Abstract

Summary of the News

The article presents several summaries of various news. The U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, addressing the annual convention of the American Federation of Labor at Buffalo last week, have a statesman like summary of his policy regarding the issue for which America is fighting. The article also presents information on American troops. On that sector of the western front occupied by American troops artillery fire continues to be violent. A number of our troops were wounded and killed owing to a direct hit by a German shell. In reply the American guns are searching the German communication trenches, and the accuracy of their fire has been commended by the French officers. The infantry is now receiving its taste of trench warfare and is becoming seasoned under the attention lavished by the German artillery on their sector.