Gilpin observer., 1919-03-13
FOREIGN


The British government has decided
to release all Irish political prisoners.
In order to prevent n great public
demonstration the prisoners will re-
turn to Ireland in small patches.
Differences Of opinion as to wheth-
peace conference for settlement of
international wage and working con-
ditiOns, resulted in a split of interna-
tional seafarers' conference in Lon
don
Great Britain's largest airship, the
R-33, made trial flight and covered
thirty miles in half an hour, landing
successfully in spite of unfavorable
weather. The airship is go feet long,
and during her flight preserved per-
fectly even keel.
Discovery of nationwide Bolshe-
visit woman's organization in Finland,
through the arrest of an 1S-year-old
girl, is reported in dispatches from
HelsingfOrs. 1t was said that COM
plete list Of Bolshevist agents had
been obtained from the prisoner.
Col. Summerhages has left Vienna
for Switzerland with son of former
Emperor Charles, who is i'll, according
to dispatches 1t is said that the for
mer emperor Is expected to take up
his residence soon at Persenberg cas-
tie on the Danube, his birthplace.
A settlement has been reached be-
tween the Berlin strike leaders and the
government, according to information
from the German capital. The strik-
ers had the support of the Spartacans
and in the fighting which accompanied
the movement many persons were
killed
Great Britain operates the worlds
largest flying boat. The machine is
PIN feet high and has n total span of
123 feet 1t is a triplane, the bottom
wing being shorter at either end than
the upper two. The hydroplane weighs
%. 400 pounds and is fitted with five
ROlls-ROyce engines.
Reuters dispatch from Paris says
that additional evidence will be laid
before the commission of reparatiOn
of the peace conference by the pres
entatiOn of documents discovered by
the Belgian police and containing de-
tailed Instructions to German troops
for the carrying out of their work OF
destruction in Belgium.
Deputy AIinaudy of the Belgian
chamber has sent petition to Brand
Whitlock, the American minister, for
transmission to President Wilson, ap-
pealing to American generosity for the
towns of Herve and Battice, in the
Liege region, which gave the first vic.
tins of German atrocities in 1914.
These two towns are declared to have
been the greatest sufferers in Bel.
gium
SPORT
Willie Ritchie, former lightweight
champion, and Miss Ethel Pierce were
married in San Francisco last week.
Lieut.. Commander John p. Dalton,
former navy football star, died OF
pneumonia in the New York navy yard
hospital after a weeks illness.
Jim Driscoll and Pedlar Palmer,
two old-time featherweights, met In
the ring at Hoxton. Driscoll won the
fight, which was stopped by the ref.
cree in the fourth round
Wladek ZbyszkO, Polish aspirant to
the heavyweight wrestling title, won
from Joe Stecher of Dodge. Neb.,. also
aspirant to the title, after three hours
Of 4
Kansas City. Stecher won the first
fall and Zbyszko the next two.
GENERAL
The wireless telephone and the wire.
less telegraph were used in mid-ocean
by Lieut.. Commander A. Il. Younie,
senior surgeon on board the transport
Sierra, to prescribe for patients on
the transport Powhatan and the Brit.
ish steamer Pollac, which were many
miles away.
The committee of jurists appointed
to consider the war guilt of the ex.
kaiser and others has decided that the
sovereign of a state cannot be pro
ceeded against, but the decision must
be ratified by the peace conference us
whole before II is effective
Theater-going crowds in Forty,
eighth street, New York, fled in panic
when long-haired person, who said
he was Enrico Fabatino, president OF
the Buffalo Bolsheviki." ran amuck
with a revolver. Apparently 1t made
no difference to him who his bullets
hit. for he tried in all directions. Only
one of the shots took effect. John F.
Rothman. broker, was shot In the
left shoulder, but 1t was said at a
hospital that the wound was not Sc
rious.
A commercial airplane which will
take Its place with the tugs, barges
lighters and other necessary auxillar
les OF large steamship company ID