, 1918-03-21
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
sAYINos, D o G 8, ACHIEVE.
MENTs, sUFFERINGs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union News Services.
ABOUT THE WAR

eighteen mercnantme nave Deen ue-
stroyed through mine or submarine.
British aviators have dropped a ton
of bombs on the town of Coblenz, cap
ital of the Rhine province of Prussia
More than 100 names were con-
tanned in the casualty list cabled the
Wa Department March Is by General
Pershing.
The Austrians report that Italian
positions on Mount Pasubio on the
mountainous section of the Italian bat
tie line lave been blown up.
In the Champagne region west of
Monte Carnillet the French have re-
gained trenches which the Germans
had occupied since March l.
Canadian troops in the region OF
Lens again have attacked enemy
trenches with success and taken prls-
oners, according 10 the British official
communication.
American troops east of Luneyille
again raided German positions, and
another party entered German
trenches along the Toul and. unaided,
drove the enemy back.
The Verdun offensive of the Ger
mans, in which they failed utterly to
break the French line, a been esti-
mated in conservative quarters as hav-
ing cost them something like 100000
men.
American and French soldiers, oper-
ating together in Lorraine have con-
Quoted successful raids on widely-sep-
arated sectors, demolishing German
trenches at three points to the width
of 100 meters and depth of 800 meters.
Attacking over an eleyen-mile front
on the coastal sector in Palestine,
East Anglican, South Anglican and In
dian troops have advanced to an aver
age depth of three miles, according to
an official statement issued by the
London Wa Office.
In the east the Germans now hold
Odessa, the great Russian seaport on
the Black sea, which probably will be
used either as the base for IN in
vasion of India by way of Persia or
as the terminal of grain shipments
from Russia to the Central empires.
During the first ten days of March,
in addition to a vast amount of recon
~noitering and photographing, the
Britishers destroyed t~hirty-nine Ger
man aeroplanes and brought down
forty others out of control, despite
the fact that the first W or three
days of the month were sc stormy
that aerial activity was virtually i'm
possible. Against this great total,
fifteen British machines are reported
missing.
WESTERN
Frederick Aver, millionaire medicine
manufacturer and f%inancier of Boston
Mass, died at ~Thomasville, Ga. He
was sc years old.
At Austin, Texas, a bill to give wom-
en- the right to vote in primary cleo
tons and nominating conventions was
passed by the House "a to "a.
Former United States Senator Isaac
Stephenson died at Marinette, Wis.
Senator Stephenson had been i'll at
his home here a week, due to his age.
Aubrey Keif, formerly a Pueblo,
Colo, newspaper man, now stationed
in the aviation section at Fort Worth,
Tex, is in a hospital there as a result
of becoming lost while driving his aer-
oplane.
WASHINGTON
Congress may take a "win-the-war
recess" to sell Liberty bonds.
Henry Ford's submarine chasers
will be known as Eagles" and will
constitute the Eagle class" of boats.
A Is per cent increase in rates was
granted by the interstate commerce
commission to the Canadian railways
running into the United States.
President Wilson called on all Amer
lean boys of 1G years and over, not
permanently employed. to enroll in the
United States boys working reserve
The House passed the daylight bill,
and under its terms all clocks will be
set forward IL hour on March 81,
and the new time will prevail until
Oct. 81.
A worldwide famine is in sight un.
less the farmers of this country are
given relief, Henry c. Wallace of Des
Moines. Iowa, told the Senate agricul
tural committee.
Every preparation is being made
by Liberty Loan campaigners to get
$4,000, 900 subscribers to the third
loan. Subscriptions to the second
loan now are estimated at about H.,
100000 and to the first oan about A.
600, 900. Sixteen million buttons for
subscribers have been ordered for the
third loan.
American troops that repulsed the
German raid on March 8 were from
the -Forty-becond. or Rainbow. division.