The Delta independent., 1918-01-04
CONDENSATION
OF FRESH NEWS
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIG
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT.
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF The week
SHOWING THE PROGRESS o.
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LAND9.
Western Newspaper Union News Service
ABOUT THE WAR

German atrocities to Americans re-
ported on battle front
Six thousand Korniloff troops We're
defeated by Bolsheviki
Russian reports indicate steady de-
cline OF power of Bolsheviki.
Greece will reward citizens of that
nation who join American army.
Holiday gifts from the American
Red Cross were distributed in the ltal-
ian trenches along the lower Piave.
Two hours of street fighting pre-
ceded the surrender of the Bolshevik
forces in Harbin to Chinese troops,
according to a foreign office dispatch.
German submarine was sunk by
the fire of guns of an American pas
senger steamer approaching the Brit
ish coast according to reports OF the
passengers and gunners aboard.
The British troops In Palestine have
repulsed Turkish attack north and
northwest OF Jerusalem and made an
advance of about two and one-half
miles along the Turkish right flank.
says an official communication. The
Turks suffered severe losses in the re-
pulse, which came after the British
pickets had been driven in
Further reports OF the attempt OF
Austrian aviators to raid Treyiso.
which resulted so disastrously for
them, emphasize the brilliant work
done by both Italian and British ayi-
ators. Although eleven Austrian ma
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Italian airplanes were damaged. Five
Italian and one British soldier were
killed.
While their guns lombard the west
ern front. the Germans are taking
troops from the eastern front for use
elsewhere. despite the provision of
the Russo-German armistice prohibit
ing such action. The artillery activi-
ty in France has been moderate over
most of the front and more violent
on the right bank OF the Meuse. north
east OF verdun. the scene OF the Ger
man attack nearly two years ago.
WESTERN
Six policewomen to serve sixty days
in a vice drive have been appointed by
tHe CITY coiliuiSSiOu Ot Sdu tHtOulO,
Texas.
Four hundred members of the
Princeton club of Chicago sent Presi-
dent Wilson a telegram OF congratu-
iations on his sixty-first birthday.
Fire destroyed four buildings front
ing on the board walk at Long Beach.
Cal. and burned away a section OF the
walk, causing loss estimated at 5000
900.
At Globe. ARK. discovery of a chain
letter swindle of international char
acter and which has already netted
by Red Cross officials.
Bertha Staats. a telephone operator.
remained at her switchboard until she
tainted and was carried out, when fire
damaged the Missouri Pacific freight
house at Omaha. causing a loss esti-
mated at 100000.
The temperature was 32 below zero
at Duluth, MINI. Dec. 2S and bitter
cold was reported elsewhere In north
ern Minnesota Eveleth, Mimi where
1t was 40 degrees below zero, was be-
lieved to be the coolest town in the
country.
- .5hlNGTON
Secretary OF Labor Wilson is III
from overwork on his long trip
through the West mediating labor dis
putes.
General Tasker II. Bliss will be re-
tanned on active service as chief OF
staff of the army although he has
reached the retirement age.
There were twenty-one more deaths
in the national army last week than
during the week before. but forty-five
fewer in the national guard.
The Interstate Commerce Commit
tee postponed from Jan. / to July /
the date on which locomotives must
be equipped with high power head
lights.
AS the first practical step In the
governments operation of railroads.
which began Dec. 2S. Director General
McAdoo drafted the railroad war
board into the government service to
work out plans of unified operation
and submit them to him for approval.
For seventeen minutes, shortly af.
ter / o'clock Friday morning. Dec. 2S.
the moon began to hide It's face In the
second eclipse of the year. The earth
came between the moon and the sun
the first time In 1917 on Jan. The
year 1917 has been the first since 1905
IN which there were seven eclIpses,
the greatest number possible.
President Wilson directed that max.
imum prices previously fixed upon
iron ore. coke. pig iron. steel and steel
products be continued In effect until