Gilpin observer., 1918-03-21
Foreign

HoQ CrOBB forming new DrRnCn OF
work in France.
Many American troops awarded
French war cross.
Serious strikes spreading through
out Austria-Hungary.
Most of the houses in Innisfail, Aus
tralia, have been demolished by a cy-
clone. There were many casualties.
A Reuter- dispatch from London,
malists had murdered $50 Japanese at
Blagovetchensk.
The first official all-India wheat
forecast shows that the area sown is
the largest on record, being 34,000,O00
acres, 100000 more than last year.
Nikolayev. Captured" by the Ger
mans, about forty miles northwest of
Kherson, on the Bug river, has occu-
pied an important place in the naval
defenses of Russia.
A conference of eighty workmen,
| representing every factory in Petro-
grad, made public declaration
against the caucus vote of the Bolshe
vfk faction which favored ratification
of the peace terms.
Twenty thousand casualties have re-
suited from the civil war which has
broken out in Turkestan between the
soviets and the natives, according to
dispatches received at Petrograd.
Fierce battles are being fought.
All relatives of the Romanoffs (the
family name of the former czar)
above 16 years of age have been or
dered to register at Petrograd 1t is
believed possible they will be exiled
to Siberia with the Grand Duke
Michael.
Moscow has again become the Off
cial capital of Russia. Peter the Great
moved the seat of government from
Moscow to Petrograd, which he found
ed, and after 200 years the government
has been transferred by its present
head, Nikolai Lenine, back to the his
toric capital in the heart of Russia.
The Spanish and Swiss ambassa-
dors at Berlin have been directed by
the German foreign office to notify
the American government that Ger
many will proceed with measures
against American property in Ger
many in the same proportion that ac-
tion is taken against German property
in the United States, Reuters Amster-
dam correspondent reports.
The limited number of American
buyers now in Paris seeking models
for the spring and summer season re-
port that the leading creators of Paris
styles have made their models con-
form strictly to the requirements of
the Washington economy board, so
that patriotic American women can
serve their country regarding wool
conservation and at the same time dis
play the best Partisan styles.
Ratification of the peace pact by a
vote of 704 to 261 at Moscow was a
typical 'steam-roller" process. M.
Martoff, chief of the Menshevik fac
tion, charged that the full treaty was
not publicly known and declared that
the indemnity demanded by Germany
was 9.000,O00,00O rubles ($4,635, ,OOO,-
OOO). instead of the 3,OO0,OO0,OOO ru-
bles previously announced. He also
charged that the treaty declares Pc
tragrad "a free city"
Sporting News
Harry Bramer, Denver feather
weight. was given decision by Ref
cree Abe Pollock, over Benny Nc
Neill, the English champion, at the
end of fifteen-round bout at the
Lakeside A. c. in Denver.
The largest purse heretofore of.
fered for championship fight was
the 100000 prize hung up by Tex
Rickard for Jack Johnson and James
j. Jeffries. This fight also set the
mark in gate receipts, the sum COM
ing to s270.775 Willard and Moran
drew down the second largest purse
on March 25. 1916. and drew $3.50, 900
at the gate. Already $150,OO0 has
been offered for the Willard.Fulton
go.
.u General ....
Henry Parks Wright, former dean
of Yale University, died at New Ha.
ven, Conn.
or the 5000 women arrested in
Philadelphia last year, more than A..
900 were charged with drunkenness.
An important debate appears to be
in prospect in the Chamber of Depu.
ties on the subject of reprisals for
aerial attacks on Paris.
Two very violent explosions in a
EN.
Paris, caused the deaths of sixteen
persons and the injury of large mum.
ber, mostly slightly. according to an
official announcement.
Men engaged In planting or cult
waiting crop are to be allowed by
exemption boards to continue their