Cheyenne record. (Cheyenne Wells, Cheyenne County, Colo.) 1913-19??, 1918-01-03
THE LATEST IMPORTANT Dis.
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT,
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF THE WEEK
SHOWING THE PROGRESS or
EvEITs IN OUR OWN ANov
FOREIGN LANDS.
ABOUT THE WAR

ABOUT THE WAR
Italians attacked by Germans from
another quarter.
German atrocities to Americans re-
ported on battle front.
Six thousand Korniloff troops were
defeated by Bolsheviki
Russian reports indicate steady de-
cline of power Of Bolsheviki.
Greece will reward citizens of that
nation who join American army.
Holiday gifts from the American
Red Cross were distributed in the Ital-
ian trenches along the lower Piave.
Two hours of street fighting pre-
ceded the surrender of the Bolshevik
forces in Harbin to Chinese troops.
according to foreign office dispatch
A German submarine was sunk by
the fire of guns of an American pas
senger steamer approaching the Brit
ish coast according to reports of the
passengers and gunners aboard
The British troops in Palestine have
repulsed Turkish attack north and
northwest of Jerusalem and made an
advance of about two and one-half
miles along the Turkish right flank.
says an official communication. The
Turks suffered severe losses in the re-
pulse, which came after the British
pickets had been driven in.
Further reports of the attempt of
Austrian aviators to raid Treviso,
which resulted so disastrousjy for
them, emphasize the brilliant work
done by both Italian and British avi-
ators. Although eleven Austrian ma
chimes were brought down, only few
Italian airplanes We're damaged. Five
Italian and one British soldier were
killed.
While their guns lombard the west
ern front, the Germans are taking
troops from the eastern front for use
elsewhere, despite the provision of
the Russo-German armistice prohibit
ing such action. The artillery activi-
ty in France has been moderate over
most of the front and more violent
on the right bank OF the Meuse, north
east of Verdun, the scene of the Ger
man attack nearly two years ago.
WESTERN
Six policewomen to serve sixty days
in vice drive have been appointed by
the city commission of San Antonio,
Texas.
Four hundred members of the
Princeton club of Chicago sent Presi-
dent Wilson a telegram of congratu-
lations on his sixty-first birthday.
Fire destroyed four buildings front
ing on the board walk at Long Beach,
Cal, and burned away a section of the
walk, causing loss estimated at 5000
900.
At Globe, Ariz., discovery Of a chain
letter swindle of international char
acter and which has already netted
its promoters 100000 was announced
by Red Cross officials.
Bertha Stats, a telephone operator,
remained at her switchboard until she
tainted and was carried out, when fire
damaged the Missouri Pacific freight
house at Omaha. causing a loss esti.
mated at 100000.
The temperature was 80 below zero
at Duluth, Mimi. Dec. 2S and bitter
cold was reported elsewhere in north.
ern Minnesota. Eveleth, Mimi, where
It was 40 degrees below zero, was be-
lieved to be the coldest town in the
country.
w ASHINGTON
Secretary Of Labor Wilson is i'll
from overwork on his long trip
through the West mediating labor dis,
putes.
General Tasker H. Bliss will be re-
tanned on active service as chief of
staff Of the army although he has
reached the retirement age.
There were twenty-one more deaths
in the national army last week than
during the week before, but forty-five ve
fewer in the national guard.
The Interstate Commerce Commit
tee postponed from Jan. to July 1
the date on which locomotives must
be equipped with high power head
lights.
As the first practical step In the
governments operation Of railroads,
which began Dec. 2S, Director General
McAdoo drafted the railroad war
board into the government service to
work out plans of unified operation
and submit them to him for approval
For seventeen minutes, shortly af-
ter / o'clock Friday morning, Dec. 2s.
the moon began to hide its face in the
second eclipse Of the year. The earth
came between the moon and the sun
the first time In 1917 on Jan. The
year 1917 has been the first since 1905
fn which there were seven eclipses.
the greatest number possible.
President Wilson directed that max