The Dolores star., 1918-11-15
Records in "finishing" standard


ships have been broken by men in a
Belfast yard, which completed stan
darcs vessel of 5000 tons In three ana
thrce-quarter days.
\ large French transatlantic steam
ship which arrived at an Atlantic port
Saturday night came into port with
all lights ablaZe, the first time in
months that this has taken place.
/ A drive to secure $4,000 volunteers
| from limited service men, urgently
needed to fill special posts in the army,
was begun November 4 by the depart
meHt of labor's employment service, ut
the request of the war department.
J The men are wanted for duty in this
/ country. and will be used to release
more active men for service overseas:
WASHINGTON
| The National Woman's Suffrage as
sociation, through Mrs. Carrie Chap
man Gait, its president, reported to the
house that 1t had expended ST693 ITO
defeat senator Baird in New Jersey,
Senator Weeks in Massachusetts and
Mr.. Moses in New Hampshire
! America and the allies are planning
| TO cooperate in making available as far
as possible food and other supplies ne
cesSury for the lives of the demoraliZed
civilian population in once enemy coun-
| tries.
The Polish army. under the supreme
political authority of the Polish ma
tional committee, was recognized on
| November by the United States gov
| ernment as autonomous and co-bellig-
erent.
Draft calls for The mobilization of
800, ,TI3 additional men at army train
| ing camps before November II were
announced Saturday by Provost Mar
shul General Crowder.
| Congress seems nj last about to make
| the Grand Canyon Of Arizona "A ma
tional park. For years the canyon has
been quite generally regarded as n
park but officially it is section of two
national forests, II game refuge and II
national monument.
| Three and II half million tons of
coal have been saved in the past six
months by industrial plants which have
adopted the conservation recommends
| llOtlS OF tnt Iutl NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
! FOREIGN
Marshal FOch has the terms of armis
| tice for Germany. and awaits applica-
tiOn for them by the German military
| command in the field. The govern
ment at Berlin is so informed in note
which Secretary Lansing handed to
Minister Sulzer of Switzerland on No
| vember ).
Charges that the Bolshevik forces
| have executed and mutilated several
members of the Russo-allied forces
whom they captured have been borne
out by evidence of Witnesses and by
the finding in the woods of mutilated
| bodies
| Differences are reported to have de-
veloped in the Argentine cabinet over
international questions. In quarters
usually well Informed it is declared
that Francisco Toledo, the minister of
marine, will resign.
The B0lshevik government of Rus
sia, 1t is reported from Petrograd, has
handed the neutral minister "A note for
| transmission TO the entente nations
asking for the opening of peace nego-
tiations in order that hostllities be-
tween the allies and the soviet gov
ernment may be ended. says an EN-
change Telegraph from Copenhagen.
Austrian prisoners captured by the
Italians before the armistice took eff
feet on November 1 are estimated now
at 100000, and the booty taken includes
100000 horses.
| Allied troops on November 4, began
the siege of the city Of Ghent, already
surrounded virtually on three sides.
The assault on this city was witnessed
| by Queen Elizabeth of Belgium and
hundreds Of her noncombatant sub
| jects.
| British naval officers and experts are
agreed that when the allied fleet
passes eastward from the Bosphorous
and enters the Black sea a big naval
engagement. second only to the Jutland
battle will be inevitable.
Conditions in Germany parallel the
| situation in Russia before the March
revolution, according to a neutral jusr
returned from Berlin. Huge quantities
of leaflets are distributed in the streets
similar to the propaganda sheets scat
tered through Petrograd last year
They demand amnesty and the forma
ton of soviets.
Austria will protest against the inter
pretation of any clause in the armis-
tice as meaning that enemy armies
are entitled to attack Germany through
Austria, according to advices from
Vienna.
An armistice has been signed with
Austria, and thus Germany loses her
last supporter. The surrender of Aus
tria leaves the road open from the
south, and with the continued sue
cesses on the western front, final vic