, 1918-08-01
FOREIGN

NAC piVhiiStg a hCoi6hCot "a ~
ivostok dispatch to the London Times.
King George has ordered the British
court to go in mourning for -four weeks
for former Emperor Nicholas of Rus
STA.
Influenza is epidemic in the Swiss
army. There are now 1880 cases of
the malady and 109 deaths have re-
suited.
A peasant rebellion has broke out
in the Ukraine on a formidable scale,
according to information received in
London.
Two Austrian transports were sunk
in an Italian attack on Cattaro, &C
ocrding to dispatches received from
Cattaro.
Germany has made suggestions for
a peace conference to the Spanish gov
eminent, says the Socialist Vorwaerts
Of Berlin.
1t was officially announced in Lon
don that Japan had decided to accept
the American proposal to assist the
Czecho-Slovak armies in Siberia.
Baron Won Hussarek, former minis
ter of education. has BEEF appointed
to the Austrian premiership in success
sion to DR.. Won Seydler, whose cabinet
resigned recently.
The Rumanian press bureau say
that according to the Spanish embas-
sy's doctor at Constantinople, so per
cent of the Rumanian prisoners have
died from typhus in Turkish camps.
The important point of Oulchy-le-
Chateau slowly but surely is being
surrounded, say dispatches from Paris.
If the Germans lose It, it will be impos-
sible for them to hang on to Fere-En-
Tardenois.
Thirty-seven German airplanes were
brought down or put out of action by
French and British airmen July %.
Four captive balloons were burned and
many tons of bombs were dropped on
German concentration points.
Alexis Romanoff, the former heir
apparent to the Russian throne, died
from exposure a few days after his
father, the former emperor, Yves exc
cuted, says a dispatch from Moscow to
the Berlin Lokal Anzeiger.
A Russian wireless received in Lon
don says: after the siege of Yaroslav
by the councils troops against coun-
ter revolutionaries the place was occu-
pied by a red army. Between 5000 and
5000 white guards tried to save them
selves OF the Volga but a majority Of
them were drowned"
The giant White Star liner Justicia
was torpedoed and sunk. Four hun
dred of the crew of the Justicia were
landed at an Irish port. They report
that the liner was sunk after a TWEEN
ty-four-hour fight with submarines. No
passengers were lost, and only ten of
the crew were killed.
SPORT
Professional baseball players were
given until Sept. 1 to seek essential
employment or be called to the colors,
in an order issued by Secretary Baker.
Judging from the interest being
shown in advance, there will be a big
attendance from Denver at the race
meeting scheduled to open at Chey-
enne on Aug. 10. The meet will con-
tinue until Sept. 2.
Ten thousand persons at Frontier
park in Cheyenne, on July "a, saw
Joe Gardiner of Oklahoma clip foul
seconds from the worlds s~teer-roping
record and by doing it provided the
supreme thrill of the first day of the
Frontier days celebration. Roping in
an arena hock-deep with mud and
slippery as a rink, the Oklahoman
completed the hog-tie in % seconds
flat. The previous record, 81 seconds,
was held by Bert Weir Of New Mex.
leo.
GENERAL
The losses to British and allied ship
ping due to enemy action or marine
risk for the month of June totalled
275,629 gross tons, this being the low
est record for any month since Sep
TENDER, 1916.
The British armed cruiser Marmora
was torpedoed and sunk by a German
submarine.
Maj. Armando Andre, Cuba's direc-
tor of subsistence, has placed articles
of dress, including shoes, under the
same restrictions as food.
Aviator ]. Lawrence Durham, Brock
Vile, Ont, was instantly killed and
Ralph Doolittle, San Francisco. fatally
injured in the fall of an aeroplane at
the Curtiss testing field at Buffalo,
N. Y.
At Kennebunkport, Me-, scores Of
patrol boats, submarine chasers and
private craft were sweeping the coast
searching for eight of the crew of the
fishing schooner Robert and Richard.
which was sunk by a German sub
marine sixty-five miles off Cape Por-
poise.
A dedication of all its strength and
to President Wilson in the