, 1918-04-11

ing a sector on the Mouse heights
south of Verdun.
Fierce fighting has broken out in
the districts of Batoum, Kars and Ard
ahm, in the Caucasus.
Thirty German transports with
troops have arrived at Hango, on the
southern coast of Finland, southeast
of H~elsingfors.
The recent British aerial raids on
Cologne caused 24S deaths, half of
whom were soldiers, according to re-
ports received at Basic.
In the week ending March 80 Teu-
tonic submarines sank three Italian
steamships of more than 1900 tons
and destroyed one sailing vessel.
At Dernsncourt and southwest OF
Albert the Germans succeeded in get
ting a footing in allied defenses. The
situation at Albert was restored by a
counter attack.
. Just to the southwest of Albert, the
British have withdrawn a short dis
lance and the French have given up
the village of Castle, west of Moreuil,
says Fridays report.
In southern Russia the Germans
have captured the town of Ekaterin-
slav, an important commercial and in
dustrial center on the Dnieper river,
$50 miles southeast of Odessa.
A German attack north of Moreuil
was repulsed by the French fire, and
the enemy was unable to gain a foot
ing in any part of the French posi-
lions, the war office announces, ex-
cept at one point.
Friday, the German official state
ment claimed successes both north
and south of the Somme and hat the
number of prisoners taken since the
beginning of the drive has increased
to 80, 0 and the guns captured now
total 1900. The French estimate
places German losses at 100000.
Dispatches to Les Nouvelles state
that on the occasion of the last en-
tente allied air raid on Coblenz TWEEN
ty-six persons were killed and 100
wounded. Great damage was done,
the railroad station being demolished
In the last raid on Treves, sixty per
sons were killed and hundreds were
wounded, the railroad station was
damaged and streets in the %neighbor-
hood were heaped with ruins.
WESTERN
During the last two months oil pro
duction increased SO per cent in Okla
homa and AZ per Eel in Kansas.
A. I.,t.1
lery, one of the largest in the Sixth
internal revenue district, into a feed
mill, was begun at Hammond. Ind
Copies of two personal letters writ
ten upon official stationery of the ex-
ecutive office by Gov. G.. w. p. Hunt
to Charles Wolhlschlegel, secretary Of
the Miami branch of the l. w. w, who
is now in jail, were made public by
the federal authorities at Globe, Ariz.
W~olhlschelgel was arrested in a raid
on the l. w. w. hall in Miami.
The average loss by fire in Colorado
for 1917 was only $1.03 per person,
according to insurance figures for the
year. Colorado is the third lowest,
the two lowest being Utah with 50
Ccutb anu INtW htAlCO WIFI Oh CtulS.
WASHINGTON
Orders have bee issued to increase
size of ships being built.
Secretary Bakers tour of inspection
in Europe is about at an end.
Another Germanic peace" offensive
seen in Count Czernin's address.
President Wilson will answer Count
Czernin's peace talk with assurances
that America will fight to a finish"
Official announcement was made by
the State Department that the Japan
csc government has landed armed
forces in Vladivostok.
King George sent greetings to Pres
ident Wilson on the occasion of the
first anniversary of the entry of the
United States into the war.
formulation of a national war labor
policy based on the recent recon-
m%endatiOns of the war labor confer.
ence board was recommended to Pres
ident Wilson by Secretary of Labor
Wilson.
News reached Washington that Italy
has sent a large force to Join General
Foch's reserve army.
War expenses have averaged about
$l3,OOO,00O a day since the first of
July, the Treasury Department an.
nounced.
The great war thus far. has cost over
500, 900, 900, 600, Representative Hull,
Tennessee. financial authority in Con,
gress, estimated.
The first anniversary of the entry
OF the United States into the war
fonnd General PershinR's veterans
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