The Ordway new era., 1918-04-26
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LATE LIVE NEWS
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
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oAYINas, o 20 N q ., ACHIEVE
MENTs, sUFFERINos. HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
ABOUT THE WAR

Western Newspaper Union news Service.
ABOUT THE WAR
Total casualties among the Ameri-
can eIpeditionary forces abroad to
april 16 are $3.50.
The losses to British shipping. by
mine or submarine, in the week end
ing April II. totaled fifteen.
The 1919 contingent of the French
army youths of 10 years) Is just going
to the barracks to begin training.
Considerable. fighting has developed
along the front in northern Flanders
between Langemarck and Kippe, held
by the Belgians.
The blow aimed by the French At
the very apex Of the German lines in
Picardy, in front of Amiens. apparent
ly was not followed up on Friday.
German torpedo craft bombarded
the coast between Dunkirk and Nieu-
port behind the allied lines In Flan-
ders, says an official statement from
Berlin.
On the Caucasus front, the Turks.
in their invasion of former Russian
territory, are approaching the city OF
Kars, says an official statement is
sued in Constantinople.
Thirty American infantrymen, with
the same number OF French troops,
raided the German line on the right
bank OF the Meuse. inflicting num-
ber of casualties on the enemy.
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fensiye in June-either on the west
front or In Italy-if the present drive
is checked. according to Lieutenant
Colonel Bridges of the British army.
The line in front OF Arras has again
been the scene of fighting. but the
British took the offensive and drove
the Germans out of British trenches
which had been carried by the enemy.
Over the battlefields OF France and
Flanders, where terrific struggles
have been waged almost without in
termission since March 81, there
came Friday what appears to be a
lull.
thrown across the La Bassee canal by
the enemy. They hold the entire
waterway in addition to having re-
established their line west of Ro-
becq.
East OF Amiens, along the Avre riv-
er, the French have made successful
attacks against the Germans on sew
eral sectors. capturing the greater
part OF the Senecat wood and also ad-
fhafr ArA at xnsao nj
the stream.
WESTERN
Three hundred former members of
the Texas and Oklahoma National
guards, who have been in training
since Jan. at the officers school at
Fort Worth. Tex, received their GER
tificates. Another officers training
school will open May at Camp
Bowie.
According to the statistics compiled
by Joseph H. Meier. who has compiled
the official Catholic directory for
more than ten years. there are 49,
648 Catholics in Colorado. The fig
ures for the entire country show that
there are 17.416,303 Catholics in the
United States.
Colorado coke for smelling or fur
mace may be sold for $3.50 maximum.
while seventy-two-hour selected foun-
dry coke maximum price is $3.50.
The Interstate Commerce Commits.
sion tentatively approved increases In
passenger fares between places on
the Gulf. Colorado & Santa Fe rail-
road and points In the states of Tex
as. Oklahoma and louisiana
WASHINGTON
Chas. Schwab was made manager
of United States Shipping Board.
Italian regiments already are in
France and form the right wing of the
allied armies. the Italian embassy an.
nounced
Ten brigadier generals of the ma.
tional army were nominated by Presi.
dent Wilson to be major generals
and twenty-seven colonels were nom.
mated to be brigadier generals.
Health of all troops in the United
States continues good, the War De
partment announced in report GOV
ering the week ending April 12. Both
hospital admission and death rates
were lower than in the preceding
week.
President Wilson and his war cabi
net heard from Secretary Baker thai
the American soldier has made goot
in France and that the men of the ex
peditionary forces are well PHYSICAL,
and in high spirits.
President Wilson stopped the issu
ance of patents and copyrights to en-
emies and revoked the authority Civ
en- Americans to apply for patents II
enemy countries.