Taiban Valley news., 1918-06-21
FOREIGN

rated.
King Alfonso has conferred the
grand cross of Charles IL on Archer
Huntington of New York.
Premier Won Seydler, in an audience
with Emperor Karl, offered his resig-
nation according to Austrian advices
received at Amsterdam.
One or Lon0ons $ largest theatel $
has been rented by the American con-
lnittee OF engineers Tor renuezvoLS
and hotel tor sailors and soldiers.
AS an outcome of recent confer
ences, Japan is preparing declara-
ton defining her attitude toward Rus
STA, according to a TIentsin dispatch.
The loss OF the Austrian battleship
Scent lstvan-torpedoed in the Adri-
atic-is officially announced in Wen
ma, according 10 a Havas dispatch
from Basel, Switzerland.
Mrs. Walter H. Page, wife of the
American ambassador to Great Bri-
tain, christened H. Ms S. Eagle, one OF
Great Britain's largest naval ships,
which was launched on the Tyne.
Thirty-siX thousand Austrian women
and girls of all ages and classes have
been forced by hunger to join the
women's battalions working close to
the front lines, according to reports
from Austrian Tyrol.
An explosion in the Skoda gun
works, near Pilsen, on May 20, killed
more than 300 persons and injured 200,
according to information received by
the Paris Journal. The explosion was
heard $50 miles.
"A notoble decrease in the number
of submarine sinkings in the western
and central regions and the English
channel has been evident since the
blocking of Zeebrugge and Ostend har-
bors, it was semi-officially announced
in Paris.
Germany has lodged a complaint in
Washington and asked for safeguards
against such excesses as led to the
lynching of Robert P. Prayer at Col
linsville, ILL.,, April 4, according to
Wolff bureau telegram from Germany
quoting Privy Councillor Simons in re-
plying to question askel by Herr
Mueller of, Meiningen in the Reichs-
tag.
SPORT
An effort is being made by members
of the board of aldermen to legalize
Sunday baseball in New York.
Jess Willard has consented to box
for the soldiers at Camp Funston on
July with any opponent they can Sc
lect for him for ar benefit fund.
Harry Way of Denver made a run
of 206 targets without a miss in the
second morning shoot of the Rocky
Mountain Interstate Trap Shooting
tournament at Colorado Springs. Some
prominent shooters from New Mexico
attended the meeting.
The British co'dier has some novel
ties in athletic diversions. Wr :stling
on mules, for instance, is 2 spectacu-
lar sport. 1t is a team event. Four
stout men from tie transport section,
stripped to the waist and mounted on
barebacked mules, represent each bat
talon and the team. which has the last
survivor wins.
GENERAL
Mrs. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt was
married at HOLLYWOOD, her country
home at Lenox, Mass, to Raymond n. |
Baker, director of the United States
mint.
The sixty-ninth annual convention |
Of the American Medical Association
adjourned at Chicago after the house
Of delegates unanimously adopted a
urging compulsory military
training for all young men before they
are permitted to vote.
A story of an all-day fight with a
German submarine off the Virginia
coast was brought to an Atlantic port
by Capt. George Aitkin of the British
steamship Author. He said the raider
gave up the chase seventy miles from
he Virginia capes, apparently fearing
o brave the coast patrol
Mrs. Finley ]. Sheppard, formerly
Miss Helen Gould, is seriously i'll in
New York of appendicitis.
Secretary of War Newton D. Baker
Will go to Chicago to deliver an ad.
lress on July 4, it was announced.
The wholesale massacre by the Bull
5ars of all but 140 of 10000 Greeks
leported from eastern Macedonia was
'eported to the Greek legation by tho
Bureau of Prisoners at Geneva, Switz-
,rland.
Americans captured off this coast
" submarine pirates were forced to
'olish torpedoes intended for use
gainst United States transports This
anne to light in New York with the
rrival of more seamen who had been
aiken off their sinking ships by the
Iermans and held prisoner aboard the
J-boat No. 151.
A compromise between leaders Of