Gilpin observer., 1919-02-20
FOREIGN

lde0 OF more than 4O per cent OF
Partisan young women. AT least that
is the result Of an inquiry in Paris.
The situation ut Kadsh 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
Led an offer from Japan of men, money
and arms to settle the Bolsheviki diff
ficulties.
Professor Edward Devalera, the es-
capped Sim Fein leader of Ireland, is
reported to be in Paris ready to pre-
sent the claims for Irish independence
to the peace congress.
The bread subsidy and government
meat control make 1t certain that
there will be some measure of food d.
rection in England until September ut
least, and possibly longer.
The French dreadnought Moravau
has been driven ashore at SebastOpol
In snowstorm. AT last accounts it
seemed doubtful whether the big war
ship could be saved from destruction
Baron Nobauki, head of the Japa-
nese delegation Mt the peace confer
ence, has been instructed to disclose
all the unpublished treaties between
China and Japan, says dispatch
from Toxic.
Germany is preparing to raise Il
large loan in the United States as soon
as peace is signed, says Geneva dis
patch. The money is to be used to
pay for expected raw materials from
allied countries.
The German government Is consider
Ing the question of putting the ex-
Kaiser on trial charged with stealing
thirteen automobiles and $150,0O0
from the German treasury before he
escaped into Holland.
The Havas agency gives out state
ment by Viscount Chinda, the Japan
ese ambassador to Great Britain, who
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
delegation to the conference.
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, conscriptiOn
along democratic lines to establish n
peoples army, ratiOning 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 walkOver
ut Annapolis defeating the University
of Pennsylvania team by score of
80 to O.
| For the second time Bryan DOwney
Of Columbus, Ohio, and Willie Laugh
lin of Bethlehem. Pa, fought fifteen
rounds to u draw at Tulsa, Okla.
Wladek Zbyszko, Polish wrestling
champion, defeated Arvid Anderson of
Boston In two straight falls of 20 and
0 minutes each respectively, at st.
Louis.
Alfredo de Orc, the Cuban cue ex-
pert from New York, wrested the
hree-cushiOn billiard championship
| from Augie Kieckkhefer Of Chicago by
winning the third block of their 15O
point match.
Pal Moore gave Johnnie Richie of
Chicago thrashing ut Memphis, but
Ritchie took the. beating about as
gracefully as a beating was ever alb
| sOrbed. Moore had every round of
the eight. but from the beginning to
the end Richie showed no signs of
giving up.
GENERAL
For the first time since the out
break of the war the Dardanelles
have been opened to commerce and
trading between America and the
Turkish empire and Bulgaria per-
mitted
Casualties In American coal mines
In 1913, reported to Secretary Lane by
the bureau of mines, includes 2,575
men killed.
Wisconsin has granted women the
right to vote ut presidential elections.
The Senate, by vote Of p to 4,
passed the House bill to this effect.
Big oil producers Of the Southwest
predict that peace will bring increased
production and increased consumption
of fuel oil, lubricating oil and gasO-
line.
Col Harry Cutler Of Providence, II.
L., and other delegates Of the Jewish
American Congress who are to present
the so-called Jewish "bill Of rights" to
the peace conference at Paris, have
sailed from New York.
More than 100 women, representing