Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-05-10
SEVEN DAYS
OF NEWS
THE WORLD OVER
War News.

Bitter German counter attacks
against the newly won French posi-
tions east of Reims have met with re-
pulse at every point The German as
=saults were particularly desperate be
cause the French now dominate the
positions from which the Teuton artil-
Jery has been bombarding Reims.
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t1n the month of April" the official
report from British headquarters in
France says, 1--WE have taken in the
course of our offensive operations 49,.
343 German prisoners, including 1913
officers. In the same period we also
captured 257 guns and howitzers, in
Guiding ninety-eight heavy guns and
howitzers, 227 trench mortars and 470
machine guns"
Turkish losses during the fighting
against the British in Mesopotamia
from April Is to % are estimated in
an official statement to have been
about four thousand. The announce
ment reports the Turks intrenching
fifteen miles north of Samara, after
their recent defeat by the British in
the fighting around that place.
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In a powerful attack i'm the Cham
payne region the French troops cap
tured several fortified lines of trenches
in the neighborhood of Monte Carnil-
let to a depth of five hundred to a
thousand meters, according to the war
office report.
The British troops captured a Ger
man trench system south of Oppy on a
front of about a mile, after heavy
lighting, the official report from Brit
ish headquarters in France says. The
Germans offered strong resistance and
delivered several counter-attacks but
these failed
Russian troops have recaptured
from the Turks the ground lost south
east of Erzingan, on the Caucasian
front, it is announced officially at
Petrograd.
While the French and British ar
mics continue to press the exhausted
Germans at vital points of the linden
burg line, between GavrelIe and
Roeux, in the Scarpe Valley, and along
the observation-disclosures and the Morno-
villiers sector, Nivelles guns on the
FuplandS of the Aisne doomed out in
"a growing chorus, which the Germans
translate as the prophecy of a new
offensive
British troops on the Macedonian
front, says an announcement issued
today by the official press bureau,
have maintained their steady bonn
bardment of the positions of the Cen
trial Powers
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Washington.
The United States stands ready to
send an army to Europe whenever the
Allies deem it wise to divert the neces-
sary ships from transporting food to
transporting men. 1t became known
definitely recently that the govern
ment had offered troops to the Allies.
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The Senate recently paid spectacu-
1ar tribute to Vfce-Premier Rene Vivi-
ami, Marshal Joffre and Admiral Cho-
,cheprat of France. Time and again
the historic chamber, where demon
strations usually are forbidden, fairly
shook with cheers and handclapping.
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Formal announcement of the itine-
rary of Marshal Joffre and the French
commission for their tour into the
Middle West, including Kansas City
as the second city they will visit, was
made at the State Department in
Washington the other night.
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Representative Kahn of California,
who led the fight in the House for
the Military Draft BILL has introduced
a bill to authorize organization of ten
or more regiments of Indian cavalry
to be designated the North American
Indian Cavalry"
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Unofficial accounts of the work of
the house ways and means sub-com-
mittee framing the war tax bill have
aroused something of a storm among
both the Democrats and Republicans
in Congress.
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The coroner's jury at Chester, Pa
has returned verdict finding there
was no evidence to lead to the con-
clusion that the explosions at the Ed
dystone Ammunition Corporation plant
at Chester April 10, was premeditated
The cause of the explosions is un-
known.
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Domestic.