Taiban Valley news., 1918-05-10
CONDENSED RECORD OF TIL E
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DOM 8, ACHIEVE.
MENTS, suFFERiNGs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union news service
ABOUT THE WAR

topol, the great Russian 1ortress IN
the Crimea.
British casualty lists published dur
ing April showed 1858 officers killed.
4,841 wounded and 2,459 missing;
$3.50 men killed; 95,304 wounded and
S14 missing,
A "high English authority is quoted
by the London Graphic as estimating
the German losses in killed, wounded
and captured since March 81 as at
least 100000
Articles appearing in German news
papers would seem to indicate efforts
to prepare the German people for an
nouncement that there will be no i'm
mediate attempt to take Ypres.
Capt. Ting CHA Chen, military
counsellor to the President of China,
and also to the Chinese minister of
war, said that China now is sending
10000 troops to France to fight for the
allies.
In their campaign in Italy to date
British aviators have destroyed 109
enemy machines while losing thirteen
themselves, according to an official
statement from the London war office
on the campaign on the Italian front.
Eighteen thousand soldiers of Ru-
manian origin who were captured by
the Italians while fighting under the
Austrian flag have asked permission
to go to the front against Austria.
The request has been granted and or
ganizations of these troops is under
way.
Except for Mont KENNEL and a
small strip to the east, including the
Messines ridge, the Germans are on
much lower ground than the French
and British, and must either fight on
or be compelled eventually to with,
draw before the smothering fire OF
the allied artillery.
While waiting for the Germans to
make the next move, the allies have
not been idle. All along the line theiI
patrols have been active, and at Han
gard and Villers-Bretonneux, before
Amiens, they have taken tactical posi-
tions from the Teutons. One Of these
positions was Hill 80, north Of Castel
a height which afforded good observa
tion of allied communication lines.
The Germans took 1000 prisoners
in Helsingfors, according to dispatches
from the Finnish capital, and 5000
more in Viborg, including the Red
guard premier. Viborg was bonn
barded for eleven hours, and partially
destroyed. The Finnish civil and par
liamentary bodies have agreed to g
restoration OF the monarchy, but the
Young Firms demand a continuation
of the republic.
WESTERN
The postoffice at Benson, Ariz., wai
destroyed by fire.
Under the new draft call for 233,00(
men, Colorado will send 2,079 men tC
Camp Cody, N. NJ. Arizona, 1,784 tC
Camp Cody; Nebraska, 1873 to CamI
Dodge, Iowa; Kansas, 4,871 to CamI
Funston, Kan; New Mexico 9S5 tt
Camp Cody; Wyoming. 167 to CamI
Lewis, Wash, and Utah, sos to CAM
Lewis.
Mrs. Myron Jones of Denver ha'
just been made chairman of the
finance committee for the West Cen
tral division of the Young Woman'l
Christian Association and will have
charge of the states of Wyoming
Utah, Colorado and Kansas.
John Celia, years old, of st. Louis
is probably the wealthiest boy ives
of the Mississippi. Six million dollars
was willed him by his uncle, Louis
Celia, racing magnate and theatrica
man, who left an estate of $4,000, 900
Louis widow died few days ago, an(
her half of the estate goes to the boy
WASHINGTON
The House committee on postoffice'
turned down proposition to make tht
District of Columbia bone dry"
Every one of the 5000 officers OF
duty in the War Departments ord
nance bureau has applied for foreign
service.
The price fixing committee of the
War Industries Board set the maxi
mum price OF the present stocks o.
packed and country hides at that pre-
vailing April "a, this year. BY thus
stabilizing the raw material market
officials think reduction in the cost
of shoes will be effected.
Every ton of steel and pig iron in
the country virtually has been com
mandeered by the government for wal
purposes.
call for 6,207 skilled men for the
National Army was sent out by Pro
vost Marshal General Crowder. It di
rects the movement Of the men on
May II.
Railroads under the four months oi
government operation just closed re
ceived from the government $90,614,
900 as loans or advance payments on
government compensation, Director
General McAdoo announced.