The Colorado statesman. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1895-1961, 1918-02-16
FOREIGN


out by the French. German raiding
parties were beaten back.
The Seattle Daily Call is now on
new list of American papers barred
from circulating in Canada.
Sir Cecil Spring Rice, former Brit
ish ambassador to the United States,
died of heart disease at Government
House in Ottawa, Can.
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 a successful
raid near Messines. Saturday night a
Belgian patrol successfully attacked
hostile post in the Merriam sector.
According to the lobby correspond
ent of the London Daily News, facts
are known which bring the possibility
of a separate peace between Austria
Hungary and the entente allies much
nearer.
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had reached a critical stage which de-
manded more than ever before the full
use of the country's energies and re-
sources.
The American dead as a result OF
the sinking of the steamer Tuscania,
apparently is at least 1853. Thus far
las bodies have been buried along the
Scotch coast and IA additional bodies
were recovered.
The police at Copenhagen arrested
the leader of the Syndicalists, who es-
capped during the riots, in which be-
tween 10000 and $4,000 persons at
tempted to storm the treasury, plum
der shops and enter the royal palace.
President Wilson stands head and
shoulders above all others as the
spokesman of the allied peoples, in the
opinion of the Manchester Guardian,
mainly because he is able to keep firm
ly and constantly in view the reasons
why America came into the war.
Mrs. William B. Leeds, a wealthy
American widow, and Prince Chris
topher of Greece, according to the
London Daily Sketch, have been quiet
ly married in Switzerland, where Mrs.
Leeds has been stopping for time
with son who is in delicate health.
In the House of Commons former
Premier Asquith, commenting upon
President Wilson's speech to Con-
gress, said the President had discrim-
mated justly in regard to both tone
and substance between the declara-
lions of the German chancellor and
the Austro- Hungarian foreign minister
in their utterances regarding war
aims.
After declaring the Government will
stand by the considered declaration he
made early in the year to the trades
union representatives, Premier David
Lloyd George told the House of Com
mons that he had read with the most
profound disappointment the replies
of Count Won Hertling, the imperial
German chancellor, and Count Czern-
in, the Hungarian foreign min
lister, to President Wilson's and his
own speeches.
SPORT
"Tex" Richard, cattleman and box
ing promoter, has abandoned the pugi-
| listic arena in favor of the ranch.
Richard sailed for South America and
will devote his time to cattle raising.
Jess Willard, champion heavyweight
pugilist, announced in Kansas City
that he stood ready and willing to
meet in Cheyenne, Wyo July 4, the
winner of Jack Dempsey-Fulton
| bout.
Death has laid it's hand on John L.
Sullivan's animal friends at his farm
at Arlington, Mass. The day after the
| former champion was buried, Colonel
Corn, his favorite horse, dropped dead
in his stall and the next day another
constant companion, a bulldog, given
/ him by Yank Sullivan of Syracuse,
| N. Y. died. To complete the list the
ring hero's COW and two collie dogs, in
which he had taken great pride, died.
GENERAL
The observance of Lincoln's birth
day in New York City was marked by
an unusually large number of patriotic
| meetings.
Will H. Hays of Indiana was elected
chairman of the Republican national
committee. Fred w. Upham of Chi
cago was elected treasurer.
Although 5000 men short of war
strength, unofficial figures show that
Camp Logan at Houston, Tex, passed
the $500, 100000 mark in war insurance
when the campaign closed today
The Rev. S. N Robinson, formerly
assistant editor of the Christian Advo-
cate and for many years associated in
evangelistic work with the Rev. A. G.
Dixon and the late Dwight L. Moody,
| died suddenly at Elizabeth N T. He