The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-02-06
FOREIGN

tiOn OF the naturalization OF the coal
mines
The number of children attending
school in Vienna has dropped from
242,OOO in 1910 to 195,0M in 1919 as
result of malnutrition, according to a
survey made for the American Red
CrOsss.
Col. Avaloff H. Bermondt, command
er OF the Russo-G German forces which at
tackled Riga during the autumn of 1919,
has become insane and has been placed
in madhouse, according to wireless
| reports from Moscow.
| Jules Guesde, the veteran Socialist
leader, backed by sixty-five members
of the chamber of deputies in France,
has introduced bill in the chamber
| which would give women civil. politi-
cal and economic equality with men.
The list of Germans accused by the
| allies of war crimes and whose extra
| dition is to be demanded. is headed
| by former Crown Prince Frederick
| William and several other sons of the
| former German emperor. The list has
been handed to Baron Kurt Won Lers-
| ner, the German representative at
| Paris.
DR.. Nicard, who is accompanying
| former Premier Clemenceau on his
| trip to Egypt, is quoted by the Excel
sior as saying the itinerary will in
clude Cairo, Khartoum, trip up the
Nile and probably a visit to Syria,
| Persia and India. 1t is also said the
former premier may visit Japan be-
| fore returning to France
Dog teams from many parts of the
northland will start March 17th, St
Patrick's day, in the third annual 100
mile Hudson's Bay Dog Derby over
the snow trails between The Pas and
Sturgeon Landing and return. About
fifty teams may enter. A purse of ST.
900 and a huge silver and gold cup will
be presented to the winning driver
The cup, which stands over three feet
in height. was given by Frank Burns,
a Toronto sportsman.
The Oxford and Cambridge Univer-
sity athletic clubs are considering the
vitation extended by the University
of Pennsylvania to enter teams in the
events at Philadelphia May l. 1t is
believed they will send teams for the
mile and four-miIe relay champion
ships. The combined clubs have in
vited Pennsylvania to send team to
England, and also Harvard and Yale
to send joint team in July for a ten
event sports meet, similar to the meet
of 1911.
The Germans "have only arrived at
the vale of tears through which we are
forced to pass" said Minister of Agri-
culture Braun in the Prussian diet in
connection with the food debate.
Worse times are coming The masses
must be told that our only hope is in
creased work. The minister then
made the startling announcement that
Germany soon would arrive at the
point where she would be unable to
buy anything abroad, but would be
wholly dependent upon home produc-
ton.
GENERAL
A Chicago theater has announced it
had opened a smoking room for women
The manager said the women drove
him to it." He said he found girls were
smoking in the washroom, the boudoir
and even in the lobby.
A widow, her four children and two
men were burned to death in three
story tenement house in Newark, N. J.
The fire started in the lower part of
the building, cutting off escape by the
stairway. Members of three other
families jumped from windows into
nets held by firemen.
Five hundred Spanish laborers, said
to be the vanguard of thousands await
ing opportunity to come to this coun-
try, have arrived in New York from
Bordeaux and Corunna They declared
that they had been attracted here by
stories of the scarcity of labor and
high wages.
Forty thousand Poles have applied
for passports for return to their native
country, according to word sent to
steamship agencies by the Polish con-
sulate in New York. The message said
no more applications for passports will
be accepted until action can be taken
on those already received.
Sharp increases in premiums paid by
automobile owners for insurance
against theft and accident are to be
announced shortly by the eastern con
ference of the National Automobile
Underwriters, it was stated in New
York in insurance circles. The under
writer's were said to be wavering be-
tween an increase of 40 per cent and
so per cent.
Foreign seamen hereafter may have
their liquor with their meals while
their ships are docked in American
ports, according to announcement by
Assistant Secretary Shouse of the
treasury. After numerous foreign gov
ernments had protested against the Or
der sealing stocks of liquors on ships in
American ports, the question was laid
before Attorney General Palmer. He
was said to have held it could not be
enforced except in the case of Ameri-
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