The Colorado statesman., 1918-02-02
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
ABOUT THE WAR

The steamship Cork was torpedoed.
Several passengers and five members
of the crew were lost.
Notable activity by the German ar
tillery is reported in the vicinity of
Monchy lie Preux, on the Arras front.
By the sinking of two steamers by
the enemy in the Mediterranean about
three weeks ago, us lives were lost,
it was announced in London
French troops penetrated the Ger
man lines in upper Alsace, destroyed
defense works and brought back pris-
oners, the Paris war office announced
Forty lives were lost through the
sinking of the French freight trans
port Drome and the trawler Kerbihan,
which struck mines Jan. % within
sight of Marseilles.
British casualties in the week end
ing Jan. % were S,5SS, as follows:
Killed or died of wounds: Officers,
25; men, 1,174. Wounded or missing:
Officers, 1928; men, 6,271.
Charges that Germany is violating
the terms of the Russian truce by
withdrawing troops from the Eastern
front and transferring them to the
Western battle lines were made by
the War Department.
Two hundred and twenty members
of the crew of the British monitor
Raglan, one of the vessels engaged in
the recent action with the Turkish
cruisers Midullu and Sultan Selim, at
the entrance to the Dardanelles, per
ished, according to the casualty list
as announced in London. Fourteen
men were wounded.
German airplanes made their first
attack of the year upon London and
its suburbs Monday night, their bombs
fnflicting casualties officially reported
as AT killed and 1863 injured. All the
victims except one of the killed and
seven of the injured were in the Lon
don area itself. No serious material
damage was done and the raiders suf-
fered the loss of one machine which
fell in flames from height of 10000
feet, its three occupants being burned
to death.
Italian troops made heavy attack
on the northern mountain front and
broke into the enemy lines, the Ital-
ian war office reports. Reinforce
ments which the enemy was hurrying
down the Nos and Campomulo val
leys were dispersed by the artillery of
the Italians and their allies, who took
more than 1900 prisoners. They
stormed enemy positions on the
heights east of the Asiago basin and
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sisting violent counter offensives.
WESTERN
The receivership of the st. Louis
and San Francisco Railroad was for
mally dissolved by the Federal Dis
trict Court at st. Louis.
Two women, each armed with a re-
volver, held up dry goods store in
the outskirts of the business district
of Kansas City, Mo.
Mrs. ]. M. Byler of Manson, Iowa, a
bride on her honeymoon, died of in
juries sustained in the wreck of an
Illinois Central train at Granger, III.
Her death increased the casualties to
four.
John Sluraski, an Austrian, was ar
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inspectors. Soon after he confessed,
said the authorities, that he had writ
ten threatening letter to Henry
Ford, demanding $4,000.
Commercial agencies in the big cit
les are to be used for the sale of the
surplus pinto beans grown in Colorado
and New Mexico. The idea was sug-
gested to Herbert Hoover, United
States Food Administrator, by Ralph
c. Ely, food administrator for New
Mexico.
WASHINGTON
Two million men in France unless
the war ends before they get there
is President Wilson's maximum war
program.
Total applications for government
soldiers insurance has passed the So
100000 mark. About 100000 soldiers
and sailors have applied.
Joint resolutions experimenting the
selective draft law tentatively ap-
proved by the Senate Military Affairs
Committee will make available 2,00O,-
600 in class one of the draft subject
to military service.
National registration of women
available for work on farms is planned
by the Department of Labor as one of
the advance steps in a campaign to
secure a sufficiency of farm labor for
every section of the country during
the coming season.
Foreign exchange transactions I'M
der regulations announced by Secre-
tary McAdoo are placed, strictly I'M
der the supervision of the Federal Re