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Newspaper
The Evening Current
Location
Carlsbad, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1917
Page
1
AP reports Michaelis is celebrated by liberal and radical papers as a modern Bismark and worthy successor to the former chancellor. The Reichstag reform movement shows promise but appears to be slipping, with Michaelis and his colleagues rejecting parliamentary influence on administration.
German raiders on the Vauxaillon front and near the Alforvie plateau were repulsed by French forces. Communications from Pars report several attacks north of St Michael and Verdun and in upper Als regions were checked by French fire.
London reports four Americans lost when the British steamer Belman Prince was torpedoed by a German submarine on July 1. One American survivor is reported among the crew.
The Novrey Vembre reports Russian forces have evacuated Proskurov on the Dniester and Podolak on the Smotrich river, fifty three miles south of Maneneta. Podolak, capital of Podolia, has 34000 residents. Proskurov near Kamentz houses 23000.
Street cars in Kansas City were partially tied up as operating employees struck for union rights and a restatement of several discharged workers. The report also notes unrelated items from Copenhagen dated August and a German socialist stance toward government.
The Times correspondent reports General Kernbloff leaving to assume supreme command as the first stage ends. He asserts the Russians will not surrender and warns that surrender would make Russia a German colony forever.
A Christiana dispatch reports seven Norwegian sailing vessels and ninety men lost in a heavy gale near Greenland. The incident was reported as of August, with details from London and Christiana. Washington meanwhile notes President appointed Chief Justice Covington to study labor unrest in the West.
Amsterdam August Theide man socialist representative in the reichstag from Spannheim Baden demanded in the interest of peace a speedy substitution for Chancellor Michaelis government and a government act up which will really represent the will of the German people The final vote on the food control bill in the went e will be taken at four o clock this afternoon.
A group gathers for an afternoon excursion to Black River for fishing and rest from the heat. Participants include Baxter Culp Roy Hewett Boo Richards Ed Lamb George OConner and Waggoner Harden. Tom McKinney Mack Sarrell from the Point visit town today. L A Carson of Hope also appears as a business visitor.
Washington August crop report shows corn prospects up to sixty seven million bushels for July, while overall grain output shifts. Spring wheat futures drop forty million bushels. winter wheat rises fifteen million. Wheat production now forecast at six hundred fifty three million bushels.
The American commission to Russia has retired and the president will receive the commission at four o clock this afternoon.
Deputies and cowboys pursue a small band of miners besieged in a dugout in the mountains fifty miles north of Globe near the Tonto Rim. Supplies are low amid an uprising with Indians. forest rangers hurry to quell fires as I W W is reported involved. B Johnson of Roxwell is in town on business.
Mrs Hibbs died after a period of critical illness at Malaga leaving a husband and several children. The family, who had moved from Texas for a new farming life, faced a bleak future as mourners gathered. Neighbors in Malaga aided the bereaved during her illness and the community offers condolences to the husband and motherless children.
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