The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-11-22

tain Theodore Barnes, Jr., COmman0eF.
He said the fighting was hand-to-hand
before evacuation. Villa troops now
occupy the Mexican town, Many were
killed, wounded and executed.
European.
After having been defeated by the
BoIsheviki, Premier Kerensky is re-
ported as having fed Petrograd and
his whereabouts are unknown.
One report attributes Kerensky's de-
feat to the Intervention of Lettish
forces, 10000 strong, on the side of the
Bolsheviki, while another attributes it
to the desertion of part of his officers
and men.
Russian dispatches say the head of
,Russia's provisional government was
about to surrender to the MaXimat-
lists under coercion when Premier ker-
ensky disappeared.
General Pershing, on trip TO the
front, visited the graves Of the three
American victims of a recent trench
raid in the vicinity of a small village
in France.
The city OF Jaffa, on the Mediter-
ranean coast has been taken by British
forces in Palestine. Reports say it was
occupied by Australian and New Zea-
land forces without opposition.
\ dispatch from Zurich, Switzerland
says disorders broke out there again.
2,000 persons, singing the 'lnternatiOn-
ale marched to the prison and broke
blinds and windows.
The food gates OF Piave and SHE
or old Piave rivers near Rome, Italy
have been opened by Italian military
engiHeers and the enemy Is faced by
another User inundatiOn
Water was loOsed where the Ger
mans succeeded in crossing the Piave
near G1isolera, and the region where
he gained entrance is now under
water.
Inundated territory near Rome. Italy
forms a triangle where the enemy had
been driven back. but still held on un-
low-lying plain.
The chief menace near GrisOlera
was that the enemy might reach Ven
ice through the lagoon or lombard
the city from between the rivers, but
this was prevented by opening the
dykes.
Venice is almost empty. the popula-
ton having been reduced from 10000
to 10000, but despite the proximity OF
the enemy at the mouth of the river
the remnant of population is calm
Venice may not be defended in
case of an attack in order to spare
the monuments and many other art
treasures there.
The chamber OF deputies in Brazil
has adopted the bill for reprisals
against Germans, as amended by the
senate. The government is authorized
to proclaim a state of seige wherever
necessary, to cancel contracts for pub
lie works with Germany, to annul any
other contracts preiudicial TO the de-
Tense, to prohibit international COM
merce with Germans, to. intern enemy
tsubjects and to revise land concessions
to cOlOnistS.
The American artillery fire has been
heavy recently, and there is good rea-
son to believe that it has accounted
| for a considerable number of the
enemy.
Senator Kenyon, of Iowa. and Sen
! ator Hendrick, of Wyoming. arrived at
headquarters on their tour Of the mill
tary zone. They took dinner with
General Pershing and his staff. and in
spected some Of the troops.
| Only one British merchant vessel OF
more than 1900 tons was sunk by
| ing TO a statement Of shipping losses
| issued.
Varied reports are still coming
| through concerning the situation in
Russia, but out of the maze it has
! been impossible to disentangle one
statement that may be considered
! trustworthy. One report has Petrograd
! in flames and another has 1000 per
sons killed in the streets Of Moscow
during the fighting between the Ker
ensky and Bolshevfki factions.
The junction of the. Damascus Beer
sheba railway with the line to Jeru
| salem is now in the possession of the
/ British army in Palestine. it was Of
! ficially announced. The Turks lost
/ 1900 men in prisoners and more than
400 in dead ON Tuesday, besides four
guns and a score OF machine guns.
In observation work the Americans
have been acting both as observers and
pilots. This work has been done al
many points, but none over the sector
where American troops are entrenched
number of Americans have been
killed or wounded in the recent she'll
ing of the American trenches by the
Germans. One shell which dropped
Into a trench caused several casual