, 1918-01-31
FOREIGN

States for $4,000, 900 bushels moro
wheat. This was one of the most i'm
portant statements which Lord Rhond-
da, the British food controller, made
in an interview.
Reports received in Copenhagen
from Vienna, as forwarded by the Elk
change Telegraph correspondent, indi-
cate that 100000 men there are still
on strike, and hat the strike contin-
ues in Budapest.
Little news has come from Germany
on the political situation there, but it
is indicated that the Austrian emper-
or is not unmindful that the trouble in
his own and may force Emperor VIII
liam to change his attitude toward the
peace negotiations.
Count Won Hertling, the German
chancellor, in answering the recent
speeches of President Wilson and
Premier Lloyd George, announced in
the Reichstag main committee that
Germany would not give up Alsace,
Lorraine.
According to a Petrograd dispatch
to German newspapers, which was re-
ceived by an indirect route, the Boil
sheviki have seized a portion of the
funds of the Rumanian treasury de-
posted in a Moscow bank and also
taken the Rumanian crown jewels at
Kishinev.
Comments in the French press on
the speeches of Count Czernin, the
Austrian foreign minister, and Count
Won Hertling, the German chancellor,
vary. Some of the newspapers con-
slider the speeches mere bluff or
''brain-stuffing," while others see In
the statements a genuine advance
toward peace.
Chancellor Won Hertling's speech
was characterized in London by Lord
Robert Cecil, minister of blockade, as
very warlike, certainly not a peace
speech" He added that the speech
had been dictated by Hindenburg and
Ludendorff, and contained no declar-
alton of policy regarding Belgium,
which he had always looked to as a
test of the reality of any proposals
from the other side.
Viscount Motono, the Japanese for
eign minister, in his speech to both
houses of Parliament at Toxic, an
nounced that the members of the Jap
anese mission recently sent to Amer
lea, had after a frank exchange of
views established a full mutual &C
cord between Japan and the United
States in regard to military co-opera-
ton in the war. The foreign minis
ter said: THE great war which has
bathed Europe in blood continues and
it would seem difficult to predict the
end"
SPORT
Jack Dempsey defeated Homer
Smith in the first round at Racine,
Wis.
The closest, most exciting and real
ly heart-tearing game of basketball
ever played in Fort Collins was won
by the Colorado Aggies from the Den
e university team.
Manager C. H. Winginder of the
University of Denver football squad
has completed negotiations, and a def
mite date has been set for a football
game with the Nebraska Cornhuskers
at Lincoln, Nov. 2.
Billy Young, 1917 winner in the 1OS-
pound class, carried off the honors at
the Denver Athletic Club tourney in
the same division that he did last
year by stopping Whitley" Lewis of
the Five Points Club in the second
round of one of the prettiest battles
that has been staged at the popular
Glenarm swat parlors.
GENERAL
a flood reported in the upper Rhine
valley has inundated the city of Co
logne, destroying quantities OF pro-
visions.
All New York newspapers were put
on a 2-cent an issue basis. Increase
of materials n labor was given as
the reason.
The Wyoming board of equalization
has doubled the former assessment on
sheep, raised cattle So per head and
horses $25 per head.
Damage of from 40 I o 80 per cent"
in the winter a crop with much
damage" to truck garden crops
throughout the South as a result of
the recent three successive cold
waves was reported by the Agricul-
ture Department.
Thirty more negro soldiers will face
court-martial, the result of new testi-
mony brought out in the investigation
Of the Houston riot of Aug. %, when