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Newspaper
Fulton County Tribune
Location
Wauseon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1918
Page
2
Census Bureau data show mortality rising sharply as contagion spreads. The annual death rate climbs from two to seven times normal in many centers, with Fall River, Massachusetts recording the highest rate near 12.7 per 1000.
Washington October 18 Immediate action on the military deficiency bill was urged as the House faced the largest appropriation in U S history to fund the coming nine months of war. The committee reported 6 0 4 5 7 0 6 0 0 0 for army and navy needs plus family allowances, with total authorizations rising to 38 000 000 000 for the year. The plan calls for 5 000 000 men, 80 divisions in France and 18 at home by July 1, and expands ordnance and ammunition output to meet coast artillery and other demands beginning December 1919. The bill includes heavy allocations to New York City and Boston rates, with Pittsburgh and Lowell contributing to regional financial estimates.
Congressmen Sioa Romertag of Mosinee and partner W. W. Whitumee, with Whitmore’s wife and Miss Anna Lange, were in an automobile accident near the poor farm. Whitmore was badly hurt, others escaped with minor injuries as the vehicle overturned on the road.
Detuth Mion Ort and 1 Pedersl Dem Aitkin Crosley and Trenton on the Minneapolis Paul and Sault Ste Marie railroad report fires threatening towns. Witty Ores scattered through St. Lewis county. All tuition is suspended in Inna ten not Crebr. McGrath fires under control. Fires near McGregor north of Aitkin central Iowa area Libby still burning.
Censor reports on Lena area mining inspections show recovery times: five years to restore pit production after war damage. Committee on mines of the chamber of debution led the review. Navy curtails details of ship movements. presses urged to refrain from publishing transport timing.
Washington reports rapid classification by local boards as the new draft registration accelerates. Questionnaires will soon be mailed to youths aged eighteen to forty five, signaling a large upcoming demand and extended conscription implications amid wartime conditions.
Disjointed notices cover Allied advances near Kalish Archangel and the Volga front, a British warship collision sinking, a Washington denial of an arrest story, Wilton & Co clearing over dairy misstatements, Poincare’s Paris visit, and alarm over German bombardment of the Argonne front as U.S. guards assist the president.
Basle dispatch reports mutinous action by German socialists brief demonstrations near the Kaiser and Hindenburg figures. Zurich wires say entente notes reveal outbreaks at fronts. later word notes continued German cabinet in session, talks with Scheer, and possible U boat activity after armistice.
Washington announced that the Belgian relief commission and the British quartermaster general will supply 20 million emergency rations immediately to rescued Belgian civilians. Herbert Hoover, chairman, said supplies come from British army stores in Belgium and will be paid for by the relief commission.
Washington October 21, the declaration of independence adopted by the Czecho Slovaks national council was presented to President Wilson. Professor Masaryk, president of the Czecho Slovak national council, signed the declaration as head of the new provisional government.
Turkiye forces in Syria show no opposition as British troops advance toward Aleppo, with 12 000 Turks concentrated near the city under Gen. Liman von Sanders as dawns toward control south of Aleppo. Also notes daylight saving clock change planned for Oct 27 and obituaries including Thomas Kearns and Roland Garros.
Maj. Charles M. Whittlesey, former New York lawyer, commanded the famous test battalion in the Argonne Forest. Surrounded by German forces for days, the unit refused to surrender and was rescued after many endured extreme hardship.
The signal corps announces a recruitment drive for 750 bonus Morse telegraph operators to serve in France. Ages 13 to 55, with initial overseas deployment starting immediately for 150 men and about 80 per month thereafter. Physical standards will be lowered to meet needs. qualified men will be accepted for overseas duty.
The War Department released figures on registered men in the United States. Of the total registered, 12 066 594 were aged eighteen to forty five, with 852 150 in Texas. Registrations referenced June 5 1918 August 24 1918 and September 12 1918. Provost Marshal General Crowder discussed delayed news affecting totals.
Dr Charles Nicolle and Dr Levailly of the Pasteur Institute at Tunis announce the germ causing Sonaiity Influenza is too small to be visible, yet the microbe reproduced the disease in a monkey and a human, confirming identification.
Allied troops occupy Kadish in Voeloeda province and push about five miles south along the railway. Other items note munitions plant blasts in Lyons, a Bordeaux memorial fund, a $10 million epidemic bill amendment, coal mine slowdowns in Kentucky due to influenza, a Kansas City lawyer killed in action, and Dr Mell of Atlanta who ran weather signals dies.
President Wilson rejects autonomy as a basis for peace and demands that Austro-Hungarian nationalities prove their demand for freedom. The note, transmitted via Sweden, notes recognition of CzechSlovak and Yugoslav aspirations and declares the United States will not accept autonomy as sufficient for peace. Robert Lansing’s text emphasizes national self determination and the right of peoples to judge actions by the Austro-Hungarian government.
Edward W. Pickard reports on a European crisis as German resistance collapses under Allied pressure. Austria Hungary and Turkey seek peace terms while internal upheaval grows, with the Kaiser’s abdication rumored and national aspirations surfacing across the empire. Allied offensives push in Belgium and France, Belgian ports fall under retreat, and American and Allied forces advance, amid Bolshevik and Italian fronts and new aviation advances.
The London Times lauds President Wilson for accurately reading Allied winds and praises his leadership for a unified peace effort. It warns that postwar peace building could surge suddenly and stresses need for early united fronts, a shared political council, and US centrality to keep allies from division.
Stock holm meeting of Entente refugees recounts ongoing Red Terror in Moscow. R H B Lockhart and delegation, exchanged for M Litvinoff, faced continued executions daily on Hodinka parade grounds guarded by Lettish troops. Sickness from famine grows. French and British officers besieged Amel consulate before release.
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