Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-10-03

utIdCucu 20 an ambulance unit OF the
American Red Cross has been deco
rated by the Italian government for
services during the offensive on the
Piave front.
In an attack against the American
outpost south of Archangel the boil
sheviki sustained considerable losses.
Most of the bolshevik dead were Let's.
Elsr0peds1 War Neiv.s
Rumors are again spreading that
Turkey will seek separate peace,
says a dispatch to Paris from Lau-
same, Switzerland. The public is agi-
tated, following the disaster in Pales-
tine and the retreat in the Balkans.
If given the support of three divi-
sions of allied troops, General Gaida,
commander of the Czecho- Slovak
forces said he could hold the bolshevik
armies on approximately the present
line until the Russians in Siberia can
organize an efficient army.
Fifty thousand prisoners have been
taken by General Allenby in the last
seven days, according to estimates OF
the American diplomatic agents at
Cairo. He also reported to the state
department that German Commander
General Won Sanders narrowly es-
capped capture.
Her armies facing defeat and King
Ferdinand's throne tottering, Bulgaria
asked for an armistice Of 4S hours to
discuss peace. The armistice was fiat
~ denied. Accredited Bulgarian dele
gates, however, will be received by
Gen. Franchet D'Esperey, allied COM
mander in chief in Macedonia, TO whom
the offer was made, says dispatch
from London.
The Wolf bureau, the semi-of1cial
German news agency, says the Bull
garian premier Malinoff's peace offer
is against the wishes Of King Ferdi-
nand and the Teutonic alliance. Ger
man newspapers demand that Malinoff
be dismissed Immediately and court
martialed for high treason.
German troops are continually firing
or Bulgarians who desert from the bat
tie line, it was officially announced by
the Serbian war Office in the COM
munique received in London.
British cavalry, pushing up the Med
i.erranean coast Of Palestine, have oc-
cupied Haifa and Acre, it is officially
announced in London. The capture of
these ports represents an advance of
60 miles in the present operations. AL
lied troops have reached Es-Salt.
French cavalry operating to the
northeast of Monastir, in Macedonia,
have captured the town Of Prilep, ac-
cording to an official statement issued
In London. Prilep was the chief base
OF one of the Bulgarian armies.
Domestic
Lieut.. f. N. Carlson of Lodi, Ill.,, was
seriously injured and two airplnnes OF
squadron of, eight machines from
Ellington field. Houston. were badly
damaged and one virtually demolished
at Philipsburg Tex.
Charles S. Mellen of Stockbridge
former president of the New York
New Haven & Hartford Railroad com.
pany, testified in probate court al
Pittsfield, Mass, that his wife, Mrs
Katherine Mellen, struck him twice
with a marble egg.
A call for the mobilization Of all the
gold in the United States and for a
campaign against boarding, which is
attributed to German propaganda, was
given to the national bankers of the
nation at Chicago.b by w. p. G. Harding
governor Of the federal reserve board
who spoke before the national bank
section of the American Bankers as
ISOLATION at the Congress hotel.
-
Directors Of the Pacific Mills mott
fed the New England Liberty LOAF
committee at Boston that the corpora
ton would take s1.5oo,0oO in bonds.