Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-12-05
FOR THE BUSY MAN !
NEWS EPiToME THAT CAN SOON
De COMPRISED,
MANY EVENTS ARE MENTIONED


Home and Foreign intelligence Cen.
denssd Into Tive, and Four
Line Paragraphs.
American warships are credited
with sinking or capturing ten German
submarines.
British vessels carried 1,OS0.117 Am.
erican troops to England and France
from American ports.
Herbert C. Hoover, the American
food administrator, and Edward N.
Hurley, chairman OF the shipping
board, have arrived in Europe.
The population of Vienna is in
desperate condition from lack of food
and hundreds are perishing duly Of
starvation, according to authentic re-
ports.
The greatest. shipment of mail from
American soldiers in France ever re-
ceived. no less than 100000 letters,
arrived in New York one day last
week.
1t is senli-officially announced in
Berlin the entente powers will prob
ably consider the repeal of the block
ade after consulting with President
Wilson.
Every man between Is and 46 who
has not filed a QUESTIONABLE with his
local draft board is Stacker accord
ing to General Crowder's latest rul-
ing.
It is understood that the German
mission which will take part in the
negotiation of the peace preliminaries
will not he quartered in Paris, but in
the immediate vicinity of the city.
More than 1,5OO.OOO prisoners OF
various ,natiOnalitfes have been re-.
leased by the Germans. according to
estimates based upon reports received
by the American Third army.
A campaign for the election Of Gen.
efal John J. Pershing, commander-in-
chief OF The American expetlitiOnary
forces in France, To the presidency iii
1920 has been launched in Ohio.
Seven steamers which, according to
a London dispatch. will leave LIver-s
pool within the next few days, will
return home practically all of the
American troops now in England.
School children from all parts of
the United States paid tribute to the
memory Of james Whitcomb Riley,
poet. when statue OF the Indiana
writer was unveiled Mt Greenfield,
Ind, birthplace OF Mr.. Riley.
Reduction Of present wage scales in
the United States will be opposed by
the workers, Frank Morrison, secre-
tary of the American Federation Of
Labor. said in statement at Wash
ington. dealing with reconstruction as
1t affects labOr.
Most Of the Germans in the retiring
army. the retreat of which the Amer
leans are following. have shown Gag
erness to return to their homes imme-
diately and engage again in their eli
william occupations, according to re-
ports.
At Berlin meeting of the soldiers
and workmens council, Herr Bsrth,
secretary for social policy in the
Ebert ministry, declared that coun-
ter revolution to restore to power the
old autOcratic regime in Germany was
in full swing.
COMMUNICATING the coming Of peace
and the centennial of it's missionary
activities, the Methodist Episcopal
church and the Methodist Episcopal
church south will hold ga worlds fair
Of Methodism" at Columbus, o., from
June 20 to July IL, 1919.
Although the British government
may be compelled to use virtually all
It's available transports for the return
of it's own and colonial troops ar
rangements for the early Transports
ton homo of 10000 American troops
in British ships have been effected.
William Hohenzollern can be extra
dited, in the opinion of Prof. Barthei-
envy, Of the Paris law faculty, who
explains that his guiding principle is
that when there is an apparent con-
nict between law and common sense
the solution is always found by fol-
lowing the latter.
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