The Colorado statesman., 1918-05-18
FOREIGN


cided to float a $25,O0O,0 900 loan.
The total British casualtles reported
In the week ending May IA was 41.612.
The Uruguayan minister at London
has been appointed minister to the
United States.
Considerable criticism is being
heard in Germany and Austria regard
ing the peace treaty of Bucharest.
Active artillery fighting in Picardy
on both sides of the Avre river is re-
ported in the Paris official statement
Mrs. H. Gordon Selfridge, wife OF
the American who established the first
department store in England, died In
London of pneumonia.
The Prussian lower house has re-
jected a motion to restore the provi-
sion for equal suffrage in the Prussian
franchise reform bill.
At Beaulieu, France, James Gordon
Bennett, proprietor of the New York
Herald, died May IA. after having been
unconscious for two days.
Pastor Charles w. Wagner, author
of the widely known book, THE Sim
pie Life" is dead at his home in
Paris. He was 67 years old.
A huskier, better fit body of Amer
leans probably never went into fight
than those who threw Americas
weight into the Picardy battle line.
Official announcement has been
made at Harbin that General Semen
off, leader of the movement in Siberia
against the Bolsheviki, has advanced
along the trans Siberian railway as far
as Adrianovsk, west of Onon river.
having restored the bridge across the
river which the Bolsheviki destroyed.
Poland is handed over to Germany
economically, politically and militar-
lily, according to the terms of secret
treaty reached at Brest Litovsk be-
tween a delegation of the Russian
government, headed by Leon Trotzky
and German representatives. accord
ing to the Gazette of Lausanne.
The Ukrainian press bureau has re-
ceived information from Odessa, ac-
cording to which the former Dowager
Empress Marie Feodorovona and
Grand Dukes Nicholas Nicholaievitch
and Alexander Nicholaievitch mich
aelovitch), who has been living at
Dulbar, near Aitodor, In the Crimea,
are in the hands of the Germans.
The Austrian food controller is con-
sidering the introduction of one bread
less day a week. according to dis
patch from Geneva to the London
Daily News. Vienna newspapers say
the government is forced to take this
action owing to the rapid diminution
of the flour supply and the small pros
poets of obtaining more wheat before
the next harvest.
SPORT
Max Eller, sporting man of Denver,
received a wire from Joe Leopold at
Oakland in which he announced that
he had fought draw with Jimmy
Dundee, "the toughest boy on the
coast" and was rematched with him.
Sunday baseball will be played in
Washington by American League
clubs. The Board of Commissioners of
the District of Columbia legalized
playing of professional games on Sun
day by resembling regulations prohib-
iting them.
Fred Winsor, former Denver boxing
authority, has removed his headquar-
ters from Los Angeles to San Francis
co, according to word received in Den
yer. He has arrived in San Francisco
and started a campaign to make a
champion out of Jim Downing, the Og-
den. Utah, heavyweight.
GENERAL
At Camp Kearny, San Diego, Cal,
arrangements were completed for
Benny Leonard, lightweight champion,
to appear at an entertainment for
Camp Kearny soldiers May %.
Count James Minotto, son-in-law of
Louis F. Swift, the packer. was taken
into custody in Chicago by Deputy
United States marshals two weeks
after his arrest was ordered on
Presidential warrant.
Announcement was made in New
York that in recognition Of their eff
forts in behalf of Serbia, the Order of
Knighthood Of st. Sava had been con-
ferred by the prince regent of Serbia
on a number of Americans.
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
railway report for 1917 shows operat-
ing revenues of $165,529, ,519, an in
crease of s21,239, ,2S1 over 1916, large
ly offset, however, by expenses of
$105, ,222 IT'S, an increase Of $16,S09,19
leaving net gain in operating reve-
nues of $4,429,890.
French war orphans are being adopt
ed by the American expeditionary
forces abroad. This information was