The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1918-04-19
FOREIGN


were driven out by a counter attack.
The bombardment OF the Paris dis
trict by the German long range gun
continued Sunday. One woman was
killed.
Count Czernin. the Austro-Hungar-
ian foreign minister. according to
dispatch from Vienna. has resigned.
Emperor Charles accepted the resigna-
ton.
A German torpedo boat struck
mine off Zeebrugge and sank, accord
ing to a dispatch to the London Ex-
change Telegraph Company from The
Hague
The London Times correspondent in
Christiania says the scheme for an air
mail service between Great Britain
and Norway is in a fair way toward
realization.
An official note, issued at Paris.
says: THE British and French govern
ments have agree to confer the title
OF commender-in chief of the allied
armies in France on General Foch.'
Germany is so hard pressed for man
power that permanently disabled sol
diers are retained in the army and
cripples are called to the colors. This
statement was made in the Reichstag.
American troops have done brilliant
work in the stiff fighting at Brule
wood in the forest of Apremont, Lor-
raine. to which the French war office
al,
cations
In the House of Commons J. ]. Mac
Pherson, parliamentary undersecre-
tary OF the war office. informed a
questioner that steps had been taken
to construct a British gun capable of
throwing shell more than eighty
miles
The material losses in the fire which
destroyed the aircraft factories at
Friedrichshaven was enormous, includ
ing thirty squadrons of aeroplanes re-
served for use against the American
air fleets, 1t was announced in Paris.
One hundred and forty persons were
killed and 200 injured
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large amount of booty were taken by
the German troops which captured
Helslngfors. capital of Finland accord
ing to a communication issued from
the headquarters of the German COM
mander. General Won Der Goltz. The
city was taken by storm after desper-
ate struggles in the streets and in for
ests around the town.
SPORT
Ruth held Philadelphia to four hits
in as many innings at Boston in the
first game of the season, Boston win
ming. to L.
The American league baseball sea
son was opened at Washington with a
G-to-3 victory for the New York Amer
leans over Washington.
Middle West baseball players, bowl
erst, golfers, yatchtsmen. fighters.
wrestlers-in fact, all members of the
sport fraternities-have united in help
ing to put the third Liberty loan over.
William A. Rourke. Familiarity known
as Pa. dean of the minor league base
ball magnates, is about to quit the
Western loop. He's going to take up
farming, and has selected Colorado as
a scene for his agricultural activities.
GENERAL
With a message to the British gov
ernment and people that American La
Dor is Loyalty behind President Wilson
in the prosecution of the war. the Brit
ish labor mission which for two
months has been touring the United
States has departed for England.
The first German prisoners OF war
to arrive in the United States, former
ly members Of the crew OF the subma-
rine U5s, which was sunk by an Amer
lean destroyer. arrived on the same
vessel on which Secretary OF War Ba-
ker made his return trip from Europe
The big American naval collier Cy-
clops, carrying 81 passengers, Is Off
GERS and 22l men in her crew, has been
overdue at an Atlantic port since
March Is.
The first American soldier to escape
from German captivity has arrived at
Neuchatel. Switzerland, according to
Swiss advices, The American is in
termed there, the dispatch said.
Between thirty and thirty-seven
boys, aged 10 to Is years of age, all
patients at the Aate Hospital for the
Insane at Norman, Okla. were burned
to death in fire of unknown origin
that completely destroyed three wards
and the engine room Of the institution
A veiled hint that the collier Cyclops
may have fallen into German hands by
design was contained in the admission
by Herman Peperkorn, resident OF
Salt Lake City and a relative of Lieu
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