Gilpin observer., 1918-03-28
Z FOREIGN


allied governments was unjust. DR..
Loudon, the Dutch foreign minister,
declared to the upper chamber.
British aviators have bombarded the
railway stations at Cologne as we'll as
various other important cities in Ger
many.
The governments bill relative to
general compulsory labor has been in
| troduced in the lower house of the
Austrian parliament says a Vienna
dispatch
The German war credit or 15,0O0,-
| 100000 marks has passed the last
reading in the Reichstag and been
finally adopted. The Independent So
cialists opposed it.
A new Helgoland to command the
commerce of the Black sea is to be
constructed by Germany on Snake
island, about twenty-five miles from
the mouth of the Danube.
l.. S. Gray, an American business
man at Omsk, reports that 1000 pris-
oners with machine guns, airplanes,
motorcycles, armored cars, and ammu-
|
| Tomsk, Siberia
Capt. William Redmond succeeds
his father, John Redmond, the Nation
alist leader in Parliament. Returns
from the election for the seat of Wa
terford show that Captain Redmond
received 1,243 votes, as against 764
for his opponent, Dr. White, a Sim
Feiner
| The archbishop of Canterbury has
issued to the nation a special appeal
for prayer for victory during Holy
week. His appeal says: Let this
week send us hourly to our knees. TO
our living Lord, in time and in eterni-
ty, we commit with unfaltering hope
the brave men whom in love and trust
we have sent forth"
Russian and German soldiers in ST.
IBERIA are organizing an army corps
composed of one exclusively Russian
division and another which will be
two-thirds German and one-third Aus
trian, according to reports reaching
| official quarters at lrkutsk. Four
thousand Cossacks are said to have
Joined 10000 Germans, the combined
force being expected to go to Irkutsk.
Twenty-four shells reached Paris on
Saturday and twenty-seven Sunday.
The interval between shots was re-
duced from fifteen or twenty minutes
on Saturday to an average of nine
minutes Sunday. On two occasions
there was an interval of only one or
two minutes. Shells fell at 9:15 ana
9:16 o'clock and at 9:45 and 9:47.
This was accepted as confirming the
theory that at least two long-distance
guns were firing.
Sporting News
The disappearance of Aviator Boni
de Castellane on March IL is reported
by the Echo de Paris. The newspaper
adds only that he was last seen fly
ing over the German lines during
bombardment.
John ]. c'Chick") Farrell, former
second baseman of the Chicago FEEDER
al league team under Joe Tinker, died
or pneumonia at his home in Chicago
He formerly played for Denver in the
Western league and with York in the
Nebraska State league.
Jess Willard and Fred Fulton signed
an agreement at Chicago to meet
July for the heavyweight champion
ship of the world. The place was not
named in the articles. Fulton is to
get 100000 as his share and Willard
75 per cent of the net receipts.
|
The new Florida woman golf cham.
pion, Miss Ethel M. Campbell of the
Philadelphia Country Club, is COM
paratively new figure In champion
ships and before her victory over Mrs.
G. j. Feiber of La Crosse at Palm
Beach on Feb. 23 by 2 and / in the
final of the Florida championship, she
had not achieved prominence away
from home
General
News reached Norfolk, Va, that
Peter Bazemore, negro 10 years old,
who was said to have confessed at.
tacking farmers wife, was lynched
near Lewiston. N. C.
"We are at the decisive moment Of
the war and one of the greatest mo.
ments in German history" said EN-
peror William in a telegram to the
Rhenish provincial council.
President Carranza has rejected the
economic agreement drawn by Ameri.
can Ambassador Fletcher and the
Mexican commissioner, Rafael Nieto
and has appointed three men to form.
ulate new proposal for presentation
to the United States.
All of the nurses who are serving In
the base hospital at Camp Custer can
tonment at Battle Creek, Mich. are
to receive boxing lessons. The nurses,