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CONDENSATION OF FRESH NEWS THE LATEBT IMPORTANT DIS PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT, CRISP PARAGRAPHS. STORY OF THE WEEK SHOWING THE PROGRESS OP EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND FOREIGN LANDS. * Western Newspaper Union News Service. About the War French forces make slight gains In Amiens region. The British have destroyed eleven more Boche planes. American soldiers assist French in raid on German lines. British casualties reported during the week ending April 20 totaled 12,- 368. The Germans have attempted two great frontal attacks on the defenses of Lens and Arras, but they have been repulsed with terrible losses to the packers. British and French troops have been landed at Mournmansk, on the north east coats of Kola peninsula in the Arctic ocean, to reinforce a British marine detachment sent ashore sev eral weeks ago. Events on the western battle front are shaping fhemselves, officers in Washington believe, not only for de feat of the German drive, but for a counter offensive by General Foch’s armies that may open the road to an allied military victory. The British troops near Robecq, northwest of Bethune, drove out the Germans from some of their advanced positions, according to Field Marshal Haig’s statement. Aside from artil lery engagements there was little other activity along the front Sunday. Karl Blelstreu, a German military writer, declares in the Neueuropa that the German losses on the west front between August 1914, and August, 1917, total 2,604,961 in killed and prisoners. On the east front, he said, the total killed and prisoners were 1,484,560. Gen. Pershing’s first report on the German assault upon the American and French forces in the Toul sector April 20 is understood to indicate that the Americans sustained more than 200 casualties, and to estimate the German losses at between 300 and 400. After the heavy German attack of Saturday the American main positions remained intact, and Sunday morning, after a brief bombardment, the Ameri can troops attacked and drove the enemy out of the old outposts which they had gained, thus breakiiig down an offensive which, it is believed, was Intended as the beginning of a Ger man plan to separate the Americans and French. There was a comparative lull Sunday along the sector north west of Toul. The Americans engaged in the terrific hand-to-hand fighting Saturday showed the most daring bravery, storieß of which are already being recounted. Western There is in storage at Wichita, Kan., 7,616,000 pounds of broom corn. The bureau of anlmaJ Industry of the United States Department of Ag riculture has named Mrs. Ruth Coffin, home economics specialist of Fort Collins, Colo., to encourage in Colo rado the production of cottage cheese on farms and also to stimulate its use in homes. President Wilson is throwing the weight of his powerful Influence into •>e current campaign for war gardens. Nine earthquake shocks, severe in intensity, which began Sunday at 3:32 p. m. and extended over thirty hours in Southern California towns, ap peared Monday night to have com pleted their work of destruction, causing property damage roughly es timated at $500,000. arj two deaths. Washington U. S. issues names of 5,000 firms on enemy trading list. Construction of 120 wooden ships of new type is being considered. The Shipping Board has chartered 400,000 tons of Norwegian sailing ships. Thirty-four new ships at 106,000 ton nage completed during the winter and spring in Great Lakes yards will be gin moving to the Atlantic for service overseas. Congressman William Jones of the First Virginia district, and the oldest member of Congress in point of con tinuous service, died at George Wash ington University hospital. "We will do our port; you do yours,” is the message from the American army in France to the American peo ple that Secretary Baker delivered at Washington at a Liberty loan rally in his first public address since his re turn from Europe. German and Austrian women In the United States were placed under the lame restrictions as have prevailed lor male enemy aliens by proclama tion Issued by President Wilson under the recently enacted law including women in the definition of enemy aliens. Fortigs Changes made In British cabinet while Hungarian ministry resigns. Baron Oautsch von Frankenthurn, former Austrian Premier, is dead at hia home In Vienna. Count Czernin, according to an of ficial dispatch from France, is to be appointed ambassador to Berlin. Duke Frederick 11., ruler of the Ger man duchy of Anhalt, Is dead at Bal lenstedt castle. He was 61 years old. The neutrality of Switzerland had been violated 656 times up to the end of January, according to an official announcement at Geneva. In 418 In stances aviators were responsible. Switzerland has received little satis faction for the protests made. Altho picked troops were used in the operation, which was In course of preparation for over a week, the Ger man offensive against Belgian troops between Klppe and Langemarck last week did not win an Inch of territory and was beaten back with heavy losses. The long range bombardment of Parla was resumed Sunday. There I were no casualties. Analysis of the I German long range'gun bombardment | of Paris shows that sheila have fallen on seventeen days since March 23, | and that, with the figures for two days missing, 118 were killed and 230 injured. Blame for the collislqp between the Norwegian steamer Imo and the French munition ship Mont Blanc, which resulted In the loss of 1,800 lives at Halifax, N. S. t on Dec. C, was placed on the Mont Blanc by Justice Dryadale In a decision filed In the ad- j miralty Court in the libel and counter suits brought by the owners of the two vessels. The streams of wounded Germans from France and Flanders, says the 1 frontier correspondent of the Ams terdam Telegram, continue so great that all the hospitals, monasteries, convents and schools, not only In Brussels but in many towns, are filled to overflowing. The Germans have even requisitioned private houses for hospitals. 'Forty ambulance trains en tered Brussels dally last week. Sporting Sews Walter Camp, commissioner of ath letics for the navy, has announced the appointment of E. C. Henderson of Seattle, Wash., to be athletic director there. A purse of SIO,OOO has been guar anteed by Spencer Penrose on behalf of the Broadmoor Golf club for the Red Cross exhibition golf match to be staged on the new Broadmoor course at Colorado Springs, July 4, with four of the greatest golfers In America participating. A Liberty bond battle at the Twin Cities or a military show at Camp Grant, 111., was the choice before Champion Jess Willard and Challeng er Fred Fulton at Chicago for their July 4 bout. Willard said he had called Miller from St. Paul to con sider the offer from Camp Grant. Capt. Baron Max von Richthofen, known as the most prominent and successful aviator In the German army since Captain Boelke was shot down In October, 1916, and who was a nephew of Baroness Louise Rich thofen of Denver, has been killed, ac cording to dispatches from London. General Governor Beeckman of Rhode Island signed an act passed by the General Assembly requiring every man be tween the age of 18 and E0 years to be employed for at least thirty-six hours a week. A counterpart of the recent lynch ing of Robert P. Prager In Collins- I villa. 111., was checked at Collinsville, 1 Okla., when Charles MlUer, assistant I chief of police, was able to convince a crowd of fifty men that It would be 1 better to give Henry Rhelmer, al- j leged pro-German, a chance before the 1 Council of Defense rather than to take hla life without unprejudiced hearing. The State Council of Defense of | Montana made a rule requiring all j men able to labor to do five days' work a week upon pain of prosecu tion under the board powers given the council. Mineral Wells, Tex., was selected as the 1919 meeting place of the United States Good Roads Association and the Bankhead Highway Association, at the concluding session of the 1918 meet ings at Little Rock, Ark. Reports of extraordinarily low tem peratures for this period of the fruit season In the Grand and Gunnison val leys In Colorado, and In the Roswell fruit district of southeastern Now Mex ico, last week caused some anxiety. Polygamy throughout the world as a result of the tremendous slaughter of the men of this generation la the am bition of the Mormon church today. Reports from their semi-annual con ference, held In Salt Lake City recent ly. suggested that they are only wait ing for the end of the war to start cut on a world campulgn designed to put polygamy on the map everywhere, ac cording to Dr. E. L. Mills of the hoard of home missions of the Methodiit Episcopal church In New York. "I am In favor of amending the draft law so that we can raise an army of five or six million men in two years," said former President William H. Taft In addresses at two Liberty loan rallies at Boston. “This is to be a three-year war, two In which to send our boys across and a year to win the war." “Recognition of Lithuania aa an In dependent state at the peace table of Europe will relieve Oermany of any responsibility aa her protector," de clared the Lithuanian national couneil in resolutions adopted In Washington. the Mum oMratvaa. COLORADO STATE NEWS Wsatarn Nawapapar Union Nawa Barvlca. COMING EVENTS. May 14-16—Colorado Sunday School Association annual convention at Denver, July 8-13—Meeting National Associa tion of Colored women In Denver. Sept. 23-28—Colorado State Fair at Pueblo. The Evans' coal mine at Frederick caved in causing considerable damage. A grange was organized at Long gulch, near Hayden with twenty-four charter members. A total or $71,000 will be spent on the Prlce-Myton and Helper-Duchesne automobile roads this summer. Beet growers of the Loveland dis trict voted to urge the planting of more beets for the present Beason. Ornamental metal posts are being distributed on streetß of Grand Junc tion in preparation for a “white way.” Dr. Ranulph Hudston left Denver for Camp Cody, N. M., to resume active duty with Base Hospital No. 29. Fremont county has to its credit in the third Liberty loan the sum of $525,000. The quota fixed was $161,- 500. The bridge across Wolf creek has been completed. The bridge Is just east of Mount Harris, and has a span of fifty-four feet. The Fall river road in Grand county will b£ Improved and worked with a steam Hhovel, and five miles of new road will be built. Edgar J. Bancroft has been ap pointed postmaster at Pallaade, suc ceeding W. D. Newton, who died several months ago. The Mountain Top Mining Company of Tellurlde recently Bhipped a car load of ore to the Sallda smelter which netted $5,230.77. Women of Montrose are exhibiting 1,500 garments which they have made for shipment to the destitute children of France and Belgium. Federal approval of eight poat road projects In the state haa been an nounced, the work entailing an ex penditure of $556,000. Costilla county’s quota was $27,100, total subscriptions exceeded $41,000 during the (lrat week of the campaign and are Btlll coming In. A veritable plague of epidemics haa Bpread over Brighton. Many children are 111 with whooping cough, measles, scarlet fever and pneumonia. P. L. Balfe, Jr„ convicted in the Dis trict Court at Littleton, Feb. 4, 1917, of unlawfully handling Intoxicating liquors, has appealed the case to the Supreme Court. David W. Thomas, field secretary ol the Colorado Council of Defense, haa taken over the duties of secretary, fol lowing the resignation of A. W. Grant, but will still continue aB field secre tary. The War Industries Board has noti fied the Colorado Council of Defense that transportation priorities will be refused for materials used In con struction work not necessary to the war. Beginning May IS the University ot Colorado will open a school for train ing from 200 to 210 drafted men In auto mechanics, radio telegraphy and telegraphy, according to Regent Clif ford W. Mills. Thirty-dve pupils of the Eads pri mary school In Kiowa county have presented Governor Julius C. Gunter with a slumber robe and a scrapbook of pictures dealing with several phases of the world war. Legal aid for Colorado soldiers and their families on affairs arising out of the entrance of the men into service will be directed by a committee of the State Council of Defense appointed by Governor Gunter. Granted a two weeks' furlough after fourteen weeks of intensive training to fit them for commissions In the army, 200 western boys arrived in Denver from the third officers’ train ing camp at Fort Riley. In 1909, 5,040 acres of beans were cultivated In Colorado, producing 53,- 926 bushels. In 1917 the area cultivat ed, Including that devoted to seed boans, was 247,275 acres, and the total output was 1,837,686 bushels. The Grand Council of the Royal Ar canum met in Denver and elected the following officers: Grand regent. Frank A. Prior; vice regent, Austin A. Gray; orator, Elmoro Floyd; past regent, Ernest M. Reemc; secretary, Charles H. Peters; treasurer, Wllford T. Shay; chaplain, F. L. Smith; guide, C. W. Porter; warden, J. J. Fitzger ald; sentry, John H. Blair; trustee, three yean, Charles L. Smith. The couneil voted to subscribe to the Third Liberty Loan. Mrs. Chloe Wood, aged 76 years, was almost Instantly killed- at Greeley by being struck by an automobile driven by Miss June Stock, a school teacher of Brighton. Hlgheit price ever paid on Denver stock market was given for 41 steers from l,ongmont averaging 1,217 lbs., the price being $15.60, whioh Is nearly a dollar above previous record. Thlrty-slx of the stxty-two counties In Colorado had passed their quotas In liberty bond subscription!, accord ing to figures tabulated nt stjto Lib erty Loan headquarters April 20. COLORADO NEWS NOTES. The Colorado Sunday School Asso ciation will hold Its annual convention In Denver, May 14, 15, 16. The state at large is expected to send at least one thousand delegates and Denver county will furnish an equal number. All pastors, superintendents, officers of Sunday schools, of organised olasses and counties are eligible for enrollment as special delegates, A meeting of Denver pastors and super intendents voted unanimously to en tertain all out of town delegates on the Harvard plan, lodging and break fast furnished. Although the Weld county quota for the third Liberty loan was only $919,000, the amount reported April 22 was $1,331,000. Thirty out of the thirty-eight precincts In the county are oversubscribed. Greeley’s quota was $505,000, and the amount sub scribed is now $570,000. Eaton, with a population ot 1,800, has $200,000. Eaton's quota was $140,000. The markets committee of the Colo rado Council of Defense has been in structed by the council to help the broom-corn farmers of southeastern counties to form cooperative associa tions In connection with the Tri-State Broom Corn Growers’ Association that will be an aid to them in getting good prices for their crops. Land cultivated in Colorado during 1917, exclusive of that devoted to or chards and small fruits, was 4,122,800 acreß, according to statistics compiled by the Colorado Board of Irrigation. This la the first time that such a com pilation has been made since 1909, when the acreage cultivated was 2,614,312. The Colorado Council of Defense has made a monthly appropriation to aid Its committee on Americanization of aliens. On behalf of the committee Governor Gunter has Invited Secre tary of the Interior Lane to make two addresses In Colorado, and the secre tary will visit the state, if he possibly can. Two Colorado boys, one of Denver, the other of Meeker, were among for ty-two Americans cited recently by French army commanders for bravery. The Hat was given out at Washington. Robert E. Graf, son ot Mrs. Elizabeth Graf, is the Denver boy, and Albert L Strehlke the one from Meeker. Nineteen students at the State Ag ricultural college went to the third officers' reserve training camp at Camp Funaton and every one of them finished with a recommendation for a commission. Several have returned on furlough and the others are ex pected at Fort Collins in a few days. Many of the young men who have been in training at the Fort Riley offi cers’ reserve camp arrived in Denver. They are on fifteen days’ furlough, after hating completed their training, and it is understood each man will re ceive a commission when called Into service. Louis Chentre, confessed slayer of Constantine Nouchy, a Franco-Itallan who was found murdered on a lonely road, was found guilty of murder in the second degree In the West Side Court In Denver. The penalty la Im prisonment for ten years. Longmont Farmers Milling and* Ele vator Company haa contracted with the government to Bend 2,000,000 pounds of 95 per cent flour to the American expeditionary forces In France, shipment to be made at once. The Denver club haa joined Clasa 1 In compliance with the request of the United States Food Administra tion, and hereafter uo wheat products will be served In the dining room of that organization. No damage to crops or fruit has been done by the oold, fruit being very backward, according to reports from Fort Morgan. The large acreage of winter wheat la In fine condition, ow ing to heavy rains. Colorado raisers of poultry are com ing to the front In the war crisis and will make good, according to returns tabulated In the state-wide canvass made by government and state author ities. By order of Judge Ira C. Rothgerber of the Denver County Court, $7,000 In estate funds held In trust by the state treasurer, were diverted Into the pur chase of bonds of the third Liberty loan. The people of the city and county of Denver have purchased a $160,000 site for the U. S. army recuperation camp which the government will es tablish at a cost of $600,000. Pig and chicken sale held at Iliff for the benefit of Red Cross was a most successful one, over SI,OOO being real ised. One chicken- sold for S4OO and a rabbit sold for $66. This Is Potato week In Colorado, and all week efforts will be made by the State Food Administration to re duce the 70,000,000 pounds ot surplus spuds In the state. Steps to Insure a contlnuanoe of the practice of granting furloughs to Colo rado men In training camps were taken by the State Health Board. Fifty milk producers have perfected an organisation at Rooky Ford whioh has as its object the betterment of conditions pertaining to this rapidly growing Industry. Fire destroyed a large building for merly the town hall at Ortls. Conejos county, ocoupled by Sefriano Ortls. and a boy of 4 years was burned to death. One man was killed, another maimed and a third slightly Injured In an explosion which occurred In the boiler room at the Greeley sugar fac tory. DUTCH TO REJECT TEUT ON DEMANDS HUNS WANT RIGHT OF WAY FOR SHIPMENT OF CIVILIAN AND WAR SUPPLIES. KAISER TO SEIZE PORTS GERMAN DECREES, IF ACCEPTED, WOULD MEAN ABANDONMENT OF NEUTRALITY. Western Newspaper Union News Bervlee. London, April 24. —A Reuter die patch from The Hague says: "Noth ing ie known in competent quarters here of the rumored German ultima tum threatening the occupation of Dutch ports unless certain demands are yielded.” The German ultimatum to Holland la Baid to demand right of transit for civilian and war supplies on canals and railway!. London, April 24 —Battlefield events are overshadowed by the possibility that the little kingdom of Holland may be engulfed In the war, for Holland’s entry into the struggle would upset all west froat strategy. Holland adjoins the present battle field, blockades German access to the sea from the Rhine, the Meuse and the Scheldt rivers and cuts off direct railroad communication with Germany from a large part ot the Belgian front. All communication with Oatend, Ghent, Bruges, Brussels and Antwerp has to be carried on by the way of Aix la-Chapelle. That la why the Pan- Germaup have been trying to force Holland to give up Its neutrality and to open up to German use the network of railroads, oan&ls and rivers which would make the German front In Bel gium strategically more powerful. This assault upon the Integrity of Holland has not been popular with the German people themselves. But It is the old story of ‘‘military necessity,” for the Pan-Germans. To them Hol land's refusal to permit German travel to be carried across Holland to the German front in Belgium and the Dutch acquiescence in our ship requi sition were the only opportunities for attempting to force The Hague gov ernment to make concessions to Ger many which would end Holland’s neu trality. The people of Holland don't wish war. But, like the people of Belgium, they are sensitive of their honor and the# will fight the moment their neu trality is violated, even though they know that they will suffer the most. For the first result of Holland’s par ticipation In the war would be to make Holland a battlefield. Uruguay and Argentina are expect ed to declare war against Germany at an early date, according to Berlin ad vices forwarded by the Exchange Tel egraph’s correspondent at Amsterdam. The German newspapers have been notified to prepare the public for this development, he adds. Washington. German submarines now are starving neutral Holland, Switzerland, Spain and Sweden. Holland la badly In need of grain. Two Dutch ships loaded with grain are in Atlantic ports waiting to Ball. They cannot sail until two other Dutch ships leave Dutch porta for this aide. A third Dutch ship la held In an Ar gentine port with grain waiting simi lar release. Germany has threatened to torpedo Dutch ships leaving for the United States, cable dispatches say. Guatemala’s entry Into the war was regarded favorably In Washington for it 3 moral effect on Central and South America. British Gain at Robecq and Meteren. London. April 24. The British gained ground east of Robecq, accord ing to Field Marshal Haig’s report, and Improved their position around Meteren. Numerous prisoners were captured. Berlin claims that thirty British planes were brought down tho past two days. The fighting c< —-tlnued In the region of Aveluy wood, near Al bert. The British advanced their line south of the wood some 250 yards along a front of 1,000 yards. Other wise there was little change in the sit uation. Towns "Shiver” at New Shock Occurs. San Jacinto, Cal., April 24.—Three more earthquake shocks during Mon day night and early Tuesday made San Jacinto and Hemet "shiver," but added nothing to the destruction of the Bunday tremors which half wrecked the business district here and severelv damaged Hemet. Even the tottering walls of half-collapsed buildings seemed to have gained a seme of equi librium during the successive earth rockinge and twistings of Sunday and Monday and rstatned their balance. Ships Blown Up and Abandoned. London,—British naval forces Tues day raided the German submarine bases of Oatend and Zeebrugge, the admiralty announces. Five old cruls era which had been filled with con crete for use In blocking the channels were run aground, blown 'up and abandoned by their crews. Over $21,000,000 In Third Loan Drive. Denver, April s4.—The total for Den ver and the stats In the Liberty loan campaign Is $21,555.500, which la way over tho top ten jlays ahead ot time. HOW TO AVOID BACKACHE AND NERVOUSNESS Told by Mrs. Lynch From Own Experience. Providence, R. L“**lwss all Its down in health, was nervous, had bead* aches, my baek ached all the time. I was tired end had no ambition for any thing. I bad taken a number of medi cines which did me no good. One day I read about Lydia EL Pinkham’s Vsge- I table Compound end what it had done for women, to I tried headaches die sap eared. I gained te weight and feel fine, no 1 can honestly recommend Lydia E. 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