The Colorado statesman., 1919-06-14
FOREIGN

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against the city from the sea, accord
ing to a news agency dispatch received
in London.
The Pan-German union proposes to
introduce in the German national as
sembly a resolution inviting the for
mer German emperor to return to Ger
many, according to an Exchange Tele-
graph dispatch from Berlin.
The Mexican government has or
dered the withdrawal of the Mexican
delegates from the Pan-American
commercial congress as protest
against the speech recently made be-
for the congress by Speaker Gillett OF
the House of Representatives.
Direct telephone service between
Key West and Havana will be a real
ity by December, according to Colonel
Sosthenes Behn, who announces that
the submarine telephone cable connect
ing the mainland and Cuba which was
planned before the war will be laid
within the next few months.
Captain Funck of the Austrian army
has been tried and sentenced to death
as spy by secret court-martial at
Paris. Captain Funck was In Paris
before the war began and remained In
the city throughout the hostilities and
1t was alleged that he made the en-
emy acquainted with information re-
garding air raids
For the first time mineral oil of high
quality and in considerable quantities,
even at its first flow, has been discov-
cred in England. For some months
past, through the initiative of Lord
Cowdray, experimental borings have
have been in progress near Wester-
field in Derbyshire. Oil was first
struck at a depth of approximately
5000 feet.
Allied seaplanes attacked four Boil
shevik craft on Lake Omega, south of
KEN. The bombs dropped by the sea
planes did not hit the Bolshevik boats
but the machine guns carried by the
aircraft raked the decks of the lake
boats and silenced the anti-aircraft
guns which were mounted there. The
Bolshevik flotilla fled and was pursued
for q great distance. One allied plane
returned to its base, reloaded bombs
and rejoined the others in the pursuit.
After the engagement all the allied
machines returned.
SPORT
Benny Leonard, champion light
weight of the world, defeated Charlie
Pitts, Australian, in ten-round bout
at Montreal.
Billy Miske of ST. Paul was outpoint-
ed by Kid Norfolk of New York in a
ten-round bout at Pittsburgh.
Eddie McGoorty, an American mid
dleweight boxer, knocked out an Eng
lish fighter, "Bandsman" Rice, in the
first round of q fifteen-round bout.
The fight took place at Blacktool, a
summer resort on the Lancashire
coast.
Ad Santel of San Francisco won two
straight falls at Boise, Idaho, from
Konstantine Romonoff of Omaha, the
first with flying cradle, in one hour,
two minutes and two seconds, and the
second with a toe hold in 10 minutes,
"a seconds.
GENERAL
The Wisconsin Legislature ratified
the federal suffrage amendment, the
Assembly voting 54 to 2 and the Sen
ate 23 to l.
An alleged conspiracy to defraud
the government of $30,000,000 worth
of munitions supplies has been uncov-
cred by Department of Justice agents
at Detroit.
Lawrence Smith, aged recluse, re-
ported to the police at Port Town
send that some one entered his cabin
on the beach and took $65,000 worth
of Liberty bonds from his clothes.
Carl Duede and George Barnett, both
of Guthrie Center landed at Guthrie,
having completed an airplane trip of
approximately 900 miles from Toronto,
Canada The actual flying time was
approximately fifteen hours.
The mammoth British dirigible R-34,
assigned to begin a flight from Eng
land to the United States, by way OF
Newfoundland, about June 20, probably
will attempt return cruise, If the
westward voyage is successful, British
aviation officials connected with the
venture declared on their arrival in
New York.
Federal Judge Carpenter of Chicago
set for trial on Sept. % the case of
eleven officials and promoters of the
Pan Motor Company of st. Cloud,
Mimi, charged with using the mails to
defraud June % the defendants must
file any demurrers. District Attorney
Cline charges the indicted men OBJ
tanned about $7,OOO,O0O by stock sales,
but that the company's assets are less
than 100000.
Increased telephone rates for the