The Ordway new era., 1918-11-22
CONDENSED RECORD or tn E
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
sAvINos, o ON q .. ACHIEVE
MENTs. suFFERiNos. HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Unios News service.
ABOUT THE WAR

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erai evacuation of Poland.
French war prisoners numbering
100000 will be repatriated soon.
The Belgians are in possession OF
Antwerp. according to reports received
in London.
Casualties in the British ranks re-
ported in the week ending Nov. IA.
totaled 30.525 officers and men.
The last of the German armies has
retired beyond the borders OF France.
II was unofficially announced In Paris.
The Germans In force began Satur-
day to leave points they occupied
northeast Of the American lines. ac-
cording to German wireless messages.
The total number OF sick and
wounded men landed in the United
States from the American expedition
ary forces for the week ended Nov.
was 724.
In the period from Sept. IL TO II
O'Clock on the morning Of Nov. IL.
American aviators claim they brought
down 473 German machines. or this
number 1853 already have been con-
firmed officially.
German soldiers are committing
acts of violence against the inhab-
ttants and are destroying and pillax-
ing. contrary to the terms of the arm
istice, according to French official
wireless message.
The world war, which came to an
end at o'clock Monday morning, Nov.
IL, New York time. lasted four years,
three months and thirteen days. II be-
gan with Austria -Hungary's declara-
tion OF war, against Serbia July IS.
1914.
Germany loses her entire fleet of
submarines under the armistice terms
as amended by Marshal Foch before
he signed them with the German en-
voys. Instead of 160 vessels. every
one of the undersea pirate craft must
be surrendered to the allies and the
United States within fourteen days.
Rumania has declared war on Ger
many. according to u Bucharest dit
patch to the Frankfurt Gazette. A
dispatch from Jassy said the Ruman-
ian government Issued an ultimatum
to Germany Nov. 8. giving the Ger
man army twenty-four hours to get
out of the country. The time limit ex-
pired at O'Clock Sunday morning,
Nov. 10.
WESTERN
Colorado smashed all records Nov.
Is when the Great Western Sugar
Company paid about $l3.000.000 for su-
gar beets delivered during the month
of October. The payments covered de-
liveries for the sugar plants In Colo
RADIO. Nebraska, Montana and Wyo-
ming. and are far above the estimates
for the crop.
Identification of an alleged endless
chain" sales swindle through which it
is charged 5000 agents scattered
throughout the United States were vic
timixed In the sum of more than ST.
100000 was revealed at San Francisco
with the arraignment OF Mrs. Ethel J.
Cayce. arrested under secret indict-
ment returned in Los Angeles in 1916
charging use OF the mails to defrAud.
Two women are reported dead and
fifteen to twenty other white people
injured as result of \ tornado which
struck Prague, Okla. west OF Fort
Smith, Ark.
With forty-one residents of his town
of Fort Defiance in Arizona having
died as result of the influenza, Chilli
Jaunika. a Navajo. became crazed with
fear of the disease and killed his wife
and five children with an axe, then
hanged himself.
WASHINGTON
The War Department has purchased
32,640.000 pounds of sugar at S2.s37. 900
for the American expeditionary forces.
Democratic Leader Kitchin an
nounced that Champ Clark would be
the Democratic leader In the next Con-
gress.
tDiscontinuance of press censorship
in connection with cable, postal and
land telegraph lines, effective at once,
was announced by the government
censorship board.
For the first time since Spanish in
fluenza became epidemic in army
camps at home, the surgeon generals
weekly report OF Nov. Is. shows the
disease effectually checked, with indi-
cations Of further Improvement.
The American copper industry,
through committee of producers and
refiners, agreed with the War Indus
tries Board to maintain the present
rate OF production and preserve exist
ing levels Of prices and wages.
A salary increase OF dollar a day
for all civilian employees of the gov
eminent will be asked for at the open
ing of the December session OF Con-
sress by the National Federation of
Federal Employees. it was announced
at the headquarters Of the organiza-
tion.