The Snowflake herald., 1918-03-01
FOREIGN

readiness, although protestlngly, 10
sign a peace compact under the hard
terms imposed by Germany.
According to the Petrograd news
papers the Bolsheviki governments
action in simplifying divorce proceed
ings has resulted in $4,000 applica-
tions being made for divorce in the
capital, alone.
The Amsterdam Nieuw Rotter-
damsche Courant reports from the
frontier that 10000 Turks and Bull
garians are understood to have ar
rived at Verviers, Belgium, IA miles
east of Liege.
The Belgian government has issued
a statement concerning the course OF
Belgian parliamentarians in protest
ing against the action of Chancellor
Won Hertling of Germany in attempt
ing to establish a separate state in
Flanders.
Sixty-three Europeans are missing
and a great number of Indians and
natives probably have been lost in con-
sequence of a flood in the Umvolosi
sugar district of Zululand. A terrific
storm flooded the Umvolosi river.
The policy adopted by the Supreme
War Council, Premier Lloyd George
declared in a speech in the Commons,
was not the policy of the British gov
ernment alone, but of all the great
allied governments in concert. There
is absolutely no difference between
our policy and the policy of France,
Italy and America in this respect" he
said.
The German conditions of peace
made by Leon Trotzky and the Bolshe-
vik delegates at Brest-Litovsk, accord
ing to a statement by the Bolshevik
foreign minister, included the cession
of Courland, Lithuania and the Baltic
provinces, the retention of Poland,
Riga and Moon island, and the pay
ment of $4,OOO,OOO,OOO as indemnity to
Germany.
The Russian Council of Commissar-
les, according to dispatch from Pet
rograd to the Exchange Telegraph
Company, has instructed Maxim Lit
vinoff, the Bolshevik representative IN
London, to lodge protest with Great
Britain against closing of the Man
churian border and the prohibition on
the export of cargo and foodstuffs
into Russia.
SPORT
Arrangements are being perfected
for a great indoor athletic track and
field meet to be held in the Deseret
gymnasium in Salt Lake, Utah, on
March 15.
Victor l.. Dennis of Detroit, Mich,
cadet aviator, who was burned at Love
field, near Dallas, Tex, when his ms-
chine fell 100 feet, died in the field
hospital.
A Des Moines, Iowa, dispatch says
Franchises in the Western league for
the 1918 season will be definitely
placed and a schedule drawn up at
meeting of league magnates within
the next ten days"
Honors befitting a hero were ac-
corded at the funeral services in New
York of Capt. Vernon Castle, famous
as the originator and interpreter OF
modern dances, a member of the Brit
ish Royal Flying corps, who was
killed at Fort Worth, Tex, when his
airplane crashed to the ground.
GENERAL
John D. Rockefeller came to the aid
of the people of Pocantico Hills and
Ossinging, N. Y, in the coal shortage,
and with his own motor trucks saw to
it that 1913 families received a supply
of fuel
Brig. Gen. Frederick w. Sibley, for
many years brilliant cavalry officer,
who took part in Indian campaigns
under General Crook, and served in
the Spanish-American war, is dead at
the base hospital at Camp Grant, Rock
ford, Ill.
Senator Chamberlain of Oregon,
chairman of the Senate military af-
fairs committee was operated upon in
Washington for appendicitis. The op-
Grafton was reported to be successful,
and the senator resting easily.
Capt. James Fenimore Cooper, Jr.,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Fenimore Cooper,
of Albany and Cooperstown, and a
great grandson of the author, died at
Camp Dix, Wrightstown, N. j., after
a nine-days' illness of pneumonia.
Col. Theodore Roosevelt, who is con-
valescing in hospital in New York,
said he was perfectly delighted"
when a long distance telephone mes
sage from Boston brought word of the
birth in that city of his eighth grand
child.
Thomas A. Morrison, witness in
the Felix r. Jones murder trial in
progress at Ell Paso, Tex, was ar
rested on a charge of conspiracy to
murder. The complaint alleged that he
was a party to conspiracy to
murder w. g. Clark on the night of
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