, 1918-12-19

JHe SeCTetdTy OF Stdle lot WAT, Is dDOuI
to quit the government.
Andrew Bonar Law announced at
Glasgow that it was unlikely no would
lie chancellor of the exchequer TO take
the next budget before Parliament.
David r. Francis, American ambas-
sador TO Russia, went to P~ris to re-
port on Russian affairs to President
Wilson and Secretary of State Ian
sing.
The value of the German mark has
allen below AZ to the British pound.
Before the war the mark was worth
approximately l shilling, or 20 marks
to the pound.
Occupation of Petrograd, Kronstadt
and Moscow is advocated by Rea Ad.
miral Kemp. in a letter to the Lon
don Times. He was senior British
naval officer in northern Russian wa
tiers until November.
The former German emperor Is en-
titled to the right of sanctuary in
Holland and therefore his return to
Germany cannot be demanded, accord,
ing to a statement made by Jonkheer
B~eerenbruck in the lower chamber Uf
Parliament during a debate IN the
visit 7of the former emperor to Hol-
land.
President Wilson landed in France
at 1924 o'clock Friday afternoon, Dec.
10, amid a demonstration of popular
enthusiasm and national sympathy
such as rarely. if ever, has been ac-
corded the head of a foreign govern
ment visiting France. The President
left Brest at 4 O'Clock the same after
noon for Paris, where the heart of
France acclaimed him as the nations
guest.
Several thousand former inhabi-
tants of Smyrna and of nearby locali-
ties have arrived in Smyrna the last
few days, coming from inland districts
to which they had been deported by
Turkish authorities. Their condition
is pitiful. 1t is asserted about half
the people deported died of bad treat
ment or lack of food. 1t is said also
that the women driven from their
homes by the Turks were subjected
to brutal treatment and that a ma
jority of the young girls were sold as
slaves to Turkish notables.
SPORT
Lieut.. Dagoberto Godoy of the
Chilean army crossed the Andes noun
tains at their highest point in a Bris-
toll airplane.
Levant NJ. Richardson, known as
the father of roller skating" died in
Chicago after several years Illness
He is said to have put the first steel
ball bearings in roller skates.
Jack Johnson, cabling from BARGE
Iona to New York, has asked H. T.
Booker, Anglo-American baseball pro-
moter, to arrange a bout for him with
either Porky Flynn or Jim Savage.
A schedule of 154 games for the
American Association Baseball League
this season was agreed upon at the
meeting of club owners at Minneap-
oils. The a will start about May
1 and end late in September.
GENERAL
Seven frontier villages of the grand
duchy of Baden have passed resolu-
lions expressing their desire to become
united to Switzerland.
The U. S. S. George Washington,
bearing President Wilson and his Of
fetal party, passed over the grave of
the Lusitania, southwest of Ireland.
Many ships from Queenstown met and
saluted the big liner.
Warning to the country that the in
fluenza epidemic is by no means end
ed. and that all possible precautions
against the disease should be taken,
was issued by Surgeon General Blue
of the public health service. Reports
received by the service show a recru-
descence OF the disease practically
from one end of the country to the
other
A collection of 2.525 dangerous
weapons, taken from criminals and
others since Jan. l and valued at $780,
900, was thrown into the ocean Off
Scotland lightship by the police de-
partment of New York.
A revolution indorsing the Page bill,
now pending in Congress, increasing
the federal appropriation for through
route highways 800. 900, 900 a year,
was adopted at Chicago at the clos
ing session of the fourth annual meet
ing of the American Association of
State Highway Officials. Other reso-
buttons passed favored uniform traffic
control laws and uniform n~on-glare
headlight laws.
With a total value of s12. 272.412,0 900,
the nations principal farm crops this
year were worth more. based on
prices paid to farmers Dec. l. than in
any year in the history of American
agriculture. December crop estimates
of the Department of Agriculture
showed that this years total exceeds
that of the former record year. 1917.
by $G14, 10000. There also was a