The Colorado statesman., 1919-04-05
FOREIGN


says Cairo dispatch.
The supreme economic council re-
ports that the thirty-eight German
ships that have left German ports TO
be turned over to the allied and asso.
ciated powers are generally In a sea.
worthy condition.
John Makeague, the lord mayor OF
Manchester, who entertained President
Wilson during his visit TO Manchester
and presided at the comforting of the
freedom of the city on the President,
died suddenly at Manchester.
Approximately 1900 agitators at
Barcelona, Spain, have been arrested
according TO Madrid cablegrain.
Among those arrested was the director
of German bank, who is charged
with distributing funds TO syndicalists.
II was officially announced in Lon
don that the army council had decided
that Queen Mary's auxiliary corps of
women, which did such splendid work
during the war, should he maintained
as part of the after-the-war army or
ganiZation.
Former Emperor Charles of Austria
who with the former empress fled
from Austria into Switzerland, Is III.
The public has begun TO agitate against
Switzerland harboring royalties and
their suites when food here is so
scarce it has TO be rationed.
The British minister to Chile and
the Chilean foreign minister have
IL
vides for the establishment of peace
commission to solve difficulties which
may arise between Chile and Great
Britain and which cannot be adjusted
thru diplomatic channels.
The government has issued decree
Matchmaking the port service at Bue-
nos Aires of coastwise vessels in an eff
fort to solve the port strike situation
us ii affects coastavise trade. 1t is said
that the February wages of the port
workmen will be paid by the govern
ment.
SPORT
Johnny Kilbane, featherweight cham
pion, Knocked out Johnny Mealy OF
Philadelphia in the second round of
scheduled six-round bout at Philadel-
phia.
Words of the death at Grand Canon,
Ariz, of Robert Scott Bingham, half
back of the Yale football teams of
1915 and 1916, was received by rela-
tives at Lawrence, Mass. He was
brother of Capt. William ]. Bingham,
former Harvard track captain, who
now is in France. Robert Bingham
was in the United States forestry SER
vice.
GENERAL
Ballots calling for a vote on the
question of a strike have been mailed
to telegraph and telephone operators
belonging to the Commercial Telegra-
pliers Union of America. The de-
mands which the union is making, ac-
| cording TO the ballot sent out, include
recognition of the union, the right of
collective bargaining and an increase
of pay.
At the close Of three days confer
ence at Chicago with Levy Mayer,
chief counsel for the distillers, a COM
mittee of seventy-five distillers repre-
senting the industry in every part of
the country, announced legal action
will be taken in courts of the country
Immediately looking to multiplying or at
least delaying the enforcement, of the
nationwide wartime prohibition act
which otherwise would become effec-
tive July 1.
Two masked bandits held up St
Louis & San Francisco passenger train
No. Sol about two miles west of Bridge
Junction, Ark, and escaped with two
packages containing about $4,000 in
currency, taken from the express car
When the engineer warned the robbers
| he was due to pass st. Louis & San
| Francisco train No. 100 at the junction
according to his story they told him
they had sent a man ahead to flag that
train to prevent a wreck.
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.
The United States Steel Corporation,
| from whoses hops, laboratories and Of
fices "a, 407 men went into the nations
military service, expended more than
1902, 000000 on enlargement and i'm
| provement of it's main and subsidiary
plants for war purposes, and from the
beginning of the war in 1914 delivered
| to the United States and the allies 49,
400, AGO tons of steel, according to the
corporations annual report, made pub
lie in New York.
The suggestion of Sir Robert Baden
Powell, head of the British Boy Scouts,
that the millions of Boy Scouts thru
out the world celebrate the signing OF
peace by n world-round chain of bon