Tombstone epitaph., 1917-12-02
THE WORLD IN
PARAGRAPHS
4 oRieF RECORD OF PAssiNc
EVENTS IN THIS AND FoR,
EicN coUNTRiEa
IN LATE DISPATCHES
ooINos AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
ABOUT THE WAR

Western Newspaper Union News Service
ABOUT THE WAR
British continue to make successful
advance in Palestine
British break through Hindenburg
line for five mile gain.
Germans demoralized by surprise
element in British attack.
Recent naval battle proves effect
iveness Of British preparations.
One more American soldier was
killed in a fight between patrols in
No Mans land.
Gen. Pershing has reported to tie
War Department that two men we're
killed in action on Nov. l3. Three
were severely wounded and three
slightly wounded.
The Germans have been drawing
troops from other sectors and rushing
them to the Cambria region. Among
and convalescents.
Capture OF 1.200 Austrians who
crossed the Piave river is announced
in q message from Gen Diaz. the Ital-
ian commander-in-chief, to his army.
received by cable.
The Boisheviki Press Agency Of
ficially reports from Petrograd that
all Of Premier Kerensky's troops have
surrendered and that the Bolsheviki
also have gained a complete victory
at Moscow.
The British rapidly are encircling
Jerusalem in their Palestine cam
paign, having now brought their
forces to points twelve miles north
west and fifteen miles west Of the
ancient city.
The Austro-Germans invading nor.
thern Italy Thursday reached a few
Of the Italian outstanding positions
on the Italian advanced lines on
Monte Fontana Secca, but elsewhere
the Teutons were repulsed, the war
office announced
The British are carrying forward
successfully their maneuver which ap-
parently has as its objective the en-
circlement and capture Of the i'm
portant railroad junction OF Cambria
IN northern France. In addition to
heavy losses in men killed or wound
ed more than 5000 Germans had been
made prisoner UP to midday Nov. 22
The British casualties are declared
to be considerably less than the num-
ber Of prisoners taken by Gen. Byng's
men.
WESTERN
No saloons will be permitted in Los
Angeles after March 81. 1918.
Fifteen-cent pieces are scheduled to
take a place in the pocketbooks OF
the masses.
feated in the Oct is election in Iowa
by a majority Of S32 votes
Constitutional prohibition was de-
feated in the Oct. Is election in Iowa
by a majority of s32 votes. according
to the official canvass
The resignation Of Governor Keith
Neville IS chief executive Of Nebras-
ka, is in the hands OF Secretary of
State Poole. The resignation is Of
fered to take effect upon the accept
ance of the Seventh regiment, Ne
braska National Guard, into federal
service.
WASHINGTON
Secretary Daniels told the President
that more submarines have been de-
stroyed in the last two months than
in the entire year heretofore"
The marching of a Japanese army
Of 100000 to Europe through Siberia.
emulating the feat Of Genghis Khan.
who invaded Europe through Asia in
the thirteenth century, is advocated
by the Toxic Mainichi in the event
that Japan decides to mobilize in Eu-
rope.
In demanding the creation of a
supreme war council Of all the allies,
President Wilson. it became known.
had in mind not only q greater co-or-
dination Of resources and greater un-
ity Of action. but q new plan Of cam
paign against the German forces on
the western front.
A roundup Of suspected Germans,
mainly in seacoast and lake port
cities. II in progress under authority
Of President Wilson's new proclama-
ton forbidding alien enemies within
100 yards Of docks. requiring their
registration and imposing other re-
strictions on their movements.
The Secretary Of Agriculture has
notified the secretaries of the Amer
lean National Livestock Association
and the National Woolgrowers Asso-
citation that, under the present war
conditions, no further general in
creases would be made in the grazing
fees on the national forests for the
present.
Washington is stirred by success of
British attacks.
President Wilson Is writing his
second war message which he will de-
liver to Congress "a Dec. =.