Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-02-01
FOREIGN

commercial interests.
Great Britain calls upon th United
States for 75,OOO,OO bushee more
wheat. This was one OF the bost i'm
portant statements which Lord Rhond-
da, the British food controll j, made
in an interview.
Reports received IN Col enhagen
from Vienna, as forwarded 81 the Elk
change Telegraph correspond mt. indi-
cate that 100000 men there are still
on strike, and that the strile contin-
ues in Budapest.
Little news has come from Germany
on the political situation thu he, but II
is indicated that the Austri n emper-
OF Is not unmindful hat the trouble in
his own land may force EN- aeror vii
liam to change his attitude bward the
peace negotiations.
Count Won Hertling, thee German
chancellor, in answering the recent
speeches Of President Wilson and
Premier Lloyd George, announced in
the Reichstag main committee that
Germany would not give up Alsace-
Lorraine.
According to a Petrograd dispatch
to German newspapers, which was re-
ceived by an indirect route, the Boil
sheviki have seized a portion of the
funds Of the Rumanian treasury de-
posted in a Moscow bank and also
taken the Rumanian crown jewels at
Kishinev.
Comments in the French press on
the speeches Of Count Czernin, the
Austrian foreign minister, and Count
Won Hertling, the German chancellor.
vary. Some of the newspapers con
slider the speeches mere bluff or
"brain-stuffing,' while others see in
the statements a genuine advance
toward peace.
Chancellor Won H~ertling's speech
was characterized in London by Lord
Robert Cecil, minister OF blockade, as
very warlike. certainly not a peace
speech" He added that the speech
had been dictated by Hindenburg and
L~udendorff, and contained no declar-
alton Of policy regarding Belgium,
which he had always looked to as a
test Of the reality of any proposals
from the other side.
Viscount Motono, the Japanese for
eign minister, in his speech to both
houses Of Parliament at Toxic, an
nounced that the members of the Jap.
anese mission recently sent to Amer
lea, had after a frank exchange of
views established a full mutual ac-
cord between Japan and the United
States in regard to military co-opera-
ton in the war. The foreign minis
ter said: THE great wal which has
bathed Europe in blood continues and
1t would seem difficult to predict the
end"
SPORT
Jack Dempsey defeated Homer
Smith in the first round at Racine,
Wis.
The closest, most exciting and real
ly heart-tearing game of basketball
ever played in Fort Collins was won
by the Colorado Aggies from the Den
yer university team.
Manager c. II. Winginder Of the
University Of Denver football squad
has completed negotiations, and a def
mite date has been set for a football
game with the Nebraska C~ornhuskers
at Lincoln, Nov. 2.
Billy Young, 1917 winner in the 1OS-
pound class, carried off the honors at
the Denver Athletic Club tourney In
the same division that he did last
year by stopping Whitley" Lewis of
the Five Points Club in the second
round Of one Of the prettiest battles
that has been staged at the popular
Glenarm swat parlors.
GENERAL
A flood reported in the upper Rhine
valley has inundated the city of Co
logne, destroying quantities of pro-
visions.
All New York newspapers were put
on a 2-cent an issue basis. Increase
of materials n labor was given as
the reason.
The Wyoming board of equalization
has doubled the former assessment on
sheep, raised cattle s. per head and
horses $25 per head.
Damage of from 40 to so per cent
in the winter oats crop with much
damage to truck garden crops
throughout the South as a result of
the recen three successive cold
waves was reported by the Agricul-
ture Department.
Thirty more negro soldiers will face
court-martial, the result of new testi-
mony brought out I'm the investigation
Of the Houston riot of Aug. %, when
$50 negro soldiers OF the Twenty
fourth United States infantry shot up
the city Of Houston, It vas announced
in San Antonio, Tex.
The town OF Mackay. in Queens
land, has been overwhelmed by a cy-
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