, 1919-08-28
FOREIGN

The Danish government a
loan of ~120,000,00O crowns at . per
cent. This is to be used for reorgan-
ization expenses in Schleswig.
More than 1000 divorce cases will
he heard by six judges, when court
opens at Winnipeg, Sept. 10. Most of
the applications were filed by returned
soldiers, whose wives were u%nfaithful.
Crown Prince Charles of Rumania
has written a letter to his father, King
Ferdinand. renouncing for himself and
his heirs his rights and privileges as
heir apparent to the Rumanian throne,
according to a dispatch.
Japan and the alI-Russian govern
mem at Omsk, it is learned, have con
cluded arrangements to extend Japa-
nese fishing rights provided by the
Portsmouth treaty, which settled the
Russo-Japanese war. The fishing
clauses expired last month.
The Bolshevist. battleship Andrea
Pervosvan, the battle cruiser PetrO-
pavloysk, Il transport and a guardship
are reported to have been sunk during
an engagement with the British fleet
in the Gulf of Finland. The British
are said to have ost three motor boats
and to have had eight officers and
three men killed.
The allied governments have in
formed the Austrian government that
it will be held responsible for Bella
Kun, the Hungarian communist leader,
and for his delivery for trial by an al
lied tribunal, according to Il dispatch
from Innsbruck. Bella Kun, it is added,
will be tried for hanging and shooting
Hungarians during his reign in Buda-
pest.
Germany is a broken nation, both
in body and spirit, and a long time will
elapse before the efficiency of her peo-
pie is restored, it is declared in a re-
port of British scientists on food con-
ditions in Germany. The wartime semi
starvation of the people is responsible
for the slowness with which recovery
will be effected, according to these
authorities.
SPORT
Jack Dempsey heavyweight cham
pion pugilist, will meet Willie Meeham
in an eight-rOund, no-decision bout in
the East in November, according to a
Statement issued by Meehan, who said
he had the promise of Jack Kearns,
manager, for the match.
GENERAL
The Hotel Victory was destroyed by
fire at Put In Bay, Ohio, at an esti-
loss of $500 600. The cause was
determined. The fifty guests es-
capped.
Joseph G. Wilholt, Wichita Western
League ~outfielder, ended his batting
streak in which he set a new worlds
by hitting safely in sixty-nine
consecutive games.
Willis E. Davis of San Francisco,
defeated Norman f. Brookes, Austral-
ian tennis star, 1851, 14-12, in the
semi-final round of the Meadow Clubs
cup mems singles at Southampton. n.
Y.
Police are combing Detroit for three
automobile bandits who in broad day
light held up William Baldwin, aged
%, collector for the Standard Oil
Company, in Spruce street, and robbed
him of a leather bag containing $1,000
cash, checks and oil coupons which he
had collected from substations of the
company. The holdup was witnessed
by a number of pedestrians.
A reward of $1,000 for the apprehen
sion of Paul ]. B. Haverly, grand
keeper of records and seal of the
Knights of Pythias Grand Lodge Oh
Illinois, missing since Aug. 6, was an
nounced by Smith l.. Won Fossen OF
Beardstown, ILL.,, grand chancellor Of
the lodge, who stated that a shortage
of more thar $4,000 had been found
in the lodge funds. Issuance of a war
rant for arrest was authorized by o
legal advisory committee appointed by
the chancellor.
Seven persons were killed and thir-
ty-four injured in a collision between
an express train and a troop train in
France. The express was running
from Paris TO Nancy and Strasbourg.
Charges of "extortionate profits by
Dallas retail merchants were made by
p. H. Spencer, chief of the bureau oil
investigation of the Department OF
Justice, and w. b. Burrell, assistant
United States district attorney at Dial
las.
Walter Elliott, a negro, who is al
legged to have assaulted a farmers
wife, was shot to death by a mob
which later carried the body to the
scene of the crime and swung 1t to
a tree in a country churchyard. The
mob took the negro from Sheriff
Kearney, two miles from Louisburg,
N. c., while on his way to the jail.
No trace had been found of the four
masked bandits who held up and rob.
bed Louisville and Nashville passen-
ger train No. Z, ten miles south of Co
lumbia. Officers are continuing the
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