Taiban Valley news., 1918-10-25
CONDENSED RECORD OF THU E
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DoIN G 8, ACHIEVE.
MENTs, sUFFERiNGs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
ABOUT THE WAR

ABOUT THE WAR
Tourcoing, city six miles northeast
of Lille, has been entered by the Brit
ish troops.
Outbreaks against the Germans
have occurred in northern Rumanla,
in the province of Moldavia.
Up to the present nearly 100000
British lives have been sacrificed IN
the war, according to information re-
ceived by Reuters Limited
The American troops have occupied
the town of Grand Pre- on the north
bank of the Aire river, north of the
Argonne forest.
Laon, the last of the group of nat
ural obstacles forming the keystone OF
the German defense in France, has
been taken without fight
British cavalry has occupied Tripoll,
forty-five miles north of Beirut, and
HONS, about eighty-five miles north OF
Damascus, according to an official
statement on operations in Palestine.
Continued rains have retarded the
| American advance in the Argonne Sec
| tor, but General Pershing's men have
| gained ground east of the Argonne for
est. Cotechatillon, dominating
| height, has been taken and positions
near it are solidly held by the Amer
leans.
Germany has lost the whole of the
Belgian coast, which for four years
has been the base of submarine and
aerial attacks against England and
English shipping. Ostend has been
taken, Lille has been occupied and
Douai and Zeebrugge have fallen to
the allies.
At the very moment the Flanders
battle was won another offensive was
started in the direction of Hirson and
Vervins by Anglo-American and
French forces. The object is to take
the armies of the crown prince, under
shelter of the new Hunding line, on
the flank and condemn them to an
early retreat toward the Ardennes.
The Belgian coast again is Belgian.
Germany's dream of an invasion of
England across the North sea from
Calais is ended. Belgian Flanders Is
fast being evacuated by the enemy,
and this line from the Belgian from
tier to the Meuse river gradually is
giving way under the attacks of the
British. French\an American armies.
From reports it would appear that
two American contingents are operat-
ing on the front east of Cambria and
st. Quentin. One is working with the
British and is aiding in the advance
into the German defenses east of LIE
Cateau. The other is with the French
and is materially assisting in the at
tempt, to smash in the right flank of
the German salient northeast of Laon
WESTERN
Former United States Senator Thorn
as Kearns, mining magnate and rail-
way builder died at his home in Salt
Lake following a stroke of apoplexy.
H. Rivera, wealthy wholesale gro
Ger of Douglas, Ariz., was arrested in
Aqua Prieta, Mex, charged with com
plicity in the robbery on the night OF
Sept. 80 of the Mexican stamp tax Of
ce when $4,000 in American gold was
stolen.
The health department at Washing
ton suggests that more people learn
how to take care of the sick in theil
own homes, that the trained nurses
may be where the need is urgent.
The government will need 10000 ,00C
pounds of potatoes and large guam
tity of onions for use for the army and
will receive bids between Nov. anc
Nov 80 at the depot or quartermastel
headquarters or at the department in
Washington. Quotations should be sem
by wire, addressed to Wood. subsist
ence, Smith, Washington"
Mrs. Fred Carlow, daughter of the
late Col. William F. Cody C'BuffalC
Bill'), died at her home at Cody
Wyo., Oct. Is ofNheart disease, sup
posed to have been superinduced by
, influenza. Her husband died of influ
enza Oct. 12. Mrs. Carlow was 8;
years of age and the only SURVIVING
, child of Colonel Cody.
WASHINGTON
The $4,000, 100000 military deficienc,
bill was passed by the House withou
dissenting vote and sent to the Sen
ate in practically the same form tha
it came from the appropriations com
mittee.
Should peace come before the mex
harvest Congress will be called upor
to appropriate large sum to pa!
: American wheat raisers the price guar
anteed them by the government, whea
states members of Congress were no
titled
A determined effort will be mad,
Immediately by America and the allie
to organize strong, united diplomats
front to prevent any split at the peace
table.