Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-12-17
NEWS OF THE DAY

Five persons were killed and forty
wounded in Spartacus riots at Ores
den, capital of Saxony, it is learned
from Berlin.
The Bolsheviki government is
eyacuating Petrograd. 1t plans to
take refuge at Nijni-Novgorod. Mi
-Ncygorod lies 600 miles southeast
Of Petrograd.
The Amsterdam TELEGRAPH says
the former Kaiser has refused to
to heed official Dutch representations
that his presence is likely to involve
Holland in difficulties with the al
lies.
President Wilson's Empire" bed
lis too short, but he is sleeping in it,
nevertheless. The custodian of The
Murat palace did not want to change
it owing to the fact that none OF
the other beds match the Napoleon!c
fittings in the room.
Four aviators were killed at West
Point, Miss, in a collision between
two airplanes at Payne Field yester-
day. The collision occurred 300 feet
in the air. The killed were Lieut..
Alvin w. splant. Oil City, Pa.;~Lieut.
Fred Synnestbadt, Pittsburgh, Pa;
Private Fred P. James, Litchfeld,
Hi, and Private Guy c. Wells, Rey-
noldsville, Pa.
Poland has severed relations with
Germany, according to telegram
received in Berlin from Warsaw. Pc
land, as reason for the rupture,
accuses the German authorities IN
occupied provinces Of acting contrary
with the bolsheviki. At the request
of the Polish government, Governor
General Won Beseler and the entire
staff Of the German mission will leave
the territory of the Polish republic.
Mexicans at Ell Paso, Texas, say
that Gen. Felip Angeles with small
group of officers crossed the Rio
Grande into Mexico, fifty miles
southeast of here, Sunday, TO lead the
proposed coalition revolt against the
Carranza government. The rebel
candidate for President is said to be
DIR. Vasquez Gomez. The revolu-
ton is in hope of obtaining recruits
among the Villistas.
Slight disorders occurred in Con-
xtantinople last week, according to
\ dispatch from the Turkish capital
to the Embros. A Greek sailor was
killed in front of the Mosque of st.
Sophia, and detachment of Anglo
Greek troops was sent to the scene
and restored order. At another time
Turkish patrol attacked some
French sailors, two of the seamen
being killed. Greek units have been
debarked to protect the Greek lega-
ton at Constantinople.
Coal, S160 ton; wood, $40 per
ton; milk, 50 per pint. These are
prevalent prices in Venice. 1t is
impossible to procure petroleum; rice
cannot be purchased at all; twenty
days of each month are BUTTERFLIES;
mncaroni is issued at the rate of one
pound per day per person and may
be eaten only five days each week.
The Italians normally consumed one
pound of macaroni per person at
each meal.
Plunging to the ground from a
distance of about 400 feet, Carl B.
Smith, an aerial pilot, was instantly
killed at Elizabeth, N. j., at the avia-
ton field of the Standard Aircraft
Corporation yesterday. Smith was
driving a Haviland plane and was
pinned under the machine when it
crashed to the earth. The exact
cause Of the accident is not known.
Smith was 80 years old and his home
was in Brockton, Mass.
The Montenegro assembly has
voted King Nicholas deposed, and
ordered that Montenegro be united
with Serbia, according to advices to
the State Department yesterday. The
government of Montenegro, however,
contradicts the information which
came through the Committee for
National Unity of Montenegro, and
states that the assembly is non-exist-
emit and that it's reported action can
have no legality.
Charles Lewis, a discharged negro
soldier, who is alleged to have at
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