Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-10-31
The Belgian government has de
cided to make Bruges the temporary

capital.
The German reichstag passed re-
solution expressing confidence in the
new chancellor, Prince Macmillan.
During three weeks influenza
epidemic at Boston, Mass, over 1000
persons succumbed to the disease.
The Texas statewide statutory pro-
hibition law was held uncOnstitu-
tional by the state court of criminal
appeals.
Fourth Liberty loan subscriptions
in the Tenth district total $267 Co.,
600, or $7,OOO,OOO in excess of the dis
trict's allotment.
Congressional leaders have agreed
upon plan whereby congress will re-
cess October % over the election, re-
converting November IL.
Belgium, in figuring up her bill
against Germany, SO far has listed
items amounting to about $1,692,252.-
600. Others are being tabulated.
War department figures show that
there were 300 deaths at Camp Dodge
from Spanish ''fiu" in the period from
na+oy,o,,
Postmaster General Burleson has
made known that the aerial mail serv-
ice will be extended to Denver i'm
mediately after the war.
Belgium will never consent to re-
vert to her former status as "neu-
tralized nation" but insists on politi-
ence, her spokesman have announced.
The swift drive of the Belgian army
in Northwestern Belgium forced some
thing like $4,000 Germans across the
Holland frontier, where they were in
termed.
Sixteen American wooden ship yards
will not receive further government
work when their present contract are
they being regarded as in
efficient.
Senator Lodge and other leaders in
congress branded the latest hun peace
note as clumsy trap, awkwardly set
to draw the president into diplomatic
Director General McAdoo's order
railroad employees or Of
ficers from holding office or participant
ing in politics, has been considerably
modified.
Information from reliable sources
indicates that the German retreat will
carry the enemy back many miles in
Belgium, if not all the way to Ger
many itself.
Because of the prevalence of yellow
fever in Guatemala, the SalvadOrean
government has ordered that the
frontier between Guatemala and Sal
vador be closed
Eugene " Debs, socialist party
leader, who recently was sentenced to
10 years. imprisonment for making
disloyal utterances has appealed his
case to the supreme court.
Allied forces which have swept the
Germans out of Belgian Flanders, cap.
tured the 15-inch cannon with which
the Germans have been bombarding
Dunkirk during the past year.
A total of 213 lives were lost when
the American steamer Ticonderoga
was sunk in the war zone by Ger
man u-boat, 1O1 being soldiers and the
balance members of the ships crew.
The Chicago-New York aerial mail
service, which was scheduled to start
November 1, will be delayed about
one month because of lack of funds
for building hangar in the windy
city.
kilograms by the thousands poured
into Washington following receipt OF
Germany's latest peace note demand.
ing that unconditional surrender be
the only terms for further negotia.
tons.
Unofficial figures on the Fourth Lib
erty loan show that there were about
25,000,000 subscribers during the cam.
paign and that the six billion dollar
goal was passed by several hundred
millions.
The popular comment in London on
the presidents latest note to Ger
many was that it contains the strong.
est language ever addressed by the
! hon6 Of mo great pafiOp IN opntbor T.,