Gilpin observer., 1918-10-31
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we.tern Newspaper union News serylce.
About the War

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
About the War
Between Sissonne and Chateau Por.
Glen ON Oct. 25 and 26 the French took
more than 2.45O prisoners.
British casualties for the week
ended October 20 numbered 32,249
compared with 37,15O for the previous
week.
The British have captured Maing
southeast of Valenciennes, and Vende
decentralization, on the front below
Valenciennes A German counter at
tack was repulsed.
British troops have occupied the vii
lagos of Aires and Famars. south OF
Valenciennes. and have made prog.
ress along the Scheldt toward the out
skirts of that town.
The British advancing in Mesopo-
tamia have cut the. road from Sherg-
het to Mosul. one of the principal
Turkish lines of communication. This
probably will force the Turks to fall
back on Mosul.
General Debeney's army has won a
y.
holding the Serre-Oise front are in re-
treat and the whole German line be-
tween Chateau Porcien and the Ar
gonne Is In danger of being turned.
Between Sept. IL when the st. Mi
hiel drive began, and Oct. 10, United
States fliers brought down 261 Ger
man planes which represented one
seventh Of the total flying strength OF
the enemy from the Swiss border to
the sea.
On the western front the British,
French and Americans have continued
to make further gains against the Ger
mans: in the Italian theater both the
cesses, while in Asiatic Turkey the
British have captured Aleppo, in Syria,
and are driving ahead ON both banks
of the Tigris in Mesopotamia. with the
Turks unable to check them.
In its first major operation against
the Germans, considering the clearing
out of the st. Mihiel salient as To-
cal affair. the American army in a
few days less than a month has lib
Grated more than forty-five villages
and advanced to an average depth of
ten miles. freeing 165 square miles Of
territory. In the offensive the Amer-
cans captured more than 10000 pris
oners.
In all the battle zones the allies are
meeting with marked success, says
Mondays report. In France the Ger
man battle line is slowly disintegrat-
ing under the violence of the allied of
fensive: in northern Italy the Austro,
Hungarians are being forced back by
the British, French and Italians with
heavy losses in men killed, wounded
or made prisoner: near the shores of
the Adriatic in Albania the Italians
are driving the Austrians toward the
Montenegro frontier, while in Asiatic
Turkey. both in Syria and Mesopo-
tamia, the British are fast clearing the
Turks from their former strongholds.
More than 5000 Austrians were taken
prisoner in the operations on the
Italian front.
Western
~. stamford Wnlte, president OF the
Chicago Board of Trade, died of pneu.
monia. superinduced by Spanish In.
fluenza
Railroad and telegraph lines were
crippled in the Middle West October
2s by the storm which spread thru
Missouri, Kansas. Nebraska. Colorado
Wyoming and Utah.
Between $1,000 and $4,000 men EN-.
ployed in Los Angeles shipyards soon
will have an average wage increase of
10 per cent with basic rate of so
cents an hour for most of the skilled
trades.
Germany bought vast quantities OF
copper in the United States. thru Hol.
land. in the years preceding the war
and that accounts for her endurance
in the present fighting, according to
ex-senator w. A. Clark, Montana cop
per king.
Washington
The House adopted the conference
report on the $4,000. 100000 military
deficiency bill and sent It to the Sen
ate.