The Colorado statesman., 1916-04-01
FOREIGN


Twenty-Five Americans on board
steamer Sussex, torpedoed in English
channel. One or more believed killed.
Several injured
Up to Jan. / the Austrian war loan
banks had made 5000 loans for
total of s46,O0O,OO0 OF these, 2,70O
were for sums under 5000 and 100
for sums over $4,000.
Baron Yoshiro Sakatani, former
minister of finance has been desig-
mated to represent Japan at the
forthcoming economic conference of
the entente allies at Paris.
One of the survivors of the channel
steamer Sussex, Alexander Ciavel of
Basel, Switzerland, who was return
ing from London on a business trip,
was picked up after being four hours
in the water.
Sinking of the British steamship
Empress of Midland is reported in q
Reuter- dispatch from Amsterdam.
The steamship Cromer from London
arrived at Maasluis, Holland, with the
crew of the Empress of Midland.
The war has so far cost Holland 4
clear $140,000,000. Further, reckoning
the demands of the intervening period
ct SS,000,000 a month the new minis
ter of finance, Dr. Anton van Gym,
estimates that by Aug l next a sum
of $1S0,000,000 will have been spent
on the mobilized land and sea forces.
Summarizing the work of the Ger
mans since March Is, when their new
program of submarine warfare
against the entente allied ships be-
gan, the London Daily Telegraph says
that they have in less than a fort
night sunk 10000 tons of shipping, of
which one-third belonged to neutrals.
The aeroplane squadron, which ac-
companied Brig Gen. ]. j. Pershing's
expedition, has made good thus far
in the dangerous work assigned to it.
Flying conditions among the Mexican
mountains, where Villa is being
sought, have presented unusual diff.
culties, and in surmounting them
some of the men have had thrilling
experiences.
Drum hIlNG NE WS
The Denver city police won the
second annual tug-o.war pull with
the firemen.
The most interested spectator of
the first showing of the pictures of
the Willard-Moran fight in New York
was Frank Moran.
Champion Jess Willard defeated
Frank Moran in ten-round bout al
Madison Square arena in New York
before 1900 fans.
Jones and Cowell captured the dou-
bles and Howard Parker the singles
in the annual bowling tournament of
the Commercial League on the Dem
yer alleys.
Chicago bowlers won $4,000 of the
$4,000 prize list offered for the five
man prize-winners of the American
Bowling Congress tournament, ac-
cording to a resume of the prize list
at Toledo, Ohio
Jess Willard, heavyweight cham.
pion, who grabbed off the easiest
$55,000 ever paid for a ring fight
when he won over Frank Moran, may
never fight again, according to Dave
Lewisohn of Chicago, stakeholder In
the big bout.
Noah Young, Jr., of Glenrock, Wyo,
brother of Bull Young, who was killed
by Jess Willard in fight at Los An
geles several years ago, has entered
the wrestling game under the direc-
ton of Frank Gotch, the heavyweight
champion, and hopes to become
Gotch's successor
GENERAL
Walter Cook, noted consulting ar.
chitect, died at his home in New
York, aged 70 years.
The libel proceedings instituted by
the British owners of the steamship
Appam to recover possession of the
vessel are expected to be heard ir
the Federal Court at Richmond, Va.
A daughter was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Francis Boyes Sayre at Phila,
delphia. She is the second grand.
daughter of President Wilson and will
be named Eleanor Axson Sayre for
Mrs Sayre's mother.
Mrs. John Ballow returned from
the home of a neighbor at Lawton,
Okla, to find her house in ashes and
her two daughters, one an infant,
aged months, and the other aged
3 years, burned to death. How the
fire started is not known.
At Media, Pa, William P. Pasco, a
teams,er, applied for raise in pay
from his employers He gave as his
reason the birth of bankruptcies at his
home Three girls and boy were
born during the night and all are do
ing well. Twin boys were born to
Mrs Pasco eighteen months ago.
Statements indicating he believed