, 1918-10-24
AN EPITOME OF
LATE LIVE NEWS
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
F RON ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, o o 8, ACHIEVE
MENTs. sUFFERINGS, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
; Western N1wspRper Union \
ABOUT THE WAR

" ~ oA~ h'AhNS
of Lille, has been entered by the Brit
iish troops.
Outbreaks against the Germans
ave occurred in northern Rumania.
in the province of Moldayia.
Up to the present nearly 1000, 900
British lives have beer 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, a
been taken without a fight.
British cavalry has occupied Tripoli,
forty-five miles north of Beirut, n
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, a dominating
height, has been taken and positions
neal 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 a been occupied and
Douai INT 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 h 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 his line from the Belgian from
tier to the Mouse river gradually is
giving way under the attacks of the
British. French and American armies.
From reports 1t would appear thai
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
n 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 Sal
Lake following a stroke of apoplexy.
II. Rivera, a 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
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 their
own homes. that the trained nurses
may be where the need is urgent.
The government will need 20, 000. 900
pounds of potatoes and a large guam
tity of onions for use for the army and
will receive bids between Nov. l an1
Nov. 80 at the depot or quartermaster
headquarters or at the department in
Washington. Quotations should be Sent
by wire, addressed to Wood, subsist-
ence, Smith, Washington"
Mrs. Fred Carlow. daughter of the
late Col. William F. Cody C"Buffalo
Bill"), died at her home at Cody,
Wyo.. Oct. Is of heart disease, sup
posed to have been superinduced by
influenza. Her husband died of influ-
enza Oct. 70. Mrs. Carlow was So
years of age and the only surviving
child of Colonel Cody.
WAShInN ION
The $1,000, 900, 900 military deficiency
bill was passed by the House without
a dissenting vote and sen to the SEN
ate in practically the same form that
1t came from the appropriations COM
mittee.
Should peace come before the next
harvest Congress will be called upon
to appropriate a large sum to pay
American wheat raisers the price guar
anteed them by the government, wheat
states members of Congress were no.
titled.
A determined effort will be made
Immediately by America and the allies
to organize a strong. united diplomatic
front to prevent any split at the peace
table.
Fuel Administrator Garfield has
lifted the ban on sasolineless Sunday,