The Colorado statesman., 1918-06-08
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST WEEK
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
ABOUT THE WAR

GAoSO L w AN
Germans give up attempt to oust
Americans from Cantigny.
Germany's submarine raid on ship
ping off the American coast has des-
troyed probably eleven vessels and
5S persons were lost
The transport ship Leasowe Castle
has been sunk by an enemy submarine
the British admiralty announced. One
hundred and one persons were
drowned
Owing to the terrible casualties ir-
flicted upon it, the Prussian guards
division has been withdrawn by the
German high command from the bat
tie. The German losses are becoming
heavier daily.
On the front between Soissons and
Chateau Thierry the Germans occu-
pied Longpont, Corey, Faverolles and
Troesnes, but later were driven out
of these places by energetic French
counter attacks.
The aerial activity over the terri
tory of the German advance is most
intense and French airmen have
emy targets in addition to bringing
down nineteen German machines.
American troops cooperating with
the French west of Chateau Thierry,
north of the Marine, the nearest and
most critical point to Paris reached
by the enemy, have brilliantly
checked the onrushing Germans, beat
en- off repeated attacks and inflicted
severe losses, adding to the glory of
American history.
From drives on wide fronts the Ger
man offensive in France has deterior-
ated into isolated attacks along the
area between scissors and Chateau
Thierry and eastward on the Marne,
in the general direction of Rheims.
Although in these attacks the enemy
is still using large effectives and great
numbers of guns, he is being held al
most everywhere from further prog
ress and on various sectors compelled
to assume the defensive against vi
cious blows delivered ty the Ameri-
cans, French and British troops.
The latest report received by the
Navy Department indicate that the fol-
lowing vessels were sunk as result
of enemy submarine activity off the
Atlantic coast: Schooner Edna, 1926
tons; schooner Hattie Dunn, 436 tons;
schooner Hauppauge, 1900 tons;
schooner Edward H. Cole, 1871 tons;
Schooner Isabel B. Wiley, 776 tons;
schooner Jacob NJ Haskell, 1,77S tons;
steamship Winnieconne, 1869 tons;
steamer Caroline, 5000 tons; schoon-
er Edward r. Baird, Jr., 279 tons;
steamship Herbert L. Pratt, 1900 tons,
raised and towed to port; steamship
Texel.
WESTERN
The contract for the Odd Fellows
Manhattan, Kas., has been awarded
on bid of $4,000 The building will
contain $50 guest rooms and will be
completed before March l, 1919.
Nelson Morris, millionaire rookie at
Camp Grant, was assigned to supply
train. The former head of a Chicago
packing company will drive a motor
truck TO the Atlantic coast and prob
ably will be sent overseas at once.
Charles Warren Fairbanks, former
vice president of the United States,
died at his home in Indianapolis, Ind,
June a. Death was due to interstitial
nephritis, which has been a chronic
ailment with him, but not regarded
serious until recently. All members
of the former vice presidents family,
except Major Richard Fairbanks, who
is in France, were at his bedside.
WASHINGTON
The cotton crop was in better con-
dition May 20 than on that date in any
of the last ten years excepting in 1911,
the year of record production, the De-
partment of Agriculture announced in
its first cotton report of the season.
All those who were passengers and
all the returning army officers and
men on the transport President Lin
coin were saved after she had been
torpedoed. This confines the loss of
life to the crew of the ship.
Rules for the enforcement of Prov
ost Marshal General Crowder's work
or fight" regulations, call on all citi-
zens to report to the nearest local
draft board names of men within draft
age who are habitually idle or who
are employed non-productively.
Some naval officials hold that the
Cyclops was sunk by German sub
marine, which returned to its base,
whether in Mexico or Europe.
The federal child labor law of 1916,
forbidding interstate shipments of
products of child labor, was declared
unconstitutional and invalid by the
United States Supreme Court.
Women are not replacing men in in
dustries as rapidly as expected, al