Cheyenne record., 1918-12-19
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ABOUT THE WAR

ABOUT THE WAR
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.
The American dreadnought fleet of
ten ships which escorted President
Wilson into port at Brest, Friday,
sailed Saturday for New York. The
fleet is expected to reach it's destina-
tion before Christmas.
The three bridgeheads to be .occu-
pied under the terms of the armistice
are now in the hands of the allies.
French troops entered Mayence
(Mainz). Previously the. Americans
had reached Coblenz, and the British
Cologne.
The supreme military tribunal at
Vienna has announced that II 400 per-
sons were sentenced to death by Aus
trian military tribunals during the
war and executed, according 70 a Ber-
lin dispatch to the Amsterdam Han
delsblad
thousands OF soldiers are moving
back and forth across the old Russian
frontier They come from many ma
tions. All are returning to their
homes, and some of them are pillag-
Ing as they go.
The German armistice has been eX-
tended until o'clock on the morning
of Jan. II and the Allies have notified
Germany that they reserve the right
to occupy the neutral zone east of the
Rhine from the Cologne bridgehead
to the Dutch frontier
Italy. with population of only &c..
100000. and with 5,50O,0OO men called
to the colors. suffered approximately
100000 casualties in the war, Gen.
Emilio Gugiemetti. military attache OF
the Italian War Mission, announced
IN an address at a Red Cross rally IN
New York.
French marines have entered Odes-
ga, Russia, and have received 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 Sebastopol have been cleared of
German soldiers who were causing dis
cords, 1t is alleged. with the conniv-
ance of the Bolshevists.
Demobilization of tho military
forces at home is gaining momentum,
General March, chief Of staff, an
nounced in Washington. with approx,
mately half of the 100000 men in
the home camps on Nov. II specifi-
cally designated for early discharge.
Reports to the War Department, Gen.
eral March said, indicate rate OF
discharge of about 1900 men a day.
which will be doubled when demobil-
ization Is in full progress.
WESTERN
The Denver Civic and Commercial
Association has been given official no
tice by the War Department that
Camp Cody. the cantonment at Dem
ing, N. NJ, is to be abandoned and
salvaged.
New copper field covering portions
of Colorado, Utah and Wyoming, prov.
ing one of most prolific mineral belts
OF America. Big bodies copper. iron.
coal gilsonite and nickel found.
John c. Mitchell and R. f. Malone
of Denver and T. c. Bryines OF Omaha
have been chosen to succeed them
selve for three-year term as direc-
tors OF the Tenth federal reserve bank
at Kansas City.
Representatives of the United States
employment service, stationed in sixty
camps in the country, are fast effect
ing the discharge of all men who have
Jobs offered them. And with the re-
turn of the men to the old order of
things the work of keeping the labor
situation stable becomes an increas-
ingly greater task for the employment
service.
WASHINGTON
Outbreak of a violent epidemic of
influenza with extremely high fatality
rate was reported to the State De-
partment from Guatemala.
Cotton consumed during November
amounted to 457,376 running bales of
lint and 63,325 bales of linters. the
census bureau announced.
Another bi-weekly issue of loan GER
tificates of indebtedness of $5OO,OOO,-
600 or more, bearing an per cent In
terest, was announced by the treas
ury.
Establishment Of an Independent
Democratic Ukrainian republic is de-
manded in resolutions adopted by the
Ukrainian congress In America in ses-
sion at Washington.
DR.. Anna Howard Shaw, honorary
president of the National American