Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1918-01-24
HERE AND THERE
WORLD NEWS IN BRIEF
PARAGRAPHS
War News.

War News.
The Austro-Hungarian war office
has issued the following statement
concerning the fighting on the Italian
front: Between the Brenta and
Monte Pertica the Italians advanced
to the attack after strong artillery
preparation which increased, some
times to drumfire. After very violent
hand-to-hand fighting, the enemy sue
ceeded at few points in penetrating
our trenches. but was expelled by
counter attacks"
The latest report from Field Mar
shall Haig's headquarters in France
says: Beyond the usual artillery ac-
tivfty there is nothing of special in
terest to report"
The two artIlleries were quite active
at various points along the Cham
payne front and on the right bank of
the Meuse, especially in the region
north of Louvemont, where French
batteries caught under their fire Ger
man concentrations. There was no
infantry action
Recently British air Squadrons car
ried out most successful raid into
Germany in broad daylight, their OBJ
jectives being the railway station and
munitions factories at Karlsruhe. One
and a quarter tons of bombs were
dropped with excellent results.
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Winter has settled down in earnest
over all the important war fronts and
beyond artillery actions which are be-
ing carried out over very limited Sec
tions, there has been little fighting
either in the West or in the East. Only
patrol encounters are reported along
the British lines and artillery action
at two points on the French front
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In Italy the terrific artillery and
infantry fighting has given way to
aerial warfare, which, however,
though it is spectacular, has little di-
rect bearing on the progress of the
campaign when confined to combats
between individuals or squadrons.
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British airplanes on the Italian front
attacked a squadron of seven hostile
machines recently and brought down
four of them, the war office an
nounced. Two of the enemy airplanes
crashed to earth and two others were
driven down out of control. The Brit
ish come out of the fight with all their
machines intact.
The first battalion of the Russian
legion, composed of members of the
Russian expeditionary force, which
held a sector on the front of the
Champagne until the time of the revo-
luton. has again left for the trenches.
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Washington.
At the request of the War Depart
ment, Chairman Chamberlain of the
Senate military committee has intro
duced a bill for the registration for
military duty of all men who have be-
come 81 years old since June 5, 1917,
when the Draft Law went into effect.
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With thousands of workers idle and
many industries facing paralysis, the
whole force of the Federal Fuel Ad-
ministration has been directed toward
the relief of the fuel famine in the
storm swept districts of the Central
West.
tation by the blizzard led Director
General McAdoo to establish limited
priority orders on coal and food for
New York and vicinity, giving the
first instructions of the kind since he
recently Cancelled all formal priority.
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Conviction of Emma Goldman and
Alexander Berkman on charges of
conspiring to prevent the operation of
the Selective Service Act by urging
men of draft age not to register, has
been sustained by the United States
supreme court.
Curtailment of coal to the less es-
sential industries in eastern cities as
a means of relieving the fuel famine
has begun. Apportionment of coal
win be left largely to federal fuel ad-
ministrators in the states in which sup
plies are short.
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Americas merchant ship production
in 1917 is put at 901, 223 gross tons in
reports made to the shipping board.
This was nearly double that of 1916.
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