The Colorado statesman., 1918-10-12
FOREIGN

| The accession OF Crown Prince
Boris to the throne OF Bulgaria was
received enthusiastically by the popu-
lace. according to dispatch from So
fla. The bells OF all the churches were
rung.
Douglas, Alaska, is becoming a
model town. The city marshal re-
signed more than a week ago and no
successor has been appointed. Not
withstanding this fact, there has been
no need of marshal.
Amiral Henry B. Wilson, command
er-in-chief of the American naval
forces in French waters, refused the
Cross of the Legion OF Honor when
President Poincare and Minister of
| Marine Georges Leygues visited him
at Brest.
The Belgian government has issued
statement that from the coast to
beyond the city of Bruges the malo
population between the ages OF Is and
As have been brutally torn from their
homes and forced to labor on German
military work.
One hundred and eighty thou sand
new cases of Spanish influenza are re,
ported in the German army, according
to an official dispatch received from
Berlin Vienna dispatch says Hun
garian newspapers report 100000
cases in Budapest
The Buenos Aires national medical
department is alarmed by the persist
ent spread of an unidentified epidemic
among children in Catamarca prov
ince. In a month 109 children have
died out of a total population of 10000.
The disease resembles dysentery and
is highly contagious.
An indication of the troublous times
in the German army is the report that
/ Field Marshal Won Hindenburg has re-
signed after a stormy interview with
Emperor William during which Won
Hindenburg informed the emperor that
a German retreat on a large scale was
necessary.
The evacuation by the Germans of
the Belgian coast region is continuing,
the frontier correspondent of the Am.
sterdam Telegraaf reports The stores
of material at Knokke, near the coast,
five miles from the Dutch border, have
been set on fire, the reports state. an
many factories have been undermined
in preparation for their quick destruc-
tion.
A powerful movement is under way
| In Germany for a general armistice
and peace. The new German chancel.
lor, Prince Maximilian of Baden pro.
posed general suspension of hostili
ties, the appointment of penipoten.
tiaries to meet at neutral place for
the discussion of a league for arbitra.
tion and disarmament and the for.
warding of request to the entente al.
lies for their terms.
SPORT
Football will be one of the most pop
ular sports in the various army and
navy training camps this autumn.
Patrick ]. paddy Carroll, an old.
time manager of boxers, died at his
home in Chicago of pneumonia, fol
lowing an attack of Spanish influenza
He was SO years old.
The government has approved the
plan of the National Baseball Fedora
tion to form a semi-professional
league to play in major league parks
on Saturdays and Sundays during the
coming season. it was announced at
Cleveland, Ohio, by Clayton Townes
Only one major league pitcher
added his name to baseball's pre-wa1
hall of fame during the curtailed sea
son of 1918 by fighting a nine-inning,
no-hit game. This was the smallest
output of hitless laurels for many
years, as there were five such per
tormances registered last year and
four in 1916. Dutch Leonard of the
Boston Red Sox, formerly a Denver
Grizzly. was the pitcher who delivered
the only no-hit fea' in the season that
closed on Labor day.
GENERAL
American shipyards established an
other worlds record in September by
delivering seventy-four vessels of 362.
635 dead weight tons.
Thirty-five bodies have been tax IN
from the ruins of the T. A. Gillespie
Loading Company plant at Morgan, N
j., destroyed by explosions.
Capt r. w. Schroeder's world rec
ord breaking altitude flight at Wilbur
Wright field, near Dayton. Ohio, Sept
is. was certified at 2S,9O0 feet in
statement by the Aero Club of Amer.
lea at New York.
A warning to farmers not to sell
wheat at less than the governments
price is contained in a message re
ceived from Herbert Hoover, federal
food administrator, by the food admin
istration's grain corporation at New
York.