The Colorado statesman., 1918-05-18
NEWS TO DATE
IN PARAGRAPHS
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING The PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOP.=.
ABOUT THE WAR

An American patrol In Plcardy met
and routed German patrol of twenty
men.
Italian troops stormed Monte Corno
and took about 100 prisoners, two guns
and four machine guns.
Eleven hostile airplanes were
brought down. British aviators sue
cessfully bombed enemy hutments
near Asiago.
German prisoners declare that Lu-
dendorff is prepared to sacrifice l.
100000 men to reach the channel ports
in order to menace England with in
vasion
In Mesopotamia, the British forces
have progressed further up the Tigris
and have captured Kirkut. pursuing
the Turks for twenty miles to the
northward.
Bolshevik troops have penetrated
more than $50 mills south into Mon
golia from the Siberian border below
Ikurtsk, according to dispatch filed
at Tien Tsin.
Lively fighting continues in the
Monte Corno region, south of Asiago,
with the Italians throwing back repeat
ed Austrian efforts to regain the sun.
NIT of the mountain.
The German air service has been
battered to pieces. Since March 2l,
1t is estimated, their losses total 100
pilots, observers and machine gunners,
while 1000 machines have been de-
stroyed.
All German prisoners captured in
France say that Field Marshal Won
Hindenburg is dead, letters from Brit
ish officers on the western front re-
port, according to the London Daily
Express
Hill No. A, small but important
elevation near the Wyverbeek river,
north of KENNEL, about which such
sanguinary conflicts have been waged
since May s, appeared Tuesday to be
in the hands of the Germans again.
In an attack along mile front near
Morlancourt the Germans penetrated
the British positions at one place.
Field Marshal Haig reported May IA
that at all other points on this line
the Germans were repulsed with
heavy losses, and that the Australians
later recaptured the lost position.
Four thousand Germans and mem
bers of the Finnish White Guard were
killed in battle near Lahtis, sixty
miles northeast of Helsingfors, 1t was
reported at Moscow. The German
bombardment killed many civilians.
After the occupation Of Tammerfors,
eighty-five miles northeast of Abo, by
White Guards, 500 Russian officers
and soldiers were shot. They were
executed in groups of forty or fifty by
machine guns.
WESTERN
Deputy Sheriff Joseph Donaldson of
Ray, Ariz., was shot and fatally wound
ed by Francisco Gomez, a Mexican,
whom he was trying to arrest for car
rying concealed weapons.
Edward B. Smith, Democratic candi-
date, was chosen mayor Of Omaha by
the city's new commission. He sue
ceeds ]. G. Dahlman, Omaha's Cow
boy mayor" who held office for twelve
years.
John Grass, chief of all the Sioux In
dians, died at Fort Yates, N D., aged
79 years.
Simplicity marked the services held
over the remains Of Mrs. Potter Pal
mer at Chicago.
letter written in German and
signed by A. N Thone of Glenwood
Springs, Colo, was discovered among
the effects of an unidentified Ameri-
can whose body was found floating in
the canal at Ell Paso, Tex.
WASHINGTON
Western states drawn upon and
camps assigned them in the call for
$1,000 men from May 20 to "a and
May 29 to June 2, are as follows: For
the movement from May 20 to "a:
Colorado, 1900 to Fort Logan. For the
movement from May 29 to June 2:
Kansas, 1000 to Fort Logan, Colo,
New Mexico, 500 to Fort Sam Hous-
ton, Texas; Oklahoma, 1000 to Jack
son barracks; Louisiana; Oregon, l.
500 to Fort Mcdowell, California;
Texas, 500 to Fort Sam Houston, Tex
as; Washington, $50 to Vancouver bar
racks. Washington; Wyoming, 500 to
Fort Logan. Colo.
American forces in France are to
be actively in battle now and regu-
larly in the future, Secretary Baker
announced.
All platinum, iridium and palladium
held by refiners, some importers, man
ufacturing jewellers and large dealers
has been commandeered by the gov
ernment
The long fight in Congress over the
Overman bill, empowering the Presi
dent to reorganize government depart