Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-11-26
NEWS OF THE DAY

Bosnia and Herzegovina, which
were annexed by Austria some years
40 now want to reioin Serbia.
British mine sweepers have clear
cd the passage to Kiel for the war
shin squadron. Wilhelmshaven Will
next be inspected BY them.
President Wilson will receive
royal welcome when he arrives IN
rova] welcome when he arrives IN
London. Elaborate plans are beng
,oadc to make his visit a memorape
one.
Concentrating the coming Of peace
and the centennial CT its missionary
activity, the Methodist Episcopal
Church and the Methodist Episcopal
Church South will hold "a worlds
fair of Methodism" at Columbus,
Ohio from June 20 to July II, 1919.
The counter revolutionary move
n5ent in Austria is progressing 70
such an extent that the national
council has placarded the streets
warning the public against it. 1t IS
said the monarchists are resortmg
TO all kinds of methods to excite as
+rust Of the council and trying to
fr;ohten the people by the prospect
of allied occupation.
II Is estimated that there are 6O,-
mn cases of influenza in Porto Kco'
MANY towns are without doctors or
nurses. and in many instances drug
stores are closed. owing to illness OF
pharmacists. The suffering N the
rural communities is reported to De
intense. There have been many
deaths as a result of the epldenaic'
A campaign for the election OF
Gen. John j. Pershing, commander
in chief of the American EXpedltlon-
,rv Forces in France, to the Presl-
aenev in 1920, was formally launched
in Ohio Yesterday by the incorpora-
t;on of "The Pershing Republican
League" Former United States
Senator Charles Dick, Of Akron and
fourteen other prominent Repuoh-
cans Of Akron, and Summit Counties
are sponsors for the movement.
First units of the American eXpe-
dictionary forces to return from over
seas are expected to arrive IN New
York about the end of the present
week. General March, chief Of staff.
announced last night that $50 Off
GERS and 6,614 men, 6,996 in all, OF
the air service, and other detach-
ments training in England now are
homeward bound on the Minnehaha,
Lapland and Orca, British liners.
The first two ships left Liverpool
last Friday, and the Orca sailed on
Saturday.
"The German people have had
enough of war. They will never per-
NIT their government to get them IN
to another war;" said DR.. FREDERICK
Albert, former attache to the Chill
can Legation in Berlin, who arrived
Yesterday at New York on the
steamship Hollandia from Holland.
"FoodstufFs were very scarce" he
said. "The bread allowance was
down to four pounds week for each
person, and was black, stale and un-
palatable. Meat was almost impos-
sible to obtain, and people were a.
lowed only three quarters of an ounce
of butter a week.
Describing a cruise around the
surrendered German ships before
their departure from the Firth of
Forth for their place of internment
in the Scapa Flow, a correspondent
says the ships were in such condition
that they looked like vessels laid by
for breaking up purposes. They ap-
parently had not been painted for
more than two years. Tunnels and
bridges We're covered with rust and
the masts were blackened with SCOT,
On all of the ships except the Der
finger crews lounged about. paying
no attention to their officers. The
men looked miserable and drenched