The Ordway new era., 1918-09-13
CONDENSED RECORD OF TIL E
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD. III
FROM. ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS. DIN 3. ACHIEVE.
MENTs. suFFERiNos. HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union news servics.
ABOUT THE WAR

British troops Friday captured
Neuve Chapelle and Bussu.
Since Aug. s. 1866 enemy machines
have been brought down by British
airmen.
The British have captured the city
of Lens. The town of Queant also
has been taken.
In Flanders the British forces have
captured the town OF Wulverghem,
two miles southeast of KENNEL.
Mont st. Quentin has been taken by
the Australians. together with Feuil-
laucourt. In this surprise attack more
than 1900 prisoners were taken.
Continuing their pressure along the
front from Rheims to Ypres, the al
lied forces are pushing back the Ger
mans on virtually this entire 150-mile
line.
The American troops advancing
from the Vesle have captured the
Ion, and have advanced their lines as
far as the outskirts of Villers-en-
Prayeres. on the Aisne.
In the old Noyon salient the French
have captured the important junction
towns OF Ham and Chauny with their
spectively into st. Quentin and La
Fere. Across the Canal du Nord they
have penetrated at various points to
depth exceeding six miles.
Four hundred and slxty-five enemy
machines have been destroyed and
200 disabled since the commencement
of the offensive on Aug. 8, according
to an official statement on aerial OPP
erations. Sixty-one hostile balloons
were destroyed and 911 tons of bombs
dropped on various targets. Two hun
dred and sixteen British machines are
missing.
A British official communication
dealing with the operations of the al
lied forces in the region around Arch
angel. Russia. says After further
severe hand-to-hand fighting with an
enemy force led by the Germans, the
allied troops occupied Obozerska.
Prisoners were captured and heavy
losses were inflicted ON the enemy.
The allied casualties were slight"
The French and Americans are fast
driving the Germans out of their posi-
,tions in southern Picardy and in the
sector between the Vesle and Aisne
rivers. So rapid has been the prog
ress of the allies-the French in Pic
ardy and the Americans and French
from Soissons eastward toward
'Rheims-that the retirement of the
enemy has the appearance of the be-
ginning almost of rout Meanwhile,
Field Marshal Haig in the north, from
Peronne to Ypres, has been almost as
busily engaged with his troops in
carrying out successful maneuvers
which are only in a slightly less de-
gree of rapidity forcing the Germans
everywhere to give ground.
WESTERN
President Wilson reappointed Ed
ward p. Costigan of Denver to the
Federal Tariff Commission and Claude
r. Porter. Centerville, Iowa, to be an
assistant attorney general.
The Chicago Board of Education
voted to discontinue the teaching of
German and all other foreign language
in the elementary schools
Ninety-three members of the l. w,
W., including Secretary William d.
Haywood, were placed aboard spe-
cial train at Chicago. under heavy
guard, to be taken to Fort Leaven-
worth prison to serve the terms in
flicted by Federal Judge X. NJ. Ian
dis, after they had been found guilty
of violating the espionage act in fight
ing the selective draft and opposing
the war otherwise.
WASHINGTON
The administration water power
leasing bill was passed by the house.
President Wilson has decreed the
cessation of the brewing of beer and
all other malt liquors on Dec. / next
and the immediate suspension of the
purchase of unmalted grains for
brewing.
Graphic stories of the individual
heroism and daring of forty-one Amer.
ican officers and men fighting in
France are told in cryptic citations by
Gen. Pershing in awarding them dis
tinguished service crosses.
The United States troop transport
Mount Vernon. formerly the German
Kron Prinzessin Cecelie. was tor
pedoed on its homeward voyage, 200
miles off the French coast, but was
able to return to port under its own
steam.
The $12.000000 emergency agricul-
tural bill with its rider for national
prohibition from next July ! until the
American armies are demobilized
after the end of the war. was passed