The Arizona copper camp., 1918-04-20
HISTORY MAKING EVENTS

IONS.
Americans repulse attack by 800
shock troops of Huns with heavy
losses.
French and British reinforcements
rushed to aid of Haig in Flanders.
33 persons burned to death when
insane asylum burns at Norman.
Okla.
Sunday, April 14-New draft order
calls 49,S43 men to entrain May 1
to 10.
American naval collier Cyclops,
with 81 passengers, Is officers and
221 men overdue month at Atlantic
port, believed sunk by German
raider
William j. Stone, senior senator
from Missouri, dies at Washington.
Terrific fighting still continues in
Flanders on Lys battle front, Brit
ish troops apparently holding line.
Monday, April 15-Germans capture
heavy attacks center around Wul-
verghem and C1 La Bassee- -Estaires
road.
Liberty bond sales for first week
total seven hundred million dollars.
German troops enter Helsingfors.
capital of Finland.
Tuesday. April 16-Bailleul and Wul-
verghem taken by Germans; ter
rifle fighting still continues On Lys
battle field.
German Reichstag reassembles.
Secretary Baker returns from
France.
Count Czernin, Austrian premier,
resigns.
Charles M. Schwab becomes di
rector general of emergency fleet
corporation and will assume entire
control and direction of government
shipbuilding program.
Turks capture Batum.
Germans capture Wytschaete and
Spanbroekmolen Height. driving
British from southern tip of Mes
nes-Passchendaele ridge. Ypres
salient threatened.
Germans take Metern, which is re-
captured by British, but finally re-
tanned by Huns.
Baron Burian Won Rejecz appointed
successor to Count Czernin.
Peruvian cabinet resigns.
Wednesday, April 17-Germans cap
ture -Poelcapelle and Langemarck,
take village of Wytschaete and
cross Douve. brook, southwest of
Wulverghem. Heavy bombardment
renewed near Montdidier.
British governments man power
bill passes house on second reading.
20 New York towns and cities vote
dry.
Submarine toll for week fifteen
British ships, eleven over 1900 tons,
only six British ships were de-
stroyed
Spanish ship Louis A. torpedoed by
German submarine.
Manufacture of ten principal clay
products curtailed on order of fuel
administration to restrict building
operations.
Macedonian front broken by allies,
who take ten towns from Bulgar-
ians and Austrians.
Senate passes bill fixing price of
silver at 81 an ounce.
Germans occupy Passchandaele and
advance to Becelaere and Gheluvelt.
Strong peace movement started in
Austria following resignation of
Count CZernin.
Thursday, April 18-British lines hold
Huns back on Lys battlefield. Haig
night report says Germans are re-
pulsed at every point.
to show how U-boat warfare will
win war; declares new U-boat con-
struction exceeds losses.
President Wilson issues proclama-
tion calling for subscriptions to Lib
erty Loan and naming April 26 as
Liberty Day.
Provost Marshal Crowder plans to
register all men up to so years.
Irish conscription bill passes parlia-
ment. Irish leaders begin fight to
prevent draft.
Berlin reports capture of Sonebek.
Liberty loan subscriptions toetal
$1,O39734,9O0 for country.
Amsterdam dispatches say German
socialists in Austria plan to stop
work May as protest against war
New Orleans dispatch says nine
Americans slain in Tampico on
April and 6. Mexican workers and
Germans in Tampico show antagon-
ism against Americans.