, 1918-08-15
FOREIGN

Herbert C. Hoover, the American food
administrator.
After the occupation of Archangel
by the allies, the Bolsheviki withdrew
across the River Dvina, and Aug. 4
were again driven out of their posi-
lions there. chiefly by shell fire.
The government recently established
at Archangel, after a revolution
against the Bo%lsheviki, has addressed
a proclamation to the people declar-
ing the Bolshevik regime at an end.
1t is understood that the Punishment
of Louis j. Malvy, former minister of
the interior at Paris, will be deferred,
pending the adjustment of his family
affairs. 1t is believed he will decide to
go to England.
There are more than 10000 cases
of cholera in P%etrograd, according to
the Fremdenblatt of Hamburg, which
reports LOO deaths. The authorities,
it declared, are helpless, and the dis
ease is spreading unchecked.
Allied aeroplanes are making it hot
for German towns, according to adj
vices reaching London. Their activi-
ties have increased within the last ten
days. forcing the enemy to detach a
large number of fighting machines
from the front in order to protect
the menaced towns.
Germany's monstrous levies on &C.
cupied territories will be taken into &C
count in final peace negotiations, Lord
Cecil, assistant secretary of state for
foreign affairs, announced in the
House of Commons. She has already
levied 1880, 00O, 900 (more han $780,
900, 000) on Belgium, he said.
The general feeling in London is
that the Importance of the successful
new Picardy battle canno be overes-
timated. 1t is regarded as the turn
ing point of the years campaign and
perhaps of the wal. 1t is not too much
to say that the American army has
been the chief factor in this result.
A dispatch from Petrograd received
at Amsterdam, by way of Berlin, says
a state of siege has been declared at
A~rchangel, Vologda, Suchowa and
Koplass and other places. All the
communists in these places have been
called to the colors and all foreign
ers have been ordered to leave within
twenty-four hours, according to the
dispatch.
SPORT
Willie Astey, the New York bantam,
has enlisted in the naval reserves as
a first class yeoman.
nnlya (aho~or,OIy, CInranoa To-a
and Harold Kruger, the Hawaiian
swimmers, finished first, second and
third, respectively, in the %fifty-yard
scratch race in New York. Kahana-
moku won by three feet in 20 As sec
onds. The others were only a touch
apart for second place.
The Colorado State Golf Associa-
ton accepted the offer of the Denver
Country Club to hold the state tourna-
ment at the Country Club links, fol-
lowing the announcement that the
Broadmoor Club of Colorado Springs
cannot stage the event. The date will
be the same as originally planned
Aug. 20 to "a.
GENERAL
Imports in the fiscal year ending
last June 80 were 50, 946, O59, 402, an in
crease of s2S7, 100000 over the pre-
vious year, figures issued by the De-
partment of Commerce show.
An American schooner arrived at a
Canadian port with eighty-five men,
bers of the crew of a Japanese freight
steamship which had been torpedoed
off the Nova Scotia coast. The vessel
was the Tokuyama Maru.
Returns indicate the plurality of Jo-
seph w. Folk over Senator Xenophon
P. Whitley for the Democratic nomina-
ton for United States senator OF Mis-
souri, will exceed 5000, and that Sell
don P. Spencer's majority over Col.
Jay L. Torrey, for the Republican
nomination will reach 10000 votes.
The American schooner Stanley l..
Seaman, bound from Newport News
to a foreign port, was sunk Aug. 5th,
ITO miles east of Cape Hatteras. by a
German submarine.
Liberty 3k per cent bonds sold at
1000 on the stock exchange Aug. 9,
the rise above par probably being in
fluenced by the favorable war ews.
This is the highest price paid for this
issue.
Gen. Kikuzo Otani, one of Japan's
most distinguished soldiers. has been
chosen to command the Japanese ac-
ton and will be the ranking officer OF
the American and allied expedition in
Siberia.
D-.l I@,vI n4N-aN NhA nrtftuH
prime minister, in a speech before the
house of commons, reviewed extern
sively the war situation. He referred
particularly to what had been accom-
plished in the recent drive by the al
lied forces on the Soissons-Rheims
salient, to the destruction of German