The Ordway new era., 1918-07-12
FOREIGN

Premier Botha of the Union OF Soutn
Africa has issued y statement showing
that serious unrest exists.
Mohammed v, Sultan OF Turkey.
died July .. says Constantinopls
dispatch received by way of Vienna.
In all the allied countries and
| their colonies the American lnde-
| pendence day was observed In an un-
precedsnted manner.
The Dutch cabinet will place tho
resignation of Its members in the
hands Of Queen wilhelmina. says the
Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant.
Cardinal Sebastian Martinelli. pre-
feet Of the Sacred Heart Congregation
Of Rites and former papal delegate to
| the United States, died in Rome.
| Queen Wilhelmina. according to q
Reuter- dispatch from The Hague. has
requested the ministry to retain office
| for the present to wind up current at
fairs.
| Following . conference between EN-
peror Karl. Count Czernin and Baron
Burian, the Vienna Neue Freie Presse
declared that Czernin would be reap
pointed foreign minister.
| Anti-Semetic outbreaks have oc-
\ Cured in Jaroslau and other Cali
clan towns. according to information
received by the Jewish correspond
ence bureau from Vienna.
The British admiralty announced
that during the month of June 1884,
169 gross tons of merchant shipping
was completed in the United King
dom yards and entered for service.
Martial law has been proclaimed in
the Austrian duchy of styria. the news
paper Pester Lloyd of Budapest an
nounces. The measure was taken, It 10
said, in order to deal with mutiny and
deaertion.
The first contingent Of American
troops to arrive in Italy within forty
eight hours established itself In camp.
The men are sleeping under their own
tents and feeding from their own
kitchens.
German newspapers report the rapid
spread OF Spanish influenza in Bre-
men, Hamburg, Hanover and other cit
les. The Frankfurter Zeitung says
some factories in Frankfort have from
one-third to one-half their workers abb
sent because of the disease.
American naval forces, comprising
$50 vessels and $4,000 men, are now in
European waters, operating in all
areas from the White sea to the Adri-
attic, Admiral Sims declared in q
speech at the Anglo American fellow
ship meeting in London.
Gen. Otto Won Below has been ap-
pointed commander-in-chief on the
Italian front. according to Munich
papess. Another change reported is
Field Marshal Artur ARR Won Straus-
| Gen. Krauss. According to the Mu-
mich Zeitung. Austrian military cir
cles attribute the defeat on the Piavs
mainly to the strike in the Budapest
| munition factories.
Andrew Bonar Law. chancellor OF
the excheQuer. speaking in the
House Of Commons in London, said
that one would have thought that
nothing new as regards German bru-
tality could have happened. but the
sinking of the Canadian hospital
| ship Llandovery Castle was an un-
speakable outrage. Nothing could bs
gained, he added, by talking about
this last example of frightfulness.
SPORT
Liberty handicap automobile race at
the Sharonville speedway at Cincin-
| natl, by finishing almost full lap OF
the two-mile course ahead Of Tom Nil.
ton.
Sergt. Earl Craddock of Camp
Dodge. Iowa, world champion wrestler.
obtained the first fall over Yussif Hus-
sane in their match at Casper, Wyo..
by a bar arm and head lock in one
hour and one minute
Jack Dempsey knocked out Bob De-
we're at Joplin, Mo-, In the first round
of a scheduled twelve-round fight.
GENERAL
| Rear Admiral Aaron Ward, u. S. NJ,
retired, died at his home at Roslyn, N.
Y. after three days illness from heart
trouble.
Mrs. Mary Greeley. sister of Ad-
miral George Dewey. died at her
home at Montpelier. VT. She was 7e
years of age.
Special railroad rates of l cent
mile for farm workers were asked Of
the railroad administration by the De
partment of Labor.
The production OF feldspar in the
United States In 1917 amounted te
126.715 long tons of crude material
valued at $474.767.
| A revised list of the casualties at
the explosion at the Semett-Solvay