The Colorado statesman., 1917-03-24

According to a Danish newspaper, a
burg, Germany.
Important action reported on Mace
donian front where French score con-
siderable success.
French battleship of $4,000 tons sunk
in Mediterranean. British merchant
ship Bray Head, 5000 tons, sent down
by submarine.
Beach Thomas, in a dispatch to the
London Daily Mail, describing the
German retreat in France says at
least 300 villages have been burned to
cinders.
Berlin official statement declares
present retreating movement is part
of general strategic scheme designed
to revolutionize the war on the west
ern front.
Further notable gains reported
Tuesday for the British and French on
the Somme front. Latter four and a
half miles from ST. Quentin. British
capture fourteen more villages.
British and French forces pressing
Germans closely in Somme sector,
former capturing forty villages and
the French twenty. French penetrate
village of Ham, twelve miles beyond
st. Quentin. German front between
st. Quentin and Laon threatened by
this development. Germans devastat-
ing country through which they are
retreating, burning villages and de-
stroying farm land. Thousands of in
habitants left destitute
British forces in their latest push
on the western front have retaken ap-
proximately 450 square miles OF
French territory occupied by the Ger
mans since the beginning of the war.
The following are the more import
ant of about eighty towns and vii
lagos reoccupied by the British: Ba-
paume, Chaulnes, Peronne, Greviliere,
Fresnes, Horgny, Villers Carbonelle.
Barleaux, Eterpigny, lie Dranslov, La
Maisonnette, Biefvillers, Bihucourt,
Achiet-Le-G Grand, Achiet-Le-Petit, Alb,
lamseville, Bucuoy, Esserts. The
French, in cooperation with their
British allies in this new thrust, have
retaken and are in possession oil
about 525 square miles of territory
formerly held by the Teutons. The
following are the more important
towns reported as occupied by the
French: Noyon, Crouy, Carlepont
Morsam, Nouvroningre, Roye and Las
signy.
WESTERN
Top hogs sold on the 21st on differ
ent markets at from $15.O5 to $15.4C
per cwt.
Military training will be adopted fol
the convicts in the Oregon peniten
tiary within a few months, Warden
Charles A. Murphy announced at Sa
lem.
Sister M. Evelyn, daughter of w. S
Carter, president of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Firemen and Engine
men, died at st. Joseph's Academy, al
Nazareth, Mo.
Capt Jack Bonavita, one of the
worlds most noted animal trainers
was so badly mauled and clawed by
young polar bear at Los Angeles
that he died at the Angelus hospital.
The Central highway through Colo
RADIO will no longer be organized un
der the name "The Lincoln Highway
Association of Colorado" but will in
the future use the name 1.-THE Colo
rado Division of the Pixies Peak
oceanic Ocean Highway" This de
cision was made at the sixth annual
convention held at Colorado Springs
WASHINGTON
President Wilson has advanced the
date for the special session OF Con
gress to April to consider German
action in sinking three American mer'
chant ships with loss of life.
Secretary Daniels ordered naval
commandants at shore stations and all
recruiting offices to be prepared to en-
list women in the actual naval service
in case of an emergency.
Ambassador Francis at Petrograd
cabled the State Department that nc
Americans had been reported injured
during the revolution and that the EN-.
bassy and staff we're undisturbed
The note to Gen. Carranza declining
his proposal for neutral action to
bring peace to Europe by cutting off
exports of supplies to belligerents was
made public at the State Department.
Patriotic students in Central high
school at Washington tore from the
walls of a class room picture of EN-
peror William of Germany and hung
in its place a photograph of President
Wilson, decorated with two American
flags.
Production of wheat in Argentina,
Australia and New Zealand, the prin.
cipal producing countries of the south.
ern hemisphere, shows 80 per cent