, 1917-12-06
FOREIGN

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lar is quoted as worth SLAP in Chin
csc coin.
Former Premier Kerensky of Rus
STA was reported by the Russian press
to be safely in hiding in Finland.
A dispatch from P~etrograd to the
London Daily Mail says that Siberia is
about to declare its independence.
Lady Mackenzie, wife of Sir Viii
liam Mackenzie. president OF the Can.
adian Northern railway. died at her
home in Toronto.
National Guardsmen from every
state in the Union have arrived in
France, it is now permitted to be an
nounced. They are among the troops
now training or lately arrived.
American soldiers stationed in Par
is and the suburbs, as well as those
at various training camps and bases,
sat down to an old-fashioned hanks
giving dinner.
h Austro-Hungarian government
has sent an official reply accepting
the Russian governments wireless
proposal to enter into negotiations for
an armistice IL a general peace
treaty.
The n of the East African cam
paign before Christmas is predicted by
the Reuter- correspondent at Ndara. He
declares by that time the German
commander-in-chief will be a prisoner
or in exile.
Teuton attacks against the Italian
positions in Albania at a point ten
miles northeast of the Adriatic sea
port of Avlona were repulsed with
announced at Rome.
The British governments answer to
the Marquis of L~ansdowne's mo
knockout letter was a firm rei:era-
ton that no discussion of freedom of
the seas" is possible until the oceans
have been swept clean of German sub
marines.
The government of Nikolai Lenine
has fallen, according to a Petrograd
dispatch to the London Daily Chron-
icle. 1t has beef succeeded by a coal
ition cabinet of advanced Socialists, in
which, however, the B%oIsheviki are
represented.
Count Czerin, the Austro-Hungar-
ian foreign minister, in Il discussion
with the delegates of the upper house,
said, according to a Vienna dispatch,
that Austria was ready to enter into
negotiations with Russia for an hon
orable and acceptable peace.
That 100000 Kirghise Tartars were
massacred in the summer of 1916 be
cause they revolted against the ex-
cars transference of their best graz
ing lands to his favorites is stated in
the Manchester Guardian by NJ. Phil
lips Price. a special correspondent Just
returned to London from "a visit to the
remote region on the borders of Rus
STA and China.
SPORTING NEWS
Fred Rantschler, dashing right end
of the Denver University football
eleven, was elected captain of the 1918
team.
Peck Griffin, national doubles ten
mis- champion, the greatest court gen
eral hat aver held a racquet, is some
where Ill france.
The American soldiers in the
trenches are not to be forced to grow
lax in American sports. A recent ship
ment sent from Red Cross h%eadquar-
tiers included $50 soccer footballs and
$50 Rugby footballs, the gift of Har-
ward graduates to the Sammies.
Camp Shelby, Hattiesburg, Miss,
army post boasts of the first woman
70 qualify as n sharpshooter in the
American army-and she halls from
Kentucky. Mrs. Jackson Morris, wife
of Major Morris, former secretary of
the governor of Kentucky, holds the
honor.
GENERAL
War taxes can be paid in quarterly
periods.
Chicago vas appointed chief of a new
industrial section in the Council of
National Defense TO adjust labor sup
ply to war needs.
Mrs. John Brammell and three child
rem, Arthur, II; Tannis, s, and Beth,
4, We're suffocated in their home at
Minneapolis, Mimi, when fire broke
out in the basement.
The Marquis of Transformers bomb
shell letter may have far reaching eff
feet in bringing EngIand's discussions
of the war to a center on President
Wilson's plans for a frank, full and
joint statement of aims by all the
allies.
An authorized report concerning the
Unionist meeting in London, says it
was attended by 1,5OO representatives
of Unionist bodies throughout the