The Ordway new era., 1918-03-29
FOREIGN

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The Uruguayan steamer Begona No.
4. 2.407 tons gross. has been torpe-
| doed. The crew has been landed at
| Naples.
| Newton d. Baker, the American sec
| retary of war, was the guest OF Am
bassador Page during his brief stay
In London.
| Holland must expect that subma-
rines will blockade all her ports as the
result of taking over OF Dutch ships
by the allies and America, 1t was semi
officially stated in Berlin.
1--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.
Red guards and revolutionary troops
have recaptured Blagovieshtchensk af-
ter battle with the Cossacks. They
have restored the Soviet authority as
well as order in the town.
Two enemy destroyers and two en-
emy torpedo boats have been sunk by
force OF five British and French
ucstIOytTS, tut duthirhity dhhuuhSoo
at London One British destroyer was
damaged.
1t is reported that Chinese troops ON
the Manchurian frontier are robbing
Russians and fraternizing with the
Bolsheviki. 1t is alleged by observers
that western Siberia is already eco
nomically under 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 =
London Exchange Telegraph dispatch
from Amsterdam.
The British armies in France report
says 167 enemy aeroplanes have been
downed SO far this month in daylight
flying. including twenty-three on St
Patrick's day. OF these. l02 were re-
duced to kindling wood. while sixty
five We're forced earthward beyond
control
Information has reached Basel that
the British aerial attack upon Mann
helm, Germany, did enormous 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
gas plant are reported to have eI-
ploded.
In battle that has rivaled in fer
ocity any that has preceded it during
three and n half years of warfare, the
British, on a fifty-mile front, have
withstood great German offensive in.
Its initial stages. AS an indication of
the sanguinary nature of the fighting.
the Berlin foreign office states that
10000 men and 200 guns have been
captured.
SPORT
The crippled University Of Colorado
basketball team went down to 31-1S
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. so to Al.
After Hopping the best of the ITO
pound grapplers he could find in Colo
RADIO and Nebraska. George King OF
Wray. Colo. is in Denver and has is
sued 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 twenty-round bout to decision
to be held on the afternoon of July
were signed at Chicago.
GENERAL
President Wilson signed the bill
bringing the railroads under govern
ment operation and control until twen-
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
raider at a west coast Mexican port
with which to create havoc among Pa.
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 ]. Heney, general counsel of
the trade commission conducting an
investigation of the packing industry
of the Southwest at Kansas City, an
nounced that he expects to open gem
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