Gilpin observer., 1918-01-31
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About the War

of the crew were lost.
Heavy fighting has been in progress
for several days between Ukrainains
and Bolshevik troops for possession of
Lutsk, Volhynia.
Four American aviators attached to
French squadron have participated
in a daylight bombing raid over Ger
many. All returned safely.
BY the sinking of two steamers by
the enemy in the Mediterranean about
three weeks ago. 71S lives were lost.
1t was announced In London.
Six hundred red guards with mach
inc guns have left Petrograd for vi
borg. They will reinforce the Finnish
red guard in the fighting which is 60
ing on there.
Forty lives were lost through the
sinking of the French freight trans
port Drome and the trawler Kerbihan.
which struck mines Jan. 23 within
sight of Marseilles.
British casualties in the week end
ing Jan. 2S were sass, as follows:
Killed or died of wounds: Officers,
25; men, LIZA. Wounded or missing:
Officers, 1873; men, 6,271
One hundred and sixty thousand
Turkish troops-more than SO per cent
of General Falkenhayn's reorganized
Turkish army-deserted during the re-
cent journey from Copstaninople to
Palestine, official dispatches stated.
Attacks by enemy airmen on Lon
don Monday night and early Tuesday
lasted intermittently for nearly five
hours and for two hours there was
heavy and almost continuous gunfire.
The reports show one machine was
brought down in Essex.
The Cologne Gazette's Vienna cor
respondent. according to advices
reaching London, says that Coun:
Czernin, Austro- Hungarian minister of
foreign affairs, informed the Austrian
delegations that the text of his speech
on the war aims had been forwarded
to President Wilson before its deliv-
cry.
Two hundred and twenty members
of the crew of the British monitor
the recent action with the Turkish
cruisers Midullu and Sultan Selim, at
the entrance to the Dardanelles. per
ished. according to the casualty list
as announced in London. Fourteen
men were wounded.
Western
Gov Frank o. Lowden of Illinois,
discussing the spiritual factors in the
war, at Chicago denied to Germany
the right to claim the God of Chris
tianity as the German god.
Mrs. Charles Fisher, Al years old.
the wife of restaurant man at Coll
yer, Trego county. Kan, was shot
through the heart and killed by Miss
Madeline Briggs. is years old, friend
of the Fisher family.
designations of Chief of Police ]. C.
Tabor and Police Capt. ]. A. Kealy
were the aftermath at Deming, N. NJ.
of the resignation of Mayor NJ. A.
Nordhaus because of failure of GER
tain officials to cooperate with him in
the suppression of vice"
Washington
The denomination of Postmaster
General Burleson was confirmed by
the Senate.
Creation of a s500,000,000 govern.
ment corporation to make loans and
advances to enterprises essential to
the war and otherwise assist in pri-
vate financing was recommended to
Congress by Secretary McAdoo.
America will have an army of half
a million men in France early this
year, with a million more trained and
equipped, ready to follow as quickly as
ships can be provided to carry them
and the outlook for ships is not un.
promising. Secretary Baker gave this
Information to the world Jan. 2S in a
statement before the Senate Military
Committee revealing much that until
now has been carefully guarded with
the Army's military secrets, in an.
swering charges that the government
has broken down preparing for war.
In a sweeping statement he showed
the great steps this government has
taken-some necessarily sudden and
without sufficient preparation-to win
the war.
Appropriations amounting to $780,
519,259GO for relief work in France
military. civilian, administrative bu-
reaus and miscellaneous activities
covering the period since the United
States entered the war up to April 30.
1918. have been made by the American
Red Cross War Council, It was an
nounced in statement isued at Wash
ington.
Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, in Franco
on An observation tour, was slightly
wounded by an accidental explosion,
which killed five French soldiers and
hurt two other American officers.