Taiban Valley news., 1918-03-08
FOREIGN

Senior Alhucemas, president Of the
cabinet.
A bill to amend the Nova Scotia
franchise act to give women the vote
on the same terms as men was intro
duced in the House of Assembly.
The consensus of opinion in Paris
official and diplomatic circles con-
corning Count Won Hertling's speech
is that it is war speech" not a
peace speech"
Wholesale revolt of Carranza troops
in the state of Chihuahua because the
government has not paid them, is
threatened, according to reports re-
ceived at Ell Paso, Tex.
William Jennings Bryan was re-
fused hearing when he appeared at
Massey hall at Toronto, Can, to ad-
dress a prohibition meeting under the
auspices of the Dominion Alliance.
There have been various reports of
the loss of life due to earthquake at
Swatow China. The number of dead
has ranged from 100 to 10000, while
the injured have been placed at 1000.
A cry of alarm has been raised by
the Tageblatt of Gratz, Austria,
against the Germanization of the
eastern Adriatic, especially Pola and
Filume, which have become bases for
German submarines.
"The basis for Japans Intervention
in Siberia has been decided the
Paris Petit Journal declared. "The
United States has recognized its
utility. Only the details remain to
be settled"
Soviet commissaries arriving at
Petrograd from many of the larger
Russian cities demanded that
holy war" be proclaimed against the
German invaders. They advocated
arming of the entire population of the
country.
The British hospital ship Glenart
Castle which went down in the Bristol
channel was torpedoed, according to
survivors, thirty-four of whom were
has been learned of the fate of the
others, including Red Cross doctors,
nurses and orderlies.
The peace terms submitted to King
Ferdinand of Rumania by Count
Czernin, the Austro-H Hungarian foreign
minister, included the kings abdica-
ton in favor of his brother, Prince
William, or the taking of referen-
dunn in Rumania regarding his sue
cessor, according to Berlin dispatch.
SPORT
Fred Fulton of Rochester, Mimi,
and Bob Devere of Kansas City have
been matched for a ten-round boxing
contest at st. Louis, Mo-, March IL.
Jess Willard has a new fifty-five-
acre front yard. The champion pur-
chased a $4,000 home, known as the
Cummings place, near Lawrence,
Kan, while visiting in Lawrence two
weeks ago. He will make his home
there.
Some of the liveliest battling seen
in Denver in long time was in store
for the big crowd that attended the
athletic entertainment given by the
Loyola Club at the knights of Colum-
bus hail. A good-sized fund was
raised for the war work of the
knights of Columbus.
In the collapse of the Chinese pub
lie stands at the Hong Kong Jockey
Club races, 100 women and children
were trampled to death, according to
a Reuter- dispatch from Hong Kong.
Fire broke out and several hundred
others were burned TO death. An of
ficial statement says that nearly 600
lives were lost in the race course fire.
GENERAL
The French cabinet decided that the
summer time daylight savings sched-
ule should begin on Saturday, March
9, when all clocks will be set forward
one hour at midnight.
The selection of Mrs. John Sherwin
Crosby, president of the Woman's
Democratic Club of New York city, as
the representative of New York state
on the woman's advisory committee
of the Democratic national committee,
was announced at the committees
headquarters in Washington.
Eighty thousand trained Siberian
Cossacks will oppose any infringe
ment" on Siberia's sovereignty, ac-
cording to Col Nicolai Alexandrovitch
Listovsky of the Russian railway
guards, who passed through San Fran
cisco en- route to Washington from
Russia
Because the receivership of the
Denver & Rio Grande railroad inter
fered with government control, the
United States Circuit Court of Ap-
peals in st. Louis modified the re-
ceivership order issued in the Fed
eral District Court in Denver a few
weeks ago, permitting Edward L.
Brown, one of the receivers, to resign
and continuing Alexander R. Baldwin