AMERICA'S WAR ELECTION

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2920, 4 November 1916, Page 9

AMERICA'S WAR ELECTION

WILSON AND HUGHES VERY CLOSE (Reutar's Tcleeram.) (Eec. November 4, 1.30 a.m.) Washl^f-*rn, November 3. Close estimates' 6 iv'e President Wilson 19" certain votes, and Judge Hughes 192. Both are strenuously pushing, their candidature in the' doubt-™ States, especially.in New York, NewJersey, . and Connecticut, whose rotes total sixty-six. The successful candidate must secure 266.

HEROES OP THE TYPHUS \ CAMPS . . BRITISH DOCTORS DECORATED BY THE KING. (Aust.—N.Z. Cable Assn. and Ecuter.) London, November 2. 'flie King has conferred a C.M.G. on Major Phillip Davy, the D.S.O. to Captains Augustus Williams and Arthur Brown, army medical men, for their services during the' typhus epidemic at Gardelegeri Camp in the spring and summer o£ 1915. TEUTONS DIVIDING THE SPOILS AUSTRO-GERMAN AGREEMENT ON POLAND. Australian-New Zealand Gable Association. London, November 2. The "Daily Chronicle's" Milan correspondent states that the Berlin and Vienna Governments have agreed on the Polish question. A Provisional Government will be established, under German patronage. Austria undertakes to extond autonomy to Galicia. This solves the deadlock caused by Austria's refusal to give up Galicia* for incorporation in the proposed Kingdom of Poland unless Germany agreed to givo up Posen for thosame purpose. POPE'S APPEAL FOR RELIEF FUNDS. (Kcuter's Telecram.) Rome, November 2. Tho appeal by the Pope to the Catholic Bishops of the world for assistance for Poland has brought in four million francs (about £160,000).