, 1918-11-28
FOREIGN

Feb. 2.
Allied action toward inflicting pun
ishment on the Kaiser is daily becom-
ing more probable.
The first section of the German
fleet to be delivered to the allies left
Kiel for the North sea.
Allied and neutral shipping losses
in October totaled $4,000 tons, the
British. admiralty announced.
According to Berlin advices enor-
stores of foodstuffs were found
emperor in Berlin.
An explosion of munition trains at
the station of Hamont, Belgium,
caused casualties estimated to be be-
tween 1,500 and 1000.
Count Carlo SforAa, former Italian
minister ~ China, has arrived at Con-
stantinop,u. having been appointed
high commissioner for Italy in Turkey.
The Ukrainian government has been
overturned and Kiev has been cap
tured by troops from Astrakhan, &C.
cording to Kiev dispatches to Swedish
newspapers.
Two hundred bags OF gold and sill
Yer German coins. each weighing 100
pounds. have arrived in Holland for
the former Kaiser, it was reported in
Amsterdam.
All the members of the Hohenzol-
lern dynasty will leave Germany in
the near future, according to a Frank
fort dispatch to the Rotterdam Cour-
ant. Their destination, it adds, is not
yet known.
Germany gave way, not because she
had changed her views, but because
she knew she would be absolutely
beaten, declared the Earl of Reading,
who has been mentioned as one of the
British peace delegates, in a speech
in London.
The Chamber of Deputies in Paris
at the opening of the sitting paid
homage to President Wilson, who vas
proclaimed "as having well deserved
of humanity" The same honor also
was rendered to the allied nations and
their chiefs.
William Hohenzollern is spending
most of his time in bed in his retreat
at Amerongen castle because of the
illness with which ne was suddenly
stricken recently, according to the
Amsterdam correspondent of the Lon
don Daily Express.
In a proclamation the new govern
ment of Saxony, according to a dis
patch from Dresden, declares it is
striving for the abolition of the old
federal constitution and for the union
of the Saxon and German peoples in
a republic including German-Austria.
From a special investigation in
western Germany the correspondent
of the London Daily Mail It The
Hague has ascertained there is con-
siderable hostility against the former
emperor and his eldest son The cor
respondent say after William Hohen-
zollern entered Holland 1000 German
soldiers arrived at the frontier and
demanded they be allowed to pursue
and kill him. They were turned back
by Dutch frontier guards.
SPORT
Robert l.. Blewett, president of the
Pacific Coast International league, an
nounced at Seattle, Wash, that the
P. c. 1. league will operate during the
1919 season.
The grand championship in the all
age field trials of the National Fox
Hunters Association was won al Col
umbia, Tenn, by Jack, owned by j.
w. Maupin of Kentucky. Glenn Sha-
YER, owned by R. l.. Rays of West
Virginia, took second, and Phoebe,
owned by T. C.. Long of Tennessee,
won third.
GENERAL
Consolidation of the services of the
Western Union and Postal Telegraph
Companies, under government control,
was announced by Postmaster General
Burleson, effective Dec. 1.
Investigation of the alleged disloy-
al speech of Senator La Toilette at
st. Paul more than a year ago was
abandoned by the Senate elections
committee On a vote of 9 to 2.
Christmas parcels for men in the
armies, and auxiliary service of the
allies may be mailed from this coun-
try up to Nov. 80 without the need of
an export license, under an order by
the ~postoffice department.
More than loo, 900 persons nave ap-
piled since the armistice was signed
for permission to go abroad, accord
ing to customs officials at New York,
who announced that no passports for
foreign travel would be issued except
in necessity.
The first proclamation of Admiral
Alexander Kolchak as dictator and
commander of the all-Russian army
and fleet, is addressed to the people
of Russia. 1t is dated at Omsk, Nov.
10, and declares the aims of the dicta-
torship. These aims are: The crea-
ton OF a fit army, the conquest of
Bolshevism, the organization of right
and order SO that the people can select