
The total number of French soldiers mobilized in the war was 5,192,372.
There are 21,000,00 women in the Unted States above the age of twenty one years. Of these 8,000,000 are wage earners.
Brodie Duke, millionaire tobacconist,died at his home in Durham N.C., Februry 1st , 1919
It is reported that many German Officers are planning to come to the United States to avoid the payment of war taxes at home.
Congress has passed, at President Wilson's request, a bill appropriating $110,00,00. for food relief in Europe and Near East.
Sharp declines in the prices of food stuff, especially as affecting Butter, Eggs, and meats are reported in New York and Chicago.
The Turkish cabinet is reported to have resigned because of allied demands that Turkey return property taken from Armenia.
Berlin is giving financial support to 180,000 unemployed, but a request for 10,000 laborers in one industry had responses from only 150 men.
Hungarians in the United States sent $35,000,000 to help finance the Central Powers and to promote re-migration to the old country during war.
Strikes of miners on a great scale have broken out of Germany, reports Roterdam. Seventy thousand miners are idle in Upper Silesia alone.
The German government offically announes that than 500,00 deaths were directly caused by the blockade of Germany throughout the war.
The holy city of Medina, Arabia, which has been held by a Turkish garrison against the Arabian troops was surrendered to King Hussein on January 18th 1919.
On December 4th, a committee of Armenian patriots met in Paris, declared the independence of Armenia and chose as their first president their leader, Nubar Pasha.
The War Department orders that no man be discharged from the Army against his desire until such time as he can obtain employment in civil life, notes a Washington dispatch .
It will cost the government $2000 a year to maintain each soldier abroad, testifies Brigadier General Robert Wood, before the House Committee on Appropriations at Washington.
The orginal program of the Anti-Saloon League, that the Nation shall be dry by 1920, will be carried out to the letter. It will be dry by proclamation in 1919 by the people in 1920.
The whiskey men of Cincinnati say that they are circulating a petion to be signed by returned soldiers, asking that the State prohibition amendment, which was carried during their absence, be annulled.
Mrs W. E. Corey, wife of the “steel king,” has purchased a $75,000 sable coat, Boston women are rightly incensed over this wasteful spending, when Armenia and Russia are begging for bread.
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