The Colorado statesman., 1919-04-12
FOREIGN

FOREIGN
Lieutenant Cortinez in british
nirplsne flew over the Andes in Chue,
at height of 0,o00 meters QS,OOO
feet).
Tho allied forces, principally British
and Russian, operating in the Sredn
| Mekhrenga sector, delivered crush
ing defeat to large Bolshevik attack
ing party.
Bella Kun, the foreign minister In
| the soviet (Bolshevik) government OF
Hungary, has been assassinated and
the government ovsrthrown, says a
telegram from Paris.
Two hundreds Germans and Aus
| TRANS were arrested in Barcelona
charged with completely in syndicalist
(radical socalisD plots. The police
seized number of documents.
In fight between armed Sim Fem
ers and armed constabulary in Lime
rick, one policeman was killed and
| four others were wounded, said dis
patch from that place. The Sim
Feiners raided the Limerick work
house hospital and removed Sim Fem
| prisoners.
Bolsheviki forces are withdrawing
from all the northern Lithuania dis
| trict after severe fighting in which
they have lost severely. Bolshevik
soldiers have mutinied at several
places, according to an official state
ment issued by the Lithuanian press
bureau at Kovno.
The first meeting of the League of
Nations is to be held at the White
House in Washington in mid October,
according to a report In British peace
conference circles. There is no Off
cial confirmation, but the project is
said to enlist the sympathy of the
British, who feel that President VIII
son should be honOred personally in
presiding at the initial meeting, in
view of his unceaslng efforts to per-
feet the league covenant.
SPORT
Ashton Dome. New Orleans, lis
pounds Frank Il. Cassidy, New York,
135 pounds, and Sam Lagonia, New
York, 1913 pounds, earned the right
to represent the United States in the
international boxing tournaments in
Scandinavia this summer by winning
the championship in their classes at
the annual competition of the Anna
teur Athletic union in Boston.
f. +. Egan, of Denver, Colo, men,
Der of the 1921 class of the Sheffield
Scientific school at Yale, won the
heavyweight championship at the ma
tional boxing games by defeating
James ]. Tully of New York. Egan
was recently discharged from the serv-
ice. He also took part in the 49,
pound class, in which he was defeated
in semi-final round by AL Roche of
Boston, who won the final in that d.
vision.
George Douglass Freeth, a native of
Hawaii and for years one of the most
famous aquatic performers of the Pa
cific coast, is deed at San Diego, after
long illness. Freeth, recovering
from an attack of influenza, suffered
relapse, which resulted in his death.
For years Freeth was known on the
Pacific coast as a life-saver, swimming
and diving champion and an authority
in all things pertaining to water
sports. Until recently he was the
swimming coach of the San Diego
Rowing club.
GENERAL
More than 10000 Jews were killed
or injured in the recent pogroms In
the Ukraine, according to reports re-
ceived by the Zionist organization at
London.
Six physicians and four druggists
were arrested by internal revenue Of
ficers at New York, charged with VIC
lation of the Harrison act. Fifty drug
addicts were taken in the raid, and
habit-forming drugs valued at $4,000
were seized.
A boom for Governor Carl f. Mill
ken for vice president has been started
in Illinois. 1t was launched when a
Republican legislative caucus indorsed
the governors candidacy for vice pres
ident at the next Republican National
convention.
Rioting marked by promiscuous fir
ing by strike sympathizers and police
opened the tenth week of the textile
strike at Lawrence, Mass.
Influenza claimed upwards of 100,-
900 lives in Illinois in 1918, according
to conservative estimates fixed by the
State Department of Public Health.
The country's total is estimated at
$50, 135.
A postal card was delivered to Titus
Holder of Braddock, Pa, which moved
at an average speed of about $50 miles
an hour. 1t showed this postmark,
IA Ia Il