Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-01-20
HERE AND THERE
WORLD NEWS IN BRIEF
PARAGRAPHS
War News.


the extreme northern end of the east
ern front, near Riga, have won consid-
cradle successes in the three days
operations Dispatches from Petro-
grad hint that Mitau, an important
town southwest of Riga, and an impor-
tant German base, has been captured.
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Northwest of Fokshani the Russians
have been thrown from strongly forti-
fled positions on the Moldivian hills
and their second line of defense on
the canal between Fokshani and the
mountains has been pierced, says a
Berlin dispatch.
Another of Rumania's fortresses has
fallen into the hands of the Teutonic
Allies. Keeping up their intensive
forward movement along the railroad
line northward into Moldavia, Field
Marshal Won Mackensen's troops have
taken Fokshani and with it nearly
four thousand prisoners and some can
non and machine guns.
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In the region of Riga the Russians
have taken trenches from the Ger
mans near the village of Kalnzem and
in addition captured prisoners, ma
chine guns, trench mortars and one
heavy battery. In a three days battle
in this region the Russians have taken
sixteen cannon and about 500 prison
ers.
Russian forces recently launched
counter offensive against the Teuton
forces along a front of fifteen miles
between Fokshani and Fundeni in Cen
trail Rumania. The German official
report says all the assaults broke
down with heavy losses, except in the
direction of Obilechti twelve miles
southeast of the River Sereth, where
the attackers gained some ground.
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German attacks against the French
lines on the right bank OF the River
Mouse, in the Verdun sector, and near
Vaux Les Palemieux, in the Vosges
mountains, were repulsed, according
to the official statement issued by the
French war department.
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Braila, Rumania's chief commercial
city, has been captured by the Ger
mans and Bulgarians, according to an
official Berlin announcement. The
larger part of the forces of the Central
Powers, which have been fighting in
the Dobrudja, now are free for other
employment, and any Russian plan to
reach Constantinople by going through
the Dobrudja can be decided to have
failed.
German raiding detachments near
TOnc on no front
penetrated to the fourth British trench
in recent operation and returned
with more than fifty prisoners, after
blowing up defensive works.
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Washington
The Sheppard Prohibition Bill to
make the Nations capital dry after
November 1, next, has passed the Sen
ate by a vote of 50 to 80. Under the
terms of the measure no intoxicating
liquors of any kind can be brought
into the District of Columbia except
by individuals for their personal use
and for medicinal purposes.
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In the most sweeping of all decis-
ions UNFOLDING prohibition laws, the
supreme court has upheld as constitu-
tional and valid the Webb-Kenyon law
prohibiting shipments of liquor from
wet" to dry states. 1t also sus-
tanned West Virginia's recent amend
ment to her law prohibiting importa-
ton in interstate commerce of liquor
for personal use.
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An amendment to the Owen Corrupt
Practices Bill, providing that every
qualified voter who fails to vote in a
federal election, except because of ill
ness, shall be subject to fine of S25
has been introduced by Senator
Works.
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A voyage of 700 miles in a motor
boat, from a spot in the Atlantic ocean
where they had abandoned their sink
ing ship to the coast of Morocco, was
the unusual experience related by five
of the crew of the American schooner
Rob Roy. on their arrival at New York
from Havana.
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Bruce Ashby, Jr.. II years old, was
shot and killed by a boy who was prac
ticing with a rifle in East ST Louis
The boy who fired the shot ran away
in fright. His name has not beer
learned.
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