The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-05-09


Newspaper reports crediting Saliva
tore Furzilai member of the Italian
peace delegation who left Paris with
Premier Orlando. with saying that he
lid not intend to return to Paris, are
denied in statement issued from the
Italian delegation at Paris.
Washington i,
President Wilson cabled Tumulty at
Dor program adopted as part of the
treaty Of peace constitutes one of the
most important achievements of the
new day in which the interests of la
Dor are to be Systematically and intel
ligently safeguarded anC promoted"
American cable lines taken over by
the government in November were re-
stored to private ownership and oper-
alton at midnight Friday night by di-
rection of President Wilson.
shortage OF men is ABOUT TO cause
the navy department at Washington
to place the famous battleship Ore
gon out of commission.
Rechecking of army records resulted
during the past week in addition OF
476 names to the list of major casual
ties, the war department at Washing
ton announces, bringing tie total TO
1880 killed in action. died Of wounds
and disease and died from other
causes. The number of prisoners was
reduced to 4,7S6 as result of cOrrec-
tons, and the missing in action re-
duced to 4,293.
A Washington dispatch says two Of
ficers and fourteen men of the crew
of the naval tug Gypsum Queen were
drowned when that vessel struck a
rock and sank near Armen Light, off
the coast of France, on April %, while
returning to Brest after assisting a
fleet of mine sweepers in distress.
Official advices reaching Washing
ton through a neutral source said that
the bolshevik leaders Lenine and
Trotzky were seeking a refuge outside
Russia, fearing possible overthrow
Of the soviet government.
The breaking up of the great Amer
lean army passed the halfway mark.
the war department at Washington an
nounced on April "a, when the total
discharges reached 1,S36,SS3.
Foreign
A report that the bolsheviki had
captured Chenkursk and decapitated
60 American prisoners with axes was
declared by both the British war Of
flee and American headquarters in
London to be untrue.
Josephus Daniels, American secre-
tary of the navy, was the guest of Sir
Eric Geddes, minister without port
folio and former first lord of the ad-
miralty, at luncheon at London.
King Ferdinand of Roumania has
entered Budapest, Hungary, at the
head of his army, it is reported at
Basic.
A London dispatch says the Russian
soviet government has sent an ultima
tum to Roumania demanding the evac-
uation of Bessarabia. A wireless dis
patch from Moscow says that the ROu-
manians are given 4S hours to reply.
Admiral Kolchaks army, driving the
bolsheviki before it southwest OF
Sterlitamak, has advanced almost
ninety miles, according to dispatch
from Omsk dated April "a.
A Paris dispatch says the naval
terms to be embodied in the peace
treaty with Germany, which finally
have been completed, do not provide
for the sinking of the larger German
warships.
The monetary loss in Mondays great
fire at Yokohama is estimated at To-
100000 yen, or approximately S7,47O.-
600 under the prewar rate of exchange.
Thousands of people are homeless.
A San Juan Del Sur dispatch says
revolutionary Costa Rican exiles de-
feated a force of Costa Rican frontier
guards on the Rio FriO, near the
southeastern shore of Lake Nicaragua.
The frontier guards fled. 1t is re-
ported here that other reyOlutionists
have begun an attack along the border
between Costa Rica and Panama.
A Helsingfors dispatch says bolshe-
vik axmeH decapitated 60 American
soldiers at the capture of Shenkurst
in a surprise attack made possible by
the work of spies.
A Geneva dispatch says the govern
ment Of Carinthia has ordered the
mobilization of 20 military classes in
order to arrest the invasion Of Ger
man-Austria by the Jugo-Slavs, Accord
ing to a dispatch received at Berne
from a reliable source.
A Russian wireless report says that
along the Salmysch river northwest of
Orenburg the reds obtained a COM
plete victory over Admiral Kolchak's
Fourth army CORPS" wiping out eight