The Snowflake herald., 1918-02-01
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ABOUT THE WAR

Twenty-seven British, two Italian
and one French ship were sunk dur
ing the past week.
Paris reports that the period OF
Jan. l to. 10 French pilots brought
down fifteen German airplanes and
one captive balloon.
Canadians again have raided Ger
man trenches north of Lens, blowing
up their dugouts and taking prisoners
and a machine gun.
Warning of the possibility of final
breach in the RussO-German negotia-
tions is the outstanding feature of the
current news from PetrOgrad.
From 100000 to 100000 troops must
be raised at once in England, Sir
Auckland Geddes, minister of nation
al service, told the House of Com
mons in London.
Another attack from the sea has
been made by German war craft on an
English coast town. Yarmouth was
bombarded Monday night, three per-
sons being killed and ten injured.
Cold weather and SHOWS are still
retarding the infantry activities on
the battle front, where no fighting of
moment is taking place, except in the
nature of small patrol engagements
and artillery duels. Notwithstanding
the fact that similar conditions pre-
vailed last week, the British casual
ties for the seven days ending Mon
day were 24,979, as compared with
1898 the previous week and 1881
the week before.
The London Daily News correspond
ent at PetrOgrad sends the following:
"The final rupture of negotiations at
Brest-LitOvsk may be expected at any
moment, if, as seems probable, the
German militarists continue to impose
their policy on their delegates" The
correspondent says a dispatch from
Kuban reports that the Turks have
broken the armistice by landing TO-,
900 troops between Trebizond and
Lie and that submarine has sunk
a Russian transport.
The Italians have again attacked
the Austro-German front in the Monte
Asolone region and made goodly
gains of ground. They have added
materially to their bridgehead east of
Cape Sile, pushing back the enemy
from several trenches, which were
held by the Italians in spite OF furious
counter attacks. In the hill region
the Austro- Germans offered strong re-
sistance, but the Italians, in addition
to inflicting extremely heavy casual
ties, captured eight officers and 283
men.
WESTERN
Kentucky is the second state in the
United States to ratify the national
prohibition amendment.
Capt. "Bill" Mcdonald, noted Texas
ranger and personal friend and body
guard of several presidents, died at
Wichita Falls, Tex.
Midst the graves of seven of her
nine husbands, Mrs. Emma Cameron
Van Sickle, SO, was buried in the front
yard of her home near McGregor,
Iowa.
Before the San Francisco fire of
1906, Mrs. Caroline Wenban's fortune
was $4,000,000. A month ago she died
and her will filed at San Francisco
shows but $44.46 in actual assets left.
Three persons were killed and
about twenty injured when Union Pa
cific passenger train No. 1872, bound
from Beloit, Kan, to Solomon, Kan,
was wrecked about one mile east of
Beloit.
WASHINGTON
Many of the American soldiers in
France will pay an income tax this
Secretary McAdoo ordered priority
shipments of fuel and food to New
York.
Daniel Willard, chairman of the
War Industries Board, rendered his
resignation to President Wilson.
Eleven hundred ships have been
armed by the navy against submarine
attack since last March, it was re-
vealed in the report of the House nav
al investigation subcommittee.
AS a result of continuing revela-
tons of spying on American soil, feel
ing grew increasingly intense that
summary punishment should now be
meted out to those apprehended
Many argued this will be the only
means of effectively checking enemy
activity
Residents of five western states
may eat all the beef they want on
meatless days, but no other meats, un-
der ruling by the Food Administra-
tion designed to meet a peculiar sit
uation in California, Washington, Ore
gon Nevada and Arizona.
That persons conducting public eat
ing places, manufacturers, carriers
producers, distributors or other per
sons who fail to obey the Presidents
orders shall be fined up to $4,000 and
imprisoned up to six years, is provid