, 1919-02-13
FOREIGN

Japan.
" A Dublin dispatch reported that
all Sim Feiners informed in England
will be released Immediately.
Frederici, william Hohenzollern,
eldest son of the former German en-
peror, according to a Berlin dispatch,
has instituted proceedings for a d.
vorce.
The Portuguese government has
proclaimed IL blockade of all ports be-
tween Aveiro and Cominisa. Foreign
ships now in these ports will be per-
mitted to sail.
King George is expected formally
to open the fishing season in Febru-
airy at Balmoral on the Dee. While
a devoted sportsman, the king has
not angled since the war began.
Government troops have captured
the Bremen town hall and most of
the government buildings, it was re
ported in dispatches receiS . at CO.
penhagen. The Sparticans were said
to be retiring.
A dispatch from Milan says that a
sensation has been caused in Italy
by the proposal in the American Con-
gress to exclude immigration to the
United States for four years, a meas
ure which threatens particularly to
affect Italians.
Detachment of 100 American SOL
diers arrived at Vienna with the first
shipment of American food for relief
purposes. The American shipment
will enable the serving of a full bread
ration to the population next week for
the first time in many months.
Eight hundred women clerks en-
ployed by the Bank of England as a
war measure have been notified that
their service will no longer be re-
quired, but that 200 of them may
make special applications for as many
permanent positions in the clerical
staff.
SPORT
Eddie Cicotte, veteran pitcher with
the Chicago Americans, signed a con-
tract for the 1919 season in Chicago.
Ted Block of Detroit, Mich, mid
dleweight champion, knocked out Mike
Schubert, who says he is from Denver,
in the third round of an eight-round
bout at the Elks' club at Saginaw,
Mich.
An amendment to the Nevada box
ing law, which would allow twenty
five-round contests, is introduced in
the Assembly of the Nevada Legisla-
ture. This is the first step on the
part of the state to bring the Willard
nnmnSnr fiuht tn ponn IT iS THOUGHT
by members of the Legislature and
others interested that the bill will
pass with a high license clause for all
contests.
GENERAL
Proposed constitutional reforms,
some of them adding 60 the powers
of the chief executive, are among the
Mexican Congress.
Camp Kearney, Cal, and Camp
Sewer, S. c., will be recommended
for purchase and others will be re-
turned to their owners at the expira,
ton of the leases.
Reports reaching Chicago indicate
that the syndicate of sure thing
swindlers operating in Florida resort
cities have gathered approximately
$4,000, 900 since early winter.
Lithuania will ask the United States
to guide it in establishing a stable
government, according to an an
nouncement at the headquarters of the
Lithuanian National Council at Wash
ington.
Governor Philip had another ex-
perience with a maniac the other day,
following his turning down of a mad
man who asked for $4,000, 900.
This time the stranger was a shah
billy dressed man who entered the
governors private office and on be-
ing asked what he wanted he de-
manded the governors political plat
form for 1920.
Zenaido Fernandez, who served as
chief of staff for the former federal
general, Luis Gahellero, when the lat
ter revolted against the government
IN Tamalpais early in 1918, has been
arrested in Mexico City. He was cap
tured by secret service agents.
The Mexican and American Cham
bers of Commerce in. the capital re
port the receipts of thousands of COM
m~unications from commercial bodies
in the United States and Europe ask
ing details in regard to the demand in
Mexico for foreign made goods.
United States District Judge Hor-
ace w. Vaughn of Honolulu declared
from the bench recently that he would
see that action is instituted to denat-
uralize any foreign-born citizen who Is
reported to hin to be a believer in the
doctrines of anarchy or Bolshevism.
The announcement from New York
that representatives of British and
American oil, mining and cattle in
terests in Mexico were coming to
Paris to lay their claims before the
peace conference is attracting much