The Colorado statesman., 1918-09-28
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST WEEK
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
Western Newspaper Union news servics.
ABOUT THE WAR

trench cavalry, operating to the
northeast of Monastir, in Macedonia,
have captured the town OF Prilep.
In an attack against the American
outposts south of Archangel the Boil
sheviki sustained considerable losses.
In eastern Siberia the Japanese have
captured Blagoviestchensk, capital of
the Province of Amur, and also the
town of Alexievsk. Two thousand
Austro-German troops surrendered.
Chinese troops negotiated the sur
render of 5000 Austro-H -Hungarians to
force of Czechs, near Kiakhita, when
they mediated between the Czechs and
10000 Austro-Hungarians who were
fleeing.
In both Macedonia and Palestine
the entente allied forces are giving
the already badly beaten Bulgarians,
Germans and Turks no rest, while in
France the British and French are
continuing to draw their net more
closely about st. Quentin and the re-
naming elements of the Hindenburg
line in this Immediate region, and the
American troops repulsed hostile
raids in the Vosges.
Disaster has overtaken the Teuton
army over all fields. In Palestine the
Turks are all but absolutely crushed;
in Macedonia the entente forces are
harrying their foes and threatening
them with similar disaster; in France
the British and French troops slowly
but surely are eating their way into
the vtals of the German defensive po
sitions, the collapse of which would
result in important changes all along
the western battle front, and in east
ern Siberia the Japanese have made
additional strides forward in the pro
cess of reclaiming that territory for
the Russians.
From north of Jerusalem to the sea
of Galilee, in the territory lying be-
tween the River Jordan and the Med
iterranean Sea, the Ottoman forces
have been caught by the swift drive
of the British armies and virtually an
initiated. Fourteen cities, including
Nazareth, have been captured. Added
TO the heavy casualties suffered by
the Turks, hordes of them were made
prisoner and many more are wander
ing, bewildered, without leaders. in
the hills, eventually to be brought in
to swell the great total At last ac-
counts more than $4,000 of the sui
tan's soldiers and 260 guns and large
quantities of war stores were in Brit
ish hands. To add to the demoraliza-
tion of the Turkish morale, allied avia-
tors are carrying out successful bomb
ing raids against Constantinople.
WESTERN
Archbishop John Ireland died
Wednesday morning at his home in
st. Paul
John S. (Jack) Walters, for thirty
one years connected with the South
Omaha Union Stockyards and for
many years superintendent, died at an
Omaha hospital.
More than $4,000, 900, the self-im-
posed quota of the Homestead works
OF the Carnegie Steel Company at
Pittsburgh, for the fourth Liberty
loan, was subscribed by the 12.200 EN-
ployes of the plant in forty-one hours
The potash reduction plant of the
companies at Antioch, near Omaha,
was destroyed by fire. The plant com
prised two complete units, erected at
cost of 100000
Roy Lancaster, alias Kansas City
Blackie," alleged member of the Lewis
band and sought by federal agents for
suspected completely in the robbery
of a Missouri, Kansas & Texas pas
senger train near Koch, Kan, July 10
last, is dead. In gun fight with a
score of policemen at Kansas City
two bullets pierced his lungs. War
rem Lancaster, his brother, was taken
into custody when he tried to escape
from a two-story house where the pair
had barricaded themselves.
WASHINGTON
The government has pledged itself
to spend $2S0,000,000 during the next
twelve months in feeding the 10000
000 Belgians and French people now
within the territory occupied by the
Germans.
Excepting only a roll call on final
passage and disposal of two minor
amendments, the SS,000,00 900 war
revenue bill which has been in the
making since last May was completed
by the House.
Troops in the United States now
are being paid within five days or less
after the first of each month, and vol
untary allotments are being sent to
relatives with only slight delay. Brig
adler General Wood. acting quarter
master general, reported.
American Red Cross expenditures
in France for work done among the
civilian population since the war be
gan. together with appropriations for
the supply. transportation. women's