The Ordway new era., 1918-08-23
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, o DIN G ., ACHIEVE
MENTs, suFFERINGs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
swestsrn Newspaper Union news service
ABOUT THE WAR

ground at the apex OF the Lys saiieht
in Flanders.
The Canadians captured the village
of Parvillers. 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.
Ali hostile positions between the
western outskirts of Bray and Etine-
hem have fallen into the hands OF the
Australians.
II 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 were
destroyed and six driven out of con-
troll Wednesday, and fifteen British
airplanes are missing.
The Germans reached Blemont,
about mile southeast of Lassigny.
to which they retired, following new
advance by the French.
The town of Ribecourt, on the road
leading to Noyon and six and one
was captured by the French.
After an extremely bitter contest,
the British and Americans have
gained 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 lively combat for Chasseurs'
trench in the middle of Plessier park.
The fighting ended in 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
forward toward the Chaulnes-Roye
line, taking Damery wood.
French and Canadian troops have
made progress against the Germans
q, er a froh; o. more than three miles
between Goyencourt and Laucourt.
west OF Roye. according to the French
official communication. The Bois des
Loges, rive 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 oc-
cupation of Baku by British troops
who came north through Persia from
Bagdad is blow to German and Turk
ish pretenses In the Caucasus.
WESTERN
James B. Neale, director OF produc-
tion 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 Sneddon. Utah and
southern Wyoming; ]. F. Welborn,
Colorado. and George T. Brown, New
Mexico.
All street car lines and automobile
busses operated by the Tucson Rapid
Transit Company were tied up at Tue
son, Ariz., when employees went on
strike after demand for 7-cent flat
increase per hour had been refused.
WASHINGTON
France was given loan of $780,
100000 by the Treasury, bringing the
total credits to France to $2,O65 ,000,-
600.
Twenty-eiaht 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 suf
frage meeting about the La Fayette
statue.
An per cent exemption, in addition
to specific $4,000 exemption on the
excess profits of corporations. with a
tax of 40 per cent on all excess profits
between s per cent and 20 per cent
and tax of 60 per cent on all excess
profits exceeding 20 per cent, was
agreed upon by the House ways and
means committee. The committee, in
writing this schedule into the IS 1000.
100000 revenue bill. also adopted the
treasury's alternative plan for 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 War Department
call for more than that number under
arms next summer, with some 3,200,0 900
of them, or eighty divisions. In France
by June 30
w. P. G. Harding of Birmingham.
Ala. was designated by President VIII
son to his third successive term as
governor of the federal reserve board.
The American people have bought
s5oo,OOO,OO0 Of War Savings and Thrift
Stamps.