The Colorado statesman., 1916-01-08
FOREIGN

AuieIlCdn correspondence DOtn u
and from Great Britain will be CEN
sored hereafter, it was officially an
nounced in London.
The Bulgarian government has ar,
rested the French vice consul at Sofia
in retaliation for the arrest of the
Bulgarian consul at Saloniki
The Paris Matin affirms, notwith-
standing denials, that the German en-
peror is suffering from cancer of the
throat and is no longer able to speak.
ut is reported from Stockholm that
orders have been given to all Jewish
refugees at Petrograd to depart imme.
diately," says the Overseas News
agency.
Announcement is made by the Jill
Shimbo at Toxic that squadron of
Japanese warships will sail for the
Suez canal, presumably to protect
japanese shipping.
Unofficial dispatches from Cairo
state that the British steamship
Persia, sunk in the Mediterranean,
was torpedoed without warning and
sank in five minutes.
Exports from the consular district
of Berlin to the United States in the
fourth quarter of 1915 amounted to
$62S,5S7, compared with $3,600235 in
the corresponding period of 1914.
At the close of 1915 the war had
cost more than s26,OOO,OOO,OOO ex-
ceeding by 100000 the total nation
al debts of the six principal belliger-
ent powers when the conflict began.
The London Chronicle announces
definitely that Sir John A. Simon, sec
rotary of state for home affairs, re-
tires from the Cabinet, thus breaking
his brilliant ministerial career for
conscience sake"
Robert Mitchell, who served several
terms in the Chamber of Deputies and
was a brilliant journalistic advocate
OF the Bonapartists in the early years
of the third republic, died in Paris,
aged seventy-six years.
The London Daily Mail says: The
cowardly sinking of the Persia will
steel the hearts of all Britons and
prompt them not to a mere denuncia-
the waverers by thousands that the
hour has come to enlist"
Yuan Shi Kai, president of China,
who has accepted the proffer of an
emperors crown, on request" of var
ious elements in the nation, entered
the palace in the imperial yellow chair,
sat on the throne and was announced
as His Imperial Majesty" at the New
Year day reception given for Chinese
officials.
SPORTING NEWS
Ted Lewis, the English welter-
weight, and Willie Brennan boxed ten
fast rounds to a dra~ at Buffalo, N. Y.
Benny Chavez, Colorado feather
weight, won a ten-round decision at
Kansas City over Tommy Buck of
Philadelphia.
Stanley Yoakum of Denver took five
rounds and the popular verdict in his
ten-round- bout with Bobby Waugh at
Fort Worth, Tex.
w. \. Lovejoy, famous billiard ex-
pert, and originator of the anchor
stroke, died in London, according to
word received in New York.
AT Panama William Spencer, the
| American charge d'affaires, won the
lsthmian tennis championship from
Alexander Fechtig, the former cham
| pion.
Johnny Kilbane of Cleveland and
Richie Mitchell of milwaukee fought
ten fast rounds at Cincinnati, popular
decision giving Mitchell the better of
the bout
Johnny Dundee, the only light,
weight of any prominence now in the
fighting game, who las rever lost a
decision, will appear in Denver at the
Stockyards arena the night OF Jan. %.
GENERAL
Transatlantic cable communication
was crippled or delayed by severe
storms which swept over ireland, Eng.
land and the continent
The will of Thomas L. Shevlin, filed
for probate at Minneapolis, bequeaths
an estate valued at S3,50O,000 to Mrs
Shevlin and her two children.
During the last year 100000
pounds of foodstuffs were shipped to
Palestine for the relief OF the desti.
tute Jews, according to the report of
Nathan ID. Kaplan, president of the
knights of Secon, made at Chicago to
the nineteenth annual convention OF
the society.
Hundreds of popular periodicals
were withdrawn at Spokane, Wash,
from newsstand sale because of the
statewide prohibition law forbidding
the advertising of liquors. In cases
where magazines were not withdrawn
the pages containing liquor advertis-
ing were cut out.