The Dolores star., 1918-12-20
FOREIGN

Glasgow that IL was unlikely he Womb
| lie chancellor OF the eXchequer to take
the next budget before Parliament.
David X. Francis. American ambas-
sador to Russia, went to Paris to re-
port on Russian affairs to President
| Wilson and Secretary OF State Lam
| sing
President and Mrs Wilson made
| their entry into Paris saturday morn
| ing. greeted by 20O0,00o of the popula-
ton not only OF the city but OF the
surrounding districts.
The executive committee of the
| Brussels Chamber OF Commerce has
| unanimously adopted a resolution in
favor OF Belgian annexation OF Zee
land and the Maestricht euclaye.
While the official result OF Satur-
days election will not be known for
fortnight. there is every indication
that the Lloyd George coalition gov
| eminent has been reelected by con
siderable majority.
Occupation OF Petrograd. Kronstadt
and Moscow is advocated by Rear Ad.
mn al N'upt III d .l'NttI " tH' LIN
don Times. He was senior British
naval officer in northern Russian wa
tiers until November.
An order in council adopted al Of
tawa authorizes the seed purchasing
commission TO buy in the United
States seed oats required in Alberta
and southern Saskatchewan. and pro-
vides that the oats purchased shall not
be subject to customs duties.
The Czecho.Sloyak government, ac-
cording TO adyices from Prague. plans
to present 10 the national assembly u
bill providing for tn. division OF
CzeCho- Slovakia into twenty-five can
tons. four or five Of which would in
clude German language territory
Premier Lloyd George wound up his
speech making campaign al Gambler
well by attacking the name Labor
party" because it did not represent
all the labor Of the United Kingdom.
The party represented only a small
part of labor, whose votes, he declared
would largely be cast for the govern
ment.
President Wilson landed in France
at 1924 O'Clock Friday afternoon, Dec
Is, amid a demonstration of popular
enthusiasm and national sympathy
such as rarely, if ever. has been &C
corded the head of a foreign govern
ment visiting France. The President
left Brest at o'clock the same after
noon for Paris. where tho heart OF
France acclaimed him as the nations
guest.
Several thousand former inhabi-
tants Of Smyrna and of nearby locali-
ties have arrived in Smyrna the last
few days, coming from inland districts
TO which they had been deported by
Turkish authorities. Their condition
is pitiful. 1t is asserted about half
the people deported died of bad trea,.
ment or lack of food 1t is said also
that the women driven from their
homes by the Turks were subjected
to brutal treatment and that ma
jority of the young girls were sold as
slaves TO Turkish notables.
SPORT
The American association league
baseball season of 1919 will begin
April %.
Football claimed the lives of nine
players during the 1918 season-three
less than the 1917 toll, nine less than
in 1916 and seven under the roll of
1915.
Jack Johnson, cabling from BARGE
Iona to New York, has asked II. T.
Booker, Anglo-American baseball pro
moter, to arrange a bout for him with
either Porky Flynn or Jim Savage.
Stephen McGinnity, athlete and
baseball manager, is dead of influen-
"a. McGinnity was born in Chicago
and when years old lost his hearing
from the effects of scarlet fever. But
the handicap did not prevent him from
taking an active part in athletics. At
one time he was 1O5-pound amateur
boxing champion of Chicago. Later he
was interested in baseball. becoming
noted amateur player
GENERAL
President Wilson has accepted an
invitation from King George 10 visit
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