, 1918-08-29
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS. o oING 8, ACHIEVE.
MENTs, sUFFERINGS. HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union news service.
ABOUT THE WAR

yohu N~lkOIaleVSk, the TOXIC wal OIL
flee announced.
The allied armies have taken more
than 100000 prisoners since July IS,
says Marvel Hutin in the Echo de
Paris.
British casualties reported in the
week ending Aug. 81 totalled S,411
compared with an aggregate of 1920
reported in the previous week
An attempted air raid on Paris
Thursday morning was frustrated by
French planes and antiaircraft bat
teries, it was officially announced in
Paris.
Allied successes on the Marine, in
Picardy and in Flanders have resulted
In a contraction of the western battle
front by more than fifty-miles GEN
eral March announced.
The town of Albert, eighteen miles
northeast of Amiens on the Ancre
river, has been recaptured by the Brit
fsh, who also have obtained all their
detectives in the fighting Thursday
between Braysur-Somme and Albert.
Lassigny has been captured by the
French forces, whose lines reach the
outskirts of Chiry- Ourscamps, south
west of Noyon. The official state
ment making this announcement also
says that twenty villages have been
liberated.
Gen. Won Boehm is organizing de-
fensive lines far in the rear of the
present German positions in Picardy,
according to Information received
from the front. A total of more than
fifty villages have been reoccupied by
the French Arrival of a Hungarian
division on the west front is reported
in Paris.
On a front of about six miles, from
the southeast of Albert to the neigh
borhood of Grandicourt, east of the
Ancre river, the British have pushed
Onward and gained ground after
heavy fighting. The town of Achiet
lie Grand was captured by the British,
and also Bihucourt, just to the south
east of Achiet lie Grand, and about
two n one-half miles from the rail-
road junction of Bapaume.
Victorious on a battle front of TWEEN
ty-three miles extending from the
Cojeul river or the north, across the
Ancre and Somme rivers almost to
Lihons, the Third and Fourth British
armies Friday were vigorously fellow
ing up their successes. which appar-
emily had beer one of the most disas-
trous days w experienced by the
Germans. The enemy lost wide
stretches of ground, numerous towns,
thousands of men made prisoner and
large quantities OF materials and guns.
He also again had heavy casualties.
WESTERN
c. E. Adams of Omaha was elected
commander-in-chief of the Grand
Army of the Republic for the coming
year at the Portland meeting.
The government has taken over and
will operate the Moffat road. EN-
ployes will be paid S1SO,000 back
vag at once and $685. 900 later. over
$500, 900 will be spent in repairs. The
strike ended Friday and train service
was resumed Saturday.
Between thirty n %thirty-five per-
sons were killed and at least 1875 were
injured by the tornado which struck
Tyler, Mimi, and tore the town to
pieces in a twinkling. T~wenty-seven
bodies have been identified.
Resolutions calling upon all gold
producers in the Western states to
prepare a statement of their capacity
and plans. with a view to increasing
production, were passed by the execu-
tive committee of the American gold
conference at San Francisco.
WASHINGTON
Almost unvarying success described
in Fridays dispatches telling of the
great allied offensive on the fifty-mile
front stretching from Scissors north
ward to the environs of Arras raised
hopes in military circles at Washing
ton for the most sever defeat yet adj
ministered to h Germans.
An earnest warning against 'insid-
ious and poisonous" German peace
propaganda and a declaration that
peace must be dictated to and not no
gotiated with Germany to place her in
a position where she never again can
disturb the worlds peace were made
In the Senate by Senator Lodge OF
Massachusetts,.
Eleven brigadier generals of the
army were nominated by President
Wilson for promotion to the grade of
major general.
Those who eat in public places and
want sugar for coffee must ask for 1t,
according to an order issued by chief
of the sugar division of the Federal
Food Administration.
Completion of nineteen out of TWEEN
ty-six proposed plants for the produc-
ton of gun carriages and recoil mech
anisms was announced by the ord
nance bureau Of the Wa Department.