The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-12-17
HERE AND THERE
WORLD NEWS IN BRIEF
PARAGRAPHS
War News.

arc fercely attacking the allies in,
Macedonia, according to the Times
Salonih correspondent, who regards,
the situation as grave. The corre-
spondent says that a series of fierce
assaults, by day and night, have been
directed against the allies right wing
from Demir-Kapu to Kosturino. These
assaults, the dispatch adds, have sol
far been successfully beaten off, but,
the enemy is being continually rein!
forced and apparently intends to rel
new the attacks with the object of
gaining Strumitza station, toward,
which the German cavalry has been
making reconnaissance.
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The capture of more than two thou
sand prisoners, among whom were
three hundred Montenegrins, by the,
troops of General Won Koevess is re-
ported in an official statement from
Austrian headquarters. Eighty can
non, $50 ammunition cars, forty mo-
tor cars and considerable materials
were taken by the forces operating
against the Servians and Monenegrins.
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The situation in the Balkans is de-
Veloping rapidly. The German and
Bulgarian divisions reached Kenali on
the Greek border, ten miles south of
Monastir, thus threatening to outflank
the Anglo-French forces, while Bull
gars, who also are supposed to be led;
nv ho. hn
extreme right wing near Strumitza.
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Important battles have begun or are
impending in Mesopotamia, where the
German field marshal, Baron Won Der
Goltz, has taken command of the,
Turkish forces and is about to attack
the British at Kut-El-Amara; in south
eastern Servia, where the Bulgarians
already have attacked the Anglo
French and have been repulsed; on
Gallipoli, where, according to Turkish
aGGEHt5. he allies have taken the Of
fensive, and in Belgium and France,
where, reports from Holland state, the
Germans have concentrated strong re-
Inducements and an immense amount
of artillery with the object Of striking
q blow at the allied line in Flanders
and Artois.
Newspapers from south and west
Germany which had been stopped for
a fortnight came to hand recently!
which may mean that concentration
Of German troops on the western front,
for the expected big battle has been,
completed Undoubtedly troops have
been pouring into France and Belgium
for a week.
The British army in Mesopotamia,
which has been in retreat following it's
defeat before Bagdad, has reached
Kut-El- AmaTa on the Tigris, 105 miles!
below Bagdad, without further fight
ing.
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Washington.
Ambassador Page at London ad-
vised the State Department that Great
Britain had acceded to the American
protest against the requisitioning of
ships of the American Trans Atlantic
Company.
Secretary Garrison declares in his
annual report to the President, just
made public, that if the admnistra-
ton plan for continental army fails,
the United States will face some form
of compulsory military service.
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Secretary Lansing has communicate
ed to Germany, through Count Won
Bernstorff, the German ambassador,
the reasons which caused the United
States government to request the i'm
mediate withdrawal of Capt. Karl Boy
Ed and Capt Franz Won Papen, respec-
lively naval and military attaches OF
the embassy here.
The Democratic national convention
of 1916 will be held at st. Louis, be-
ginning Wednesday, June IA, at noon.
The Democratic national committee
has named the convention city and
adopted resolutions calling for the re-
and reelection of Wood
row Wilson as 1.-The trusted leader of
national Democracy"
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The United States has sent to Aus
tria-Hungary a note asking for a dis
avowal of the submarine attack upon
the Italian liner Ancona, assurances
that such an act will not be repeated,
some degree of punishment for the
commander of the submarine and re-
Daration for the American lives lost.
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Domestic.
Hopewell, Va, a mushroom town of
twenty-five thousand people, grown
up since last summer with the great
new explosive plant of the Dupont