Tombstone epitaph., 1918-06-23

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 An aerial postal service between London and Paris has been inaugu rated
 King Alfonso has conferred the grand cross of Charles Il on Archer Huntington of New York
 Premier von Seydier. in an audience with Emperor Karl. offered his resig- nation according to Austrian advices received at Amsterdam
 One of LOndon's largest theaters has been rented by the Al4erican com mittee of engineers Tor renoezvous and a hotel for sailors and soldiers.
 As an outcome of recent confer ences, Japan Is preparing a deelara- tiop defining her attitude toward Rus sia. according to a Tientsin dispatch.
 The loss of the Austrian battleship Ssent Istvan-torpedoed m the Adri- s,ic-is officially announced in Vien- na. according 10 Haras dispatch from Basel. Switzerland.
 Mrs. Walter II. Page. wife of the American ambassador to Great Bri- tain, christened H M. $. Eagle. one Of Great Britain's largest naval ships. which was launched on the Tyne.
 Thirty six thousand Austrian women and girls of all ages and classes have been forced by hunger to join the Womens battalions working close to the front lines. according 10 reports from Austrian Tyroi.
 An explosion in the Skoda gun works. near Pilsen. on May g, killed more than 300 persons and injured : 0, according to information received oy the Paris Journal. The explosion was heard D miles.
 "A notoble decrease in the number of submarine sinkings in the western and central regions and the English channel has been evident since the blocking of Zeebrugge and Ostend bar- bors, il was semi-officially anrcunca aj in Paris.
 Germany has lodged complaint in Washington and asked for safeguards against such excesses as led 10 the lynching of Robert P. Pracer at Col linsville, H.. April 1. according 10 a Wolff bureau telegram from Germany quoting Privy Councillor Simons fin re- plying 10 a question askel by Herr Mueller of Meiningen in the Reichs- tag.
 SPORT
 An effort is being made by members of the board Of aldermen 10 legalize Sunday baseball in New York.
 Jess Willard has consented 10 box for the soldiers al Camp Funston cn July with apJ opponent rhey can se- lect for him for ar benefit fur,;.
 Harry Way Of Denver mada a run of 206 targets without a miss in the second morning shoot of the Rocky Mountain Interstate Trap Shooting tournament at Colorado Springs Some prominent shooters from New Mexico attended the meeting.
 The British roldier has sor1 novel ties fin athletic diversions. Wr.stiing on mules, for instance, is spectacu- lar sport. It Is T team event. Four stout men from .,.e transport section. stripped to the waist and mounted or barebacked mules represent each hat. talion and the tean. which has h., last survivor wins
 GENERAL
 Mrs. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt was married at Holmwood, her country home al Lenox, Mass. to Raymond I. Baker, director of the United States mint
 The sixty-ninth annual convention of the American Medical Association adjourned at Chicago after the house of delegates unanimously adopted a resolution urging compulsory military training for all young men before tEey are permitted to vote.
 story of an all-iay fight with a German submarine off the Virginia coast was brought to an Atlantic port by Capt George Aitkin Of the British steamship Author He said the rai,,er gave up the chase seventy miles from the Virginia capes. apparently .earing to brave the coast patrol.
 Mrs. Finley J. Sheppard. formerly Miss Helen Gould, is seriously i'll in New York of appendicitis.
 Secretary of War Newton D. Baker will go to Chicago to deliver an ad dress on July 1. 1t was announced.
 The wholesale massacre by the Bull gars of all but 140 of 20.000 Greeks deportea from eastern Macedonia was reported 10 the Greek legation by the Bureau Of Prisoners at Geneva, Switz- erland
 Americans captured off this coast by submarine pirates were forced to polish torpedoes intended for use against United States transpUr:s This came to light in New York with the arrival of more seamen who had been taken off their sinking ships by the Germans and held prisoner aboard the U-boa, No. i51.
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