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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. From Berlin yesterday a dispatch said: Efforts of Roumanians to hurl back the German troops in Roumania, northeast of Campulung, were defeated, the war office announced, with heavy losses to the attackers. The Germans and Austrians made further gains in the Alt and Jiul valleys. Attacks of entente forces on the plains south of Monastir, on the Macedonian front, were defeated with heavy losses, it is announced officially. A height position near Chegel, captured by the Serbians on November 15, was retaken by German troops. The statement says the chief commander, infantry, Gen. Otto von Below, was in the center of the fight. The emperor has distinguished the chief and the troops by appointing the general, chief of the rifle battalion. On the left wing of the German-Bulgarian-Turkish army in Dobrudja there were military duels. Only minor operations are reported on the Russian front. The war is approaching a decisive stage and the decision will rest with the campaign in Transylvania and Roumania. Such is the expert military view point here. As summed up today by a well-informed military authority, the situation is: The triangular loss at Aucre does not affect the Somme battle as a whole. Viewing all the war theaters, the whole war has now- reached a period of tension. The solution is drawing near. Personal property in Cook County increased approximately ?40, 000,000 in value during the last year, according to figures made public today by the board of review. The assessed value of personal property this year is S243,72S,745, an increase of S12,S76,8S9 in assessed value, which is one third of the full value. Last year personal property was assessed for 30,S51,S5G. The board of assessors levied an assessment of 55,275,482 on personal property this year, which assessment was cut to 43,728,745 by the board of review. A successful raid was made on Ostend and Zeo-brugge by British naval airplanes and seaplanes, says an admiralty announcement. Many bombs were dropped with good results on docks and slapping, the announcement adds, and all the machines returned safely. .
