Taiban Valley news., 1918-02-15
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LATE LIVE NE WS
CONDENSED RECORD OF TIL E
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, D DoIN G s, ACHIEVE.
MENTs, suFFERINos, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
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ABOUT THE WAR

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Italian airmen bring down fifty-six
machines in ten days.
Two French steamers of more than
1000 tons and one under that tonnage
were sunk during the week ending
Feb. 2 by mine or submarine.
The Italian shipping losses by mine
or submarine in the week ending Feb.
were very light, only one steamer
under 1000 tons being sunk.
Arab forces, under command of the
sheik of Mecca, have completely de-
feated the Turkish army operating
southeast of the Dead Sea, official dis
patches state.
The American artillery continued
hammering German positions with
marked success Friday night and Sat
urday. A destructive fire on enemy
buildings and works was maintained.
The admiralty reports fifteen Brit
ish merchantmen sunk by mine or
submarine in the past week. OF these
ten were 1000 tons or over, and five
were under 1000 tons. Four fishing
vessels were also sunk.
A cable dispatch to the Norwegian
legation from Christiania says that
during January twelve Norwegian YES
sells, aggregating 1896 gross tons,
were ''lost by the war" and eight Nor
wegian seamen lost their lives.
Hostile airplanes continue to carry
out raids against Venice, Mestre and
Treviso. These Venetian plain cities
were again bombed according to the
official statement form Italian head
quarters, but there were no casual
ties.
American artillery and infantry
have succeeded in cleaning out a ma
jority of the snipers who caused con-
siderable annoyance from the time
the sector was taken over by the
troops. Snipers' posts in buildings
have been destroyed by knocking
down the shelters over the heads of
the Germans with shells.
General Mannerheim, commander
of the forces which are supporting the
Finnish provisional government, has
defeated the revolutionary Red Guard,
a Helsingfors dispatch to the Alton
Tidningen reports. The Red Guards
are said to have suffered loss of g.
900 killed. The battle occurred at
Korkeakosi, near Tammerfors.
WESTERN
All persons who pay interest, rent
or salaries to the extent of $500 dur
ing 1918 are now required, under a
late ruling of the collectors office on
internal revenue service, to make
report of the transaction.
The body of Mrs. Joy Sparks, "a
years old, pretty young widow, was
found buried beneath the flooring of
an old livery barn on the outskirts of
Clay, KY. Mrs Sparks had been
choked and shot to death.
Clyde B. Pearson, the Wyoming
youth sentenced to be hanged during
the week of Feb "a for killing Sheriff
Frank Roach of Cheyenne, in Lari-
mer county, Colo, was given two
weeks reprieve by the Colorado par
dons board. This extends his lease
on life until some time during the
week of March 10.
Chiefs Yellow Hawk, Magpie and
Little Wolf at Oklahoma City led a
band of thirty Arapahoe and Chey-
enne Indians into the office of Gov
ernor Williams and offered the coun-
try the services of ten regiments of
Indian cavalry. The Indians said
they preferred border service, but
were not opposed to going to France.
WASHINGTON
voorhees, Mondays were suspended
in eight Southern states by Fuel Ad-
ministrator Garfield.
Three billion dollars will be raised
in advance of the third Liberty loan,
which probably will be launched by
April, by sale of certificates of in
debtedness under a plan looking to
systematic investment by every bank
in short term securities.
Enactment of the war finance cor
poration bill to strengthen the coun-
try's financial and industrial condi
tions for war was urged before the
Senate finance committee by Secre-
tary McAdoo, with the support of w.
p. G. Harding, governor, and Paul M.
Warburg, vice governor of the FEEDER
al Reserve Board.
Health conditions at all camps and
cantonments in the United States
showed continued improvement in the
last week, with decreasing deaths and
hospital admission rates.
The Washington branch of the Am
erican Red Cross Society has taken
the first step toward mobilizing an
American civilian army for service
back Of the battle lines in France.
Net gold exports have decreased to
less than $3S6,00O a week, ten times
under the outward movement last Oc-
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