Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-01-05
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DURING THE PAST WEEK
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O THE WAR
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Germany is ready to grant greatly
modified terms, according 10 informa-
ton obtained in official circles at
Washington.
In the A~ustro-Italian theater the
weather has cleared and the artillery
duels have been renewed with vigor,
especially on the Carso front.
In Mesopotamia the British forces
are still in quest of Kut-el-Amara, in
which sector they have made further
advances on the right bank Of the tt
girls.
South of Brody in Galicia the Ger
mans have brought their howitzers in
to play against Russian positions and
at various points have damaged their
tIenches.
Mexican Consul Beltran at San An
tonic, Tex, announced that he had re-
ceived a personal message from Gen.
eral Carranzs saying hat General Muir
guia had retaken Torreon.
A message confirming the report of
the capture OF Torreon by Villa forces
was received at San Antonio, Tex,
by Gen. Funston from Brig. Gen.
George Bell, commanding American
forces at FL Paso.
Artillery duels, sapping operations
and attacks by small patrol parties
continue to feature the fighting on
the front in France. The usual bonn
bardment is in progress in the Austro-
italian war theater. In Macedonia
comparative quiet prevails.
Berlin records fresh advances for
the Teutonic allies against the Rus
SLAMS in Wallachit. Three thousand
more prisoners and twenty-five ma
chine guns nave been captured by the
invaders, bringing the number of men
taken in the Rimnik-Sarat maneuver
UP to 1920.
Considerable fighting has again
taken place on the Verdun sector
around lie Mort Homme and on the
eastern slopes of hill 304, where the
Germans made an attack but were re-
pulsed. Elsewhere along the French
front there have ben reciprocal bonn
bardments and attacks by small patrol
parties, interpreted with fights in the
air.
The Teutonic allies have captured
Rimnik-Sarat, thirty miles southwest
of Braila, Rumania's oil and grain
center on The Danube. The guns of
the Dobrudja army are hammering on
the bridgehead Of Matchin, on the
east bank of the Danube opposite
Braila. Previous to the fall of Rim
nik-Sarat the Teutonic allies defeated
the Russians on a front of ten and a
half miles southwest of the town.
WESTERN
Illinois will have a woman as assist
ant attorney general when Attorney
General-elect h. J. Brundage takes Of
flee. Miss Jeanette Bates OF Ard
more, ILL.,, has been selected by Brun-
dage as one of his aides.
Private Frank Shea of the Seven
/ teenth United States infantry died at
the base hospital at Columbus, N. M.
from a gunshot wound received at Va
do Fusiles, Mexico, on the American
communication line south Of the Dor
der.
At Omaha the jury in the case of
! eleven men charged with use of the
mails to defraud in sales of phantom
wild horses in Coconino county, Ariz.,
returned a verdict of guilty against
|, nine defendants and found one not
= guilty. One defendant vas dismissed
by the judge.
p Seventeen cigar bombs" that were
mailed on a train in California to ad.
dresses in Iowa, Nebraska and other
Middle Western states and along the
, Pacific coast. have yet to be accounted
| for, according TO p%ostoffice inspectors
/ at Los Angeles. The bombs" were
= mailed Dec, %.
WASHINGTON
Argentina's grain harvest this year
will be n of the poorest the country
: ever has had, due to injury by drouth
I and locusts.
, President Wilson told callers that he
would veto the S2s, 1000, 900 public build
ings bill II It comes to him in the form
in which II is now pending in the
Z House.
The British government has con
/ %tracted for the entire exportable sup
ply Of New Zealand meat until at least
three months after the close of the
European war.
E Argentina's military system is serv
ing as a model for the universal serv
Z ice bill now being drafted by a com
mittee of the army general staff.
President Wilson. 60 years old Dec
0 rs, was the recipient of many congrat
ulatory messages from all parts of the
' country and abroad.
The worlds wheat production oil