The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-11-08

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just back from two months VISIT 10
the western front
AZ average wage increase " 81 o
day has been granted anthracite coal
miners hy Fuel Administrator Garfield,
effective November i. ia some FL.
stances the Increase Il a,elDw tlils
figure and IN others fI,r above II, The
" average Il described ~ very general
Three hundred and fortyahree per-
sons mosi ~ them outbound Alaskans
and residents ~ the Yukon territory,
lost their lives when the cannsiian
Pacific Steamship rornpanys passen.
ger steamer Princess sOphIn was bat.
tered BY storms. dropped to the bot.
tom ~ Lynn canal, an arm ~ the In
slide Passage NOT fnr south m Skag-
way Alaska.
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Three aud d half million tons ~
coal have been saved 81 Ehe past six
months by Industrial plants which hnve
adopted the conservation recommends.
lions ~ the fuel administration.
orders for 3.OOO,OOO,OO0 cigarets,
enough % provide two smokes for
every person ~ the world, have becn
placed BY the war department to sup.
ply American soldiers for the balance
~ the year.
Prosecution Of the three army off.
GERS held by Charles u. Hughes IN his
report nn the aircraft investigation 20
be guilty ~ dealing with corporations
~ which they were financially inter.
ested II to be- started without delay.
Announcement from London that an
arfnistlce With Turkey, which permits
passage Ut allied warships through the
DardauelIes, already u In operation led
naval officers ~ Washington 70 believe
that nn allied feet. II Il has not already
started soon VIII pass through 20 the
Black SEA 20 attack the German naval
forces there
The sugar allowance Of two pounds
monthly person FOE householders hus
been increased 10 three pounds monthly
bS Food Administrators Hoover effec-
tive az once, The sugar regulations
also are revised TO permit the purchase
of the entire months supply for u
family IL one time
FOREIGN.
II il officially admitted In the Ger.
man capital, according 20 dispatch
from Berlin 70 the Exchange Telegraph
company hy way Of Amsterdam, that
serious damage has been done 10 the
tity Of Heidelberg, In Baden, by the
allied air raid. There Mere SOME cas-
nalties.
A TampicO, Mex, dispatch says The |
Influenza epidemic there Is the worst
sconrge that has ever visited the city,
nearly 100 death occurring daily,
Mexican federal troops we're defeated
hy superior force OF villa followers
forty miles south ~ the border, accord.
inE To- u report brought 10 Ojinaga by
a runner sent out By the federal
commander
An armlstiee between Turkey and
the entente powers WIS signed Octo.
bor 30. Ii became operative al noon
October ~. This means that nearly
two million Turks are uut uf the war
and new Uyenue OF attack upon
Germany Is opened up
An Austrian deputation has been
permitted 10 cross the fighting line for
preliminary pourparlers With the Ital.
Tan commander, according % the Off
clal announcement at vienna.
The German empress IS very ~ and
weak, according 10 Bernie dispatch to
the Petit Journal II Is snld that She
. haunted rs the memory or the RUS.
Sian revolution ana insists upon abdl-
cation 0f the emperor
That immediate releuse OF mi British
prisoners viii be Insisted ON by the
government as part Of urnisticc terms
II expected ~ london.
The Herliu Lokal Anzelger
announces TINT former Chancellor
nr von acthmanu llullweg will
he arraigned before parliamentary
commission acting as high tribunal
= nplaln why President Wilson's
l'euce mediation offer In 1916 fuiled.
The BOlshpylki have decided 70 hold
- bartholomew night On November
To- when Wll members 81 the upper
classes viii he killed. according 10
Russian udNlccs An Understandable
panic relgns 10 Pctrograd
Some conception Of what Australia
has done In the war and OF the losses
sustained by the commonwealth can
be gained from figures witch have
just heen issued officially out % a
population Of an0.Oo0 Australia has
sent abroad $4,000 men. The total
casualties numbered 800. i9i including
5t.idi dead. Recruiting In Australia
j. now at the rate Of $40 month
a. part 1T the terms 81 an urmlstice
the London Evening News says Il un.
,lerstands the allied nations win insist
upon the surrender nt the Germun
fleet. Including an the German sub
marines, aud upon the occupation hy
allied forccs ~ an the fortified towns
on the Rhine.
La recognition ~ hts services to the
aHied cause aud ms a mark of respect