, 1917-07-05
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
ABOUT THE WAR


French soldiers occupy portions Of
Athens.
American sailing vessel is sunk. No
casualties.
Turks drive back Russians on Per
sian frontier.
Villa and troops moving on Juarez
for attack is believed.
Greece breaks off diplomatic rela-
tons with central powers.
German attacks south of the Cojeul
river were repulsed by the British.
Germany has imposed a fine of $780,
100000 francs on the occupied terri
tory of Rumania.
Greece broke diplomatic relations
with Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bull
garia n Turkey.
The Elder-Dempster steamer Adah
was torpedoed without warming and
sunk by a German submarine.
In the Asiago plateau zone the Aus
trian artillery has shattered positions
recently taken by the Italians.
Brazil is no longer neutral in the
world var N the German empire has
another enemy arrayed against it.
Mines of Teuton vessels last week
were responsible for the sinking of
twenty-one British vessels of more
thar 1000 tons.
British take 1000 yards of frontline
trenches from Germans near Oppy in
Arras region, and take 247 prisoners
and twelve machine guns.
Two c%ontingents of United States
troops arrive in France. Great en-
thusiasm prevails as first Americans
join the allied fighting forces.
Lively fighting continues between
Russians and Austro-Germans south
e of Lutsk, in Volynia, and be-
tween the Stripa and Dneister rivers
in Galicia.
Under a protecting concentration
of artillery fire Canadian troops
stormed and captured the German
front line trench before Avion, a sub
urb of Lens.
Germans, after several attacks east
of Corny, gain 1000 yards of French
trenches at Verdun. Germans also
storm French positions on 3OO-yard
front in Avocourt wood.
La Coulette, suburb of Lens, cap
tured by Canadians, as allies are hem
ming in that great French coal CEN
ter from all sides. Germans fire
homes of town in preparation for their
last stand.
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Wholesale prices of potatoes at Chi
cage dropped 40 to 65 cents a bushel
to the lowest level of the year.
In a proclamation by Acting Gov
18th, was designated registration day
for the women of Wyoming.
Twenty Japanese went to the re-
cruiting office at Ell Paso. Texas, and
offered to enlist in the United States
army. They were not accepted.
The first day of the strike called
in the copper mines in the Bisbee
district by the Metal Mine Workers
Industrial Union ended with so per
cent of the men out.
The New Mexico Council of State
Defense issued an urgent appeal to
the eligibles to respond Immediately
to the Presidents call for 10000 reg
ular army volunteers.
Sixty-five thousand pounds OF wool
were sold to Boston interests at ~
cents a pound. saidSto b. the highest
price ever paid for wool in the state.
In past years the price has averaged
40 cents.
WASHINGTON
Wilson orders Investigation of lum.
Der prices.
S%uffragets still dare Washington
police, Three served sentences and
were released.
An immediate general reduction of
81 to $3.50 a ton in the price of coal
at the mine was agreed upon by rep
resentatives of the coal operators.
The destroyer Shaw has completed
a record from a Pacific coast port to
an Atlantic port, approximately 5,s5S
miles-in IA days, 10 hours and 20
minutes.
American loans to the allies passed
the b%illion-dollar mark when the treas
ury placed $4,000, 900 to the credit of
Great Britain and $40, 100000 to
Frances court.
The $26, 100000 rivers and harbors
appropriation bill passed the House by
a vote of 205 to 1872.
Frederick NJ. Brown of Alaska was
nominated by President Wilson to he
federal judge for the Third Alaska
district.
The American Federation of Labor