The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1918-04-19

Total casualties among the Ameri
april l6 are $3.50.
The 1919 contingent OF the French
army tyouths OF 10 years. is just Ing
to the barracks to begin training.
The American troops northwest OF
TouI again took possession of No
Mans Land near Apremont forest
Monday night.
Successful minor operations were
carried out by the British east of Ro'
becq. Several machine guns and $50
prisoners were captured.
French troops in an attack north
west OF Oryilles-S -Sorel made an ad-
vance Of several hundred meters along
a front of about two-thirds of a mile.
There are now on the western front
approximately 200 German divisions.
OF this huge number, 12O have already
been engaged. mainly against the Brit.
ish
The report that ten German trawlers
had been sunk in the Cattegat (be-
tween Sweden and Denmark has been
confirmed. the admiralty announced
In London.
Seven attacks by the Germans on
the Mervlle sector of the northern
battle front have been repulsed by the
British who inflicted heavy losses on
the enemy it is announced officially.
An Austrian offensive against Italy
is imminent. and will be started on "a
large scale. in the opinion OF Italian
observers as expressed in official mes
sages to the Italian embassy in Wash
ington
Paris suffered casualties OF twenty
four persons killed and sixtytwo in,
jured in Friday nights air raid. The
German raid on England caused the
death OF five persons and the injury OF
fifteen
German troops have carried Wyts-
chaete and the greater part of Mes
sines ridge, according to a dispatch
from the Reuter- correspondent at Brit
ish headquarters in France. received
al Ottawa, April IS. The enemy also
has established himself in Spanbroek-
molen.
The British recaptured Arrewage,
just east OF the Nieppe forest This
whole area is reported full OF German
dead who fell in the hard fighting.
South OF here, at Cornet Malo, east OF
81 Floris, the Germans delivered four
FiavR. n
heavy losses to the attacking troops.
WESTERN
Robert Lee Morton, Socialist candi-
date for Congress from Arizona two
years ago, and W. F. Burleson are un-
der federal arrest at Jerome, Ariz.,
after having been saved from mob
bent on tar and feather program.
They are charged with sedition and
spreading propaganda calculated to OBJ.
struct the selective draft. Both men
were found in room at Cottonwood, a
mining camp near Jerome Rifles and
a large quantity OF ammunition we're
found in the room.
The next drive of the Red Cross, to
May 20 and last seven days
David Keith, pioneer of the Pacific
slope and one of the best known finan.
ciers of the West, died at Salt Lake
City, Utah, of pneumonia
Lawrence Reel was killed and Grid
sol Christofferson was injured serious.
ly at Long Beach, Cal, whom an aero
plane in which they were flying fell
into the ocean.
WASHINGTON
The turning point in the battle on
the west front is being reached, says
the War Departments review of the
military situation for the week end
ing April 13. The Germans have failed
to achieve victory in the field, the
statement continues, and will soon be
forced to resume their old tactics.
The heavy price the Germans are
paying for their advance on the west.
ern front was told in dispatches to the
State Department, saying that twenty.
five trains loaded with wounded are
passing through AK la Chapelle every
night. The hospitals are crowded be
sohu 'hVii SapaSity anu tHe "OuHueu
are lodged In schools, public buildings
and even private houses
Every German prisoner of war in
this country was ordered by the War
Department to be put at work Eigh,
hundred and fifty were set at the task
of building roads near Fort McPher
son, Ga. while others at Fort Ogle
thorpe, Ga, have been engaged in
building new structures to house other
prisoners.
The German government has def
without annexations or indemnities,
passed by the majority of the Reichs