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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER HYRUM, UTAH lead-During the early days of the ycat disaffection appeared amon the work- Liebknecht threatened of Herr ershlp REVIEW OF YEAH BROUGHT tember 27, when General Mallnoff, to disrupt the entire former empire. ers in the shipyards and by February On November 29 President Wilson 12 the situation had assumed a serious commander of the Bulgar armies which were routed before the advanc- announced that he would head the aspect with strikes in effect in five and French, asked for an American - delegation to . the peace yards. By February 16 the strike had TO WORLD AFTER FOUR YEARS WAR ing Serbs On armistice. September 80 Bulgaria conference and that the other dele- spread still further in spite of an adthe armistice terms pro- gates would be Secretary of State vance in wages announced by the accepted adjustment board. Lnnsing, Col. E. M. House, Henry posed by the allies and surrendered On to ambassador former February 17, President Wilson, France, White, Germany and Her Allies Are Crushed and Forced to Accept Such unconditionally. and Gen. Tasker H. Bliss, United in a letter to William L. Hutcheson! Teutons Move for Peace. Terms as Winners Dictate United States Supplies Power Turkey moved for pence on October States military representative on the head of the United Brotherhood of Car4 and the German people were thrown supreme war council. The president, penters and Joiners, concerning tho That Turns Tide President Wilson Joins Other DemoInto a panic as they saw their allies accompanied by the other peace dele- ship carpenters strike, denied the right crumbling. Prince Max, who had ndw gates and a large party of assistants, of labor to strike at that critical junccratic Rulers of World in. Great Peace Congress at Will you ture. or will you become German chancellor, addressed sailed for France December 4. Old Nations Crumble and New Ones Versailles a note to President Wilson, asking that President Wilson arrived at Brest obstruct? the president asked. The steps he taken immediately to conclude December 13 and proceeded to Paris, workmen responded to the presidents Are Formed Russia Torn by Disorders. an armistice and to open peuce nego- where he was given an enthusiastic re- appeal and the strike was declared off. 4 At the same time Secretary of Labor tiations President Wilson answered ception. n Wilson announced the personnel of a ed one of the spectacular fonts of the by asking whether he Spoke for the British, French, American and By DONALD F. BIGGS. national board of labor, to be comor then the of the of advanced rulers armies people More history has been made In the war, blocking the channel of empire occupation of representatives of both labor was and based whether as the Into Germans a the retired posed German has submarine proposal In base. 1918 Germany than year any year that on an acceptance of the presidents 14 in accordance with the armistice, the and capital. On February 24 this board moOn 27 Germans the renewed May This time since passed began. mentous twelve months period comes the offensive with a powerful attack pence points. Meanwhile the drive on allied armies reaching the Rhine dur- opened a conference for the purpose of establishing a basis for the settlement to a close with the world at peace af- between the Alsne and the Marne. In the west front continued, and the Ger- ing the early days of December. much mnns were from driven of disputes during the war. Former a s over ground the day they swept ter more than four years of the most 1914. since held had The President William H. Taft, chosen by that on they of the north the or heights DOMESTIC AFFAIRS any snngulnary fightlug of this the employers, and Frank P. Walsh, Alsne and crossed the river In a rush. Hlndenburg line was smashed at many other age. men broke selected the foes Next by the labor organizations, took Solssons and Pershings points. reached they During the year great nations have Practically every phase of American as chairman. west of the Meuse This conferdefense line of mnln On the Vesle. to went the Marne, they have new nations influence of the felt sprung life crumbled, dominating March on reached of bitter clearan agreeand after 29, ence, on days fighting front the river from Into being, thrones have tottered and extending their war throughout the year 1918. of Argonne forest. Chateau-Thierrout Germans ment the labor ed that all to providing disputes and hunVerneuil, of once ruled national In the field fallen, monarehs who legislation arising during the war should be subdreds of millions of people with an threatening Reims In their advance. The Germans were forced to abandon womans suffrage and nation-wid- e prothe Cheinln des Dames and to retreat hibition were mitted to a board of mediation. This Iron hand have fled for their lives or The drive was halted' with the Gerurged as war measures. a long line from'Laon as far east on agreement was adhered to by both emhave fallen victim to the wrath of peo- mans occupying a front 10 miles wide womans amendment The suffrage as and Argonne; on the Marne. n was defeated in the senate October 1, ployersfew employees and comparaples Intoxicated by their sent another note to Presstrikes occurred during the Germnny tively In meantime the the Americans had the' A house. freedom. after having passed on Wilson October 12, - 28 remainder of the year. ident accepting won on attention Mayby taking nation-wid- e The coming of peace finds America prohibition measure, to the latters 14 peace principles and - front In a on the Cantlgny Picardy and her allies strong and fully able become effective June 30, 1919, was urging the president to transmit Its enacted to meet the responsibilities that come brilliant attack. DISASTERS by congress and approved by to an armistice for allies. the On May 25, German began proposalanswer of the allied armies to the president November 22. On Sepwith victory. On the other hand It The 6 President Wilson had orfinds the nations responsible for the operations off the const of the United the German peace proposals was to tember Fires, railroad accidents and explo11 ships. manufacture of malt liquor sions dered world cataclysm exhausted aud torn States, sinking the deliver still harder blows at the retirtook a heavy toll of human life rewas German The drive for Paris as on a December 1, by civil disorders that are born of deIn the north the Belgian stopped on land enemy. ing during the year 1918 while the sumed but the turning point was measure. feat elements combined with the torpedoes army, led by King .Albert, reached when on June 6 and 7 Government control of the railroads of the German with the British, began to sweep to send thoues n were thrown across the HOW THE WAR WAS WON from the Belgian coast was followed during this year by gov- sands of Innocent persons, including Germans the path of the advancing army at Chateau Chancellor Max, on October 21, sent ernment control of all telegraph and women and children, to their death at The Americans not only 13 Thierry. another The year opened with the opinion peace note to President Wil- telephone lines. Congress on Julycon- sea. the Germans but drove them son, to authorized take stopped the president, denying the charges that the GerFifty-tw- o children met death In a generally prevailing that the world back two miles, capturihg several hunmans had been guilty of atrocities on trol of the wires and the government fire which destroyed a convent at Monwar could not be brought to a conclu dred NoOn 31. on assumed control prisoners. July land and sea, and again giving assurslon in less than eighteen months. It treal, Canada, February 14. February In an effort to unite the Somme saliances, that the new government repre- vember 17, the government also took 24 the Uner Florizel, bound from St. was an open secret that the German ent with that of the Marne to provide sented the people of Germany. Presi- control of all Atlantic cable lines. Johns. N. F., to New York, was high command yas planning to make a base for another move toward Paris, The first general election since the dent Wilson replied two days later, a supreme effort on the western front. wrecked by a blizzard near Cape Race the Germnns launched another heavy was to transmit the request for United States entered the war agreeing In Russia Premier Lenine and Forand 92 lives were lost. attack west of Noyon on June 10. They an armistice to the allies. held on November 5. "The Republicans Minister Trotzky intrenched made considerable eign Seventy inmates of an Insane asylum a on won both houses of congress, the senItalians .Rout Austrians. .themselves in 'power by dissolving the ' front but the drive gains at Norman, Okla., were killed in a fire was halted within ate As this note whs delivered the allies by a majority of two and' the which constituent assembly which met jit' two days. destroyed that institution April' house a more of than Germans all were the at forty. 13. by smashing margin 21 January 18 NoAustrian Offensive Is Fiasco. During September, October and points on the western front and on an .oon&ress of soviets was On May 1 the Savannah liner City of was transferred from October 24 the Italians launched a vember the entire country was swept Attention To , eenvefleu Athens replace the constituent as- France to Italy when on June 15 the was sunk In a collision with a offensive against the Austrians by a serious epidemic of Spanish in There was little activity on Austrians opened an offensive on the great sembly. French cruiser off the Delaware coast who on the Piave front, within a few fluenza. Thousands of soldiers In the any front during the month, but on Italian front from Aslago plateau to and 66 lives were lost. On May 18 in of were with the thousands and other flight headlong army camps Janunry 30 it was announced officially the sea. The attack proved a complete days Italians in pursuit. The Americans civilians succumbed thereto and to nearly a hundred persons were killed that American troops were holding fiasco. It was repulsed at all points continued by explosions in the Aetna Chemical to smash Germans in vi- pneumonia. , front-lin- e ' trenches in France, occupynd the Italians pursued the fleeing cious attacks west vt the Meuse. on No- plant near Pittsburgh, Pa. was The surprised country Sixty-thre- e ing a sector northwest of Toul. 0 persons, including well- -' Austrians across the Piave, taking The month of November opened with vember 22 by the resignation of Wll The Americans holding this sector known circus performers, perished prisoners. the German armies facing utter rout, liam G. McAdoo as secretary of the received .their baptism of fire when The German commanders made one the armies of her allies completely treasury and director general of the when a circus train was wrecked at they repulsed a vigorous German raid. last effort to break through to Paris shattered and the end in sight. Turrailroads. Representative Carter Glass Gary, Ind., June 22. Fifty persons were The Americans lost two killed, four when the crown killed by the collapse of a building at to the princes array group key surrendered unconditionally of Virginia was named to succeed Mr. wounded and one missing. On Febru- on Sioux City, la., June 29. 15, the morning after the British and the Austrians begged for McAdoo as July secretary of the, treasury A small factory explosion In England ary 5 the steamer Tuscania, carrying French national holiday, launched an an armistice, while their armies were December 5. 2,179 American soldiers, was torpe50 persons July 1 and on the folkilled offensive along a front from Chateau-Thierrin full flight. The allied war council On November 28 Governor Stephens doed and sunk, with a loss of 159 an explosion in a munitions to the 30 to Massiges, miles east of at Versailles began prepare of California commuted to life impris- lowing day lives. On February 9 the Ukraine Reims. terms to be submitted to the Germans. onment the death sentence of Thomas plant near Syracuse, N. Y., killed 16.' signed a separate treaty of peace with This fifth and last phase of the great The American First army smashed J. Mooney, convicted in connection Eighty-fivmerrymakers perished the central powers. when an excursion boat sank in the offensive failed most signally, being the German lines at Grand Pre and with the death of ten a from persons Conditions in Russia continued to Illinois river July 5. A hundred peron the third day. The Ameriadvanced seven miles west of the bomb explosion in San Francisco dur- sons were killed " be chaotic. The bolshevik! declared stopped in a collision between can forces played a big part in this secMeuse as the enemy line cracked, 22, a ing preparedness parade July the wat with Germany over but re- - ond decisive battle of the Marne. two near trains Nashville, Tenn., 'on November 1916. fused to sign the peace treaty demandAllied Offensive Opens. the armistice terms which July 9. accepted ed by Germany. The Germans there- ' On During the months of September July 18 General Foch assumed provided for unconditional surrender, FOREIGN upon renewed hostilities against Rusand October, hundreds of persons lost the offensive. He struck the crown hostilities ceasing at three oclock sia, capturing Reval, Russian naval princes right flank a vital blow and on November 4. The map of Europe was being re- their lives at sea either by accident! base, and advancing on Petrograd. Le- the first day the French and Americans or On November 5, President Wilson made as the torpedoing of passenger year 1918 came to a close. boatsby theGerman nine and Trotzky then announced that submarines. On Sepfought their way for six miles along notified Germany to apply to Marshal The Czecho-Slovaby alrepublic was Russia was forced to accept the Ger- the Alsne, reaching the outskirts of Foch for terms, he having been intember 12 the British steamer Galway; of before the close in existence ready man peace terms. On March 3 the Soissons. For two weeks the great formed that thejr had been prepared the war, having been recognized as an Castle was torpedoed and 189. persons, Russian delegates at e continued. On July by the allied war council. 90 women and children, were belligerent government by including signed the peace treaty with Germany, 29 the Americans met the crack divilost. The American cargo boat TI German envoys were appointed and independent Great , Britain, providing for the cession of a vast sions of German guards and' defeated approached the allied lines but in the the United States, was conderoga torpedoed September of area of Russian territory, the payment them In a stubborn battle at Sergy meantime the allied armies did not France and Italy, but the coming 30 and 213 persons were lost A torof saw formal establishment the peace of a big indemnity and the disbanding Soissons fell to the French on August lessen the pressure they were exert- this new government at Pra'gue. The pedo boat sank a Japanese liner on Ocof the Russian army and navy. 2 and by the following day the entire on tober 4 and 290 persons were drowned. The the Americans, enemy. ing Germans Begin Great Drive. Solssons-Reim- s salient had been wiped having Inflicted a severe defeat on end of the war also practically assured A tornado swept a part of Minnesota the rising of a great new Poland, made On March 21 the ofout. the enemy, clearing the whole front be- up of 21, killing 50 persons at Tyler August If not most. all, of the territory fensive of the Germans was launched. General Foch opened the second tween the Meuse and the Alsne, rapidnnd .Connors, divided among up Germany, A terrific blow was delivered years ago on Auagainst phase of his ly advanced toward Sedan, cutting the On October 6 the United States transthe British lines on a front of more gust 8 when a surprise attack was vital communications between Metz Austria and Russia. Finland threw Otranto was sunk in collision off port off the shackles her by upon' than 50 miles, extending from the Riv- launched on a front in Picardy, and the long German line extending Russia and out ofplaced the Irish coast and 450 persons lost civil the turmoil of er Oise, near La Fere, to the Sensee the allies gaining,seven miles at some to the north. war emerged as a free and Independent their lives. Four hundred were lost Wave after points and tnking 7,000 prisoners. The river, about CrolsHIes. On November 9 the kaiser abdicatnation. The peoples of other smaller when the British mall boat Leinster wave of the finest German troops were following day Haigs- men gained 13 ed and, the crown prince renounced hurled at the British lines, and In a mltep a subject states asserted their independ- was torpedoed and sunk October 10. Picardy nd the next day the his claims to the throne. The governA series of terrific explosions In a ence. few days had advanced 15 miles. The on a front, ment of Germany passed into the conFrench, g plant at Morgan, N. J., Civil war continued to threaten the British Fifth army at the point where wiped outattacking the Montdidler salient. trol of the social , democrats and new on 3 killed 94 persons and deOctober of China It touched the French lines was routrepublic throughout the Foch Hammers Foe. Herr Ebert was made chancellor. The a vast amount of property. A stroyed Hsu Shih was elected ed, and for a time the allies faced disyear. Chang Then followed a series of sledgefled to Holland and was perkaiser severe which caused the earthquake aster. The Germans continued to push hammer blows on all of the republic on Septem portions of the mitted to remain there by the Dutch president of 150 persons was reported In death 6 15 at end of and few next and the ber the months southward, days during all fitting into the general authorities. At the same time variPorto Rico October 11. Great forest had advanced 47 miles from I.n Fere front, out by the ous other German princes abdicated reports indicated a possibility .of an fires raged in northeastern Minnesota scheme of worked attack and were within six miles of Amiens. master mind of Foch. On reached between the being deAugust 20 and soldiers and workmen's councils agreement "Here the advance was halted. In the northern and southern sections of the during October. Many towns were Somme fell former and the existence into at Lassigny many were points. lost. sprang lives and about fac1,000 March stroyed on the nllies, 29, meantime, country. front was restored. British and French Germans Sign Armistice. ing a catastrophe, at last agreed upon Peru and Chile were reported on the On October 25 the steamship Princess conen11 aided On November American German units, the by a unification of command, and General armies, Sophia was wrecked on the. Alaskan tinued' the smash on the Somme front voys signed tiie armistice which brink of war during thejelosing weeks coast and 343 were lost Foch, the brilliant French lender, was The trouble of the between year. on August 30 the Germans were amounted practically to unconditional and all the of command In Ninety-eigpersons were killed Nosupreme placed these countries was an outgrowth of hurled across the Somme. The British surrender. 1 a In wreck on the Brooklyn allied armies. vember of years ago in which The armistice became effective at the nitrate war On April 10, the Germans shifted took Bapaume and were close to Transit lines. On November 21, Rapid won and Taona Chile Arlca. about 1,500 persons were reported-- ' their attack and began the second Peronne. Roye fell to the French and .11 a. m., Paris time, November 11. Dr. Sidonia Paes, president of Poi hostilities dozens wrested were towns of small With cessation of the a drive offensive their' killed by the explosion of German muphase of tugal, was shot and killed at Lisbon, ngnlnst the British In Flanders with from the Invaders. Further north the revolution spread through Germany December 15. The assassin was killed nition trains en route from Belgium to Emperor Charles' of the channel ports as the objective. British smashed the Hlndenburg line and Austria. Germany. by the crowd that witnessed the crime. One of the most unusual cases In Here again the British were forced to and forced the Germans to begin a re Austria abdicated and a people's gov- Two Y. CasCanto Admiral later days from no ernment set was treat the break was Lys maritime up. history was that of the palient. give ground, but there tro was elected president of Portugal United States On September 12, the First Amerinavy collier Cyclops, such as occurred earlier on the Somme Carrying out the terms of the armiswhich disappeared at sea while bound front. The British and Portuguese can army, under the direct command tice the Germnns surrendered 71 warLABOR AND INDUSTRY from the West Indies to an American were swept back along the River Lys. of General Pershing, began a brilliant ships to the allies on November 21. In Atlantic port. Announcement was Conditions were very unsettled The Germans took the Messines ridge action which wiped out the difficult Labor unrest resulting in many made April 14 that the boat, with 293 and threw 125,000 men ngnlnst - the St. Mlhiel salient in three days. The Germany during the closing weeks of British below Ypres. But the Ypres Americans took 20,000 prisoners in the year, the socialist government ap- strikes, threatened to seriously ham- persons on board, was a month overwar preparations due. Not a single trace of the boat 'ofenses held firm, and in the west the this action. parently sharing power with the sol- per the governments oernmns failed in their efforts to reach Serbinu, French and Italian forces, diers and workmens councils. Plnns early in the year but through a spirit or Its passengers and crew was ever shown by both labor found, and the fate of the vessel Is a llazebrouck. The terrific drlv4 spent on Septdhiber 18, launched a big drive were under discussion for the sum- of was averted and complete mystery. the and to danger capital constituent a self and the Germnns had failed to against the Bulgurs in Macedonia. Alof assembly moning labor trouble during was little there of the channel most simultaneously the British broke determine the future character threaten the ports seriously. 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