The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-01-03
Foreign

Russian troops have captured Perm
from the Bolsheviki. taking $4,000 pris-
oners
political debacle is imminent In
Turkey. said a London Exchange Tel
egraph dispatch from Athens.
Burglars recently entered the for
mer home of Goethe at Basle. Swift
zerland, and carried off a quantity of
memenroes of the poet
Wilma has been captured ny Bolshe-
visit forces, according to Copenha-
gen dispatch to the London Mall. quot
ing Petrograd reports.
An order has been issued to the
American soldiers that an officer or
soldier who speaks to a German wom'
and does so at the risk of court-mar-
tial
King George walked into President
Wilson's London apartment at 10
O'Clock Saturday morning, Dec. %. and
congratulated him on his sixty-second
birthday. wishing him many returns.
Premier Lloyd George conferred
with his colleagues on the provision
al list of new cabinet. Austen Cham
berlain is said to be slated for the
post OF chancellor OF the excheluer.
succeeding A. Bonar Law.
The daughter of Leon Trotzky. the
Bolshevst minister OF war and mar
inc, and a Bolshevist named Lewow.
were arrested in Warsow, according to
Polish agency at Lausanne. Six mil
lion marks We're found in the apart
nent which they were occupying.
In addressing the Chamber OF Dep
uties. Premier Clemenceau made 1t
plain that it was his intention to sup
port Great Britain in the peace nego-
tiations on the question of the free
dom of the seas, and he declared that
his attitude in this matter was ap-
proved by President Wilson.
There is another rumor current
this time well authenticated in official
circles-that King George will visit
the United States as soon as the in
ternational situation becomes normal
again. 1t Is known that the king is
strongly in favor of a yearly exchange
of visits by American and British war
ships. He SO expressed himself to
Admiral Rodman. U. S N.
Sporting News
Jack Dempsey of Utah knocked out
Gunboat Smith of New York in the
second round of a scheduled ten-round
bout at Buffalo, n. Y.
Senator Chamberlain declared there
was much inefficiency. injustice and
loss of manpower resulting from fail
ure to provide training planes for
young American aviators.
Nicolai was high among the anna
teurs at the regular weekly shoot of
the Denver Trap Club at the Aurora
grounds He biffed the birds for q
total of 40 out of a possible so. his
pace being a trifle too fast for the
rest of the field Luff was right up in
front. however, with 4s.
Private j. c. Benton who is none
other than the famous Rube of the
Giants. was discharged from the army
at Camp Jackson and will leave at
once for his home at Clinton, n. c.
He said he expects to return to base
ball next spring, and will go to Hot
Springs about Feb / to get in shape
for the campaign.
General
Through train service between Paris
and Brussels, which was stopped by
the outbreak of the war in 1914, was
resumed Sunday.
The broad features of the election
rasIllrs tho
sweeping triumph of the Lloyd George
coalition, the complete route of the
Asquithians. the pacifists and the
women candidates. and, perhaps most
significant of all, the victory of the
Sim Feiners all along the line. Pre-
mier Lloyd George has 5l9 seats for
his coalition. out OF a membership OF
707. The Sim Feiners have selected
seventy members and Labor approx
imately seyentyfive.
President Wilson left Paris for Italy
Wednesday night.
Lloyds announces that the Ameri-
can bark Aryran. bound from Yelling
ton, New Zealand, to San Francisco.
burned 800 miles east of Chatham.
The captain and thirteen men have
been landed at Chatham island in a
lifeboat
The constant recurring rumor that
America will soon send foodstuffs to
Germany has been revived by the ar
rival at Munich of Ellis Dresel and
Franklyn Day, both OF Boston. and
both connected with the American le-
CATION at Berne. They have begun .
tour OF German cities to study food
conditions
American newspaper correspondents
at his residence in London Saturday
night as President Wilson was ending
his visit in London, and returning to