The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1917-11-29

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much concerned over the frequent de-
the training camps according to DR..
Charles T.. Bolduan Of New York.
According to health reports there is
meningitis at Camp Funston, malaria
at Camps Logan n Pike. typhoid at
Camp Dix, measles at Camps Wheeler,
Shelby, Sewer and Bowie and pneu.
monia at Camp Wheeler.
European.
A Copenhagen report says that a
Berlin correspondent learns that the
German government has received in.
formation h a the Russian maXimalist
government has declared Russia out
of the war.
according to a London report, Field
Marshal FIaig has shifted his offensive
and delivered a series of attacks
against the Germans in the region he.
tween ST. Quentin and River Scarpc.
a French prisoner at Copenhagen
admitted firing the commissary at
Augsburg, Bavaria, containing hay,
straw, and flour from last years crop
10 the value OF nearly 1000, 900 marks,
Russia's army will soon be defeated
by starvation unless there is an i'm
mediate Improvement in t]ransporta.
tion and o supplying, according to
warning voiced by soldiers committee.
me rumble of guns is heard in Ven
ice by night and by day as the tlcet
and he Venice coast batteries shell
IN" enemy at the mouth of the Piave.
germany has refused to treat for
peace with the new soldiers and work
mems government in response to a
recent proposal, according to the news
Iho Vols Norroda says Of Russia,
the workmen's government, in the
event OF failure to receive supplies
by November % reserves the right to
make peace on its own account, after
which Russia will be neutral.
The British commander, General
Maude is dead in Mesopotamia after a
orlcf illness. He was rated as one of
me most brilliant commander Of the
war, II has won many successes.
After having been defeated by the
b~olsheviki, Premier Kerensky is re.
ported as having fled Petrograd and
ms whereabouts are unknown.
One report attributes Kerensky's do.
ieat to the intervention OF Lct,isb
FORCES, $4,000 strong, on the side of the
Bolsheviki, while another attributes il
TO the dcscrtion Of part Of his officers
n men.
russian dispatches say the head Of
fussia's provisional government was
aoout 10 surrender to the Maximal.
ls!a under coercion when Premier. Ker.
ensky disappeared.
General Pershing, on a trim to the
front, visited the graves Of the three
american victims of a recent -trench
RAID in the vicinity Of a small village
The city Of Jaffa, on the Meditcr.
ranean coast has been taken by British
forces in Palestine. Reports say il was
occupied by Australian and New Yea.
iand forces without opposition.
a dispatch from Zurich, Switzerland.
says disorders broke out there again
2'oO0 persons, singing the Information.
aie marched to the prison and broke
blinds and windows.
The flood gates Of Piave and Si,o
or old Piavc rivers near Rome. Ita1v
nave been opened by Italian military
engineers and the enemy is faced nv
another User inundation.
water was loosed where the Ger
mans succeeded in crossing the Piavo
near Gl1solera, and the region where
ne gained entrance is now under
water.
inundated territory near Rome, Italy
1orms a triangle where the enemv had
peeh drlVen back. but still held on I'M
I'll the dykes were released over tho
low-lying plain.
The chief menac near Griso,or.
was that the enemy might reach Won.
ice through the lagoon or lombard
the city from between the rivers. but
.hls was prevented by opening the
dykes.
venice is almost empty, the popula.
tlon having been reduced from 100 oo0
10 10000, but despite the proximity Of
me enemy at the mouth Of the river
me remnan OF population is calm.
The chamber of deputies in Rrayi,
mas adopted the bill for reprisa,s
"e'lns' Germans, as amended by the
senate. inc government is authorized
70 proclaim a state Of seige wherever
necessary, to cancel contracts for pub.
nc works with Germany, to annul anv
other contracts prejudicial TO tho do.
fense, to prohibit international com.
mcrce with Germans, to intern encnv
subjects n to revise land conccs.ion.
to c%olonists.
The American artillery fire has been
hcavy recently, and there Is good req.
son to believe that 1t has accounted
Tor a considerable number OF Tho
enemy.
Ihe junction OF the Damascus.Beer.
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