Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-12-12
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includes What 10 Going on At Wash.
lngton and In Other Sections
Of the Country.

Of the Country.
A. G. Townley was reelected presi
dent Of the national non-partisaI
League at the annual convention OF
the league at st. Paul, MINI.
Representative Carter Glass Of Vir-
ginia Will succeed VIM. McAdoo as
secretary of the treasury. The APP
pointment has been approved by the
senate.
Veteran divisions of the American
army, including the Rainbow division,
will remain in France until peace is
declared, in the opinion of Secretary
Of War Baker.
Premier Lloyd George Of Great
Britain made the assertion in London
that the men who brought on the
world war cannot escape punishment
by an international tribunal.
80
Thirty-seven deaths from influenza
and pneumonia occurred at Denver in
a single day last week, the largest
days mortality since the epidemic be-
came prevalent. in the city.
Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, with the
wives of Secretary Lansing, Amhassa-
dor Davis and the French and Italian
ENJOYS, accompanied Americas peace
party, headed by the president, to
France.
The German crown prince in an in
tervfew with newspaper man in Hol-
land blamed hunger and the entry of
America into the war for the down
fall OF his country and claimed he
was opposed to war.
The War department has made
known that enlisted men discharged
from the army will be required to re-
turn to the government within four
months the uniform in which they
leave camp.
The United States transport Orizaba
sailed for Brest from Hoboken, N. j.,
with nearly 500 newspaper correspond
ents from all parts of the country, on
their way to ''cover" the coming peace
conferences at Versailles.
A demonstration without parallel
took place at New York when Presi-
dent Wilson sailed for France to at
tend the peace conference. He is the
irst president of the United States to
visit Europe while in Office.
Indictments against twenty-four
prominent Arizona men charged with
conspiracy as an outgrowth Of the de-
portations of 1,1S6 alleged /. w. w.
from Bisbee, Ariz., July 70, 1917, have
been quashed by the federal court.
Two steamers, the Empress Of
Britain and the Adriatic. are expect
ed to reach New York in few days
with returning American troops.
The Empress Of Britain carries 78
officers, 10 nurses and 1889 men. The
Adriatic carries 80 officers and 2,2OS
men.
So
No limitation must be placed on
Britain's sea power at the peace table,
Winston Spencer Churchill declared in
an address recently. He also asserted
Britain will demand abolition of con-
scription throughout Europe at the
peace conclaye.
M. Clemenceau, the French pre-
mier, caused a sensation in his adj
dress at the French embassy by de-
claring that but for him Marshal Foch
would have had no command. The
occasion was reception in honor Of
the premier and Marshal Foch. who
were given another extraordinary
ovation.
Approximately 100000 American
women are engaged in war work, ac-
cording to an estimate made public at
New York by the national war council
Of the Young Women's Christian asso.
citation.
The week of December is has been
designated by the war department
commission on training camp activi-
ties as a time for special letters to be
written by mothers, fathers, sisters
wives and sweethearts of the men
now overseas. The movement is fol
the purpose Of maintaining the NOR
ale Of the men who find themselves
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