The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1918-12-27
FOREIGN

lied in Berlin. says Central News
dispatch from Copenhagen.
King George will give banquet at
Buckingham palace in London Dec. u
in honor of President Wilson.
German residents of DanziS held a
mass meeting TO protest against an
nexation of the city by the Poles
More than 1900 graves of American
soldiers wer. decorated on Christmas
day by the American committee for
devastated France
Thee are between 0.000 and 10000
unemployed workmen in Berlin &C
cording tC the Taglisch Rundschau-
OF this number 1000 are metal work
CTS.
French soldiers TO the nAmber oi
100000 We're killed during the war,
according 10 a statement by the Social
list deputy Lucien Noilin, in the Chan-
Der of Deputies
The German fortress OF Ehrenbrei.
stein, sometimes called the Gibraltar
of the Rhine, on the opposite bank Of
the river from Coblenz. has been occu-
pied by American troops.
Butter is 81 and sugar 81 per pound
in Wiseman. the largest camp III the
kushokwiu valley in southwestern
Alaska, according to G. Nelson, who
arrived at jerome from the westward.
Statistics obtained by Canadian Of
ficials from 100000 members of the
Canadian forces overseas show that
more than 10000 soldiers, or i3s per
cent. desire TO go on the land after
their return to Canada.
Casualties in the great war may
pass the staggering total of 31.o91, 1853.
OF which 7,929,76S were deaths in bat
tie, from wounds or from disease ac-
cording to rough estimate compiled
from authentic (mostly Officially
sources.
A Rhenish official advances the
suggestion for a future Germany com
posed OF seven republics constructed
along the lines OF the United States
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg, ac-
cording 10 reports received at Zurich.
from Germany, has concentrated .
large force OF soldiers in Posen.
The Matin Dec. 23 was authorized to
print an article which was censored
Sunday. The article, the first head
line of which read: Yesterdays
Utopia Tomorrow Reality, sets
forth the manner OF procedure of the
promoters of league of nations act
ing in agreement with the allied gov
ernments
President Wilson Dec 22 visited the
Red Cross hospital at Neuilly. France.
where he shook hands individually
and talked with 1900 wounded Ameri-
cans. for the most part survivors of
the Chateau Thierry action He spent
more than four hours in the hospital.
visiting every ward and stopping at
every bedside
SPORT
The British government has sane
toned the revival OF racing and the
sport will be resumed on large scale
in 1918
1t was officially decided by the man
agement of the Indianapolis motor
speedway to hold the next interna-
tional 5o0-mile sweepstakes race on
Saturday. May 81, instead of on Deco
ration day, as was the custom in the
past
The 1919 major league season will
open on Wednesday. April 30, Presi-
dent Ban johnson OF the American
league announced in Chicago on his
return from New York. The opening
date was agreed upon at a conference
with John A. Heydler, president OF the
National league. The majors have
definitely decided to play schedules OF
40 games instead of 1874, ne said
GENERAL
The transports Martha Washington
and Mercury came into port at New
port News, Va, bringing home from
France 1920 officers and men, includ-
ing 600 wounded
Prof. T &. Masaryk. president of
the Czecho- Slovak republic. took the
cath of office as president in the diet
building.
Bandits blew open the vault in the
bank of CRANKY, at CRANKY, Mo. twen-
ty miles southeast of Joplin. and es-
capped with $4,000 worth of unregis-
tered Liberty bonds.
The Frankfort Zeitung says the
former German empress will hardly
live to see the new year Her ailment,
heart disease. has grown considerably
worse during the past exciting weeks.
Secretary Lansing officially denied
that the American delegation had de-
cided to advocate sinking the sur
rendered German warships The prop
osition, he said. has not ever been dis
cussed
A big acreage in sugar beets in the
Rocky Mountain region next year II
predicted by General Agriculturist
Mark Austin of the Utah-Idaho Sugar