The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1916-09-12
News Flashes From
Near and Far

/ The price of bread is to be inveS-
tigated by Uncle Sam.
/ The second anniversary OF the
Marine was celebrated in France
In Macedonia the British have TAX
en- four villages from the Bulgarians.
The Russian general Brussiloff ex-
poets that the war will end in August
1917
Berlin reports that all attacks of
the British and French on the Somme
front have failed.
There has been no change worth
mentioning on the Roumanian front
toward Lemberg
Germany has decided to declare a
blockade against England. effective
on Jan. l, 1917.
Several other unions in New York
voted q sympathetic strike to aid the
street car men.
Work was begun on the site Of the
Mississippi Centennial Exposition at
Gulfport, Miss.
The New Ycrk Third Infantry
Guardsmen reached New Orleans on
their way home from the border.
made five attacks on positions held
by the French on the Somme front.
but were repuised with heavy losses
Austrian troops fighting in Tran
sylvania gave way before Roumanlan
| troops.
1t is expected that in ten days
Greece will join the war on the side
Of the Entente
Two counter attacks by the Ger
mans fail to take the village Of Gin
chy which the British took last Sat
urday
The Italians have captured strong
positions of the Austrians on the
Trentino front, while Austria claims
that the Italians nave been repulsed.
Three thousand railway workers
met at Cardiff and voted to stop work
at midnight Sept II if advance pay
was not granted
Rankin County canning club girls
won vaiuabl, rrizes including a
scholarship offered by the Mississippi
Bankers Association.
The Louisiana Democratic Primary
was set for today when candidates
are to be nominated for congress, the
bench and local officers.
A. P. Kotzum of Ocean Springs,
Miss, was shot and killed by an I'M
known person while in bed at his
home, investigation showed
Lazaro Basch. here from Mexico,
said the Mexican did not want war
with any nation, desiring to return
to their own peaceful pursuits.
The span Of the worlds greatest
canteliver bridge weighing 5000 tons
collapsed as it was being raised into
place and fell into the St Lawrence
river near Quebec.
Baron Burian. Austro- Hungary's
minister Of foreign affairs, said his
country would welcome peace but
is not gutter and would fight as
long as necessary.
The capture by the German and
Bulgarian army invading Roumania
Of the Roumanian fortress Silestria
sixty miles southeast of Bucharest is
reported.
Charles F.. Cline, United States dis
trict attorney in Chicago questioned
bakers in connection with a report
that the price of bread is to be rails
ed from cents to s cents loaf.
Postmaster General Burleson de-
manded retraction of a statement by
Senator Sherman as to the appoint
ment of a man once charged with
murder to be postmaster at Long
view Texas.
Republicans carried Maine by 49,
900 votes, electing governor, audit
or, two United States Senators and a
full delegation to congress and re-
gained the lower house of the state
legislature.
British threw their forces across
the Struma river in Macedonia and
captured several villages; the French
bombarded several Bulgarian posi-
tions west Of the Vadar and they
were forced to withdraw on the Ser
bian front.
! The Germans using burning liquid
At the third conference of the
Mexican and United States commits
sion the Carranza representatives