The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-12-27
European.

The normal consumption of sugar in
the United States is more than seven
pounds a month for each person. This
must be reduced by half.
boarding foodstuffs, the food admin
istration says, is not only selfish, but
contributes to high prices and defeats
the purposes of the food administra-
ton.
Home and industries in New York
were confronted with the most serious
coal shortage in the city's history be-
cause of inability to get supplies
across the river on barges from New
Jersey tidewater points where thou
sands of tons are ice-bOund.
In the case of professional mel.
Internal Revenue Commissioner ROe
per says, anent the operation of the
excess profits laws against them, that
the cost of a small amount of equip
ment will be considered merely pro-
fessional adjunct and not invested
| capital"
Charles Sholla, a former employee
of the frankfort, Pa, arsenal, has
been held under fifteen hundred dol
ldIS Dali ny AOOC1 oil
Sholla is charged with having failed
to set the fueses of shells intended
for General Pershings army. William
Lepkowski, andther employee, is held
under $4,000 bail on {, similar charge.
A slight increase in the losses of
British merchantmen by submarine or
mine in the past week is noted in the
| admiralty statement. Fourteen YES
| sells of more than sixteen hundred
tons were sunk, as well as seven I'M
der that tonnage.
A London dispatch quotes Vienna
official statement as saying the Aus
trian battleship Wien was sunk De-
cember 9. Most of the crew were
saved. The waters in which the YES
sci was sunk were not named.
The latest order of the fuel admin
istration rec:tes that it is counted
upon not only to effect substantial
saving of coal, but to provide start
ling visual evidence that the United
States is engaged in the conduct OF
greatest of world wars"
Premier Lloyd-GeOrge announces
that General Allenby, the British com
mander in Palestine, entered the Holy
City on foot. General Allenby was
we'll received by the population.
Guards have been placed around the
holy places in Jerusalem. The mosque
of Omar, standing over the site OF
Solomon's Temple, has been placed I'M
der Mohammedan control.
The British line northwest of Jeru.
salem, midway between that city and
Jaffa, has been advanced, contingents
of Ghurkas carrying positions as fa1
as the mouth of the Midieh. Fifty
Turks were killed and ten taken pris
oners.
The torpedoing of two Austrian bat
tIeships in the harbor of Trieste, al
the head of the Adriatic sea, by italian
torpedo craft on the night of Deem
Der is reported in message received
here by Commander G. Pfster of the
Italian navy.
Spanish Premier Alhucemas an
nounces that the Spanish government
will prepare an energetic protest tc
Germany regarding the bombardment
of the Spanish steamer Claudio by a
German submarine. Eight sailors were
killed and others wounded. The C1au
do made port under her own steam
The situation in Moscow is report
ed grave. The Bolsheviki have placed
machine guns in the streets, as they
fear an uprising Of hostile parties. TIL
garrison is reported to show signs OF
characterization and is reported Il
be disobeying the orders of the Boil
sheviki commander.
Bethlehem, where Jesus Christ, the
Savior of the world, was born, lies q
scant six miles due south of Jerusa
lem, and is presumably also now in
> the hands of the British. Jerusalem's
fall will be a tremendous blow t.
Turkish morale, according to the belief