The Ordway new era., 1918-05-17
CONDENSED RECORD OF TIL E
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, D IN G 8, ACHIEVE
MENTs, sUFFERlNGS. HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union Tvews Service
ABOUT THE WAR

Artillery fire continues heavy on
Italian front.
Americans repulse German raid on
Picardy front.
Germans continue "frightfulness'
bombardment on Amiens.
Six more Americans have been dec
Grated with the croix de guerre.
British casualties reported during
the week ending May reached to-
tai of 3S.691..
British hold firm on western front
and repulse repeated German attacks
regaining some positions lost.
French troops captured Grivesnes
Park, five miles northwest of Mont
didier, the Paris war office announces.
Russian warships have bombarded
German forces in the harbor of Mar
tupol, the Berlin war office announced.
Tuesday, May I. was the third ami
versary of the sinking of the Lusitania
by German submarine with loss OF
1,275 lives.
Six German aeroplanes were
brought down Thursday by Sublieu-
tenant Rene Fonck, the Paris war of
flee announces.
Rostov-on-the-Don, the largest city
in the Don Cossack territory and near
the mouth of the Don river. has been
occupied by the Germans.
North of the Somme, the Austral-
ians advanced 700 yards on 1900
yard front Sunday, and early Monday
they added another 500 yards on p
000-yard front.
In air fighting British aviators
have accounted for twenty-nine Ger
man machines. twenty-five of which
were destroyed. One enemy airplane
was brought down by rifle fire.
British troops on May entered the
Turkish town of Ke-kuk, eighty miles
southeast of Mosul. in Mesopotamia.
the British war office announced. The
British met with no opposition. The
Turks on retiring left 600 men in the
Kerkuk hospital.
British naval forces again raided
the German naval base at Ostend, on
the Belgian coast. blockading the en-.
trance to the harbor by sinking the
old cruiser Vindictive, which partici-
pated in the recent raid on Zeebrugge.
The previous raid, which was carried
out early on the morning of April 90,
was conducted simultaneously against
Ostend and Zeebrugge. The latter
port is believed to have been COM
pletely blocked through the sinking
of two concrete-filled cruisers In the
channel.
WESTERN
Liberty bonds of the first and sec.
ond issues may not be converted into
bonds of the third issue until July /,
according to word from government
heaquarters.
That the National Socialist party
has entered into an agreement to
raise funds for the defense of the In
dustrial Workers of the World, on
trial before Judge Landis in Chicago
on charges of violation of the espion-
age laws, was denied at Socialist
headquarters.
Nineteen deaths, twelve in Iowa and
seven in Illinois, and property loss
estimated at more than $1,000, 900,
was the total taken by Thursdays tor.
nado which swept through Iowa and
Illinois. Approximately $50 persons
were more or less seriously injured
WASHINGTON
Approximately 40 per cent of the
men in the United States now listed
In class one will be called to the col
ors this year.
Wheat flour substitutes should sell
from 10 to 90 per cent less than wheat
flour, Food Administrator Hoover no
titled state food administrators.
With work on the third Libert,
loan unfinished. the treasury's loar
publicity bureau has started prepare
be held next fall
More than 10000 communities wor
Liberty loan honor flags by subscrib
ing or oversubscribing their quotas
Reports to the treasury show that tn,
Chicago district won 1855 flags
Minneapolis 3.041, Cleveland 1893
Boston 1898. Atlanta sol, Philadel
phia 1852. and st. Louis, which CAV,
flags only to full counties. 1876.
Senator Hltcncock OF Nebraska wa
made chairman of the Senate foreigi
relations committee. Mr.. Hitchcock
who was senior Democratic membe
of the committee. succeeds the lat
Senator Stone in rearrangement O
Democratic committee assignment
caused by recent deaths of severa
senators.
A nj fnr hn tp
of the evils tormenting humanity. dul
ing mass on st. Peters day, June 2s
is urged by Pope Benedict in spt