The Colorado statesman., 1917-04-07
FOREIGN

sons state of war" message reached
Berlin. 1t is declared in Berlin that
there would be no change in the Ger
man attitude.
President Wilson's message align
ing the United States with the nations
fighting against Germany was warmly
welcomed and unanimously acclaimed
by the British people.
Col. Rafael Manduley, former gov
ernor of Oriente province and presi-
dent of the Liberal party of that
province, has surrendered with 500
followers at Guantanamo.
The American commission for relief
in Belgium received a dispatch stat
ing that the first delegation of Ameri-
can relief workers in Belgium and
northern France had arrived at Berne,
Switzerland.
Germany is contemplating a formal
protest to neutral nations against
Americas action in declaring war,
Berlin advices asserted. BY such an
appeal, 1t was said, Germany hopes
particularly to influence South Amer
lean nations.
Fifty thousand sledges, carrying
victims of the old regime back to free
dom in the new Russia from the mines
and convict settlements of Siberia, are
speeding in endless chains across the
snow of north Asia toward the near
est points on the Trans-Siberian rail-
road.
A dispatch from Copenhagen to the
London News says that the commits
sion, investigating the charges that
Russian commanders had been bribed
by Germany, has substantiated the re-
port that the commander of Libau re-
ceived $2,000,000 from Germany and
the commander of Mittau $1,500,000.
The German Emperor and Chancel-
slor Won Bethmann-Hollweg were bit
terly denounced by Deputy Skabeloff,
vice president of the council of work
men, soldiers and delegates, during a
demonstration in front of the Duma
building, according to a Petrograd
dispatch to Reuter-.
The proposal of Count Won Czernin,
Austrian foreign minister, that peace
conference be held by belligerents
without requiring the cessation of hos
tilities, apparently represents the at
titude of all the central governments.
Count Czernin's proposal was not only
sanctioned by Austria and her allies,
but will shortly be formally approved
at conference of high personages at
Berlin representing the four countries.
SPORTING NEWS
Matt Hinkle, the Cleveland promot-
er, began a dickering for a limited
bout between Jess Willard and the
winner of the Carl Morris Fred Fulton
bout in New York.
Sailor Kirke of San Francisco and
Otto Wallace of Milwaukee fought to
draw in a fifteen-round bout at the
N. A. c. in Denver The lads fought
toe to toe throughout.
The body of Lloyd Jevne, holder of
the worlds three-cushion billiard
championship from 1900 to 1907, was
taken to Los Angeles for burial He
died in hospital at San Francisco.
Twenty thousand for the opener"
has been adopted as the slogan of
the Portland Baseball Booster club,
which is making plans to give the
Portland team of the Pacific Coast
Baseball league a big reception eApriI
IT.
GENERAL
Graduation of first class of cadets
at West Point ordered for April 20.
Texas cowpunchers, ex-rangers and
y,p1,
airy rough riders.
Seven million dollars probably will
be appropriated for preparedness by
the Pennsylvania Legislature.
At the annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Colt Patent Fire Arms
Manufacturing Company, $2,500,O00
melon was cut.
Mrs Alton B. Parker, wife of former
Judge Parker, Democratic candidate
for President in 1914, died at her
home in New York.
Coincident with the practical entry
of the United States into the war
comes news from Berlin that the cen
trail powers are planning a new peace
offer.
At Baltimore, Md, Amos H. Pauhls,
62 years old, was sentenced to the fed
eral penitentiary at Atlanta for term
of eighteen months under the recent
act of Congress, which makes it a
crime to threaten the President.
At Guthrie, Okla, it took the sher-
iff to stop the riot in the auditorium
when a peace meeting suddenly broke
into patriotic demonstration. John
Dean, cotton broker, leaped upon a
desk in the center of the room, an
American flag wrapped about his body
and led three cheers for Wilson