The Ordway new era., 1918-04-19
FOREIGN

| pIesluelllal OIutr.
Great activity reigns at German
naval bases. especially at Kiel. Coal
and ammunition are being shipped tc
the fleet in large quantities.
The Belgian relief steamer Flanders
struck a mine in the free channel and
sank. according to the Amsterdam
Handelsblad. The crew were saved.
An unmasked bandit held up a
branch bank OF the Canadian Bank OF
Commerce at Saskatoon. Sask., and
escaped with between So 200 and 81
900.
Emperor Karl of Austria year ago
| declared his personal belief that
| France has a right to Alsace-Lorraine.
and the complete sovereignty of Bel
gfum and Serbia should be restored
| Only four vessels OF more than 1900
tons. two OF less than / 1,600 tons and
two fishing boats were sunk during the
week ending April G. Only two French
merchantmen were sent down.
In a manifesto to the working peo-
pie of Austria on May day prepara-
tions, the Arbeiter Zeitung OF Vienna
has called for demonstration for gen
| eral peace and an eight-hour day.
American marines have been landed
| at Vladivostok. as well as British and
japanese forces, according to advices
from that place. The Americans are
in control of the docks. while the jap
| anese are guarding the railway and
ammunition depots.
On behalf of the British army, the
Earl of Derby, minister of war, has
presented to the city OF London a
Union Jack to be displayed alongside
the American flag which Ambassador
Page handed to the lord mayor on be-
half of the American officers in Eng
land.
A shell fired by the German long
range cannon struck a founding asy-
lum in the Rue De La Creche, in the
Montrouge district on the southern
outskirts OF Paris and three persons
were killed and eleven wounded. With
in the hospital were thirty women
with newborn babies.
You could have shot them down
with your eyes shut" said a wounded
machine gunner. in describing how the
Germans attacked on the western
front, according to the correspondent
there of the London Daily Mail. I'VE
fired straight into them and they went
down in heaps, yet We could not stop
them. 1t was one down and another
came on"
SPORT
Clarence Metz. after tryout with
the White Sox, is to return to Denver
as free agent. 1t was announced in
Chicago by Manager Clarence Row
land.
Arrangements were completed
whereby Johnny Noye, the crack light
weight of st. Paul, will meet the win
ner of the Otto Wallace-Arlos Fan
ming bout in Denver May 8.
The calling of Grover Cleveland AL
exander. premier pitcher of the Ma
tional League, into the Army as re-
ported from his home in st. Paul, Neb..
will cost Charles H. Weeghman, presi-
dent of the Chicago Nationals, $50, 900.
Fred Fulton and his manager, Mike
Collins. left Denver for Colorado
Springs on his tour of the state. and
after taking in Pueblo and few more
towns will journey on toward the
west. The trip will end in Frisco, and
Fulton expects to come back to Den
yer to do his training for the big fight
with Willard next July 4.
GENERAL
in al tvs 80 mi,
in April came to climax April 12 with
a storm of alternating snow, sleet and
rain in New York.
For the protection of the Atlantic
trade routes to Southern Europe, the
United States. with the consent of
Portugal, has established naval base
on the Azores Islands.
Immediate measures to stamp out
mosquito pest in regions surrounding
Southern army camps will be taken
by the army medical corps.
The Assembly passed without SER
ious opposition the bill dissolving the
German-American Alliance in New
York state by revoking its charter.
To celebrate oregon's record of be-
ing the first state to have its claim
of oversubscribing its quota recog-
nized, 100000 Oregonians held a pa
triotic demonstration in Portland, Sat
urday night.
Since April 6, 1917, the day on which
war was declared against Germany,
there have been added to the United
States navy 1,275 vessels, aggregating
l,O55.l16 tons, Secretary of the Navy
Daniels declared at Chicago in an ad.
| dress before the National Chamber of
Commerce.
Secretary William G. McAdoo of the
| Treasury named April 81 as Liberty