Cheyenne record., 1919-02-20
FOREIGN


Telegraph Company in Russia, 10 dead
of starvation in PetroSrad.
The situation at Ka1fish on the Arch
angel front is more satisfactory for the
| moment, according to an official state
ment issued by the British war office.
Reports from Omsk state that the
Russian government there has accept
ed an offer from Japan of men, money
and arms to settle the Bolsheviki diff
ficulties.
The Dutch steamer Rick, Rotter-
dam to Bergen, struck a mine and
sank three miles off the Norwegian
coast The crew was saved and has
landed at Christianstad.
The French dreadnought Moravau
has been driven ashore at SebastopOl
in snowslorm. At last accounts it
seemed doubtful whether the big war
ship could be saved from destruction.
The Poles have refused the German
demand to withdraw troops from the
Posen province, but on the contrary,
have called all Poles of military age
to tile colors to defend that territory.
Germany is preparing to raise
large loan in the United States as soon
as peace is signed, says a Geneva dis
patch. The money is to be used to
pay for expected raw materials from
allied countries,
Admiral NiscOunt Jellicoe's book on
the naval operations of the war which
is now published settles at last the
mystery" of Lord Kitchener's., death
by stating that the cruiser Hampshire
sank after striking a moored mine of
the type laid by the German U-bOats.
The Havas agency gives out state
ment by Viscount Chinda,, the Japan
ese ambassador to Great Britain, who j
now is representing his country at
the peace conference in Paris, declar-
ing the reports to. be untrue that jap
an has exercised pressure on China
to restrain the action of the Chinese 4
delegation to the conference.
Few large cities of the countries
! that wete engaged in the war have
been less affected by it than. the an
cient capital of Greece. Free entirely
from the menace of air raids and hos
tile bornbardment, and participating
actively in the war for comparatively
| only a short time, Athens is today in
all essential features exactly as 1t
was in pre-war days. ~
The program of the new German
government, which has just been pub
lished at Berlin, includes equal rights
for men and women, the improvement
| of the educational system, cOnscripttop
along democratic lines to establish
peoples army, ratioaing at maximum
prices of food and necessarieS of life,
care of the wounded and the families
of those killed during the war, the So
cializatiOn of all industries ripe for
such treatment, particularly the coal
and iron mines, and considerable addi-
tiOns to income taxes.
SPORT
The Navy wrestlers had a walkOvsr
ut Annapolis defeating the University
Of Pennsylvania team by a score Of
80 to 0.
Wladek Zbyszko, Polish wrestling
champion, defeated Arvid Anderson OF
Boston in two straight falls of 20 and
8 minutes each respectively, at st.
Louis g
Alfredo dc Orc, the Cuban cue ex-
pert from New York, wrested the
three-cushion billiard championship
from Augie Kieckkhefer Of Chicago by
winning the third block of their 15O-
point match.
West Philadelphia High school set
q new American Observation-Disclosures
in the SOOyard relay race at the six
teenth annual national interscholastic
swimming Championships University
CT Pennsylvania pool, making the dis
tance in minutes and IS 4-5 seconds
and clipping. their own mark made in
1915.
GENERAL
Careful survey of food prices cover
ing a period of thirty days shows the
high cost Of living has taken it's first
big drop.
Charged with the embezzlement OF
$4,000, J. S. Swartz, cashier of the
Park bank of Pittsburg, which was
closed by the state examiner. is in
Mercy hospital in an unconscious and
delirious condition.
world shortage Of gasoline waits
just around the corner for the motor
propelled world, according to Mark l.
Requa, Standard Oil official, who has
been directing the oil division activ-
tiles OF. the Fuel Administration.
German ships of approximately 3OO,-
900 tons flying the American flag and
furnishing the United States an addi-
tional troop carrying capacity of more
than 10000 men a month. will be ready
to put to sea in the next few weeks.
| Following much shooting and hand
to-hand battles on tops Of freight
cars eighteen, men were arrested at
| Monroe, Mich, by the state constab-