The Colorado statesman., 1918-11-02
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST WEEK
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTs
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
ABOUT THE WAR

Allied troops maintain their prog
ress east of the Piave and have taken
more than $1,000 prisoners.
British casualties for the week
ended October 2S numbered 32,249,
compared with 37,150 for the previous
week.
Eighteen enemy airplanes were shot
down Tuesday by American aviators.
Five American machines were lost in
carrying out important reconnaissance
missions.
The British have captured Maihg,
southeast of Valenciennes, and Vende-
decentralization. on the front below
Valenciennes. A German counter at
tack was repulsed.
The British advancing in Mesopo-
tamia have cut the road from Sherg-
het to Mosul, one of the principal
Turkish lines of communication. This
probably will force the Turks 10 fall
back on Mosul.
Genera! Debeney's army has won
signal victory. The German forces
holding the Serre-Oise front are in re-
treat and the whole German line be-
tween Chateau Porcien and the Ar
gonne is in danger of being turned.
Between Sept. IL when the st. Mi
hiel drive began, and Oct. 19, United
States fliers brought down 261 Ger
man planes which represented one
seventh of the total flying strength OF
the enemy from the Swiss border 10
the sea.
In the Italian theater, over a front
of nearly forty miles from the Bretna
to the middle reaches of the Piave
river, the British, French and Italian
armies are developing with success
an offensive against the Austro-Hun-
garians and are swiftly driving them
from the mountain passes toward the
Austrian frontier across the plains
east of the Piave in northern Italy.
American reserves are behind the
lines prepared to aid the allies when
the opportune time arrives.
In all the battle zones the allies are
meeting with marked success, says
Mondays report. In France the Ger
man battle line is slowly disintegrat-
ing under the violence of the allied Of
fensive; in northern Italy the Austro-
Hungarians are being forced back by
the British, French and Italians with
heavy losses in men killed, wounded
or made prisoner; near the shores of
the Adriatic in Albania the Italians
are driving the Austrians toward the
Montenegro frontier, while in Asiatic
Turkey, both in Syria and Mesopo-
tamia, the British are fast clearing the
Turks from their former strongholds.
More than 5000 Austrians were taken
prisoner in the operations on the
Italian front.
WESTERN
The Canadian casualty list Monday
night gave the name of P. d. Barnett,
Denver, among the wounded
Thomas ]. Foley of Omaha, well
known sportsman and bosom COM
panion of Buffalo Bill Cody, died of
general breakdown.
Police raided hotel in the business
district of El Paso, Tex, and seized
$4,000 worth of liquor stored there.
William Mccoy, proprietor of the
hotel, was arrested.
Between $1,000 and $4,000 men EN-
ployed in Los Angeles shipyards soon
will have an average wage increase of
10 per cent with a basic rate of 80
cents an hour for most of the skilled
trades.
The mountain division of the Red
Cross has issued an urgent call for
volunteers, both men and women, who
will go to the towns in the division
where influenza is still raging, and as
sist the doctors and nurses in check
ing the disease.
WASHINGTON
New cases of influenza and pneu-
monia continued Tuesday to show a
slight increase in army camps over
the country, particularly in camps
where new increments are arriving.
Reports received October 30 show new
cases of influenza numbered 2,S60,
against 1881 for the previous day,
while there was a marked increase in
new pneumonia cases, GIG being re-
ported, against 431 for Monday. Deaths
totaled 1873 against 1888 the day before.
The surgeon general of the army an
ncunced that vaccination against
pneumonia is available now for every
officer enlisted man and civilian en-
ploye of the army. The vaccine is
said to have been proved to prevent
pneumonia following influenza.
Continued aviation activity on the
front of the First American army in
spite of poor weather was reported by
General Pershing in a second CON-
munique for Monday Three enemy
aeroplanes and an observation balloon
were shot down, and all the American
machines returned.