Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1918-12-19
WORLDS NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD

Poland has severed relations with
Germany, according to telegram re-
ceived in Berlin from Warsaw.
A German suspected Of being a spy
was arrested in the neighborhOod of
President Wilson's Paris residence.
DR.. w. B. Solf, the minister of for
eign affairs, has handed in his resig-
nation and it has been accepted by
the cabinet at Berlin.
The government at London in
creased the unemployment demobiliza-
ton donation Of men to % shillings
and women to % shillings week.
An aviator, said to be Carl Smith of
BrocktOn, Mass, was killed instantly
when his machine fell 800 feet at the
Standard Aircraft corporations field
at Elizabeth, n. J.
An Amsterdam dispatch says a gen
eral strike was called in Berlin. Ad
vices from the frontier early in the day
said that 100000 workers had gone out
and that only two newspapers were
published.
Sixteen hundred German soldiers
were rescued when the German trans
port Worms was sunk between Sweden
and Bernholm island, according to a
Stockholm dispatch. The cause of the
sinking is not given.
The supreme military tribunal at
hof
sons were sentenced to death by Aus
trian military tribunals during the war
and executed, according to a Berlin
dispatch to the Amsterdam Handles
blad.
Appropriation of $6OO,O00,000 for
road construction is proposed in a bill
introduced at Washington by Repre-
sentative Browne of Wisconsin, Re-
publican. Fifty million dollars would
be made available for immediate use
and the entire total in six years.
A Paris dispatch says French ma
rines have entered Odessa, Russia,
and have received a cordial welcome
from the people there, according to the
Matin Detachments have occupied
the wireless station and expelled Ger
man soldiers from all military posts.
A Paris disr>tch says the Berlin
central government is pOwerless to
preserve order and deserters from the
army terrOriZe the inhabitants. Rob
berries and attacks follow one another
rapidly and apartments and shops are
rObbed in midday Committees of all
kinds, it continues publish contradict
tory orders and practice blackmail.
Postmaster General BurlesOn at
Washington announced q reduction in
night lOng-distance telephone rates,
and a charge for all long distance calls
whether the individual called is
reached or not. The new rates are eff
fective January q. Between s 80 and
II p. m. the rate is to be One-half of
the day rate, and between II p. m. and
4 80 a. m. one-fourth the day rate.
A dispatch from American army
headquarters says men in German mill
tary uniforms are not to be allowed
within the American area of Occupa.
ton after December -, unless they are
on duty and are provided with written
permission of the American military
authorities, according to a proclama-
tom issued by Col. J. c. Rhea, chair
man Of the American bridgehead com
mission
President Wilson spent his first
Sunday in Paris by going twice tc
church, laying wreath on the tomb
Of Lafayette, and having brief con
ference with Premier Clemenceau and
another with Col. e. M. House. In
the evening he rested, in preparation
for the coming strenuous week of pre-.
liminary conferences. During the aft.
ernoon the president made a short call
on President and Nine. POincare at
the Palace of the Elysee.