, 1918-12-19
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS. o o G 8, ACHIEVE.
MENTs, sUFFERINGs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
ABOUT THE WAR
Western Newspaper Union New. Serves.

Dresden, the Saxon capital, is forty
miles northwest of Zwickau.
The British transport Orca, with l.
922 American troops aboard. arrived
at New York from Liverpool. She is
the fourth transport to bring return
ing soldiers.
instructions have been cabled to
Admiral Mayo. commander-in-chief OF
the Atlantic fleet, now in Brest, TO
bring back every naval vessel that
can be spared.
Great Britain. will demand eS,O0O.-
100000 $4,000. O00, OOOD sterling for
Great Britain and her dominions As
reparation for the war, according to
the London Daily Mail.
The British admiralty has notified
Brazil that there is no further need
OF Brazilian warships for patrolling
European waters. The vessels. there
fore, have been ordered home.
The three ~bridgeheads to b. occu-
pied under the terms of the armistice
are now in the hands of the allies.
French troops entered Mayence
tMainz). Previously the Americans
had reached Coblenz, and the British
Cologne.
An American squadron has arrived
at Pola, formerly one OF the principal
Austrian naval bases, and has taken
over the command of the port. Jugo-
Slav war vessels in the harbor have
hoisted the American flag, according
to a telegram from Laibach, reporting
the arrival of the Americans.
Twenty-six hundred American pris-
oners of war interned at Camp Ras-
TAFT left there for Switzerland. Two
hundred other Americans who have
been scattered in camps in Germany
are leaving by way of Holland and
Denmark. 1t is expected that the last
of the Americans will be out of Ger
man camps soon
Marshal Foch has refused the re-
quest of the German armistice dele
gates that they be permitted to com
municate with the provinces west of
the Rhine now being occupied by the
allies. The commander-in-chief de-
clared that 1t was necessary to main
tain the blockade of Germany as pro
vided by the armistice.
French marines have entered Odes-
sa. Russia, and have received a cor
dial welcome from the people. there,
according to the Paris Matin. De-
tachments have occupied the wireless
station and expelled German soldiers
from all military posts. The news
paper says that the fortress and city
of S%ebastopol have been cleared of
German soldiers who were causing dis
cords, it is alleged. with the conniv-
ance of the B~olshevists.
WESTERN
Limited service throughout the day
light hours, with practically no out
breaks reported, was maintained on
Friday, the 18th, the third day of the
Kansas City street car strike. but et-
forts by Federal Department of Labor
Representative Dunn to bring about a
conference between the heads of thu
company and the union with city of
ficials failed.
Mother Mary Jones, aged labor lead
phens at Sacramento, Cal, and asked
him to use his influence to obtain a
new trial for Thomas j. Mooney!
William Hupprech, wanted in Chi
cago to answer a charge of embezzling
more than $4,000 from the Chicago &
Northwestern railroads funds, was ar
rested at Phoenix, Ariz., and held for
Officers from Chicago. According to
the police, he admitted his guilt but
said he would resist extradition.
WASHINGTON
Outbreak OF a violent epidemic of
influenza with extremely high fatality
rate was reported to the State De-
partment from Guatemala.
Return to home waters of the first
ships of the American armada sen to
Europe to combat German sea power,
will be marked by a great naval pag-
cant in New York harbor about Dec.
%. Secretary Daniels announced that
he will go to New York on the May
flower to review the fleet, which will
be led by Admiral Mayo, commander
in chief OF the Atlantic fleet, on his
flagship, the Pennsylvania, which &C.
companied President Wilson to Eu-
rope.
Permanent government ownership
of telephone and telegraph lines as an
auxiliary of the Postoffice Depart
ment was proposed in a joint resolu-
ton by Chairman Moon of the House
p%ostoffice committee, who said he had
been informed by Postmaster General
Burleson that President Wilson fav-
ored the
Another bi-weekly issue of loan GER
~tificates of Indebtedness of $5o0.Ooo,-
900 or more. bearing Az per cent in
terest. was announced by the treas
nry.