The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-11-08
European.

Sir Eric Geddes, who recently SUE
succeeded Sir Edward Carson as frs
lord of the admiralty, made his frs
address in parliament and gave som
interesting and anxiously awaited fig
ures on the work Of the navy ant
shipping in general.
The English first lord of the admiral
ty announces that between forty anG
fifty per cent of the German subma
rines operating in the North sea, the
Atlantic and the Arctic oceans, have
been sunk
The English navy has requisitioneC
the services of many young officers te
add strength to the experience of old
er officers on the naval staff
A German warship has been sunk
in the sound, according to a dispatch
from the National Tidende from Nal.
mo, Sweden.
Russia entered the war early and
she is now worn out by the strain,
Premier Kerensky is reported by the
Associated Press to have stated. He
the other allies should now shoulder
tue DuTU0u Oh Lue war.
A question which is agitating Rus
STA is Where is the British feet now
that the German fleet is out in the
Baltic?"
Eight persons were killed and 81
others wore injured in a German air
raid on London, according to an Of
fetal statement by the British war de-
partment. The material damage was
slight.
United States Senators William s.
Kenyon of Iowa and John B. Kendrick
of Wyoming have passed unscathed
through their second air raid expert
ence in London.
Russian Premier Kerensky says that
Russia is worn out, but still in the
war, Help is urgently needed and
Russia asks it as her right, because
Russia saved France and England at
the beginning OF hostilities.
Premier Kerensky says that with
out Russia's entry in the war England
and France would have been wiped of
the map; that Russia has borne the
brunt Of the fighting, and, with the
help the United States has extended
to England and France, Russia would
still be fighting in enemy territory.
There is unrest in Russian political
circles over Swedish agitation over
the possibility of the taking by Swe-
den OF the Aland islands, which lie in
the Gulf of BOthnia, at the entrance Of
the Gulf of Finland
= A renewal of fighting activity is re-
he
front.
Russian airmen bombarded Tarno- !
pol successfully and got away without
injury.
Italian advices say that there are in
1ications that the allies are sending
great forces to help the battling Ital-
an. The Italian king is at the front.
The Germans, say English advices,
nave retreated from points along the
historic observation-disclosures sector on
he Aisne front in France, where Gen
,ra1 Petain, the French military ge-
Illus, unknown before the war, has
,een hammering and battering them
world without end.
On the italian front the Austro-Ger-
mans and Italians are in combat along
he middle and lower regions of the
7agliamento river, with the Teutonic
orces on the east and the Italians on
he west side of the stream. The over
low of the river is holding the Ger
hans in check.
Italian sentiment has awakened. 1t
vas never dreamed that the Germans
Guild in such short time wreak such
avoc on them, and even old men of
he Garibaldi relict are cfamoring to
o to the front.
Emperor William has congratulated
he German troops for their brilliant
ictory'' over the Italians, and says:
With me, the fatherland thanks it's
sons. Forward, with
iod!"
In Prussia the celebration Of the Ger
ian victory is pronounced. TIE Deums
re being sung in the cathedrals and
ags have been hoisted and salutes
red.
The driving back of the Italians
outward in the Austro-Swiss region
lay seriously affect the plans of the
ntente allies to send relief to Gene
al CadOrna if the route chosen for
MS purpose were across the Franco
Italian border and eastward by rail.
Two more Of the notorious Count
on Luxburg's messages to the German
>reign office from Buenos Aires were
lade public recently. They provide
mple confirmation of ,Germany's plan
} control southern Brazil.
Count George Won Hert1ing, Bavari-
n prime minister, has been appointed I
nperial German chancellor.
Count Won Bernstorff, former am.
to the United States, has been
ade q t'Wirklicher Ceheimrat" by the
with the title of Ibis excel
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