Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1918-03-29

The U%ruguayan steamer Begona ~.
4. 2,4O7 tons gross, has been torH-
decd. The crew has been landed ht
Naples.
Newton d. Baker, the American pc
Rotary of war, was the guest Of Am
bassador Page during his brief ftay
in London.
Holland must expect that subma-
rines viii blockade all her ports the
result OF taking over OF Dutch fships
by the allies and America, It was semi
officially stated in Berlin.
I'VE are at the decisive mo1te nt of
the war and one OF the GREATS mo-
ments in German history" sid EN-
peror william in a telegram ito the
Rhenish provincial council.
Red guards and revolutionary troops
have r%ecaptured Blagovieshtchensk af-
ter a battle with the Cossacls. They
have restored the Soviet authority as
well al order In the town.
Two enemy destroyers and two en-
envy torpedo boats have been sunk by
a force OF five British and French
destroyers, the admiralty
at London. One British destroyer wa
damaged.
It is reported that Chinese troops on
the Manchurian frontier are robbing
Russians and fraternizing with the
Bolsheviki. It is alleged by observers
that western Siberia is already eco
nomically unuer German control.
Thirty German soldiers were killed
and more than 100 others injured and
500 munitions wagons were blown up
by an explosion at Mevrignies station,
near Mons, Belgium, according to a
London Exchange Telegraph dispatch
from Amsterdam.
The British armies in France report
says 1917 enemy aeroplanes have been
downed so far this month in daylight
flying, including twenty-three on st.
Patrick's day. or these, 1O2 were re-
duced to kindling wood, while sixty
five were forced earthward beyond
control.
Information has reached Basel that
the British aerial attack upon Mann
helm, Germany, did damage
in the city, causing several furious
fires which ragged for many hours,
especially in the vicinity of the rail-
way station. A powder factory and a
gas plant are reported to have ex-
ploded.
In a battle that has rivaled in fer
ocity any that has preceded it during
three and a half years of warfare, the
British, on a fifty-mile front, have
withstood a great German offensive in
It's initial stages. AS an indication OF
the %sanguinary nature of the fighting,
the Berlin foreign office states that
10000 men and 200 runs have been
captured.
SPORT
The crippled University Of Colorado
basketball team went down to a 31-19
defeat at the hands Of the Utah Agri-
cultural college quintet at Boulder.
Clyde Osborne hung up another vic
tory for the Denver Athletic club in
the Colorado Three-Cushion league in
Denver, when he defeated Edward
Miller Of the Pueblo team, 80 to Al.
After Hopping the best of the 10
pound grapplers he could find in Colo
RADIO and Nebraska. George King of
Wray, Colo, is in Denver and has is
sued a def to any wrestler in the state
Of his weight.
The Jess Willard-Fred Fulton heavy
weight championship match is official
ly on. Articles of agreement calling
for a tw~enty-round bout to a decision
to be held on the afternoon Of July
4 were signed at Chicago.
GENERAL
President Wilson signed the bill
bringing the railroads under govern
ment operation and control until TWEEN
ty-One months after the end of the
war.
The Spanish cabinet has resigned,
according to a Reuters Limited dis
patch from Bilbao.
Germany's first attempt to outfit a
raider at a west coast Mexican port
Win WhANh " NANAAb hofbN AAAtAb Aa
cific coast shipping has been frus-
trated.
81 Bostick, who was arrested In Gar
"a county, Tex, in connection with the
killing at Clairmont Of c. c. Higgins,
former district judge, hanged himself
in Jail at Sweetwater, Tex.
Francis J.. Heney, general counsel of
the trade commission conducting an
investigation of the packing industry
Of the Southwest at Kansas City, a n
nounced that he expects to open a gen.
eral investigation Of the butter. eggs,
poultry and canned goods market in
New York.
Wheeler B. Bloodgood. chairman OF
the county council OF defense, told
newspaper men at Milwaukee. Wis,
that he had papers drawn up to seek
the Indictment of Mavor Hoan 90.