The Snowflake herald., 1918-01-18
THE WORLD IN
PARAGRAPHS
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR.
EIGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
OoINGs AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
Western Newspaper Union News service.
ABOUT THE WAR

British casualties reported in De-
cember reached total of 1887.
Moscow reported in state of lawless-
ness, Bolsheviki having seized all
banks.
Teutons said to have deported 300,-
600 Poles and Lithuanians forcibly to
Germany
Meeting of SOVIET at Petrograd fea-
tured by demand of soldiers for bread
and boots
Trotzky, Bolshevik foreign minister,
confirms reports of a break with Ger
many on peace.
Bolshevik Red Guard ordered to
the front, while army of 100000
Reds is to be gathered and sent to de-
fend revolution.
Nine French merchant ships of
more than 1000 tons were sunk by
submarines or mines during the week
ending Dec. 29.
In mysterious explosion at Petro-
grad 1920 aeroplane machine guns
and a quantity of ammunition des-
troyed; twenty workmen killed.
German troops have launched sew
eral attacks on British positions on
the Belgian and Arras fronts. The
London war office says these raids
were beaten off.
British patrols have been active in
raiding Teuton positions in Italy. Two
enemy munitions depots were explod-
ed by the British forces at Fontigo
and south of Congeliano.
Eighteen British merchantmen of
more than 1000 tons and three small
er vessels were sunk by mines or u
boats during the week. Last week
twelve large ships went down.
Another attempt of the Austro-Ger-
mans to cross the Piave river has
been defeated. Ten vessels loaded
with enemy troops were dispersed at
Intestadura when the crossing was
tried.
Great excitement reported from Ber-
lin over breaking up of peace parley.
High officials have been sent scurry-
ing back to Brest-Litovsk with new
proposals, while socialists in capital
are threatening open outbreak.
WESTERN
Fire of mysterious origin destroyed
a warehouse owned by Swift & Co.,
at Chicago, causing a loss estimated
at 100000.
On orders of the state fuel admin
istrator, ITO silk manufacturing plants
were closed at Paterson, N j., for an
indefinite period, due to shortage of
coal.
Reports of the attack by Yaquis on
a Southern Pacific of Mexico passen-
ger train at Lencho, near Empalme,
received at Tucson, Ariz., place the
number of killed at thirty and the
wounded at the same figure.
Miss Clara A. Hill, daughter of the
late James ]. Hill, was married at st.
Paul, Mimi, to E. G. Lindsey, general
counsel and member of the board of
directors of the Great Northern rail-
road which her father built.
The past year in Colorado has been
one of the most productive in the his
tory of the state, according to the Jan
uary issue of the Federal Reserve Bull
letin, containing the report of condi-
tions for district No. 10, which in
cludes Colorado, Oklahoma, Nebraska,
Wyoming, Kansas and Missouri.
WASHINGTON
Hale Holden, president of the Bur-
lington railroad and member of the
newly created railroad advisory board,
has been directed by Director Gener-
al of Railroads McAdoo to break the
freight jam at the national capital.
Immediate registration for military
service of all men who have become
twenty-one years of age since the first
draft registration was urged by Pro
9 vost Marshal General Crowder in his
annual report to the secretary of war
What the beginning of the new year
finds at the battle fronts is outlined
by Secretary Baker in his weekly re-
view Of military operations. In the
west, he says, the British dominate
the Flanders plain with great wedge
into the principal German line of de-
fense at Cambria, while the French,
with their own lines unbroken, hold
the key to the Laon area through the
capture of Chemin des Danes.
Efforts of the national child labor
committee to prevent relaxation of the
child labor laws on the excuse of
wartime necessity have the indorse-
ment of President Wilson.
The next national loan will be des-
ignated officially as the Third Liberty,
not victory loan or freedom loan, or
peace loan, as had been suggested
and will be asked about Feb. /.
approximately $4,000 Filipinos are
expected to be mustered into the Unit
ed States army under bill passed by
the House taking in the Philinnine