, 1917-11-01
FOREIGN

Twenty Villa followers were taken
prisoners by Gen. Jose Carlos Muir
gula south of San Antonio Pass.
The government was defeated in the
Chamber of Deputies at Rome when
a vote of confidence failed by S14 to
90.
The Swiss newspapers express the
opinion that the destruction of four
Zeppelins in France is a death blow
to aircraft of this type.
The newspapers state that Premier
Kerensay probably will relinquish the
post Of commandments of the Rus
sian armies to General Boukhonin.
Sixty persons were killed and nine.
ty seriously wounded, as the result OF
an explosion which occurred in the
principal barracks at San Jose, Costa
Rica.
The Russian preliminary parlia.
ment, according to the
shortly will discuss the fate of the
Romanoff family. now imprisoned
near Tobolsk, Siberia.
The American congressman who are
making an unofficial tour of the war
area held a conference with Walter
Hines Page, the American ambassa-
dor, at the embassy in London.
DR.. Won Kuehlmann in Berlin still
is the most talked of candidate for
the ,chancellorship of that country
but Amsterdam reports say Kaiser
will keep Michaelis in power.
Chancellor of the E%xchequer A. Bo-
mar Law said he would move a vote
of credit for $1,000, 100000 in the
House of Commons in London. This
mount will finance the war until early
In December, it is estimated.
In the House of Commons, Lord
Robert Cecil, minister of blockade,
gave a categorical denial to rumors
circulated by Germany that the West
ern powers were contemplating a sep
arate peace at the expense of Russia
and Rumania.
The Sim Fem conference in Dublin
decided the members Of the organiza-
ton should be trained in the use of
arms. though this will not be compul-
ooAy IL tHCo pIOHllStu lldI
the provisional government of Ireland
should be established without delay.
ROLAND S. Morris, the new Ameri-
a ambassador to Japan, in success
sion to the late George w. Guthrie,
arrived at Toxic in good health. Mr..
Morris was welcomed at Yokohama
by the staff of the American embassy
and by members of the American as
sociation.
Details have reached London of a
German plan to obtain ascendancy
after the war in Denmark by ceding
10 Denmark a small strip of former
Danish territory in North Schleswig,
in return for "a large sum of money
and. presumably also, certain eco
nomic and commercial concessions.
SPORTING NEWS
Benny Leonard was offered S25, 000
to box Charley White, the Chicago
lightweight.
Introduction of a third major league
baseball circuit with or without the
sanction of organized baseball was the
announcement made at Chicago On the
authority of Charles w. Murphy, for
mer owner of the Cubs.
Alfredo de Orc, at New York, re.
tanned his title as three-cushion bill
lard champion when he defeated John
DAILY, the challenger. in the final block
of fifty points by a score of so to &C
The total for the three nights play
was: De Orc, $50; DAILY, 129.
GENERAL
Mrs. Vincent Aston is reported to
be i'll in Paris.
Canadian wheat soon to be moving
toward eastern mills.
Returns from the Liberty loan cam
paign of the Boy Scouts OF America
showed hat bonds in excess of $21,
100000 were sold.
Secretary McAdoo, in speech at Lit
tie Rock, declares that militant Amer
lea can whip the Kaiser, but that the
| Kaiser can whip a~pathetic America.
Madame Sarah Bernhard, on hel
seventy-third birthday, said: "Ameri
ca will win the war for France" and
expressed her profound admiration
for America and American women
Blown down by a high wind, a big
oak tree struck an automobile neal
Dallas, Tex, killing Frank Boyd, dep
uty sheriff of Rockwell. Tex, and Eu
genia Handy. his sister-in-law. Two
others were seriously injured.
british tank. similar to the giant
war machines of this character in &C
tive service in France, reached the
New York port OF a steamship from
Europe and was set up as a compan
io, avhihit tn The German submarine