The Colorado statesman., 1918-07-13
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THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST WEEK
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
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PEOPLE.
Western Newspaper Union News service.
ABOUT THE WAR


Franco-Italian attack in Macedonia
may be beginning OF strong offensive
Italian troops Monday advanced
their front line in the region of Col.
La Prible.
Inhabitants of north Russia prov
ince secede and announce intention TO
Join entente.
Czecho- Slovak forces have taken Nj
kolaievsk, it was officially announced
at Vladivostok
Twenty Norwegian vessels aggre-
eating 26,S33 gross tons, were sunk
during June.
French and Italian forces made ad-
vances in Albania, the Austrian war
office admitted.
British casualties reported during
the week ending June 6 reached an ag-
gregate of 1886.
In aerial fighting British and
French airmen have accounted for
twenty-five machines.
Assassins of German ambassador in
Moscow not identified. Russian gov
ernment expresses horror and indig-
nation at crime.
Austrian troops Tuesday again at
tackled the Italian positions at Corone,
between the Frenzela valley and the
Brenta, and again met with repulse.
With the help of the Americans
northwest of Chateau-Thierry the al
lied line as a whole on this front al
ready has been Strengthened and i'm
proved
The Austrians lost 10000 men, or
half their troops engaged, during the
fighting in the mountain region and
on the Piave from July 2 to 6, the
Rome war office announced.
While the fighting on the Macedo-
nian and Albanian frontiers must re-
main side issue, the progress of the
French and Italians along the Albani-
an coast brings that theater of the
war into consideration as important
gains have been made.
French troops Tuesday morning at
tackled the German lines on front of
about two and a half miles west of
Antheuil, on the front between Mont
didier and the Oise, penetrating the
enemy positions and realizing an ad-
vance of mile at certain points.
WESTERN
At least 125 persons, most of them
negroes, were killed and seventy-five
injured in a head-on collision between
two passenger trains on the Nashville,
Chattanooga & st. Louis railway at
Dutchman's bend, five miles from
Nashville, Tenn.
An opportunity for four men for
~, ha aJ &c nffara1
through the mountain division. An
associate field director, a warehouse
supervisor, a stenographer and a
chauffeur are needed at once, for serv-
ice at Camp Cody Deming, N. NJ
One hundred and sixty suits, asking
upward of $3,2S0, 900, as the aggregate
sum of damages, alleged TO have been
sustained through deportation from
the Bisbee district July 70, 1917, were
filed in the district court of Cochise
county, in Tombstone, Ariz., in behalf
OF 100 l. w. W.'s.
Sylvia Johanna, a 6-months-old Hol-
stein bull calf, sold for 100000 at the
Wisconsin state fair.
WASHINGTON
policy toward Russia approved by the
United States are going forward
steadily.
Coal rationing plan for next winter,
with house temperatures limited to
sixty-eight degrees, says Fuel Admin
istration.
Commercial telegraphers strike in
definitely postponed as result of con-
ference of union officials with Secre-
tary Wilson.
A dispatch received at the State De-
partment from the American legation
at Teheran, Persia, states that on ac-
count of riots arising from the food
shortage and other disturbances the
city has been placed under martial
law.
State draft executives were directed
by Provost Marshall General Crowder
10 have local boards call up for physi-
cal examination Immediately all new
registrants under the selective draft
law who have been placed in class one
ready for call in August
The United States army transport
Henderson was afire at sea, but made
an Atlantic port in safety. There was
no loss of life.
An additional credit of 10000 900
was granted to Italy by the Treasury
Department, making a total of $780,
100000 for Italy and of s6,O91, $50 900
loaned to the allies to date.
Following the recent capture OF
three American engineers by bandits
in China. a census of Chinese outlaws
has been made. showing that in five
provinces there are a total of $1,000
brigandS