The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1918-03-29
FOREIGN

prise to Germany as TO other parts OF
the world
The correspondent OF the Berlin
Vorwaerts at the French front reports
that the German emperor. with his
staff, was at st. Quentin on Tuesday,
Along the whole front there have
been the usual artillery actions and
moderate activity by our reconhoiter-
ing parties" says the Rome war Of
flee report six hostile airplanes
were brought down"
The Tuesday night report from gen
eral headquarters at Berlin announces
the capture of Lihons, Roye and Noy-
on. and declares that the German
forces have crossed the old Somme
battle line at many points.
British airmen continue to give
strong help 10 the infantry and artil-
lery, and the latest statement reports
that they accounted for sixty-seyen
enemy machines, forty-five or which
were shot down. The British loss was
ten. Entente aviators also have
bombed Cologne and railway stations
behind the battle line, as well as aer-
odromes and billets.
Russian and German soldiers in 81.
IBERIA are organizing an army corps
composed of one exclusively Russian
division and another which will be
two-thirds German and one-third Aus
trian. according to reports reaching
| official quarters at lrkutsk. Four
thousand Cossacks are said TO have
joined 10000 Germans, the combined
force being expected to go to lrkutsk.
1t is officially reported that seventy
German divisions have taken part in
the fighting in the offensive on the
Western front, and that troops have
been removed from every part of the
front to reinforce the armies which
have been forcing the British to fall
back. Observers at the front say that
German losses have been frightful, es-
timated at $50, 900 in the six-day drive.
Twenty-four shells reached Paris on
Saturday and twenty-seyen Sunday.
The interval between shots was re-
duced from fifteen or twenty minutes
on Saturday to an average of nine
minutes Sunday. On two occasions
there was an interval of only one or
two minutes. Shells fell at 9:l5 ana
9:l6 O'Clock and at 9:45 and 9:47
This was accepted as confirming the
theory that at least two long-distance
guns were firing.
SPORT
AT Annapolis the House OF Dele
gates defeated bill to abolish betting
at all race tracks in Maryland.
Jack Dempsey has another quick
victory TO his credit. He knocked out
Tom Riley, an unknown. in fifty Sec
onds at Joplin. Mo.
| Jess Willard and Fred Fulton signed
an agreement at Chicago to meet
| July for the heavyweight champion.
| ship of the world. The place was not
named in the articles. Fulton is to
| get 100000 as his share and Willard
| IS per cent OF the net receipts.
Denvers chances for landing the
heavyweight championship fight be-
| tween Jess Willard and Fred Fulton
seem to improve, Notwithstanding that
| fabulous bids are being given public
| ity In all parts Of the country Mrs.
| Jess Willard is the latest to go on
| record in favor OF Denver.
GENERAL
A plea for lasting peace is made by
| Pope Benedict in his Easter message
to the United States
News reached Norfolk, Va, that
| Peter Bazemore, a negro 10 years old,
who was said to have confessed at
lacking farmers wife, was lynched
| near Lewiston, N. C.
The new Spanish Cabinet was well
coined enthusiastically by the mem
| bers of the lower house of the Span
| ish Parliament. The strikes in Spain
are believed to be over.
General Pershing. through the War
| Department, has asked Congress to
authorize his troops to wear decora-
| lions bestowed on them by the allied
| governments and to give him similar
| powers to reward allied heroes.
! Maj. Henry c. Emery. the Yale pro-
fessor taken prisoner by the Germans
| on the Aland islands, has been taken
on a German transport to Dantzig,
| Germany, American Minister Morris in
Sweden reported to the State Depart
| ment.
An extraordinary demand for Lib
erty bonds, particularly the second As,
at an advance of u to ! per cent to
971a was the striking feature of Tues
| days early dealings on the New York
stock exchange Transactions in these
| bonds in the first half hour approx
mated s5.o00,000 par value
| Fire, following series of unex-
| planned explosions, destroyed the six
| story building of the Jarvis Ware
house Company, incorporated, near