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About the war
The British forces captured more
han 500 Germans when they took
he towns of Frescourt and Havrin-
court
Dispatches received by English
newspapers through Helsingfors an
nounce that Petrograd has been taken
by the anti-revoutionsts.
South of the Oise. says the Paris
war office announcement Sunday
night, 1--WE maintained our positions
against violent counter attacks
Japanese cavalry and an infantry
battalion captured the enemy naval
base of Khabarovsk on Sept. Z, ac-
cording to official announcement at
Toxic
Another blow against the German
lines as an answer TO the peace pro-
posal of the central powers is expected
momentarily by military officials in
Washington.
AS the result of the British progress
in the district northwest of st. Quen-
tin the British line has been estab
ished east of the villages of Hesbe
court and Jeancourt
French troops advanced about
kilometer on front of four kilome-
ters, according to the Paris war of
flee announcement Six hundred addi-
tional prisoners We're taken.
Maissemy. village five miles north
west of St Quentin, has been captured
by the British This adds another i'm
pOrtant position to those recently
taken along the ridges west of st.
Quentin.
The Germans apparently are with
drawing along the whole thirty-three-
mile front between Abeaucourt and the
Moselle in an effort to improve the
protection of communications in the
vicinity of Metz.
The French took 10000 prisoners in
the st. Mihiel operations, including s.
900 Austrians, making total of more
than $1,000 prisoners taken by the
Americans and French. the Echo de
Paris announced
British ayiators have again bombed
the railways at Metz-Sablons and
Mainz. and docks and sidings at Karls-
ruhe. Seventeen direct hits were OBJ
tanned on the Karlsruhe objectives. ac-
cording to the London air ministry
communication.
The capture of the first and second
line Bulgarian positions along a ten
mile section of the Doiran-Vardar
front was announced by A. J. Balfour,
the foreign secretary, at a reception
to the Greek delegation in London. A
Serbian official statement gives the po-
sitions captured by the Franco-Serbian
forces as Vetrenik Dobropolje and No
kal. which is the most important part
of the Macedonian front.
Western
Eugene V. Debs, charged with viola
tion of the espionage act, was SEN
fenced to ten years in the Mounds.
vile. w. Va, penitentiary on each of
three counts of the indictment by Fed
eral Judge d. C. Westenhaver at
Cleveland, Ohio. The sentences will
run concurrently
Francisco Acosta, newly appointed
customs collector at Aqua Prieta. Mex
leo. opposite Douglas, Ariz., died at III
Paso. Tex, while en- route from Mexico
City to take charge of his new post
Heart failure caused the death.
Advices received at San Francisco
from Honolulu announced the death
on Aug. 90, of Mrs. Anna C. Dole. wife
of Judge Sanford r. Dole, the first ana
only president of the republic of Ha.
wall and afterwards governor OF the
territory.
Washington
Senators and representatives from
the Southern cotton growing states at
conferences named a joint committee
to protest to President Wilson against
the fixing of prices for raw cotton.
Investigation of the cost of living
by the Department of Labor already
under way in New York and Baltimore
soon will be extended to the principal
Industrial centers over the country. II
was announced
The United States government has
asked Sweden and Norway to ascer-
tain the truth of report that Ameri-
can Consul General Poole has been
placed under arrest in Moscow by the
Bolshevist government.
Germanys' latest peace feeler. ad-
vanced through Austria. 1t was Off.
cially stated. best finds its answer in
President Wilson's Baltimore speech
delivered last April. Force. force to
the utmost. force without stint or lini-
IT; the righteous and triumphant force
which shall make right the law of the
world. and cast every selfish dominion
down in the dust"
Consideration of the administration
measure designed to stimulate the sale