Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1919-04-10
WORLDS NEWS IN TABLOIDS

The South African parliament at
Capetown adopted the woman suffrage
bill, A to AZ.
The prince of Wales made a flight
in an airplane over London. The trip
lasted an hour.
Josef Pohania, minister Of war In
the Hungarian soviet government at
Budapest. has resigned.
Six hundred Irish-American soldiers
arrived at Dublin from HOlyhead. 1t
was their first opportunity to visit Ire
land during the war.
A Santiago, Chile, dispatch says
Lieutenant Cortinez, in British air.
plane, flew over the Andes mountains
at height of $4,000 feet.
Four sailors are reported to have
been killed as the result of an explo-,
sion On board the submarine chaser
No. 2O5 near Key West, Fla.
iThree armed automobile bandits at
Cleveland, O., held up and robbed the
paymaster O. the Cleveland Neckwear
company of 81, 1000 and escaped.
AT a meeting of returned soldiers
held in the exhibition grounds at Bris-
bane, Australia, 10000 volunteers were
enrolled as an army to fight disloyalty.
King Albert, returning from con-
ference with the allied peace delegates
in Paris, arrived in Brussels by air.
plane, according to advices at Lon
don.
Rioting has occurred at Delhi, max
ing necessary Intervention by govern
ment troops, who charged into the RI
oting mobs, according to a Bombay
dispatch.
Unconfrmed reports reaching Am
sterdam from Budapest via Vienna
state the Hungarian soviet govern
ment has been overthrow. No details
are given.
Regulations limiting General Per.
shing's authority over court-martial
proceedings abroad, to which the gen.
'eral objected, have been revoked by
Washington.
The vanguard of Admiral Mayo's
fleet, arrived at New York when the
destroyers Ammen, Beale,' Barrows,
Drayton, Paulding and Terry, from
southern waters, passed in at quaran-
tine.
Vice Admiral William S. Sims, who
directed American wartime operations
in European waters and who arrived
in London two years ago, arrived at
New York on the British liner Maure-
tania.
The first Of the three navy flying
boats entered for the flight across the
Atlantic is scheduled to leave the air
station at Rockaway near New York.
April IA. A nonstop flight will be at
tempted.
Mayor Thompson's plurality, the
only instance in the citys history of
the reelection of a Republican mayor
or Of Chicago, was 1882. The total
vote cast for him was 259, 1928; men.
1921, women, 98,5O7.
Figures made public by the war de-
partment at Washington show that
from the signing Of the armistice to
March &c, l, 535,471 Of the 3,67O,8S8 Of
ficers and men under arms when the
war ended had been discharged from
the service.
A London dispatch says four hun
dred airplanes are now supplying food
from Mfurmansk to the American and
British forces on the extreme Arch
angel front, because communications
are cut, according to the latest reports
from that area. The distance is 400
miles.
The military authorities at Berlin
began disarming the Empress Angus
: ia regiment, which had become infect.
ed with Spartacan ideas. The regi'
ment, which repeatedly had shown it.
self untrustworthy, resisted an at
tempt to convert it into a unit Of the
national defense force.
Large numbers of drafted men who
have been looking forward to early
rehabilitation are doomed to disap-
pointment. Many are to be kept in
service for the full period allowed by
law, which is four months after peace
has been declared. The war depart
ment at Washington desires to keep
these men in service until a satisfac-
tory number of enlistments have been
obtained under the general staff plan
of increasing the regular army to
100000 men.