Cheyenne record., 1918-05-23
FOREIGN

The entire German fleet is reportsd
to be concentrating at KEEL.
Italian destroyers sank an enemy
transport in the Adriatic sea near the
entrance to the Durazzo
German troops have occupied Bjor-
ko, an island In the Gulf Of Finland
south Of Viborg. and thirty miles
northwest of Petrograd.
In a speech before the Wurttemberg
diet, Herr Hausmann. one of the lead
ers of the Progressive party. said that
a fifth winter of war was now inevita-
BILE.
Capt. John L. Trollope, the young
British airman who established
worlds record by bringing down six
machines in one day, is prisoner and
wounded
The German commission appointed
to examine the decline in the birth
rate in Germany has reported a recon-
mendation for the compulsory mar
riage Of Germans before their TWEEN
tieth year is past.
American aviators north of Toul
shot down to German airplanes Sun
day in a series Of engagements high
in the air Capt. David Peterson of
Honesdale, Pa, shot down another en-
emy biplane Saturday.
The profits made out Of the wine
growing industry In Lower Austria last
year were over 110.000,000, according
to the Frankfort zeitung. as compared
with total of less than $5.0O0.O0O In
the year preceding the war.
Steps to insure maximum production
of foodstuffs in Hawaii for the period
OF the war have been taken by the
Chamber Of Commerce of Honolulu. in
cooperation with the territorial gov.
ernment and Delegate Kuhlo.
A vessel carrying seventy-three Sim
Fein prisoners left Kingstown, Ireland,
says Dublin dispatch to the Central
News Agency. 1t is understood the
ship is proceeding to Holyhead. Wales
A large crowd cheered as the ship dis
appeared. but the demonstrators were
dispersed quickly.
SPORT
Jimmy Hanlon, Denver, will meet
Irish" Patsy Cline, Philadelphia light
weight. in twelve-round bout at Des
Moines, la.
The sixth annual renewal of tho
Mountain Marathon will be held June
8 over the Littleton-to-Denver course,
which is ten and two-fifths miles.
Massachusetts Institute Of Technol.
ogy won the thirty-second annual
championship track and field meet of
the New England intercollegiate Ath.
letic Association at Cambridge. Brown
was second. ...
Friends of Orval Overall. former star
pitcher for the Chicago Nationals,
have launched a campaign at Visalia,
Cal, to win for him the Republican
nomination for Congress from the Sew.
enth California district.
Sunday baseball in the national cap
ital was inaugurated with a twelve-in
ming game. In which Washington de-
feated Cleveland to before one OF
the largest crowds that ever gathered
at the local park. More than $4,000
persons attended.
GENERAL
The Third Liberty Loan exceeded
four billion mark.
| Five hundred Sim Feiners were ar
rested at various towns in Ireland May
| Inc 70 n,,hl tN1
Reports Of fresh outbreak of Turk
| ish atrocities on the Jews in Palestine
have received official confirmation, &C
cording to the official press bureau al
The Hague.
Greater confidence in the outcome
of the war, improving crop and trade
| conditions. ana the more harmonious
relations between the federal govern
| ment and financial and industrial in
terests accounted very largely for the
| substantial advances in securities II
New york, to the accompaniment oi
very heavy daily dealings.
WAR to the DEATH" demanded for
mer President Taft in his keynote
| speech at the opening session of the
| win-the-war convention of the League
to Enforce Peace. at Philadelphia
Probably 200 men were killed Satur
| day night when an explosion of T. N
T. demolished the plant of the Aetna
Chemical Company at Oakdale. on the
Panhandle division Of the Pennsylva
MIA railroad, sixteen miles from Pitts
burgh. Pa. "
Twelve. German submarines were
sunk or captured in British waters BY
the American and British destroyers
during the month Of April. which was
record. according to an American
| war correspondent who has returned
| to New York from London