The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-02-12
SEVEN BAYS
OF NEWS
the WORLD OVER
War News.


to attack neutral ships unless neutral
powers see to it that England does not
misuse their flags, the newspaper
Kreuz Zeitung, ultra conservative
militarist organ, declares in a lead
ing article.
The Russians have been halted in
their march on Konigsburg by super
Tor forces Of the enemy west Of Pilal-
len. Troops from Belgium have ar
rived on that front.
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A determined effort to relieve the
besieged Austrian garrison at Pre-
zemysl with a German army is to be
undertaken, according to dispatch
from Cracow.
Reinforced German armies are max
ing violent attempts to take the often
sive and force back the allied lines
from the coast to Arras.
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Fierce hand to hand combats in the
region of st, Paul mark the launch
ing of a new German onslaught to
force passage of the Aisne at scissors,
less than sixty miles from Paris.
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Russia has informed the United
States that the distribution of food,
money and clothing to German and
Austrian prisoners in Siberia would
be permitted only by the Russian mill
tary authorities, declining to give for
eien relief expeditions that privilege.
An American expedition had started
from Picking.
A considerable number of Turkish
soldiers were killed at Beersheba re-
Gently BY Dedouin tribesmen. The
Turks, it is said, ordered a shipment
c, five hundred camels from the sheiks
of the tribe, promising to pay $50 on
each delivery. When the camels ar
rived the Turkish commander offered
s25C for the lot.
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German attempts to break the
deadlocks in Poland and in northern
France with heavy infantry drives
and sharp commandments during the
last week have failed to affect the sit
uation. London and Petrograd insist
that alderman assaults have been
repulsed with heavy losses recently.
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Washington.
Count Bernstorff, the German am
bassador, has notified the state de-
partment that American vessels
should avoid the north and west coast
OF France.
Representatives of banks in Nebras-
ka and Wyoming have appealed to the
federal reserve board to have those
states transferred from the Kansas
City Federal Reserve district to that
of Chicago In their brief, the bankers
declare that more than two-thirds of
the member banks in those states
want the change.
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Seventeen motor ambulances given
by Harvard and Yale students have
been turned over to the American Red
Cross and will be shipped to Europe
in the near future for service on the
battlefield.
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So that every able bodied man be-
tween the ages OF Is and As years may
have an elementary training, in case
of call to arms, preparations are be-
ing made by the Department of the
East for extensive instruction camps
especially designed for students. This
will include a five weeks course. The
preparations are being made under
the direction of Mai. Gen. Leonard
Wood.
Importation of precious stones for
January was nearly one million dollars
less than in the same month last year
and more than three million dolla,
less than in January, 1913, according
to the statement Just made public at
the office of the United States APP
praiser of merchandise.
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Domestic Items.
A law forbidding the use OF roller
towels in hotels and all public or semi
public places in Wisconsin will be-
come effective the middle of this
month
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George w. Kirchwey, professor of
law at Columbia University, testify
ing before the committee on industrial
relations expressed doubt that the
charters of the Carnegie and Rookie
Teller foundations were constitutional
as they failed to define the scope and
purpose of the institutions.
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Plans for a wholesale fruit and pro-
duce terminal and market to cost
twenty million dollars are announced
in Chicago. 1t is hoped to down de-