The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1918-03-01
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK or
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING THE PAST WEEK
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOP, :.
western EHwspap-r nion We
ABOUT THE WAR

ABOUT THE WAR
successful raid was carried out
by Scottish troops in the neighborhood
OF Monchy-Le Preux.
The japanese. according to reliable
authority, intend to take action in ST.
IBERIA at an early date.
Pskoy. l75 miles southwest OF Pet
rograd. has been recaptured by the
Bolshe Wiki, and street fighting is go
ing on there
A report that 10000 German sol
diers refused to attack the Russians
in the new campaign was given out by
the Bolshevik at Petrograd.
The deaths OF a lieutenant and four
cadets resulting from airplane acci-
dents were reported to the War De
partment by General PershiIg.
French troops raided the German
positions north OF the Ailette river
and in the Champagne. Prisoners and
war material We're brought back by
the French.
A dispatch received at Amsterdam
from Constantinople says that Turk
ish troops have entered TrebiZond. on
the Black sea coast OF Asia Minor,
and cleared it OF bands
Germany has formally refused to
grant an armistice and German de-
tachments continue to advance" says
Petrograd official statement Re
sistance thus becomes the principal
task of the revolution"
A dispatch from Bilboa says the
Spanish steamer Neguri had been
sunk by submarine. Her crew was
landed on Ferro island, one of the
Canary group. This is the fifth Span
ish ship sunk in five weeks.
An American patrol in the Chemin
Des Danes sector in conjunction with
French patrol, penetrated few
hundred yards into the German lines
and captured two German officers,
twenty men and one machine gun
There were no American casualties,
Three American soldiers were killed
and nine badly "gassed" in two for
midable gas attacks made by the Ger
mans on the American positions in
the Toul sector with projectors, The
enemy also heavily bombarded the
American batteries with gas shells,
but without result.
Late Russian adyices say that the
soviet armies are now everywhere
resisting the German invaders. At
Narva the Garrison and workmen
have formed an army of 10000 and
gone to Reval. There are similar re
ports from Walk. Great activity is
l. l, I t.,,-G
in Petrograd and arms and ammuni-
tion are being distributed
WESTERN
Clyde B. Pearson, the Wyoming
youth who is condemned to be hanged
in the week OF March 10, is of sound
mind, according to the report of
commission OF alienists. submitted 10
Governor Gunter of Colorado,
Alderman p. H Broullette. secre-
tary OF the Globe, Ariz.. Miners I'm
ion denied emphatically a report that
the Arizona miners contemplate an
other strike coupled with a demand
Tor a Sc wage scale for seven hours
work
Six hundred thousand bushels of
wheat have been Communicated from
Colorado by the government.
NJ D McEniry chief OF the Denver
division of the United states general
land office, received instructions from
Franklin X. Lane, secretary of the in
terror to announce the opening of GS,-
500 acres of lands in eastern New
Mexico for homestead purposes.
The license of H. p Cox. San
by the California Food Administration
on charges OF failure to make delv-
cry on rice sold last summer to a mer-
camille company OF Denver. according
to telegram received in Denver
WASHINGTON
Former President William Howard
Taft was selected by the employers
as their representative of the public
on the Labor Planning Board.
Denouncing the Bolsheyik surrend-
er to Germany. Senator McCumber,
Republican of North Dakota, told the
Senate that "Bolshevik" sentimen'
in America was of no less danger TO
the cause of democracy against au-
tocracy.
General Pershing notified the War
Department that Cadet Harold X.
Bulkley of the signal corps, was killed
in an aeroplane accident Feb IS.
President Wilson will reply 10 the
German chancellors speech, but the
answer, unless the situation material
ly changes, will be message of war,
not of peace.
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