Gilpin observer., 1918-06-27
Foreign

signment of grain in the market.
The Austrian cabinet met Sunday
and decided on collective resigna-
ton. according to advices received
from Vienna.
The British government regards
their proposals Of Irish home rule and
conscription as postponed. but in no
wise abandoned
| Differences have arisen between
Bulgaria and Turkey over the division
| of lands taken from Rumania under
the peace agreement with the central
powers.
Ship tonnage sunk by German sub
marinees in the month of May
amounted to 614,000 gross tons, ac.
cording to an official statement issued
at Berlin.
1t is reported that Nicolai Lenine,
the Bolshevik premier of Russia, has
| decided to resign, in spite of a vote
| of confidence given him by the soviet
| committee.
Four residents of Berlin attempted
| to escape from Germany in two aero
| planes. One succeeded in landing in
Denmark, but the other was brought
down in the Baltic, sea by German
guardships.
On the occasion of the seyenty-fifth
anniversary of his birth, the Rev. Clay
McCanley of Boston, head of the Uni.
tartan mission to Japan, was the guest
of honor at dinner given by large
gathering of representative Japanese
and Americans at Toxic.
Chinese soldiers are available for
cooperation with the Japanese at Har-
bin and near the Siberian frontier, and
If necessary more will be sent; Gen.
Tuan Chi-Jui. the Chinese premier and
war minister toll the Peking corre-
spondent of the I on Daily Mail
Responding to a .4urry call from the
army to provide sweaters for the boys
of a certain regiment ordered to
France, women of Honolulu, under d.
rection of the Red Cross worked night
and day for one week to complete l..
500 sweaters. The wool was provided
by the Red Cross.
The Turkish newspaper Aati copy
of which has been received at Basel,
Switzerland, in an article in which 1t
lays emphasis on the statement that
Turkeys Intervention in the war prob
ably has prevented the central pow
ers from being crushed, formulates
conditions as representing public
opinion as to what Turkeys peace
terms should be.
Clothing in Germany has now be-
come almost as scarce as food Per
haps nothing could more graphically
reveal the clothing plight of Germany
than proposal just put forward by
Justizrat Otto Feig, a prominent Ber-
lin lawyer, that the government
should forthwith enact a law making
1t compulsory for the heirs of dead
people or the administrators of their
estates to turn over 70 the state all
the clothing left by the deceased per-
sons
Sporting News
A new world record and two Amer.
lean records were made at Del Monte,
Cal, in the first official swimming
racing ever held in which all partioi-
pants were women. Both records
were made in the tank races by Miss
Frances Cowells of Alameda Cal. In
the twenty-five-yard dash Miss Cow
ellis defeated Dorothy Burns of San
Francisco in thirteen seconds, taking
from her opponent the previous world
nj D-E
won the 220-yard event in two min
utes and fifty-nine seconds, lowering
by three-fifths of second the previ-
Gus American record held by Olga
Dorfner of Philadelphia.
General
Fire destroyed the property of the
Superior Glass Company at Martins
Ferry, Ohio.
A strike occurred in airplane factory
at Buffalo, N. Y.
An incoming vessel landed twenty
men at Norfolk, Va. who, according
to reports, had suffered severe hard
ships.
William Bowman was the only
shooter to make run of twenty-five
straight in the Denver Trap Club
shoot at Aurora Sunday.
Casualties OF the American army
overseas thus far reported by Gen.
eral Pershing. up to June 23. total s.
GA. as compared with S.085 week
ago.
Germany, war-weary and ill-fed, is
in state of unrest so acute that talk
OF revolt is common among both the
military and civil populations. accord
ing to Americans who arrived at an
Atlantic port on Norwegian liner
from Germany or adjacent neutral
countries
An American steamer from the
West Indies arriving at an Atlantic