The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1918-12-27
WORLDS NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD

A London dispatch says the ehtire
Portuguese cabinet has resigned.
Poland has severed relations with
Germany, according 70 Il telegram re-
ceived in Berlin from Warsaw.
A German suspected of being a p
was arrested In the n"eighDorhood vi
President Wilson's Paris residence.
A Hamburg dispatch says fifteen IN
termed British merchant ships nave
been released and sent TO England.
Admiral Cahtony Castro has been
elected president of Portugal, In sue
cession 10 DR.. Sidonio Paes. who was
aSsaSsiIated at Lisbon.
\ Stockholm dispatch says Prof.
Herjoe Him and DR.. Adolph loerJ-
gren, selected rs Finnish peace dele
gates, will leave soon for Paris.
n London dispatch says Lord Hugh
Cecil and Rowland Il. Prothero, Tho
coalition candidates, were declared
elected to the house Of for
the two seats of oxford university.
An Amsterdam dispatch says a gen.
erai strike was called in Berlin. Ad-
vices from the frontier early in the day
said that 100000 workers he'd gone out
and that only two newspapers were
published.
Earl Dear and Albert Johnson, both
Of Chicago, convicted Of murder as au-
tOmobile bandits, will die on the gal
lows February Z. The supreme court
ut Springfield affirmed the sentence Of
he lower court.
All Paris is talking Of the call paid
President Wilson by Marshal Foch.
The great stategist appeared in a
much-worn blue uniform, adorned by
none of his decorations, and wearing
an old forage cap.
The supreme military tribunal al
Vienna has announced that 11,400 per-
ons were sentenced to death by Aus
TRAN military tribunals during the war
and executed. according to a Berlin
dispatch to the Amsterdam Handles.
blad.
Legislation authorizing increase OF
the permanent enlisted strength of the
" ioI,ooo ill'h " -It W
recommended to the house naval af-
fairs committee at Washington by
Capt. II. Laning, acting chief of the
bureau of navigation.
An Athens dispatch says the situa-
ton in Smyrna is extremely critical,
according to newspaper dispatches
from Mitylene. Young Turk officials
have posted armed bands at various
places about the town and these have
been bombarded by the allies fleets.
General Pershing notified the war
department at Washington that he
had designated for early convoy home
a number of additional units, includ.
ing the Twenty-seventh engineers and
the Three Hundred and FOrty-sixth
field artillery in all about 4,5OO OFF,
GERS and men.
A correspondent with the Americans
across the Rhine says the Third army
now occupies a strip of Germany con.
tanning more than 4,50O square miles.
several hundred villages and operating
hundreds Of miles of railroads and
street car lines.
Four men were killed in an air.
plane collision near West Point, Miss.
They are Lieuts. Alvin w. Splane Of
Oil City, Pa, and Fred Synnestvedt Of
Pittsburgh, Pa, flying instructors Of
Payne field, and Private Fred p.
James Of Litchfield, H., and Guy c..
Wells of Reynoldsville, H., of Bowen
field.
A dispatch from American army
headquarters says men in German mill
tary uniforms are not to be allowed
within the American area Of occupa-
ton after December Is, unless they are
on duty and are provided with written
permission Of the American military
authorities, according to a proclama-
ton issued by Col. j. c. Rhea, chair
man Of the American bridgehead com
miSStOu