, 1918-09-26
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, D DIN 8. ACHIEVE.
MENTs, SuFFERINGs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union news servics.
ABOUT THE WAR


American heavy artillery set fire to
of Metz.
In northern Russia the allied troops
have gained further over the
enemy forces.
American troops have occupied
Ammersweler, in Alsace ION the front
west of Colmar).
Siamese troops, with a general and
his staff. have arrived in France to
participate in the war.
Ukraine insurgents have blown up
a German military train and cap
tured ten villages, according to dis
patches from Petrograd.
In Macedonia the British, Serbians,
French M Greeks continue hard aft
er the Bulgarians. driving the enemy
before them and taking large numbers
of prisoners.
In northern Russia, Karelian troops
severely defeated forces led by Ger
man officers at Ukhtinskaya, says an
official statement issued by the Lon
don war office.
Little further fighting developed on
the front held by the Americans north
of st. Mihiel on Friday. but Ameri-
can long-range guns were heavily she'll
ing the big German fortress of Metz.
In the region northeast of Scissors
the Germans are still using machine
guns in large numbers to hold back
the French from further encroach-
ments on the Chemin des Danes posi-
tons, but the French continue 70
make gains.
Although there has been somewhat
of a let up in the intensity of the
fighting from the region of st. QUEEN
tin to Cambria in the French theater,
both the British and French armies
nave been able materially to better
their positions in front of both Cam
brai INT st. Quentin.
The Bulgarians are in flight in Mac
edonia and are burning stores and viii
lagos, according to a Serbian official
statement. They have been defeated
completely, and the Serbian troops are
pursuing them day and night. The
Serbian n French troops have taken
the towns of Topolets. Potshishta,
Beshishta, Meiynitsa, vitolishta and
Rasimbey. They have also taken the
heights of Kuchkov Kamem.
Added to their already heavy
losses in ground, men killed, wounded
or made prisoners, and stores cap
tured In Belgium, France, Italy and
the Balkans. the Teutonic allies, judg-
ing from first reports of the hostilities
begun against the Ottomans in Pales-
tine, are In for further extremely hard
usage. In less than a day General
Allenby's British forces, aided by
French troops and natives under the
flag of the king of the Hedjas, struck
the Turkish line over a front of six
teen miles and penetrated it 10 a
depth of nineteen miles, taking more
than 5000 Turks prisoner and over
running the entire hostile defensive
system. Railway and highway juno
ton points were captured and great
quantities of war materials fell into
the hands of the allied troops, and the
pressure against the enemy was 60
ing on undated.
WESTERN
After shooting and killing his pet
dog. James r. Mann. Jr., son OF the
Illinois congressman and Republican
leader in the House, shot himself to
death at Chicago.
Twelve soldiers were Killed in the
wreck of the troop and freight train
o. the St Louis & San Francisco
railroad near Marshfield. Mo-, ten of
them being Colorado lei
Among the 1872. 900 men called to en-
train Oct. I'll, Arizona will send ZIG,
and Colorado 80S, to Camp Kearny.
Cal; New Mexico. 1886 to Camp Cody,
Deming, N. M, and Wyoming COS to
Camp LAWS, Wash.
Capt. Belvedere Brooks, whose
name was contained in the casualty
list of Sept. 20. was a former Denver
boy and the son of Belvedere Brooks.
former general manager of the West
ern Union Telegraph Company.
WASHINGTON
Interest paid the American govern
ment by the allied countries on war
loans now amounts to about &c. 00,-
900 monthly and within a year is ex-
pected to reach $4,000 900 a month.
Another convincing link in the
proof that Germany was preparing to
start a war of world conquest at least
six weeks before the excuse for 1t was
offered by the assassination of the
Austrian heir apparent at Sarajevo
concludes the amazing series of dis.
closures which the American govern.
ment has given to the public through
secret documents brought out of Rus
STA.
You may have only n spoonful OF
sugar in an eating place. That is the
order of the federal food administra.