Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-10-31
FROM MANY POINTS
EVENTS OF THE WEEK HELD TO
A FEW LINES.
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Personal, Political. eoreion and Other
Intelligence In. resting 70 The
Genera. Readers.

Reports from fairly reliable sources
say unconditional surrender Of the
Austro- Hungarian monarchy is immi-
nent.
Both Kansas City, Mo-, and Kansas.
City, Kan. have called on the govern
ment for help to combat the influenza
epidemic in the two cities.
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All theaters and motion picture
houses in California were ordered
closed by the State Board of Health
as a result Of the Spanish influenza
epidemic.
A dispatch from the front states
that during the last fifteen days OF
their occupation of Lille the Germans
took away into captivity $4,000 civil
ians.
Two hundred thousand recruits for
the navy will be needed in the coming
year mainly to man merchant ships IN
government service, Secretary Daniels
announced.
For the first time since the war be-
gan Paris held fete day in celebra-
ton of the freeing of French towns
and the opening Of campaign for
new French loan.
President Wilson'S reply to Ger
many was received in Paris with a
feeling that the note is just what the
allies have been wanting to force
upon the enemy.
Despite the peace parleying the war
will go on well into next year before
Germany is forced into submission, in
the opinion of practically all the chief
military advisers mt Washington.
The Nebraska State board of
Health has placed quarantine on the
state of Nebraska until Saturday,
November 2, assa means of combating
the Spanish influenza epidemic.
Movement of 1000 Nebraska draft
selects, the states October quota, to
army camps was cancelled by the
war department because of the preya-
lence Of influenza in the state.
Total appropriation and contract au-
thorization by congress now amount to
$36,276,OO0,0O0 for war purposes, ac-
cording to a recapitulation submitted
by Senator Martin Of Virginia.
Colonel l.. o. Godfrey at Moose
Lake, Mimi, reported the forest fire
casualties of that immediate district
number 1873. Twelve entire families
were wiped out by the conflagration.
The American Red Cross is rushing
large amounts of food, medicine and
clothing to the island of Myteline.
where 10000 Greek refugees from
Asia Minor are stricken with fever.
An ordinance compelling the wear
ing Of gauze masks by every person in
/ San Francisco, to prevent the spread
of the influenza epidemic, has been
!. passed by the board of supervisors.
The Spanish influenza epidemic in
Wyoming has become so serious thai
the state board of health increased
the severity of quarantine regula.
tions by forbidding the gathering OF
more than five persons under any cir.
culnStances.
1t is reliably reported that in Ger
many there is a widespread dread OF
another winter of war and of dali,
and nightly air raids from German
air dromes in Belgium, which ar,
now in the hands of the allies.
Valuable works of art belonging t,
museums and private owners in tn,
region Of Cambria, Douai and Valen
ciennes. now in the hands of the Ger
/, mans, will be returned unchanged t.
their owners after the war. the Der
lin government has announced.
Senator Poindexter of Washington
: read to, the senate letter from Dr.
; II. II. Howard of st. Louis, Stain
that a brother of Sergt. A. C. Cole o
East Liverpool, O., member of the Ca
madam army in France, had affidavit
; to prove the story that the sergean
was crucified upon a door with Gel
man hayonets.
Since the allies began their ives
, front offensive, territory in norther
France occupied by over 100000 pee
pie and territory in Belgium occupie
by 100000 people has been freed O
invaders.
Congress has been asked nv th