The Colorado statesman., 1917-12-29
FOREIGN

Berlin.
Tobacco is a necessity, not luxury,
declared Lord Rhonda, the food con
troller, in a statement Published at
| London
Germany has asked postponement
of peace negotiations until Jan. "a
according to semi-official announce
ment at Petrograd.
A memorial mass was celebrated in
memoration of the deliverance of Je-
rusalem from the Turk
News of revolutionary plot
against King Ferdinand of Rumania
has been received at the Smolny in
stitute. the Bolshevill headquarters in
Petrograd.
Potato breakfasts at which potatoes
are served instead of bread, were
urged upon English housewives by
Doctor Campbell, an attache of the
food administration.
The Chamber of Deputies at Paris
! adopted a resolution extending the
terms of all elective officials in
France until the end of the war. No
elections will be held in the mean
time
Nilhjalmur Stefansson, the Arctic
explorer, last heard from in a letter
received in March, 1916, has arrived
with his party at Fort Yukon, accord
ing to word received by the naval de-
partment at Ottawa.
|
| ceived the members of the sacred col
lege for an exchange of Christmas
| greetings. In answer to an address
| delivered by Cardinal Vannutelli,
dean of the college, the pope renewed
his recommendations for incessant
prayers for peace.
Ten sons from the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. S. G.. Ball of Vancouver have
been killed in action during the war,
it became known at Vancouver, B. C.
Mrs. Ball, a widow with five sons,
was married six years ago to Mr.. Ball,
who had eleven sons. Mrs. Ball served
as a nurse during the Boer war and
was wounded.
Leon Trotzky, the Bolsheviki for
eign minister, protested to the Ger
mans against the transference of
troops from the eastern front, but
also has ordered Russian factories to
stop the manufacture of munitions
He did not indicate whether his gov
ernment would take any other step
against German violation of the arm
istice.
SPORTING NEWS
The Packey McFarland-M Glib
bons bout will be held in Chicago.
The Naval Reserves soccer team of
st. Louis defeated the Camp Funston
team at st. Louis, 3, to @.
Denver golf clubs remembered the
soldiers at home Christmas, the gen
erosity of the golfers being limited
only by the proportions of the club
| houses
Fred Fulton, claimant of the world
heavyweight championship since Dec
20, apparently is farther than ever
from a bout with Jess Willard. Full
ton at Little Rock, Ark. lost to Harry
(Texas) Tate of Nowata, Okla, in the
first round of a scheduled ten-round
bout by a decision of Referee Billy
Hack, who ruled that Fulton was u.s.
ing foul tactics.
GENERAL
A plot to poison Red Cross band
ages and spread wholesale death
among the soldiers of America and
her allies has been exposed and frus-
trated at Cleveland, Ohio.
Christmas mail and passenger traf
| fic on coast trains was seriously ham
pered by washouts in the Cascades, ac-
cording to reports received by the
Railway Postal Service at Fargo, n. D.
In New York the number of licenses
issued for Christmas marriages
showed an increase of nearly 100 per
cent. over 1916. A total of 277 Ii
censes We're issued Monday as com
pared with 167 on Christmas eve last
year.
New regulations issued by the Fed
eral Food Administration automatic
ally reduced the price of flour in car
load lots at the mills by establishing
a lower amount of wheat to be used
in the manufacture of barrel of
flour.
Secretary of War Baker is right in
stating that the German peace maneu
vers should not for n moment induce
the United States to slacken prepara-
tions for war, in the opinion % H.
Charles Woods. Fellow of the Royal
Geographical Society, and a recog
nized authority on military matters in
England
A woman, designated only at "H"
and said to be prominent in the Ger
man secret service, directed the ac-
tivities of Franz Schulenberg, alleged
master spy held at San Francisco on