Tombstone epitaph., 1917-02-25
THE WORLD IN
 PARAGRAPHS
4 BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING EVENTS IN THIs AND FOR
 EIoN couNTRiEa
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DoINos AND HAPPENINGS TRAY MARK rHE PROGRESS
 OF THE AGE.
ABOUT THE WAR

ABOUT THE WAR
 French make two successful raids at Hill s0i. verdun front. and in the Argonne.
 A Reuter- dispatch from Berne says that the German authorities have sud denly called to the colors all officials of trade unions and socialist organi- cations.
 Representatives of the American commission for relief in Belgium will not withdraw from the occupied DOT uons of Belgium and northern France as previously had been ordered.
 Carrying safe conducts from Great Britain and France for himself and party, Count von Bernstorff, the retir- ing German ambassador to the United States, started on his way for Berlin.
 Maj. Gen. F. B. Maurice, chief of military operations at the war office, who has returned from France. said to the Associated Press that since the be- ginning of the new year British trench raids have netted a gain in ground to an average depth of three-Quarters of a mile over a front of 10000 yards and the capture of 1000 Germans.
 Four British and three Norwegian steamers were sunk Saturday, London announces. Total number of vessels destroyed since unrestricted U-boat warfare began is said to be eighty nine, of which twenty-one were neu- tral ships. During that period, British state. more than HOO vessels arrived at or sailed Saturday unharmed from allied ports. One of the ships sunk Saturday had twenty-five white Amer ican muleteers on board.
 On the French front the British in the Ancre and other regions continue to make raids on German positions. The most successful operation was northeast of Arras where King Georges men entered 250 yards of German defenses and removed their third line. Many Germans were killed and some prisoners and a machine gun were captured. The Ancre raid was southeast of Grandcourt, where a strong position was captured. Ger man NlSASACc oA tue northeast of Ypres also have been en- tered by the British
 WESTERN
 An increase of 33Is per cent in the price of canned goods for this year is announced by wholesale grocers.
 Two masked men held up the West lake branch of the Home Savings bank at Los Angeles, Cal, and es- caped with about s2.500.
 The lower house of the Kansas Legislature passed a bill providing a fine of from s to s25 for persons convicted of smoking cigarettes.
 The Union Pacific is said to be han ding freight at the rate of about g. 900 cars a day between Omaha and Ogden, and that there are at least 12.- 600 cars in sight, to be handled.
 The fate of the three Mormon cow boys. Andrew P. Peterson, Hugh Acord and Burton Jensen, captured by Mexican raiders on the Corner ranch on the border below Hachita Feb. I2, was disclosed late Thursday when their mutilated bodies were found by searchers on Mexican territory. about three miles west of the ranch. The bodies, stripped of their clothing. lay about fifty feet apart on the Mexi- can side of the boundary, where the captives had been taken to be killed. WASHINGTON
 1f zero, the coldest the capital has had in three years, the suffrage sentinels at the White House increased their numbers.
 Senator Willard Saulsbury Of Della ware, president pro tenn. of the Sen ate, offered resolution to throw down the neutrality bars and throw open all United States ports to allied warships.
 President Wilson sent a letter of reorganization to Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, honorary president of the Ma tional Woman Suffrage Association. on the occasion of her seventieth birthday anniversary.
 If the United States is forced to go to war the sea coasts and the shores of the Great Lakes will be guarded by . mosquito fleet." made up of thousands of fast motor boats quail fled to act as submarine chasers.
 Henry P. Fletcher. new American ambassador to Mexico, swill be ac- companied across the Rio Grande by . corps of expert accountants to tabu- late American losses incurred during the months of revolution there.
 Another inquiry was sent by the State Department to Ambassador Elk us at Constantinople to develop why he had not been able to report about the marooned Americans detained in Asia Minor. Since the break with Germany no word has been allowed to reach this country either from Con stantinople or Sofia