Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1916-12-23
TOLD BRIEFLY
THE NEWS OF SEVEN
DAYS I'm ALL LANDS
War News.

The Teutonic Allies declare them
selves ready to discuss peace Also
they are ready to continue the war Ii
the Entente Allies do not find the
time propitious for such discussion.
The readiness of the Central Powers
has been made in identical notes to
the United States, Spain and Switzer-
land, who are asked to make known
the contents of the notes to the ma
lions at war with the Teutonic Al
lies Notes also have been transmit
ted to the Vatican and the active in
terest of the Pope solicited in the
peace offer.
The Cologne Gazette says that Gen
eral Won Stein, the Prussian war min
lister, has appointed a general officer
commanding the home forces, with
powers including control of the CEN
sorship laws as well as other laws
relating to a state of siege.
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Strong Russian attacks were de1iv-
cred on the Transylvanian front, but
were unsuccessful and without influ-
ence on the advance of the Teutonic
armies in Wallachia, the Berlin war
office announced recently. New Ser
Bend, on the Macedonian front, also
failed
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A Vienna war office communication
says: Hungarian and German troops
near Receanu, northeast of Bucharest,
have won a passage of the Jalomitza
river"
The Rumanians who have been re
treating in Eastern Wallachia before
the Teutonic advance have made a
stand east of Ploesci, the Russian war
office announced recently. They as
sumed the offensive on the road from
Ploechti TO Bureau and drove the Aus
tro-German forces back westward.
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A new crossing of the Danube, be-
tween Tchernavoda and Silistria, by
the Bulgarians is announced in Ger
man army headquarters statement re
garding operations on the Rumanian
front, which also records a continued
advance by the Teutonic armies in
Eastern Wallachia.
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Pursuit of the retiring Russians and
Rumanian forces in eastern Wallachia
by Field Marshal Won Mackensen con-
tinues, but how far the Teutonic ad-
vance has progressed is not made
clear, in the latest official communi-
ques received from Europe. Berlin
chronicles the continuation of the ad-
vance along the whole front and Pet
rograd says the Russians and Ruma-
mans have been retiring since the
evacuation of the Rumatian capital.
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the Forest of Apremont, southeast of
st. Mihiel, have been the scenes of
the only reported activity on the west
ern front. Paris claims the Germans
were elected from a section of the
trenches on Hill 3O4, but Berlin as
serts the troops of the crown prince
repulsed French attempts to retake
the trenches.
Washington
After a warm debate, the House
recently voted into the annual legis-
1ative. executive and judicial appro-
prfation bill provision increasing the
salaries of representatives private
secretaries from $1,000 to $4,000 a
year and giving each representative
an additional employee at SIS month
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Germany's proposal for peace is re
garded in Washington as having
broken the chains which for months
have restrained the United States, as
well as other neutrals, from making
offers of mediation.
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Announcement was made at the
State Department recently that com
plete information now at hand cover
ing the case of the British horse ship
Marina, torpedoed with loss of six
Americans, makes it appear to be "a
clear CUT violation of Germanys
pledges to the United States.
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The American governments formal
protest to Germany against the de-
portation of Belgians for forced labor
as a violation of the principles of hui
Elanity has been made public by the
State Department. 1t was in the form
of a note cabled to Charge Grew at
Berlin. with instructions that he seek
an interview with the German chan
cellor and read it to him.
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Domestic.
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