Taiban Valley news., 1918-03-15
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DoIN G s, ACHIEVE
MENTs, suFFERlNGs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union news serv'c@
ABOUT THE WAR

forces now are moving to France on
schedule time.
American troops are now holding
over eight miles of trenches on the
battle front of France.
Eighteen British merchantmen were
sunk by mine or submarine in the
week ending March 5.
London reports a raid attempted by
the enemy east of Epehy, under cover
of heavy artillery barrage, complete
ly repulsed.
The war office announces that for
the first week of March British casu-
alties were 9,343, the lowest of any
week for several months.
Rome reports reciprocal firing ac-
tivity and effective work by Italian
airships. Also that British aviator
brought down a hostile machine.
Eleven persons were killed and
forty-six others were injured in We'd
nesday nights airplane raid on Lon
don, according to the latest reports.
Narva, 100 miles southwest of Pet
trograd, has been captured by the Ger
mans and the enemy is reported to be
continuing his advance on Petrograd.
The American steamship Armenia,
formerly a German merchantmen, lies
beached and badly damaged on the
British coast after being torpedoed by
a German submarine.
I'VE have acquired a direct free
route via Russia to Persia and Afghan
istan," says dispatch from the Wolff
bureau, the German semi-official
agency, received at The Hague.
Forty-three American soldiers had
been killed in action in France at the
end of March 2, while 252 had been
wounded and thirty-five captured or
missing, according to Washington War
Department information.
Premier Clemenceau, who spent q
day on the American front northwest
of Toul, decorated two lieutenants,
two sergeants and two privates with
the croix de guerre with the palm for
heroism which they displayed in the
recent German raid.
Serious fighting has taken place on
the Ypres-Dixmude sector of the Brit
ish front, according to the official
statement issued by the British war
office in London. A German attack
on a front of more than mile COM
PEELED some of the British advance
posts to fall back. but later a counter
attack re-established the British line.
A preliminary peace treaty between
Rumania and the Central Powers was
signed March 5, says dispatch from
Bucharest. Under the terms of the
preliminary peace agreement, Ruma,
MIA cedes the province of Dobrudja as
far as the Danube to the central pow
ers. Rumania also undertakes to fur,
ther the transport of Teutonic troops
through Moldavia and Bessarabia to
Odessa.
WESTERN
Governor Hunt announced the call.
ing of a special session of the Ari'
zona Legislature at a date to be later
fixed, probably in June.
"The one real business of the ma
ton is to win the war now-every
thing else is merely Chores Will
M Hays, chairman of the Republican
National committee, declared in Chi
cago.
Three slices Of bread day without
butter and coffee is the ration allowed
to each person in Norway, according
to 2. Ludwig, a prominent business
man of the country, who was in Den
yer for few days.
Tom and John Powers and Tom Sis
son, who killed Sheriff r. F. Mcbride
Undersheriff M. R. Kempton ant
Deputy Sheriff D. X. Wooten of Ora
ham county, Feb 10, were caught by
soldiers of a cavalry regiment, 81
miles south of Nachita, only a short
distance from the international boun
dary, according to word received a
Douglas, Ariz.
WASHINGTON
Designating May 7 as an interna
tional memorial day for those losing
their lives in the war against Prus
sian autocracy was proposed in a reso
luton introduced by Senator Poindex
ter of Washington. The resolution
: proposes to invite the allies to fix tn,
same date.
More than 12,000,0O0,0OO worth o
insurance has been written on thu
lives of American soldiers, sailors ant
! nurses by the war risk insurance bu
reau, Secretary McAdoo announced.
A substantial American army al
ready is in the trenches on the west
ern front, and Secretary Baker has in
dicated that there may be at leas
: 100000 troops in France during 1918
: The interest date on loans to allie
; has been raised from Az per cent Il
{ per cent, as a result of the recen
increase in the rate on certificates o
indebtedness from A to Az per cent.