The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1918-12-13
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
OURIEC The PAST week
RECORD OF IMPORTANT GvGNTo
CONDENSED FoR BUSY
PEOp :.
About the War

The American array OF occupation
marching into Germany has reached
the Rhine
French and American troops Off
cially entered Aix-la-Chapelle and took
over the occupation OF that German
city from the Belgians.
The British transport Orca, with l.
922 American troops aboard. arrived
at New York from Liverpool. She Is
the fourth transport to bring return
ing soldiers,
Great Britain will demand 5000
900 900 tS4OO000O0 ,00o) sterling for
Great Britain and her dominions aa
Teparation for the war. according TO
the London Daily Mail.
Holland, it is understood, will sug'
gest that Herr Hohenzollern and his
son be placed on an island in either
the East or West Indies where they
will be guarded by Dutch fleet.
Polish. American divisions have EN-
barked at Havre for Dantzig. in West
Prussia, with the Intention of occupy
ing the provinces of Posen and Silesia,
The headquarters of the Poll ih-A n r
lean troops will be at the town OF
Posen
Twenty-six hundred American pris-
oners of war interned at Camp Ras-
TAFT left there for Switzerland. Two
hundred other Americans who have
been scattered in camps in Germany
are leaving by way of Holland and
Denmark 1t is expected that the last
=. ,,y
man camps soon.
The Belgian forces aiding in the oc
cupation OF German territory have
reached the Rhine, Cavalry units Of
the Belgian army, it was announced
Monday. have progressed to urdingen.
on the Rhine, twelve miles northwest
of Dusseldorf British advanced
troops reached the River Rhine Sun
day between Godesberg and Cologne.
Order has been re-established in
Cologne as the result OF the arrival oil
an advance guard of British troops.
The military side of demobiization
OF Canada's army overseas has been
completed and Is ready to be put into
operation Immediately peace is de.
clared and the higher command of the
allies consents to the withdrawal of
troops.
We refuse peace with the entente
and intend to overthrow the present
government within a fortnight" Karl
Liebknecht, leader of the German
Bolsheviki, declared in proclama-
ton issued in Berlin, according to a
Zurich dispatch to Information.
Martial law has been proclaimed in
Berlin, the dispatch said. Two hun
dred and twenty persons have been
killed and 1000 wounded in the re-
cent skirmishes In the German capi-
tai between Bolshevik forces and gov
ernment troops.
Western
William H. Bartlett for many years
head OF the Board of Trade firm of
Bartlett. Frazier & Co. suddenly died
at his ranch at Vermejo Park. N. NJ.
Bartlett retired some years ago, and
had made his home on his ranch. an
estate OF some 800 900 acres in north,
eastern New Mexico
Counsel for A. B. Smith alias Dash.
for the murder Of Sheriff Dwight B.
Stephens of Luna county, n NJ. has
carried the case to the Supreme Court
OF the United States, on writ of err
ror, which acts as a stay of execution.
The writ is returnable in sixty days.
mob OF 500 persons Tuesday
lynched Joe Woodson. negro, by
hanging him from telephone pole in
front OF the court house at Green
River, Wyo. Woodson shot Albert
Miller, a switchman for the Union Pa
cific railway. killing him practically
instantly. and wounded another rail
road man The shooting followed the
election of the negro from the dining
room at the Union Pacific station 1t
was said that the negro insulted a
waitress.
Washington
A total of 5.325 officers and 125,515
men, Gen. March said, have been spe-
officially assigned for early return
Thomas r. Marshall, vice president
of the United States, presided over the
regular meeting OF the cabinet Tues
day, at the request OF President Viii.
son.
Restoration OF normal passenger
service has now been undertaken by
the railroad administration, said Di-
rector General McAdoo in a statement
addressed to the American people,
withdrawing his plea made last jan
uary for curtailment of passenger trav.
el for the war emergency
An official summary OF the results
OF the influenza epidemic in army
campS and military cautars ;r enc