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ABOUT THE WAR

AoOO1 HE WAX
Eighteen British merchantmen were
sunk by mine or submarine in the
week ending Feb. %.
German trench raiding operations
have been repulsed by the French In
several sectors Of the line.
British troops carried out success
full raids north of the Ypres-Staden
railroad and captured a few prisoners.
No French vessel of more than goo
tons was sunk by enemy mines or sub.
marines in the week ended Feb, %.
The British losses during February
we're the smallest since last winter.
In the month just passed they totaled
only 1892.
Teutons near Butte Du Mesnil cap
tured a section of a French position,
but an immediate counter attack
evicted them.
A report that 10000 German sol
diers refused to attack the Russians
in the new campaign was given out by
the Bolshevik at Petrograd.
n LOuuOu llultb ltttb bbm
italian headquarters states that one
third of the houses in Venice have
been ruined by enemy air raids.
The finding at sea of the body Of
John McCoskey of Watervliet, N. Y,
has increased to 212 the number of
Americans lost on the transport Tus-
cania.
English troops carried out a sue
cessiul raid against the enemy's
trenches on Greenland hill, north Of
the Scarpe river says the London
war office report.
Americans north OF Chemin-des-
Danes have taken part in repulsing
a German attack. A German official
statement says that ten Americans
were taken prisoner in the latter sec
tor.
On the Italian front, since the ar.
rival of the British aiTmen to the pres
n time, fifty-eight enemy machines
principally German, have been des
troyeG. The British losses for the
same period were eight.
Saturdays report say three
columns of Germans are advancing In
to Russia. One is neal Luga, midway
between Pskov and Petrograd; n is
said to be at Polotsk, midway between
Pinsk and Vitensk, and the other IL
at Sebezh, eighty miles east o
Dvinsk. An official report says tina
A. n.~,,ona haa WAaphaH tho rich
bank of the Dnieper river north o
Kiev. 1t was announced in a dispatcl
that Austrian troops have begun t
advance into Ukraine.
seventy-five enemy aircraft wer'
brought down by the Royal Flyinl
corps on the western front from Fet
/ to %, inclusive, according to an an
nouncement by the British air minis
try. During the anne period thirty
nine enemy aircraft were driven dow
out of control and six enemy aircrat
were brought down by anti-aircraft dc
lenses and infantry. Against thes
40 machines of the enemy, says tn
statement, twenty-eight of the alliei
are missing. The weight Of bomb
dropped during the month of Feb. 2:
was sixty-five tons.
American troops have ~repulsed
heavy German attack north Of Tou
A number of Americans killed an
wounded. The Germans left ten dea
in the American trenches, while tn
ground in front was strewn with tn
hOdfaa Of the auamy
WESTERN
James F. Marley, for five veal
auditor of Denver and four years
member of the City Council, died
st. Anthony's hospital from hea
failure.
Lieut.. J.. W. Weissinger was instan
ly killed and w. c. Story suffered /
juries from which he died when tv
military airplanes collided at Pal
field at Memphis, Tenn.
Samuel Gompers. president Of Il
American Federation of Labor, mat
an appeal at Chicago in behalf of &
eight-hour day for employees in Il
: meat packing industry at the stoc
yards wage arbitration.
The names Of the following Anne,
) cans appear in the Canadian casual
list: Killed in action, c. A. Husban
! Galveston, Tex, Gassed, c. Ha
Durango, Colo; c. X. Bowden, w
: low Ranch, Cal.
Eugene ]. Deane Of Mexico, M
was found guilty in the Federal ID
trict Court at st. Louis Of attemptii
to interfere with the operation of I
selective draft law by offering to p
drugs in the eyes of William Johns
that his sight might seem defective
WASHINGTON
The money cost Of the war to I
United States still is running nea I
900. OOO, 900 a month.
The bill to govern federal operati
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