The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1918-03-15


Five enemy aeroplanes were brought
down Monday, It was announced Off
cially in Rome.
British aviators have dropped . ton
OF bombs on the town OF Coblenz. cap
ltal OF the Rhine province Of Prussia.
German attacks failed in the Bols
lie Petre Reillon and Letricourt sec
tors. according to the Paris official
statement issued by the war office.
American troops east OF Luneville
again raided German positions, and
another party entered German
trenches along the Toul and. unaided,
drove the enemy back.
Naples was attacked by enemy avi-
ators early Monday morning. Twenty
bombs were dropped in residential
quarter. The victims included seven
occupants Of a hospital
An American detachment in the
Woeyre region has successfully car
ried out surprise attack on the Ger
man trenches south of Richecourt,
says the French official communica
ton.
The Hindenburg, a large German ice
breaker struck mine south of the
Aland islands and sank, according to
the Copenhagen Dagens Nyheder.
Several members of the crew were
drowned.
American and French soldiers. oper-
ating together in Lorraine have CON
Quoted successful raids on widely-sep-
arated sectors, demolshing German
trenches at three points to the width
OF 100 meters and depth of 800 meters.
A large German raiding party at
tacking positions OF the Portuguese
troops near Laventie was caught by
machine gun fire from the front and
on both flanks and suffered heavy cas-
ualties, according to the British Off
cial communication. Numerous dead
and wounded Germans were left in No
Mans Land when the main body took
flight.
Thirty-four persons were killed and
seventy nine others were injured in
Paris and its suburbs as a result Of
Monday nights German air raid. In
addition to the bomb victims, sixty
six persons were suffocated through
crowding In a panic into metropoli-
tan railway entrance to take refuge
from the raiders. These were for the
most part women and children. Of
the bomb victims. twenty-nine were
killed and fifty injured In Paris and
five killed and twenty-nine injured In
the suburbs. The Germans lost four
airplanes in the raid. Nine squadrons
took part In the attack
WESTERN
John J. Bierdno. receiver OF the
United States land office of the Phoe-
nix district died at Phoenix, Ariz. af-
ter long illness
The 2-cent passenger rate provision
OF the Oklahoma state constitution
was permanently enjoined in an opin-
ion handed down by Judge Frank A.
Noumans of the United States Dis
trict Court for the western district
OF Arkansas
Sioux Falls. S, D.. adopted the city
manager plan of municipal govern
ment TO supersede the present commits
sion system at special election
A Colorado society was formed in
Washington, d. c., by residents of the
state temporarily forced to live at the
national capital. Senator John F
Shafroth. Representatives keating.
Timberlake and Hilliard: Huston
Thompson, assistant attorney general,
and f. P. Costigan OF the United
States tariff commission, made talks
extolling the state.
WASHINGTON
Government control probably will be
extended shortly to the leading ex-
press companies.
Charges of gross extravagance in
the management OF the affairs of the
food administration were made in the
Senate by Senator Reed of Missouri.
The directions and activities OF the
Navy in the war drew the highest
praise from the House committee
which recently completed an inyesti-
CATION of naval affairs The Nayy's
work for the twelve months past, 1t
was declared. presents record of re-
markable achievement.
Tuesdays casualties issued by the
War Department gives the name of
Lieut. Edward Mcclure Peters, Jr,
and eight enlisted men killed In ac-
tion one dead from wounds; six dead
from disease; two dead from undeter
mined causes, two seriously wounded
In action and Capt Edward Stellar and
twenty men slightly wounded.
Plans for the expenditure of $780,
100000 in cantonment construction
during the present year were outlined
by Maj. w. A. Starrett, chief Of the
emergency construction committee of