Taiban Valley news., 1918-05-17
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, D o. IN G 8, ACHIEVE.
MENTs, SUFFERINGs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union news service.
ABOUT THE WAR

bombardment on Amiens.
Six more Americans have been dec
GRATED with the croix de guerre.
British casualties reported during
the week ending May Z reached a to
tai Of 1851.
British hold firm on western front
and repulse repeated German attacks
regaining some positions lost.
French troops captured Grivesnes
Park, five miles northwest of Mont
didier, the Paris war office announces
Russian warships have bombarded
German forces in the harbor of Mar.
tupol, the Berlin war office announced
Tuesday, May 7. was the third ami
versary of the sinking of the Lusitania
by German submarine with a loss of
1,275 lives.
Six German aeroplanes were
brought down Thursday by Sublieu-
tenant Rene Fonck, the Paris war Of
flee announces.
INSTRUMENTATION, the largest city
in the Don Cossack territory and near
the mouth of the Don river, has been
occupied by the Germans.
North Of the Somme, the Austral-
ians advanced 700 yards on a 1900
yard front Sunday, and early Monday
they added another 500 yards on q
000-yard front.
In air fighting British aviators
have accounted for twenty-nine Ger
man machines, twenty-five Of which
were destroyed. One enemy airplane
was brought down by rifle fire.
British troops on May 7 entered the
Turkish town Of Kerkuk, eighty miles
southeast of Mosul, in Mesopotamia,
the British war office announced. The
British met with no opposition. The
Turks on retiring left 600 men in the
Kerkuk hospital.
British naval forces again raided
the German naval base at Ostend, on
the Belgian coast, blockading the en-
trance to the harbor by sinking the
old cruiser Vindictive, which partici-
pated in the recent raid on Zeebrugge
The previous raid, which was carried
out early on the morning of April %,
was conducted simultaneously against
Ostend and Zeebrugge. The latter
port is believed to have been COM
pletely blocked through the sinking
of two concrete-filled cruisers in the
channel.
WESTERN
Liberty bonds of the first and Sec
ond issues may not be converted into
bonds of the third issue until July 1,
according to word from government
heaquarters.
That the National Socialist party
has entered into an agreement to
raise funds for the defense Of the In
dustrial Workers of the World, on
trial before Judge Lands in Chicago
on charges Of violation of the espion-
age laws, was denied at Socialist
headquarters.
Nineteen deaths, twelve in Iowa and
seven in Illinois, and property loss
was the total taken by Thursdays tor
nado which swept through Iowa and
Illinois. Approximately $50 persons
were more or less seriously injured.
WASHINGTON
Approximately 40 per cent of the
men in the United States now listed
in class one will be called to the COL
ors this year.
Wheat flour substitutes should sell
from 10 to 20 per cent less than wheat
flour, Food Administrator Hoover no
titled state food administrators.
With work on the third Liberty
loan unfinished, the treasury's loan
publicity bureau has started prepara-
tons for the fourth loan, which will
be held next fall.
More than 10000 communities won
Liberty loan honor flags by subscrib-
Ing or oversubscribing their quotas.
Reports to the treasury show that the
Chicago district won 1895 flags,
3,041, Cleveland 1899,
Boston 1893, Atlanta 891, Philadel-
Dhia 752, and st. Louis, which gave
Tags only to full counties, 1876.
Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska was
made chairman of the Senate foreign
'elations committee. Mr. Hitchcock,
who was senior Democratic member
If the committee, succeeds the late
Senator Stone in rearrangement of
Democratic committee assignments
,aused by recent deaths of several
senator's.
A special prayer for the cessation
II the evils tormenting humanity dur
ng mass on st. Peters day, June 29,
8 urged by Pope Benedict in a spe-
.ial message from Rome addressed to
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