, 1918-01-24
FOREIGN

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dependence of Finland.
Czech leaders of Silesia and Mora
via met at Prague and adopted resolu-
lions demanding a Czech republic.
Japanese financial interests have
arranged to establish a bank at Lima,
Peru. A Chinese bank also is to be
established.
Nicholas Romanoff, the former EN-
peror, and his family have escaped
from their prison near Tobolsk, it is
reported in Petrograd.
Bolshevik officials at Petrograd ex-
pressed the belief that the attempt on
the life of Nikolai Lenine was part of
a counter revolutionary plot.
The House of Commons, by a vote
of 1876 TO As, rejected an amendment
to the man power" bill which pro-
posed to apply CONSUMPTION to Ireland.
Whole companies of Austrian troops
have been ordered shot for their SYM
pathy with Russian Socialist views,
according to reports reaching Petro-
grad.
Premier Lloyd George, addressing
the labor delegates in London, said
that no man standing on the watch
tower could deny the urgency of the
need for raising more men.
Closely censored dispatches indi.
Gated serious bread riots and strikes
at numerous munition factories as
well as civil clashes between police
and crowds at numerous Austro-Hun-
garian cities.
President CarranZa returned to Mex
leo City after having been absent from
the capital on q birthday holiday since
Dec. %. He left his train about fif-
teen miles from the city and came in
by automobile.
President Menoca placed his sigma
ture to contracts providing for the
sale of the Cuban sugar crop to the
United States. The contract binds
Cuba to send $500 900 tons of sugar
to the United States for proportional
distribution among the allied nations.
The anti-suffragists in the British
House of Lords suffered another re-
buff by the rejection of an amend
ment proposed by Viscount Halifax to
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be decided by a referendum of the
women. The amendment was defeat
ed by a vote of 80 to 62.
SPORT
frankie Fleming, featherweight box
ing champion of Canada, has joined
the Royal Flying corps. He will be
trained as an aviator at Camp Borden,
Ontario.
Harry Foley's plan to bring Jess
Willard and Fred Fulton to a Fran
cisco for a twenty-round bout for the
Red Cross in an arena to be con-
structed at the exposition grounds has
met with the approval of Judge Thorn
as F. Graham, chairman of the San
Francisco County Council of Defense.
Fred Fulton of Minneapolis, claim
ant to Jess Wizards crown, and Billy
Miske, st. Paul's light heavyweight,
fought a ten-round slashing draw at
st. Paul, Mimi, before the largest
crowd that ever witnessed a ring bat
tie in that city. Every newspaper
critic at the ringside gave Miske a
draw or better. Some declared he had
a slight shade.
GENERAL
William Jennings Bryan, Jr., assist
ant United States district attorney for
the Tucson, Ariz., district, has been
granted a six months leave of abb
sence because of impaired health.
Closing of the New York Cotton ex-
change "in cooperation with the spirit
of the fuel administrations fuel con-
servation order" was decided upon by
the board of managers of the ex-
change.
Ten thousand manufacturing plants
closed and an industrial army of 4O0,-
600 workers idle, was Chicago's re-
Spouse to the sweeping order of the
national fuel administration for the
conservation of coal Friday.
The doing of six days work in five
during Mondayless Industrial weeks is
recommended to members of the Ma
tional Boot and Shoe Manufacturers
Association in a bulletin telegraphed
to them from New York by John S.
Kent, president.
Late Friday the fuel administration
announced that a large number of
plants-about a thousand in aldo
ing war work, had been exempted from
the fuel restriction order. Practical
ly all the principal industrial plants
of the country are OF the list in one
way or another. The ruling insures
work for hundreds of thousands of
men.
AT Chicago it was estimated that
Fuel Administrator Garfield's order
nlorinn all indnstr Ins east of the Mis-.