The Ordway new era., 1918-07-05
CONDENSED RECORD OF tn e
PRooREss OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DO IN q ., ACHIEVE.
MENTs. suFFERIhos, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Wsstsfh NsWsphpef UhIoh Ne"H SsrVs
ABOUT THE WAR

American troops now are hoiuihb
sectors Of varying lengths in at least
six places on the battle line.
Italian forces made further gains on
the lower Piave, taking 600 prisoners
1t was semi-officially announced.
DR.. Won Kuehlmann offered his resig-
nation as German foreign secretary on
the 26th. says a Zurich dispatch to the
Paris Journal.
The city of Irkutsk, Siberia, has
been captured by CIecho-Slovak troops
under General Alexieff. according to
Berlin advices.
A boatload of sailors from an Amer
ican vessel sunk by submarine Off
the Atlantic coast was landed by
fishing vessel at Shelburne. N. 8.
Eleven persons were killed and four
teen others injured through the explo-
sion of bombs dropped by German air
men In Thursday nights raid over the
Paris district.
The British troops in Flanders and
the French forces further south ap-
parently have anticipated the proposed
German drive toward the English
channel ports or Paris, and struck
first
French troops In Picardy and Brit
ish in north both hurl Huns back a
mile in drive. Petain captured l.2o0
on Aisne, Haig cut foes line in
Nieppe, cleaned woods and captured
cities.
All the positions held by the Aus
trians on the lower Piave, constitute
ing the Capo Sile bridgehead, have
now been taken by the Italians. and
the entire western bank OF the Piave
Is clear of the enemy.
Thirty-six German machines were
brought down or forced to land in
damaged condition June 25 by Franco
British airmen, while Berlin claims
the destruction of twelve allied aero
planes the same day.
A regiment of troops in General
Pershing's expeditionary forces has
been ordered to Italy. probably as an
advance guard of additional forces to
be sent later to complete the unity on
that front of Italian. British, French
and American troops.
Synchronously with the defeat of
the Austrians In Italy and the spirit
of unrest prevalent in the dual mon
archy, comes Foreign Secretary Won
Kuehlmann's Acknowledgement from
Germany that that country is desir-
Gus of peace.
WESTERN
Cheers and shouts of enthusiasm
greeted the announcement made in
the Chamber Of Deputies at Paris that
the Fourth Of July would be regarded
as legal French holiday.
o. p. Dittman. who recently re-
signed his position In the Lowell, Wyo.,
offices of the Great Western Sugar
Company to enter the service OF his
country, is the fifth son of A. H. Dit
man OF Denver to enter the army. The
Dittman family consisted of five boys,
and all are now soldiers.
A new process OF distilling oil from
oily shale that has been discovered by
A. o. Crane. promises to become a
according to John A. Shellenbarger OF
Salt Lake City. Utah.
WASHINGTON
Germany's entire offensive program
may have been upset, In the opinion
of officers by the crushing defeat oil
the Austrians along the Piave river.
President Wilson sent to the Senate
the names of eight new major gener
ais and forty-three brigadier generals
of the national army to fill vacancies
now existing in the military service.
Bowing to the wish OF the War De
partment. the Senate, by vote OF is
to 25. rejected the Fall amendment
making the draft age limits 20 to 4C
years In lieu of the present limits oi
81 and 81 years.
National thrift day was observed
throughout the country by the gather
ing OF millions of pledges for system
attic purchase during the remainder O
the year of War Savings and Thrift
Stamps, aided In many localities b,
suspension of business and public dem
onstrations.
Germany's latest declaration of wa
aims, as enunciated in the Berlil
Reichstag by DR., Won Kuehlmann
minister for foreign affairs, was re
garded by officials at Washington a
merely another phase in Germany
old cycle of military drives and peac'
offensives.
Germany has accepted the invitatio.
OF the United States to send repre-
sentatives to Berne. Switzerland, TO
a conference on Aug. 8. with an Amer
lean delegation on the general subjec
of exchange and treatment of prison
ers OF war.