, 1919-01-30
FOREIGN


of all the great North German-Lloyd
liners for repatriation of American
troops.
The question of Russia continues to
be one of the most important before
the supreme council of the peace con
ference.
President Poincare gave a luncheon
at the Elysee palace in honor of Gus
a Ador, president Of the Swiss fed
eral council.
Rodriguez Alves, president-elect of
Brazil, who was never able to as
sumo the office on account of illness,
died at Rio De Janeiro.
An understanding has been reached
between Japan and the United States
for the joint control of the Chinese
Eastern Siberian railroad.
Wild turkeys. ducks, grouse and big
edible jack rabbits have relieved dur
ing the winter the monotony of bully
beef and timed stew in the mess halls
of the American forces fighting the
Bolsheviki on the Dwina in Russia.
No discrimination is to be made
against women in British industry,
Premier Lloyd George declares in a
letter addressed to Lady Rhondda,
president of the Women's Industrial
League. -t
Rudolph Havenstien, president of
the Imperial German bank. has been
ordered to Spa by General Foch. to
attend the conference for discussion
of the entente financial demands on
Germany.
The Sim Fein organization at a meet
ing, announced that at a conference
of Irish republican members of the
British parliament on the drafts of
a declaration of independence and of
a message to the nations of the world,
were considered.
Mail to Alsace and Lorraine by way
of France is now possible, according to
advices from the P~ostofice Depart
ment. Parcel post packages cannot
be sent, but letters, postcards and
printed matter, samples of merchan-
disc and commercial papers will be
accepted.
A sudden and violent epidemic of
smallpox has broken out at Dresden,
according to a telegram from Con
stance. Official reports show 125
cases of the disease, which is said to
have come from northern Bohemia,
where smallpox has been raging for
several weeks.
Chiefs of departments in the Ger
man government, especially the min
listers of commerce and Of trade, pro-
test against acceptance by the Ger
man elements of the latest armistice
conditions, the fulfillment of which,
they declare, means for Germany the
organized preparation of starvation
SPORT
The Texas Legislature has passed
the anti-pool hall and billiard hall bill.
Charley Taft, son of former Pres
ident William Howard Taft, Just back
from France, returned to Yale univer-
'sity. He will coach the varsity bas-
ketball team.
Jack Barry, former member of the
worlds champian Boston American
League Baseball Club, has been hon
orably discharged from the officers
material school at Harvard. He still
is on the Fed Sox roster.
Kentucky horses and owners, al
though overshadowed numerically by
stables of New York and other eastern
states, are holding first honors in win
ming races n as largest money win
ners. at the Oriental park race course
at Havana.
The $1,000 monthly salary limit de-
cided on by the National league was
rescinded at a special executive meet
ing of the league members. The new
limit decided upon was not disclosed,
but it was stated that the $3.50 month
w limit NpoS NnnGidarnd in cnffirianf
and unavoidable.
GENERAL
Oil aboard the tanker Road
Amundsen exploded, killing one and
injuring many and causing a million
dollar dock fire at Philadelphia.
Thirty.one acts of heroism were
recognized by the Carnegie hero fund
commission at its fifteenth annual
meeting held at Pittsburg. Nearly all
the recipients of medals were East
ner
Two transports, the COMA and the
S-usquehanna, and the cruiser Freder-
ick are on the way home from France
with more than 5000 troops.
New Zealand's casualties in the war
totaled 1892, of whom only forty-five
were taken prisoner by the enemy.
The number killed was $500. :.
The Australian government has
sanctioned the formation of a com
pany to survey an aerial route be-
tween Australia and the Far East.
Thomas b. Smith, mayor of Phil
adelphia. is on trial in the Common
Pleas court charged with misdemeanor
in office and violating a state law
prohibiting the participation of office
holders in politics.
Livestock on farms and ranges of
the country on Jan. 1 was valued at
$500, 204, 900 in an estimate made
public by the Department of Agricul.
ture. This is an increase of 1916, 006.