The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-02-21
FOREIGN


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
| ed an offer from Japan of men, money
and arms to settle the Bolsheviki diff
| fcultieS
Three American steamers. laden
| with foodsfuff' for Poland, arrived at
NeufahrwasSer. On the Gulf Of Dan
zig, according tn Danzig advices re-
ceived at Bnsle.
The French dreadnought MoravAu
| has been driven ashore at SebastopOl
| In a snowsform. AT last accounts 1t
seemed doubtful whether the big war
ship could be saved from destruction.
| Baron Nobauki. head of the Japa-
nese delegation at the peace confer
| ence. has been instructed to disclose
/ all the unpublished treaties between
| Chinn and Japan. says a dispatch
/ from Toxic.
/ Germany is preparing to raise
/ large loan in the United States as soon
as peace is signed. says a 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 Sl5OOO0
from the German treasury before he
escaped into Holland.
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg has
issued from his headquarters at Col
berg an appeal for volunteers. The
document, given to the German press
for general distribution, deplores the
general loss of willingness To sacri
flee for patriotism and urges the peo-
pie to work energetically to preserve
tn. native soil against the new enemy,
Bolshevism
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 q
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 a walkovsr
at Annapolis defeating the University
of Pennsylvania team by score Of
81 to 0.
For the second time Bryan Downey
/ lin of Bethlehem, Pa. fought fifteen
/ rounds to draw at Tulsa. Okla.
Wladek Zbyszko, Polish wrestling
champion, defeated Arvid Anderson Of
Boston in two straight falls of 70 and
| o minutes each respectively, at st.
Louis.
The Chicago city council, by a vote
of - to ., approved the proposed box
ing bill, which provides for stale and
/ city athletic commissions with powers
to regulate ring exhibitions.
| Alfredo de ORC, the Cuban cue ex-
pert from New York, wrested the
three-cushion billiard championship
from Augie Kieckkhefer of Chicago by
I winning the third block of their 15O-
Point match.
Pal Moore gave Johnnie Ritchie of
/ Chicago IL thrashing at Memphis, but
Richie took the beating about as
/ gracefully as beating was ever abb
sorbed. Moore had every round of
/ the eight but from the beginning to
! the end Richie showed no signs of
giving up.
GENERAL
I Greater New Yorks daily consump-
| ton of water amounts to nearly co.,
OOO,oO gallons.
Fortynin declarations of war were
made between 1914 and 1918.
Nearly 100000 acres in Canada
are devoted to wheat growing.
Wisconsin has granted women the
right to vote mt presidential elections.
| The Senate, by n vote of % to 4.
passed the House bill to this effect.
Col Harry Cutler of Providence. II.
l., and other delegates OF the Jewish
| American Congress who are to present
the so-caled jewish bill of rights to
| the peace conference at Paris, have
sailed from New York.
Sergt. Earl Caddock Of Anita, Iowa,
heavyweight wrestling champion, Is on
his way home from France. 1t was
declared Caddock had decided to quit
| tho W.raaflinV and devote his
time to operating Il Wyoming ranch.
Hard cider has officially been
classed as liquor in Ithaca, n. Y.
, More than a dozen stores were recent
ly raided, a few of them famous in
Cornell traditions. On the premises
| la NJ oil