Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-04-05
FOREIGN

The French Chamber NJ Deputies
has adopted a bill increashg railroad
passenger rates by 25 per cent.
A number OF German soldiers who
had put on British unifornls in order
to create confusion in the battle on
the Somme front were takdh prisoner
n executed.
The entry Of the Turkt into the
port OF Trebizond was TIarked by
atrocities against Greeks an Armenl-
ans, Greeks who have arriv i in Ath-
ems from the Black sea rep8rt.
S%eventy.five persons we're Killed and
ninety wounded, most Of thu n women
and children, when a shell Bred by a
German long range gun fell on n
church in the region of Paris while
Good Friday services were being held.
Premier Terauchi and Foreign Min
lister Motono Of Japan, according to a
London Daily Mail dispatch from To-
kio, have announced that Japan is
friendly to the Bolshevik COVE rnment.
and sees no reason at present for
armed Intervention in Siberia.
The women drivers of the American
fund for French wounded, true to their
tradition, have put their cars at the
disposal OF the numerous refugees
who are arriving in Paris, and are
transporting them from station to sta
ton or to their friends in the city.
Enormously long ambulance rains
are passing through Liege and Namur,
Belgium, on their way to Aix-La-Cha-
pelle and other parts of Germany with
wounded men from the French battle
front, according to the Amsterdam
Telegram frontier correspondent.
Argentina is on the eve of another
diplomatic crisis with Germany, more
critical than any of the former ones.
This is the general opinion in politi-
cal circles and is based on the tor
pedoing Of the Argentine steamer,
Ministro Irriendo in the Mediterrane-
an Jan. &c.
Thirty-three American telephone
girls, who speak English and French
equally well, have arrived in Paris to
operate the -switchboards in the vari-
GUS army headquarters. They have
been divided between the principal
army centers, Paris, General Perish
ing's headquarters in the field and the
headquarters lines of communication.
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 215 and 220
German machines in four days. Only
t~hirty-one British machines were miss
ing after the battles.
SPORT
Martin ]. Sheridan, 81, world lam
GUS athlete, died in New York, a vic
tim of pneumonia.
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 8.
Miss Molla Bjurstedt of Norway and
Miss Eleanor .Goss, Brooklyn, won
their places in the final round of the
women's national indoor tennis cham
pionship singles tournament at the
Seventh regiment armory in New
York.
Ty Cobb, the sensational outfielder
of the Detroit American league team.
will not finish the season of 1918, but
be in the service of the United States,
was the statement of Mai. Joseph II.
Thompson, formerly coach of the Uni
versity Of Pittsburgh football team,
now a member Of the One Hundred
and Tenth regiment of infantry, sta
toned at Camp Hancock.
GENERAL
Lieut.. r. Cushman Nathan of New
ton, Kansas, was killed on March 22
while taking part in an air raid in
France.
Frank A. Vanderlip has resumed ac-
tive direction Of the war savings
movement, which he suspended early
in February on account Of ill.health.
Ives G. Lelevier, Mexican consul at
Douglas. Ariz, received a message
from Gen. p. Elias Gales, military
commander and governor of Sonora,
stating hat Mexican troops had cap.
tured the Bacatete mountain strong
hold Of the Yaqui Indians.
A message from David Lloyd
George, prime minister of Great Brit
ain, calling upon the United States
ito send American endorsements
across the Atlantic in the shortest
possible space Of time,' was read by
Lord Reading, British high commits
sioner to the United States, at a din
ner given I'm New York I'M his honor.