The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1918-09-20
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THE WORLD.
DURING The PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
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ABOUT THE JAR

ABOUI IHE WAX
Japanese cavalry and an infantry
battalion captured the enemy naval
ba-, OF Khabarovsk on Sept !, ac-
cordiug 10 official announcement al
Toxic.
IN Macedonia the allied forces con
time their offensive against the Bull
ghrlans with success. Important po-
su.ous have been taken and more
tlfan 5000 prisoners captured
Gen PetaIu's veterans are forging
ahead slowly but surely in their grim
and desperate struggle for the st Go
BAN forest. which the Germans have
been ordered TO hold at all costs,
Il seems probable that 1t new and
mighty blow against the Teutontc
armies iu France Will be- the allies
answer 70 the peace proposals voiced
by Austria on behalf OF the central
powers.
Maisscmy a village live miles north
west OF 81 Quentin has been captured
By the British. This adds another i'm
portant position to those recently
taken along the ridges west OF ST
Quentin
The Germans apparently are with
drawing along the whole thirty three
mile front between Abeaucourt and the
Moselle in an effort to improve the
protection OF communications in the
vicinity of Metz
The French took 1000 prisoners in
the ST Mihiel operations, including B.
900 Austrians, making total OF more
.ban 27,oOU prisoners taken by the
Americans and French. the Echo de
Paris announced,
British aviators have again bombed
the railways at Metz. Sablons and
Mainz. and docks and sidings at karls-
ruhe Seventeen direct hits were OBJ
tanned on the Karlsruhe objectives, ac-
cording to the London air ministry
communication.
American, British and French de-
tachments are reported by the Petro-
grad Pravda to have met the Boil
shevik forces in battle on the Arch
angel front The Bolshevik troops,
after an initial success, were repulsed
by British reinforcements and fled in
panic
The British gained ground Tuesday
in the neighborhood OF Holnon vii
lage. northwest OF st Quentin. ac-
cording to Field Marshal Haig's re-
port A German post west OF La Bas-
see was captured New posts were
established northeast of Neuve Cha
pelle and in the neighborhood of
Ploegsteert
Inf oil md inf ant nv
battalion have captured the enemy
naval base OF khabarovsk. according
to Toxic official announcement.
They took seventeen gunboats. four
other vessels, a wireless station, 120
guns, eight ammunition depots. seven
magazines, one munltion warehouse,
seventy horses. seven automobiles,
barbed wire and much other material,
WESTERN
Women to fight fires IN place of
men called to war is suggestion
brought to a convention at Oakland,
Cal, of Pacific coast fire chiefs by
Chief William H. Bywater OF Salt
Lake City
Twenty-Five soldiers were killed and
between fifty and sixty more were in
jured Tuesday night when freight
and a troop train crashed together one
mile east of Marshfield, Mo
The increased acreage OF sugar
beets produced in Utah this year will
supply the population OF Utah with
sugar for one year, under the present
ration of two pounds per month per
person, it was announced at the Fed
eral Food Administrations office in
Salt Lake.
WASHINGTON
George Martin CDem). appointed
to succeed the late Senator James OF
Kentucky, took the oath of office in
the Senate.
Fifty five hundred styles of rubber
footwear have been eliminated for the
duration of the war and remaining
types are restricted the War Indus
tries Board announced.
Spanish influenza now has become
epidemic in three army camps. Sur
geon General Gorgas announced.
There are 1900 cases at Camp Dev-
ems Massachusetts: 1000 at Camp
Ae@, virginia, anu ooo at lamp W
ton, New York
Secret activities against the Unit
cd States and the allies by the Ger
man-paid and controlled Russian Bol-
shevik government are the subject of
Tuesdays chapter of confidential
documents from Russia given to the
public by the American government.
Frederick G. Howe. the federal inn
migration commissioner at New York,
was attacked by Senator Lodge, Re-
publican leader. during his speech ap-
proving President Wilson's rejection