The Benson signal., 1918-12-28
AN EP|TOME OF
LATE live NEWS
CONDENSED RECORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD.
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, DON G 8, ACHIEVE.
MENTS, sUFFERINGs, HOPES
AND FEARS OF MANKIND.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
ABOUT THE WAR

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
ABOUT THE WAR
During the last allied offensive, be-
tween Sept 26 and Nov. II, twenty
one American balloons were lost.
The Polish government has declared
itself ready to conclude military and
political alliance with the entente ma
tons, according to the Cologne Ga
zette.
Additional units overseas, including
about 1900 officers and men, assigned
by General Pershing for early convoy
home. were announced by the War De-
partment at Washington.
When the total German casualties
are published the number of dead will
be about 100000, according to the
Cologne Gazette. Up to Oct. Is the
total casualties reported were $685.
769, of whom more than 4,750,000 were
Prussians.
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg has
telegraphed the Berlin government ad-
vising it of his intention to form a
new front six miles behind the neutral
zone fixed by the armistice, according
to a dispatch to the Paris LIE Journal
from Zurich.
German propaganda and the tend
ency to criticise conditions in the dis
trict occupied by the American forces
have been abruptly checked by the es-
tablishment of censorship by Maj.
Gen.. Dickman upon the newspapers
and the theaters.
The total war damage to France was
64,0O0,000,000 francs, excluding the
loss of commerce and imports and the
damage incurred by individuals, it was
announced in the chamber of deputies
in Paris by M. Dubois, head of the
budget committee.
The German armistice has been ex-
tended until 5 o'clock on the morning
of Jan. II and the Allies have notified
Germany that they reserve the right
to occupy the neutral zone east of the
Rhine from the Cologne bridgehead
to the Dutch frontier.
Casualties of the American expedi-
tionary forces which have not been
published by the War Department but
announced officially by Gen. Pershing
had been reduced Dec. 10 to a total
of 66,892. These, the War Department
announced, were classified as follows:
Major casualties, including killed in
action, died of wounds, died of disease
and died of other causes, 1880; wound
ed, 64,862; missing in action and pris-
oners, $780,
WESTERN
Four negroes, two of them women,
accused of the murder of DR.. E. L..
Johnston at Mobile, Ala, were taken
from the Jail at Shubuta, Miss, and
lynched.
Frank J. Hayes, president of the
United Mine Workers of America, has
been defeated in his race for re-elec-
ton by J. H. Walker, according to
word received in Denver mining head
quarters. Walker defeated Hayes by
approximately 100000 votes.
The Omaha & Council Bluffs Street
Railway Company has appealed to the
Supreme Court from the State Rail-
way Commissions decision, denying
fare increase from to Z cents as an
emergency measure made necessary
by increased operating expenses.
The livestock industry at no time in
the past has been confronted by prob
lens as important as those of today,
declares the call for the twentysecond
annual convention of the American
National Live Stock Association, is
sued by /. T. Pryor of San Antonio,
Tex, president, and T. w. Tomlinson
of Denver, secretary Of the associa-
ton. The convention will meet in
Denver on Jan. 81, and be in session
three days.
WASHINGTON
Vice President Marshall presided
over the regular cabinet meeting
again.
Discharged soldiers who do not wish
to continue payments on Liberty bond
subscriptions made through the army
organization will have payments al
ready made returned, and the sub
scriptions will be Cancelled.
Senator Lodge of Massachusetts,
the Republican leader, in an address
to the Senate, advocated pOstponement
of the formation of a league of ma
tons until after the peace conference.
He said the question should be con-
sidered separately and later.
Maximum prices on copper will ex-
pire Jan. l and will not be renewed,
it was announced by the price-fixing
committee of the War Industries
Board
Confiscation of all dynastic fortunes,
creation of single Socialists repub-
lie, cancellation of all public debts and
war loans are among the planks of the
Germ an Spartacus platform.
The Bulgarians continue to mistreat
the Greek and Serbians who were
taken to Bulgaria during the war, &C
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