, 1918-08-22
FOREIGN

opened TOT tTaltlc.
Gen. Hans Won Boehn, the German
retreat specialist" has been ap-
pointed to the supreme German COM
mand On the Somme front.
The total of German losses from the
beginning of the war to the end of
July, 1918, is understood to be 6,OO0,-
900, according to Paris morning news
papers.
Ten policemen have been wounded
seriously and many rioters injured at
Nagoya, Japan. over the high cost of
rice. Fifty persons have been arrested
at Nagoya and 300 at Ohaka.
The health of King Ferdinand of
Bulgaria, who is at Nauheim, suddenly
has become worse, according to a dis
patch received at Geneva from Munich.
His condition now is considered crit
ical.
Lieut.. Walter B. Miller of New York
City, former member of the Lafayette
escadrille, who was transferred to the
American service, was killed in an
aerial combat on Aug. 3 His patrol,
consisting of eight machines, was at.
tackled by a German squadron of thir-
ty aeroplanes. He fell inside the
American lines. The other members
of the patrol escaped after a fierce
struggle.
Gen. Justine Cotero, federal COM
mander at Pearson, Chihuahua, was
killed by Martin Lopez's band when
the passenger train was dynamited
ND nI1,1I "a. - o.
eral Cotero was recognized by Fran
cisco Villa, who was with Lopez, and
he ordered the general executed. His
aged mother was also killed IL his
daughter carried away to the hills by
the bandits, according to Judge Jesus
Cuen, who was on the train which
followed the wrecked one. Fifty-five
federal soldiers were killed and
wounded when q second train carry
ing ammunition to Santa Rosalia was
wrecked at Bachiba pass. The dyna-
mited train rolled down a steep en-
bankment, thirty of the soldiers being
killed in the wreck and others shot
by the Lopez band.
SPORT
The Missouri Valley Tennis Tourna-
ment, an uninterrupted annua event
of the last sixteen years, will not be
played this year, it was announced at
Kansas City.
Great Lakes, ILL.,, naval training sta
ton has heard the first call for foot
ball. All halfbacks and ends scattered
among the 10000 sailors at the station
have been requested to report to
Coach Herman Olcott for summer
practice.
A new woman's record for swim
ming across San Francisco bay from
the foot of Broadway, San Francisco.
to the Alameda Mole, was made by
Miss Catherine Flaherty of San Fran
cisco. Miss Flaherty swan the course
of five and one-half miles in 2 hours
&c minutes and &c 35 seconds.
GENERAL
The American schooner Dorothy
Barrett was uni by shell fire from
a German submarine near Cape May,
N. ].
Marguerite Clark, the motion pic
ture actress, is the bride of Lieut.. H.
P. Williams of Washington. Both gave
their ages as 81.
Four men were seriously wounded
during a pistol battle with three rob-
bers, who blew the safe in the Bank
of Greeley, Kan, and escaped with
between $4,000 and $4,000.
A new drive against the German po-
%sitions, either in Flanders or between
the Disc and Scissors, is expected by
many army afficers at Washington as
a result OF the slowing up of the ad-
vance in the Picardy theater. Outlin-
ing the situation at his mid-week con-
ference, General March, chief of staff,
confined his statements to pointing
out that the Germans now have been
pushed back until they are not within
fifty miles of Paris at any point.
The funeral of Anna Held was held
in New York and the casket placed in
a vault. After the war the body will
be taken to Paris for burial.
The Brazilian motor-ship Madruga-
da, 1913 gross tons, was sunk by shell
fire by a German submarine Friday
morning near Winter Quarter shoal,
off the northern Virginia coast.
Another violent attack on Prussian
policy, with a warning of the storm
brewing in Russia and a frank tribute
to British and American soldiers fight
ing for their ideals. has just been pub
lished in the Zunkunft by Macmillan
Harden, the free-spoken German edi-
tor.
According to a dispatch to the Lon
don Daily Mai from The Hague, Ger
many has demanded that Austria send
ten to fifteen divisions to the western
front. Austria, on condition that Ger
many would accept Austria's solution
of the Polish question and make a
strong peace move. including the evac-
uation n restoration of Belgium. as
sented to this. Germany promised to