, 1919-03-13
FOREIGN

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to the Idea Nazionale, quoting advices
from Belgrade.
AS a result of representations of
American officials, the British govern
ment has consented to the removal of
all censorship on business, commercial
and all other messages.
The German legation at Libau re-
ports that Bolsheviki have occupied
the SLAM of Oesel and assassinated
the secretary of the German legation,
his wife and Il courier.
Typhus is spreading al an alarming
rate in Russia IN the food situation
is very bad. Such food as is available
is held at prOhibitive prices, according
to advices reaching this country.
Two Polish officers were killed
when the Ukrainians fired on the train
hearing the in~terallied commission to
Poland after its departure from Lem
berg. The officers had boarded the
train by mistake.
An American relief commission has
arrived in Constantinople and is en-
gagged in preparing for transportation
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clothing into the Caucasus, Anatolis,
Armenia, Cilicia and Syria.
Negotiations are proceeding at Har-
bin n Urga, it has been learned
from authoritative sources, for the
purpose of giving the japanese the
right to take over Russian rights and
privileges in outer Mongolia.
nn tho ,n.,nIt,. Ii,+. - .Ia UN,o..I.
army, the word missing is written
opposite the names of 314,O00 men. In
v~estigations have established the fact
that of this number all hope for ap-
proximately 10000 must be aban-
doned.
81 am still true TO the monarchy and
do not sympathize with the new re-
gime," Field Marshal Won Hindenburg
is quoted as saying in an interview.
1T was only with reluctance and dis
taste that I retained my position in
the army.
Thu number of cases of spotted
fever in Germany rose within the week
from IA to more than 500. OF these
eighteen cases were reported in Ber-
i'it "AAtie NbciS Z lIlItt uchliln
from the disease. 1t is reported that
the disease was brought to Germany
by troops and civilians returning from
Russia.
SPORT
Edwin Mooers, infielder with the
Richmond Virginia league club last
year, signed n contract with the New
Yark American league club.
The New York. American league club
announced the release to the Sacra-
mento club of the Pacific Coast League
of Pitchers William Piercey and A. G.
Vance.
Miller Higgins, manager of the New
York Americans, informed club head
quarters in New York that he had in
duced Pitcher Bob Shawkey, a holdOut,
to sign a 1919 contract.
Dennis Willie, outfielder, and Her
bert Brenton, pitcher, members of the
Sacramento club of the Pacific Coast
been traded to the Oakland club for
William Prough, pitcher, and Roxy
Middleton, outfielder.
GENERAL
Ferdinand de Mohrenschildt, son-in-
law of william G. McAdoo, former sec
rotary of the treasury, died of pneu-
monia at his home in New York.
The high license law which went in
to effect reduced the number of sa-
looms in Panama from $50 to 100. A
number of saloon keepers who took
out licenses paid for only the month
of March, owing to the fact that the
carnival INT festival to be held this
month will be of unusual magnitude.
1t is therefore expected there will be
a further reduction in licensed places
April /. Under the new law licenses
cost $3.50 a month.
Chlna's first woman lawyer, Mile.
r. Tcheng, has arrived in Canada
from the Orient on her way to Paris,
where she will represent the peace
conference for the Associated Press of
China.
One hundred and fifty-nine officers
and members of the Wholesale Sad
dlery Association and twenty associ-
ated retail harness associations, COM
ponent sections of the National Har-
ness Manufacturers Association Of the
United States were oruered by the fed
eral trade commission to stop trade
practices which the commission held
constituted conspiracy in restraint of
trade.
A mammoth hydroplane with a wing
spread of $50 feet, the largest yet de-
signed, is now under construction for
the American navy at League Island,
Philadelphia, it was revealed by an
aeronautic expert. The giant airship
will be driven by five Liberty motors
of 400 horsepower each, and will de-
velop n speed of ninety miles, with a
cruising radius of 1900 miles, 1t was
declared - rendering 1t capable of
crossing the Atlantic without a stop.