The Colorado statesman., 1918-07-13
FOREIGN


hordes of the Bolsheviki, according TO
reports from that district.
An American sanitary commission
headed by A. X. Kendall, has arrived
at Guayaquil, Ecuador, to cooperate in
wiping out the yellow fever.
John Robert Clines, parliamentary
secretary to the Control Department,
has been appointed to succeed the late
Viscount Rhondda as food controller
in London.
Workman, Clark & Co, Belfast, Ire
land shipbuilders, have achieved
worlds record in completing an 5000
ton standard ship in fifteen days after
she was launched.
"All Germany and Austria-Hungary
will now be subjected TO food seizure,
rationing and prohibition of free trad
ing" Food Controller Won Waldo an
nounced in the German Reichstag.
Berlin dispatches report that severe
floods followed a sudden, heavy rain
fall in many parts of Germany. Seri-
Gus damage to crops and loss of prop
erty are reported from several dis
tricts.
The food shortage in Austria is
growing more acute, according to Her
bert Mayer, secretary to Charles ].
Vopika, American minister to Ruma-
mia. Mr.. Mayer has just returned
from Jassay, by way of Austria.
Martial law has been proclaimed in
Moscow. Advices received at Basle,
Switzerland, stated that the Russian
social revolutionaries confessed the
plot to murder Count Won Mirbach, the
German ambassador to Russia, in or
der to annul the Brest-Litovsk treaty.
Canadian troopship that was in
the fleet of boats where the British
steamship Orissa was attacked and
sunk off the Irish coast brought word
that two submarines were sunk after
the Orissa was toTpedoed, according
to disabled soldiers reaching Toronto,
Ont.
SPORT
Syracuse will hold a dog show in
fair, Sept. IL to 13.
In a ten-round no-decision bout at
Kansas City, Mo, Eddie McGoorty,
boxing instructor at Camp Grant, out
boxed Hugh Walker of Kansas City.
With two jumps of 67 and GS feet
without fall, S. Johnson of Tacoma
won the ski championship OF the Pa
cific Northwest in the contests on the
heights of Alta Vista, Paradise valley,
Rainier National park. There were fif-
teen contestants.
The 1918 Grand Circuit harness rae
ing season opened with a five-day
meeting at Cleveland, Ohio. Practical
ly all of the trotting and pacing stars
of the country are included among the
252 nominations to the twenty-five
events. They will be driven by Amer
ica's foremost reinsmen
Up at ole Cheyenne the yip-yip of
the cowboy and the hi-hi of the cow
girl are being heard again-and the
one-time COW town is taking on once
more the colorful atmosphere of the
West that has passed. Preparations
are nearing completion for the annual
Frontier celebration-and they're pro-
claiming to the world that it will be
bigger and better this year than ever
before. Following the announcement
that this years show-which will be
staged from July % to 27, opening
with an auto road classic on the 22nd
will be for the benefit of war funds,
the Red Cross, the Y. NJ c. A. the Sal
vation army and the Knights of Co
comes word that the entries
have surpassed all other years, and
this will be the twenty-second tire the
famous frontier exposition has at
tracted thousands from over all the
GENERAL
Richard F. Cleveland, 20 years old,
son of Grover Cleveland, has enlisted
in the marine corps.
The telegraphers strike order was
rescinded.
Basic prices on coke were estab-
lished by the Fuel Administration at
$3.50 to $3.50.
Worth Bagley Daniels, son of the
secretary of the navy, entered the An
napolis Naval Academy as a midship-
man.
Sixty-four million silver dollars have
been melted into bullion by the Unit
ed States treasury, most of which has
been exported to India.
The knights of Columbus will raise
50,000.000 in the development of war
work in the next twelve months il
was announced in New York
Control of the production and dis
tribution of sulphur materials has
been taken over by the War Indus
tries Board with the approval of Pres
ident Wilson.
Announcement that express COM
pany employees throughout the country