, 1918-01-03

Italians attacked by Germans from
another quarter.
German atrocities to Americans re.
ported on battle front.
Six thousand Korniloff troops were
defeated by Bolsheviki.
Russian reports indicate steady de-
cline of power of Bolsheviki.
Greece will reward citizens of hat
nation who join American army.
Holiday gifts from the American
Red Cross were distributed in the Ital-
an trenches along the lower Piave.
Col. del Rosso and Monte Val Bella
on the Asiago plateau were recap
tured by Italian forces in a counter
attack Dec. &c, but 1t was found i'm
possible to hold them, the Rome war
office announced.
A British air squadron dropped a
ton of bombs on the great commercial
city of Mannheim, on the Rhine, in
Germany. Numbers of fires were
started. One British plane was
forced to descend.
Eleven Austro-German a~eroplanss
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Italian forces in a big aerial battle
which developed when the Teutons
made an unsuccessful attempt to bomb
Treyiso, sixteen miles north of Venice
Many were killed and wounded.
The losses to British shipping show
a material decrease for the past week.
According to the admiralty report
eleven British merchantmen of 1000
o n or over were SUM by mine or
submarine, as well as one merchant
mar under that tonnage and one fish
ing vessel.
The Germans made two attacks on
the Verdun front Thursday but were
not able to break through the French
lines, the Paris var office reports. Ar
tillery fighting continues on the Yer
dun front, where the French broke up
two German attacks. The enemy
dead remaining on the ground be-
tween the lines and in the wire en-
tanglements demonstrated the import
ance OF the losses suffered by the Ger
mans, who left prisoners in Italian
hands"
While their guns lombard the west
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troops from the eastern front for use
elsewhere, despite the provision of
the Russo-German armistice prohibit
ing such action. The artillery activi-
ty in France has been moderate over
most of the front and more violent
on the right bank of the Mouse. north
EAST of Verdun. the scene of the Ger
man attack nearly two years ago.
WESTERN
An immediate and radical curtail-
ment of passenger service in the cen.
trail West was predicted by railway
men at Chicago as one of the first re-
suits of government control of the
roads.
At Globe, Ariz. Barney Scimia, a
miner of Black Warrior, whose home
was dynamited e days ago by un-
known persons, shot and severely
wounded four persons in a moving pic
ture theater whom he suspected of
having had a hand in the bomb out
rage.
Tonopah Mining Co. declared a divi-
dend of Z per cent, payable Jan. l, to
stock of record Dec. 81. This is a re-
duction of ~ per cent from the last
dividend paid in October.
Charges of d%isorderly conduct
against Prof. Charles Aver, instruc-
tor OF Spanish and German at the Uni
versity of Colorado, and prominent in
educational circles in the West, were
dismissed at Chicago.
The food commission of Silver Bow
county, Mont, in which Butte is To-
Gated, ordered a second reduction in
the local prices of foodstuffs, averaG-
ing a cut of about 5 per cent in all
products. The first reduction cut
prices 10 per cent.
WASHINGTON
Government o world wide
plot to wreck social orders.
Senate committee urged War De
partment to provide warmer clothing
for soldiers in cantonments.
Funeral services for Senator New
lands of Nevada were held in Wash
ington. President Wilson headed n
distinguished gathering which at
tended.
Vice Chairman Stevens says labor
trouble has lost more than half mil
lion days in ship building program,
but situation is now improving.
Belated returns brought the total of
enrollments in the Red Cross Christ
mas drive for new members up to 49,
$4,000. The goal set when the cam
paign opened Dec. II, was 10000, 900.
with the railroads under govern
ment control, the greatest obstacle to