The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-04-11
WORLDS NEWS IN TABLOlDS

Seventy persons were killed and
many injured when an oil tanker eX-
plOded in the harbOr at Venice.
The senate at jefferson City, Mo-,
passed the suffrage amendment, Il to
u. The bill now goes to the governor
for signature.
The American steamer West Carnl-
fax, carrying 5000 tons Of flour II
1000 tons of other f~Oodstuffs, has ar
rived at Hamburg.
Increased precautions have been tax
en- at Paris to safeguard President Will
son and the premiers with whom he
is i'm daily conference.
The Italian ministry at Rome &C.
copied the American offer Of 100000
tons Of coal at $50 Il ton, to be deliv-
cred in Genoa within six months.
A Copenhagen dispatch says in a re-
port the German finance minister
places war damages in Germany ut T.
500,000,000 marks ($1, 125, 000,0C0).
A Paris dispatch says a Russian
anarchist named Wasill Gambaghlis, q
refugee of Lyons, has been arrested
for distributing bolshevik propaganda
The new Hungarian communist gov.
eminent has arrested DR.. Alexander
Wekerle, former premier and finance
minister, Il dispatch from Budapest
says.
An American fleet of 80 warships
from Brest anchored in the TaguS at
Lisbon, Portugal. This makes a total
of 81 units of the American navy now
in Tagus.
A Washington dispatch says Pixies
peak will be ascended by q battle tank
rs an advertising feature Of the Vic.
tory Liberty loan before the loan cam
paign opens.
italian troops have occupied the
town of PresSburg, 80 miles southeast
Of Vienna, on the Hungarian side OF
the border, according to n dispatch
from Budapest.
There are 100000 gallons Of whisky
in the northern Illinois internal rcve-
nue. district, 1,400,0 900 gallons of wine,
125,000,000 cigars and 250,000,000 ciga-
%rettes, says a Chicago dispatch.
Defending the military service bill
in the house Of m at London,
Winston Spencer Churchill, secretary
for war, declared that the whole Of
Egypt was in a'virtual state of insur-
rection.
Secretary Baker at washington dis
",1n,o1 {Iof oy,,,nr ktfprnprr Enpnpof
Gregory, now in Paris, is charged with
q special mission in connection with
bringing home the bodies Of American
soldiers.
Woman suffrage is recognized in the
covenant of the league OF nations
through the adoption at Paris of an
amendment providing that the Offices
Of the league shall be open TO women
as well as to men.
The Zionist organization at London
reports having received from IN eye
witness news of n series of pOgroms
in the Ukraine. Hundreds OF Jews and
Jewesses were killed or wounded, ac-
cording to the reports.
William d. Haywood, "Big Bill" Of
the |. W.. W.. in America, started legal
proceedings before the United States
circuit court Of appeals at Chicago to
obtain his freedom pending rehearing
of his case by the court of appeals.
Terms Of payment in the new Vic
tory Liberty loan, announced at Wash
ington are the most liberal ever offered
by the government. Deferred pay
ments may be extended over q period
Of six months, from May 10 to Novem-
Der II.
France was"given a credit Of $780,
100000 by the treasury at Washing
ton and Greece was given $~3,S5S,0O0
additional. This made total credits
in France $2,617 600, to Greece,
$43, 412, 600, and a total for all allies
of So, 10000.
A Berlin dispatch says the arrival
at German ports Of the first Ameri-
can food ships was just in time to
meet the crisis in the food situation.
The potato ration In Greater Berlin
was reduced this week to three pounds
and no fresh meat is available.