, 1918-07-04
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS. o o ~ G 8, ACHIEVE.
MENTs, sUFFERINGs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union News service.

ing June rs total 985 officers and 49,
635 men.
American troops now are holding
sectors of varying lengths in at least
six places on the battle line.
Italian forces mad further gains on
the lower Piave, taking 600 prisoners,
1t was semi-officially announced.
DR.. Won Kuehlmann offered his fesig-
nation as German foreign secretary on
the Goth, say a Zurich dispatch to the
Paris Journal.
The city of Irkutsk, Siberia, has
been captured by Czecho-Slovak troops
under General Alexieff, according to
Berlin advices.
A boatload of sailors from an Amer
lean vessel sun by a submarine off
the Atlantic coast was landed by a
fishing vessel at Shelburne, N. S.
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 APP
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 1900
on Aisne, as Haig cut foes line in
Ninnnn nlnonod rrNnIa onI DontprnI
cities.
All the positions held by the Aus
TRANS on the lower Piave, constitut-
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 a
damaged condition Jun % 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.
spontaneously 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-
III 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 a 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
great industry for western Wyoming,
according to John A. S~hellenbarger of
Salt Lake City, Utah.
WASHINGTON
Germany's entire offensive program
may ave been upset, in the opinion
of officers by the crushing defeat of
the Au%strians along the Piave river.
President Wilson sent to the Senate
tho nnnnnd nf afoht nauy YnoiN. 49,
ais and forty-three brigadier generals
of the national army to fill vacancies
now existing in the military service.
Bowling to the wish Of the War De
partment, the Senate, by a vote Of 40
to 25, rejected the Fall amendment
making the draft age limits 20 to 40
years in lieu of the present limits or
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 of
the year of Wal Savings and Thrift
Stamps, aided in many localities by
suspension of business and public dem
onstrations.
Germany's latest declaration of war
aims, as enunciated in the Berlin
Reichstag by DR.. Won Kuehlmann,
minister for foreign affairs, wal re-
garded by officials at Washington as
merely another phase in Germany's
old cycle of military drives and peace
offensives.
Germany has accepted the invitation
of the United States to end repre-
sentatives to Berne, Switzerland, for
a conference on Aug. 8, with IN Amer
lean delegation on the general subject
of exchange and treatment of prison
srs Of war.