The Colorado statesman., 1918-01-05
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

General Pershing reported eleven
deaths in army.
British casualties reported in De-
cember reached a total of 1887.
American cavalrymen pursue bor-
der bandits into Mexico and kill ten
in running fight.
Brilliant fighting by Italian and
British aviators completed rout of re-
cent Austrian air attack.
Three towns were raided and looted
and Southern Pacific de Mexico
train held up by bandits operating be-
tween Nogales, Ariz., and Cananea,
Sonora.
Still further progress has been made
by the British in Palestine, north of
Jerusalem. The Turks in the fighting
of the last few days have lost more
than 1000 killed and $50 prisoners.
A German submarine was sunk by
the fire of guns of an American pas
Benger steamer approaching the Brit
ish coast according to reports of the
passengers and gunners aboard.
There was little doing in France and
Belgium New Years day. The Ger
man war office reported a gain of
ground by the army of the Crown
Prince of Bavaria, south of Marcoing,
in the Cambria sector.
On the northern front the infantry
again was idle on New Years. The
big guns of both sides are keeping up
intensive duels, particularly around
Monte Tomba and on the Asiago
plateau.
Provisional agreement on a series
of important points, including liberia
tion OF war prisoners and resumption
of commercial relations, was reached
by the delegates of Russia and the
Central powers at Brcst-Litovsk.
Three British torpedo boat destroy
ers were sunk through being struck
by torpedoes or hitting a mine off the
Dutch coast on the night of Dec. %
with a loss of thirteen officers and
180 men, the admiralty announced at
London.
The Italians have dealt another Sc
we're blow to the Austrians, ousting
them from the famous Zenson loop on
the lower reaches of the Piave, and
driving them across the river. This
stroke has cleared the entire right
bank of the invaders. except far to
the north, where the battle line runs
westward from the stream through the
hill region.
The battle between the Kaledines
Cossacks and Bolshevihd troops has
been resumed at Kursk, midway be-
tween Moscow and Rostov, on the
Don. 1t is reported that there have
been heavy casualties in the three
days fighting. The Bolsheviki are re-
ported to, have occupied Poltava, the
scene of the historic battle between
Peter the Great and Charles of Swed-
en-. There is a famine in the govern
ment of Moscow.
WESTERN
A Mexican, who tried to cross the
international boundary at Nogales,
Ariz., without passport and failed to
halt at the command of sentries, was
shot and killed.
wine, women, gasoline and care
lessness" cost the lives of 362 per
sons in automobile accidents in Chi
cago in 1917, according to the report
of Coroner Hoffman.
Lieut.. Fleet Heard, machine gun
company, 357th Infantry, Ninetieth
Division, was killed by a bullet fired
by a military policeman at Camp
Travis, San Antonio, Tex.
H. r. Gladback of Fort Wayne, Ind,
civilian aviation instructor, and Cadet
r. A. Seguin of Rouse's Point, N. Y,
were killed when their machine fell
300 feet at San Antonio, Tex.
Revenue collections for the District
of Colorado. covering the states of
Colorado and Wyoming. for the year
ending June 80, 1917, amounted to $3,-
524,979.34; OF this 3.1S4,642.63 was
collected in Colorado, and the balance,
$340. .336.71, came from Wyomirg
w SHINGTON
Fifteen hundred farm tractors will
be sent to France by the Food Admin
istration for use in increasing the
French food crops. One hundred al
ready have gone forward and all will
be across by fIarch, when the spring
plowing begins.
Two men were killed and six severe
ly injured at the Philadelphia Navy
Yard by the explosion OF four-inch
boiler tube.
The voice of Washington still re-
sounds and he shows the path to tri.
umph through sacrifice, says Presi.
dent Poincare of france in a New
Year greeting to the American people
President Wilson paid persona
visit to the offices of the Shipping
Board and conferred for half an hour