Tombstone epitaph., 1918-03-17
THE WORLD IN
 PARAGRAPHS
4 0RiEF RECORD OF PASSING EsEMTs iN THIS AND FOR
 EicN coUNTRies.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
DolMcs AND HAPPENINGS THAT MARK IHG PROGRESS
 OF rhe ACE.
ABOUT THE WAR

A0OOT THE WAX
 There was much aerial activity. the American antiair batteries driving of. number of enemies
 American troops are now holding over eight miles of trenches On the battle front of France.
 Eighteen British merchantmen were sunk by mine or submarine in the week ending March g.
 Again the Germans in Lorraine have attacked the American troops and again they have met with defeat.
 Opposition to the Germans is said 10 be greater in the Moscow and pro vincial councils than in Petrograd.
 Narva. 100 miles southwest Of Pet trograd. has been captured by the Ger mans and the enemy Is reported 10 be continuing his advance on Petrograd
 The American steamship Armenia. formerly a German merchantman. lies British coast after being torpedoed by German submarine.
 Official announcement was made by the admiralty in London that the Brit ish armed mercantile cruiser Caigar- ian was torpedoed and sunk on March 1. Two officers and forty-six men were lost.
 The British liner Bulgarian has been torpedoed off the Irish coast There were 6l0 persons aboard, nearly 500 Of whom have been landed at Irish ports The Bulgarian was struck by four tor pedoes.
 The Germans are still adding to the number of their divisions on the west ern front, Gen F. B. Maurice. chief di- rector of military operations at the war office, declared in his weekly talk in London.
 The Germans after bombarding the lines of the British forces west of Lens launched an attack, but the British easily repulsed it. :nflicting heavy cas- ualties or the Teutons. Severa. Ger mans were captured.
 Forty-three American soldiers had been killed in action fin France at the end ot March 2. while 252 had been wounded and thirty-five captured or missing, according to Washington War Department information.
 Premier Clemenceau, who spent a day on the American front northwest of Foul, decorated two lieutenants, two sergealts and two privates with the croix de suerre with the palm fo- heroism which they displayed in the recent German raid.
 A preliminary peace treaty between Rumania and the Central Powers was signed March ,. says a dispatch from Bucharest Under the terms of the preliminary peace agreement, Ruma mia cedes the province of Dobrudja as far as the Danube to the central pow CTS. Rumania also undertakes to fur ther the transport of Teutonic troops through Moldavia and Bessarabia to Odessa
 WESTERN
 The Legislature of Wisconsin con- demned Senator Robert M. La Toilette as disloyai to the national government when the Assembly by a vote of B to g concurred in the Senate amended resolution.
 Ole Hanson, former member of the ,Wsss!.stc. State Legislature. was chosen mayor of Seattle by a majority os more than $500 votes over James E. Bradford, former corporation counsel.
 William J. Bryan. on March .ls. the anniversary of his birth, will be the principal speaker at . mass meeting at Lincoln of dry" organizations at which time plans will be made to cam paign to elect members to the Ne braska Legislature who would be fav- orably inclined toward the federal pro- hibition amendment.
 WASHM0rON
 President Wilson nominated Thomas Rigss. IT., to be governor of Alaska
 Oversubscription of the issue of $500, ,0O0, 900 treasury certificates of in debtedness was announced by Secre- tary McAdoo.
 Establishment of thirteen employ. ment offices devoted to obtaining posi-. tions for women and girls was an nounced by the United States employ ment service
 More than Sl..Oeo. .OO0. 600 worth of insurance has been written on the lives Of American soldiers. sailors and nurses by the war risk insurance bu Feau. Secretary McAdoo announced.
 The work of the destruction of Bel gian industry and deportation of civil ians by the Germans continues An Of. ficial dispatch said refugees from Bel gium report that dynamite is being used to destroy machines and equip ment in factories in the Mons district
 Norway continues to suffer heavily from German submaripe operations and other var Iosses- Twelve vessels aggregate 1923 gross tons and valued at abost Sa,000.000 were sunk b Feb ruary. and nineteen seameu lost theiI vves. while twenty men are missins