The Colorado statesman., 1918-12-21

All EhBhsh spiduiph Dpihp''iNN
Bolsehvist positions along the south
srn coast of the Gulf of Finland.
Czech forces have occupied Karls-
bad, il is reported at Amsterdam.
Karlsbad is situated near Prague in
Bohemia.
approximately 10000 American
troops have arrived at Coblenz since
the advance guard reached there
week ago.
Field Marshal Won Mackensen, com
mander of the German forces in Ru-
mania, has been interned by the Hun
garian government.
The situation in Smyrna is critical,
according to dispatches from Mitylene.
Young Turk officials have posted
armed bands in the town and these
have been bombarded by the allied
fleets.
General Pershing cabled the War
Department that practically complete
reports of deaths in action among the
expeditionary forces should reach the
department by Dec. 20 and of severely
wounded by Dec. 27.
The American dreadnought fleet of
ten ships which escorted President
Wilson into port at Brest, Friday,
sailed Saturday for New York The
fleet is expected tc reach it's destina-
tion before Christmas
The German armistice has been eX-
tended until o'clock on the morning
OF Jan. II and the Allies have notified
Germany that they reserve the right
TO occupy the neutral zone east of the
Rhine from the Cologne bridgehead
to the Dutch frontier
Italy, with population of only &C.,
10000, and with 100000 men called
to the colors, suffered approximately
100000 casualties in the war, Gen.
Emilio Gugliemetti. military attache OF
the Italian War Mission, announced
in an address at a Red Cross rally in
New York.
Demobilization of the military
forces at home is gaining momentum,
General March, chief of staff. an
nounced in Washington with approx
mately half of the 100000 men in
the home camps on Nov. II specifi-
cally designated for early discharge.
Reports to the War Department., Gen
eral March said, indicate rate of
discharge of about $4,000 men a day.
w STERN
The Butte, Mont. board of health re-
moved all restrictions that have been
on due to the epidemic of influenza.
Hundreds of Indians on reservations
in Montana have died of influenza and
pneumonia according to reports re-
ceived at various agencies.
Duluth and Superior elevator re-
ceipts of all grains for the 1918 navi-
CATION season aggregated S5,149,500
bushels, as compared with 27 200
bushels during the same period last
year.
Two thousand Navajo Indians. resid-
ing on that part of the reservation in
Apache county, Arz.. under the juris-
diction of Fort Defiance, have died
from influenza, according to f. Robins,
chief clerk of the Navajo agency at
Fort Defiance
WASHINGTON
Carter Glass of Virginia was sworn
in as secretary of the treasury.
Vice President Marshall presided
over the regular cabinet meeting
again.
Gloomy reports of the situation in
Russia, particularly at Petrograd, con
tinue to reach the State Department.
The fuel administration announced
that the oil industry has bee masked to
suspend its plan to stabilize prices of
crude oil.
Four ships have been assigned to
the overseas cotton trade. and five
others to trade routes along the east
coast of South America.
The danger of relaxing efforts to
check the spread of influenza was en-
phasized again by Surgeon General
Blue of the public health service.
villa bandits raided the ranch of an
in northern Mexico, Dec. g. according
TO a report to the State Department.
The Bulgarians continue to mistreat
the Greek and Serbians who were
taken to Bulgaria during the war, ac-
cording to information reaching the
semi-official Athens news agency.
The resignation of E. p. Bass as di-
rector of the marine and dock indus
trial relations division of the shipping
board has been accepted, effective
Jan. l.
A huge winter wheat crop, larger by
S0000,000 bushels than any yield in
the history of American agriculture,
was forecast by the Department of Ag-
riculture.
All questionnaires which have been
liiled out and returned to local draft
boards are to be kept as historical rec
ords in War Department vaults in
Washington.