Williams news., 1919-08-22
FOREIGN


 autumn
 Viscount Grey of Falloden, who re
 tired as head of the British Foreign Office in 1916, it is understood, is like
 ly to accept the post of British ambas- sador to the United States. Postal authorities at Winnipeg have been notified that $50,OO0 was stolen some night recently from the interior deposit vaults of the postoffice at Ed monton, Alta No clew to the thieves has been found.
 The Rumanians have swept the country bare of provisions for miles around Budapest. The American food mission at Vienna, in response to urg- ent appeals, has undertaken to feed the school children of Budapest. Sixty to eighty soldiers were killed and POO wounded in the fighting dur ing food riots, according to estimates, at Chemnitz. Ten civilians were Killed and fifty wounded. The city now Is quiet and trains are running. Six Bolshevtst battalions were de stroyed in a successful Anglo-Russian offensive on the Dvina river on Aug. 10, the war office announced in Lon don. More than 1000 prisoners, twelve field guns and many machine guns were captured.
 The flying boat, Felixstewe Fury, which was to start for Capetown, South Africa, on an S,0O0-mile flight, crashed off Felixstowe during a test flight. The wireless operator on board, Lieutenant Macleod, was killed. The six passengers were rescued. According to the Westfalischen An zeiger, Count Eulenberg, as represen- tative of the king of Prussia, has pro- posed taking 2,500.Ooo guiiders from the ex-kaiserss private fortune in or der to buy an estate where the ex-kai- ser can remain as king of Prussia. So many English women have be come confirmed smokers that in re- cent months railway employees have hesitated to enforce the rules against smoking fin certain carriages and it has come to be accepted that If the
 women passengers do not object, every compartment becomes smoking car.''
 Gold ingots worth 100000 have been recovered by salvagers from the
 
 minion liner Laurentic sunk January 8, 1917, off Fasad Light. The Lau- rentic, a vessel of 14,S92 tons, which l was acting as a British auxiliary cruiser, struck a mine off the north coast of Ireland and later sank. Of personnel of 47O only 12O were saved. A large number of the men perished in open boats as a result of exposure.
 SPORT
 Benny Leonard, lightweight cham
 pion, outpointed Irish Patsy Cline of New York at the Philadelphia Nation al baseball park.
 Bobby Green was knocked down twice in the concluding round of his ten-round fight with Al McManus at Tucson, only the gong saving him from a knockout at the end of the tenth round.
 Fred Gilbert, a well-known profes- sional shooter of Spirit Lake, Iowa, broke the worlds record for continu- ous target breaking at Hampton, Iowa, according to telegram. Gilbert cracked 5S9 consecutive targets with out miss.
 Announcement has been made in
 Salt Lake by the directors of the Salt Lake City Baseball Club of the Pa cific Coast League that $10,OOO would be divided among the players if they succeeded in winning the league pen
 nant this season.
 GENERAL
 Genoa Longshoremen recently con- verted themselves in twenty-four hours
 from striking workmen to employers of labor. They obtained through the sue cess day wage rate of $65O and the following day hired other men for their jobs at $2 a day, thereafter living easy lives on the remaining $4.5O. The sugar crop of Cuba this year is expected to break all records, accord ing to Gabriel G. Menocal, brother of the president of Cuba, who is in New York from Havana.
 Moose hunting, duck shooting and fishing are included in the itinerary of the prince of Wales trip through Canada, scventy-day journey cover ing $500 miles.
 Lucy Murine was removed to Belle vue hospital a prisoner, charged with throwing her new born baby on a roof on Canal street, New York. Detective Joseph Sheldrick of the Macdougal street station, said the young woman admitted throwing the newborn baby out of a washroom window, but that | she insisted she did not know the child was alive at the time. Profiteering by the government in | the sale of millions of pounds of army foods has been charged by J. A. Ulmer, | president of the National Retail Gro cers' Association, at a meeting called | by Mayor Cornell Schreiher to discuss