, 1918-11-07

erty loan quota it started on its uuited
war work campaign and went over the
top.
Rehabilitation of the American
force in France will require a period
of two years after peace is declared,
according to a statement made at New
York by Gen. Il. Coleman Du Pont,
just back from n two months visit to
the western front.
An average wage increase of 81 a
day has been granted anthracite coal
miners by Fuel Administrator Garfield,
effective November 1. In some in
stances the Increase is below this
figure and In others far above it. The
81 average is described as very general
| WASHINGTON.
Draft calls for the mobilization OF
290,773 additional men at army train
ing camps before November 81 were
announced Saturday by Provost MAJ.
shall General Crowder.
Congress seems at last about to make
the Grand Canyon of Arizona a ma
tional park. For years the canyon has
been quite generally regarded as a
park, but officially it is u section of two
national forests, u game refuge and a
national monument.
Three and a half million tons of
coal have been saved in the past six
months by Industrial plants which have
adopted the conservation recommended
lions of the fuel administration.
Orders for 5000, 900, 1000 cigarets
enough to provide two smokes for
every person in the world, have been
placed by the wal department to sup
ply American soldiers for the balance
of the year.
Prosecution of the three army Off
GERS held by Charles e. Hughes in his
report on the aircraft investigation to
be guilty of dealing with corporations
in which they were financially inter-
ested is to be started without delay.
Announcement from London that an
arm!stice with Turkey, which permits
passage of allied warships through the
~Dardanelles, already is in operation led
naval officers at Washington TO believe
that an allied fleet, if it has not already
started soon will pass through to the
Black sea to attack the German naval
forces there.
FOREIGN.
An armistice has been signed with
Austria, and thus Germany loses her
last supporter. The surrender of Aus
tria leaves the road open from the
south, and with the continued sue
cesses OF the western front, final vic
tory owe Germany may come soon.
There are 1900 Austrian and Ger
man prisoners in Siberian camps, say
a semiofficial announcement. Besides,
many who deserted the concentration
camps when the Bolsheviki gained the
political control in Russia have not re-
turned.
Substituting olive oil for lard and
sweet condensed milk for sugar util-
izing an abandoned German kitchen,
and in one instance making a bonfire
in a field, three American. won en- on
the st. Mihiel front have been frying
10000 d%oughnuts a day.
Valenciennes was captured by the
British on November 2, releasing thous.
ands of residents who had been in
bondage for four years.
Dozens of trunks bearing the royal
Hohenzollern monogram have been ar
irving in the past week at the luxur-
ious chateau named "Buchas" on the
Lake Of Zug. The chateau, which is
flying the German flag, is the property
of Baron Won Kleist, a German.
Italian and allied forces in their
drive in northern Italy have captured
100000 Austro-Hungarians, the italian
war office announced Sunday. More
than 900 guns have been taken.
Marked progress by the Belgian
army is indicated by the latest report
from Belgian headquarters. The Bel
gians have reached the west bank Of
the canal which uns between Client
and Neuzen n a %northerly direction,
and thereby have redeemed n further
large section of that country.
Germany's armies are %unbeaten, ac-
cording to n German divisional staff
officer recently taken prisoner on the
French front, and Gernany's request
for an armistice was the result of the
influence which pessimists have gained
in the government and over the en-
peror.
a MeA., uiSPoteh SoSS '"e
influenza epidemic there is h worst
scourge that has ever visited the city,
nearly 100 death occurring daily.
Mexican federal troops were defeated
by a superior force Of villa followers
forty miles south of the border, accord
ing to a report brought to ojinaga by
a runner sent out by the federal
commander.
An armistice between Turkey and
the entente powers was signed Octo-
Der 30. 1t became operative at noon
October 81. This means that nearly
two million Turks are out of the war,
and a new mi of attack upon
Germany Is opened up.