The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1914-11-20
news OF THE week
General Resume Of important Events
throughout the World

Revocation Of the permit Of ths
Baehelors' club In Seattle is based on
bad dancing.
Exports Of food 10 Europe have in
creased s26. 00c. 600 more during oe'
tober this year than last.
President Wilson predicts a brigh,
future when the new Federal banking
system Is given a fair trial.
A Portland traffic policeman was run
down and killed by large motor truck
while on duty at street intersection.
The occupation of Belgrade, Servia.
by the Austrians apparently Is immi-
nent. according TO an official announce
ment made public in Berlin
Prohibition OF the expectation Of tin
plate to Denmark. Holland and Sweden
will mean the closing Of S5 mills and
will directly affect 100 men.
Press dispatches received in Berlin
describe the proclamation at Constan-
tinople Of holy war as arousing great
enthusiasm In the Turkish capital.
Girl graduates Of the Portland JEFF
ferson high school voted TO dress In
nothing but cotton. from stockings to
hair ribbons. on commencement night.
A eoterie of Holland dAmsels in
Portland. dressed in Dutch costume,
are soliciting aid for the relief Of Bel
gians who have taken refuge in Hol-
land.
Among the Russian prisoners cap
tured by the Germans in the battle OF
Kutno were the governor Of Warsaw
and his staff, according to Berlin
telegram.
The casualties on the Australian
cruiser Sydney, which destroyed the
German cruiser Emden in the Indian
ocean. were four men killed and one
officer and II men wounded.
Prince Oscar, the fifth son Of En-
peror William, who has reeuperated
from a recent attack Of heart trouble.
is returning 70 the general staff head
quarters for duty in the field
An Amsterdam paper prints an ap-
peal to Queen WiIhelmina, of The
Netherlands, and President Wilson, to
use their respective Offices to bring
about peace In the European conflict.
1t was officially announced in London
that the Prince Of Wales had been 'ap-
pointed aide,de camp to Field Marshal
Sir John French, the commander OF
the British expeditionary forces on the
Continent.
The Nieuwe Rotterdamsehe Courant
quotes q letter from Galician priest
SAYING that 40, 900 Austrians had been
buried in one day in grave six and
one-half feet wide and little more
than four miles long.
The Swedish steamer Andrew struck
a mine in the North sea Thursday and
sank. Eighteen survivors, including
two women, after having drifted about
in boats for IL hours, were rescued by
a liner and landed at Hull.
The German government has issued
a denial Of the report that Germany
had refused American aid for the
suffering population of Belgium. On
the contrary, the government is highly
pleased with this American assistance.
1t is reported that launch from the
cruiser Tennessee in the Mediterra-
mean, was fired on by the Turkish fort,
but the Washington government
thinks there was a misunderstanding,
as there were no official orders to ef-
feet landing.
Ecuador is admonished by the allies
to maintain a strict neutrality.
A wildcat which has slain 81 goats
in Linn county, Oregon, has been
killed.
Belgians abroad have subscribed q
fund of So, 600, 900 to aid their stricken
brothers.
It is said 70, 900 alien enemies are in
the British empire and are causing
much trouble to that government.
Japan's ire is stirred by demand Of
China to evacuate Using Tau, just
taken by the Japanese from the Ger
mans.
The official newspaper of Berlin pub
fishes a decree forbidding the export
of leather, horse skins and calf skins,
shoddy and tinplate.
A dispatch received at Montevideo
from Valparaiso, Chile, says that the
Japanese squadron seen recently on
Easter island in the Pacific by a mer-
chant vessel consisted of eight vessels.
Field Marshal Lord Roberts, of Kan
dahar, is going to France. The official
announcement making this fact public
says the famous general is going into
the war zone ''to see the Indian
troops.' Lord Roberts was born in
Cawnpore, India, 81 years ago.
Washington government has decided
to hold Vera Cruz for the present, and
guarantee of guarantees is now de-
manded Of the tangled Mexican gov
eminent.
Passengers who were on the British
steamship Vandyck when she was cap
tured off the coast of Brazil October
26 by the German cruiser Karlsruhe
are being brought to New York.
The German authorities again rec
ommend that all EgIish subjects
women, children and girls under IL,