The Ordway new era., 1918-10-18
FOREIGN

has been elected king of Finland by
the Finnish landtag
A party of American editors. who
sailed Sept. &c as the guests of the
ministry of Information, have arrived
safely at British port.
Navigation on the Yukon river has
closed for the winter. Every steamer
leaving Dawson is crowded with Klon-
dixie residents bound outside.
Flight Lieut. Fritz Rumey of the
German army. who claimed forty-four
air victories. has been killed, accord
ing TO the Lokal Anzeiger of Berlin.
A Berne dispatch to the Daily News
said 1t is understood that the Turkish
cabinet has fallen. The dispatch said
there is great excitement in Constan-
tinople.
Writing in the London Daily News.
Gen. Sir Frederick Maurice declared
that since the second battle of the
Marne the Germans have lost 200
in prisoners and have suffered casual
ties totaling 100000 men.
Vienna and Budapest newspapers in
stantinople as preparation to surren.
der 1t is reported that Turkey will
give a guarantee of her good faith by
opening the Dardanelles.
In 1914 the population of France was
so. 100000, and at the beginning of the
war the excess of births over deaths
was about $4,000 annually In 1916 the
I.a tI,. .s.,f1t ,lax
tailed 100000, and in the military
forces 100000. a total OF 100000.
In addition to the thousands of Bull
garians made prisoner during the al
lied advance in Serbia and Bulgaria.
$4,000 more have surrendered in ac-
cordance with the clause of the armis-
tice convention under which all Bull
garian troops west of Uskub were IN
surrender as prisoners.
Discussing the ultimate peace terms,
the London newspapers refer with IN
dignation to the outrages still per-
sisted in by the retreating Germans
and unanimously demand reparation
and punishment for these latest
crimes. as well as for other outrages
committed during the war.
investigation by the dominion police
has revealed that revolutionary asso-
Citations have been formed In at least
twenty industrial centers throughout
Canada, according to statement by
G. H. Calm, director of public safety.
These organizations are carrying on
active propaganda seeking to organize
Socialists and foreign elements in ia
vor of an international peace at any
price. he declared.
SPORT
Seventy-five football men are out
daily for football practice at the Uni
versity of Utah.
Lieut. Jefferson Hayes Davis, grand
son or the president of the Southern
Confederacy. who is in the aviation
corps in France. recently fell 1900 feet
and was uninjured
The boxing bout between Ritchey
Mitchell. Milwaukee, and Sailor Freed
man, Chicago, scheduled for Milwau-
kee, was postponed indefinitely on ac-
count of the order closing places of
because of Spanish influ-
enza.
GENERAL
An influenza epidemic which start
ed at Perth Amboy, N. j.. among refu-
gees from the shell plant explosion at
Morgan has spread until there are
5000 cases.
During last week the allies captured
more than 1880 prisoners, it was es-
since July IS now amount to more
than 100000.
Secretary OF State Lansing. in an
address at Auburn, N. Y, declared
this period of the war to be the "be-
ginning of the end" He spoke at a
dinner in celebration of the one hun
dredth anniversary of Auburn Theo-
logical Seminary.
Thirty-five bodies have been taken
from the ruins of the T. A. Gillespie
Loading Company plant at Morgan. N.
j., destroyed by explosions.
During fifteen successive days re-
Gently the British artillery hurled
more than 10000 tons of shells a day
upon the enemy. according to a state
ment by Winston Spencer Churchill,
the minister of munitions at London.
Between 100 and 1900 lives were
lost in the sinking of three vessels by
U-boats reported Oct. 10. From the
Ticonderoga, ship in the United
States transport service, 240 perished; /;
500 wera drowned from tho aius
IN the British mail service. while 300
were lost from the Japanese steamship
Horano Maru. bound from a British
port to Japan.
An American bombing expedition,
consisting of more than $50 machines.
dropped thirty-two tons OF explosives
on German cantonments in the area