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Show THE GRANT8VILLE cm PRINCE IS SttH . L MEN NEWS, GRANT8VILLE, UTAH. THE HAN WITHOUT A (COUNTRY) HARDEN OF FOOD MID FUEL CONTINUES TO THROW BEST OF GERMAN TROOPS IN BATTLE WITHOUT SUCCESS. PRESIDENT SIGNS FOOD Desperate Fighting Shows French Valor, Attack After Attack With Unprecedented Rapidity Being Repulsed by Sturdy Frenchmen. I SEIZE U GOOF PLANS BEING LAID BY FOOD BILLS, AD-- Faris. The cr&wn prince continues to throw the best German troops into i battle in a vain endeavor to win back t bia positions on the Aisne and in the i i Champagne. The French are' displaying the same tenacity and stoicism that gained them the Verdun victory, beating off every i attack. The fighting is of the most desperate character, attack and counter- i attack succeeding one another with i great rapidity, while the gun prepara- ii tion Is always .of the most intense 1 i sort Sundays assault on the front between Pantheon farm .and the Chevregny spur was a spite battle ordered by the German command. The French seized a number of valuable trenches here on July 30, and, according to prisoners, the enemy staff had warned the Forty-thir- d reserve division that it would get no rest until it had regained the positions It had lost After an bombardment three battalions supported by two additional companies of stosstraphen (shock troops), and advanced on the battered trenches. But they encountered Borne of the finest French troops, the foot chasseurs, under command of General Brlssaut Desmaillet who inflicted a terrible fightslaughter In savage . , one-mi- le all-nig- ht flame-thrower- hand-to-han- s, d i i i i t t i I t t i i ( t I t I ing. The battle lasted all day, but Just before dark the French turned their special guns on a fragment of a trench Where the enemy still had a precarious footing and compelled its abandonment The Germans left behind great heaps of corpses and many prisoners were taken. PLANS TO CONTROL I. W. W. Western Govemore Discuss' Problem at Portland Meeting. Portland, Ore. The governors of six western states met here Saturday with Colonel Charles E. Dentler, U. S. army, who commands all troops in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and Utah, and discussed measures for meeting situations which might arise from L W. W. disturbances; to propose steps by which the states might get guards of home constabularies to replace the organized militia now in the federal service, and to talk over steps to be taken in the event of trouble over the war draft The conference took place behind closed doors. The governors declined to make public its details, except in a general way. They did, however, in suppressing L agree to W. W. activities wherever they may occur in their respective territories. A definite plan for organizing constabularies to replace the militia, it is understood, was formulated. te i ?IBS 07 -- B way jtBp&mqx pa u.ina.i sqig Xoy aipf pus oi ai9iN snaijo aqj aas 0; XBpuojw TDK) 33IB1 T TU9At ua.ipjtqo PUB UO&iapuy "IJ a uaippqa pus puB 'II and Trsndh Losses Upon Teutons. London. The battle of Flanders Oared into ull blast again Friday srlth the British and French on the aggressive. By nightfall they had registered Important local gains on a front between Bixschoote and Westbock, northeast of Ypres. The Germans rallied Immediately af-tthe Initial blow and hit back furid ously all along the line. Fierce grappling ensued. It lasted all day. The allied troops maintained their gains and inflicted heavy losses on the Teutons. British im-nt- i nine-mil- e er hand-to-han- BLAMES KAISER FOR MASSACRE T. P. OConnor Has Decided Views on Armenian Situation. Chautauqua, N. T. T. P. OConnor, M. P the Irish Nationalist leader, in an address on the Armenian situation here Snturduy afternoon, told of Germanys responsibility for the slaughter of thousands in Armenia. I am content, he said, to have the merits and the alms of the two sets of belligerents tested by this case. For it is one of the most lamentable facts in this whole tragic story that the German rulers have played a terrible part in these massacres. There was a consul in nearly every single one of the great Armenian settlements where the massacres took place. UEUT. COL C. E. KUTZ Mexico Short of Money. New York. Conditions in Mexico cluuing nlneomenTand elf were killed and fifty persons were injured at Southend, In Essex, forty miles east of London, by bombs dropped from German raiders Sunday. Considerable damage to property was caused at Southend by the nearly K,n,s dropped upon the town. Two men were injured at Rochford, but four bombs dropped on Margate In Kent did little damage. make It problematical where the next days cash to run the government is to come from, according to a state-- , ment issued here by Henry Bruere, former chamberlain of New York City, Just returned from Mexico. Incendiaries Ruin Powder Factories. Gary, Ind. Fire, believed to have been of Incendiary origin, destroyed about half the mlillon-dolla- r plant of the Aetna Explosives company. Two employes, named Holt and Choisse, were arrested. Springfield Strike Settled. Springfield, III. With concessions by both sides to the street car strike controversy, which has continued for three weeks with disorders and rioting, In which one policeman lost his life, a settlement has been reached. Lieut .Col. Charles E. Kutz, engineer! corps, who for the past three years has been engineer commlesloner of the Dletrict of Columbia, hae boon relieved of his duties in Washington at his own request and Is to be assigns to regular army work In Franoe. Matsuzo Nagal, secretary of the Japanese foreign office and Viscount right hand man, Is a member of the Japanese mission to the United Mates. Several years ago he was general at San Francisco. ' Mo-ton- con-fi- n! German Peace Talk Silenced. Copenhagen. The Cnthollc centrist Party in the relrhsfng, which, through the partys organ Germania, announced It was satisfied with the cabinet arrangements of Pr, George Michaells-thimperial chancellor, and desired no further concession to parliamentary government, is susjiected by the progressive newspapers of having lost much of its Interest in the e pence |