The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1914-10-09
Foreign Affairs.

A dispatch to Lloyd's says the Brit.
ish steamer Selby, coal-laden for Ant
werp, struck a mine in the North sea
and sank. Her crew of twenty.one
was rescued
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Russian Minister of Finance P. Bark
received an order to the effect that
the prohibition of the sale of vodka
shall be continued indefinitely after
the end of the war, This order is
based principally on the tremendous
ly improved condition of the country
since the emperor issued the edict pro.
hibiting traffic in this liquor.
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All fifty-three cadet officers of the
cOnstabulary academy at Baguio,
called the Philippine West Point, have
handed in their designations stimuli.
taneously. They we're discovered in
a secret society, believed to be revo-
lutionary by the superintendent, Cap
| tain Jeancon.
A dispatch from Petrograd says that
among the remarkable war trophies
arriving at Smolensk is the entire
stock of Emperor Williams famous
pedigree cattle and stud horses cap.
tured by the Russians from the EN-.
peror's estate at Rominten in East
Prussian.
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A suspension of hostilities and all
troop movements has been agreed
upon at the preliminary conference
held at Aguas Calientes between COM
mittees appointed by Generals Car
rama and Villa, according to a tele
gram received at the City Of Mexico
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The municipal council Of Vienna
has voted 100000 for the construc
ton of isolation hospitals near that
city in anticipation of an epidemic OF
Asiatic cholera.
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The Rumanian sailing ship Maria
struck an Austrian mine and sank off
Istria in the Adriatic recently. Only
one of the crew was saved.
4. T. J.
Gen. Francisco Villa declared in eff
feet, that he does not want the Ameri
can troops to continue in Vera Cruz.
He said he did not agree with General
Zapata, who asked General Funston to
maintain his troops at Vera Cruz for
the present to avoid the ports occupa-
ton by Carranza troops.
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The Canadian Pacific Railroad COM
pany announced that its operating de-
partment will employ six thousand en-
ira men in the next two months. This
is to relieve distress caused by the
European war
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A dispatch from ConstantInople to
the Reuters Telegram Company of
London says there is good reason to
believe that the Dardanelles, recently
ordered closed, will be opened to navi.
cation in two or three days,
The American steamer Foxton Hall
was burned off Patlings Island Sep.
TENDER %. The members of the crew,
with the exception of two men who
are missing, have just arrived at Mas.
sau, Bahama Islands.
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A report has reached bordeaux that
the German commander at Mulhausen,
in Alsace, has committed suicide in
despair at the fact that he was UNI
able to pass the Vosges,
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The British and German govern
ments have begun exchanging lists of
prisoners of war. This is being done
through Walter H, Page, the Ameri-
can ambassador In London, and is PIE
paratory to arranging an actual ex-
change of prisoners.
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The war office has assigned Red
Cross unit directed by DR.. Howard
Beal of Worcester, Mass, to the Amer
lean woman's hospital near Torquay.
Another unit directed by DR.. Robert
W. Kinds of Buffalo has been assigned
to the base hospital at Netley.
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A report received in Geneva, Switz.
erland, from Munich estimates that
100000 men and women are idle in
Germany and that the number of un.
employed is increasing daily. Lack of
raw material, it is said, is the cause
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A London news agency dispatch
from Stockholm says that the Russian
cruiser Oleg went aground on the
coast of Finland and will be com
plete loss. 1t is stated that its crew
has been saved. There is no conGr.
nation.
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Personal.
Secretary Bryan and Mrs. Bryan re.