Gilpin observer., 1919-04-24
| FOREIGN


Sixteen thousand men, women and
children died of starvation in Petro-
grad in December and January. The
total number of deaths from all causes
in these two months is 10000.
American commercial interests plan
to lop off twenty-four hours on the
New York-Paris journey by financing
a railroad from Vigo, just north of
Portugal, to Arun and Hendaye, on the
Franco-Spanish border, going thence
to Bordeaux and Paris.
The Italians have demanded re-
ductiOn of Austrias armed force in
compliance with the armistice, but
Austria has replied that the armistice
was concluded with the old monarchy
and does not bind the present govern
ment of German Austria.
Five policemen were killed and forty
wounded and twenty demonstrators
bystanders were injured during the
disturbances in Vienna when a crowd
of Bolshevist sympathizers attempted
to storm the Austrian parliament
building, according to Vienna advices
received
The Rev. Eli NJ. Mowry of Mansfield,
Ohio, Presbyterian missionary, was
found guilty at Pyeng Fang, Korea, of
having permitted Koreans to use his
premises for disseminating propagan-
da for Korean independence and SEN
fenced to six months Imprisonment.
The decision was appealed from by the
missionary and he was admitted to
bail.
Bands of German smugglers 100 to
| 15O strong made up of former soldiers
| who are armed with rifles and even
machine guns, are operating on whole
sale scale on the northern Swiss from
tier. Poaching has increased alarm
ingly in Bavaria since the revolution.
More than seventy foresters and game
keepers have been killed and game
has been reduced to tenth of it's for
mer amount.
SPORT
Johnny Ertle of st. Paul was given
decision in n twelve-rOund bout with
Frank Daley of Staten Island, at Balti-
more.
Kurt Hitke, noted mechanician for
five well-known drivers for the past
three seasons, will pilot Roamer-
Duesenberg car in the 500-mile Liberty
sweepstakes on the Indianapolis motor
speedway May 81.
Eddie McGoOrty of Oshkosh, Wis,
defeated Patrick Curran in eight
rounds at Plymouth, England. Curran
had received such punishment that his
seconds threw up the sponge. McGoor-
ty Is middleweight and Curran
heavyweight.
GENERAL
More than $4,000 Willys-O Overland
Company employees received $4,OOO,OO
in checks in the cOmpany's first distri-
button of the profits under the fifty
fifty profit sharing plan announced
last January at Toledo.
Casualties resulting from riots In
the last forty-eight hours total sixty
eight killed and 100 wounded, it was
officially announced from Cairo. In
Alexandria troops fired into n mob,
killing twenty and wOunding many.
The n CO, the navy's mystery air
ship" scared aloft from its hangar at
the Rockaway Point naval station TAX
ing the air for the first time. Beyond
the fact that she held a trial flight,
the N C-2's performance was kept II
secret
Plans for celebrating the first ami
versary of the New York Philadelphia
air mail service May 10 contemplate
the use on regular flights the same six
planes which inaugurated the service
and which to date hase survived more
than eleven months of flying under all
sorts of weather conditions. Lieut. ].
C. Edgerton, chief of flying operations,
will take mail to New York in the
plane he used for the first trip from
New York to Washington.
Two spectacular fires destroyed
buildings in sections of the business
district at Pittsburg, entailing loss
Of between $1500OO and 100000.
Busy assisting in floating the four
masted French bark Nord, which is
aground on the Cape Fear bar, the
coast guard cutter Seminole was pre-
vented from going to the assistance of
the American freighter Western Wave,
reported to be in distress 500 miles off
Cape Hatteras. Reports here said
cutter had left Norfolk to aid the
Western Wave.
General Pershing's own headquarters
band, "the Pride of the A. Il. F." COM
posed of three officers and 1O1 men,
all recruited from combat troops after
the armistice was signed, has arrived
In New York aboard the transport Won
Steuben to inspire stay-at-homes with