The Colorado statesman., 1918-12-28
FOREIGN


dispatch from Copenhagen.
King George will give banquet at
buckingham palace in London Dec. 27
in honor of President Wilson.
German residents of Danzig held
mass meeting to protest against an
nexation of the city by the Poles.
More than 1900 graves of American
soldiers were decorated on Christmas
day by the American committee for
devastated France.
There are between 10000 and 10000
unemployed workmen in Berlin, &C
OF this number 1000 are metal work
ers.
French soldiers to the number Of
100000 were killed during the war,
according to a statement by the Social
list deputy Lucien Voilin, in the Chan-
Der of Deputies.
The German fortress of Ehrenbrei.-
stein, sometimes called the Gibraltar
of the Rhine, on the opposite bank OF
the river from CoblenZ. has been occu-
pied by American troops.
Butter is 81 and sugar 81 per pound
in Wiseman, the largest camp in the
Kushokwin valley in southwestern
Alaska, according to c. Nelson, who
arrived at jerome from the westward.
Statistics obtained by Canadian of
ficials from 100000 members of the
Canadian forces overseas show that
more than 100000 soldiers, or 43.9 per
cent, desire to go on the land after
their return to Canada.
Casualties in the great war may
pass the staggering total of 31,591,75S.
of which 7,909.76S were deaths in bat
tie, from wounds or from disease, ac-
cording to a rough estimate compiled
from authentic (mostly officiaD
sources.
A Rhenish official advances the
suggestion for future Germany COM
posed of seven republics constructed
along the lines of the United States.
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg, ac-
cording to reports received at Zurich,
from Germany, has concentrated
large force of soldiers in Posen.
The Matin Dec. % was authorized to
print an article which was censored
Sunday The article, the first head
line of which read: Yesterdays
Utopia Tomorrow's Reality" sets
forth the manner of procedure of the
| promoters of league of nations act
ing in agreement with the allied gov
ernments."
President Wilson Dec. % visited the
Red Cross hospital at Neuilly, France,
where he shook hands individually
and talked with 1,200 wounded Ameri-
cans, for the most part survivors of
the Chateau Thierry action. He spent
more than four hours in the hospital.
visiting every ward and stopping at
every bedside.
SPORT
The British government has sane
toned the revival of racing and the
sport will be resumed on large scale
in 1919.
1t was officially decided by the man
agement of the indianapolis motor
speedway to hold the next interna-
tional 5OO-mile sweepstakes race on
Saturday, May 81, instead of on Deco
ration day, as was the custom in the
| past
The 1919 major league season will
open on Wednesday, April %, Presi-
dent Ban Johnson of the American
league announced in Chicago on his
return from New York. The opening
date was agreed upon at conference
with John A. Heydler, president of the
National league. The majors have
definitely decided to play schedules of
40 games instead of 154, he said.
GENERAL
The transports Martha Washington
and Mercury came into pIrt at New.
port News, Va, bringing home from
| France 1920 officers and men, includ-
ing 600 wounded.
| Prof. T. G. Masaryk. president of
the Czecho Slovak republic took the
cath of office as president in the diet
building.
Bandits blew open the vault in the
bank of Cranky, at CRANKY, Mo-, TWEEN
| ty miles southeast of Joplin, and es-
capped with $4,000 worth of unregis-
tered Liberty bonds.
The Frankfort Zeitung says the
| former German empress will hardly
| live to see the new year. Her ailment,
heart disease, has grown considerably
worse during the past exciting weeks.
Secretary Lansing officially denied
that the American delegation had de-
cided to advocate sinking the sur
rendered German warships. The prop
osition, he said, has not ever been dis
| cussed.
A big acreage in sugar beets in the
Rocky Mountain region next year is
predicted by General Agriculturist
Mark Austin of the Utah-Idaho Sugar
Company of Salt Lake City, who was