, 1919-07-24
FOREIGN


will staff on a trip to India within the
next few days.
Twelve persons were killed In an eX-
plosion on board the British tank
steamer R%oseleaf at Cardiff, Wales.
The explosion was caused by an ac-
emulation of gas.
If the Germans are good and full
fill the terms of he peace treaty,
American forces On the thine will be
reduced to $4,000 men by November,
General Pershing stated in London.
Eighteen million marks gold which
the German government owed Switzer-
land and payment Of which had been
stopped temporarily by the allies, was
taken to switzerland as ordinary
freight.
One officer and six enlisted men
were killed in The destruction of the
American mine sweeper Richard III.
Buckley by the explosion of u mine in
the North sea. Two other officers were
injured.
Enver Pasha, Talaat Bey and Djemal
Pasha, the leaders of the Turkish gov
eminent during the war, have been
condemned to death by a Turkish court
martial investigating the conduct of
the Turkish government during the
war period.
Marshal Foch was given a laurel
wreath of gold by the inhabitants of
the Department of Seine-Et-Oise. Pres
ijent P%oincare, speaking at the cere-
mony, held in the palace of Versailles,
euloSized Marshal Foch for his deeds
during the war.
Twenty-Five thousand French sol
dierS diet from tuberculosis during the
war mt 10000 men were exempted
fIom service because of the disease, it
was stated in the Senate during a dis
cussion of a bill to establish tubercu-
loSis sanitariums.
Government reports show that 1,000,-
600 sheep and 100000 cattle have been
drowned VI floods in the southern part
of Buenos Aires provinces. The rail
ways and telegraphic communications
have been interrupted m evera sec
tons in that region have been COM
pletely isolated for more than a week.
Prices on all foodstuffs have fallen
with n crash in Berlin as a result of
the lifting of the blockade. They be-
gan to show weakness when it was
rumOred that the embargo would be
lifted, but the real drop came only
when Illicit dealers with huge con-
cealed tocks brought them out in a
virtual panic to unload before compet-
ing supplies entered Germany.
AS English law now stands, a man
may marry his dead wife's sister, but
Al nm pnpnnt trval IaY. lAaI nc
bands brother. The point was made
clear by the presiding judge at the
Northampton Assizes the other day in
the case of two women who went
through the marriage service with bro
theirs of their dead husbands. Both
were held for trial.
SPORT
Lew Tender defeated Joe yelling
of Chicago in a hard six-round fight at
Shibe Park in Philadelphia.
Harry Greb, Pittsburg, and Battling
~Levinsky, PhilaG ,lphia, fought a six
round draw at Philadelphia.
Joe Tiplitz, Philadelphia, knocked
out George CLANCY, Baltimore, in the
third round at Philadelphia.
leu ihluJ Lewis, loIlhcI Neitei-
weight champion, had the better OF a
six-round bout with Steve Latzo of
HaZelton, Pa.
GENERAL
Negotiations for 81 o of 100000
600 to $4,000, 600 to the Swiss republic
through the sale of bonds in this coun-
try have been virtually completed, it
has been reported.
Using an iron wedge, Robert Seifert,
&c, beat his mother, 90, TO death at
Alix, Ark. The woman's skull was
crushed. The cause of the crime has
not been learned. Seifert is in jail.
A federal mail airplane, carrying
500 pounds of letters from New York
to Cleveland, was forced Town by Il
terrific wind at Albany, and wrecked.
The aviator, Lieut.. ]. d.. McAlden, was
uninjured.
Federal investigation of an alleged
500, 1000, 900 food combine at Chicago
is under way by Charles f. Clyne,
United States district attorney, and
Walter b. Wooden and Attorney
Charles f. Moore of Washington. Clyne
said there was evidence of a great
trust of producers, N and dis
tributors operating in this territory
and extending its activities to all parts
of the country.
In 1918 automobile manufacturers
paid n total of S33,OOO,O 900 in taxes to
the federal government. In the same
period car owners paid $4,000 900 in
motor registration fees to the states,
Total automobile taxes, including the
personal property, local charges, ETC.,
for the year are estimated at $150,000,-
600. The charges will reach 5000 1000
900 In 1919. All of these are paid by