Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1917-12-07
FOREIGN

Al annoy, emma, the Amerlcan dol
lar is quoted as worth f1.42 in Chin
csc coin.
Former Premier KerensAy of Rus.
STA was reported by the RuA sian press
to be safely in hiding In Finland.
A dispatch from Petrogiad to the
London Daily Mail says thai Siberia is
about to declare its independence
Lady Mackenzie, wife a Sir VIII.
liam Mackenzie, president d the Can.
adian Northern railway, dad at her
home in Toronto.
National Guardsmen from every
state in the Union have arrived in
France, Il is now permitted 70 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 ol~d-fashioned Thanks.
giving dinner.
The Austro-H Hungarian government
has sent an official reply accepting
the Russian governments wireless
proposal to enter into negotiations for
an armistice and a general peace
treaty.
The end of the East African cam
paign before Christmas is predicted by
the Reuter- correspondent at Ndara. He
declares by hat time the German
commandments 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
heavy losses, the Italian wal office
announced at Rome.
The British governments answer 10
the Marquis of Lansdowne's mo
knockout" letter was a firm reitera-
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 been succeeded by a coal
ition cabinet of advanced Socialists. in
which, however, the Bolsheviki are
represented.
Count Czerin, the Austro-Hungar-
ian foreign minister, in a 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 lust
returned to London from a visit to the
remote region on the borders of Rus
STA and China.
SPORTING NEWS
Fred R%antschler, 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 that ever held a racquet, is some
where in 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 headquar-
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
to qualify as a 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
Wal taxes can be paid in quarterly
periods.
l.. c. Marshall of the University of
Chicago was 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, IL; Tannis, s, and Beth,
4, were suffocated in their home at
Minneapolis. Mimi, when fire broke
out in the basement.
The Marquis of Lansdowne's bomb
shell letter may have far reaching ef.
feet in bringing England'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
An authorized report concerning the
Unionist meeting in London, says 1t
was attended by 1900 representatives
Unionist bodies throughout the
country, and that resolutions were
unanimously carried deploring the
publication of the letter Of the Mar
quis Of Lansdowne and declaring firm