Taiban Valley news., 1918-05-03
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DoIN G 8, ACHIEVE.
MENTs, sUFFERINGs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union news Service.
ABOUT THE WAR

lated in Podolia by Ukrainian peasants
who refused the soldiers demands foI
food supplies.
The total losses of the brigade OF
marines with the American expedi'
tionary force in France so far report
ed was announced by Maj. Gen. Bar
nett, commandant of the corps, as 27S.
AT Villers-Bretonneux the British
Friday held their lines and completed
the work of clearing out the last Ger
man positions on the ground held be-
fore the German attack on Wednesday.
The slaughter caused by the small
British tanks among a concentration
of the enemy near Cachy in Wednes-
days fighting appears to have been
even greater than was originally re-
ported.
The American troops in the Seiche-
prey fight, additional details show,
were outnumbered, in some instances,
eight to one. Latest advices are that
the American casualties are much un-
der the first estimates.
American troops made a successful
trench raid over the heights of the
Meuse, in the vicinity of Vaux-Les-Pal-
ameiax (on the front below Verdun,
nine miles north of st. MihieD. Their
French comrades harassed the enemy
In the same way at number of places
in Lorraine and in the Vosges.
The French Friday attacked Kem-
mel hill, and furious battle was rag
respondent at British headquarters in
France. The Germans have attacked
from La Clytte to the Ypres-C Confines
canal, the dispatch adds. The Franco
British armies, attacking from Villiers-
Bretonneux to opposite Hangard, have
made progress.
The Associated Press learns from
high naval source that the operations
at Zeebrugge were a complete success,
with the result that the Flanders flo
tilla now will be obliged to resort to
the Ostend route in putting to sea,
from which the British forces can
more easily handle the German ships.
In addition to the damage done the
mole and the German guns, material
and shipping, the channel has been
blocked by the cement ships and a
German dredger was destroyed.
WESTERN
Thomas Armstrong, prosperous far
mer, living six miles south Of Roches-
ter, Mimi, shot and instantly killed his
wife and fatally wounded his 13-year-
old stepson at their home. Armstrong
escaped.
Judge Waller W. Graves, chief JUS
tice of the Missouri Supreme Court,
was offered the senatorship to sue
ceed the late William ]. Stone. Cover
nor Gardner offered the seat to Graves
shortly after he received word from
Champ Clark declining the appoint
ment.
Twenty-six acts of heroism were rec
ognized by the Carnegie hero fund
commission in spring session at Pitts
burgh, Pa Five silver medals and
twenty-one bronze medals were award
ed. Several money awards were made,
including benefits to the dependents
Of two who lost their lives.
WASHINGTON
President Wilson made a second
subscription to the Third Liberty Loan
taking $4,000 worth Of bonds.
fri b,,t;nna 80 fand 40
the civilian populations Of the allies in
creased enormously during March.
The country faces a coal shortage of
75,000,000 tons next winter, it was an
nounced by the fuel administration.
Leading telephone companies last
year earned $75,96O,219 or 100000
less than in 1916, the Interstate Com
merce Commission reported.
The acreage of oats sown in the fall
of 1917, for harvest in 1918, is esti-
mated by the department of agricul-
ture to be about 2,372,OO0 acres, as
compared with 2,424,O00 acres of win
ter sown oats harvested in 1917.
Holland has placed an embargo on
the expectation from the Dutch East
Indies of tin, tin ore, cinchona bark,
quinine, quinine salts and kapok, all
of which are needed in large quantities
by the United States for war purposes.
The House adopted the Senate res
olution for the registration for military
service of young men who have
reached the age of 21 years since
June 8, last.
Belgium was granted another credit |
Of $3,250,000 by the treasury, making |
her total borrowings from the United |
States $107S5O,O0O and credits to all |
the allies $5,2SS. $4,000.
The Third Liberty Loan, rounding
into the home stretch April 26, swept
past the $2,OOO,OOO,OoO mark as patri-
,tic celebrations throughout the ma
ion marked Liberty day.