Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-09-27
SEVEN DAYS
OF NEWS
The WORLD OVER
War News.

ing the Germans back to the Dvina
line in the Riga region, have occupied
several German positions between
Pskoff and Riga Later they captured
Teuton defenses northeast of Fried
richstadt, south of Riga. In it's Off
cial report Berlin makes no mention
of activity in this region.
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The Italians are still outstanding
successfully Austro-Hungarian efforts
on the southeastern edge of the Balm
sizza Plateau, while the big guns are
hurting their monster shells over the
battle torn area of the Carso Plateau
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The British air service still main
tains supremacy and the big raiding
machines have been doing vast DAM
age. One of the spectacular air Incl
dents occurred recently, when Brit
ish plane dispersed two thousand
enemy infantry by turning it's machine
guns ON the men along one of the high
ways.
After a violent bombardment the
Germans delivered an attack in the
Forest of ApremOnt- Some detach-
ments of the enemy which succeeded
in gaining footho1d in the French adj
-vanced trench elements were elected
after spirited fighting. The French
line was fully re-established.
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A German attack early in the morn
ing in an effort to recapture positions
taken previously by the British near
Iverness Copse was repulsed, the Brit
ish war office announces. The British
tha
penetrating as far as the western out
skirts of the town.
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Stubborn fighting is in progress on
the northern end of the front in Rus
STA. A recent official statement says
the Russian troops are fighting with
determination, repelling German as
saults. Attacks on the Rumanian
front were also beaten back.
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The news of the Italian victory at
San Gabrielle, probably the greatest
feat of the Italian arms thus far in
the war, precedes the latest official re-
port from Rome. San Gabriele's top
was occupied by the Italians, the en-
bassy reports. after the fortified hill
or saddle of Dol and the Gargaro
basin, the main bulk of San Gabrielle.
The battle has lasted twenty days.
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Except along the Classmates Plateau
on the Aisne front there has been no
marked activity on the other fighting
fronts A German attack against the
French positions on the Classmates
Plateau, Paris reports, was repulsed
with heavy losses
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Washington.
Reports to the United States Geo
logical Survey on production of btu
minous coal show a decrease in Au-
gust at the rate of more than mil
lion tons a month and indicates a
shortage of coal this winter unless
production shows a decided increase.
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President Wilson is personally press
ing for prompt adjustment of the
shipyard strikes on the western coast,
and will soon sanction dispatch of
labor commission to Russia to clarity
this country's attitude toward the war
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Reports that the government is con-
templating requisitioning wheat on the
farms to keep flour mills going were
denied by Herbert Hoover, the food
administrator. Mills generally, Mr..
Hoover said, are running on full time,
although some are handicapped by
shortage of grain
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Strikes in Pacific coast shipyards
holding government contracts have
assumed such serious proportions that
Chairman Hurley of the federal ship
ping board announced that he was con-
sidering going to San Francisco in an
attempt to settle the trouble
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BY a presidential proclamation the
entire sugar industry in the United
States has been placed under the food
administration to be controlled in the
same manner as wheat and fuel
Congressional plans contemplate ad-
journment early in October. Speed in
the senate alone is essential to carry
ing this plan into effect. The house
has almost completed it's work and
conferees are making all possible haste
to reach agreements on measures that
have passed both houses.
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Domestic
Mrs. Florence Roe was found guilty
of the murder of her aged husband,
Jesse Roe. and given life sentence
in the state penitentiary at McAlester,
Ok, by jury in the district court of