The Ordway new era., 1919-10-17
FOREIGN

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Of Dvinsk, between Old Russia and Po-
land
A commission OF German experts
who have visited the mines of north
ern France which were devasted dur
ing the war, believes that 1t will take
from two to eight years to restore
them to their former condition.
General Won der Goltz, commander OF
German forces In the Baltic provinces,
whose activities there have recently
led to sharp exchanges between the al
lied powers and Germany, has, with
his staff. Joined the Russian Bolshe-
vik forces, according to a Berlin dis
patch.
The German reply to the allied note
demanding the withdrawal of General
Won der Goltz's troops from the Baltic
provinces was discussed by the Su-
preme Council at the resumption of its
meetings. 1t was considered unsatis-
factory and Marshal Foch WAS in
strncted to draw up new note to send
the Germans
Capt. Andre Tardieu, member of the
French Peace Commission, speaking at
a meeting of the French-American
Club at Paris, gave interesting figures
on the reconstruction work accom-
plished since the armistice. Sixty
thousand of the $4,000 houses in the
battle area wrecked by shell fire have
been rebuilt; 2,O16 kilometers of the
3,246 kilOmeters of railway destroyed
have been repaired and 700 OF the
1875 kilometers of canals rendered
useless In the course of the hostilities
are again in commission. OF the ,160
plants destroyed by the enemy 5s8
have been repaired. Equally remark
able progress Is being made In restor-
ing to civilization the vast areas in
the devastated regions which, at the
end of the war. embraced 4.5O0,OOO
acres. or this approximately 1,OOO,OOO
acres have been returned to the farm
ers and 100000 acres Of II are ready
for the seed.
GENERAL
Henry Mills Alden, editor of Harp
er's Magazine since 1869, died ut his
home in New York after II long illness.
He was 81 years old.
Serbia has enfranchised its women,
according to cable advices by Mrs.
Carrie Chapman Gait, president of the
National Woman Suffrage Association.
Suit to test the constitutionality of
the war time prohibition law was filed
in federal District Court at Louisville,
KY, by Attorneys Levey Mayer of Chi
cago and Marshall Bullitt of Louisville.
An attempt was made to wreck the
plant of the American Sheet and Tin
plate Company ut Mckeesport, when a
missile believed to have been bomb
was thrown on the shipping depart
ment building. 1t exploded, tearing a
large hole in the roof of the structure.
Six men We're reported killed and
five are said by the police to be dying
as the result of boiler explosion on
delphia. The killed and injured were
members of the crew. Several others
We're badly burned. The vessel was
getting up steam to depart for Mexico
when the accident occurred.
Heavily increased use of sugar in
candy, soft drinks, ice cream and other
luxuries In the United States during
the first nine months of 1919 1t was
announced in New York, by the Unit
ed States Sugar Equalization Board,
means that such over Indulgence in
sweets must now be curtailed in some
sections of the East for the next three
months"
The spring wheat crop was forecast
at 203, 10000 bushels by the crop esti-
mate bureau of the Agriculture Depart
ment, as compared with n harvest of
35S, ,651 900 bushels in 1918. This indi-
Gates n decrease of 4,S79,OOO bushels
since the forecast of Sept. 10. The to-
tai forecast. of all wheat was given as
91S,417, 900. Other crop forecasts We're !:
Cotton. 10,S96OOO bales; corn, $780,
OO0. 600 bushels, and oats, 1,219,52 900
bushels
The Aero Club of America and the
Aerial League of America have an
nounced the appointment of commits
sion to arrange for the aerial derby
around the world to be held in 1920.
The commission which is to arrange
the air race is composed of Commo
dore Louis B. beaumont, president; +;
Maj Charles ]. Glidden, executive sec
rotary, and Benjamine Hillman. The
members will leave New York Oct. 10th
for trip around the world to arrange
for the race, and will sail from San
Francisco Nov. Bird.
Two men lost their lives and another
narrowly escaped death when he was
cut off from land at the end of IL
burning pier, and property worth ST.
100000 was destroyed in fire that
swept the plant of the Standard Guano
Company NJ Curtis bay, Md. The
bodies of the dead men, both negro EN-
ployes, are buried in the debris. The
man caught on the end of the pier was
taken off by n tug, the master of
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