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MONDAY, JAN.

the enemy temporarily forced his
way into one of our trenches
northwest of Serre. He was

immediately driven out. We cap-

_ tured two officers and 13 men.
We carried out an effective
bombardment of enemy positions
at various points along the line
north of the Somme and south of
Neuye Chapelle. Elsewhere the
usual artillery and trench mortar
activity is reported,
The admiralty denies a German
report that a British transport
was torpedoed in the Channel,
In Jess than four hours half a
billion pounds was pledged for
the “Victory Loan’’.

Petrograd: In a raid on the
Anatolian coast, 2 Russian naval
Squadron sank forty Turkish
sailing vessels carrying food to
Constantinople,

Paris: The day was calm along
the entire French front. There
was intermittent cannonading at
various points.

A considerable number of Rou-
manian prisoners has been gent

4o the occupied portion of north-
ern France.

Amsterdam: Serious popular
disturbances occurred at Cratz on
Saturday and Sunday. Huge
crowds were in the streets de-
manding inereased rations and
shouting ‘We are starving! We
want peacel’? The soldiers re-
fused to attack the populace,

New York: Important Ameri-
ean papers applaud the Entente
etatement of terms, The World
warns Germany she had better
speak out, otherwise she can have
no standing at the bar of public

- opinion.

Berlin: the ‘Lokal Anzeiger’?
calls the Entente note arrogant
and insolent, filled with hypocrisy
and prevarication, The paper
summarizes the significance of
the Entente aims regarding the
central powers as a loss of prov-
inces for Germany, complete des-
truction of the Austrian mon-
archy, loss of Constantinople and
Asia Minor for Turkey and the

deliverance of Bulgaria to re-|:

vengeful neighbors,and concludes
that the note will weld all to-
gether a thousandfold stronger.

Vienna: The newspapers un-
animouasly. agree that the Entente
proposal concerning subjective
races: would, if carried out, wipe
out Austria-Hungary, which is
composed of ten different peoples,
Themonarchy ia therefore obliged
to carry on milltary operations
with renewed vigor,

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TUESDAY, JAN:"16

London: The Russians are
exerting tremendous pressure on
the German line south of Riga, |
which may conceivably have an
effect on the German Rrogress in
Roumania. In several places the
Russians have broken through
the German lines, The Dositions
taken are among those construct. |;
ed in the Teutons’ twelve months’:
occupancy. o

The Russian. advances. were
made despite heavy snowstorms,
freezingly cold weather,and great
stretches. of-marsh land. They
captured fifty machine guns, . 30
cannon, and a vaat- quantity of

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London: | Early this morning

bringing. up-heqvy artillery, and |)
Galatz is now under artillery fire,
*;Russign. and Roumanian ‘troops
forced a.stoppaye of the German
attempt to encircle.the town,

Gen. von-Falkenhayn had:a’ con-
{ference with King. Constantine
{Of Greece; There isa belief that
the Teutons are planning.a drive
through Macedonia upon Saloniki

activity of the Teutonid forces in
Macedonia indicate that: a. move
against: Sarrail's army shortly ja]
contemplated. Sharpfighting has}
broken out on the Macedonian
front, possibly presaging: more
extensive operations © by.: elther
the Germanic: forces or. Sarrail's,

Germans may reinforce their line
or may undertake a general with-
drawal, If the line is reinforced
it is believed troops will be taken
from the Roumanian front.

Despatches from Roumania in-
dicate that the enemy is making
desperate: efforts to approach
Galatz, For ten days the Teutons
have been unable to make much
progress out of Braila, although
Berlin claims the occupancy of
Vadeni, six miles distant, .

Britain does not expect Ger-
many to accept peace terms, he-
lieving the Kaiser and his military
caste wil! not submit as long as
they can hold out, andthe Allies
must prepare for prolonged oper-
ations, although some think the
German people roust soon awaken
to the disaster which they owe to
the ruling caste,
The Times military expert says
sixty divisions more are needed

tory.

Paris: There is nothing of im-
portance to report on the western
front. - ;
Germany's peace efforts will be
continued, declares the Matin.
-The French government has if
view imposing compulsory arbit-
ration between employers and
employees on questions of labor,
and will.not tolerate stoppage of
necessary work through disputes,

‘Rome:. Italians ‘captured two
Austrian gubmarines.
Italian and French hydroplanes
dropped bombs on the enemy's
works at Pola,

' Enemy aeroplanes bombed our
torpedoboats at sea withouteffect.
Washington: Germany is using
every art known to diplomacy
and publicity to entangle Wilson
inextricably in thepeacesituation,
Owing to the president's policy
of secrecy’ it is impossible to as-
certain to what extent the scheme
bas succeeded, * ;

London: Viennese women ad-
dressed a petition to the burgo-
master, saying: “We are in a
deplorable condition; our distress
is frightful; our children are
pining away.” . od

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London: Russians are conduct-
ing a successful offensive in_ the}.
valley section of Roumania; north-
east of Foschany, Violent fight-
ing is Proceeding’ in thia sector,
and the Germans are beingthrown
back with enormous losses,

The Teutons-succeeded, despite
marshes, lakes, and rivers in the
boundary gection of Dobrudja, in

London: . It is reported’ that

n the early spring, Increaaing |.

Pralea wad beaten: back, It
Athens:.. The*Grown council

decided , last nigat. to accept the|F'
Entente’s entire ultimatim with. |: .

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out reservation,

the Germana last night attacked
French lines near: Clery and}
Braches,:but were repuiaed!: Ont —
the remainder of the » front. only.

7 attack on the Monastir front and

succeeded in driying the Serhs
back across the Cerna, according
to Berlin. .

progress on the Vardar front, It
is believed the Germans are plan-
ning a general attack there soon.

A report says King Constantine
of Greece -will be deposed and a
relative of the King of Italy
Placed upon the throne, .

Petrograd: Russian submarines
sank two more enemy. ships in
the Bosphorus.

Berlin: Germany does not re-
gard the Allied reply to the Am-
erican peace note as listing peace
terms, but as setting forth the
Entente’s aims of conquest,
Athens: The;Entente powers
insist on unqualified acceptance
of the last ultimatum, considering
the Greek reply as equivocal.
It is understood the Greek gov-
ernment has constructed hastily
@ wireless station at Larissa, and
is in constant communication by
code with Berlin.
A German submarine has just
returned to its base with four
captains of merchantmen._.on
board: as prisoners,
Paris; A German raid on the
Somme, - under cover of asphyxi-
ating gas shells, was repulsed.
There was little activity on the
rest of the front,
Vice-admiral du Fournet says:
“Worn out by their mad rushes,
the Germans will fall in the end
beneath the swords of the Allies.”

THURSDAY, JAN, 18 J

New York: ; Private advices
received here say the biggest and
fiercest battle of the war is now
in progress on the western front,
the offensive being participated
in by the British and French,
Buenos Ayres: . ‘wenty-three
merchant ships have been sunk
or captured by a new German raid-

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today. The raider is belieyed to
be the protected cruiser Vineta,
which probably eluded the British
patrols around Germany, and
which has swept from north to
south across every Atlantic steam:
ship pathway. Some survivors of
ships sunk ‘by the raider were
landed today at Pernambuco,
They had been aboard the raider
28 days, indicating that. the war-|:

A violent bombardment is in

er, whose exploits were revealed ‘has been thrown back.

where than in the capital,

the Dalmatian archipelago.

religious than political act, and

people rather than to the leaders,

London: British troops on the
Ancre front yesterday captured

six hundred yards north of Beau-
court, -German efforts to regain

the positions were defeated. Op-
erations near Lesars, Gueudecourt
.and Peronne,on the Somme front,
resulted in the capture of many
prisoners and machine guns,
German forces have been de-
feated on both wings. The en-
emy was forced to evacuate
Braila, in Roumania,
The tierman “spring offensive
will'center in the Ypres sector.

Berlin: Germans were forced
to evacuate trenches near Serre,
on the Somme front, A British
attack near Loos was repulsed
after violent fighting, Bulgarian
artillery is bombarding, from the
Dobrudja side of the Danube,
hostile shipping on the opposite
side, in ‘the vieinity of Galatz.

Petrograd: Teutonic attacks in
northern Roumania were repelled,
An enemy attempt to take the
offensiveagainat theheights south
of the Oituz was arrested by our
fire. Roumanians repulsed Ger-
man attacks south of Monastir,
At Kachinul,on the river Kasino,
southwest of Pralea, Rolimanians
took a number of prisoners and
machine guns. On the remainder
of the front,asfar as the Danube,
there has been exchange of fire.

fn the wooded Carpathians the
enemy offensive south of Pneva

-Paris: A ‘series of reconnais-
sances by Gernians on the heights
of the Meuse,following bombard-
ment for three hours, wag repuls-
ed, The night was calm along

the entire French front,

Buenos Ayres: [hé number of
vessels. which fell victims to the
new raider has been raised to 24,

Serious digordérs are reported
from Berlin, . It is rumored that
the reichstag may ‘meet elge-

Rome: A French submarine
torpedoed an Austrian ship near

The Pope is sending a note to
the belligerents. It is more of a

the note will be addressed to the

| FRIDAY, JAN. 29 |

Japanese steamer Hudson Maru
was captured and taken to Per-
nambuco. Two other Allied ves-
sels are.ynaccounted for and it is
feared-they have been sunk. The

Danish vessel. When approach-
ing her victims she displayed the
British flag. ‘She is stil] at large

food and. fuel ‘taken from. her

ill treatment and inadequate food,

A cordon af British cruisers is
believed to be sweeping the south-
ern seas in search of the raider,

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Four hundred lives have been|#
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two ships. The total. tonnage
lost exceeds 96,955, The British
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stormed: and. retaken the Rou-|f
manijan city of Vandeni. Hegqvily|£
reinforced; -the enemy attempted
to retake Vahdeni; advaneing-in
dense formation, but suffered |:
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