, 1918-08-08
FOREICN

in Paris in honor OF Herbert T..
Hoover, the American food admins
traitor.
General army staffs at Toxic and
Picking are preparing plans for joint
action under the agreement between
China and Japan for action in Siberia.
Germany has replied favorably to
American invitation for a conference
regarding exchange of military and
civil prisoners according to dispatches
from Berlin.
The flour ration in Germany again
will be raised to 200 grams OF Aug.
10, according to a dispatch from Ber-
lin. The first meatless week also will
begin Aug. 10.
The murder of Field Marshal Won
Eichhorn, who. with his aide, Captain
Won Dressler, was assassinated at
Kiev, was effected with great bold
ness, the Berlin Vossische Zeitung
says.
Since March 81 of this yea the
British nave taken 14,500 prisoners on
the western front, James Ian Mac
Pherson, parliamentary secretary of
the London war office, informed the
House of Commons.
Field Marshal Won Elchhorn, the
German commander in the Ukraine,
n his adjutant captain, Won Dress
Ter, were killed by a bomb in Kiev,
says an official announcement from
the Ukrainian capital.
For the first time since the opening
of this years campaign, March Il,
fresh reserves at the disposal of the
allies considerably outnumber the
fresh reserves at the disposal of the
enemy, Notwithstanding the fact that
the mem still holds a substantial
numerical superiority on the whole of
the front, according to the view in
military circles at London.
The famous hunger stone" in the
River Elbe, neal Tetschen, which, &C
cording to popular belief in Germany,
predicts famine when seen, is visible
for the first time since the beginning
of the war. The stone lies in the bed
of the river, and has never been Wis
ible save at exceptionally low tide. On
the stone is chiseled in old German:
when We see me, ye will weep
tutl bIaZ, VI
the Italian armies, following King
Victor Emmanuel's review of the
American troops at the Italian front,
telegraphed General Pershing as fol-
lows: The king is filled with adj
miration at the splendid bearing of
the first American troops who have
arrived in Italy. The Italian army is
proud to share the fortunes of war
with them"
SPORT
Cadet S. w. Rodgers of Brookline,
Mass, was killed in an %aeroplane ac-
cident at Chanute field at Cham
paign, Ill.
Mrs. w. /. Northrup of Portland,
Ore, defeated Mrs. Dorothy Field of
Chicago, in the semi-final round of
the woman's western tennis cham
pionship at Chicago, winning, 3-6,
rs, 6-3.
The estate of James Buchanan (Dia-
mond Jim) Brady is worth $1,57S.429
instead of the $4,000, 900 valuation
placed on it by his friends at the time
of his death, according to a report
made in New York by the executors.
His collection of jewels, believed to
represent an investment of $1,000, 900.
was sold for $500, 600.
GENERAL
President Wilson sent to the Presi-
dent of Switzerland a message Of
greetings on the occasion of the Swiss
holiday.
A telegram states that the miners
| strike in the Jerome, Ariz., district
was compromised after the miners
had been out fifteen hours. The min
ers asked for an advance Of S1.10 a
day. The agreement reached gave
them rs cents a day advance.
The government has sent out a call
for 10000 stenographers and typo
writers wanted in war work and each
of the 5000 United States civil serv.
ice examining boards has been told
to hustle for these clerks.
That Germany spent $50, 900 900 to
$4,000, 900 for propaganda in this
country, and got nothing for it." was
a declaration by George Sylvester
Viereck, alleged ~pro-German publicist,
in testimony given at the inquiry in
New York into Teuton activities in
the United States.
A band of about fifty men, said to
be followers of Gen. Juan Cabral and
Gen. Juan B. Medina, mentioned as
the heads of a new revolutionary
movement in northern Mexico. burned
a bridge on the railroad of the South
ern Pacific de Mexico, about twenty
miles south of Nogales, Ariz., accord
ing to reports.
Charged with falsely representing
herself to be a second lieutenant in
the motorcycle squadron of the medi-
cal corps of the United States army
abroad, Beatrice Duke, % years old,
who saxa har hnma La In NaWarH N.