Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-07-12
WORLD NEWS
SEVEN DAYS AT A
GLANCE
War News.

The brilliant Russian advance, the
news of which has sent wave of re-
joicing through Russia, was led by
War Minister Kerensky in person.
For four days the war minister had
been continuously at the front, spend
ing every effort to urge the troops to
advance. He finally rode to the front
line trenches and placing himself at
the head of the troops, gave the order
to advance
Russian forces continued their of
fensive against the Turks in the eau
casus. Russian cavalry pursued the
fleeing Turks and occupied the village
of Engidja north of Lake Deribar and
also occupied the Turkish stronghold
of Kalamirivan, southeast of the lake
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The Russian offensive has started
in earnest and Brusiloffs reorganized
armies are attacking over an 1872
mile front in a tremendous drive. The
Russians advanced from the upper
Stripa River, toward Lemberg, the
capital of Galicia, from which they
are only about forty-five miles dis
tant.
gress in their encirclment of the
French mining town of Lens. An Of
fetal statement from the British
headquarters reports the capture of
German defenses on half mile front
along the north bank of the Souchez
River, southwest and west of Lens.
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The French and Germans are en-
CaOad in ipfaucivo fiObtiuO in the re-
gions of Cerny and Cerbeny in the
Soissons-Rheims sector, and around
Hill 3O4 and in the Avocourt Wood
near Verdun. The battle around Cerny
has been sanguinary, positions sew
eral times changing hands, but at last
reports remaining in the hands of the
Germans, who, after several unsuccess
full attempts, won them from the
French, but at the cost of heavy cas-
ualties Southeast of Cerbeny the
Germans along the Laon-Rheims road
also endeavored 10 force the French
line, but there they were repulsed
losing heavily among their men, who
were led by picked battalions of storm
ing troops.
Only minor operations are in prog
ress on many of The war fronts. In
the Russian theater the fighting is
still spirited in Galicia. In the Aus
tro-Italian zone infantry attacks have
again ceased for the moment and only
artillery duels are taking place. Pa
troll engagements and artillery duels
continue to feature the fighting in
Macedonia.
The Canadians have taken another
hack at the German lines protecting
Lens, the coal center i'll the depart
ment of Pas de Calais, and have been
rewarded with a further encroach
ment upon their objective, reports
from the war front indicate.
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Washington.
The area under cultivation in cot
ton this year, announced recently by
the Department of Agriculture, is 3D.
100000 acres, 1,452,OO acres less than
the revised figures of last years area
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The Senate the other day amended
the Food Bill to include control of
cotton and its products. This would
hit clothing. The vote was AS to SO.
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The popular American prejudice
against ''totin' bundles in public is
to be attacked by the commercial
economy board of the Council of Ma
tional Defense in a Nationwide cam
paign.
The American Federation of Labor
has declined to participate in the in
ternational conference of trades
unions called by the recent Stockholm
conference to meet September II in
Switzerland.
Late estimates placed the death list
at fifteen in the accident in the Mil
waukee River when a big steel water
tank toppled over and crashed
through the decks of the whaleback
steamer Christopher Columbus Thir-
teen were injured.
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An immediate general reduction of
81 to $50 a ton in the price of coal
of all kinds at The mine was agreed
upon by representatives of the coal
operators. The reduction is expected
to be followed by Still further de-
creases in price after investigation
into the costs of mining coal
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Domestic.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion has denied the plea of the rail-
roads of the United States for hori-
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