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Washington, Oct. 24.--Amerlca has turned ou
steel ship. She is the Agawan, of 5,500 deadwolgh
which by the Submarine Boat corporation at Port
annlounced today by Chairman Iurley of theshilp
The Agawan was in the nature of an expor
were required for her construction. Approximate
fabricating plants and 200 foundries, machine, pir
ment shops produced parts of the hull and machii
The Submarine Boat corporation has contract
of the Agawaan addelivery of completed vessel
rate of two or three every week.
ER WL
L at National Capterson Provisions
ement That May,wn After Allies
r Proposals Forby President.
Oct. 24.-Discussion I
today on the.' probable
stice which may be forhe allied ad American
ers after the allied.govconsidered the German.nsmitted by President.
as generally assumed by
that. the president al'ertained the willingness
governments to submit
the military men.
nt's reply to.the most
I note will be found on
AVERAGE OF
Y4
SARSFIELDS' DAD YALE I1
HOME; DESCRIBES EDUCA'
BATTLES OF 1020 GREG
nion here is that Presi'as expressed the basic
ch an immediate armis'eached- The terms to
rman military power on
Lbsolutely impotent must
t by the;Supreme War
e mission of the military
rans'ato general princrete terms of fortresses, submarine bases to be
guard, munition plants
tied and strategic rail'
ecured against German
armistice on Allied
in end of the war, atust be given to demobGerman army, in itself
3, since the- great force
urned back to civil life?ry 'for formulation of
iady exists. The millboards of- the Supreme
t Versailles furnish the
3 fort the assessing of
he military leaders and
intodharmony in a rdeftof the condftions upon
could come to an end.
is p~e...... dmx,
'etain, -Haig, Pershing,
n,.: the,,]elgIa chief oz
eio members of the army
drairals commanding the
s, British, French Amer-, are ex-officio members
ard.:
proposes that the terms
Sbyr thesk military:and
shall be " subs tted to
governments associated
NEW FLU CASES
CUT IN HALF
Five-Day Period Shows 100 In.fections Daily as Against 191
During Previous Five Days.
Further evidence that the influenza
epidemic is on the decline is seen in;
the fact that yesterday less calls ftr
doctors and nursescame to the department o fhealth onlce in this city thah
on any one day since the beginning
of the trouble. Dr. Wright stated this
morning that, while the-- doctors are
not reporting all of their cases each
day and that therefore' it is almost Impossible to judge of the state of the
epidemic by figures for one day, the
average for several days is signifloant.
He computed the average number oft
cases reported during the past five days
to be just 100 while in the five day
period previous the;daily average was
191. This shows a decrease in the?le,
cases being reported of a little less
than one-half. There were 107 fiew
cases reported yesterday.There were 26 deaths reported ye.
terday which brings the total for the
month up to 314. thus far. There are
162 cases at the Net Haven lospita.:
and four patients at that ii nstitttionu
have died since noon yesterday. There
have been 5:51, cases of the disease at
this hospital since the. outbreak of the
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B'ERTEL KiLLED,
WOUN IN FR.ANCE
LU t Casualty.List Contains
aNaesof o f Men-'Ber'tl's Wrouds A~ray 'Reported
in The:Regiser.
Hugh - McKeon, ldest Man in
Sarsfields, Saw Boys He Knew
as Kids Falling Around Him.
Representati
Universiti
Cultural T
The seven'
Educational' M
d y. at 12:00 u
tle railroad s
headed by Prof
the Yale univ
to the home o1
The personn,
follows: Dr.
vice-chancellor
Cambridge; Si
chancellor of
chester; the
Walker, fellou
brarian of Quf
Jones, professo
Dr. John Joly
and mineralog
geon, professo
Bedford colleg4
turer on anciez
Bucklngham.
The member
lunch at 1:00
and were then
laboratories of
From 4:00 to
with Professor
at 7:00 will b,
the Graduate's
From 8:30 tc
ception will bf
Graduate's cit
at 10:00 there. (Con tinue
BODY.
The body of
for &tradl
river;die At
jn g. 1Te- was
weight about 165
In a blue and
aIls nnd black
Was badly br t
pearance of be
- HUGH M'K.EON.
"New Haven may well be proud of
the 102d Regiment. That body of
men has rendered a service that can
never be fully appreciated," Private
Hugh McKeon. son of Mr. and Mrs,.
John McKeon, of 296 Wallace street,
who has just "returned home after a
year's service In France told the Register today.
Private McKeon, 37 years 'of age, is
the oldest enlisted, man in the Sars,
the -Yanks who fought in the ranks at.
Seiclheprey and on the Lorraine
front, and the boys all calUted him
Dad.
"The New Haven lads Id their part
well," Private Mc eon td 1dthe Re- r
later today. "Mlen of C and D companles were particularly heroic. At seicheprey our two-companies Went into,
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