The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-10-13
WORLD NEWS
SEVEN DAYS AT A
GLANCE
War News.

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War News.
Success appears to be browning
General Won Falkenhayn's efforts to
drive the Rumanian invaders from
Transylvanian. A recent official
statement from Berlin says that the
Austro-German troops have advanced
in the region of Kronstadt, Hermann
stadt and Fogaras, forcing the Runa-
mans to withdraw along wide front.
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After week of comparative mac
tivity, the British have resumed their
attacks on the western front, in the
Somme region. They have captured
LIE Sars, on the road to Bapaume, and
have made advances north and north
east of Courcelette and southwest of
Geuedecourt.
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Ispahan, one of the important cities
of Central Persia, has been liberated
from Russian rule through an uprising
of tribesmen in holy war, says an
official statement issued In Constan-
tinople, dealing with the situation in
Persia. A Russian army which at
tackled the Turks at Kinshar, north
west of Hamadan, 1t is added, was
routed by the Turks.
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Turning against the Rumanians,
who had been advancing steadily in
eastern Pennsylvania, AustrO-Hun-
garian and German troops have defeat
ed the invaders decisively along a
fifty-mile front. The artillery con-
tinues active on the Somme front in
France, according to reports from the
war offices of all the belligerents.
The allied troops of the western end
of the Macedonia front continue to
press back the Bulgarian forces be-
fore Monastir. The war office recent
been gained and that the town of Buff,
twelve miles south of Monastir, had
been occupied.
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The bold invasion of Bulgaria by
Rumanian troops, which crossed the
! Danube near Rahovo in the rear of
the main battle line in Dobrudja, has
ended most disastrously for the in
vaders, according to Sofia, their force
being scattered and virtually wiped
out.
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At only one point on the battle
fronts in the Balkans have the allied
troops been defeated. An encircling
movement by Mackensen's forces
compelled the Rumanians who had in
vaded Bulgaria near the Dobrudja bor-
| der to retire across the Danube. On
every other front the allied armies not
only repealed the enemy's attempts to
advance, but pushed forward their
own lines to a considerable distance.
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The Serbians have crossed the
Tcherna river and defeated the adver-
sary on the Nize Mountain in Serbia
and also captured the Kessali railroad
station, according to advices received
at Paris. The Serbian territory re-
captured now embraces 230 square
kilometers, including seven towns.
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Washington.
Submarine warfare on the borders
of the United States with all of it's
spectacular features does not neces-
sarily portend future complications
with Germany so long as it is carried
on within the limitations of interna-
tional law, official Washington be-
lieves.
Advancement for earlier argument
of the governments antitrust suit
against the United States Steel Cor
poration has been asked in the fed
eral supreme court by Solicitor Gen
eral Davis.
oeotoeiSo ioouOu Ny tiiO uOpditmCA
of commerce show exports to the vari-
GUS countries for the first eight
months of the calendar year were in
many cases millions of dollars great.
er than those of the entire fiscal year
of 1914 and very large increases are
shown in percentages.
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DR.. Arthur L. Hunt, inspector of in.
fantile paralysis cases for the District
of Columbia health department, is in
dangerous condition from infantile
paralysis with which he has been i'll
for a week.
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Washington society circles are in
terested in the recent announcement
of the engagement Of Prince Andrea
Boncompagni of Rome and Miss Mar
garet Preston Draper of that city,