The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1918-11-29
WORLDS NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD

visit Paris late this month.
A London dispatch says John t.
Clynes, the British food controller,
has resigned.
Premier Clemenceau and Marshal
Foch were unanimously elected mem
bers of the French academy at Paris.
Secretary John A. Heydler of the
National league issued a call for the
annual meeting of the league, which
will be held at New York December
10 at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel.
French troops under command OF
General Henry entered Budapest. 1t
is believed that French forces have ar
rived at Constantinople.
A Brussels special says the program
of the new Belgian government in
cludes universal suffrage for all males
over twenty-one years of age and a
general election as soon as possible,
probably lex May.
Lord Robert Cecil, undersecretary
OF state for foreign aaffirs ut London,
has resigned. The cause is declared
TO be a disagreement with the govern
iment in regard to the d~isestablish-
!ment Of the Welsh church.
Fugitives crossing the Belgian
Dutch frontier at Eindhoven, Holland,
report that many Belgians have been
injured by explosions at the commune
Of Gheel, 70 miles southeast of Ant
werp. The town has been completely
devastated, Ii is said.
President Wilson Is expected 10 ar.
rive in Paris about December II, &C.
cording TO information In that city,
Plans are being made for the enter.
tainment Of the American president as
well as the allied rulers who will visit
Paris I'm November and December.
A c%ablegram from aboard the u. s.
8. Wyoming in the North sea says the
bulk and pride Of the German navy
surrendered so miles off the coast of
Scotland between $50 and 10 o'clock
Thursday morning. 1t included II
ships Of all classes. including destroy.
ers.
Savings through war department re-
adjustment orders, including cancela.
ton of contracts, are estimated al
$1,356,OOO,0OO by Secretary Baker in a
letter read to the senate at Washing.
ton by Senator Martin of Virginia,
chairman Of the appropriations com
mittee.
A Washington dispatch says ships
carrying 100000 tons of food for the
populations of northern France. Bel
GUM and Austria are now en- route to
Europe. They are proceeding under
sealed orders TO Gibraltar and Bristol
channel ports, and on arrival will
await word from Food Administrator
Hoover as to their final destinations.
A Berlin dispatch says the city has
now had q week Of revolution. yet the
streets have the same appearance
they presented on any day during the
var with the exception of the ab.
sence of newspaper reference to
events along the front. A casual Wis
ltor would not be aware that this has
been the storm center Of n gigantic
political u%pheaval.
A Washington announcement says
that from the beginning of the Euro
pean war to the day of the signing of
the armistice, the American merchant
marine lost from acts Of the central
powers 145 vessels Of 354,449 gross
tons, involving the loss Of IT'S lives.
Including lives lost by the sinking of
army and navy vessels, the total passes
the thousand mark.
Continued naval expansion by the
United States without regard at pres
ent for possible decisions of the peace
conference, the formation of a league
of nations or reduction of armament,
was recommended to congress by Sec
rotary Daniels at a private conference
with the house naval committee at
Washington, which is framing the 1920
naval appropriation bill
A Washington dispatch says Presi-
dent Wilson will sail for France be-
tween December 4 and 10 on a former
transatlantic liner conveyed by naval
craft. according to the plans now be-
ing made. His encourage, including
the American peace delegation, advis-
ers, experts, secretaries, stenOgrapherS
and the wives of some of the officials.
will number approximately 200 per-
sons.