, 1917-11-08
FOREIGN

ally, succeeding Paolo Bosetti.
A German submarine torpedoed and
sank the British steamship East
Wales of 4,321 tons. off Queenstown
on Oct. IA.
A German warship has been sunk in
the sound, according to a dispatch
from the National Tidende from Nal
moe, Sweden.
King Alfonso has asked Antonio
Maura, the former premier, to form n
cabinet. Senior Maura is a leader OF
the Spanish Conservative party.
A German uprising is in progress in
southern Brazil. completely paralyzing
railway traffic, according to private
reports received in railway circles at
Buenos Aires.
The German intelligence bureau is
actively preparing to take part in the
elections to the Russian constituent
assembly, according to the Petrograd
Novoye Vremya.
French merchant shipping sunk by
submarines or mines during the week
ending Oct. 2S was two ships more
thar 1000 tons and IL vessel OF less
than l,C00 ons
Direct steps for Finland's %independ-
ence were started by drafting a bill
in the Finnish Senate at Helsingfors,
proposing that this body elect a Presi-
dent of a Finnish republic.
An official dispatch from Berlin
says William ordered the hosting of
flags and the firing of salutes in
Prussia and Alsace-Lorraine in cele-
bration of the victories won against
the Italians.
The n~on-partisan and conservative
Socialist groups have won sweeping
victories over the radical Bolsheviki
candidates in the municipal elections
in most of the cities of Russia, ac-
cording to returns from SAB towns.
According to dispatches received at
Amsterdam from Berlin, the Cologne
Gazette says Emperor william re-
ceived Count Won Hertling and that
Won Hertling accepted the imperial
CHARACTERISTIC and the office of pre-
mier of Prussia.
During the budget debate in the up
per house of the Austrian R%eichsrat,
Baron Ernst Won Plener, in an official
report said that if the wal lasted I'M
til the end of June, 1918, Austria's
share in the war expenditure would
amount to GO, 000. 600. 900 crowns.
Nine fights in the course of IL two
hour patrol flight is the record estab-
lished by Sergt. David Mckay Peter
son of the Lafayette flying squadron.
Sergeant Peterson, whose home is in
Honesdale, Pa, drove one of his ad-
versaries to earth, following him down
and continuing to fire as long as the
German remained in sight. The Ger
man machine probably was destroyed.
SPORTING NEWS
Lieut.. Gervais Raoul Lufbery, an
Ace" of the Lafayette escadrille, has
brought down his thirteenth enemy
airplane. His most recent exploit
was reported on Oct. 10.
Lieut.. William Thaw of Pittsburg
is now in command of the Lafayette
escadrille. He has succeeded Capt.
Thenault, the French officer who was
placed in command of the unit when
it was originally formed.
Norman Ross, holder of several
world swimming records. has declined
a position as swimming instructor in
the National Army, which was offered
him by the government, and has ap
piled for the aviation corps.
GENERAL
> The Alaska packer steamer Al-Ki is
a total loss OF Chicagoff island, near
Juneau, Alaska, where she grounded
in a snowstorm.
An application for the appointment
of guardians for Harry K. Thaw was
filed in the United States District
court in Brooklyn.
A grand jury investigation, It was
announced in New York, will be made
of the operations of an organized
band of twenty-siX men and $50 wom-
en-, engaged in white slavery
The United States Textile Workers
of America, in convention at Lowell,
Mass, declined to favor a federal
amendment for suffrage, but adopted
a resolution to the effect that states
should take up the matter as de-
sired.
About 1000 Red Cross nurses al.
ready have been sen to Europe. Fiji.
teen thousand nurses have been en-
rolled, a number estimated as suffi-
cient for an army of a million and a
half men. Approximately 1000 nurses
are being added every month.
A formal demand for a general
wage increase to 100000 railroad en-
ployes to meet advanced living costs
is expected to result from a joint con
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