The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-03-14
WORLDS NEWS IN TABLOlDS

Commander Il. @. BlakeSlac, aid
de-camp to Admiral Sims, is dead at
London of pneumonia.
An Athens dispatch says Greek
troops now occupy Kherso1. 81 miles
northeast of Odessa, on the Dniester
river, in southern Russia.
George +. Edmunds, former United
States senator from Vermont, died at
Pasadena, Cal, following a long illness.
He was ninety-one years old.
The transports Wilhekmina, Ulua
and Caserta arrived at New York
from French ports with 4,496 veterans
of the American expeditiORary forces.
Despite strong opposition from the
socialists who raised the cry of
''militarism' the bill providing for a
national army OF defense" has
passed second reading at WeNnar.
The house at Washington formally
voted discharged soldiers, sailors and
marines ownership of their uniforms
when the conference report on the uni
form bill was adopted without a record
vote.
An Archangel dispatch says boil
shevik troops Monday attempted a
counter-attack against she newly
gained positions Of the allies on the
Murmansk front, but were repulSed
with heavy losses.
a Copenhagen dispatch says German
government troops occupied he town
Of Hamborn, in the Ruhr industrial re-
gion, after a fight in which a number
Of Spartacans were killed. The gov
eminent troops captured IL prisoners.
The present minimum price Of $3.50
Il hundred pounds for hogs will be con-
tinued until n decision is made by
President Wilson at Washington re-
garding the existing embargoes on pork
affecting ncutrals and other countries.
A Copenhagen dispatch says the
RiZau agency say it learns that Nor
man HapgOOd Of New York has been
appointed American minister to DEN
mark, in succession to DR.. Maurice
Egan, who resigned last year on ac-
count Of ill health.
The senate naval committee at
Washington without a vote, ordered
the $72O,O0O, 900 naval appropriation
bill ~favorably reported to the senate.
By a party vote of s to 6 the COM
mittee approved the new building pro-
gram, the Republicans opposing.
The war department at Washington
Onnnr,nnnI tho Saifnu frn,p Fvnnnn nf
IL transports, bringing In all about
$50 officers and 5000 men. Among the
units on board are the machine gun
battalions and divisional troops for
merly attached to the Eighty-seventh
division.
II is necessary to hold the Dutch
army ready against any effort to annex
Dutch territory, the Dutch minister of
war declared in an address 10 the sec
.ond chamber, according to a Central
News dispatch from The Hague. He
said that disarmament at present
would be dangerous.
Senator Lodge in q speech at Wash
ingtOn urged the American people to.
weigh carefully the constitution of the
league of nations and to insist. upon it's
fundamental revision. He insisted that
as now drafted he constitution would
annul the Monroe doctrine and be OF
benefit to Europe only.
a Warsaw dispatch says y persons
were killed in Pransk by thee Germans
before they evacuated the town. Vii
lagos along the railway from BLly-
stok to Brest LitOvsk are being burned
and pillaged by them. Horses worth
$25O,OOO,O00 have been stolen from
Lithuania by the Germans.
III the sanctuary OF England's hon
ored dead, Westminster Abbey, ut
London, where kings, statesmen and
poets lie i'm their eternal sleep, there
assembled the most notable person
ages in the British empire to witness
the marriage of Princess Patricia Of
Connaught to Commander Alexander
Ramsay, of the Royal navy.
A Basel dispatch says seventeen per-
sons, including Maj. Gen. Alexander
Won Szurmay, former minister of ma
tional defense; Joseph Szyerenyi, for
mer minister of commerce, and Herr
Methien and Herr Somich, former
members of the Hungarian cabinet, are
under arrest at Budapest charged with