Hallo zusammen,
 
 our first draw proposal has failed.
 
 Fall 1655 follows next Tuesday.
 
 Happy dipping!
 
 Charles
 
 PLAYERS:
     AUSTRIA: Samy Elias zzzurn@gmail.com          
      DENMARK-NORWAY: Andrew Tanner damienthryn@gmail.com
     ENGLAND: George Atkins georgewrites@outlook.com
     FRANCE: Lynn Mercer hancockfc@yahoo.com
     POLAND-LITHUANIA: Wladimir Mysonski wmysonski@gmail.com
     RUSSIA: Leif Kjetil Tviberg Leifkjetil@getmail.no
     SPAIN: Ben Bratter mandrathrax@live.com
     SWEDEN: Andras Vaski avaski@hotmail.com
     TURKEY: Douglas Kent dougray@yahoo.com (abandoned by Bryan Laferriere in Fall 1652)
 
 HEADLINES:
 EUROPEAN WAR CONTINUES UNABATED
 
 PRESS:
 None. :(
 
 DRAW PROPOSAL INCLUDING AUSTRIA, DENMARK-NORWAY, ENGLAND AND RUSSIA FAILS
 
 RETREATS:
 Austria:
 A Papal States - Lombardy
 A Saxony - Franconia
 
 Russia:
 A Novgorod - Smolensk
 
 SC OWNERSHIP (Winter 1654):
 Austria (14): Bavaria, Belgrade, Cracow, Lorraine, Papal States, Prague, Savoy, Saxony, Swabia, Switzerland, Trieste, Venice, Vienna, Wallachia.
 Denmark-Norway (8): Brandenburg, Christiania, Copenhagen, Holstein, Lower Saxony, Mecklenburg, Stettin, United Provinces.
 England (9): Brest, Bristol, Flanders, Ireland, London, Morocco, Portugal, Scotland, Seville.
 France (3): Madrid, Marseille, Paris.
 Poland-Lithuania (4): Moldavia, Transylvania, Vilna, Warsaw.
 Russia (9): Constantinople, Crimea, Damascus, Moscow, Novgorod, Persia, Turkestan, Ukraine, Voronezh.
 Spain (4): Algiers, Naples, Tunis, Tuscany.
 Sweden (5): Abo, Courland, Ducal Prussia, Riga, Stockholm.
 Turkey (1): Candia.
 Minor Powers (1): Rhineland.
 
 PLANNED SCHEDULE (3 PM GMT):
 Fall 1655:             20 January
 Winter 1655:       22 January
 Spring 1656:        27 January
 Summer 1656:     29 January |