, 1918-06-20
FOREIGN

rated.
King Alfonso has conferred the
grand cross of Charles Ii on Archer
Huntington of New York.
Premier Won Seydler, in an audience
with Emperor Karl, offered his resig-
nation according to Austrian advices
received at Amsterdam.
One of London's largest theaters
has been rented by the American COM
mittee of engineers for rendezvous
and a hotel for sailors and soldiers.
As an outcome of recent confer
ences, Japan is preparing a declara-
ton defining her attitude toward Rus
STA, according to a Tientsin dispatch.
The loss of the Austrian ~battleship
Scent Istvan-torpedoed in the Adri-
atic-is officially announced in Wen
ma, according TO a Havas dispatch
from Basel, Switzerland.
Mrs. Walter II. Page, wife of the
American ambassador to Great Bri-
tain, christened H. NJ. S. Eagle, II of
Great Britain's largest nave ships,
which was launched on the Tyne.
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and girls of all ages and classes have
been forced by hunger to join the
women's battalions working close to
the front lines, according to reports
from Austrian Tyrol.
An explosion in the Skoda gun
works, near Pilsen, on May %, killed
more han 300 persons and injured 200,
aonNrJiD- 60 ,Eo-,ot;o raani,o1 ~,
the Paris Journal. The explosion las
heard $50 miles.
"A notoble decrease in the number
of submarine sinkings in the western
and central regions and the English
channel has been evident since the
blocking of zeebrugge and Ostend har-
bors, it was semi-officially announced
in Paris.
Germany has lodged a complaint in
Washington and asked for safeguards
against such excuses as led to the
lynching of Robert P. Prayer at Col
~linsville, Ill.,, April 4, according to a
Wolff bureau telegram from Germany
quoting Privy Councillor Simons in re-
plying to a question askel by Herr
Mueller of Meiningen in the Reichs-
tag.
SPORT
An effort is being made by members
of the board of aldermen to legalize
Sunday baseball in New York.
Jess Willard has consented to box
for the soldiers at Camp Funston on
July 4 with any opponent they a Sc
lect for him fol a var benefit fund.
Harry Way of Denver made a run
of 206 targets without a miss in the
second morning shoot of the Rocky
Mountain Interstate Trap Shooting
tournament at Colorado Springs. Some
prominent shooters from New Mexico
attended the meeting.
The British colder has soma novel
ties in athletic diversions. Wrestling
on mules, for Instance, is g spectacu
lar sport. It is a team event. -Four
stout men from fire transport section
stripped to the waist and mounted or
barebacked mules. represent each bat
talon and the which has the last
survivor wins.
GENERAL
Mrs. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt was
married at HOLLYWOOD, her country
home at Lenox, Mass, to Raymond I
Baker, director of the United States
mint.
The sixty-ninth annual convention
of the American Medical Association
adjourned at Chicago after the house
of delegates unanimously adopted a
resolution urging compulsory military
training for all young men before they
are permitted to vote.
/ A story of an all-day fight with a
German submarine off the Virginia
coast was brought to an Atlantic port
by Capt. George Aitkin of the British
steamship Author. He said the raider
gave up the chase seventy miles from
the Virginia capes, apparently Gearing
to brave the coast patrol.
Mrs. Finley j. Sheppard, formerly
Miss Helen Gould, is seriously i'll in
New York of appendicitis.
Secretary of War Newton D. Baker
will go to Chicago to deliver an ad.
dress on July 4. it was announced.
The wholesale massacre b. the Bull
gars of all but lao of 10000 Greeks
deported from eastern Macedonia was
reported to the Greek legation by the
Bureau of Prisoners at Geneva. Swift
erland.
Americans captured off this coast
by submarine pirates were forced to
polish t%orpedoes intended for use
against United States transports. This
came to light in New York with the
arrival Of more anne who had been
taken off their sinking ships by the
Germans and held prisoner aboard the
U-boat No. ISL.
A compromise between leaders of