The Colorado statesman., 1918-03-23
FOREIGN

fTeuCn war CIOsss
Serious strikes spreading through
out Austria-Hungary.
Holland has accepted with certain
conditions, the Anglo-American de
mand regarding Dutch shipping.
At Nazaire, France. the police dis
covered wireless outfit concealed in
a large villa at one of the fashionable
seashore resorts on the right bank of
the River Loire.
The German bundesrat, or federal
council, has approved the peace trea-
ties with Russia and Finland, accord
ing to the semi-official Norddeutsche
Allgemeine Zeitung.
Nikolayev, captured" by the Ger
mans, about forty miles northwest of
Kherson, on the Bug river, has occu-
pied an important place in the naval
defenses of Russia.
The Bavarian Colonization Society
meeting in Munich decided to send
$4,000 German colonists to Courland,
according to the London Daily Mail
from Annemasse, France
A conference of eighty workmen,
representing every factory in Petro-
grad, made a public declaration
against the caucus vote of the Bolshe-
yik faction which favored ratification
of the peace terms.
All relatives of the Romanoffs (the
family name of the former czar)
above 16 years of age have been or
to
believed possible they will be exiled
to Siberia with the Grand Duke
Michael.
Citation of three more American
soldiers, carrying with it the French
war cross, was announced at Ameri-
can army headquarters, while on the
Luneville sector six officers, six ser
geants and two privates were receiv-
ing the war cross at an impressive
ceremony just back of the fighting
line.
Two hundred and fifty-five flights
into Germany have been carried out
by British aviators and only ten ma
chimes have been lost, James Ian Mac
Pherson, parliamentary secretary of
the war office, announced in answer
to a question in the House of Com
mons in London regarding the results
of recent air raids into German terri
tory. More than ton of bombs were
dropped on Mannheim on March IS,
he added.
The Spanish and Swiss ambassa-
dors at Berlin have been directed by
the German foreign office to notify
the American government that Ger
many will proceed with measures
against American property in Ger
many in the same proportion that ac
tien is taken against German property
in the United States, Reuters Amster-
dam correspondent reports.
Ratification of the peace pact by
vote Of 704 to 261 at Moscow was a
typical "Stoanl rolIor" proooSs. NJ.
Martoff, chief of the Menshevik fac
tion. charged that the full treaty was
not publicly known and declared that
the indemnity demanded by Germany
was 9,000,000,0O0 rubles (S4,635, ,OO0,-
000), instead of the 3,000,O00,00O ru-
bles previously announced. He also
charged that the treaty declares Pc
tragrad "a free CITY,"
SPORT
Eugene Corfman was selected to
captain the 1919 basketball team of
the University of Denver
The football game between the
Washington State College and the
University of Montana, Nov. 49,. will
be held at Spokane.
Young Azevedo of San Francisco
and Heinie Schuman of Denver fought
six rounds to draw at Salt Lake be-
fore the Manhattan Club.
Alexander Lendrum, All-Colorado
football tackle last autumn and
student at Denver university, left to
join the United States army aviation
camp at Berkeley, Cal
GENERAL
Three bandits, masked and armed,
held up the Yokohama Specie Bank,
Limited, at San Francisco and es-
capped with approximately $1,000, aft
er locking up more than twenty of the
institutions employees in an office
room.
Federal officials declared in New
York that more arrests probably will
be made in the German spy plot
brought to light by the arrest of two
beautiful women and two title-claim-
ing men who have been associating
with them.
American artillery on the Toul
front has heavily attacked the Ger
mans with gas shells. Four different
attacks were launched and from the
manner in which the enemy was
silenced it is evident they had the de-
sired effect.
Ambassador Francis confirmed