The Colorado statesman., 1918-09-21
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK or
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST WEEK
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTs
CONDEMNED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
Western Newspaper Union news rervies.
ABOUT THE WAR

Japanese cavalry and an infantry
battalion captured the enemy naval
base of Khabarovsk on Sept. I, ac-
Toxic.
In Macedonia the allied forces con-
tinue their offensive against the Bull
garians with success. Important po-
sitions have been taken and more
than 1900 prisoners captured.
Gen. Petain's veterans are forging
ahead slowly but surely in their grim
and desperate struggle for the st. Co
balm forest, which the Germans have
been ordered to hold at all costs.
1t seems probable that a new and
mighty blow against the Teutonic
armies in France will be the allies
answer to the peace proposals voiced
by Austria on behalf OF the central
powers.
Maissemy, a village five miles north
west of St Quentin, has been captured
by the British. This adds another i'm.
portant position to those recently
taken along the ridges west of st.
Quentin.
The Germans apparently are with
drawing along the whole thirtythree
mile front between Abeaucourt and the
MoselIe in an effort to improve the
protection OF communications in the
vicinity of Metz.
The French took 1000 prisoners in
the St. Mihiel operations, including D.
600 Austrians, making total of more
than 27,0OO prisoners taken by the
Americans and French, the Echo de
Paris announced.
British aviators have again bombed
the railways at Metz-Sablons and
Mainz, and docks and sidings at Karls-
ruhe. Seventeen direct hits We're OBJ
tanned on the Karlsruhe objectives, ac-
cording to the London air ministry
communication.
American, British and French de-
tachments are reported by the Petro-
grad Pravda to have met the Boil
shevik forces in battle on the Arch
angel front. The Bolshevik troops,
after an initial success, We're repulsed
by British reinforcements and fled in
panic.
The British gained ground Tuesday
in the neghborhood of Holnon vii
lage, northwest of St Quentin, ac-
cording to Field Marshal Haig's re-
port. A German post west of La Bas-
see was captured. New posts were
established northeast of Neuve Cha
pelle and in the neighborhood of
Ploegsteert.
Japanese cavalry and an infantry
battalion have captured the enemy
naval base of Khabarovsk, according
TO Toxic official announcement.
They took seventeen gunboats, four
other vessels, a wireless station, 120
guns, eight ammunition depots, seven
magazines, one munition warehouse,
seventy horses, seven automobiles,
barbed wire and much other material.
WESTERN
Women to fight fires In place of
men called to war is suggestion
brought to a convention at Oakland,
Cal, of Pacific coast fire chiefs by
Chief William II. Bywater of Salt
Lake City.
Twenty-Five soldiers were killed and
between fifty and sixty more were in
jured Tuesday night when a freight
and troop train crashed together one
mile east of Marshfield, Mo.
The increased acreage of sugar
beets produced in Utah this year will
supply the population of Utah with
sugar for one year. under the present
ration of two pounds per month per
person, it was announced at the Fed
eral Food Administrations office in
Salt Lake.
WASHINGTON
George Martin Dem.), appointed
to succeed the late Senator James OF
Kentucky, took the oath of office in
the Senates
Fifty-five hundred styles of rubber
footwear have been eliminated for the
duration of the war and remaining
types are restricted, the War Indus
tries Board announced
Spanish influenza now has become
epidemic in three army camps, Sur
geon General Gorgas announced,
There are 1900 cases at Camp Dew
ems, Massachusetts; 1000 at Camp
Lee, Virginia, and $50 at Camp Up
ton, New York.
Secret activities against the Unit
ed States and the allies by the Ger
man-paid and controlled Russian Boil
shevik government are the subject of
Tuesdays chapter of confidential
documents from Russia given to the
public by the American government.
Frederick c. Howe, the federal i'm
migration commissioner at New York,
was attacked by Senator Lodge, Re
publican leader, during his speech APP
proving President Wilson's rejection
of Germany's peace feeler, as a writer
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