Taiban Valley news., 1918-05-03
FOREIGN

final draft of the peace treaty witt
Russia.
Business was resumed and normal
conditions restored following the one
day demonstration strike in Dublin.
A British airman bombed Zeebrugge
mole while the kaiser was inspecting
the results of the recent naval raid
there.
Sixty-six steamers, aggregating 514,'
900 tons dead-weight, will be turned
over by China to the United States for
use in the war.
Vice Admiral Schroeder, the COM
mander at zeebrugge, according to re-
ports reaching Amsterdam, will be
deprived of his command for being
taken by surprise by the British.
Viscount Motono, Japanese minister
for foreign affairs, has resigned, &C.
cording to Reuter- dispatch from To
kio. Viscount Motono will be succeed.
ed by Baron Goto.
A French general will decorate with
the croix de guerre the colors of the
American regiment which defeated the
five-day attack by picked German
troops northwest Of Toul two weeks
ago.
The German ultimatum to Holland,
according to advices received in Lon.
don, demands the right of transit not
only for civilian supplies and of sand
and gravel through Holland, but also
for war materials.
Fifty-eight members of the crew OF
the German raider Seeadler, which op
Grated in the south Pacific ocean until
it was wrecked, have been interned in
Chile, according to announcement by
naval authorities at Honolulu.
The Austrian ministry of railways
announces the entire suspension of
passenger traffic on the northern rail
ways, according to advices from Vien-
ma. This action was taken because OF
the shortage of coal, due to a strike of
miners.
Two American soldiers, wounded In
the engagement around Seicheprey,
were found alive in a dugout in No
Mans land. The dugout had been bad
ly smashed by German shell fire, and
how the men managed to keep alive,
physicians say, is little short of mir
aculous.
Major General Radcliffe, director of
operations, declared in London, in dis
cussing the loss of KENNEL hill, that
he expects big German offensive be-
tween Arras and Amiens-"far greater
than the present attacks" for the pur-
pose of separating the British and
French armies. $50 far the German
have been merely tactical"
he said "There has been no change
in the strategical situation"
SPORT
Governor Burnquist may not permit
the Willard-Fulton fight in Minnesota
on July 4, according to word from one
close to the Minnesota governor. 1t
was hinted some other date might be
permissible.
A. ]. Simonson, president of the Den
yer Riding and Driving Club and mem
ber of the Colorado State Racing Com
subscribed for $1,000 in Lib
erty bonds in the name of the commits
sion. One thousand dollars worth was
taken in Denver and $500 worth So
cured in Pueblo.
GENERAL
Increase to $50 a month in the min
imum pensions for Civil war veterans
and graduated increases to $40 are
in bill by Senator Smoot Of
Utah.
Maj. Raoul Lufbery of Wallingford,
Conn, destroyed his eighteenth Ger.
man airplane April %. Lieut.. Paul
Frank Baer of Mobile, Ala, brought
down his fifth German machine the
same day.
A rush of German women to the |
New York port enemy alien bureau,
seeking permission to return to Ger
many, followed the publication of the
regulation requiring enemy alien wom-
en- to register
Six men were killed in a collision
between Burlington fast freight and
a work train in the outskirts of Bay
ard, Nebr., during snow storm.
Two more earthquake shocks oc-
CURED during Wednesday night one at
8 o'clock and another at midnight at
San Jacinto, Cal. No damage was
done.
At Edwardsville, ILL.,, indictments
were returned against sixteen persons
by the grand jury which investigated
the lynching on April of Robert Paul
Prayer at Collinsville.
Income and excess profits taxes are
now expected to bring about $4,000,
100000 into the treasury in June, or
s5OO,000,000 more than had been esti-
mated before returns were filed.
A collection of 10000 government
sealskins was sold for 100000 at st.
Louis at the opening of the annual
spring fur auction, the price per skin