The Colorado statesman., 1918-09-21
FOREIGN

Six persons were killed and fifteen
others were injured in Sunday nights
air raid over Paris.
Back from the Far North, Vilhjal-
mur Stefansson, Canadian Arctic ex-
plorer, reached Vancouver, b. c.
Admiral Henry T. Mayo OF the
American navy, accompanied by his
staff, has arrived in England on "A
tour of American activities in Euro.
pean waters.
Germany is demanding 100000 from
Austria in payment for the soldiers
lent by Germany to Austria for the
drive against the Italians during the
autumn of last year. according to in
formation from Berne.
King Christian has bestowed the
Grand Cross of the order of Dame
brog on DR. Maurice +. Egan, former
American minister to Denmark. This
is the highest decoration which can
be awarded commoner.
One hundred and fifty-four persons
| are missing following the torpedoing
| of the British steamship Galway Cas-
| tie, which was en- route to South Al
rica. OF this number thirty-four were
members of the crew.
Socialist members of the municipal
council of Berlin raised the food CUES
ton in the council meeting. according
to the Telegram. one speaker eN-
claimed: 1T is time the war came to
an end His words We're greeted by
loud applause from the public gallery.
Wholesale executions are increasing
in Petrograd, according to private
kilograms received at Stockholm by
way of Helsingfors. During the last
week S12 persons Were executed and
more than 400 others are on the pro-
scribed list Most of them have al
ready been made hostages. All per
sons of the rank of counselors OF
state have been imprisoned regard
less of their political views.
While Austria was preparing her
note TO the belligerent nations, pro
posing that they meet in informal dis
cussion of peace terms in = neutral
country, Germany was making ready
to make another offer of separate
peace to Belgium. 1t is announced
that the Belgian government has been
approached with a proposal that if she
will remain neutral during the remain
der of the war Germany is ready to
withdraw to the frontiers that We're
violated in August, 1914. 1t is af-
firmed from Berlin that the Austrian
government acted on its initiative in
sending out its proposals, but the offer
of Germany to Belgium points to what
may be said TO be more than coinci-
dence and probably desperate peace
| offensive is now well under way.
SPORT
George Sisler. premier first base,
man of the st. Louis Cardinals, has
elected to fight the boche instead of
accepting essential employment on
war work.
| Athletic sports as formerly pur-
sued, involving extended trips and
| specialized training, will not be per-
mitted at colleges and other institu-
tions having army students training
! corps, Col. r. J. Rees, chairman of the
| War Department committee on educa-
ton and special training, has advised
presidents of such institutions in a
letter made public at Washington.
GENERAL
Cardinal John NJ. Farley died at his
home at Mamaroneck, n. Y.
The strike of machinists and tool
makers in Bridgeport, Conn, munition
factories was ended Monday,
Three bombs made Of old tin cans,
nj oonpnalal dtcrnynrad
on the main line of the Southern Pa
cific railroad near Benson, Ariz., fifty
miles west of Bishee.
Approximately fifty miners en-
ployed by the Copper Mines Company
at Kimberly. near Ely, New, refused
to return to work, it is said, until they
We're guaranteed wage of s6.25
day.
Influenza caused sixteen deaths in
six hours in greater Boston. Several
hundred new cases were reported.
William II. Taft, president of the
League to Enforce Peace, has been in
vited to deliver the principal address
at the first meeting of the League of
Free Nations Associations to be held
in London, Oct 10.
Lieut. Charles Kenney, Jr., of Gov
ington, KY, and L. II. Austin of Bos-
ton We're killed when an army aero
plane from the Mineola aviation field
crashed to earth in the Flatbush sec.
tion of Brooklyn, n. Y.
Former President William H. Taft
received another grandchild at Wa
terbury, Conn, when another daugh-
ter, Eleanor Kellogg Taft, was born
to Lieut.. and Mrs. Charles Phelps
Taft Lieutenant Taft is in Europe.
Austria's peace offensive is a closed