The Colorado statesman., 1918-01-26
FOREIGN


absolute prohibition beginning May l,
1919.
Sir Edward Carson, minister with
out portfolio in the British war cabi-
net, has resigned.
Manuel Aguirre Beolanga, it was an
nounced at Mexico City, has been APP
pointed minister of the interior, OF
which department he has been under
secretary.
The aviation department of the
French army has been reorganized
and there has been created an air
board of which the minister of muni-
tions is president.
Three student aviators in training
with the Royal Flying Corps at To
ronto, Canada, one of them an Ameri-
can, were killed as a result of acci-
dents to their machines while in the
air.
A. l. Shingaroff, minister of finance
in the Kerensky cabinet, and Prof. f,
F. Kokoshkine, state comptroller un-
der Kerensky, were murdered in their
beds in the marine hospital at Petro-
grad.
Two members without portfolio Of
the Danish Cabinet, j. c. Christensen
and NJ. Rottboer, have resigned in or
der that they may be free to take part
in the Parliamentary elections in
April.
The American gunboat Monacacy
was fired upon by the Chinese fifty
al, h. rc
Kiang. A sailor named O'Brien was
killed and two other sailors were
wounded.
At st. Thomas, American Virgin Is
lands, the anniversary of the ratifica-
ton of the treaty by which the Vir-
gin Islands were ceded by Denmark
to the United States was enthusiastic
cally celebrated.
Demonstrations demanding better
distribution of food were held at
Brighton, at Erith, in Kent, and at 9th
er places in England, while men, wom-
en- and children stood in queues, in
many cases in vain, for a Sunday
roast, margarine, butter or tea.
The Lokal Anzeiger of Berlin says
that unless Leon Trotzky, the Bolshe-
vik foreign minister, accepts the de-
mands of the central powers when he
returns to Brest-Litovsk on Jan. 20,
the central powers will break off peace
negotiations.
The value of the German mark has
fallen sharply on neutral exchanges in
the last few days, reflecting loss of
confidence in neutral countries re-
garding the outcome of the peace ne
gotiations at Brest-Litovsk and the
present condition of internal affairs in
Germany.
SPORT
An arrangement for the payment of
the war tax on baseball admissions
was made at conference of major
league representatives with Daniel c..
Roper, commissioner of internal rev.
enue at Washington.
Ragna Omtvedt, professional ski
champion, has set a new record for
the slide at Cary, ILL.,, in preparation
for the national championship. He
jumped 10 feet, bettering the mark he
established there several years ago by
five feet.
Elmer Q. Oliphant of Linton, Ind,
one of Purdue University's leading
alumni celebrities is to marry Miss
Barbara Benedict ot New York City.
Oliphant now is at West Point. AT
Purdue he won fame in football, base
ball, basketball and track.
GENERAL
Chicago's sugar supply is practically
exhausted because of the recent snow
blockade of railroads and the impera-
tive necessity for moving coal first.
Gov Moses Alexander has invited
the governors of the western states to
meet in Boise this winter for the pur-
pose of discussing the prohibition
ton.
Every brewery in Missouri must stop
work two days each week, according
to an order issued by State Fuel Di-
| rector Crissley, which provides there
shall be no brewing nor bottling OF
beer nor other beverages" these days.
Military authorities are holding a
cavalryman in connection with the re-
ported disappearance of diamond
ring from the hand of John W. Jewell,
one of the men killed the night of
Jan. IL, when Capt. Lewis Whistler
robbed the Army bank at Camp Fun
| ston, Kan.
With five boats valued at more than
$150.000 sunk and shipping and docks
l
ILL.,, generally endangered, conditions
along the Mississippi River north of
Memphis, Jan. 20, were reported the