, 1918-07-11

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Mohammed v, Sultan of Turkey,
died July 3, says a Constantinople
dispatch received by way of Vienna.
In all the allied countries and
their colonies the American indie
pendence day was observed in an IN
precedented
The Dutch cabinet will place the
hands Of Queen Wilhelmina. says the
Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant.
Cardinal Sebastian Martinelli, pre-
feet of the Sacred Heart Congregation
of Rites and former papal delegate to
the United States, died in Rome.
Queen Wilhelmina, according TO a
Reuter- dispatch from The Hague. has
requested the ministry to retain office
for the present to wind up current at
fairs.
Following a conference between En-
peror Karl, Count Czernin and Baron
Burian, the Vienna Neue Freie Presse
declared that Czernin would be reap
pointed foreign minister.
Anti-Semetic outbreaks have oc-
CURED in 'Jaroslau and other Cali
clan towns. according to information
received by the Jewish correspond
ence bureau from Vienna.
The British admiralty announced
that during the month of June 1884,
159 gross tom of merchant shipping
was completed in the United King
dom yards and entered for service.
Martial law has been proclaimed in
the Austrian duchy of Syria, the news
paper Poster Lloyd of Budapest an
The measure was taken. it is
said, in order to deal with mutiny and
desertion.
The first contingent of American
troops to arrive in Italy within forty
eight hours established itself in camp.
The men are sleeping under their own
tents and feeding from their W
kitchens.
German newspapers report he rapid
spread of Spanish influenza in Bre-
men, Hamburg, Hanover and other cit
les. The Frankfurter Zeitung says
some factories in Frankfort have from
one-third to one-half their workers abb
sen because of the disease.
American naval forces, comprising
$50 vessels and $4,000 men, are now in
European waters, operating in all
attic, Admiral Sims declared in a
speech at the Anglo-American fellow
ship meeting in London.
Gen. Otto Won Below has been ap-
pointed commandments on the
Italian front, according to Munich
papers. Another change reported is
Field Marshal Artur ARR Won Strauss
senburg, chief of staff, is replaced by
Gen. Krauss. According to the Mu-
mich zeitung. Austrian military cir
cles attribute the defeat on the Piave
mainly to the strike in the Budapest
munition factories.
Andrew Bonar Law, chancellor of
the ~exchequer, speaking in the
House of Commons in London, said
that one would have thought that
nothing new as regards German bru-
tality could have happened, but the
sinking of the Canadian hospital
ship Llandovery Castle was an I'M
speakable outrage. Nothing could be
gained, he added, by talking about
this last example of frightfulness.
SPORT
Ralph de Palma won the 100-mile
Liberty handicap automobile race at
the Sharonville speedway at Cincin-
natl, by finishing almost a full lap of
the two-mile course ahead of Tom Mil
ton.
Sergt. Earl Craddock of Camp
Dodge, Iowa, world champion wrestler,
obtained the first fall over Yussif Hus-
by a bar arm and head lock In one
hour and one minute.
Jack Dempsey knocked out Bob De.
we're at Joplin, Mo-, in the first round
| of a scheduled twelve-round fight.
GENERAL
Rear Admiral Aaron Ward, u. s. N,
retired, died at his home at Roslyn, N.
Y, after three days illness from heart
trouble.
Mrs. Mary Greeley, sister of Ad-
miral George Dewey, died at her
home at Montpelier, VT. She was 70
years of age.
Special railroad rates of 1 cent a
mile for farm workers were asked of
the railroad administration by the De-
partment of Labor.
The production of feldspar In the
United States in 1917 amounted to
126.715 long tons of crude material.
valued at S474,767.