The Ordway new era., 1917-03-09
NEWS TO DATE
IN PARAGRAPHS
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK or
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
Western Newspaper Union news service
ABOUT THE WAR

ABOUT THE VAR
Twenty thousand Turks were slain
by the British, and 5000 prisoners
and a large quantity OF war supplies
taken.
Turkish forces in their retreat from
Kut-el-Amara on Tuesday had reached
Aziziyah, about fifty-two miles north
west OF Kut.
On the east bank OF Narayuyka
river, in Galicia, German storming de-
tachments blew up Russian positions
and took 10 prisoners.
Negotiations looking to China's en-
trance into the war against the cen
trail powers now are in progress at
Peking and in all the entente capitals.
In the fighting in the Ancre region
the British on Friday captured l2S
prisoners. Berlin reports the repulse
of local attacks near Souchez and in
the Ancre region.
British troops have made additional
progress northwest of Puisieux-au-
region of Warlencourt, south of the
Ancre and toward Bapaume.
In the Val Putna, Berlin records the
Russians made five fruitless attacks
against Austro-German positions on
the heights north of the valley. Petro-
grad says the fighting continues north
of the Jacobeni-Kimpolung high road.
Rumanian detachments were forced
to withdraw, Petrograd says, from
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German naval and military leaders
in Berlin estimated that the total ton
mage sunk during February would not
exceed 500,0U0 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
ished when the Italian transport Mi.
mas was sunk Feb. II.
British headquarters in France re-
port: During February we captured
2,133 German prisoners, including
thirty-six officers. The following vii
lagos also were 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-Mont, 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,
$4,000, and an unestimated amount
of securities.
Foodstuffs = Potatoes. butter, eggs
and some egetables-continue 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
50,000,000 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 H. Ahlgren of Chicago made
seventeen wills before he got one to
suit him. Now his mother, three sis
ters and a brother are contesting the
seventeenth, because he left them out
giving all his s250,OO0 estate to his
wife.
WASHINGTON
The s535,OOO,OO0 naval appropria-
tion bin was passed by the Senate
Friday without a roll call.
In accordance with congressional
resolution signed by President VIII
son, April 81 will be designated as a
day for the collection of funds in the
United States for the relief of suffer
ing Ukrainians.
Germany. in note delivered to the
State Department Friday by DR.. Paul
Ritter, Swiss minister, promises the
release of the Yarrowdale prisoners
on March I, saying quarantine regula-
tions will have been complied with
by that date.
President Wilson signed the Indian
appropriation bill and the Porto Rico
bill giving residents of the island citi-
zenship and changing its form of gov
ernment.
Conservation Of the country's for
ests AZ a means Of insuring a future
paper supply was urged in q state.
ment by Carl vrooman, assistant sec
xetAfy Of agriculture.
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