The Colorado statesman., 1919-11-29
FOREIGN


new president OF the French Motor
Touring Club.
Premier Clemenceau has rented at
st. Vincent, Vendee, small solitary
house on the seashore, where he hopes
to rest and work in solitude, according
to reports from Paris.
Gabrielle d'Annunzio has decided to
make lecture tour of America at
once, it is reported from Rome. The
poet warrior says he wants to explain
the Fiume question to Americans.
All records in the prices of fashiona-
BILE gowns are beaten by spring models
just announced in Paris. They will be
10000 francs (S2 2,40O), while an after
noon frock. Poiret creation, costs 2S,-
900 francs ($5,6OO).
Adelina Patti, famous prima donna,
who died Sept. 81, at her castle in
Wales, left fortune valued at f116,-
900. She bequeathed her entire prop
erty to Baron Rolf Cederstrom, her
husband, except n few personal arti-
cles.
Martial law has been declared at
Saragosa. Spain, because of n general
like. Tran ways and other traffic
lines have been suspended. The strike
was called in protest against the de-
portation to Barcelona of the presi-
dents of labor unions.
Plans are under way to spend D.
100000 marks for the purchase and
equipment of a residence for future
German presidents in Berlin, some
thing on the line of the White House
in Washington or the Elysee in Paris,
but necessarily less pretentious.
Another Klondike has been discov-
cred in Laponia, or Lapland, to the
north of Finland. The reports brought
back by travellers are so startling and
important that the Norwegian govern
ment has sent an official expedition to
the gold fields. Meanwhile a stampede
is reported in progress.
Philipp Scheidemann, former Ger
man chancellor, writing in the Vor-
waerts, says he considers that Ger
many is in the power of the reaction
aries. "The entire army he writes,
"seems to be at the disposal of the re-
actionaries. Unity of the working
classes has become bounden duty"
Because Germans raised no objec-
tions to the erection of memorials to
British soldiers in German cemeteries,
the Oswestry district council has de-
cided to permit the building of me-
mortal to German soldiers buried in a
military cemetery at Oswestry, Eng
land
The unpopularity of militarism has
resulted in depriving Japanese railway
officials of their glittering shoulder
straps and swords. The wearing of
gold braid and side arms by the rail
way officials was introduced about ten
years ago. The railway people now
look more democratic.
OF the pre-war population of 5,23O-
900 in the devastated regions Of
France four-fifths have returned to
their former homes according to re-
port issued by the American Red Gross
in Paris. French authorities expect n
return of the majority of the remain
der within the next few months
GENERAL
The famous Holstein Friesian bull,
King Segis Pontiac Alcartra, valued at
$4,000, died at Middletown, N. Y. 1t
was owned by John II. Ardmann of
Fairmont farm.
Twenty-Five persons, most of them
women and girls, lost their lives in Il
fire which quickly destroyed a frame
a
folk were making merry at dance at
Vile Platte, La.
Moose hunting has been resumed in
Maine after suspension of four years.
The large numbers of these animals
killed in former years, when there was
an open season annually, caused fear
of their determination, and the Legis-
lature ordered a four-yenr suspension
of hunting.
Robbers, who burned the vault door
with an acetylene torch, looted fifty
safety deposit boxes of $4,000 in cash
and bonds at the State bank of Free
landville, Knox county, Ind. No clew
to the robbers has been found.
Lieut. Robert Stocker and "a civilian
named Thompson, believed to have
been radio tester, We're drowned
when their hydronirplane fell into the
Delaware river, six miles below Ches-
ter The bodies have not yet been re
covered. The plane was towed to the
Philadelphia navy yard.
With more than seventy days left the
Ohio automobile department has broE
en- all records of the state and, in fact
any state in the Union in the number
of licenses issued for 1919. Up TO Oct.
20 the department issued licenses for
503, 800 passenger cars and commercial
vehicles operated by gasoline.
rIyIa Smith of SoutI, nanJ Ind onI