Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-03-01
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ABOUT THE WAR

An1 Wal
German army continues unimpeGed
march into Russia.
Entente aviators downed fifty-seyen
Germans In three days.
Secretary Baker is not alarmed
ever prospects OF German offensive.
Just two hours after the armistice
ended German troops entered Dvinsk.
The French took 525 prisoners in
their raid in Lorraine, the war office
announced in Paris.
New Zealand troops carried out a
successful raid east Of Polygon wood,
on the Flanders front.
A German attack at Four de Paris,
- the Argonne, has been repulsed
with losses by the French.
A regiment Of Esthonian troops
has gone over to the Germans, the
Berlin war office announces.
The main committee of the Reich
slug adopted the peace treaty be-
tween Germany and the Ukraine.
The British forces in Palestine have
captured the city Of Jericho, Aus
tralian troops entering the city on
Thursday.
A large number Of German guns are
opposite the American sector. Among
them are some sS's, probably from
the Russian front.
The German navy has invested Re-
val, the great Russian naval base on
the Gulf of Finland. The Russian
navy is reported as ~demobillzed and
demoralized.
The Berlin war office announces
that 1853 guns and between 1000 and
and 5000 motor cars have been cap
tured from the Russians thus far in
the new campaign.
Russian troops are evacuating
Pskoff, 100 miles southwest Of Petro-
grad, and are also reported fleeing
from the city of Polotsk. In the cap
ture Of Minsk the Germans gained
1900 guns and 5000 prisoners.
Marked aerial activity continues on
the western front and entente avia-
tors in three days brought down or
disabled fifty-seven German airplanes.
British and French airmen have not
let up in their bombing attacks on i'm
portant points in German Lorraine.
With a proclamation signed by Mix
olaf Lenine, as premier, and Ensign
Krylenko, as cOmmander-in-chief. the
Bolshevik government has called up
on all Russians to join in a fight to
the death against the German inva-
sion.
WESTERN
The Pullman Company is engaged in
the elimination Of German names
from its cars.
The canned salmon supply of the
Pacific Northwest was comman'
deered by the government.
The Montana Legislature s~ignalized
Washington's birthday by adopting a
resolution asking Congress to grant
nationwide suffrage.
Governor Philip of Wisconsin
called a special election for April
10 choose a United States senator to
fill the vacancy caused by the death
last October Of Paul o. Husting.
Thirteen persons were injured in a
wreck OF a Northern Pacific passen
ger train near Miles City, Mont.
Cheyalier Giuseppe Gentle as
sumed his duties at Denver as ltal
ian consul general for Colorado, New
Mexico, Kansas, Nebraska, North anC
South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming
He succeeds Chevalier Oreste Davella
former consul general. who has beer
transferred I San Francisco.
WASHINGTON
Garfield to put into effect new fue
regulations
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion authorized the Morgan line ant
the Southern Pacific railroad to In
crease rail and water commOditl
rates on traffic from New York ant
Norfolk to Galveston by water and Il
California by rail to the level OF all
rail- routes.
An economic agreement with Spain
under which General Pershing VII
get mules, army blankets and othe
materials In that country In returI
for cotton, oil and other cOmmoditie
from the United states, was signed II
Madrid. The State Department wa
30 advised by Ambassador Willard.
Available shipping tonnage 70
United States and allies on increase
The first American built planes ar
enroute to France, nearly five month
ahead Of the original schedule.
Another $500. OOO. 900 block Of treai
ury certificates OF Indebtedness 4
preparation for the third Liberty loa
was offered for subscription by See
Rotary McAdoO.
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will form Americas first line draft r.
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