view raw text
GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY. Berlin expects an attack by Russian and Roumanian troops, which have joined forces. Brazils decision to revoke her decree of neutrality is construed at Washington as little less than a declaration of a state of war with Germany. Brazils action is believed to indicate a general breakdown of German propaganda all over the southern continent. The French have captured a German post north of Vnchrauville in the Verdun region, according to an official announcement issued by the war offensive yesterday morning. Two Gorman attacks in the region of Hurbbisc on the Champ.igne front were repulsed. The Germans attacked after a violent lximbardment. The Italians in the Plava sector yesterday drove the Anstro Hungarian forces to the end of the valley east of Clobua, says the official statement issued yesterday by the Italian war department. Since May 14. the statement adds, Austro-Hungar-laa prisoners taken on the Julian front number 23,!S1. The Italians also captured thirty- six guns, including thirteen of the heaviest caliber. ! "Hostile raiding parties were driven off during the night southwest of Lens and west of Mes-sines," says an official statement from London yesterday. "We made successful raids north of Ploegsteert wood. The enemys artillery was active last night in the neighborhood of Bullecotirt and on both banks of the Scarpe." I Russia has placed an order with American manufacturers for 500 locomotives to cost approximately j .5,000,000. and 10.000 cars, at 5,000,000, it was reported in New York financial circles yesterday. Contracts have not yet been signed, but all preliminary arrangements, it is understood, have been j completed. This is said to be the largest single order for railroad equipment received in this country.
