, 1918-07-25
FOREIGN

The congress of the general Fedora
ton of Labor at Paris approved Presi.
dent Wilson's peace principles.
In order TO show their appreciation
of General Gouraud's defense Of
Rheims, the authorities have donated
$4,000 bottles of champagne to the
troops of General Gouraud's arm.
The Austro-Hungarian war minister
says a Vienna dispatch to the Vos.
sische Zeitung, that far
more than $780, 900 Austrian war pris.
oners already have returned from
Russia.
The Cologne Gazette says thirteen
revolutionary Socialists implicated in
the assassination of Count Won Mir
bach, the German ambassador to Rus
STA, have been executed and many 9TH
ers are under arrest.
France was thrilled by the news that
on the fourth day of the German Of
fensive French and American troops
snatched the initiative from the enc
my by surprise and soundly beat off
his divisions on a thirty-mile front.
The decision of the Poles of Austrian
Silesia to join the Czechs in common
opposition to the governments of the
central powers has provoked great en-
thusiasm in Bohemia and Moravia,
said an official dispatch from Zurich.
American troops continue to hold the
plateau southwest of scissors, where
on Thursday the Germans made their
first organized counter attack. This
fell down, however, as 500 as the
American heavy artillery got into ac-
ton on Friday.
Gen. John ]. Pershing has been
awarded the grand cross of the Order
of the Bath, and Gen. Tasker H. Bliss,
American representative on the SUI
preme war council, has beer given the
grand cross of the Order of st. Michael
and st. George.
The heart of the American nation
was in France Thursday night. 1t
marched and fought proudly with the
boys who went we the top during the
morning and still were CALAMITY
smashing their way ahead beside their
French comrades late m the day.
SPORT
The Southeastern Fair Association
will give over 100000 in purses for its
grand circuit meeting. which will be
held at Atlanta, Ga, Oct. II tc 19.
Professional baseball was held non
essential occupation under the army
work or fight order by Secretary Bak-
er. 81 have decided that the work or
fight regulations include baseball"
said Mr.. Baker in announcing his deci-
sion.
Pop" Geers, the veteran reinsman,
at Kalamazoo, Mich, made a clean
sweep of the three events that marked
the closing of the Grand Circuit meet
ing. He won the free-for-all trot with
st. Frisco; took the 2:11 trot with
Heir Reaper and headed the field with
June Red in the 2:13 trot. The free
for-all trot was the feature, st. Frisco,
Lu Princeton, Royal Mack and Bacilli
starting.
GENERAL
One hundred Czecho-S lovaks were
given permits to leave the country to
join the allied forces in France by the
enemy alien bureau in New York.
Mrs. H. C. Macdonald of Butte,
Mont, filed with Secretary of State
Stewart, as a candidate for Congress
on the Democratic ticket in the west
ern district.
Yale University is bequeathed near,
ly $40, DOC, 900 by the will of the late
John w. Sterling, a New York lawyer,
who graduated from the institution in
1864 and died a bachelor July 5.
The British transport Carpathia. 49,
603 tons gross, has been sunk by a
German submarine off the Irish coast
while outward bound from a British
port, it was learned in New York.
The work of enrolling 100000
women of the United States pledged to
sell one-half of the fourth Liberty Loan
of Sc, ,000, 900, wal begun at a con
ference of representatives from all
parts of the country at Chicago under
the auspices of the national woman's
Liberty Loan committee.
The Anchor line steamship Elysia,
397 ton gross, was sunk by a German
submarine May % in the Mediterran.
can while carrying cargo from the far
East, it was reported July 10 by a
passenger arriving On a British steam
ship. The Elysia was one OF a convoy
of twenty-five vessels. The crew was
saved
The largest crops of beans, sugar
beets and peanuts ever grown in the
United States + in prospect for this
years harvest. Department OF Agri
culture production forecasts show an
increase I'VE last year OF 49, 500 ,00C
bushels in the peanut crop. with a to
tai of 79.704.000 bushels; an increase
of almost 5,000.0 900 bushels in the bean
crop, with a total Of 1891, 900 bushels
and an increase of 100000 tons in the
auRar heat cron with a total NJ q DAT