The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1917-02-09

exclusively to bind next years British
harvest
Constantinople reports that in re-
cent attacks on the Turks near hut-
ElAmara, the British lost 1000. aside
from men made prisoners.
Army of 1000 900 men VIII be raised
by conscription in the event OF war
with Germany. according to plans
worked out by general staff at Wash
ington.
In Galicia, south OF kiselin and
southwest of Brody. the Germans es-
sayed attacks against the Russians.
but. according to Petrograd, all oil
them failed.
Germany will not back down on sea
war, declares minister, and Foreign
Secretary Zimmerman expresses hope
that there Will be no war between
United States and Germany.
American line steamships Philadel-
phia and Finland arrive safely at Liy-
erpool and only two American passen-
ger ships, kroonland and New YORK,
are now AT sea. Liner St Louis again
delays sailing.
The following ships have been
sunk, it was announced in London:
The British steamers Warley Picker
ing and Floridian, the British sailing
vessel Befort and he Norwegian
bark Tamara.
In the Austro-Italian theater bonn
bardments alone are taking place. On
the Macedonian front, in the Cerna
river bend and on the Struma river
lowiands, there has been considerable
fighting, but with the results un-
known.
The Housatonic was summarized. All
All the officers and crew were saved
by a British armed steamer The Hou-
satonic was sunk near the Scilly isl
ands The Housatonic sailed from
Galveston Jan. 8 and from Newport
News Jan. &c for London.
The occupation of about a thousand
yards OF German trenches by the Brit
ish in the region OF Grandcourt, south
west of Bapaume in France, repre-
sents the greatest gain by any of the
belligerents on any front announced
in the latest official communications.
Prepare for war but hope for
peace" is attitude of Washington ad-
ministration. While navy is made
ready for instant hostiltties and gen
eral staff works plans for moblizing
volunteers, President Wilson main
tains that act which would cause con-
flict must come from Germany.
Germany yielded to Wilson's de
mands for Immediate release" of
seventy-two American seamen taken
from British merchantmen and held
as prisoners of war Washington also
learns that Germans were within
rights in sinking Housatonic, which
carried contraband. and exercised IN
usual precautions to prevent loss OF
Americans aboard vessel
WESTERN
kilograms report the presence. of
two Japanese cruisers off Cape Flat
terry
Oregon's anti-alien land law bill was
withdrawn from the Legislature by its
introducers.
Nineteen natives of Germany, Aus
tria- Hungary and Bohemia, some of
them subjects of the Kaiser. applied
for naturalization at Omaha.
Field artillery doomed a salute OF
thirteen guns and whistles in all parts
of the city blew for five minutes when
Mai Gen. John J. Pershing arrived in
Ell Paso, Tex, from Columbus, n NJ.
Two score persons were injured, at
least one fatally, when Chicago, Rock
Island & Pacific train No. Z, west
bound. Chicago to Denver. was
wrecked two miles east of Walnut, Ia.
The Wyoming Senate unanimously
adopted resolution commencing the
Presidents action In severing rela-
tions with Germany and pledging the
support OF the state to the administra-
tion in any eventuality.
WASHINGTON
Construction OF three coast guard
cutters, to be stationed at Beaufort,
N. c., Detroit and Honolulu is author
lied In a bill passed by the Senate.
An appropriation of $1,350.000 is made
for each Of the vessels.
Official notice OF the release by Ger
many of the sixty-four Americans held
prisoner in Germany for having taken
pay on board British armed merchant
men captured by the German sea raid
er was received at the State Depart
ment in a delayed dispatch from AM
bassador Gerard.
The Senate, by a vote of 62 to 10,
Presidents veto
President Wilson addressed Con-
gress on the Sd, notifying that body
that diplomatic relations with Ger
manx had been severed.