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About the War


About the War
.oerbia's financial losses, due to the
war, total 97,OO0,00O francs, accord
ing to Belgrade dispatch to the
Temps.
The White Guard (anti-Bolshevik)
army which was landed at Narva
Esthonia, has been nearly annihilated
by the Red Guards Saturday.
Thirty-three Americans left in a hos
pital by the Germans when they evac
uated Metz cheered and shouted when
two American Red Cross nurses ar
rived to care for them.
Baron Haupt. the new Austrian min
ister at Berne, said that the sentiment
in Austria is about evenly divided be-
tween the desire to join Germany or
to remain an independent republic.
Names of three officers and nearly
100 enlisted men who have reached
France after being released from Ger
man prison camps, have been given
out by the War Department at Wash
ington.
The allies destroyed or captured 202
German submarines during the war.
In addition to these fourteen German
submarines were destroyed by the
Germans themselves-ten in the Adri-
attic and four off Planters.
Lieut.. j. Montfort Schley, Jr., a
cousin of the late Admiral Schley,
wounded five times in seven hours
during the second battle of the Marne,
has received the croix de guerre, rela-
tives in New York were informed.
Two hundred sailors are believed to
have been drowned when the convert
ed yacht Tolaire was dashed against
the rocks while entering the harbor of
Stornoway, Scotland. The sailors
were bound for home on their first
furlough of the entire war. A few
swan ashore.
Posen is completely in the hands
of the Poles. according to advices
from Berlin. The official buildings
are guarded by soldiers wearing
German uniforms, but with their
cockades replaced by the white eagle
of Poland. The Poles have taken
complete charge, even in the Ger
man districts. and the German ma
tional monuments have been over
turned, after violent .;hting.
Western
On Jan. 13, IA, Is and 16 the Idaho
Irrigation Congress will meet at Twin
Falls to consider changes in Idaho's
water code, and to make recommen-
dations to the state Legislature for
changes in existing irrigation laws.
The annual convention of the Ma
tional Wool Growers Association
which was to have taken place in Salt
Lake City Jan. 16, II and IS, has been
indefinitely postponed. Local influ-
enza conditions and unsettled health
conditions in other parts of the coun-
try was given as the reason for post
ponement.
kilograms were sent to all import
ant banks and bond brokers in the
United States to watch for the appear
ance of bonds of the American Falls
Securities Company. $4,000 Of which
were stolen from the desk OF r. B.
Boutwell, at his home in Salt Lake
City. The stolen certificates are In
denominations of $1,000 and 800 and
all are negotiable.
Washington
The Mexican Congress, II was re-
ported in Washington to the State De
partment. has granted special powers
to President Carranza to raise or
lower import and export duties at his
discretion.
The departure from France of
four transports with 1000 troops
was announced in cable advices to
the War Department. They are the
Toloa. the Ulua. the Abangarez and
the Minnesotan.
An investigation OF charges that the
Ford Eagle boat is q failure and that
excessive profits were made in it's
manufacture was proposed in reso-
luton presented In the Senate at
Washington this week.
The Supreme Court has been asked
by the government to hear as soon as
possible arguments in proceedings
brought to cancel patents to land
valued at $l0,00O.000 granted to the
Southern Pacific Railroad Company.
An effort to send back to the elec.
tions committee a report favoring un.
seating Charles A. Sulzer. Democrat,
as Alaskan delegate in the House, was
blocked by Republican Leader Mann's
refusal to give unanimous consent.
President Wilson's request that Con.
gress provide $100.000.000 for relief
work in Europe. outside OF Germany,
was approved by the House appropria.
tions committee.
A publicity program, contemplating
the expenditure OF $4,000 during the
present year. was approved at a meet.
ing OF the National Parks Highway
Association at Spokane.
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