Cheyenne record., 1919-07-03
FOREIGN


as the peace treaty is ratified, it was
learned at Weimar.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, the noted
poet, who recently was critically i'll
in London, is speedily recovering.
Mrs. Wilcox plans to return to the
United States Immediately.
The Ukrainians have defeated Boil
shevik forces all along the front, re-
capturing Odessa and threatening
Kieff, according to IL Ukrainian Off
cial statement received at Berne.
Frederick William HohenzOlern, the
former German crown prince, has es-
capped from Holland and made his way
into Germany. News of the escape of
| the eX-crown prince caused a consider
able stir in peace conference circles.
A dispatch from Oswestry, Shrop-
shire, says Admiral Won Reuter-, com
mander of the German fleet sunk in
Scnpa Flow, was recognized when he
called at local bank. He was struck
in the face with a rotten egg and was
otherwise halted.
London learned of the signing of the
peace treaty at Versailles at 3 40
o'clock. The news became known thru
the firing of guns which had been in
stalled during the war To warn tn"
city of air raids. They now were
used as harbingcrS of the long g-awuit
ed peace.
British, French ana Italian labor
representatives have decided to make
a general demonstration on July 20 or
u to protest against allied interven-
ton in Russia. This announcement
was made by Arthur Henderson, Brit
ish labor leader, at the labor confer,
ence at Southport, England.
General Hoffman, of Germany, VIII"
was II prime mover in the negotiation
leading up to the Brest-LitOvsk treaty
with Russia, has been dismissed from
his command in the eastern district,
having declared he would defend that
district to the last man in defiance
of the governments orders and never
recognize the peace treaty.
General Pcrshing and Herbert C..
Hoover represented the United States
in distinguished company of noted
men from the allied countries who
were honorcd by Oxford University
with degrees Of doctor of civil law.
The ceremony was the eliminating fea-
ture of the annual cncaena or com
memoratiOn exercises.
The Pan-Gcrman Dcutschc Zcitung
printed the following across its front
page: German honor today will be
carried to lis grave in the hall of
mirrors, iN which in the glorious year
of II the German empire was resur
rected in all its former Splcndor. Lest
we forget In restless labor the Ger
man people will again striv" to attain
that place among the nations of the
world to which it is entitled. Then
vrngancr for the disgrace of 19l0!'
SPORT
Aggrcssiveness won for Harry Grcb
middlewcight, over Mike Gibbons Of St
Paul in their ten round bout nj Pitts
burg. Greb was given six of the
rounds, Gibbons three and one was
even
Jack Britton, welterwcight title
holder, and Jack Perry, challenger,
went twelve rounds at Cumberland,
; Md After the fifth round it was an
even battle. Britton fought openly
with very little covering and from the
start tried for knockout but failed.
GENERAL
l Secretary Lane asked the Senate to
increase the appropriation in the sun
dry civil bill for education OF Alaskan
natives from $2l5,OOO to $265,OOO.
, A country wide search for Mrs. Dol
lie Chesher, a nurse who disappeared
last February, came to an end wher
! her body was found floating in Lake
Michigan, near Chicago.
Two new series of short term N
' per cent certificates of Indebtedness
have been announced by the treasury
department dated July |. One issue
Will mature Sept IL and the other Dec
< Is, dates ON which the income and ex-
cess taxes are due.
a record flight from Atlantic City,
n. j., to New York was established
when Lieut.. Kenneth II. Murray, for.
merly of the American air service
piioted SOpwth Camel over the
route, no miles in 81 minutes. The
time was officially recorded by the
Aero Club of America
, The square deal is fatal to radical.
ism, Thomas A. Edison declared at n
dinner given in his honor by dealers In
the devices he invented at New York
There can he no social revolution In
the United States or Canada, he as
serted. for the simple reason that our
government and the Canadian govern
ment are founded on the idea of giving
everybody fair show.
Henry Ford will turn back to the
government his share-5S per cent