Taiban Valley news., 1918-01-04

ported on battle front
Six thousand Korniloff troops were
defeated by Bolsheviki.
Russian reports indicate steady de-
cline of power of Bolsheviki.
Greece will reward citizens of that
nation who join American army.
Holiday gifts from the American
Red Cross were distributed in the Ital-
ian trenches along the lower Piave.
Col. del Rosso and Monte Val Bella
on the Asiago plateau were recap
tured by Italian forces in counter
attack Dec. 26, but it was found i'm
possible to hold them, the Rome war
office announced. -,
A British air squadron dropped a
ton of bombs on the great commercial
city of Mannheim, on the Rhine, in
Germany. Numbers of fires were
started. One British plane was
forced to descend.
Eleven Austro-German aeroplanes
were brought down by the British and
Italian forces in a big aerial battle
which developed when the Teutons
made an unsuccessful attempt to bomb
Treviso, sixteen miles north of Venice
Many were killed and wounded
The losses to British shipping show
a material decrease for the past week
According to the admiralty report
eleven British merchantmen of 1000
tons or over were sunk by mine or
submarine, as well as one merchant
man under that tonnage and one fish
ing vessel.
The Germans made two attacks on
the Verdun front Thursday but were
not able to break through the French
lines, the Paris war office reports. Ar
tillery fighting continues on the Yer
dun front, where the French broke up
two German attacks. "The enemy
dead remaining on the ground be-
tween the lines and in the wire .en.
tanglements demonstrated the import
ance of the losses suffered by the Ger
mans, who left prisoners in Italian
hands"
While their guns lombard the west
ern front, the Germans are taking
troops from the eastern front for use
elsewhere, despite the provision of
the Russo-German armistice prohibit
Ing such action. The artillery activi-
ty in France has been moderate over
most of the front and more violent
on the right bank of the Meuse north
east of Verdun, the scene of the Ger
man attack nearly two years ago.
WESTERN
An immediate and radical curtail-
ment of passenger service in the cen
trail West was predicted by railway
men at Chicago as one of the first re-
suits of government control Of the
roads.
At Globe, Ariz., Barney Scimia. a
miner of Black Warrior, whose home
was dynamited ten days ago by UNI
known persons, shot ana severely
wounded four persons in moving pic
ture theater whom he suspected of
having had hand in the bomb out
rage.
Tonopah Mining Co. declared divi-
dend of per cent, payable Jan. 1, to
stock of record Dec. 81. This is a. re-
duction of TX per cent from the last
dividend paid in October.
Charges of disorderly conduct
against Prof. Charles Aver, instruc-
tor of Spanish and German at the Uni.
versity of Colorado, and prominent in
educational circles in the West, were
dismissed at Chicago.
The food commission of Silver Bow
county, Mont, in which Butte is To-
Gated, ordered a second reduction in
the local prices Of foodstuffs, averae-
ing cut of about per cent in all
products. The first reduction cur
prices 10 per cent.
WASHINGTON
Government uncovers world wide
plot to wreck social orders.
Senate committee urged War De-
partment to provide warmer clothing
for soldiers in cantonments.
Funeral services for Senator New
lands of Nevada were held In Wash
ington. President Wilson headed
distinguished gathering which ct
tended.
Vice Chairman Stevens says labor
trouble has lost more than half mil
lion days in ship building program,
but situation is now improving.
Belated returns brought the total of
enrollments in the Red Cross Christ
mas drive for new members up to 49,
279,000. The goal set when the cam
paign opened Dec. IL, was 100000
With the railroads under govern
ment control, the greatest obstacle to
an adequate American coal supply is
wiped out. Congressional investiga.
tors, therefore. turned their attention
TO coal prices.