Gilpin observer., 1919-12-18
FOREIGN

pire of Japan, according to figures
compiled by leading automobile manu-
facturers of the United States.
In its note handed to the peace con-
ference the German government de-
clnres 1t never had been its intention
to make its consent to the putting of
the peace treaty into effect dependent
upon settlement beforehand of the
question Of the extraditiOn of Germans
to be tried under the treaty.
To develop commercial aviation the
Chinese government has contracted
with British concern for a number of
commercial planes. The Chinese gov
| ernment is making an issue of about
S9,OOO,OOO in treasury notes which will
cial aerOnautics
Fire badly damaged portions of the
castle at COmpiegne, France. The bed
room of the former emperor and the
council room, both of which We're un-
| furnished, were destroyed, as We're Il
| few pieces of arts. The library was
not damaged. The damage is estimated
at 100000 francs.
Premiers Clemenceau and Lloyd
George in their conferences in London
took up the delicate problems connect
ed with Turkey and decided to inter
nationalze ConstantinOple. This may
serve as an inducement to America to
join the entente in administering the
region she refused to take on single
handed" says the report.
Federal District Judge Hamilton is
| sued temporary restraining order
| against Santiago Iglesias, representa-
| tive of the American Federation of La
| Dor, and forty-two laborers and EN-
| plOyes of the American railroad of Por-
to Rico enjoining them from carrying
| out an alleged conspiracy whereby it is
charged the employees of the railroad
| were made to strike Dec. 3.
Capt Ross Smith, Australian aviator,
arrived at Port Darwin, Australia from
England, thus winning prize of f1O,-
600 sterling offered for the first avia-
tor to make the voyage. Under the
conditions laid down by the Australian
government when it offered prize for
making flight from England to Aus
tralia the distance of 1,500 miles had
to be covered within thirty days.
The British air ministry announces
that, as an emergency measure to as
sist belated aircraft to locate their air
dromes after dusk, it has been ar
ranged for vertical searchlight beams
to be projected from the official air
dromes from about dusk till all service
machines have arrived. The identity
of an airdrome is determined by the
number and arrangement of the light
beams.
GENERAL
The Canadian government is shipping
S1O,OOO0OO In gold to New York for the
purpose of meeting obligations and
also to check the depreciation in Mon
treal exchange.
| The Belgian government has placed
an order for seventy-five consolidation
| type of engines with the American Lo-
comotive Company, it has been an
nounced in New York.
| Approximately 100000 autos have
been made in the United States during
the last twenty years, according To
statistics prepared by the National Au-
tomobile Chamber of Commerce.
The Republican National Committee
has selected Chicago, and Tuesday,
June Sth, as the place and time for the
national convention at which the
partys 1920 candidate for President
will be nominated.
FurS valued ut more than 500, 900
were stolen from n fur dressing estab-
lishment in Brooklyn. according to an
announcement made by Starobin X Ru-
bin, the owners. Ten thousand skins
We're hauled away by thieves in trucks,
IL was said.
City officials stopped twenty-five
tons of sand and gravel from being
sold at 30 cents pound in New York.
The real estate was in the crops of
10000 chickens bound for the New
York market
The death house at Sing Sing prison
Is crowded to capacity and it has be-
come necessary to use an emergency
room. There are twenty-seven men
awaiting execution. Six murderers are
due to be electrocuted In the week of
Jan. 8.
Vincent Eisi, barber In Kew York
City, while shaving Harry Dresher,
was taken with vertigo and falling,
gashed Dresher's throat with the razor.
Dresher Is In n hospital and not en-
| ppctpd IN live Detectives nrrastaf
Elsi on the charge of felonious assault
Flat refusal to give the names of the
executive committee of the Russian So
Wet federation described by DIR. Mich
ael Misleg, its treasurer, as n nation
wide body actively engaged in teach