The Colorado statesman., 1918-10-19
FOREIGN

clared state of siege for all Portu-
guese territory.
The Frankfort Zeitung states that
among the reforms the German EN-
peror intends to renounce is the right
to declare war.
Five Socialist leaders, Aronen, Her
mac, Kujala, Lanhila and Nackelaine,
were condemned to death at Helsing-
fors on a charge of treason.
The Wolff News agency of Berlin
issued an official denial of the report
which had become current in Germany
that Emperor William intended to alb
dicate.
A unit of the T. N. T. and guncotton
works of the British Explosives, Ltd.
at Trenton, Ont, was virtually de-
stroyed by a series of twelve explo-
sions followed by fire.
THE speed of the German reply is
indicative of the anxiety the Germans
feel for the safety of their rapidly re-
treating army" said Viscount North
cliffe in London.
France is unanimously determined
not to negotiate with Germany until
the latter's power to do harm is COM
pletely ended, 1t was semiofficially
announced in Paris.
The Duchess of Marlborough, for
merly Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt of
New York, was elected a member OF
the London County Council, to repre-
sent West Southwark, a working-class
district of London.
President Poincare visited the Ar
gonne front. Verdun still is being
bombarded daily by long-distance Ger
man guns, but the President went to
St. Mihiel by the railroad through the
Meuse valley, which had been out OF
commission for four years.
The resignation of Prince Maximil-
ian of Baden as German imperial
chancellor is probable, according to
reports from Holland. They quote
the Berlin National Zeitung as saying
the chancellor's retirement is regard
ed in certain circles as inevitable.
While pleading for peace and pre-
tending she has reformed Germany re-
mains the Uriah Heep among the ma
tions. Every village razed in northern
France is utterly ruined, while the
larger cities are mined and filled with
gas before being abandoned. Never
before was submarine warfare more
brutal.
DR.. Charles Nicolle and his col
league, Dr. Lebailly, who isolated the
microbe causing Spanish influenza at
the Pasteur institute at Tunis, an
nounces that the germ Is too small to
be visible with the microscope. 1t has
been clearly identified, however, be-
cause by its use the malady has been
reproduced in a monkey and man.
SPORT
Henry Haley, 35 years old, known in
the sporting world as Texas" Tate, a
heavyweight boxer, was shot and
killed at Little Rock, Ark.
John Aitken, one of the best-known
automobile race drivers in America,
died at Indianapolis of pneumonia fol-
lowing an attack of influenza.
Pennsylvania football was given a
| big boost when it was announced that
the annual clash with Dartmouth will
take place Nov at Franklin field,
Philadelphia, as originally scheduled
The selection of four members Of
the University of Colorado S. A. T. C.
for the o. R. T. c. has shattered Coach
Joe Mills plans for the Silver and
Gold line, and he has been forced to
begin his work all over again.
GENERAL
Don't quit the practice of conserv-
| ing food simply because of the German
peace note.
Restriction of war marriages in Ger
many is demanded by the Mex Saxon
church paper.
Nine. Sarah Bernhardt, the actress,
arrived in New York from Cleveland
on her way to France, where she is
to undergo another operation.
DR.. Patrick Hues Nell of Atlanta,
who invented the system of weather
signals now used by the United
States Weather Bureau, died at Fred
ericksburg, Va.
Based on reports from the twenty
nine towns, either partly or entirely
wiped out by the five separate fires
which waged in Minnesota and Wis
consin, the estimated death toll is
placed at 1850 persons.
Vaseil Radoslavoff, who resigned
the Bulgarian premiership last June.
has fled the Bulgarian capital dis
guised as a German officer This
news is contained in advices received
from Sofia.
Shortly before the American troop
transport America, formerly the Ger,
man transatlantic passenger steam
ship Amerika, was about to sail for
Europe with soldiers and supplies the
| vaccaI foundered at her Dier at Hobo