Tombstone epitaph., 1918-03-24
THE WORLD IN
 PARAGRAPHS
A ORiEF RECORD or PASSING EVENTS IN THis AND FOR
 EicN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
pouNcs AND HAPPENINGS THAT MARK THE PROGRESS
 or THE AGE.
ABOUT THE WAR

Eight hundred thousand men 10 b. drafted during year 1918.
 For the third time in as many weeks eighteen merchantmen have been de stroyed through mine or submarine.
 British aviators have dropped ton of bombs on the town Of Coblenz. cap ital of the Rhine province of Prussia
 American troops east of Luneville again raided German positions. and another party entered German trenches along the Foul and, unaided, drove the enemy back.
 Naples was attacked by enemy avi- ators early Monday morning. Twenty bombs were dropped in a residential quart The victims included seven occup,-its of a hospital.
 A strong German detachment is re ported to have occupied Abo. on the coast of Finland. west of Helsingfors, The Germans Immediately began to march into the interior of Finland.
 Four German machines brought down and fifteen trained aviators. mechanics and pilots killed or made prisoner. were the German casualties in Monday nights air attack on Paris.
 American and French soldiers. opef- ating together in Lorraine have con ducted successful raids on widely-sep- arated sectors, demolishing German trenches at three points to the width of 100 meters and depth of 300 meters.
 Attacking over an eleven-mile front on the coastal sector in Palestine. East Anglian. South Anglian and In dian troops have advanced to an aver age depth of three miles. according to an official statement issued by the London War Office.
 In the east the Germans now hold Odessa, the great Russian seaport on the Black sea. which probably will be used either as the base for an in vasion of India by way of Persia or as the terminal of grain shipments from Russia to the Central empires.
 During the first ten days of March. in addition to vast amount of recon noitering and photographing. the Britishers destroyed thirty-nine Ger man aeroplanes and brought down forty others out of control. despite the fact that the first two or three days of the month were so stormy that aerial activity was virtually i'm possible Against this great total. fifteen British machines are reported missing.
 WESTERN
 Rivers throughout Michigan were full and sweeping over their banks in this springs first heavy floods, caused by melting ice and heavy rains
 A second draft of 5000 selected men will begin March 29. and last five days, according to an order issued by Provost Marshal General Enoch H. Crowder. at Washington.
 The body of Mrs. Lucretia Rudolph Garfield will be taken from South Pasadena, Cal, for burial in Lake view cemetery at Cleveland. Ohio. The monument of her husband. James A. Garfield. twentieth president of the United States. is there. Mrs. Gar field died after a short illness in South Pasadena. She was s5 years old.
 Howard Holaday. Denver. a flying cadet at Kelly field, San Antonio. Tex, =ss Killed ~sca his s;Tp!sse fe,: 1000 feet. He was returning from a cross-country flight His mother is Mrs Howard W. Holaday of Denver.
 Occupants of motor cars coming into Colorado from Cheyenne or other Wyoming points will not be fired upon by the state constabulary even if they refuse to stop on signal. accord. ing to new instructions sent out by Superintendent Frank Adams of Den. yer.
 WASHINGTON
 Seven army officers found unfit for overseas duty.
 Henry Ford's submarine chasers win be known as Eagles" and will constitute the, Eagle class" of boats
 A Is per cent increase in rates was granted by the interstate commerce commission to the Canadian railways running into the United States.
 President Wilson is planning to make . great war speech April 6, inc first anniversary of the American declaration of state of war with Germany.
 American troops that repulsed the German raid on March 3 were from the Forty-second, or Rainbow. division which is made up of National guards men, General Pershing reported
 General Pershing's casualty list cabaed March 14 carries the names oi seventy soldiers. four Of them killed in action, two dead of wounds. one dead of an accident and nine of dis ease: fourteen wounded severely and forty dignity wounded.
 Congrsss may take . "win-the-waI secess~ C sell Liberty boads.