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This article presents various news items concerning international socio-political developments and issues. It has been reported that, with the commencement of the strong Italian offensive on the Isonzo in Italy the circle of Allied attack was almost completed. Another issue, discussed here, is concerned with the threatened railway strike in the U.S. Following on the recent failure of the United States Board of Mediation and Conciliation to find any means of reconciling the differences of the managements and the employees, the President addressed a request to both sides to confer with him in Washington before definite action should be taken. The article reports that, the conference report on the Army Appropriation bill, providing a sum of $267,596,530 for the maintenance of the land forces of the U.S., was adopted by the U.S. House on August 9, 1916.