, 1918-09-12
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, o ZINC 8, ACHIEVE
MENTs, sUFFERINGs. HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union news service.
ABOUT THE WAR


British troops Friday captured
Neuve Chapelle and Bussu.
Since Aug. s, 465 enemy machines
have been brought down by British
airmen.
The British have captured the city
Of Lens. The town of Queant also
has been taken.
In Flanders the British forces have
captured the town of Wulverghem,
two miles southeast of KENNEL.
Mont st. Quentin has been taken by
the Australians, together with Feuil-
l%aucourt. In this surprise attack more
than 1900 prisoners were taken.
Continuing their pressure along the
front from Rheims to Ypres, the al
lied forces are pushing back the Ger
mans on virtually this entire 15O-mile
line.
from the Vesle have captured the
town of Glennes, southeast of Revil-
Ion, and have advanced their lines as
Tar as the outskirts of Villers-en-
Prayeres, on the Aisne.
In the old Noyon salient the French
have captured the important junction
towns of Ham and Chauny with their
railroads and high roads leading re-
spectively into st. Quentin and La
Fere. Across the Canal du Nord they
have penetrated at various points to
a depth exceeding six miles.
Four hundred and sixty-five enemy
machines have been destroyed and
200 disabled since the commencement
Of the offensive on Aug. 8, according
to an official statement on aerial OPP
erations. Sixty-one hostile balloons
were destroyed and oil tons of bombs
dropped on various targets. Two hun
bred and sixteen British machines are
missing.
A British official communication
dealing with the operations of the al
lied forces in the region around Arch
angel. Russia, says: after further
severe h~and-to-hand fighting with an
enemy force led by the Germans, the
allied troops occupied Obozerska.
Prisoners were captured and heavy
losses were inflicted on the enemy.
The allied casualties were slight"
The French and Americans are fast
driving the Germans out of their posi-
tons in southern Picardy and in the
sector between the Vesle and Aisne
rivers. So rapid has been the prog
ress of the allies-the French in Pic
ardy and the Americans and French
from scissors eastward toward
Rheims-that the retirement of the
enemy has the appearance of the be-
ginning almost of a rout. Meanwhile.
Field Marshal Haig in the north, from
Peronne to Ypres, has been almost as
busily engaged with his troops in
carrying out successful
which are only in a slightly less de-
gree of rapidity forcing the Germans
everywhere to give ground.
WESTERN
President Wilson reappointed Ed
ward P. Costigan of Denver to the
Federal Tariff Commission and Claude
R. Porter, C~enterville, Iowa, to be an
assistant attorney general.
The Chicago Board Of Education
voted to discontinue the teaching of
German and all other foreign language
in the elementary schools.
Ninety-three members of the 1. w.
w. including Secretary William d.
Haywood. were placed aboard a spe-
cial train at Chicago. under heavy
guard, to be taken to Fort Leaven-
worth prison to- serve the terms. in
flicted by Federal Judge X. M. Ian
dis, after they had been found guilty
Of violating the espionage act In fight
ing he selective draft and opposing
the war otherwise.
WASHINGTON
The administration water power
leasing bill was passed by the house.
President Wilson has decreed the
cessation of the brewing of beer and
all other malt liquors on Dec. 1 next
and the immediate suspension OF he
purchase of unmalted grains for
brewing.
Graphic stories OF the individual
heroism and daring of f%orty-one Amer
lean officers and men fighting in
France are told In cryptic citations by
Gen. Pershing in awarding them dis
tinguished service CROSSES.
The United States troop transport
Mount Vernon, formerly the German
Kron Prinzessin Cecelie. was tor
pedoed on its homeward voyage. 200
niles off the French coast, but was
able to return to port under its own
steam.
The S12,oo0.o00 emergency agricui-
tural bill with its rider for national
prohibition from next July 1 until the
American armies are demobilized
after the end of the was passed
sept. 9 by the Senate without q roll
call. The measure Roes TO the House.