Taiban Valley news., 1918-03-08
AN EP|TOME OF
LATE LIVE NE EWS
CONDENSED RECORD OF TIL E
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DoIN G s, ACHIEVE.
MENTS, SUFFERlNGS, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union news service
ABOUT THE WAR

week ending Feb. 27.
German trench raiding operations
have been repulsed by the French in
several sectors of the line.
British troops carried out success
full raids north of the Ypres-Staden
railroad and captured few prisoners
No French vessel of more than 1,6OO
tons was sunk by enemy mines or sub
marines in the week ended Feb. 23.
The British losses during February
were the smallest since last winter
In the month just passed they totaled
only 19,492.
Teutons near Butte Du Mesnil cap
tured a section of a French position,
but an immediate counter attack
evicted them.
A report that 10000 German sol
diers refused to attack the Russians
in the new campaign was given out by
the Bolshevik at Petrograd.
"A London Times telegram from
Italian headquarters states that one
been ruined by enemy air raids.
The finding at sea of the body of
John McCoskey of Watervliet, N. Y,
has increased to PIP the number OF
Americans lost on the transport Tus-
cania.
English troops carried out sue
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trenches on Greenland hill, north OF
the Scarpe river" says the London
war office report.
Americans north of Chemin-des-
Danes have taken part in repulsing
German attack. A German official
! statement says that ten Americans
were taken prisoner in the latter Sec
tor.
On the Italian front, since the ar
rival of the British airmen to the pres
ent time, fifty-eight enemy machines,
principally German, have been des-
troyed. The British losses for the
same period were eight.
Saturdays report says three
columns of Germans are advancing in
to Russia. One is near Luga, midway
between Pskov and Petrograd; one is
said to be at Polotsk, midway between
Pinsk and Vitensk, and the other is
at Sebezh, eighty miles east of
Dvinsk. An official report says that
the Germans had reached the right
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Kiev. 1t was announced in a dispatch
that Austrian troops have begun to
advance into Ukraine.
Seventy-five enemy aircraft were
brought down by the Royal Flying
corps on the western front from Feb.
1 to %, inclusive, according to an an
nouncement by the British air minis
try. During the same period thirty
nine enemy aircraft were driven down
rout of control and six enemy aircraft
were brought down by anti-aircraft de-
fenses and infantry. Against these
120 machines of the enemy, says the
statement, twenty-eight of the allies
are missing. The weight of bombs
dropped during the month of Feb. %,
was sixty-five tons.
American troops have repulsed a
heavy German attack north of Toul.
A number of Americans killed and
wounded. The Germans left ten dead
in the American trenches, while the
ground in front was strewn with the
bodies of the enemy.
WESTERN
James F. Markey, for five years
auditor of Denver and four years a
member of the City Council, died at
St Anthony's hospital from heart
failure.
Lieut.. ]. w. Weissinger was instant
ly killed and w. C. Story suffered in
juries from which he died when two
military airplanes collided at Park
field at Memphis, Tenn.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, made
an appeal at Chicago in behalf of an
eight-hour day for employees in the
meat packing industry at the stock
yards wage arbitration.
The names of the following Ameri-
cans appear in the Canadian casualty
list: Killed in action, c. A. Husband,
Galveston, Tex. Gassed, c. Halt,
Durango, Colo; G. X. Bowden, Will
low Ranch, Cal.
Eugene ]. Deane Of Mexico, Mo-,
was found guilty in the Federal Dis
trict Court at st. Louis of attempting
to interfere with the operation Of the
selective draft law by offering to put
drugs in the eyes of William Johnson
that his sight might seem defective.
WASHINGTON
The money cost Of the war to the
United States still is running near ST.
)00,000,000 a month.
The bill to govern federal operation
Of railroads was passed by the House
by vote of 3S7 to 6.