The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1918-03-22
FOREIGN

Serious strikes spreading through
out Austria Hungary.
Holland has accepted with certain
conditions. the Anglo-American de-
mand regarding Dutch shipping. :
AT Nazaire. France. the police dis
covered q wireless outfit concealed in
a large villa at one OF the fashionable
seashore resorts on the right bank OF
the River Loire
The German bundesrat, or federal
council. has approved the peace trea-
ties with Russia and Finland. accord
ing to the semi-official Norddeutsche
Allgemetne Zeitung.
Nikolayey. captured" by the Ger
mans, about forty miles northwest OF
Kherson. on the Bug river. has occu-
pied an important place in the naval
defenses Of Russia.
The Bavarian Colonization Society
meeting in Munich decided to send
10000 German colonists to Courland.
according to the London Daily Mall
from Annemasse. France.
A conference OF eighty workmen,
cfCiy iaNtoiy III NNi'
grad, made "a public declaration
against the caucus vote OF the Bolshe-
vik faction which favored ratification
OF the peace terms.
All relatives of the Romanoffs tthe
family name of the former czar)
| above lG years of age have been or
dered to register at Petrograd. II is
! al ,,,;I no cd
to Siberia with the Grand Duke
Michael.
Citation of three more American
soldiers, carrying with 1t the French
war cross. was announced at Ameri-
can army headquarters, while on the
| Luneville sector six officers. six ser
geants and two privates We're receiv-
ing the war cross at an impressive
ceremony just back OF the fighting
| line.
Two hundred and fiftyfive flights
into Germany have been carried out
by British ayiators and only ten ma
chimes have been lost. James Ian Mac
Pherson, parliamentary secretary OF
the war office, announced in answer
/ W d uutsliDti III tHt HOUSE VI 'olIl-
mons in London regarding the results
OF recent air raids into German terri
| tory. More than ton of bombs were
dropped on Mannheim on March IS,
he added.
The Spanish and Swiss ambassa-
dors at Berlin have been directed by
the German foreign office to notify
the American government that Ger
many will proceed with measures
against American property in Ger
many in the same proportion that ac-
tion is taken against German property
in the United States, Reuters Amster-
| dam correspondent reports,
Ratification of the peace pact by
vote of ,04 to 26l at Moscow was a
typical ''steam-roller' process. NJ.
Martoff, chief of the Menshevik fac
ton, charged that the full treaty was
not publicly known and declared that
the indemnity demanded by Germany
was 5000, 10000 rubles ga 4,635 000,-
0o0), instead of the 5000 900 900 ru-
bles previously announced He also
charged that the treaty declares Pc
tragrad "a free city"
SPORT
Eugene Corfman was selected to
captain the 1919 basketball team of
the University of Denver
The football game between the
Washington State College and the
University of Montana Nov. %, will
be held at Spokane
Young Azevedo of San Francisco
and Heinie Sehuman of Denver fought
six rounds to draw at Salt Lake be-
fore the Manhattan Club.
Alexander Lendrum, All-Colorado
football tackle last autumn and
student at Denver university, left to
join the United States army aviation
camp at Berkeley, Cal.
GENERAL
Three bandits, masked and armed,
held up the Yokohama Specie Bank,
Limited. at San Francisco and es-
capped with approximately $4,000, aft
er locking up more than twenty of the
institutions employees in an office
room.
Federal officials declared in New
York that more arrests probably will
be made in the German spy plot
brought to light by the arrest of two
beautiful women and two title-claim.
ing men who have been associating
with them.
American artillery on the Toul
front has heavily attacked the Ger
mans with gas Shells Four different
attacks were launched and from the
manner in which the enemy was
silenced it is evident they had the de-
sired effect
Ambassador Francis confirmed
press dispatches that Leon Trotzky,
former fnrai1n rniniafe or Of Rnsaia I'D