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About the War

About the War
Since Aug. 8, 49, enemy machines
have been brought down by British
airmen.
The British have captured the city
of Lens. The town of Queant also
has been taken.
French troops have crossed the Gro
Eat canal opposite Liez, three miles
southwest of Vendeuil
The British are within six miles of
St. Quentin at Villevque and have cap
tured Roisel and st. Emile.
More than $4,000 prisoners were
taken by the British in France in the
first week of September.
Tchitca, the capital of Transbaikaia
and 270 miles east of Irkutsk, has been
captured by Czecho-Slovak forces.
In Flanders the British forces have
captured the town of Wulverghem,
two miles southeast of KENNEL.
The French troops were obliged to
face fire at twenty yards in order to
cross the Oise-Aisne canal and the Riv-
er Ailette.
With the allies Immediately before
r or approaching the Hindenburg line,
the enemy is beginning to react more
violently with his artillery.
Continuing their pressure along the
front from Rheims to Ypres, the al
lied forces are pushing back the Ger
mans on virtually this entire 15O-mile
line.
North of the Somme French troops
have made another advance in the d.
rectiOn of Clastres and have occupied
La Motto farm, according to the Paris
war office announcement.
Advices received at Shanghai from
Vladivostok reported the occupation
by the Japanese of Khabarovsk, the
seat of the general government of
Amur, at the junction of the Amur
and Ussuri rivers.
Pushing ahead Monday on the front
between Peronne and st. Quentin,
British patrols occupied the towns of
Vermand. five and one-half miles
northwest of st. Quentin, and Ven
delles, two miles north of vermand.
The British in an advance over a
four-mile front between the Havrin-
court wood and Peiziere have captured
all the German positions on the high
ground between these two points and
won their old trench positions over
looking Gouzeacourt.
On the western outskirts of the
bastion of ST. Gobain. defending
Laon. the French. already at Barisis,
are in advance of the line they occu-
pied in 1917. and further south below
the main bastion are standing on
ground which has not been in allied
hands since 1914.
Western
Joseph p. Thayer, multimillionaire
merchant of Kansas City and presi-
dent of the Emery, Bird, Thayer Dry
Goods Company. died at Colorado
Springs. Colo.
Brewers. bottlers and drivers EN-.
ployed in the Kansas City breweries
walked out because of wage contro-
versy The breweries have been COM
PEELED to close.
The court room was crowded at
Cleveland, Ohio, when Eugene V. Debs,
former Socialist candidate for Presi-
dent. was placed on trial before Fed
eral Judge ID. G. Westenhaver, charged
with violation of the espionage act.
Sheriffs' posses and citizens secured
the countryside about Price, Carbon
county, for the l5-year-old Florence
Galley. wealthy heiress and orphan,
who strangely disappeared from the
home of her aunt and guardian, Mrs.
L. G. Hoffman, at Salt Lake, Utah.
Washington
Improvement and enlargement of
aeroplane, medical and transportation
service will be undertaken as a result
OF Secretary OF War Bakers second
trip abroad
Definite abandonment of President
Wilson's plans for transcontinental
speaking tour for the Fourth Liberty
Loan was announced Monday at the
White House.
Heavy loss in the prospective corn
crop. but considerable increase In
the forecast OF spring wheat produc.
tion, featured the September crop re.
port issued by the Department of Ag.
riculture.
Delay in final passage of the emer-
gency agricultural bill with its rider
providing for national prohibition af.
ter July 1, was indicated when the
House sent the measure to the agri.
cultural committee for report
Increased taxes on incomes and
smaller bond issues were advocated
in the hearing on the war revenue
bill before the Senate finance com.
mittee. by Benjamin c. Marsh, rep