Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-11-07

ond American infantry regiment went
into action on the Piave river front
in Italy last Wednesday.
A Berlin report says General Won
Lossberg has succeeded General Lud-
endorff. Lossberg was in 1917 chief
to Won Armin, commander-in-chief in
Flanders.
Announcement has been made thaN
since the beginning of the war British
troops have taken 327, 416 enemy COM
Blatant prisoners, including 264,242
Germans.
General Billiards. Second American
field army is holding the line in the
Woevre sector, General Pershing has
announced in his reports to the War
department.
President Wilson has approved the
plans of the United War Work socie-
ties to raise $25OOOG,OOo instead of
S1TO,O00OOo during the campaign
which opens Nov. IL.
Prisoners taken by the allied forces
in their offensive on the Piave river
numbered more than $4,000 up to last
Thursday. More than 800 guns had
been captured.
An appeal has been made to Gov
ernor Burnquist for physicians and
nurses to aid in checking the spread
of Spanish influenza among the resi-
dents of fire-swept northeastern Min
nesota.
The slow departure of citizens of
the lower Rhineland in Germany,
which began when the first allied
bombs hit Cologne. has developed into
a panic fight, according to advices
reaching London.
Adjutant General Lasher Of Iowa
has received word from the provost
marshal general that the call for
4,154 Iowa men to report to Camp
Dodge November IL is suspended I'M
til further notice.
The army Y. M. G. A. maintains ten
buildings at Camp Dodge, la. At one
of these buildings, 10000 sheets of
writing paper and $4,000 envelopes
We're given to the soldiers in a single
week, just recently.
Steady improvement in health con-
ditions at army camps and canton
ments for the week ending October 20,
is noted in the health report made
public at the Office of the surgeon
general at Washington.
The Austro-Hungarian government
has sent another note to President Will
son asking that immediate negotia-
tons for peace and an armistice be
entered into without awaiting the re-
suits of the exchanges with Germany.
Over 10000 Austrian troops, includ-
ing 500 officers, hundreds of guns and
innumerable machine guns We're cap
tured by Italian and allied forces on
the Italian front during the past few
days said an official dispatch from
Rome.
se. TN, 4l,o ~ nj; I
panic, it is reliably reported, and big
German banks have called upon the
populace not to withdraw deposits
and not to hoard currency notes. But
the rush on the banks has grown
worse daily
After a conference between the food
administration, packers, stock produc-
ers and commission men, at Washing
ton. an agreement was signed which
calls for a minimum of $3.50 hun
| dred for hogs during the month of No.
vember. This is based on the Chicago
market.
l III lSSSuI IEutlIS ttIOuHu
! General Liggett's first American army
| has taken seventy-five and hall
square miles of heavily wooded terri
tory, including 43O ravines and forty
towns, all heavily defended by ma
| chine gun nests.
Turkey has surrendered to the en-
tente allies and an armistice agreed
upon provides that the allies occup,
! Turkish ports; opening of the Darda
nelles and Bosphorus and the releas,
of British prisoners. Other drasti,
terms We're imposed on the Ottoman
4 government.
4 In answer to Austria's announce
ment that she was ready to evacuat,
Italian territory, Italy officially reptile,
that the offer has come too late, ant
that Italians, will endeavor to driv'
the Austro- Hungarians from Italian