Gilpin observer., 1918-03-28
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About the War

Jordan.
Canadians smother foe about Lens
with poison gas.
Greatest battle of war extends
along 50-mile front.
Germans are guarding 10000 rifles
in the arsenal at Irkutsk
A long-range mystery gun shells
Paris at distance of seventy-four
miles.
Berlin claims that $4,000 prisoners
have been taken. German troops cap
tured Nesle and Bapaume.
The withdrawal of Haig's forces to
prepared positions at the opening OF
the great drive is declared to be mas
ter strategy.
American engineers have again
been in the throes of fierce conflict
on the west front They have done
excellent work in transportation.
Luneville (about ten miles behind
the American sector in which Ameri-
cans are fighting in that region) was
shelled Monday for the first time in
two years.
Thirty German soldiers were killed
and more than 100 others injured and
500 munition wagons were blown up
by an explosion at Mevrignies station
near Mons, Belgium.
Battling for every point of vantage,
giving ground only when overwhelmed
by numbers, and exacting frightful
toll of lives for every foot of ground
abandoned, the British line in Picardy
on Monday was still intact
For the third successive day, Ger
man artillery bombarded heavily with
gas shells a certain town within the
American lines. Mondays lombard
ment was made in two periods, each
half-hour in length. Many gas shells
and few high explosive shells fell
on the American positions.
American artillery on the Toul sec
tor continued Monday to shell eff
fectively enemy first line and COM
munication trenches, the town of st.
Baussant, the billets and dumps north
of Boqueteau. Many of the American
shells have fallen In the German
trenches and the first two lines in at
least one place have been virtually
abandoned.
Western
mo ground for anxiety" was the
opinion Brig. Gen. w. A White of the
British army expressed at Chicago as
he read the dispatches from the west
ern front
s,til ,xvyr .
Bering sea, northern steamship com
panies are already making arrange
ments at Seattle, Wash, for sending
the first boats to isolated Nome ano
st. Michael, Alaska.
The Rev. Daniel S. Tuttle, presiding
bishop of the Protestant Episcopal
church in America. sent from St.
Louis prayer to all affiliated
churches as follows: News leads me
humbly to ask leave TO bid to peni-
tence and prayer in homes and
churches all who may hear and heed
me in this critical time in Flanders,
earnestly beseeching God to descend
and crown the right"
The German drive has awakened the
West to a realization of the serious.
neess of the war. said T. p. O'Connor,
noted Irish journalist and member of
the British Parliament, at San Fran
cisco. He spoke before the Burlin-
game Country Club.
Washington
The S,000-ton steamer Stolt-Nielsen
was sunk in European waters.
President Wilson cabled Field Mar
shal Haig congratulating him on the
British stand against the German Of
fensive and predicting a final allied
victory.
The German drive at the British
lines appeared to be slowing under
the policy of elastic defense pursued
by Field Marshal Haig, according to
the opinion of allied and American
army officers, based on the official
statements Monday from London, Par
is and Berlin.
Gen. Pershings casualty list con.
tanned March 20 thirteen names. One
died OF wounds. three died OF disease
three from causes unknown, one man
severely wounded and seven slightly
wounded. Col. Douglas Macarthur
chief of staff OF the Rainbow division
was severely wounded.
Ambassador Sharp in Paris reported
to the State Department the bonn bard
ment OF Paris ut long range by the
Germans. He forwarded the official
statement Of the French government
in which the fact was announced te
the public. The ambassador added
that the opinion had been expressed
that the aeroplanes seen at a grea'
height over Paris Saturday were there
to observe the effect OF the firing.
The third Liberty loan, to oper
April 6. will be for $4,000, 100000 ant