The Colorado statesman., 1918-06-15
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING The PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
ABOUT THE WAR

another peace OFFENSIVE by Ter
many and Austria-Hungary apparently
Is in the air.
On June 10 four German planes and
one captive balloon were brought down
by French pursuit machines.
Won Hindenburg is showing bloody
determination to pay General Foch's
chastity price for the capture Of Com
piegne.
British airmen brought down 336
Germans in less than three weeks, up
to June 2, of which 2S3 were totally
destroyed.
Gen. Semenoff, leader of the anti
Bolshevik forces in Siberia, has driven
back the Russian troops which had
crossed the Onon river, in Transbaik-
ailia.
Torpedoing of the Harpathian
brought the German sinking record
on the Atlantic coast to fourteen-six
steamers and eight schooners. with a
loss of thirty lives.
Nine hundred and forty-one casual
ties have been inflicted by German air
raids on allied hospitals in the last
three weeks, ]. l. Macpherson, under
secretary of the admiralty, announced
in the House of Commons.
Since the new offensive began along
the Soissons-Rheims sector May 27, 1t
is asserted by the German official
communication that the army group
of the German crown prince has taken
about $4,000 allied troops captive.
Near Bussiares, northwest of Cha
Thtarru 10 AYnnriNanc and
French on Monday again delivered
strong attacks against the Germans
and took more ground. They also cap
tured a number of prisoners and thir-
ty machine guns. On the remainder
of the front in France and Belgium
the operations have been of a minor
nature, although south of the Somme
the British near Bouzencourt have car
ried out an operation which straight
ened out a threatening salient that
sagged in their line.
The French have struck the Ger
mans hard blow along a front of
about seven and half miles, between
Rubescourt and st. Maure, recapturing
Belloy Genlis wood and the heights
between Courcells and Mortemer The
war office of this gain says that the
Germans suffered heavy losses and
left more than 1000 prisoners and
some guns in the hands of the French.
Several violent enemy attacks on
Chevincourt were repulsed, but the
Germans gained a footing in Mache-
mont and Bethancourt, which places
are being bitterly disputed. "Ameri-
can troops brilliantly carried Bellau
wood taking 300 prisoners"
WESTERN
Indications that the freight rates ef
fective June % under the McAdoo or
der are to be modified, SO far as they
concern Colorado, have been received
at the statehouse in a telegram to
George T. Bradley, chairman Of the
Colorado Public Utilities Commission,
from Max Thelen, chairman of the war
committee of the National Association
of Railway and Utility Commission
ers.
A blasting hot wind for two days
with the thermometer at 81 degrees in
the shade has given a setback to the
wheat crop in northern Montana.
Denver's Colorado day celebration
will include a massive historical pag-
cant in which the earliest days of the
region now known as Colorado, begin
ming with the time of the cliff dwell
ers, the Indians and the Mexicans, will
be revived. Early statehood scenes.
pioneer activities and, finally, the pres
ent-day agricultural and mineral activ-
tiles will be included in the pageant,
which is to be held Aug. at the Audi
torium.
WASHINGTON
A call for 5000 selective men of
Glass /, for limited military service,
was issued by Provost Marshal Gen
eral Crowder.
Men of the 1918 class of draft regis
trants may enlist in the navy and ma
rine corps, according to a new ruling
by Provost Marshal General Crowder
The real objective of the whole Ger
man offensive program still lies be-
tween Amiens and Arras, in the opin-
ion of many army observers in Wash
ington.
Emergency reserves of flour totaling
100000 barrels are piled in more than
twenty cities throughout the United
States for use in case of bread famine,
it was learned at the food administra-
tion. These stores, equivalent to g.
250,0oO bushels of wheat, have been
held by the food administration at
great Industrial centers since early
last winter.
A proposal for complete prohibition
during the war was presented in tho
70 Garnnfnr Of