Tombstone epitaph., 1918-03-24
FOREIGN

Movements of Secretary Baker in France are carefully watched.
 Secretary Baker. with his staff. reached Paris from the French seaport where they landed.
 The French newspapers give great prominence 10 the visit 10 Paris of Newton D. Baker. American secretary of war
 The Deutscbe Tages Zeitung of Der lin prints Vienna dispatch to ihe ef- feet that the Rumanian oil fields will be ceded territory to Hungary
 The anathema against the Bolshe- wiki. pronounced by Dr. Tikhon, patri- arch Of all Russia and metropolitan of Moscow. was read in all the churches Sunday
 A number of American and British citizens. sailing from Finland on a neutral vessel. were captured by Ger mans. according to dispatches re- ceived at Stockholm.
 One woman. three children and a man were killed in Wednesday night s air raid over northeastern England. Six houses were demolished and thir- ty damaged by bombs
 The British in Palestine arc contin- uins their northward progress An ad- ditioDal advance on both sides of the Jerusalem-Nabulus road is reported in an official statement. Four groups of German gas project ors. in addition to the group Of 200 projectors already reported destroyed have been discovered and likewise blown to pieces by the American ar tillery.
 The mysterious movement of troops by Governor Chang Soulin of Mukden province. coupled with the reported desire Of President Feng- g-kwoChang to resign. is causing speculation in Peking.
 According 10 the London Morning Posts Berne correspondent, prepara- tions are being made through the Ger man newspapers and German press agents for new political move. The correspondent says it is possible a fresh peace move is contemplated on the basis of the status quo prior 10 the war in the west and recognition of the present state in the east
 One American woman was killed and an American man and woman were wounded in Mondays Hun air raid over Paris. Miss Winga Caroline Mar tin. 32. of Rockville Center, L. |. was one of. six killed in hospital struck by bomb She was d Young Wom- ans Christian Association canteen worker. Mrs. w. B. Phillips and a Mir. Salzer were wounded The total casualties were 100 killed and seventy nine wounded.
 SPORT
 The worlds record for women for the 44o-yard swim was b roken by Miss Fannie Durack at the Australia sian championships at Melbourne. Feb l6.
 Jess Willard. holder of the heavy weight championship, will henceforth hail from Lawrence. Kan, where he recently purchased what has been termed an estate
 Jack Coffey, manager of the Des Moines Western League Club, who spent the winter in Denver, left for the Iowa metropolis to take up his managerial duties for the season of 1918.
 Jess Willard will fight someone July | next according to word reaching New York from Jacksonville. Fla. Col J. C. Miller, owner Of the 10I ranch. he had secured Willard's signature to contract calling for the champions appearance next Independence day against some opponent.
 GENERAL
 Archibald Roosevelt, a son of Theo- dore Roosevelt. has been wounded in action with the American forces in France.
 Mrs. Mary Hitchings. who cut new teeth two years ago. died at Laurel. Del. aged es.
 Seed profiteers are to be prosecuted. Secretary Houston of the Department Of Agriculture intimated. Mrs. Blanca de Saulles. recently ac- quilted in New York of the murder of her husband, John L. de Saulles, is now residing in Japan. Nine hundred cases of eggs from China were received at Ogdensburg. N. Y., They were consigned from Shanghai to New York. The food administration has sug- gested to bakers that combination of wheat substitutes instead of a single substitute be used in Victory bread. Farmhouses. barns and orchards were wrecked and many head of cat tie were killed when cyclones swept through the country near Adrian, Mich. and Napoleon. Ohio. For the first time since the United States entered the war, federal author ities in New York are on the trail of a band of women spies. suspected of having been instrumental in communi- eating valuable military secrets to Berlin
 More than 3.000.o0o Christian Ar menisns. Georgians and others. among whom are seventeen American mis- sionaries. are in imminent peril of be- ing massacred by the Turks and Tar