The Colorado statesman., 1919-08-16
FOREIGN

tired as head of the British Foreign
Office in 1916, it is understood, is like
ly to accept the post of British ambas-
sador to the United States
The Rumanians have swept the
country bare of provisions for miles
around Budapest The American food
mission at Vienna, in response to urg-
ent appeals, has undertaken to feed the
school children of Budapest.
Sixty to eighty soldiers were killed
and 200 wounded in the fighting dur
ing food riots, according to estimates,
at Chemnitz. Ten civilians We're killed
and fifty wounded. The city now is
quiet and trains are running.
All the castles and buildings which
the Hohenzollerns can prove they pur-
chased with their own money they may
retain. This is the decision of n com
mission which almost has completed
the task Of liquidatlng the affairs of
the royal house.
The flying boat, Felixstowe Fury,
which was to start for Capetown,
South Africa, on an S,000-mile flight,
crashed off Felixstowe during test
flight The wireless operator on
board, Lieutenant Macleod, was killed
The six passengers were rescued.
According to the Westfalischen An
zeiger, Count Gutenberg, as represen-
tative of the king of Prussia has pro-
POSED taking 100000 guilders from
the ex-kaisers private fortune in or
der to buy an estate where the eX-kai-
ser can remain as king of Prussia.
Genoa Longshoremen- recently con-
yerted themselves in twenty-four hours
from striking workmen to employers OF
labor. They obtained through the sue
cess day wage rate of $3.50 and the
following day hired other men for their
jobs at So a day, thereafter living easy
lives on the remaining $3.50.
Gold ingots worth 100000 have
been recovered by salvagers from the
wreck of the former White Star Do
miniOn liner Laurentic sunk January
8, 1917, off Fasad Light. The Lau-
rentic, a vessel of 1892 tons, which
was acting as British auxiliary
cruiser, struck mine off the north
coast of Ireland and later sank. OF a
personnel of 40 only 100 were saved.
A large number of the men persisted
in open boats as a result of exposure
SPORT
Benny Leonard, lightweight cham
pion, outpointed Irish Patsy Cline of
New York at the Philadelphia Nation
al baseball park.
Bobby Green was knocked down
twice in the concluding round of his
ten-rOund fight with AL McManus at
Tucson, only the gong saving him from
a knockout at the end of the tenth
round.
Fred Gilbert, a well-known profes-
sional shooter of Spirit Lake, Iowa,
broke the worlds record for continu-
Gus target breaking at Hampton, Iowa,
according to a telegram. Gilbert
cracked $50 consecutive targets with
out a miss.
Announcement has been made in
Salt Lake by the directors of the Salt
Lake City Baseball Club of the Pa
cific Coast League that $4,000 would
be divided among the players if they
succeeded in winning the league pen
nant this season.
GENERAL
The sugar crop of Cuba this year is
expected to break all records, accord
ing to Gabriel c. Menocal, brother OF
the president of Cuba, who is in New
York from Havana.
Two Mexicans We're shot and killed
by American customs guards at FL
Paso, Texas, while attempting to
smuggle six barrels of whisky to Mex.
leo, according to the announcement OF
Judge Jesus Cuen, of the District
Court, who completed an investigation
One of the smugglers was identified
as man named Ruiz, of a prominent
family in Juarez.
Moose hunting, duck shooting and
fishing are included in the itinerary
of the prince of Wales trip through
Canada, a seventy-day journey cover
ing $500 miles.
Charged with criminal anarchy I'm.
der an old section of the penal code
four men were arrested in New York
by detectives of the bomb squad after
raid on their apartment in the Bronx
Much annrchlstic literature and load
ed revolver were found in the flat All
of the men were Firms.
Suits for 100000 for damages al
legged to have resulted from the strike
called by the Actors Equity Associa
ton, were filed by the Winter Garder
Company (the Shuberts) in the United
States District Court in New Yorl
against nearly 300 of the country's
most prominent stage and screen stars
Lucy Murine was removed to Belle
vue hospital prisoner, charged witt
throwing her new born baby on rooI
on Canal street, New York. Detective
Joseph Sheldrick of the MacdougaI
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