The Colorado statesman., 1916-12-02
FOREIGN

Paris in secret session for the second
time since the beginning of the war.
The British government has refused
to grant safe conduct to the newly
appointed Austrian ambassador to the
United States, Count Tarnowski.
Rear Admirals Wurmbach, Jasper
Hebbinghaus, Mauve and Behenke
have been promoted to vice admirals
says an Overseas News agency an
nouncement from Berlin.
A Havis dispatch from Limoges
says the city is about to take a cen
sus of its inhabitants with view to
instituting family cards for various
Items of household consumption.
Emperor William will send to Pres
ident Wilson as a Christmas present
a de luxe set of American authors
specially prepared, printed and bound
at the Royal Printing works in Ber-
lin, according to the Budapest news
paper, Az Est.
King Constantine at Athens signed
decree naming former Minister
Georgios Streit as professor of Inter
national law in the University of
Athens, the appointment carrying
with it the post of legal advisor to the
foreign minister
Robert Griffiths and C. Haley, ex-
press messengers, passed through Sc
ward, Alaska, for interior camps to
bring out gold shipments. They ex-
pect to return to Seward on their way
to Seattle in five weeks with at least
$1,000,O0O in gold dust.
Two Zeppelins which raided the
northeast coast and the north midland
counties were brought down and de-
stroyed by British airmen. The crews
of both airships perished. This makes
total of seven German Zeppelins de-
stroyed in England in the present year,
while six have been brought down in
other fields of operation.
The removal of the body of the late
Emperor Francis Joseph from the
Schoenbrunn palace to the Hofburg
chapel in Vienna was most impress
sive spectacle. Tens of thousands of
spectators stood in the cold dampness
and filled the windows as a vantage
point as the cortege passed through
the streets, its way lighted by flicker
ing torches.
Twenty thousand French civilians
from the occupied districts of France
are about to be returned to France
from Germany. Trains each carrying
500 persons, will effect the transpor-
tation before Christmas. A Berlin dis
patch of Nov. "a reported completion
of negotiations for the exchange of
10000 interned civilians between Ger
many and France.
SPORTING NEWS
Purdue won the annual cross-coun-
try run OF the Western Conference at
Lafayette, Ind.
Midwinter polo play at Coronado,
Cal, will begin Jan. l, with competi-
tion for the Jessop trophy.
Students at the University of Colo
RADIO are preparing to turn their foot
ball field into skating pond at the
conclusion of the gridiron season.
Gamble field, the playing gridiron of
the University of Colorado, at Boulder,
may be turned into an ice skating rink
at the close of the football season.
Coach M. G. Evans is originator of
the idea.
Two new records were set in the
middlewest bowling association tour
nament that closed at st. Louis, both
of which were made by Chicago teams
the Rubins rolled 1855, forty-six pins
better than the old middle-west STAN
dard five-men team. Ehleman and
Lea totalled 1,269, seven pins more
than the former doubles high mark
made in 1911 by Collier and Flenner
also of Chicago
Georges Carpenter, the French
champion boxer, has been on leave in
Paris after taking part as an aviator
at the recapture of Fort Douaumont
on the Verdun front Carpenter was
decorated with the military medal for
gallantry in action. While in Paris he
gave an informal exhibition of boxing
at charity bazar in the Trocadero
palace and received an enthusiastic
reception from thousands.
GENERAL
Final certification to the election of
Democratic presidential electors in
California was made at the office of
Secretary of State Frank C. Jordan
at Sacramento, Cal.
Preliminary plans for the rough
riders of Spanish war fame to build
and endow Commons hall" at Nor
wich University, Northfield Vt, were
announced in New York.
Charlotte Case, widow of Charles
Caca aptor whn shot bip,gaIf