The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-08-06
TOLD BRIEFLY
THE NEWS OF SEVEN
DAYS IN ALL LANDS
War News.

man trenches near ST. Hubert ana
Malencourt wreaked terrible toll Of
life, according to an official commun-
ique. The French sappers dug their
tunnels underneath a number Of ad-
vanced German positions. The explo
sions killed more than 200.
+ + +
The Venice Gazette reports thrill
ing battle between an Austrian aero
plane and Italian troops at Verona in
the course of which the aeroplane
came near destroying the famous
tomb of Juliet, known to the world
through Shakespeare's play, Romeo
and Juliet"
In the most successful raid on Turk
ish shipping since the war began Rus
sian Black sea destroyers recently
sank $50 Turkish sailing vessels in
the harbors of Samsun and Ria, along
the coast of Trebizond.
+ + +
There has been no change in the
situation on the Gallipoli front in the
past week. Both the allies and the
Turks have confined their efforts to
desultory small arms fire and sapping
operations. The weather has been eX-
cessively warm.
+ r =
An Austrian squadron bombarded
the Italian town of Ortona and the
Tremiti Islands. Two Italian dirigi-
bles bombarded the Austrian railway
station and town of Nabresina, mid
way between Monfalcone and Trieste,
it was officially announced
i. + u
The casualties in the British army
and navy have reached total OF $780,
995, according to a printed statement
issued by Premier Asquith The to-
tai naval casualties up to July 20 were
9,1O6, and the military casualties to
July IS were 321, SS9.
r + r
Before going to Posen to confer
with his generals the kaiser, it is re-
ported, held crown council in Berlin.
The emperor said Germany could not
undertake to negotiate with her enc
mics until Warsaw and Calais had
been captured With his generals,
Won Hindenburg and Won Falkenhayn,
he drew up final plans to end the war,
which the emperor said, must termi-
nate before Christmas.
r. T. +
The Frankfurter Zeitungs Vienna
correspondent says the Austro-German
forces have captured 131 $50 Russian
prisoners since July IA, besides Al can.
mons, 141 machine guns and an enor'
nous quantity of military supplies.
+ + +
The American-owned steamship Lee
lanaw was torpedoed and sunk off
Kirkwall, Scotland, shortly after day
light last Sunday. The vessel was
flying the American flag, although un-
der British charter.
+ r. +
For the second time since the OAR
danelles operations began, British
submarine has penetrated the harbor
of Constantinople, sinking a Turkish
transport, two gunboats and a steamer
loaded with ammunition.
+ T. r.
There is every Indication that con-
siderable time will elapse before the
German government make any at
tmpt to answer the latest American
note on the sinking of the Lusitania
+ r. r.
Washington.
The French consulate at Cape Hal
tien, Haiti, is menaced by revolution
lists, and a guard from the United
States auxiliary cruiser Eagle has
been landed to protect it, This infor
nation has been cabled early to the
State Department by American Con
sui Livingston.
+ !, +
State Department officials are draft
ing note to Germany asking payment
for loss of the American steamer Lee
lanaw, torpedoed by a German sub
marine off the Orkney Islands, on the
ground of violation of the Prussian
American treaty of 1928.
+ + +
Afternoon tea is not essential t.
diplomacy, according to the auditor O
the United States Department of State
who has refused to pass any further
bills from the embassy for tea served
to Ambassador Page, his secretaries
and clerks, nearly all OF whom have
acquired the English habit.
+ T. T.
Use of bicycles or motor cycles il
the rural delivery service is prohibited
by an order just issued by Postmaste
General Burleson. effective January 1
1916.
+ + T.
General Funston mas reported that
despite warnings to General Carranz,
and his assurances that there would
be no fighting in border towns endan
gering Americans, General Gales hai
assembled with two thousand Carran
"a troops at Santa Barbara and wa
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