, 1919-10-09

Members of the German delegation
called on Foreign Minister Pueyrredon
and discussed the proposed loan of
S100,O00,O00 by Argentina TO Germany.
Interest on Russia's state liabilities
amounts annually to approximately
S643, 100000, according to a statement,
issued from Omsk by the minister of
finance of the Kolchak government.
The troops under the nationalist
leader, M%ustapha Renal Pasha, who
recently set up a separatist govern
ment in Asia Minor, have occupied the
city of Konieh, in southern Asia Minor,
"nd expelled the authorities.
Economic negotiations between Lux
emhurg and Belgium have beer broken
off by Belgium as a result of the refer
endum in Luxembourg, under which
France became Luxemburg's financial
ally. The Belgian minister in Luxem-
burg has been recalled.
The Chamber of Deputies at Paris,
ratified the German peace treaty by .
vote of 372 to SO. The chamber then
took up the treaties between France
n the United States and France and
Great Britain. The Franco-American
and French-British treaties were I'M
animously ratified.
Buenos Aires, Argentina, Oct. p
DIR. Victorino de la Plaza. former
president of the Argentine, is dead at
Buenos Aires. DIR. de la Plaza as
sumed the presidency of the republic
on the death of President Pena in
1914, succeeded to the office from the
vice presidency, and resumed in the
presidency until the expiration of his
term in 1916.
Germany has a new escutcheon,
from which the H~ohenzollern arms
have been eliminated. 1t consists of a
low field. The new eagle, which has
shed its erstwhile imperial crown and
collar, is not a rampant bird, and
would look sedate enough in its sit
ting posture but for the color of its
beak, tongue and talons, which are red.
Art treasures valued at more than
S10O,0O0.OO0, which belonged to Gather
Inc II of Russia, who died in 1896, have
been discovered by the Bolshevih COM
. ma St' ~ MI NiiC
property of the late Gear Nicholas in
the winter palace and in the palace of
TsarkOe SelO. The cases containing
these treasures had never been opened
since they were sent to Catherine from
Rome. The find includes more than
1000 paintings and sculptures by some
of the greatest French and Italian mas
tiers, including TerpOlo, ROughi, Latour,
Lancret and Fragonard.
GENERAL
Herman Smith, Buffalo's feather
weight, o%utpointed Joe Leonard of New
York before the Queensbery Athletic
Club at Buffalo.
The estate of Ann Held, the actress,
totaled S27S,260, according to an ac-
counting filed by Charles F. Hanlon of
San Francisco, executor, with n petit
ton asking that his duties as executor
he wound up.
Seymour Cox, Jr., IL years old, made
an airplane flight from Houston, Tex,
to New York to get an education. With
his mother, Mrs. S. E. J.. Cox, wife Of a
Houston oil operator, and Pilot Harold
Block, Seymour arrived in New York,
making the trip without incident.
Mark (Shorty) Thornton, arrested at
York, Pa, for alleged participation in
holding up and robbing a Garden City,
San Jose, Calf, bank clerk of $4,000,
has been taken back to San Jose.
Thornton, who has stoutly denied his
part in the holdup, confessed.
Investigation shows that the forest
fires which ragged owe the week end
along the line of the Pacific Great
Eastern railway above the Squamish
we're so intense that steel rails were
melted. Thousands of huge trees fell.
A train with forty-five passengers was
held up for two days by h fire, which,
driven by a heavy wind, swept through
the Cheakamus valley.
Chemist shops at Archangel are open
ly selling poison to many young wom-
en- who are buying it with the ex-
pressed intention of killing themselves
rather han fall into the hands of the
Bolsheviki, according to al American
officer who has just returned from
there.
The clocks of the country will be
turned back one hour, under the provi-
sions of the daylight saving law, Oct.
&c, the last Sunday in October, at 2
| o'clock in the morning. The law, which
was passed in 1918 and repealed in the
summer of this year., says that the
| clocks shall be turned forward one
hour on the last Sunday in March and
turned back to normal time again on
the last Sunday in October.
Acting, it is said, on one of Broad
| ways famous "rumors" that within a
week President Wilson would cast war
time prohibition into the discard by
%rroclaiming rehabilitation completed,
| New York liquor dealers began stock
ing up" for a brief wet" period until