Gilpin observer. (Central City, Colo.) 1897-1921, 1918-05-09
Foreign

OF internal troubles.
Field Marshal Viscount French has
been appointed lord lieutenant of Ire
land.
The death of Georges Ohnet, French
novelist and dramatist, is announced
| at Paris
In some of the prison camps OF
Austria the death rate from starva.
ton was reported to have reached
forty a day.
The British House of Commons now
contains fifty members who are more
than 10 years old. OF these. four are
80 or over
What probably is new German
liquified gas was projected against the
Picardy front where American troops
are fighting.
The pope has nominated the Right
Rev. Patrick Hayes auxiliary bishop
of New York, as bishop Of the Ameri-
can army at the front.
De Witt Poole has been appointed
acting consul general at Moscow, fill.
ing the place made vacant by the sud-
den death of Madden Summers.
The Japanese are very proud of the
achievement of Maseo Goto, young
civilian aviator, who has just flown
from Toxic to Osaka, distance of $50
miles.
German airplanes have recently
been attacking Dutch fishing vessels
with machine gun fire wherever the
little boats have been found in the
North sea.
Foreign Secretary Balfour, reply
ing to query in the House of Com
mons at London, declared that no
peace offer had been made to the al
lies recently.
A Reuter- dispatch from Toxic says
that the Russian authorities at Ir-
kutsk have arrested the Japanese vice
consul and also the president of the
Japanese association on the charge of
being military spies.
A prize of $4,000 has been offered
by the British Automobile Association
for the best invention enabling coal
gas to be used as propellant for mo-
tor cars and motorcycles. The cost
of the installation must not be over
500 and its weight may not exceed
140 pounds.
The Holland news bureau says, &C
cording to an Amsterdam dispatch to
the London Exchange Telegraph Com
pany, that the resignation of the Aus.
trian premier, DR.. Won Seydler, as
soon as the emperor returns is I'M
avoidable. 1t adds that the parlia-
ment majority. consisting of Slavs.
Czechs and Poles, had decided not to
listen to him as premier any more.
The British admiralty has found
that the channel at Zeebrugge in
which old British cruisers recently
were sunk during the naval raid on
the German submarine bases on the
Belgian coast, is still blocked and will
probably remain SO for considerable
time, in spite of the efforts of the
Teutons to dredge a new channel
around the obstacles formed by the
wrecks of the warships.
Sporting News
An offer for the Jess Willard-Fred
Fulton boxing match to be held in
Connecticut was made by ]. P. Mulvi-
HILL boxing promoter, to Col. ]. C.
Miller. The offer is Of 100000 in Lib
erty bonds of which $500. would 20
to the winner and $4,000 to the loser,
In twenty-round go to decision. AS
a place for the contest Mr.. Mulvihill
would try to get Yale bowl donated.
giving $4,000 in cash to the Red Cross
or any other specified organization in
lieu of rental.
Eddie McGoorty left for Camp Grant
with Chicago draft contingent Reg
istered at San Francisco. McGoorty
was examined at Oshkosh, Wis, and
called from Chicago. Camp athletic
officers say he will have chance to
continue his boxing.
Princeton defeated Columbia in a
dual track meet at Princeton, N. j.,
66h to Az.
Johnny Tillman of Minneapolis, one
OF the country's foremost opponents of
the boxing art, arrived in Denver to
begin training for his bout at the
Stockyards stadium, in which he will
try to wrest the title from Ted (Kid)
Lewis. welterweight champion.
General
Mrs. Potter Palmer OF Chicago is
dead at her winter home at Sara Soto.
Fla.
A call for $685. additional draft men
was issued by the provost marshal
general.
Secretary Baker estimates cost Of
immediate war program will be fif-
teen billion dollars.
Ten vessels, aggregatlng 1904 tons,
and twenty seamen, were Norway's