, 1918-02-21
FOREIGN

A number of persons who took part
in the recent strikes in Berlin nave
been sent to prison by extraordinary
courts-martial.
Bolo Pasha. who was convicted by a
Paris court-martial of treason n SEN
fenced to death, appealed from the
verdict to the Court of C%assation.
Peace with the Ukraine was made
not only so hat the central powers
might obtain foodstuffs, but also to
effect a breach in the eastern front, it
is indicated in a dispatch from Vienna.
According to the lobby correspond
ent of the London Daily News, facts
are known which bring the possibility
of a separate peace between Austria
Hungary and the entente allies much
nearer.
Great quantities of arms and NUM-
lions bound for Finland nave been
seized in the harbor of Stockholm. the
Social Demokraten OF Stockholm says,
according to an Exchange Telegraph
dispatch from Copenhagen.
The police at Copenhagen arrested
the leader of the S~yndicalists, who es-
capped during the riots, in which be-
tween $4,000 and 10000 persons at
tempted to storm the treasury. plum
der shops and enter the royal palace,
The extension of the franchise to
Canadian women was announced by
the government as a part of its estab-
lished policy. 1t was stated that WON
an suffrage would be an established
fact in Canada before another election
is held.
M. Holzmann, Maximalist envoy to
Switzerland, says in an interview with
the Socialist newspaper Sentinelle of
Geneva, that if the Russians refuse to
accept Germany's conditions the Ger
man soldiers on the Russian front will
refuse to fight.
President Wilson stands head and
shoulders above all Others as the
spokesman of the allied peoples, in the
opinion of the Manchester Guardian,
mainly because he is able to keep firm
ly and constantly in view the reasons
why America anne into the war.
Mrs. William B.. Leeds, a wealthy
American widow, and Prince Chris
TOPPER of Greece, according to the
London Daily Sketch. have been quiet
ly married in Switzerland, where Mrs.
Leeds has been stopping for a time
with a son who is in delicate health.
In the House of Commons former
Premier Asquith, commenting upon
President Wilson's speech to Con
gress, said the President had discrim-
mated justly in regard to both tone
and substance between the declara-
tons of the German chancellor and
the Austro-Hungaria foreign minister
in their u%tterances regarding war
aims.
Russia's withdrawal from the war
was a real withdrawal. and the throw
ing away of all agreements with her
former allies, said Leon Trotzky, the
Bolshevik foreign minister, in report
to the all-Russian workingmen's and
soldiers councils on the result of the
Brest-Litovsk conference, according to
a Russian wireless dispatch received
at Berlin.
SPORT
AS usual, 154 games will be played
in h American league in the coming
season, according to the official seized
ule. The season will open in the East
April Is, n day prior to the opening
in the West.
The fifth annual Midwinter Carnival
will be held in Steamboat Springs,
Colo, on Feb. 81 and %. Henry Hall.
holder of the worlds title, made on
the Steamboat course on March 2,
1917, will moi be there, but the title
,ptII 10 oA~tn,N.1 30. L.. - T-
Hans Hansen, Carl Howelson and An
ders Haugen, all of them experts and
any n likely to set a new worlds
mark.
GENERAL
The Maryland Senate passed the
resolution ratifying the federal prohib-
ition amendment. The House previous
ly had passed it.
Capt. Vernon Castle, famous dancer
and member of the Royal flying corps,
fell to his death at Benbrook flying
field at Fort Worth, Tex, sacrificing
his own life to save hat of a fellow
aviator.
Col. Theodore Roosevelt has so far
recovered from his recent operations
for assesses that he will be able to
leave the hospital for his hotel within
two weeks and return to Oyster Bay
ten days later.
Directors of the Arizona chapter of
the American Mining Congress, repre-
senting every mining district of the
state. held a two days meeting at
Douglas to discuss possible methods of
increasing copper production. The
chief problem before the mining men