Gilpin observer., 1918-02-14
Foreign

new list of American papers barred
from circulating in Canada.
THE death. of Abdul Hamid, former
Sultan of Turkey. from inflammation
of the lungs is announced in a dis
patch from Constantinople.
The first installment of arms for
China under the Japanese arms loan
was delivered at Wang-Tao, Chi
Lii province, according to dispatches
from Picking.
Three-fourths of Finland is now in
the hands of the anti-Bolshevik forces,
1t was announced from headquarters
of the White guard today at Copen-
hagen.
All diplomatic couriers on their way
to Petrograd have been detained in
Stockholm because of Instructions re-
ceived by the Finnish minister to wise
no passports for foreigners.
Monday the Australians captured a
number of prisoners in successful
raid near Messines. Saturday night a
Belgian patrol successfully attacked a
hostile post in the Merriam sector.
Russia has declared the state of
war to be at an end and has ordered
the rehabilitation of Russian forces
on all fronts, according to dispatch
received at Amsterdam dated Brest-
Litovsk on Sunday.
Germany desires peace, but before
it can be attained, her enemies must
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torious, Emperor William said il reply
to an address presented by the burgo-
master of Hamburg on the conclusion
of peace with the Ukraine
Advices from Haparanda says that
Tammerfors has been in in the hands
of the white guard since Thursday.
Railway communication between Pc
trograd and Viborg has been inter-
rupted and it is believed ttat the
white guard has finally captured vi
borg. In the fighting at Uleaborg the
white guard was victorious, 1900 OF
the red guard being taken prisoner
The peace treaty negotiated with
Ukraine by the central powers, ac-
cording to Berlin dispatches, includes
mutual remuneration of reimbursement
of war costs and naturalization OF
war damages; permission for the re-
spective war prisoners to return to
their homes or remain in the country
where they are imprisoned or proceed
to another country; economic rela-
tions to be resumed forthwith.
Sporting News,
Fred Fulton stopped Mcmahon in
the fourth round at the Stockyards
stadium in Denver.
At annapolis, Nd, the University of
Pittsburgh team defeated the Annap-
oils midshipmen in a swimming con-
test by a score of % to II.
The passing of John L. Sullivan, the
first acknowledged worlds heavy
weight glove champion, removes one
more ex-champion from the game OF
life. Until couple of months ago
seven. men who had at one time or
another held the exalted position Of
titleholder were among the living. To-
day there are only five. Those to pass
on were Bob Fitzsimmons, the Cornish.
man, who succumbed in Chicago to an
attack of pneumonia The other was
John L., victim of heart disease The
surviving ex-champions are Tommy
Burns, smallest of the entire list; Jim
Jeffries, the largest; Marvin Hart of
Louisville. Jim Corbett, the actor, and
Jack Johnson, the negro.
General
A tribute to the American soldiers
lost in the sinking of the troop trans
port Tuscania-"Gallant men who
have made the supreme sacrifice for
their country's sake"-was paid by
Earl Redding, former lord chief Justice
of England, who arrived at an Atlantic
port AS high commissioner and am
bassador extraordinary and plenipo-
Tertiary on special missioa to the
United States, he will assume the du-
ties of Sir Cecil Spring-Rice. British
ambassador at Washington, who has
been recalled
The Washington branch OF the Am
erican Red Cross Society has taken
the first step toward mobilizing an
American civilian army for service
back of the battle lines in France.
William Blakeney. widely known as
a blackface minstrel in the decades be-
fore and after the Civil War, died at
his home in New York at the age OF
Sc years. He retired twenty years
| ago.
Forty freight cars loaded with NUM-
tons and uniforms for the United
States troops, were destroyed by fire
which swept through the Lehigh Val
ley Railroad transfer plant at Newark
N. ].
The War Department has ordered
finger prints of all the unrecognizable
soldiers recovered from the Tuscania