Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-06-14
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o THE WAR


range guns on June T..
British airmen brought down 1886
Germans in less than three weeks, up
TO June 2, Of which 2s3 were totally
destroyed.
The Italian army ls improving both
IN morale and material, according to
Mai. Gen. Eben Swift, head Of the
American military mission to Italy.
The allies stonewRll Of resistance lie
still opposed to the Germans on the
battle front from Scissors to Chateau
Thierry. Nowhere is the enemy max
ing progress.
Torpedoing OF the Harpathian
brought the German sinking record
on the Atlantic coast to fourteen-six
steamers and eight schooners, with a
loss Of thirty lives.
British casualties reported during
the week ending June Z were: Officers
killed or died Of wounds, 20s; men,
4,25S; officers wounded or missing,
1853; men, 27,425.
Owing to the terrible casualties IT.
licted upon 1t, the Prusslan guards
division has been withdrawn by the
German high command from the bat
tie. The German losses are becoming
heavier daily.
The fighting Thursday night north
west Of Chateau Thierry ragged with
great fiereeness for five hours. The
Americans captured Bouresches and
entered Torcy. twenty-five Americans
in Torcy engaged and drove out 200
Germans and her withdrew to the
main line on the outskirts of the
town.
A French prisoner who made his
escape from the German lines, de-
clared that hundreds Of bodies of Ger
mans were lying around everywhere.
According to his story, the Germans
guarding himself and others had not
received rations since May % and
were compelled to live upon what they
found.
The Importance Of the operations of
the Americans on the Marine sector
may be realized when 1t is recalled
that only the day before the Ameri-
cans entered the line the Germans adj
vanced about ten kilometers. The
Americans are now holding the Paris
road neal lie Thilot for a number of
kilometers.
An American machine gun battalion
accounted for approximately 1000 Ger
mans while holding a bridge at Chat
eau-Thierry. The Americans lost only
one man killed and a few wounded.
At the same time French troops wiped
out a force OF 300 Germans who had
obtained a footing on the southern
bank of the Marine. One officer told
the correspondent that 1t was all the
commanders could do to keep the
Americans from crossing the river in
the teeth of the enemy fire and as
saulting the hill position.
WESTERN
Funeral services were held at In
%dianapolis for former Vice President
Chas. w Fairbanks.
William Maudlin, a former Denver
boy, was killed and his father serious
ly Injured when an explosion occurred
in the Badger mine at Butte, Mont.
A Mormon minister, Reed Holiday,
enlisted in Denver as an ambulance
driver in the medical department. Mr..
Holidays home is at s~ahtaquin,
Utah.
Charles A. Barnhardt, for the last
year instructor In mathematics at
Colorado College at Colorado Springs
has resigned and will become head of
the department OF mathematics in the
University of New Mexico.
WASHINGTON
New passenger rates OF 3 cents a mile
went into effect Sunday despite pleas
to suspend or modify them.
The granary of the Mormon church
in Utah, holding 100000 bushels Of
Of wheat, has been emptied in re-
sponse to appeals from the food ad-
ministration
Exceeding the ship production OF
April by 1872. 900 tons, the emergency
fleet corporation turned out 343,45O
deadWeiBht tons IN May, the United
States shipping board announced.
a countrywide move to reduce the
cost OF food to the consumer and
standardize methods Of compelling the
observance by dealers Of fair price
lists" was ordered by Food Admins
traitor Hoover.
One OF the crew Of the steamer Har-
pathian, sunk by a submarine off the
Virginia capes. was taken aboard the
U-boat and given medical treatment
for injuries sustained during the sink
ing. a navy statement showed. The
nan then was replaced in the life
boat with his companions.