Taiban Valley news., 1918-05-10
FOREIGN


tary rule in Kiev, the Ukrainian capt.
tal
The long range bombardment of the
Paris district was begun again May l.
Three women were injured slightly.
One hundred followers of Luis Ca
ballero were killed and fifty-one made
prisoners at La Cruz, Tamaulipas, ac-
cording to an official message received
at Juarez.
Mothers Day-a day on which every
soldier of the American forces, young
and old, high and low, is expected to
write home to mother-has been fixed
for May IL.
The hanging of eight Mexicans who
were caught working mine belonging
| to Villa on the Fresno ranch, west OF
Chihuahua City, was confirmed by ar
rivals from the Chihuahua state capi-
| tai.
The Victoria cross has been awarded
to Lieut.. Allen Gerard and Alan Ar
net Mcleod of the Royal Air force
| for deeds which stand out even among
the exploits in this branch of the serv-
| ice.
The strike in the Dombrowa coal
fields, the largest in western Russia,
according to a Cracow dispatch to the
Zurich Neue Zuricher Zeitung, is the
biggest and most serious of any out
breaks since the Austrian occupation
of Poland.
Austria is seething with revolt, and
the only thing that prevents the COM
mon people from rising and striking
the death blow to autocracy is the
lack of leader and the insufficiency
of funds. This was the statement of
a man just arrived from Vienna, and
who recently has been in various parts
of the empire. The people are lit
orally starving and are on bread cards,
allowing them few grams a day.
The British admiralty has found
that the channel at Zeebrugge in
which old British cruisers recently
the German submarine bases on the
Belgian coast, is still blocked and will
probably remain so for considerable
time, in spite of the efforts of the
Teutons to dredge a new channel
around the obstacles formed by the
wrecks of the warships.
Gavrio Prinzip, the assassin OF
Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir ap-
parent to the Austro-Hungarian
throne, and his wife at Sarajevo, Bos.
mia, died in a fortress near Prague OF
tuberculosis, telegraphs the CORE
spondent at The Hague of the Lon.
don Exchange Telegraph Company.
Prinzip shot to death the Austrian
archduke and his wife while they were
on a visit to the Bosnian capital on
June 2S, 1914, and out of this double
murder the European war developed.
SPORT
Robert Fitzsimmons, son of the
former heavyweight champion of the
world, is at Camp Dix, Wrightstown
N. j., learning to be soldier.
Billy Miske and Jack Dempsey
|
Paul, MINI. Neither gained a com
manding lead and draw was the gen
eral verdict.
Mayor Thomas w. Fairweather
owner of the Des Moines Western
League baseball club announced that
the team will be transferred to Peoria
ILL.,, unless attendance at games in Des
Moines increases greatly. 1t is said
Peoria interests have guaranteed 10,
900 admissions for this season. Fair
weather will not relinquish ownership
if the transfer is made.
GENERAL
A call for 1886 additional draft men
was issued by the provost marshal
general.
The government will allow dealers
in raw wool a commission of pei
cent for ungraded and 31A per cent
for graded wool.
One million American soldiers il
France by July is the goal which the
administration is striving to attain.
Holders of the second issue of Lib
, erty Bonds were asked by Secretary
of the Treasury William G. McAdoc
to invest the first dividend, due May
Is, in war savings stamps and certifi
Gates.
The National Association of Moth
ers of Defenders of Democracy, Of
which Mrs. John r. Macarthur, New
York city, is president, issued an ap
peal for international victory prayer
on May 12 for the mothers of soldiers
and sailors.
Two soldiers were burned to death
and eighteen men burned seriously
when captive observation balloon
exploded at Florence field, the army
| balloon school at Fort Omaha, neal
Omaha, according to a statement by
Col. H. B. Hersey, post commander.
Public feeling approaching jubila
ton has resulted in Christiania from
the announcement in the newspapers
; that DR.. Fritjoff Nansen, head of the
Norwegian food mission in the United