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GENERAL NEWS NOTES OF THE DAY Before Cambrai the violent fighting activity, unequaled since the days of the Verdun attack, has broken out anew on a front of less than ten miles between Marcoing and Gonnelieu. British troops in this sector repulsed with heavy losses German attacks delivered in great strength with large forces. After the fighting of Friday and Saturday, in which the enemy suffered severely in fruitless efforts to break through the British defenses in the salient before Cambrai, the Germans brought up new reserve forces. These were thrown against the southern leg of the salient and throughout Monday Field Marshal Haig says "fighting of an exceptionally severe nature" took place. The infantry masses attacked under a strong artillery fire from concentrated German guns. The Maximalist government, says a Petrograd dispatch to the Daily News, has issued a manifesto to German and Austrian soldiers, which will be distributed in great numbers by airplanes and other menus to the Austro-German army. The manifesto sets forth the aims of the Bolsheviki, with a list of social, economic and political measures they already have taken. It also appeals to the soldiers to help them end the war, promising that if they assist peace will be declared within a few days and the other nations will join. Calling for a declaration of war on Austria-Hungary, "vassal and tool of Germany," President Wilson achieved another climax in his message to Congress yesterday. While defining the basis of final peace to be one founded "on justice and right," he declared implacable war on the unscrupulous masters of Germany. "We will be in the fight until the last gun is fired," was his concluding shot in this memorable document. Germany has lost her last colony in East Africa, according to advices reaching London. With the loss of East Africa, Germany has been stripped of the last of her colonies, which had an area of more than 1.000,000 square miles and a population of about 14,000,000, including 25,000 whites.
