Tombstone epitaph., 1918-03-03
THE WORLD IN
 PARAGRAPHS
4 oRigF RECORD OF PASSING evGNrs IN THis AND FOR
 eioN couNTRiEs.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
ooiNos AND HAPPENINGS THAT MARK ThE PRooREss
 OF TIRE AoG.
ABOUT THE WAR

ABOUT THE WAR
 General Allenby's forces advanced 10 within four miles of Jericho.
 The French took 525 prisoners in their raid in Lorraine, the war office announced in Paris.
 New Zealand troops carried out a successful raid east of Polygon wood. on the Flanders front.
 A German attack at Four de Paris. in the Argonne. has been repulsed with losses by the French.
 Germany's military leaders hope to Hull the German people with vie tory" against defenseless Russia.
 A large number of German guns are opposite the American sector. Among them are some Ss's. probably from the Russian front.
 Bolshevik leaders declare that if the German advance continues they will defend Petrograd with their Red Guard and harass the German ad- vance by guerrilla warfare.
 Marked aerial activity continues on the western front and entente ayia- tors in three days brought down or disabled fifty-seven German airplanes. British and French airmen have not let up in their bombing attacks on i'm portant points in German Lorraine.
 American forces are reported in bat slo u.ith the Corvuous at fhrea irr,nprt ant points in France-on their own line east of St Mihiel. with the French forces in Champagne and al another point referred to as the most famous battle ground of the war
 Forty-five German warships were approaching Reval on Wednesday. ac- cordins to a message received by the London Express from its Petrograd correspondent. Troops have been landed at Reval and the Daily News Bolshevik correspondent telegraphs that Leon Trotzky, Bolshevik foreign minister. probably will resign. German troops are sweeping through western Russian provinces, with practically no resistance being offered to their advance by the S,avs. Both cavalry and infantry columns are on the march. Pressing east ward from Dvinsk. Pinsk and Rovno ta front of more than 100 miles, we have cleared the country of the enemy and taken prisoner a general. several divisional commanders. 425 officers and s.70O men," the German war office declared on the elst WESTERN
 Gross earnings Of the Santa Fe sys- tenn for the year ended Dec. 31 were 11S5.52S,519. an increase of 32i .239.- eSl over 1916.
 Maximum prices on oats and provi- sions were set by the Chicago board of trade in an effort to stop specula- ton in those products.
 Gen. Francisco Murguia has been offered q .000. 900 in Mexican gold if he captures or kills Francisco Villa. according to . report from Chihuahua City.
 Practically all Of the astronomers from the Yerkes observatory of Chi cago have arranged to come west to observe the eclipse of the sun on June s.
 Sixtesn-year-o Hassl Stewart vas suspeuded from the girls high school at San Francisco e . result of her re- fusal to salute the flag with the other students.
 One man was fatally injured. two seriously and five slightly hurt in the sxplosjon of . cartridge case on board the armored cruiser Montana. Boat swain Mate Charles W. Pauly. Chi cago, died while being taken to the hospital. Seaman Roy l.. Putnam. Phoenix, Arix., and Lawrence N. Ainley, Cawker City. Kan, were seriously hurt.
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 The necessity for increased wages for railroad empIoyts was conceded by representatives of majority Of the railroads Of the United States, appear ing for the first time before the gov srnment's Railroad Wage Commission.
 The fIrst official estimate of losses by the tospsdoinS Of the troop ship ruscania was issssd through the com mSttee on public information It states that there were 2.179 officers and men aboard: 1871 saved; known dead, 127; still unAecovnted for. 81.
 Resources of national banks on Dec. zI, the date of the last call of the comptroller Of the currency, were Sls.- iO73.3oS. 900.
 Secretary Baker authorized the statement that no date had been SC lected for the beginning of the second draft. Various estimates have placed the time between March and June,
 Future issues of treasury certifi cates of indebtedness planned in prep aration for the third Liberty loan will bear on interest rate of 4k per cent. or k Der cent more than issues Of the tmmediste past