, 1918-07-18
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS. o oING 8, ACHIEVE.
MENTs, sUFFERINGs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union news service.
ABOUT THE WAR

In aerial fighting British and
French airmen have accounted for
twenty-five machines.
The village of Longpont on the SUI
vieres river, east of Villers-Cotterets,
has been captured by the French
The French continued their progress
north of Chavigny farm and east OF
Faverolles. Javage farm. northeast OF
Faverolles, was occupied.
The British fighting forces in
France now aggregate 10000 00 men,
says the Havas correspondent on the
British front. This equals the num-
Der on the front in 1917.
The French and Italians in Albania
have carried their lines steadily north
ward. The town of Berat, the most
important point in southern Albania,
has fallen. 1t is reported large guam
titles of supplies were destroyed by
the r%etreating Australians.
A large German patrol which at
tempted to raid the American
trenches on the Marine front was brok-
en- up and routed in confusion. The
0SA lCll ScNGIdl uodh, IN oio
ed the Americans in establishing the
identity of new German units.
The defeat of the Bolsheviki in
western Siberia is confirmed. The
Bolsheviki are evacuating Irkutsk.
The new provisional Siberian govern
ment has been constituted at Novon-
ikolacvsk. The Japanese have ad-
vanced to China $4,000. 900 under a
reorganization loan with the concur
renee of entente bankers, the security
being the revenue from salt surplus.
Striking the Germans on a front
that has been quiet for the last six
weeks, the French have broken
through and advanced their lines. The
blow was launched between Castel
and Mailly-Raineval, in Picardy, south
of Amiens. The attack was along a
front of approximately three miles. 1t
swept the Germans back out Of the
village of Castel and the Anchin farm,
about a mile to the south, and cleared
out a number Of strong enemy posi-
lions. The French penetrated the Ger
man lines to a depth of more than a
mile and captured 500 prisoners.
WESTERN
Nat Hoffman, a white soldier, was
executed at Camp Macarthur at Waco,
Tex. He attacked a schoolgirl last
April.
The Utah Copper Company an
nounced an increase in wages of so
cents a day for 5000 day laborers en-
ployed by that corporation at Bing-
ham, Utah.
At least 125 persons, most of them
negroes, were killed and seventy-five
injured in a head-on collision between
two passenger trains on the Nashville,
Chattanooga & st. Louis railway at
Dutchman's bend, five miles from
Nashville, Tenn.
A posse patrolled the banks of the
Marais des Cygnes river neal Paola,
Kan, in search of a dozen men who
held up a southbound Missouri, Kan
a & Texas passenger train south of
Paola, shot three persons and looted
the express and mail cars.
An unofficial wi OF all police
stations and detention camps in Chi
cago, showed that 791 men of draft
age were held for failure to comply
with regulations.
WASHINGTON
The years corn harvest promises to
be the largest on record with a total
of $3.50, 000. 900 bushels.
Five American airplanes which went
on a bombing expedition have failed
to return, General Pershing's commu.
nique reported. Berlin reported five
American airplanes in German hands.
Publications. of the Mexican people
and government were sent to Presi-
dent Wilson by President Carranza Of
Mexico in an Independence day mes
sage. Hope for the early advent for
the Everlasting reign of peace and
Justice in both continents" was ex-
pressed.
Forty ped cent increases in the pay
of street a conductors and motor
men all over the nation will be recon-
mended by the War Labor Board, 1t
became known. To make these in
possible, 1t will be necessary
in man. cities to raise the fare rate
to @ cents.
Fifteen officers and men of the in
fantry were cited by General Pershing
in his official communique for acts OF
gallantry for which they have been
awarded distinguished service crosses
Great Britain was granted an add
tional credit of SIZE. 200. 900 by the
Treasury Department. making the to
tai loans to her to date $3.345. DOC. 00C
and the total credits to the allies So
266,590. 900.
President Wilson vetoed the annua
agricultural bill containing an amend
ment increasing the price of wheat te
$40 per bushel.