Taiban Valley news., 1918-06-07
FOREIGN

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deported from Ireland for internment
in England
Emperor William has conferred
upon Crown Prince Frederick the star
of grand commander of the royal house
of Hohenzollern, with swords, Berlin
dispatch announces.
In the Memorial Day exercises in
the rear of the American sector in
Picardy small American flag and
flowers were placed on each grave OF
an American soldier.
Andrew Bonar Law told the lower
| house of Parliament that 800 casual
ties to hospital cases had been caused
by the bombing of British hospitals in
France by German aviators.
The combined railway labor fedora
tions of Argentina decided on a gen.
eral strike June 80, tying up the trans
portation of the entire country, to
force favorable solution of Argentine
labor problems.
The epidemic which is sweeping
over Spain, a disease which somewhat
resembles grip, is increasing in sever
ity. There are more than 100000
cases in Madrid. The mortality, how
ever, continues to be low.
The Germans are paying a heavy
penalty in the fruitless' attempts to re-
take Cantigny. Air observers report
that the American artillery is inflict-
ing terrible losses on the boches to
the eastward Of the new American po-
sitions.
Strong revolutionary detachments
of demobilized Russian soldiers and
peasants equipped with machine guns
and artillery have risen in the dis
trict of Tschigerine in the province OF
Kiev, in an attempt to seize govern
ment power.
Premier Clemenceau had the mar
rowest possible escape from falling in
to German hands, according to the
Parit Petit Journal. He left a certain
point on the front only few minutes
before the arrival of a patrol of forty
Uhlans.
The American heavy artillery May
30 obtained direct hits on big ammu-
milton dump Of the enemy east of st.
Mihiel, which blew up with a terrific
explosion, the burst of flame and pill
lar of white smoke shooting many hun
dreds of yards in the air.
From Flanders to Switzerland and
from the battle line to the sea, the
American expeditionary forces on
Memorial day paid homage to their
dead Wherever American flags were
flying they were at half staff and be-
fore the day was over the Star-Span-
gled Banner and flowers was placed
on virtually every American grave.
SPORT
Mrs. Robert Fitzsimmons, widow of
the famous pugilist, has joined the
Salvation Army it was announced in
New York.
Harry Greb of Pittsburgh won four
teen rounds of his fifteen-round bout
with Soldier Bartfield of New York at
Toledo, Ohio.
Bert Niehoff, second baseman for
the Giants, suffered broken right leg
in the game between the Giants and
Phillies at the National league park in
Philadelphia.
Sioux City is assured of a berth in
the Western league for the remainder
of the season. Several business men,
headed by Charles Hagerling, pur-
chased the team from the Lincoln,
Neb., Baseball Amusement Company.
GENERAL
japan is to have chapter of Ameri-
can Red Cross.
Forty years ago at Lincoln, Neb,
wheat was sold at 80 to 82 cents a
bushel and corn at 23 to 25 cents.
James 8. Clarkson, for many years
a member of the Republican National
Executive Committee, died at Newark,
N. j., aged 70.
The New Bedford (Mass.) Cotton
Manufacturers Association announced
a Is per cent. wage increase, effective
June 3, Tor 3b,OO0 operatives IN clotn
and yarn mills.
News of the sinking Of the Furness
line steamship Cheviot Range and the
loss Of twenty-five Of her crew was re-
ceived In Boston.
The New York Board of Education |
voted unanimously to discontinue
teaching of German in the public !
schools for the duration of the war.
Casualties in the British ranks re-
ported during May reached a total OF
166,S02. The losses were divided as
Killed or died of wounds, Of
ficers, 1876; men, 20,51S. Wounded
or missing, officers, 6,162; men, 1885,
566.
The nation was warned again |
by the food administration that |
there must be no relaxing in the rigor-
BUS conservation of wheat If the neces-
sary shipments are to be made to the
American fighters overseas and the al
lied peoples.
President Wilson lent a hand at AL.
exandria, Va, on Memorial day in
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