Taiban Valley news., 1918-02-22
CONDENSED RECORD OF TIL
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DoIN G s, ACHIEVE
MENTs, sL'FFERINos, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union news service.
AROIJT THE WAR

drive.
During the week ending Feb. 10
nineteen British and four italian ships
were sunk.
A state of siege has been proclaimed
at Kiev, according to dispatches re-
ceived from Lemberg.
Rumania has ignored Germany's
twenty-four-hou ultimatum to "con-
clude immediate peace"
The Spanish steamer Ceferino has
been sunk by submarine near Ferro
Island, one of the Canary group.
Harold Alfred Vyvyan st. George
Harmsworth, nephew of Viscount
Northcliffe, died from wounds re-
ceived at Cambria.
The British forces in Palestine made
an advance of two miles on a front of
six miles northeast of Jerusalem, the
London war office announced.
Eight British craft which were hunt
ing submarines have been sunk by a
raiding flotilla of enemy destroyers,
it was announced officially at London.
General Pershing advised the War
Department that ten soldiers reported
missing after the action of Nov. 80
have ben located in German prison
camps
Entente allied airplanes made thirty
one air raids on German territory in
the month of January, says an official
statement issued by the German war
office
Friday, the 18th, the date set by
German newspapers for the starting
the much advertised German Of
fensive, has passed, and no aggression
on the part of the enemy materialized.
British casualties reported for the
week ending Feb. II were 7,077 di-
vided rs follows: Killed or died of
wounds-Officers, 73; men, 1860.
Wounded or missing Officers, 155;
men, 5.489.
The Germans opposed to the Amer
leans made an unsuccessful lombard
ment with gas shells. German air
planes in large numbers also were
driven off by the American machines
and anti-aircraft batteries.
Germany has resolved to resume
military activities against northern
Russia. This decision is said to have
been reached at conference at i'm
perial headquarters, special dispatch
es from Holland say. The mo war
but peace plan of Leon Trotzky, the
Bolshevik foreign minister, was re-
jected and invasion of Great Russia
it is added will continue at any rate
until Petrograd is occupied by Ger
man troops.
On the northern end of the western
front Canadian troops again have been
successful in a raid into the German
lines. In the region of the Butte du
Mesnil, east Of Rheims, American
and French artillerymen are en-
gaging the Germans in violent ex-
changes. South of La Dormoise,
French batteries dispersed a strong
concentration of German troops. On
the italian front and especially be-
tween Lake Garda and the Piave the
artillery activity has increased.
WESTERN
An embargo against the shipment of
any white beans from California was
placed in effect by army authorities.
Carl c. Wright, solicitor general of
the Chicago & Northwestern railway,
died at his home in Evanston, ILL.,.
Wright was So years old.
Revocation of the licenses of food
handlers who make unwarranted in
creases in the price of wheat flour sub
stitutes is threatened by the United
States food administration.
Testifying on behalf of the state, w.
G. Clark declared that Felix Jones, on
trial at El Paso, Tex, for the murder
of Thomas Lyons, millionaire cattle
man of Silver City. N. NJ, told him he
killed Lyons with an iron bar.
WASHINGTON
Archibald B. Roosevelt was named
captain of infantry in the national
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ant
Military organizations and patriotic
societies throughout the United States
observed the twentieth anniversary of
the destruction of the battleship Maine
in the harbor of Havana, Cuba, on the
night of Feb. IA, 1898.
D. H. Bender, general auditor for the
Emergency Fleet corporation, submit
ted to the Senate commerce commit
tee statement showing total expendi
lures at the Hog Island shipyard up to
Jan. 81 last, to be $685. 3,362.6S. The
amount for the construction of the
yards, which are only partly complet
ed, was $19,O29, ,97242 and for ships $4,-
283,390.26.
Mark L. Requa, head Of the oil di-
vision Of the fuel administration, ap-
pointed T. A. O'Donnell of Los Ange-
les to take charge Of oil production