, 1918-12-05
CONDENSED RECORD OF TIL E
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, o o c 8, ACHIEVE.
MENTs, sUFFERiNGS. HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
ABOUT THE WAR

began crossing the RHINE trluay lne
crossing will require eight or nine
days.
A dispatch to the London Daily Mai
from Copenhagen states that an anti
Bolshevik revolution has broken out
in Russia.
1t is officially announced that during
the val the forces of Great Britain &C
tually lost nearly 1000, 900 men killed
or dead through various causes.
Twenty-seven German submarines
were surrendered at Harwich, Nov. 81
to the allies. This brings to ia the
total of German U-boats turned over.
The number of navy men killed dur.
ing the war was 1928. Surgeon Gen
eral Braisted of the Nevy Department
told the House committee on laval at
fairs.
1t is announced that approximately
200 German submarines were de-
stroyed during the war. The total
number of all types built by the Ger,
mans is estimated to have been $50.
More than a million and a half pris-
oners of various n~ationalities have
been released by the Germans, accord
ing to estimates based upon reports
received by the American Third army.
American engineers have crossed
the frontier bridges between Luxem-
burg and Rhenish Prussia at various
points on the American front. They
examined tht bridge piers for mines,
but none was found.
Casualties in the British Indian
army during the war, according to fig
ures given out in London, totaled 101,-
439, of which number 33,051 were
killed, died of wounds or are missing.
The wounded totaled SO, 296 and 9,092
were taken prisoner. Q
An official statement issued in Lon
don says that since the armistice was
signed 444 British officers and $3.50
men of other ranks, former prisoners,
have arrived at Hull from Holland and
Germany, 55 officers and S,216 men of
other ranks at Dover and 500 at Lon.
don.
One hundred and fifty airplanes
which had been gathered at the Boo
blingen airdrome, eleven miles south.
west of Stuttgart, to be handed over
to the allies in accordance with the
provisions Of the armistice, have been
rendered useless by order of the revo-
lutionary committee. according to a
Stuttgart dispatch received at Basel,
Switzerland.
WESTERN
Mayor Kiel announced hat the dis
play OF a red flag at any public meet
ing in St. Louis would not be toler-
ated.
Gov. William d. Stephens committed
to life imprisonment the sentence of
death imposed on Thomas ]. Mooney
for murder growing out of the pre-
p~aredness day bomb explosion in San
Francisco July %, 1916. when ten per-
sons were killed and forty others in
jured.
Immediate employment of returned
soldiers has been worked out by the
government for Arizona.
Americas fighting men in the
United States and abroad attacked the
greatest Thanksgiving dinners in the
history of the nation. For the first
and possibly the last time Uncle Sam
was called upon to feed more than A.
000. 900 men on this holiday.
WASHINGTON
Repeal of the increased postage rate
was approved Friday by the Senate fl
anc committee.
President Wilson received Jacob
Theodore Cremer, new minister from
The Netherlands, and accepted his Gre
dentials.
Aerial mail service will shortly be
extended to San Francisco and many
of the large cities of the West. Den
yer, st. Louis, indianapolis and Pitts
burg are to be included in the air loop.
1t was announced at the White
House that the representatives of the
United States at the peace conference
would be the President himself, the
secretary of state, the Hon. Henry
White, recently ambassador to France,
Mr.. Edward NJ. House and Gen.
Tasker II. Bliss.
Vice-President Marshall has can
celed his speaking our through the
West and to the Pacific, which would
have kept him away from Washing
ton until after the holidays. Mr.. Mar
shall's secretary said he felt he should
remain while the president was at the
peace conference.
A big peace conference of women
is planned for February in Holland
with delegates present from all coun
tries, including Germany and Austria
Bolshevism has been stamped out
in Bulgaria, diplomatic advices at tht
Bulgarian l~e~Ation stated.