Tombstone epitaph., 1918-04-07
FOREIGN


FOREIGN
Further progress b. the British ID
Palestine IL reported in an official
statement from London.
The bombardment of Paris by =
long-ranse gum Was - great . sur
prise TO Germany ~ 10 other parts Of
the world.
The correspondent OF the Berlin
Vorwaerts at the French front reports
that the German emperor. with his
staff. was at St Quentin on Tuesday.
A number of German soldiers who
had put on British uniforms in order
to create confusion in the battle on
the Somme front were taken prisoner
and executed.
The entry of the Turks into the
port Of Trebizond was marked by
atrocities against Greeks and Armeni.
ans, Greeks who have arrived in Ath-
ems from the Black sea report.
Emperor william and General Won
Ludendorff had q violent. quarrel BE-
fore the beginning of the great attack
on the western front. according to a
prominent Swiss. who had just re-
turned to Zurich.
Entirely new in this warfare. the
Americans worked like the best vet
Grams in the battle of the Somme."
says wounded French captain who
has been brought back from the front.
~ D.
Enormously long ambulance trains
are passing through Liege and Namur,
Belgium. on their way 10 Aix-i-a-Cha-
pelle and other parts Of Germany with
wounded men from the French battle
front, according to the Amsterdam
TELEGRAPH frontier correspondent.
Chancellor Won Hertling has tele-
graphed 10 Field Marshal Won linden
burg expressing sincere admiration"
for the splendid deed Of our army
and saying he found lively satisfac-
ton because OF the decorations con
ferred upon the field marshal and Cen
eral Won Ludendorff by the emperor
British airmen continue TO give
strong help to the infantry and artil-
lery, and the latest statement reports
that they accounted for sixty-seven
enemy machines. forty-f!ve or which
were shot down. The British loss Was
ten. Entente aviators also have
bombed Cologne and railway stations
behind the battle line, as well as aer-
odromes and billets.
The greatest number OF airplanes
ever concentrated are being used by
the allies and the Germans in the bat
tie Of Picardy. The Anglo-French air
forces maintain their supremacy OF
the sky. Advices from the front said
that British and French airmen had
brought down between 2l5 and 220
German machines in four days Only
thirty-one British machines were miss
ing after the battles
Twenty-four shells reached Paris on
Saturday and twenty-seven Sunday
The interval between shots was re-
duced from fifteen Or twenty minutes
on Saturday TO an average OF nine
minutes Sunday. On two occasions
there was an interval of only one or
two minutes. Shells fell at 9:l5 ana
GIG O'Clock and at 9:s5 and 9:47
This was accepted as confirming the
theory that at least two long -disiance
guns were firing
SPORT
w. s. Daniels is the rocket billiard
champion of the Denver Athletic Club
Martin J. Sheridan. 81. world fam
Gus athlete, died in New York, a VIC
tim Of pneumonia.
J. j. McQuillan of Pueblo is in the
field with a baseball team and expects
to take on the best clubs in the state
this summer.
Jack Dempsey of Salt Lake City,
Utah, and Bob Devere of Kansas City,
heavyweights, have been matched for
an eight round boxing contest at St.
Louis on the night Of April S.
R. X. Marsh was unbeatable at the
Lakeside Country Club traps in Den
yeer ut the weekly shoot Of the club.
ne might have been tied, but he
couldn't have been walloped, because
his work was perfect.
GENERAL
Lieut. T. Cushman Nathan OF New.
ton. Kansas. was killed on March q
while taking part in an Air raid in
France
Cost of living in Germany has in
creased from 200 to 300 per cent while
wages Of the working people have
only increased so per cent.
A message from David Lloyd
George. prime minister of Great Brit.
ain. calling upon the United States
ito send American achievements
across the Atlantic in the shortest
possible space of time" was read by
Lord Reading. British high commits
sioner to the United States, at q din
ner given in New Yrk in his honor.
That the United States government
has in its possession all details for
the construction Of gun that will fire
q cartridge. loaded with $500 pounds
Of dynamite. los miles was the asser.
ton made in Baltimore. Nd, by . we'll
known man who recently returned
from Washington, where he had been
in consultation with the heads Of tie
War Department in reference to the
great piece Of artillery.
Fire, following n series of unex.