The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-05-10

By so doing put the Rock Island rail
way in the 100 per cent class" He
was the last one of the 41,16T en-
pIoyes Of the road who have sub
scribed for bonds to the amount Of
SL.923, 100.
The Norwegian steamer Fjeli was
sunk off the Virginia coast at midnight |
April 80 when she collided with the
British steamer Liyingstonia. The |
Fjelrs crew was saved by the Living
stonia.
The value Of alien property has
reached a total Of $3.50 100000. That
represents only part Of what officials
expect the government finally TO hold.
WASHINGTON
Creation Of a congressional commits
sion, with fifty members Of the house
and twenty-five senators, to go 70
Europe to investigate the progress Of
the war, was proposed in a resolution
offered in the house Friday by Repre-
sentative Kelley of Pennsylvania.
Secretary Baker has announced that
he is studying the report on aircraft
production made by Gutzon Borglum,
the sculptor, and if he found facts in
it to warrant action would order an Of
fetal inquiry.
Signing Of a general commercial
agreement between the United States
and Norway, the first agreement Of the
\ kind to be entered into by America
with one Of the north European neu-
trails, was announced May by the war
! trade board.
President Wilson, through Secretary
Of War Baker, has requested congress
to appropriate $4,000 100000 for ex-
penses and blanket authority for in
creasing the numerical strength Of
the United States army.
Every ton of steel and pig iron in
the country virtually has been com
mandeered by the government for war
purposes, and any surplus remaining
after war needs are met will be distri-
buted to non-war industries under
strict government supervision.
Announcement that the shipping
board plans to supplement American
crews with foreign-born officers il
necessary for the prompt movement OF
vessels of the new merchant marine
/ Immediately evoked protests from sea
mems union officials at Thursdays
r session of the boards conference with
] ship owners and union representa-
! lives.
. FOREIGN
) The military authority Of Genera
q Foch as a result of the Italian ad
hesion, has been extended to all tn
e western fronts, and the general nov
r becomes commander in chief OF all tn
II allied armies in the west, says Marco
II Hutin in the Echo de Paris.
d In the government of Minsk the &c
mans seized able-bodied persons in Il
m street and are sendin gthem TO &c
II many. Those trying to escape al
e shot.
!, In desperate air fight over the An
IS erican lines northwest Of Toul, Charlie
b W. Chapman, Jr., Of Waterloo, Ia, an
/. German pilot with whom he wa
r fighting plunged to earth inside th
German lines, both their machine
&c wrapped in flames.
+ The Muenchener Nueste Nachrichte
n learns from a diplomatic source
,e Vienna that Prince Buelow may b
ID appointed German imperial chaneellC
soon.
NJ Twenty thousand prisoners wel
= taken by German and Finnish trooI
rs in the fiye-day battle at Lahi and Ia
s artehus, according to adyices from Be
n. lin.
ID In the personal opinion Of Lord Roi
ert Cecil, minister of blockaue, Il
10 failure of Germany's knockout often
a i've" on the western front will resu
he in a big peace offensive, directed mai
,e. ly against Great Britain and possib
re made in an attractive form, but whit
n will not afford any terms the ALI
can look at.
T. William Pedler, an American ci
he zen, was sentenced by magistra
he to four months Imprisonment for dri
IN ing men at night near Dublin. At [
ste request of the military authorities, [
~ magistrate ordered Pedler deport
90 after he had served the sentence.
IN Lieutenant Colonel Richard
ri. Griffiths, commanding a battalion
on American infantry. has been killed
led shell fire in Picardy. He emerged FRI
nv dugout just as a German shell
rived and exploded directly in front
him.
~ The Finnish white guards are n
az in possession of the whole of Finlal
,nb Helsingfors advices state. The r
slams, the dispatches add. have conc
,ro trated great forces along the Finn
~, frontier and attacks are expected.
~ situation is tantamount TO a war
~ tween Finland and Russia.
rtv. The Deutches Tages Zeirung S
the Germans may not attack Ypl
"a which is of no importance, lowing
10 the resistance expected from the all
nv troops"
ar British troops in Mesopotamfa {
=, ! rvipv ~, their nurSuir of the rerri