Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-11-29
SEVEN DAYS
OF NEWS
THE WORLD OVER
War News.


War News.
Between the Brenta and the Piave
rivers on the northern front OF the
Italian theater, the Italians are tena-
ciously holding back the enemy and
preventing his advance southwark to
the Venetian plain, the gaining of
which would threaten their entire line
along the Piave river southwark to
the Adriatic Sea.
Soon after daybreak the other morn
ing the British carried out series of
operations between ST. Quentin and
the Scarpe. These operations have
been conducted with satisfactory re-
suits. A considerable quantity of ma
terial and a number of prisoners have
been taken, but no estimate can yet
be given.
While the Italians are holding the
middle and lower reaches of the Piave
river successfully against the Teutonic
allied invaders, and even have thrown
back the greater portion of those who
crossed the stream and gained the
western bank, the enemy is trying
with strong forces in the North to
beat back the troops of General Diaz,
pierce the line and force a retirement
westward from the river from the re-
gion of Vidor to the Adriatic Sea.
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No infantry actions of Importance
have taken place along the western
front in Belgium and France, but indi-
cations point to another attack by
Field Marshal Haig in Flanders and
possibly by General Petain's forces
near Verdun. On both sectors ex-
tremely heavy bombardments are in
progress.
All along the Piave river the Ital
ians are holding the German and Aus
tro-Hungarian armies in check. No
where have the invaders been able to
cross the stream and at several places
where they previously had gained ac
cess to the western bank they have
been brilliantly counter attacked and
forced to withdraw to the rivers edge
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German light cruisers, which fled
through Helgoland Blight before Brit
ish warships of similar type, were pur-
sued to within thirty miles of Helgo-
lection of the German battle fleet and
mine fields, the admiralty announced
recently.
The city of Jaffa, on the Mediter-
ranean coast, has been taken posses
sion of by the British army in Pales-
tine. The Turks, who apparently are
continuing their withdrawal north
ward offered no OpD0SitiOn
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On the Italian front, which is the
only theater in the world war where
intensive fighting is in progress, the
Italians daily continue to stiffen their
front from the region of Lake Garda
to the Adriatic Sea. Nowhere have the
Teutonic Allies been able to penetrate
their front for new gains of great i'm
portance.
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The British army, which is pursu-
ing the Turks along the coast in Pales-
tine, has made further substantial
gains, the war office announces. 1t
has reached line from Ramleh Judd
to point three miles south of Jaffa.
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Washington.
Twenty-one Americans are believed
to have been lost when the small
United States destroyer Chauncey
sank following a collision on patrol
duty in foreign waters recently. The
remaining seventy officers and men of
the crew were saved, according to first
dispatches, made public by Secretary
Daniels.
No new shipments of supplies will
be permitted to go from the United
States to Russia until the situation in
that country clears. The American
government before allowing the ex-
port of goods already on the docks,
wants to know into whose hands they
will fall on their arrival.
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All alien enemies are required to
register and to obtain permits for
travel, under a proclamation issued
by President Wilson Enemies also
are prohibited approaching within one
hundred yards of water fronts, docks,
railroad terminals, or storage houses
and are forbidden to enter or to re-
side in the District of Columbia.
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Domestic,
Formal announcement was made re-
Gently that the railroads of the United
States had decided, if any crisis
should arise, to place their interests
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