Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1918-11-21
WORLDS NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD

The Chicago Federation of Labor
voted to form an Independent Labor
Party in Chicago, Illinois and the ma
ton.
The Paris municipal council will re-
quest parliament to adopt law grant
Ing suffrage to women, according to LIE
Petit Parisien.
British and Russian forces reoccu-
pied the Russian seaport Of Baku on
the west coast of the Caspian sea, says
an official statement by the London
war Office.
Maj. Gen. William G.. Gorgas, former
surgeon general of the army, will be
returned to the retired list on Deem
Der 1, the Washington war department
announced.
A Paris dispatch says French war
prisoners numbering 100000 will be
repatriated soon. This number in
cludes those who have been interned
in neutral countries.
An Algiers dispatch says the signing
Of the armistice was received through
out the whole Of Algeria with the
greatest of enthusiasm, both by colon
lists and the native population.
A Geneva dispatch says former EN-
peror Charles Of Austria, who is still
in Vienna, is now wearing civilian
clothes and says he is entirely finished
with state affairs and wishes to live as
a private citizen.
A Copenhagen dispatch says Admi-
raj Won Tirpitz, the man who was
chiefly responsible for Germanys in
tensive submarine campaign, fled to
Switzerland when the revolution in
Germany broke out.
John w. Davis was formally nomi-
mated by President Wilson at Washing
ton to be American ambassador to
Great Britain, and Alexander q. King
of Atlanta, Ga, was nominated to sue
coed Mr.. Davis as solicitor general.
Extension to November 80 of the
time during which Christmas parcels
will be accepted for members of the
American expeditionary forces in
France was announced by the post Of
fee and war departments at Washing
ton.
The Hungarian government has or
dered the mobilization of troops on q
pretext that it is necessary for the
maintenance of order, according to a
Prague dispatch from the CZecho-Slo-
yak press bureau, which quotes adj
vices from SlalitZ.
A London Special says the first
American troops to depart hOmeWard
will be $4,000 men in England. The
army expects to start the first ship
load homeward within week and to
have all the $4,000 on their way to the
United States ten days later.
Seventeen soldiers from Camp Gus
ter were injured shortly after mid
night when a Grand Rapids interurban
car plowed into a light electric train
bound for camp. The mOtorman on the
soldiers train, Ambrose MCGOWAN,
of Hartford, Mich, was killed.
Anarchy has broken out among the
retiring German troops, the London
Daily Express learns from it's CORE
spondent at Geneva. The Swiss Dor
ders have been closed. Sixty German
soldiers have been killed at Brussels,
according to the papers Antwerp cor
respondent.
The navy is in a position to release
$4,000 men in the course of the next
month, Secretary Daniels announced
at Washington. Applications for re-
lease will be considered Immediately
from young men who wish to return
to college and who sacrificed business
interests in order to join.
Rehabilitation of men in the mill
tary and naval service Of the United
States after their return from France
will be carried out largely on basis
of the ability of trades and occupations
to absorb them, under plan being
worked out by the labor, war and navy
departments and the war industries
board at Washington.