Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1917 — LATE WAR NOTES. [ARTICLE]

LATE WAR NOTES.

Six grain boards meet in Chicago today to curb gambling. New dry bill may be offered in congress. British drive on the coal city of Lens was materially advanced. General Haig’s troops have completed the difficult task of driving the Germans out of Roeux. . Germany’s stand on the socialist’s peace plan, it is believed, will be made known in the Reichstag today by Chancellor von Bethmann-Wollweg. The disaster which threatens Russia today called forth the suggestion that a dictatorship may be necessary to prevent the dissolution of the country. '