The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-12-13

commended in q letter from the brlt
ish admiralty addressed to Admiral
Sims.
European War News
Allied and American forces will tenn
porarily occupy Berlin, exercising po'
lice supervision, according to the
Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung OF Ber'
lin, (which says that an American wire.
less dispatch to that effect has been
intercepted by the Germans. The
newspaper says that Mannheim will
be similarly occupied.
Lloyd George, according to the Lon
don Daily Mail, will announce that the
British demands for cash reparation
from Germany will be eight thousand
million pounds sterling and that the
French demands will be infinitely
larger.
Fifteen thousand men lost theil
lives during the war due to submarine
and mine we fare, Sir Eric Geddes
first lord of the admiralty, announced
at London. Altogether 2,475 merchant
men and go fishing vessels-a total
of 3,145 craft-were sunk.
The Russian government has re
fused to admit 100000 Russian sol
diers who have been prisoners in Ger
many and has turned them back at the
frontier, according to a Berlin dispatch
to the London Express.
The government has taken all nee
essary measures to insure the demo
biiization Of all classes of the territori
al reserve before the end of Febru
airy, according to the Paris L'Oeurve,
Domestic
The estimated value Of Liberty
bonds and War Savings certificates
secured by band of bank robbers
who looted the Leavenworth State
bank at Leavenworth, Ind, is placed
at 100000.
Twelve men we're killed and 81
others were injured in a series Of four
explosions at the Du POnt Powder
works plant at Pompton Lakes, N. J.
The explosions occurred in the car
room.
The 2,40O Cleveland street car men
who went on strike because of the
employment Of women as conductors
since which time not q car has been
operated, returned to work after they
ratified the terms their union leaders
accepted for them. The women con-
ductors are to be eliminated from the
street car service.
Three American cruisers are ex'
pected to arrive at Lima, Peru, from
San Francisco in few days.
The trust-forged shackles of CAPT.
talism must be tossed aside and labor
must be given fair share Of the pros.
perity of the country, for the "get.
and-grab" policy Of so-called big bust.
ness has been shelved forever in the
worldwide upheaval of autocracy, was
the warning that Charles M. Schwab
delivered at Atlantic City, N. j., to the
business men of America.
Congressman-elect Victor L. Berger,
Milwaukee Socialist, was served with
notice of protest to being seated by
Joseph P. Carney, Democrat, on the
ground of ineligibility. Carney was
second in the race.
Increase of 10 per cent In piece
work pay for men employed at rivet-
ing, chipping and caulking, drilling
and roaming, in steel shipyards of the
Atlantic coast, Delaware river, Gull
coast and Great Lakes steel shipyards
is given in an award by the shipbuild-
ing labor adjustment board at Wash
ington.
President Wilson, Secretary Lam
sing, Henry White and large party
of counsellors, secretaries and Ameri-
can delegates to. the peace conference
sailed from New York on the United
States steamship George Washington
early Wednesday for Cherbourg.
Governor Williams of Oklahoma is
sued a proclamation officially declar-
ing that the woman suffrage amend
ment, voted on in the recent general
elections, received majority Of all
the votes cast in the election, and is
now q part of the constitution.
John Peres, an Austrian, twenty-six
years old, is being held for the murder
Of two men in the paraffin department
Of the Standard Oil company plant at
Whiting, Ind.
Notice was received by the war de-
partment at Washington Of the sail
ing from Liverpool on November 20 Of
the steamer Ascanius for New York
with AZ officers and 1,427 men, and the
steamer Canopic for Boston with 81
officers and Loaf men. All on both
steamers are aero units except few