Gilpin observer., 1919-08-07
FOREIGN


Warsaw from Paris He was given an
enthusiastic reception by the populace
The recent British victory loan SUBJ
scriptions. amounted to fT6T, 800 900, it
was announced in the House of Com
mons.
Pirates operating on the Black sea
have held up and robbed the steamer
Constantine Of $15,OOO,OOO worth Of
notes and gold, says dispatch from
Constantinople.
The German cabinet will be recon-
structed in a few days with Count Won
Bernstorff succeeding Herman Mueller
as foreign minister, dispatch from
Berlin stated in London.
A shortage of more than 7O,OOO,OOO
tons of coal, as compared with the
1913 output, is faced by Great Britain
in the coming year, according to Sir
Auckland Geddes, president Of the
Board of Trade.
Budapest is occupied by Rumanian
troops who advanced from the river
Thesis, in spite of representations
made by Lieutenant Colonel ROmanel-
lies at Vienna.
Advices from Berlin report that
trunks belonging to the allied armis-
tice commission in Germany have been
stolen. The trunks contained import
ant documents concerning agreements
for the restitution to Belgium and
France of machinery that had been re-
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An extraordinary attempt of eleven
Koreans to commit suicide by tying
themselves together with rope and
then jumping overheard Is reported
from ChemulpO. The incident occurred
on ferryboat All We're picked up,
but three were dead. The act is be-
lieved to have been inspired by Budd-
hist superstition.
The Prussian government, according
to American reports, is planning to or
ganize a new and separate police
force" to consist of from 100000 to
100000 trained soldiers, solely as
force to suppress disorder. 1t Is
planned to arm this force with the
latest type of military weapons and
to put the men in garrisons through
out Germany
America is god-mother to $4,000 or
phans in Armenia. Twenty eight Or
phanages in the Armenian republic are
now in operation, under American su-
pervisiOn. The United States relief
committee has signed an agreement to
take charge of all parentless children
in Armenia and to pay for their main
tenance. There are 5000 orphans IL.
the region of Erivan and 5000 in Geor
gia.
The Berlin newspapers say that the
former German. emperor has written to
the archbishop of Posen, asking him to
preserve the Protestant chapel at Po-
sen castle for Protestant services. The
former monarch said that it would be
unbearable to him to have Roman
Catholic services in the chapel, into
which he had put his whole soul and in
which he prayed for victory for Ger
many.
GENERAL
A sample loaf of bread refused to
explode when Chicago police shot at
it within a package. They thought the
box Judge Lands got in the mail was
q bomb.
trades strike, which involves more
than 100000 employees and has tied up
$125,OO0OOO worth of construction
work, has been reached.
Quentin Roosevelt, killed in aerial
combat in France, left an estate OF
only $1,1OO. 1t was learned when his
mother, widow of Colonel Roosevelt,
applied for letters of administration.
The abnormal demand for pennies is
still taxing the capacity of the presses
in the Philadelphia mint, the enormous
total of 3S,931 600 having been struck
during July. The other coinage con-
sisted of $4,000 dimes and 9,3O6,OOO
nickels.
More than S4,OOO,OOO worth of sur
plus textiles were auctioned off in
New York in about three hours by the
surplus property division of the army,
with representatives of Admiral Kol-
chak's Siberian government taking
more than S1,OOO,000 of it.
So serious has Buffalo's downtown
parking problem become the City
Council has begun consideration of n
plan to have IA subterranean' municipal
garage constructed. The proposal is
to have subways leading to parking
space constructed beneath one Of the
city's public squares, the subways to
be about two blocks in length each,
one for inbound and the other for out
bound cars.
A petition bearing the signatures of
142,5IS voters, asking the submission
to the Ohio electorate mt the November
election of n constitutional amendment
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