Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1914-11-26
WORLDS
EVE N is
TER SELY and
BRIEFLY TOLD
Washington

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Washington
Reports that the United States ar
mored cruiser Tennessee threatened
to enter Smyrna harbor by force IL
the Turks refused permission are ut
terly unfounded. President Wilson
says this country is not to be dragged
into difficulty with Turkey.
South Trimble. clerk of the house
at Washington has ordered from his
farm at Frankfort 41-pound bird for
President Wilson's table on Thanks
giving II is expected Mr.. Wilson will
eat Thanksgiving dinner with his
daughter. Mrs. Sayre. in Massachu-
sets.
That the Panama canal and the
foreign possessions of the United
States are weakly protected against
attack by any frst-class military
power, because of the present made
quate strength Of the army. is the
opinion expressed by Gen. w. W.
Wotherspoon. chief of the general
staff. in his annual report at Washing
ton. Necessity for mobile force Of
100000 thoroughly trained and
equipped fighting men, in the first line
of the military establishment, and the
need for a secondary force OF 100000
of organized militia Is urged
Europe's cry for food is being an
swered by the United States. Exports
of breadstdffs in October of this year
amounted to $3S,247.570, according to
statistics made public by the bureau
OF foreign and domestic commerce at
Washington. an increase OF nearly
$25,oO0.O00 over figures for October
1918.
"A future clear and bright with
promise of the best things" was the
way President Wilson summed up his
view of the business prospect In let
ter to Secretary McAdoo Of the treas
ury department at Washington, con-
graduating him on the opening Of the
new federal reserve bank system.
Secretary McAdoo announced at
Washington the success of the cotton
loan fund through the subscription by
banks and private parties Of the en-
tire 100000. 900 of class A certificates.
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European War News
The French armored cruiser Wal
deck Rousseau has sunk another sub
marine In the Adriatic.
Russian and Turkish squadrons have
met in long-distance duel on Sebas-
topol, and both claim to have had the
better of the encounter. According to
the Russian report, the former Ger
man cruiser Goeben, now attached to
the Turkish navy. was damaged. while
the Turks assert that Russian bat
tleship suffered severely and that the
other Russian warships were COM
PEELED to retire.
Three Turkish destroyers have ap- |
peared before Sulina with the object
of getting into communication with
representatives of Austria and Ger
many or possibly merely as protest
against the governance Of the Danube
delta Roumania as a result Of this
action has the question put broadside
on whether she takes sides with Ger
many and her ally, Turkey. or whether
she maintains her own rights and sup
ports the right of the public law Of Eu-
rope. The Germans succeeded in gain
ing footing in the region of Lent
chitza (Lenozyca) and Orion. throw
ing out advance guards in the direc-
ton of Pointek. 8,
Another big battle is developing in
Poland between the Vistula and War
the river, where the Russian advance
has been met by large forces OF Ger
mans coming from Thorn. Accord
ing to Reuter- telegram from Berlin
among the Russian prisoners captured
by the Germans in the battle of Kutno
were the governor Of Warsaw and his
stan
David Lloyd-George. chancellor OF
the exchequer, in the house of COM
mons estimated that the cost of one
year of the war for his country would
be $2.250. 100000. To pay this enor-
nous bill. the government had de-
cided, he said. to raise loan of
$1,750. 100000. The chancellor pro-
posed, and the house unanimously
supported him, that the income tax
should be doubled.
The Russians have stopped and are
rolling back the German REINFORCED
invasion of Poland from Thorn The
advance is being crushed without any
abatement by the Russians of their en-
ergetic penetration northward into
East Prussia
Assault after assault on the part of
the German army in Flanders and
France having failed, the kaiser Is
bringing up more big guns In an effort
to shell the British and French forces
from their intrenched positions.