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ABOUT THE WAR
Peru handed German minister his
passports.
American destroyer sinks German
submarine.
A German submarine interned at
Cadiz escaped.
American patrol boat founders in
European waters.
The government has declared a
state Of war in Turkestan.
Twenty thousand airplanes for
America are under construction.
Uruguay has severed diplomatic re-
lations with Germany and the Berlin
representative has been given his
passports.
The military commandant at Viborg
has published warning to all Rus
sian families in Finland to leave the
country.
British hold ground won in great
drive east of Ypres and repulse coun-
ter attacks. Total of prisoners taken
In Thursdays battle is 4,446.
The artillery duel between the
French and Germans in Belgium con-
tihues. French positions on the Aisne
and Campagne fronts were attacked,
but the assaults were put down.
Russian scouts from the Caucasus
army in a daring raid captured Gen.
Count Won Meyer, head of the German
air service in the Black Sea district,
says an official announcement from
Petrograd.
An American patrol boat has fired
upon an Italian submarine, which
failed to respond to signals, and killed
one officer and an enlisted man. Sec
retary Daniels has expressed the re-
grets of the U. 8. to Italy.
An allied army of 1850, 900 men is
expected to launch a campaign against
the Bulgarians and Turks within sixty
days. Constantinople will be the
goal of one branch of this new inter-
national army during the winter.
Heavy rains have turned the Fland-
ers battle ground into a sea of mud
and the fighting has been halted tenn
porarily there. The last attempted
counter by the Germans was frus-
trated by the British.
With Uruguay's relations with Ger
many broken there are now $4,000 900
Latin Americans lined up on the side
of the United States. Other South
Americans are expected to fall in line
in the next few months.
WESTERN
Eight fires. believed set by /. w. w.
following the arrest of their leader,
Dan Lavery. wanted in Chicago, de-
stroyed approximately $4,000 worth
of property at Modesto, Cal.
Emphasis was laid upon Americas
aim of self preservation in fighting
this war by Franklin X. Lane, secre-
tary OF the interior, at a Liberty loan
mass meeting at Ogden, Utah
Poolville. Parker county, Texas, has
raised a $1,246.50 reward to be paid
for the delivery of the German kaiser
into the hands of the American author
tiles. Practically every male resident
of the town contributed to the fund.
killing frost occurred Sunday
night all over the state of Nebraska.
The mercury registered rs above zero
at Omaha early Monday. Most OF the
corn in the state was out of danger
and the frost will really benefit it, ac-
cOrdinR tn authoritiaa
WASHINGTON
The United States made a loan of
$15,0O0,000 to Great Britain 1t was an
nounced at the Treasury Department.
Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo
administered stinglng rebuke to DIR.
Fl. E. Stockridge of Atlanta, Ga, pres
ident of the Farmers National Con-
gress, for asserting that the farmers
organization would not support the sec
ond Liberty loan because Mr.. McAdoo
postage rates on periodicals, including
agricultural publications.
While the big guns Of oratory OF
William II. Taft, William Jennings
Bryan, Billy Sunday and the whole
cabinet and Congress are urging the
purchase of Liberty bonds on the man
in the street, the big guns in Flanders
are making the appeal to the man in
khaki. Gen. Pershing asked for in
structions as to how his men allot
their pay for the purchase of bonds.
August exports of wheat, corn and
mineral oils decreased to a marked
extent, while exports of oats doubled
and fresh beef recorded 500 per cent
increase, the Department of Com
merce announced. The great bulk oi
shipments went to the allies.
The engineer corps is looking fol
10000 men with road construction ex
perience to serve In an engineer brig