Tombstone epitaph., 1918-06-16
AN EPITOME OF
 LATE LIVE NEWS
coNoENsED RECORD or rH 2 PRooREss OF EVENTS AT
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FROM ALL SOURCES
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WestsFn ksWspapsr Union NeWs eerviee. ABOUT THE WAR

ABOUT THE WAR
 The Germans were cleared out of Seuilly wood by the Americans.
 The Germans continued to Lombard the French capital with their long range guns on June :.
 British airmen brought down 336 Germans in less than three weeks, up to June 2. of which 2S3 were totally destroyed.
 The Italian army is improving both In morale and material, according to Maj. Gen. Eben Swift. head of the American military mission to Italy.
 The allies stonewall of resistance is still opposed to the Germans on the battle front from Soissons 10 Chateau Thierry. Nowhere is the enemy mak- ing progress.
 Torpedoing of the Harpathian brought the German sinking record on the Atlantic coast to fourteen-six steamers and eight schooners. with a loss of thirty lives.
 British casualties reported during the week ending June : were: Officers killed or died of wounds, POS: men. 4,25s; officers wounded or missing. 753; men. 27.42s.
 Owing to the terrible casualties iE- flicted upon 1t, the Prussian guards division has been withdrawn by the German high command from the bat tie. The German losses are becoming heavier daily.
 The fighting Thursday night north west Of Chateau Thierry ragged with great fierceness for five hours. The Americans captured Bouresches and entered Torcy. Twenty-Five Americans In Torcy engaged and drove out 200 Germans and then withdrew to the main line on the outskirts Of the town.
 A French prisoner who made his escape from the German lines. de clared that hundreds of bodies of Ger mans were lying around everywhere. According to his story. the Germans guarding himself and others had not received rations since May 27 and were compelled to live upon what they found.
 The importance of the operations of the Americans on the Marne sector may be realized when i; ir recalled that only the day before the Ameri cans entered the line the Germans ad vanced about ten kilometers The Americans are now holding the Paris n Thifnt Fnr nF kilometers.
 An American machine gun battalion accounted for approximately 900 Ger mans while holding a bridge at Chat eau-Thierry. The Americans lost only one man killed and a few wounded. Al the same time French troops wiped out force of 300 Germans who had obtained a footing on the southern bank of the Marne One officer told the correspondent that 1t was all the commanders could do to keep the Americans from crossing the river in the teeth of the enemy fire and as- saulting the hill position.
 WESTERN
 Funeral services were held at In dianapoiis for former Vice President Chas W. Fairbanks.
 William Maudlin. a former Denver hoy, was killed and his father serious ly injured when an explosion occurred in the Badger mine at Butte, Mont.
 A Mormon minister, Reed Holladay, enlisted in Denver as an ambulance driver in the medical department MT. Utah.
 Charles A. Barnhardt, for the last year instructor in mathematics at Colorado College at Colorado Springs has resigned and will become head of the department of mathematics in the University of New Mexico.
 WASHINGTON
 New passenger rates of cents a mile went into effect Sunday despite pleas to suspend or modify them.
 The granary of the Mormon church fin Utah, holding 250.oO0 bushels of of wheat, has been emptied in re- sponse to appeals from the food ad- ministration.
 Exceeding the ship production of April by 122,0o0 tons, the emergency fleet corporation turned out 343.450 deadweight tons in May. the United States shipping board announced.
 A countrywide move to reduce the cost of food to the consumer and standardize methods of compelling the observance by dealers of flair price lists" vas ordered by Food Adminis trator Hoover.
 One # the crew of the steeE.er liar pathia;,, sunk by . submarine off the virginta capes. was taken aboard the U-boat s,d given medical treatment sor injuries snStained during the sink ing, . navy statement showed. The man then was replaced in the life boat w1sh his companions.