The Ordway new era., 1918-08-02
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EIoN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
poINos AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
ABOUT THE WAR

offensive against Italy, according te
dispatches received at Rome from
Italian correspondents in Switzer
land.
Rioting of peasants in the occupied
regions of White Russia is increasing
and many German soldiers have been
killed, said an official dispatch from
Stockholm
Very serious revolts and mutinies
have occurred In Bohemia and Hun
gary. At Manaros-Szjet $50 officers
and 500 Czecho- Slovaks who mutinied
were shot and 5000 arrested.
Villemontoire, little more than five
miles south OF Soissons, has been
taken by the French and Americans.
while farther south they have cap
tured Oulchy.le- Chateau and swept on
east of the town.
Since the fighting began the Ger
mans are reported to have used be-
tween sixty and seventy divisions.
Estimates from headquarters place the
German losses in that period at 200.-
600 In killed, wounded and prisoners.
The French, the British, and the
Americans are still hammering the
flanks Of the crown princes army.
Desperate engagements were fought
in the direction of Epieds and Trugny-
Epieds, which villages the Americans
again recaptured from the Germans
To the north Of Epieds the Franco
American line is now beyond Courpoil
Americans, French, British and Ital-
ian troops are steadily pressing for
ward at nearly all points on the battle
line to Rheims, while east of the ca
thedral city a Polish contingent-the
first of the Poles to enter the combat,
is declared to have carried out sue
cessfully an enterprise against the en-
emy in which more than 200 Germans
were made prisoner.
The Germans Saturday retained vir-
tually nothing of the ground they con-
quered in their great attack of July l5
along the Marne, says a Reuters corre-
spondent at French headquarters. East
of Rheims, the correspondent adds,
General Gouraud's army, by a series OF
brilliant local operations, has expelled
the enemy almost everywhere from
the narrow belt he occupied In Gour-
aud's advanced zone,
WESTERN
Four automobile bandits held up
Chicago jewelry store and escaped
with 500 cash and diamonds valued at
$4,000.
President Wilson has approved the
suggestion Of the womans committee
of the Council of National Defense
that relatives of American soldiers and
sailors lost in the service wear a
black sleeve band with gold star for
each member of the family giving his
life in defense OF the nation.
An army of 100000 boys from 16 to
81 years old is toiling enthusiastically
on the farms Of the United States to
assist the food production program of
the government. according to ]. A.
Van Dis of Washington, who is asso-
ciate director of the National Boys
Working Reserve. in an address In
Denver.
Mrs Annette Abbott Adams was ap-
pointed temporarily by United States
District Judge William c. Vanfleet at
San Francisco, to fill the vacancy
States District Attorney John w. Pres
ton.
WASHINGTON
Names of ten American soldiers who
are prisoners OF war in Germany were
announced by the War Department.
Mai. Gen. George w. Goethals. quar-
termaster general of the American
army and member of the War Coun
ell of the American War Department
has arrived in Paris. He was met by
Gen. John ]. Pershing. commander o.
the American expeditionary force.
In France, with whom he went to the
front.
In the peace suggestions which tn,
Berlin Vorwaerts declares the German
government is about to offer through
the Spanish government officials a
Washington detect the German desigl
to leave to a round table conferenc,
the actual definition OF peace terms
Acting Secretary of State Polk SAT-
the new terms seemed more favorable
to Germany than any that had beel
made hitherto,
Several epidemics are sweeping Gel
many in addition to influenza, accord
ing to dispatch from Switzerland.
More than 100000 tons of shippin
are transporting foodstuffs and othe
much needed supplies to Switzerland
Postmaster General Burleson vii
personally direct the government opel
alton of telegraph an dtelephone lines
assisted by First Assistant Postmaste
General John l.. Rooms, David ]. Lew
is. former congressman from Mary
land md ana ofhar from the posfnI