Gilpin observer., 1918-08-08
Foreign

morning.
President Poincare gave luncheon
in Paris in honor of Herbert G.
Hoover, the American food admins
| traitor al
King Alfonso is reported to have in
vited the family of the late emperor
of Russia to come to Spain to remain
until the end Of the war. occupying
one of the royal palaces. sA.,
Andrew Bonar Law, government
spokesman in the house of commons,
stated in the lower house that Ger
man submarines were being sunk at
far greater rate than heretofore.
What seems to have been the last
words of Nicholas Romanoff, former
Russian emperor, as he faced firing
squad, were: Spare my wife and my
innocent, unhappy children. May my
blood preserve Russia from ruin"
In asking for u vote of credit of
700,00O0OO pounds in the house Of
commons, Andrew Bonar Law, the
chancellor of the exchequer, said that
the largeness of the amount was not
dut to increased expenditures but to
the fact that parliament was about to
adjourn.
Thousands of bushels of French
wheat have been shipped home by
German soldiers The French and
Americans during their advance of the
last few days have discovered that
systematic plans had been laid by the
Germans for reaping the harvest in the
country from which they have been
driven.
The entente diplomatic representa-
tives in Russia, before leaving Vo-
logda for Kandalaska, according to
the Russian newspaper Pravda, as
quoted by German newspapers, de-
clared their countries did not desire
to maintain any sort of connection
with the soviet government as long
as that government was supporting
"the German junker power on Russian
soil."'
Communications have been received
at Berne by the Red Cross from ten
| American aviators who were taken
prisoner during recent aerial raids by
American squadrons on towns along
the Rhine river All the aviators are
in excellent health. They have been
informed at Baden and Aastate. The
names of the pilots and the details of
their capture have been forwarded to
Washington.
The torpedoing early Monday morn
ing of the British ship Warilda was
one of the most narrowing disasters
in the history of submarine warfare.
The number of dead is variously esti-
mated from los to 100 and upward,
and includes several women nurses.
The ship carried 600 sick and wound
ed. Among them were seven Ameri-
cans-two officers and five enlisted
men, all of whom have been accounted
for.
Sporting News
Trap shooters at Chicago for the
Grand American handicap raised
$1,145 in Red Cross prologue.
W. K. Cundiff defeated John Nc
Gowan for the championship of the
Denver Country Club in the thirty-six
hole finals of that event. s.
With a total of over ten thousand
men engaged in some form of athletics
in one week, 1900 of them playing
| baseball, it appears that voluntary
athletics have come to stay at Camp
Cody, N. M.
Miss Frances Cowells of San Fran
cisco set a new worlds swimming
record at Santa Cruz, Cal, when she
covered the thirty-yard sprint in 16 2-5
| seconds. She also established new
American records for the 44O and 500
yard distances.
General
Brig. Gen. Edward Davis, U. s. A.,
retired, died at Honolulu, II. H. Gen.
eral Davis was retired in 1905 at his
own request after forty years service.
He was veteran Of the Civil War,
serving as second lieutenant with
the Fifth Kentucky volunteer cavalry.
1t was reported in Paris that Herb
ert Hoover. American food administra-
tor. and his party had narrow escape
In a German air raid on Boulogne
when a bomb blew In the windows OF
their private car.
Great Britain has undertaken to
prohibit the circulation of metallic
currency at premium. An order-in
council makes II a criminal offense
to sell or purchase any coin current
in the United Kingdom for an amount
exceeding the face value of the coin
Pinal county, Arizona, gained the
record in the Twelfth federal reserve
district for the highest oversubscrib
ing to the third Liberty loan with
1,3O8.96 per cent. Liberty loan head
quarters announced at San Francisco
Draft ages Of from IS to AZ years
was recommended to Congress in the
bill embodying the War Department.
now man. power program. introduced In