Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1915-12-10
FOREIGN

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Great Britain has Informed Japan
that the British government has not
contemplated an alliance with China.
War and the food supply will be the
principal topics considered at the
reichstag session which convened In
Berlin.
Premier Asquith's daughter, Violet,
and his secretary, Bonham Carter,
were married at st. Margaret's, West
minister, in London.
The American steamer Andrew
WEIGH is being held in the harbor OF
Haelmstad by Swedish torpedo boats
after an unsuccessful attempt to pro
coed to Germany.
Subscriptions totaling $4,000 900
have been received, it was announced
at ottawa. for the Canadian $4,000.
900 wal loan. The grand total came
from 10000 separate subscribers.
Field Marshal Won Mackensen was
slightly wounded by a Serbian bullet
during the recent operations, says a
Copenhagen dispatch to the Novoe
Vremya. Won Mackensen was in
charge of the invasion of Serbia.
British woman suffrage leaders
hailed as their first important victory
the governments appointment of Miss
Presley Smith, organizer. to a secre.
tarial post in the British Christiania
legation.
"Advices from Rosedaal (Holland),
state that Belgian newspapers under
the German censorship have been or
dered to that Brand Whit
lock Omitted States minister to Bel
gium), will not return TO Brussels.
The news has been received with con.
sternation throughout Belgium
'The famous Hindu scholar, Tara
knasdas, declares that the Mohamme-
dan nations of Asia favor a union with
Turkey. and that there are 5000, 900
Mohammedans in India who are ready
for war; says a Constantinople dis.
patch given out by the Overseas News
agency.
Carranza forces again have opened
communications between Guaymas
and Hermosillo, the capital of Sonora
state, and Gen. Dieguez is endeavor-
ing to intercept $500 villa troops up
posed to be heading through southern
Sonora in an attempt to join Gen. Ban
dera, the Villa commander in north
eTn Sinaloa.
After being robbed and then tor
tured by Villa soldiers, who demanded
hat he give them 5000 which they be-
lieved he had hidden, McEnnis Ring,
an American mining man and store
keeper at Cos, Sonora. a short dis
lance north of Nacozari, arrived at
Douglas, Ariz., and told of conditions
south of the international border,
where the Villa troops have been OPP
Grating. Other Americans, Ring said,
also had been robbed and imprisoned.
SPORTING NEWS
The annual meeting of the National
League will be held in New York Dec
IA.
Eddie McGoorty, m~iddleweight OF
Oshkosh, Wis, who is boxing in Aus
tralia, has scored his fifth successive
knockout, according to a c~ablegram
received by friends in Chicago.
Because, he claimed, the county au
thorities of Jefferson parish, Louisi
ana, known as Louisiana free state,
were not enforcing the state laws
against gambling, Governor Hall pro
claimed martial law in the parish.
Jess Willard will meet Fred Fultor
of Rochester, Mimi, in a twenty-rounC
bout at New Orleans March 3 for thu
heavyweight championship of the
world, according to an announcement
by promoters of the match.
Lefty Flynn, famous Yale athlete
will marry Mrs. Blanche Shrove-Pal
mer, a wealthy widow, this winter
Flynn was divorced from Irene Claire
a Winter Garden show girl, whom h,
married shortly after he left college
He will take his new bride to hi
ranch in Colorado.
A crowd of 1000 Kissed Champion
Jess Willard at a vaudeville perform
ance at Los Angeles when he demand
ed pay to test the chains and weight
of a strong man. The actor wa
given a hand when he told Willard
IN be in the spotlight when you ar
IN the discard"
GENERAL
Son Of w. H. Dickens, the age,
Longmont, Colo, banker found slaii
a week ago, arrested as assassin, afte
attending the funeral.
Paul Fuller, noted international Law
yer, who was sent to Mexico by Pres
dent Wilson to investigate the Carrar
"a government, died suddenly in Me-
York.
-Four persons indicted with Mayo
Dom M. Roberts In the Terre Haut
election conspiracy case were give
sentences by Judge Anderson in tn
United States District Court at II
d%ianapolis.
Three high officials and a subord
nate officer of the Hamburg-America