along the Isonzo
front, and seems to be going toward
its objective at will.
The Germans have begun an often
sive on the eastern front. Berlin re-
ports some success near KemmeTn
INT along the DviRa.
Dead Mans hill, famous in the Yer
dun fighting, has been captured by
the French, together with Avocourt
wood and other German st~ronghOlds.
Incendiary bombs, which we're
dropped by two German aviators on
two hospitals behind Verdun killed
tea wounded men, one nurse
and nineteen trained male nurses.
In the week which ended August
10, five French steamships Of 1000
tons or more we're sunk by mines or
submarines, according to the weekly
official report. Four vessels under
1000 tons were sunk. No fishing
ships we're destroyed.
British forces were driven from the
positions gained on the Ypres-Menin
road in their violent drives Of We'd
nesday and Thursday by a furious
German assault Friday. The Germans
made great sacrifices, and official re-
ports tell Of enormous losses under
the fire Of the big English guns.
Around Lens the struggle is eontin-
uing with the British and Canadians
advancing their positions steadily.
The French captured the famous Hill
804 in the Verdun battle Friday and
thereby took from the Germans the
most important point in their posses
sion. Without this hill they are I'M
able to watch the movements OF the
French army.
WESTERN
Miners are again at work at Gallup,
N. NJ.
At Tucson, Ariz., the district exemp-
ton board held sixty-six married men
who had previously been excused.
Six hundred soldiers of the battal.
ion OF the Twenty-fourth negro infan.
try were disarmed as a result of
Thursday nights race riots at Hous-
ton, Texas.
Because OF the strike of smelter
nen at the Washoe works at Anacon-
da, the Anaconda Copper Mining Com.
pany announced another shutdown of
its properties in Montana.
Word was received in Denver of the
sudden death of Private Franklin C.
Smith of Battery b while he was Wis
iting his father, the Rev. Franklin c..
Smith at Lander, Wyo. He was q
years old. Appendicitis vas the cause
o. his death.
Twelve white men, among them
civilians, police officers and national
guardsmen, were killed and more
than a score Of men, women and
children we're wounded in a riot at
Houston, Texas. Of negro soldiers Of
the Twenty fourth United States In
fantry.
Smith M. Falls, battalion sergeant
vwanA,w wNNunhnA e. 81 49, -A..r
recruiting station for the last four
months, has been transferred to Cas-.
per, Wyo. Private Roy G. Snyder, also
IN attache OF the Denver station, was
transferred as an assistant to Ser
geant-Major Falls.
WASHINGTON
The governments shipbuilding pro-
gram calls for a total Of 1870 ships Of
100000 tonnage.
President Wilson may address Con-
ETess at the same time he answers the
pope's peace proposals.
Belgians will get food quickly and
neutrals will have some of their wants
Wupplied through an agreement en-.
tered into by the food commission and
the governments Of the neutral Europ-
can countries.
Henry A. Garfield, coal administra-
tor gave warning that all the machin-
cry Of the government will be used to
carry the benefits Of prices the Presi-
dent has fixed on coal, through to the
consumer. and that If necessary to ac-
oomplish this end the government will
take over the mines. Mr.. Garfield
warned the public that the govern.
ment would not have its purposes
thwarted on any technical grounds.
Inspiration. ATiz-i In a wire to tho
National Emergency Food Garden
Commission. claims TO have the big.
gest val garden in the West.