The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-11-30
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mas reaffirmed its position against
government by injunction and declared
that any injunction dealing with the
relationship of employer and employe
based on the dictum that labor is prop
efty, be held as usurpation and disre-
garded, let the consequences be what
they may"
A patf-tinding automobile left a mid
die western city Thursday to map out
practicable route to the Atlantic sea-
board as part of the program of the
highway transport committee of the
! council of national defense to stimulate
overland traffic and relieve railroad
| congestion.
WASHINGTON
Arrival of American troops in
France has kept pace WITH the ex-
pectations of the war department, Sec
rotary Baker said Friday in the first
statement he has ever authorized in
connection with the progress being
made in increasing General Pershing's
| forces.
An offer by the British admiralty to
| decorate certain officers and men of
two American destroyers for their
services in combating German subma-
| rlnes has been declined, Secretary
Daniels announces, because the laws
OF this country prevent soldiers and
sailors from receiving decorations
from foreign governments.
Possibility of immediate suspension
OF railway transportation as result
OF the four brotherhoods' proposed
wage demands was removed and prog
ress toward amicable adjustment of
any wage controversies during the war
was made on Thursday at a confer
ence between President Wilson, the
four brotherhood heads and members
OF the federal mediation board.
Man power exerted on the field of
France will bring victory in this war,
Provost Marshal General Crowder de
clared in statement of the aims, ac-
complishments and future of the Sc
lective draft system, addressed to mem
bers of the local boards and made pub
lie Thursday.
Miss Lucy Burns of Brooklyn and
Mrs. Lawrene Lewis of Philadelphia,
suffrage pickets, prisoners and hunger
strikers, are in the hospital of the
District of Columbia Jail, being fore
IDLY fed.
FOREIGN.
According to advices received at
Amsterdam, General Won Ludendorff
1 stnTs1p
man armies, has started for the east.
ern front in connection with the Rus
sian offer of truce.
| The pacifist congress is in full
swing at Berne, Switzerland, although
1t had been supposed here that il
would be postponed until the end OF
December.
The impression which existed in the
minds of many soldiers, that the Brit
ish tanks were freaks of little value as
instruments of war, is being wiped out
on account of the achievements of the
great army of these mighty engines.
In the past few days the Germans
have sunk five Dutch fishing boats,
three outside the barred zone, accord
ing to a special dispatch from Am
sterdam.
Ambassador Francis at Petrograd
has reported that German propaganda
lists are now carrying on almost openly
their activities to keep affairs I'M
settled in the Russian capital.
A dispatch from British headquarters
in France says the Germans have been
drawing troops from other sectors and
rushing them to the Cambria region
Among them We're two companies OF
cripples and convalescents, some OF
whom were captured, exhausted and
helpless from attempts to fight under
the whips of their officers.
A Helsingfors dispatch says that the
Finnish diet, by a vote of 127 to 6S
has decided that the diet shall eXer.
else the power formerly held by the
Russian emperor in his position as
grand duke of Finland.
The British casualties in the advance
toward Cambria are reported to be
; very considerably less than the num-
: Der of prisoners taken.
Colonel e. NJ. House and the mem
bers of the American mission which
he heads arrived in Paris from Eng
land on November %.
The admiralty announces that sue
cessful air attack in the vicinity Of
Constantinople has been accomplished
: by a large British bombing airplane
which flew from England to a British
base in the Mediterranean in Sc
: ries of eight flights.
Swedish press reports on the situa
r ton in Russia said General Kalelines
/ with an army of Cossacks, was mov
ing against Moscow, where 5000 per
E sons were reported to have been killed
l in riots.
t Seventeen British merchantmen
D We're sunk by mines or submarine las
E week, according TO the weekly state
e ment issued by the British admiralty
1 Of these ten were vessels of 1900 tons
D and over and seven of less than 1861