FAKENEWSAWARD--Gen. McClellan Retreats to Fort Monroe--CONFEDERATES ADVANCE--

MOTION IN PARLIAMENT TO RECOGNIZE THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA

THE SITN.
IMPORTANT FOREIGN DETAILS. FALSE NEWS FROM TIIE UNITED STATES The American War in thc House of Commons. Debate on the Notion to Recognize the Southern ConiedCracy.
LORD PALMERSTON DEFINES THE POSI-TION OF THE GOVERNMENT.
The Motion to "Recognize" Finally 'Withdrawn.
The de-tails of the foreign news by the Aus-tralasian at Nev., York (an abstract of which we published yesterday) are highly interest-ing. The steamers Arabia, Bremen and Glas-gow had arrived out. ,(From the Liverpool Correspondent of the Associated Press.] False News front America. Much excitement was caused on Friday, the ISth, by telegrams frost' Queenstown to the eflect that priTate advices had reached there by the steamer Glasgow announcing that McClellan had proposed that his army, which was retreating to Fortress Monroe, should surrender upon conditions to the vic-torious Confederates, but that the Southern commanders had refused to grant any terms. It was added that McClellan himself had taken refuge on board the gunboat Galena',' and that sundry Federal generals and divi-sions had been captured by the Confederates, who had interposed part of their forces be-tween the Federal army and Fortress Mon-roe. Notwithstanding that this so-called news was false upon its very face—advices two days later than the Glis.:-.gow's having previously been received by the Jura—it ob-tained much credence and exerted considera-ble influence, particularly in Liverpool, where the Cotton market W3.3 for the mo-ment paralyzed, and American quoted )4d lower_ .

FAKE NEWS AWARD--This Just In--ARMY OF POTOMAC RETREATS--

The President's first "Fake News Award" will go to the correspondent at the New York Tribune who reported that General Hooker's Army of the Potomac took a retrograde movement across the Rappahannock and reversed its campaign in pursuit of General Lee's retreating Army of Virginia. Apparently, the "false news" claim slipped passed the military censor as it was encoded in cipher, possibly meant for stock-jobbers to speculate. Commenting on the mysterious fabrication, The Massachusetts Republican noted "We advise Mr. Stanton to set his news censors at work to ferret out these coiners of false information."

" There is something requiring '21)4W:iron in the very positive arid detailed accounts sent forward froth Wash-tugton on 14unday as to another advance of Oen. hooker across the Rappahannock. They seemed incredible at the time. and )et they were gct up in such aplicit and wai-ter-of-fact style as to dereive the most sagacious sifters of Ilf-11(5. Where did they come from? Who was the irge-Mous trainator, andabat was his object t We ads ise Mr. Starton to art bin news ,:eubora at work to ferret out these coiner. of false Information. Of course they will have little difficulty in tracing the despatches to their mourns, since they were allowed to pass when known to be raise, on the principle, we suppose, that fa/se news Pio* not help the enemy if it shodll reach them. The new was most full and particular as sent to the Philadelphia Prew, Mr. Forney'. parr, which often has army news in-dicating close relations with the War Offlee—a fact that may or way not be relevant in this case. ',the correspon-d ut undertook to give the news as brought back from Gen. Hooker's army- by Vie President and Oen. Ili/leek, I, nod Witt as that after sending over several regiments on Wednesday and Thursday, who found that the enemy had disappeared from the other side, Geo. Hooker put over the first ard fifth corps wider Sedgwick, and afterwards cross-ed his •h le army, who deployed in (Efferent directions Hera of the enemy."

WINTER OLYMPICS--Integration of the Korean Women's Hockey Team--REMARKABLE STEP TOWARD PEACE

Note the very Asian name of the South Korean coach, Sarah Murray. She's from Minnesota, the land of a whole bunch of lakes, more than Finland. It is appropriate for South Korea to import gunslingers for the team but not the Peoples Republic.
What a remarkable step forward for peace on the Peninsula, something that goes against the formal policy of not just the White House but most of the rest of the so-called democratic world, where integration of all beliefs: religious, economic and political (not to forget gender equality) are the cornerstones of their nations.

WAPO ARTICLE--

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/olympics/koreas-plan-olympic-first-with-joint-womens-hockey-team-but-many-in-the-south-are-not-happy/2018/01/17/5066040c-fb90-11e7-b832-8c26844b74fb_story.html?utm_term=.3fe76198515c