, 1918-08-22
AN EPITOME OF
LATE LIVE NEWS
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS. o o II c 8, ACHIEVE.
MENTs. SUFFERINGs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union views Service.
ABOUT THE WAR


ground at the apex of the Lys salient
in Flanders.
The Canadians captured the village
of Porvillers. A number of machine
guns and prisoners were taken.
Allied pressure has been effectively
renewed against the German line in
the region of Roye, on the Picardy bat
tie front.
All hostile positions between the
western outskirts of Bray and Etine-
hem have fallen into the hands of the
Australians.
1t is believed in London that because
of the scarcity of reserves the Ger
mans will fight on the defensive on
their present line.
Twenty-Five German airplans we're
destroyed and six driven out of con
troll Wednesday, and fifteen British
airplanes are missing.
The Germans reached Belmont,
about a mile southeast of L~assigny,
to which they retired, following a new
advance by the French.
The town of Ribecourt, on the road
leading to Noyon and six and one
quarter miles southwest of that town,
was captured by the French.
After an extremely bitter contest,
the British and Americans have
gained a foothold in the important lit
tie town of Bray-sur-Somme, on the
northern bank of the Somme.
Sharp fighting continues east of Ar
man court. Just east of Lassigny there
was a lively combat for Chasseurs'
trench, in the middle of Plessier park.
The fighting ended in a victory for
the French.
Allied forces occupied Villers-les-
Roye and st. Aurin, and reached their
old line trenches east of Armancourt
Friday. Farther north they pressed
Onward toward the Chaulnes-Roye
line, taking Damery wood.
French and Canadian troops have
made progress against the Germans
oy er a front o. more than three miles
between Goyencourt and Laucourt,
west of Roye, according to the French
official communication. The Bots des
Loges, live miles south of 'Roye, also
has been penetrated deeply by the
French.
From Archangel allied troops have
made good progress southwark toward
Vologda and apparently are operating
in three columns against the Bolshe-
wiki, whose opposition is reported to
have been fairly determined. The &C.
cupation of Baku by British troops
who anne north through Persia from
Bagdad is a blow to German and Turk
ish pretenses in the Caucasus.
WESTERN
James B. Neale, director OF produc-
ton of the fuel administration, an
nounced the appointment of twenty
eight production managers in the prin-
cipal coal fields of the country. Among
the production managers are A. X.
Craig, Montana and northern Wyo-
ming: Thomas Sheldon, Utah and
southern Wyoming; ]. F. Welborn,
Colorado, and George T. Brown, New
Mexico.
All street car lines and automobile
buses operated by the Tucson Rapid
Transit Company were tied up at Tue
son, Ariz., when employees went on
strike after a demand for a 7-cent flat
increase per hour had been refused.
WASHINGTON
France was given a loan of 5000,
900, 900 by the Treasury, bringing the
total credits to France to S2,065, 0O0,-
900.
Twenty-eight members of the Ma
tional Woman's party were in the Dis
trict of Columbia Jail as the result of
their second attempt to hold a suf-
frage meeting about the La Fayette
statue.
An s per cent exemption, in addition
to a specific $4,000 exemption on the
excess profits of corporations. with a
tax Of 40 per CEN on all excess profits
between s per cent and 20 per cent
n q tax OF GO per cent on all excess
profits exceeding 20 per cent, was
agreed upon by the House ways and
ear COMMITTEES. The committee, in
writing this schedule into the sS,0O0,-
GOO, 900 revenue bill, also adopted the
t%reasury's alternative plan for a flat 80
per cent tax on war profits.
Four million American soldiers can
defeat the German army in the belief
of General March, chief of staff, and
present plans of the Wal Department
call for more than that number under
arms next summer. with some 100000
Of them, or eighty divisions, in France
by June 80.
w. P. G. Harding of Birmingham,
Ala, was designated by President VIII
o to his third successive term as
governor of the federal reserve board.
The American people have bought
$500. 000. 900 of Wa Savings and Thrift
Stamps.