, 1917-12-06

British and French forces have
reached Italian line to resist invad-
ers.
The British are Smelling Cambria, the
city in the heart of the great oal dis
trict.
American troops played an impor-
tant part in Gen. Byng's drive before
Cambria.
Americas Rainbow Division is in
France, along with other National
Guard units.
German attacks from Masnieres to
Moeuvres were repulsed after hours OF
heavy fighting.
Ten divisions strong, the Belgian ar
my is ready TO take its part in the
offensive in Flanders whenever the
word is given.
President Wilson and his Cabinet
decided to take no steps at this time
toward a declaration of war on Aus
~tria-Iiungary.
The Austrian and German frontiers
have been closed. Both the French
and Italian frontiers already had been
closed for an indefinite period.
Germans entered British positions
at various points south of Masnieres
and advanced two miles at one point,
but British ~regained part of the
ground.
British casualties reported during
November totalled 12O,OS9, divided as
follows: Officers killed or died of
wounds, 1.152; men. 24,292. Officers
wounded or missing, 1887: men. o.
1OS.
The Berlin statement says that lin
aerial engagements and by fire from
the ground our opponents lost thirty
airplanes and two captive balloons. Or
the Cambria battlefield the British
We're %repulsed in an attack west of
Bourbon"
In Palestine on the line extending
from the northeast of Jerusalem to
the sea, the Turkish forces facing the
troops under General Allenby are
showing considerable activity, but as
yet have made no maneuver in the
nature of a general attack.
On the Italian front the fierce en-
gagements by infantry, in which the
men often came into hand-to-hand en-
counters, have turned into duels with
the big guns in the hilly region north
of the Venetian plain and along the
middle n lower Piave river.
The brilliant record of the French
ayiators, including the members of
the Lafayette escadrille for the ten
months ending in October, shows that
they destroyed 12O German airplanes
over the French lines and 397 over
thn Eop,a. lsna. ,rh--z
has been fully confirmed.
WESTERN
The Pittsburg Railways company adj
vertised for girls to be conductors on
the street railways.
Hunting fatalities for the season of
1917 were cut down to twenty-three
known cases as compared with eighty
six in 1916 and fifty-nine in 1915.
Answering a 2O,OOO-word hypotheti-
cal question, DR.. j. Sherman Wight,
defense a~lienist, declared at Mineola,
L. l., that Mrs. Blanca de Saulles was
mot responsible" when she killed her
divorced husband, John l.. de Saulles.
Deportation of every Yaqui Indian
that a be captured and eXtermina-
tion of the rest is the policy announced
by Gen. p. Elias Gales in a telegram
from his headquarters received by
Mexican consular officers at Douglas.
Arlz.
WASHINGTON
Along the Piave river front the Ital-
ian soldiers report that the terrified
screams of women in Austro-German
hands make the night hideous, accord
ing to dispatches received by the Ital-
ian embassy.
Most careful estimates by military
experts place the total number of
fighting troops the United States can
have in France by March l at 100000
men, including regular army and ma
tional guard chiefly.
With Berlin negotiating peace with
the ~Bolsheviki government of Russia,
Lord Transformers letter urging Great
Britain to restate her war aims in a
form more conciliatory to Germany
created a sensation in Washington.
Congress will have to authorize ear
ly in the session means of collecting
from the American people between
now and July LIST, about $4,000, 900, 900
in addition to the S3,66G, 100000 from
Liberty bonds already authorized but
yet to be issued, the $1,000, OO0, 900 or
less expected from war savings cam
palgn and about $4,000, 900, 900 from
war taxes.
Naval operation of all American
merchant ships engaged in t~ransatlan-
tic service is planned by the govern.
ment to safeguard vessels ~traversing