Gilpin observer., 1918-08-01
THE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS.
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT.
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF THE week
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
About the War
Western Newspaper Union news service.

a twenty-mile front.
Japanese volunteers have reinforced
the Czechs in eastern Siberia, accord
ing to. Moscow dispatches.
American fighting troops now are on
the Italian front. They are being bill
leted with the Italians.
British casualties reported in the
week ended July 81 total 1888 COM
pared with 1921 reported in the pre-
vious week.
The Czecho-Slovaks have occupied
the town of Schmakova, according to
dispatch from Vladivostok. They
captured considerable In munitions.
Very serious revolts and mutinies
have occurred in Bohemia and Hun
gary. At Manaros-Szjet $50 officers
and 500 Czecho-Slovaks who mutinied
were shot and 5000 arrested.
Since the fighting began the Ger
mans are reported to have used be-
tween sixty and seventy divisions.
Estimates from headquarters place the
German losses in that period at 2OO,-
600 in killed, wounded and prisoners.
North of the Marine the tide of Ger
man invasion is fast ebbing. The fact
that a general retreat in this region
is going on is not questioned and the
only point of moment to be cleared
up is the location of the position at
which the enemy will turn at bay.
Heavy fighting was in progress
Monday to the south of Scissors, in
the neighborhood of Buczancy. Viii
lagos between scissors and Ba-
zoches, about fourteen miles to the
east, however, were on fire, leading to
the belief that the Germans may in
tend further retreat.
Since Saturday morning there have
been important changes in the battle
line between scissors and Rheims.
Monday it run almost directly east
from Oulchy-le-Ch to Fere-en-
Tardenois, then crosses the Ourcq and
continued eastward until it reached
the Dormans-Rheims road northwest
of Rheims mountain.
The Americans met Germany's fin
est regiments In battle south of Sergy,
where the enemy threw in the whole
Fourth division of Prussian guards in
reaching London show that the Amer
leans stood like a stone wall, brought
the Germans to clean stop and in
flicted the heaviest losses upon them.
Western
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plants.
Hanging by a rope dangling from
the branch Of tree along the river
bank at Sundance. Wyo., the body of
Ernest w. Grant, 10, son OF Mrs. Anna
S. Grant, of Billings, Mont, was dis
covered by freighter of Ranch
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Thomas j. Mooney. in death row"
at San Quentin prison under sentence
to be hanged for murder in connection
with bomb explosion during a pre-
paredness parade in San Francisco in
1916, was reprieved by Governor Ste
phen until Dec. 13.
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by the terms Of the German-Finnish
treaty, according to the Swedish press.
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