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day and the royal assent was given
the measure.
Nine Americans were killed. IN Tam
plcO, Mex, on April 5 and 6, accord
ing to Capt p. NJ. Sadler, who has
just returned from TampiCo.
A manifesto declaring Irish con
scription is a violation Of the rights
OF small nations" has been issued by
a conference of Irish party, Sim Fem
and Irish LaboFite leaders.
The famous leaning virgin at the
top of the Albert cathedral, now be
hind the German lines, was shot down
by German artillery, says a dispatch
from British headquarters In France
to Reuters.
David Lloyd-George, the British
premier, announced in the House OF
Commons that the passage OF the man
power bill is imperative as Germany
has just called a further half million
men to the o%olors, says a Reuter- dis
patch from London.
The ~long-range bOmbardments of
Paris ceased for two days, and It was
hoped that the French had found the
exact location OF a heavy German gun
and put IL out of action. This hope
however, failed when the lombard
ment OF Paris was resumed Friday.
One Of the foremost French gem
erals who commanded the three
French divisions in the heavy fight
ing previous to April Z declared un-
Teservedly to Reuters correspondent
that I'VE have every ground for o
fidence both in Picardy and Elan
ders."
Rheims, which has been on fire for
a week, is now nothing but a great
pile Of smoking ruins. During the
last week the Germans have fired
more than 100000 shells into the
heart of the city, according to the
correspondent of Paris lie Matin, and
flames from the burning buildings Ear
be seen by aviators sixty and seventy
miles away.
Referring to the situation at the
front in the House of Commons,
Premier Lloyd George said: THE
fl~uctuation between hope and despon-
dency must continue for some time
yet. But ! am still full of confidence.
. Gen. Plumer lin command
at Messines ridge) is quite confident.
We have lost territory, but we have
lost nothing vital"
SPORT
Joe Stecher threw Hussane, the
Balkan wrestler, after one hour and
thirty-three minutes of hard wrest-
ling at Boston.
George F. Costello, Denver boy sta
toned at Camp Cody, Deming, N. M,
with base hospital No. 20, has been
promoted to sergeant Of his company.
The official notice summoning Gro
yer Cleveland Alexander, star pitch
er of the Chicago National League
Baseball Club, to go with the draft
quota from Howard county, Neb., to
Camp Funston, April 80, was sen to
Chicago by A~lexander's draft board.
With the consent and Endorsement
Of Gen. Charles H. Martin, command
er at Camp Grant, plans we're laid at
Rockford, ILL.,, to try to stage the fight
between Willard and Fulton at the
c%antonment on July 4, in case the pro-
posal to hold the bout at st. Paul and
Minneapolis failed.
GENERAL
Nearly 1000 900 pounds of sugar,
said to be a record cargo from Cuba,
arrived in the hold of an American
steamship.
Proposed increase of the govern
ment guaranteed price of wheat to
$3.50 was defeated in the House,
which rejected by a vote of 1877 to 9s
the Senate amendment to the agricul.
tural appropriation bill making the
change.
The fourth officers training camps
will open May Is at various divisional
camps and environments, Secretary
Baker announced.
Choice fat bullocks sold at the Chi.
cago stockyards for $17.25 a hundred
pounds, n highest price Tor April IN
the history of the market.
American losses in the period from
March 21 to April 8, during which
the engineers consolidated and held
a sub-sector Of the British lines
against repeated assaults, were given
by Gen. Pershing as two officers
killed and three wounded; twenty
men killed and fifty-two wounded and
forty-five missing.
A yelled hint that the collier Cyclops
may have fallen into German hands by
design was contained in the admission
by Herman Peperkorn, a resident OF
Salt Lake City and a relative of Lieu.
tenant Commander WoTley, that Wor'
ley was Of German birth and had
changed his name when entering the