, 1918-04-25
FOREIGN

900 marks.
All the remaining stages of the
man-power bill were concluded Thurs
day and the royal assent vas given
the measure.
Nine Americans were killed in Tam
pico, Mex, on April 5 and 6, accord
ing to Capt. F. 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 Fein
and Irish Laborite 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 he man
power bill is imperative as Germany
has just called a further half million
men to the %colors, 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 it out of action. This hope
however, failed when the lombard
ment of Paris was resumed Friday.
One of the foremost French gen.
erals who commanded the three
French divisions in the heavy fight
ing previous to April 7 declared I'M
reservedly to Reuters correspondent
that I'VE have every ground for con-
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 can
be seen by a%viators sixty and seventy
miles away.
Referring to the situation at the
front in the House of Commons,
Premier Lloyd George said: The
fluctuation between hope and despon-
dency must continue for some time
yet. But l am still full of confidence.
Gen. Plumer Tin 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. NJ,
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 sent to
Chicago by Alexander's draft board.
With the consent and Endorsement
of Gen. Charles H. Martin, command
er at Camp Grant, plans were laid at
Rockford, ILL.,, to try to stage the fight
between Willard and Fulton at the
cantonment on July 4, in case the pro-
posal to hold the bout at st. Paul and
Minneapolis failed.
GENERAL
Nearly 100000 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 vas defeated in the House,
which rejected by a vote of 1877 to 98
the Senate amendment to the agricul-
tural appropriation bill making the
change.
The fourth officers training camps
will open May 10 at various divisional
camps and c~antonments, Secretary
Baker announced.
Choice fat bullocks sold at the Chi
Gag stockyards for $17.25 a hundred
pounds, the highest price for April in
the history of the market.
American losses in the period from
March 81 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