The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1916-12-21
MACkEASEN DRIVE
ON RUMAN|A HAS
STOPPED FOR TIME
Military t he atre In
urope Lulls With
Talk of Peace
81 ACKLlST w A
Wade Possible Through Seiz-
ure of Walls, Says overseas
New Agency

Further developments III the peace
movement in Europe now are await
ng the presentation OF the formal re
ply OF the Entente Allies to the pro
posals Of the Central powers. David
Lloyd George. British premier ana
Premier Aristide BRAND, OF France,
have indicated that Il reply VIII be
sp edily forthcoming
Military operations in the Europ-
can field OF war are at low ebb.
The driving campaign OF Field
Marshal Won Mackcnsen seems nearly
at an end. In amy event whether or
not some movement of more i'm
portant nature S contemplated in this
war area, reports show that com
parative quiet is prevailing at pres
emit
ON the Franco Belgian front there
is also a lull, with a quieting down
of the recent activity at Ncrdun,
while the latest reports from the Rus
sian and the Italian-Austl'ian fronts
show little but artillery duels and
skirmishes. In Macedonia steady
rains and fogs permit only patrol
engagements.
Mail Seizures Heavy.
Berlin, Germany.-( Wireless to
Sayville, l.. ID" From December 10
1915, to the last of September, 1916,
British and French naval authorities
seized 24,2o0 mail bags from Ger
many and 14.So0 mail bags bound for
Germany, says the Overseas News
agency.
"of those from Germany, 1910
bags OF mail We're bound for the
uAi,a! States and 6,225 bound for
South America and Spain. The re-
lmainder of the bags were in transit
between Germany and Dutch ports.
ut is shown by signs inscribed on
few letters released and forwarded
to Germany that they We're sized and
read by both British and French cen
sors who apparently seized the mails
and read the letters to gain an i'm
Isight into the trade relations of citi-
zens of the United States and South
tAmerican countries with Germany
i This made possible the establishment
scf the blacklist and other measures.
The German Transportation Ga
I,zette states that these acts are III
lcontrayantion, not only with the I'M
ternational postal union treaty, which
lis valid in war times, but also of the
tconclusion of the conference at The
plague under which mail bags, priv
ate as we'll as Official are inyiola BILE
Russ Attack in Vain.
Berlin, Germany. Wireless to
Sayville l.. L. Several attack
attacks We're made yesterday by the
Russians along the Rumanian from
tier. the war office announces today
ITheSe attacks We're reported to b'
without success
Let Americans Leave.
Washington, ID. C-Two hundre,
americans detained in Syria and Pal
estine by the Turkish military au
: liberties have been granted permis
! sion TO leave by way of Beirut o
condition that they intern at I3eiru
for a month to make valueless an
information they may have.
Nerdun Guns Active.
Paris, France Heavy artller
| lighting continues on the Verdu
! front, the war office announced thi
afternoon During the night engag,
ments were most spirited in the viz
I nifty OF Loyemont and Chambrettes,
Lull I'm Macedonia.
Paris. France. The French offic
d report on the progress of hostilitie
N Macedonia siven out this after
4 noon, reads:
\ There is nothing TO report hi
I patrol fighting on the Macedoni
4 'front.' whore the rain and fog al
heavy -