Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1919-04-24
WORLDS NEWS IN TABLoIDs

Secretary of the Navy Josephus
Daniels, en- route to Coblenz, crossed
the Meuse at Coblenz into the occupied
sections of Germany. M
w. l. Capen, vice president of the
Postal Telegraph Cable company, died
| at his home at Mount Vernon, N. Y.
He was sixty five years old.
/ A Paris dispatch says Hugh s. Glib
son, secretary of the American embas-
sy in Paris. has been appointed as the
first minister of the United States to
Poland.
An American military mission ar
rived at Berne to study the Swiss mill
itary system. with the object of intro
ducing it in the United States in modi-
| fed form.
Eighteen hundred persons. including
| 400 women, were murdered by the boil
| sheviki at Ufa, according to telegram
! from Omsk received In official quarters
at London.
In it's effort to break the strike Of
girl operators the Springfield (Mass.)
branch of the New England Telephone
anu Telegraph company is using high
school boys.
A Weimar special says the German
cabinet has unanimously decided to
take a referendum on peace If the
terms deviate from President Wilson's
fourteen points.
DIR. Adolph Muller, German minister
to Switzerland, and one of the mem
bers of the German delegation to the
peace conference, is ill, according to a
Berlin dispatch.
A Coblenz dispatch says the Thirty
second division (Wisconsin-Ai ichigan
National Guard) started moving back
across the Rhine Friday, homeward'
bound via Brest.
Andrew Curry, an aviation instruc-
tor, and an unidentified pupil were
killed when their plane went into a
tail spin" and fell in residence sec-
ton of Venice, Cal.
Daniel G. Roper, commissioners OF
internal revenue believes that con-
gress will pass an enabling act for the
enforcement Of wartime prohibition,
effective July /, according to state
ment made at Louisville, Ky.
Two more divisions Of japanese
suppress revolutionary uprislngs, ac-
cording to cablegram received at
San Francisco by the Japanese Ameri-
can, newspaper from Tokyo.
A Paris dispatch says military ex-
perts under the direction of Marshal
Foch have been charged with the
drafting of a report on what should be
done in the event that Germany re-
fuses to sign the treaty of peace.
The treasury department at Wash
ington announced the establishment Of
new credits for allies as follows:
Great Britain, s1OO,OOO,OOO; Roumania,
$5,0OO,OOO, and Serbia, $685. This
raised the total loans of all the allies
( to lbs, 800, 600.
A small American scouting party OPP
Grating in front of the allied positions
along the railway front, near Archan-
gel, surprised and ambushed bolshe-
vik patrol in the forest four miles
east of the railway, wounding num-
Der Of the enemy.
More than $16,OOOOOO worth Of re-
turned checks are now In the hands OF
the war risk bureau at Washington,
many Of them marked unknown or
unclaimed" as the result of the fall
ure of allottees to notify the bureau
of changed addresses.
Belgium's war damages, for which
It is contended an indemnity should be
collected from Germany, are placed at
$1,000, 100000 in report made by the
central industrial committee at Brus-
sells, which has completed an investi-
cation of the subject.
Transports will be operated in and
out Of New York harbor "if it requires
the entire United States navy" 1t was
stated officially at Washington in con-
nection with plans of harbor workers
to start a strike, with the announced
intention Of tying up traffic.
A Zurich dispatch says the former
German crown princess. Cecilie. has
taken steps to divorce her husband,
Frederick William, according to
statement given to Swiss newspapers
by the former Grand Duchess AnaSta-