, 1918-10-17
FOREIGN

has been elected king of Finland by
the Finnish landtag.
A party of American editors, who
sailed Sept. &c as the guests of the
ministry of information, have arrived
safely at a British port.
Navigation on the Yukon river has
closed for the winter. Every steamer
leaving Dawson is crowded with Klon-
dixie residents bound outside.
Flight Lieut.. Fritz Rumey of the
German army. who claimed forty-four
air victories, has been killed, accord
ing to the Lokal Anzelger of Berlin.
A Berne dispatch to the Daily News
said it is understood that the Turkish
cabinet has fallen. The dispatch said
there Is great excitement in Constan-
tinople.
Writing in the London Daily News,
Gen. Sir Frederick Maurice declared
that since the second battle of the
Marine the Germans have lost zoe
in prisoners and have suffered casual
ties totaling 1000, 900 men.
Vienna and Budapest newspapers in
terpret the ministerial changes at Con
stantinople as preparation to surren-
der. 1t is reported that Turkey will
give a guarantee of her good faith by
opening the Dardanellss.
In 1914 the population of France was
SO, SOC. 200, and at the beginning of the
war the excess of births over deaths
was about $4,000 annually. In 1916 the
deaths in the civilian population to-
tailed 700, 900, INT in the military
forces 400, 900, a total of LOO, 900.
In addition to the thousands of Bull
garians made prisoner during the al
lied advance in Serbia INT Bulgaria,
$4,000 more have surrendered in &C
cordance with the clause of the armIs-
tice convention under which all Bull
garian troops west of Uskub were IN
surrender as prisoners.
Discussing the ultimate peace terms,
the London newspapers refer with in
dignation to he outrages still per-
sisted in by the r%etreating Germans
and unanimously demand reparation
and punishment for these latest
crimes, as well as for other outrages
committed during the war.
Investigation by the dominion police
has revealed hat revolutionary asso-
Citations have been formed in at least
twenty industrial centers throughout
Canada, according to a statement by
C.. H. Calm, director Of public safety.
These organizations are carrying on
active propaganda seeking to organize
Socialists and foreign elements in ia
vor of an international peace at any
price, he declared.
SPORT
Seventy-five football men are out
daily for football practice at the Uni
versity of Utah.
Lieut.. jefferson Hayes Davis, grand
son or the president of the Southern
Confederacy, who is in the aviation
corps in France recently fell 1,50O feet
and was u%ninjured.
The boxing bout between Ritchey
Mitchell, Milwaukee, and Sailor Freed
man, Chicago. scheduled for Milwau-
kee, vas postponed Indefinitely on ac-
count of the order closing places of
amusement because of Spanish influ-
enZa.
GENERAL
An influenza epidemic which start
gees from the shell plant explosion at
Morgan has spread until there are
5000 ase
During last week the allies captured
more than $500 prisoners, it was es-
timated Friday. Their total captures
since July IS now amount to mor
than 100000.
Secretary of State Lansing. in an
address at Auburn, N. Y, declared
his period of the wal to be the "be-
ginning of the end" He spoke at a
dinner in celebration of the one hun
dredth anniversary of Auburn Theo-
logical Seminary.
T~hirty-five bodies have been taken
from the ruins OF the T. A. Gillespie
Loading Company plant at Morgan, N.
j., destroyed by explosions.
During fifteen successive days re-
Gently the British artillery hurled
more than 10000 ton of shells a day
upon the enemy, according to a state
ment by Winston Spencer Churchill,
the minister of munitions at London
Between 100 n 1900 lives were
lost in the sinking of three vessels by
U-boats reported Oct. 10. From the
Ticonderoga, a ship in the United
States transport service, $40 persisted;
600 were drowned from the Leinster,
In the British mail service, while 300
were lost from the Japanese steamship
Horano Maru, bound from a British
port to Japan.
An American bombing expedition.
consisting of more than $50 machines,
dropped thirty-two IONS OF explosives
on German environments In the area
between Wavrille and Damvillers,
about twelve miles north of Verdun.
Tho machines were given