The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1916-02-25
SEVEN BAYS
OF NEWS
THE WORLD OVER
War News.


with the Turks near Batiha, west of
Korna, amounted to 1000 officers and
men, according to an official announce
ment given out by the Turkish war
department. The statement also says
that the Russians lost 5000 men killed
in three-day battle on the Caucasian
front.
r. r. r.
An Austrian statement announces
that the eighth attack by Italian out
posts on the Austro-Hungarian posi-
tons on Javereck was repulsed The
statement adds that the ground in
front of the new Austrian positions in
the Rombon district is covered with
Italian dead.
+ + +
The fall of Erzerum, which had been
confidently awaited since the news of
the taking by the Russian forces of
nine of the eighteen forts guarding the
gateway to Asia Minor, is the cause
of great elation in Petrograd. Con-
trolling the roads through Armenia,
with access to Trebizond, Tabriz and
Mesopotamia, the capture of Erzerum
is calculated to have immense strate-
gic importance in the Russian cam
paign in the Caucasus. And it will in
directly affect the Balkan campaign by
relieving the pressure on the allies at
Saloniki.
+ + +
Switching their offensive from the
Artois and Champagne regions in
France, to the Belgian sector around
Ypres, held by the British, the Ger
mans have smashed their way by an
artillery bombardment and infantry
attacks into British front line trench.
Berlin gives the distance as 500 yards
and the British official communication
in admitting the gain asserts it was
on a front of about 600 yards. Berlin
says majority of the defenders of the
trench were killed and that one officer
and several dozen soldiers were taken
prisoners.
The whole western fighting front Is
the scene of engagements. At some
points the big guns have been roaring
incssantly for days, the infantry have
been engaged in hand to hand strug.
giles. grenade fighting and mining
operations have played prominent
part in the battles, while airmen have
fought each other above the lines and
have been cannonaded from below by
the anti-air craft guns of both Ger
mans and Anglo-F'rench allies.
r. + +
King Ferdinand of P''lgaTia, Vienna
reports, has arrived to visit Emperor
Francis Joseph. This would seem to
set at naught recent unofficial reports
that Bulgaria had asked the entente
allies for separate peace.
+ + r.
Washington.
The submarine controversy with
| Germany cannot be closed until the
United States has fully considered the
possible effect of the declared inten-
ton of the Germanic powers to sink
all armed merchant ships of their enc
mics without warning after February
90 This announcement was made by
Secretary Lansing instead of the long
expected announcement of a satisfac-
tory settlement of the Lusitania nego-
tiatiolS.
r. + r.
By a vote of So to % the Senate
went on record as favoring congress.
sional inquiry into the advisability of
government ownership of public utili-
ties as against government regulation
and control
+ r. r.
Senator Tillman has introduced a
bill to condemn and purchase for gov
eminent use all armor plate factories
in the United States.
+ + r.
Austria's formal notification of her
intention to sink, without warning,
armed merchant ships after March l
has been received by the State De.
partment. 1t is substantially the same
as that received from Germany.
+ + r.
More than five hundred lepers at
large in the United States constitute
menace of serious possibilities I'M
less proper steps for segregation are
taken, in the opinion of physicians
nurses and others who testified before
the Senate health committee recently
in support OF bill to establish ma.
tional leprosarium.
r + r
Domestic.
Capt. Nicholas Hunt of the detec-
tive bureau, who is directing the
search for Jean Crones, the missing
assistant chef who is suspected of
having poisoned the soup served at
banquet to Archbishop Mundelin at
CbinaoO cold ronant1ty tbat tbo coorot,