The Colorado statesman., 1919-02-15
FOREIGN

is well under way.
In Westminster Abbey in London,
the great shrine of the British empire,
splendid and impressive service was
held TO do honor to the memory OF
Theodore Roosetelt.
A Belgrade dispatch says typhus
has broken out in the Serbian capital.
especially among the Czech prisoners
collected there and among Serbian sol
diers from the south.
The Economical Association OF
Prague has issued proclamation urg-
ing boycott of everything German ia
the Czecho-Slovak republic. German
shops, physicians and lawyers are 10
be avoided.
The Llthuanians have arrested the
Bolshevist advance on .the Lithuanian
front, according to news received by
the Lettish bureau in Berlin. The town
of Ponievsk, north of Kovno, has been
taken by the Lithuanians.
The eye trouble which Niscount
Grey, former British secretary of state
for foreign affairs, has been afflicted
with for years now has culminated-in
total blindness, says reports from Lon
don. Viscount Grey is learning to read
by the Braille system of characters for
the blind.
The congress of soldiers councils
attached to various German army
corps concluded its session at Berlin
with the adoption of resolution call
ing on the central council of the sol
diers' and workmens boards to sum
mon general congress of all the Ger
man soviets by Feb. 20.
Despite Paderewski's demand that
the Polish national committee urge the
allies to send Polish army from
France to Poland, the Supreme War
Council will not transfer two Polish
divisions under Gen. Haller, attached
to the French army, 10 Poland. Amer
lean opinion is strongly opposed TO
disIatching an expeditionary force to
Poland now, and France and Great
Britain agree.
SPORT
Hank Gowdy's day mt the Chicago
Cubs park was set for June 6. If
available the Chicago doughbOy bat
terry, Alexander and Killifer, will work
for the Cubs.
The Minnesota Boxing Commission,
meeting at Minneapolis, voted 10 bar
indefinitely Fred Fulton, Rochester,
Mimi, heavyweight fighter, from box
ing or sparring in Minnesota rings.
Jack Dempsey has signed the arti-
n1A ftyht
lard for the championship on July 4.
The articles We're signed in the wait
ing room of the West Shore railroad
because the laws of New York pre-
vented such arrangements being made
in that state.
Hal Chase, stormy petrol of base
ball, was cleared of the charge of
Throwing games, preferred against
him by the Cincinnati club He was
declared not guilty by President
John A. Heydler of the National
League, who acted as judge, after a
weeks study of the evidence for and
against him.
GENERAL
w. d. Childs, for many years chief
Telegraph Company in Russia, is dead
of starvation in Petrograd.
| Nearly S45,O00,000 worth of vehicles,
| harness, forage and raw materials
wer shipped to the American eNpedi-
| tionary forces from the beginning of
the war to Dec. /, 1918, according to
informationA made public by the War
Department.
While the farmer would he paid the
S2.26 government guarantee for the
| 1919 wheat crop, the wheat would be
| sold to the consumer at a price to be
| dictated by the law of supply and de-
mand under legislation approved by
| the House agriculture committee. The
government would lose the difference
between the purchase and sale prices.
Coffee houses as a substitute for
saloons when prohibition goes Into eff
feet next July is n plan now being sup
ported by number of prominent min
listers in New York.
An American newspaper published
| in Germany was discovered when Il
group of soldiers in the city of Mayen
were found reading the Fourth Corps
| Flare. 1t is n four-page weekly, put
out by members of the Fourth Corps
| artillery park. And it is real news.
paper In addition to items on the
latest society news, the four pages in
clude column of wireless picked up
by the powerful radio operated at
Colhem by the 80 Field Signal bat
| TALON.
| The record of crimes attributed to
the supposed organization popularity
known as the gray automobile rob-
| Der band" has been augmented by the
killing in the Mexican federal peniten-