The Colorado statesman., 1917-12-15
FOREIGN


bon.
Germany's great qua makers, the
Krupps, have opened n branch factory
at Lucerne. with capital OF 30,o00,000
marks.
At Santiago, Chile, the government
issued decree of neutrality in the
war between the United States and
Austria-Hungary.
No attempt will be made to define
| the future position of Jerusalem until
| general peace comes. the London
Times says 1t understands.
A regiment of business and profess
sional men set to work digging graves
for the 1900 bodies recovered from
the ruins made by the explosion
Dec. 6.
Virtually all hope has been aban-
| doned at Quebec for the crew OF the
| government steamer Simcoe, which
was reported sinking off Magdalen
islands.
President Wilson's name may be
given to one of the principal streets
in the Eternal city in grateful COM
memoration OF Americas aid to Italy
in the great war.
A Geneva dispatch to the Vosseche
Zeitung says that on receiving tho
cardinals Dec. %. the Pope will de-
liver an important pronunciamento Oh
the question of peace.
Germany made a move for peace
through some neutral government
last September, according to an an
| nouncement in the House of Commons
by Foreign Minister Balfour.
The death is announced in London
of Countess Sarah Esterhazy, widow
of Count Maximilian Esterhazy, for
| mer Austrian ambassador to London,
who died thirty years ago.
Premier Alhucemas made official
announcement at Madrid that the
Spanish steamship Claudio had been
bombarded by a German submarine,
eight sailors being killed and others
wounded.
Figures officially given out of the
casualties in the munitions explosion
disaster in Halifax, N. s., follow:
Known dead, 1880; identified, $40;
unaccounted for, 1920; wounded, g.
600; homeless, $4,000. A roaring bliz-
zard, the third to strike that sorely af-
flicted city since the blast from the
exploding munitiop steamer made U.s.
900 persons homeless. burst from the
northeast
The American Red Cross is in Hall
fax and the relief work is already
under way, but the railroads are hav
ing difficulty handling the freight
| which has come from nearby cities
| and towns answering the call for aid.
The marriage in London of Count
Christian Gunther Won Bernstorff, son
of the former ambassador to the Unit
| ed States, and Mrs. Marguerite Vivian
| Burton Thompson of Burlington, N. j.,
| is reported by the Berlin newspapers.
SPORTING NEWS
Seemingly the plan of the Western
league to drop Denver from the cir
cult is going to succeed.
Ban Johnson will continue as presi-
dent of the American league unless no
| is called to perform some war duty
for the government.
Fred Fulton, Rochester, Mimi, as
pirant for the heavyweight title, is
more insistent than ever that Cham
pion Jess Willard battle with him.
| Fulton turned loose at Columbus. o.,
| on Porky Dan Flynn of Boston in the
second round of scheduled ten-round
| bout and knocked the Beantown man
cold A left uppercut turned the
trick.
GENERAL
News of an explosion on board the
| submarine Az, resulting in the death
of Joseph Schaeffer, chief electrician
of the boat, was received by the navy
department.
Many crops this year exceed the
production of other years, while the
| value of the country's farm products,
| with total estimated unofficially at
| $21 900 100000, far exceeds any other
year in history.
President Wilson has issued a proc
| lamation in which he urges everyone
not already member to join the Red
| Cross during the membership CAM
paign starting Dec. 16 and continuing
| until Christmas eve.
A clear profit of $40 head from a
| flock of 275 ewes, with the wool clip
averaging eight pounds, and an in
crease in numbers of 16S per cent, is
| the cheerful outlook reported by a
Bayfield, county. Wis. sheep raiser.
The bodies of 400 Chinese, buried
in the Chinese reservation in Cypress
Hill cemetery, Brooklyn, during the
past thirteen years, are being ex-
humed preparatory to shipment to the
Orient that they may rest finally In