, 1918-10-10
FOREIGN

pied Damascus and taken more than
1000 Turks prisoner.
Three hundred. and fifty persons
have been killed. 1t is feared, In a
railway accident at MaImo, Sweden.
Turkey has notified Germany of her
intention to make peace, according to
a Zurich dispatch to the London Daily
News.
Several cases of Asiatic cholera
deaths have occurred from this dis
ease there.
In aerial fighting on the Flanders
front British aviators destroyed four
German machines, the Belgian war Of
flee announced.
The German situation on the west
ern front is grave, the Frankfort lei
tung admits. adding that the Germa
front is gradually ~crumbling.
Roman Catholic priests, who, like
all Frenchmen of military age, had to
join the army, have distinguished
themselves in the aviation service.
Reports are t. the effect that Aus
tria-Hungary again is seeking peace,
having invited Holland to request the
belligerents to participate in negotia-
lions.
The Berlin Vossische Zeitung says
the appointment of Prince Macmillan
of Baden as imperial German chancel-
Tor may be regarded as an accom-
plished fact
Naygtnn n paGor Annnrinnn cnnra.
tary of war, reached Paris from Lon
don. He resumed the conferences in
which he was engaged before his visit
to England.
King Ferdinand of Bulgaria is re-
ported to have abdicated In favor of
Crown Prince Boris, who has already
assumed power, according to a Basel
dispatch to the Havas agency quoting
advices from Vienna.
Owing to Germany's continued fail.
ure to ratify the exchange of prison
ers agreement with Great Britain and
her raising the questions concerning
prisoners in China and the release of
U-boat crews, which Great Britain de-
clines to do, the British government
has dispatched to Berlin a peremptory
demand for an immediate answer.
SPORT
Golf and country clubs will do their
bit in saving fuel to win the war by
refraining from using coal to heat
their premises.
Harold Mcmahon, star halfback of
the University Of Nebraska football
team and a member of the naval re-
serve, has received a call to report for
duty at the Great Lakes naval training
station.
Roy L. Riley, former crack Denver
soccer player, who has been a mem
Der of the Canadian army for several
months, has received his honorable
discharge so that he can enter the Of
ficers' training school.
GENERAL
Prices and distribution of practical
ly all articles of wearing apparel are
to be controlled by the War Industries
Board.
The five civilized tribes of Indians
will subscribe 81, SOC 1000 to the Fourth
Liberty Loan Bonds, it was announced
at Muskogee. Okla, by Supt, Gabe
Parker.
Untimely rain in the Fresno, Cal,
section of the San Joaquin valley has
ruined a large part of the raisin crop,
which was in process of drying in the
open vineyards.
Lower Columbia river fishermen
have organized a union at Chinook.
uv,rN EN,~ A. Inn @--~,o-. th4
membership is expected to grow to
include 1900 boats.
Buffalo, N. Y; people are walking.
Motormen, conductors and electricians
employed by the International Rail-
way Company suspended work when
$500 men walked out.
Many men were killed and scores in
jured in a tremendous explosion Fri
day night at the plant of the t. A.
Gillespie Shell Loading Company at
Morgan, near Perth Amboy, N. j..
Further spread of Spanish influ-
enza over the country n in army
camps with an increasing death rate
was indicated in reports received by
the public health service and at the
office of the surgeon general of the
army.
Never in this war have we seen
keener or drawer soldiers or more in
t~elligent, high-minded men than the
two divisions in the fighting north OF
st. Quentin" writes the official cor
respondent with the Australian forces
in France in describing the American
assault on the Hindenburg line in the
direction of Joncourt.
Frank Lewis, alleged leader of the
bandit gang which terrorized many
Western states for months. departed
from Denver under a heavy guard of
federal officers for Topeka, Kan. He
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