, 1918-01-31
AN EPITOME OF
LATE LIVE NEWS
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, o o ING S, ACHIEVE.
MENTs, sUFFERINGs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
ABOUT H WAR

Sir Edward Carson, minister with
out portfolio in the British war cabl.
net, has resigned.
The mine field responsible for the
sinking of the German destroyers
Alb and AIS VAS of German origin.
Turkeys nav has been practically
wiped out by the loss of the big cruis-
ers Sultan Selim and Midullu.
The Russian delegates to the Brest-
Litovsk peace conference have decid-
ed unanimously to reject the terms Of
fered by the Germans.
BY the sinking of two steamers by
the enemy in the Mediterranean about
three weeks ago, us lives were lost,
1t was announced in London.
The weekly report of Italian ship
ping losses gives the sinking of only
one small sailing vessel. One steam
ship was unsuccessfully attacked.
British casualties reported in the
week ending Jan. 81 were 1908, di-
vided as follows: Killed or died of
wounds: Officers. 76; men. 2,277.
Wounded or missing: Officers, 213;
men, 14,477.
One hundred and sixty thousand
Turkish troops-more than so per cent
of General Falkenhayn's recognized
Turkish army-deserted during the re-
cent journey from C~onstaninople to
Palestine, official dispatches stated.
During two days last week seven
tons of bombs were dropped on and
around the former German cruiser
Goeben, stranded in the ~Dardanelles,
and upon the Galata airdrome, 1t was
officially announced in London. Sew
eral direct hits were obtained.
Two hundred and twenty members
of the crew of the British monitor
Raglan, one of the vessels engaged in
the recent action with the Turkish
cruisers Midullu and Sultan Selim, at
h entrance to the ~Dardanelles, per-
ished, according to the casualty list
as announced in London. Fourteen
men were wounded.
Russia must give up Courland and
all the Baltic provinces. or the Ger
mans will resume military operations
and occupy Reval within a week. the
German delegation at Brest-Litovsk
negotiations informed the Russian
representatives at the last session of
the conferees. An adjournment was
taken until Jan. 80 to permit the Rus
SLAMS to consider the German terms.
WESTERN
Amos B. Anderson, a ranch owner
of Willard, Colo, killed himself with
a shotgun at his sisters home near
Buxton, Iowa. He was 6S years old.
Fire. believed to have started from
an overheated steam pipe, destroyed
h packing plant of the Du Pont Pow
der Company at Ramsay, Mont, caus-
ing a loss estimated at $4,000.
The government will take over 80
per cent of all the wheat flour milled
in Minnesota. in order to secure suf-
ficient supply for export to our allies,
the State Food Administration an
nounced at Minneapolis.
Expulsion If l. w. WIS from mem
bership in the United Mine Workers
of America, unless they Immediately
drop their interest in the l. w. W,
was provided in a resolution adopted
by delegates to the miners conven
ton at indianapolis.
WASHINGTON
Greater saving of food was asked of
the American people by President
Wilson in a proclamation announcing
the Food Administrations 1918 CON
servation program.
The central empires are angling for
further discussion with the United
States and the allies, but are not yet
ready to go far enough to bring peace
now. That conclusion was drawn by
international experts from the Hert-
ling and Czernin replies to President
Wilson's and Lloyd Georges wal aims
speeches.
Activities behind the scenes in
Washington during agitation in 1916
for an investigation into the livestock
and packing industry were revealed
in correspondence taken from the con.
fidentlal files of Swift & Co. of Chi
cago, showing the efforts of the big
packing firms to defeat any inquiry
into their business.
Americas foreign trade surpassed
all records in 1917, amounting to 49,,
Z 5000, 900.
The estate of the late Senator New
lands of Nevada, according to petition
for probate of his will, is valued at
$52S. 500.
Col. Hugh S. Johnson, national
army, was designated deputy provost
marshal general for such duties as the
provost marshal general may assign.
The Rumanian army, in cooperation
with the Cossacks and other elements
in Rnmihnrn Rmssin will nrnun q