The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1918-10-31

ment. There was severe lighting on
the entire front of General Liggett's
First army.
European, War News
The German troop transport Haps'
burg, bound from Riga for Danzig.
struck a German mine and was sunk.
A panic resulted and more than 1OC
soldiers were lost, it Is reported, &C
cording to Copenhagen cable.
Franco-Serbian troops have entered
Zaletchan, % miles from the River
Danube, at NegotQ, and As miles
northeast Of Nish, according to a Serb
ian official statement.
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The city of Lille, it is>now estab-
lished, was plundered by the Germans
prior to their evacuation. Though the
town was not destroyed like Cambria,
Lens and other cities, Lille represents
another count in the deadly French
determination to wreak vengeance
upon the individual German command
ers after the war, says a Paris dis
patch.
It is reported at The Hague that II
President Wilson's peace conditions
are considered Germany would pro-
pose Brussels as the seat of the nego-
tiations.
1t developed that King Albert few
over Ostend when it was still occupied
by the Germans. w..
Warrington
Two officers and 80 enlisted men OF
the army lost their lives In the sink
ing of the American steamer Tlconder-
oga in the war zone September 81.
This announcement by the war depart
ment at Washington brought the total
loss of life to 213. the navy having pre-
viously reported ten officers and 1O2
of the crew dead and two officers car
ried off as prisoners by the enemy sub
marine that sent the vessel down.
Congress at Washington has been
been asked by the navy department to
authorize q second three-year naval
building program to provide ten addi-
tional superdreadnaughts, six battle
cruisers and 40 smaller vessels Mt
cost of 100000. This was dis
closed by Secretary Daniels after his
%hn
committee to explain the appropria-
ton.
President Wilson at Washington
conferred the Distinguished Service
medal on Marshal Foch, Marshal Jof-
fire., Field Marshal Haig, General Pc
tain, General Diaz, General Gillian and
General Pershing.
No further effort will be made by
congress at Washington to continue
the existing daylight-saving law and
the hands of the clock will be turned
back an hour on October ~, as orig
inally planned.
Between Is and 20 yards engaged In
building wooden ships will be eliminate
ed from the shipbuilding forces be-
cause of inefficiency, Chairman Hurley
| of the shipping board announced ut
Washington.
In revising the war excess profits
tax feature of the house war revenue
bill, the senate finance committee mt
Washington struck out the alternative
system of taxing war and excess prof
it's and adopted compromise plan de-
signed to raise somewhat less than the
Sc, 200, 100000 estimated from the house
provisions.
Final returns from all states show
that 12,9G6504 men registered for mill
tary service September IL. This was
1877 1886 in excess Of the Rstimate Of
12,77S,75S made by experts in the Of
fee Of General Crowder Mt Washing
ton, based on projections from census
figures.
| Senator Poindexter Of Washington
read to the senate at Washington
a letter from DR.. r. III. Howard Of st.
Louis, stating that a brother of Sergt.
A. B. Cole of East Liverpool, o., who
served with the Canadian forces in
France, had affidavits to prove the
widely circulated story that the ser
geant was crucified upon door with
I German bayonets.
Estimates and figures showing the
success of the fourth Liberty loan
poured into the treasury ut Washing
ton, indicating that there were about
25,OOO,OOO subscribers during the
campaign which closed Saturday
night and that the $1,000. 600. 900 goal
was passed by several hundred mil.
lions. .-
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