The Raymer enterprise., 1919-10-09
FOREIGN

Interest on Russia's state liabilities
amounts annually TO approximately
$843. 10000, according to a statement.
issued from omsk by the minister Of
finance Of the Kolchak government
Economic negotiations between Lux.
emburg and Belgium have been broken
off by Belgium as result OF the refer
endum In Luxembourg, under which
France became Luxemburg's financial
ally The Belgian minister In Luxem-
burg has been recalled.
Brig. Gen. Edgar Jadwin of the
American mission In southern Russia.
who was reported to haze been ex-
ecuted By the Bolsheviki, is well and
on his way home, according to a dis
patch TO the War Department from
United States Minister Gibson at War
saw.
simultaneously with the renewal Of
the offensive against the Bolsheyiki
on the eastern front by the kolchak
forces, General Yudenitch has begun
an advance toward Petrograd from
the Archangel district, according 10
advices received by the Russian EN-
bassy at Washington.
The Chamber OF Deputies at Paris.
ratified the German peace treaty by
vote OF 312 to -. The chamber then
took up the treaties between France
and the United States and France and
Great Britain. The Franeo-American
and French-Brltish treaties were un-
animously ratified.
Germany has II new escutcheon.
from which the Hohenzollern arms
have been eliminated. 1t consists Of II
black one.headed eagle on a golden yell
low field. The new" eagle, which has
shed It's erstxhle imperial crown and
collar, II moi a rampant bird. and
would look sedate enough In Its sit
ting posture but for the color OF Its
beak, tongue and taIons, which are red.
Art treasures valued at more than
s10O,0O0.OOO which belonged 10 Gather
inc II Of Russia, who died In l798. have
been diseoverei by the BolshevIk com
mission charged with classifying the
property Of the late Car Nicholas In
the winter palnce and In the palace OF
Tsarkoe Selo. The cases containing
these treasures had never been opened
since they were sent 10 Catherine from
Rome. The find includes more than
1000 paintings and sculptures by some
Of the greatest French and Italian mas
ters. including Terpolo, Roughl, Lntour.
Laneret and Frngonard.
GENERAL
Herman Smith, Buffalo's feather
weight, outpointed Joe Leonard Of New
York before the Qneensbery Athletic
Club al Buffalo.
The estate OF Anna Held, the actress,
totaled S27s,2GO. according 10 an ae-
counting filed by Charles r, Hanlon Of
San Francisco. executor with petit
tlon asking that his duties as executor
be wound up.
Seymour Cox. Jr, II years old. made
an airnlane flight from Houston, Tex,
To New York 10 get an education. With
his mother, Mrs. s. +. J. Cox. wife OF Il
Houston oil operator, and Pilot Harold
Block, seymour arrived In New York,
making the "trip without incident.
Brand Whitlock. former minister 10
Belgium, assumed the rank OF ambas-
sador 10 that country when he pre-
scented the credentials TO King Albert
In the lalters suite at the Waldorf.
Astoria This is the first time In his
tory, II is believe. that ruling soy
ereign has received foreign diplo-
mats credentials on the latter's own
soil.
investigation shows that the forest
fires which ragged over 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~flve passengers was
held up for two days by the fire, which,
driven by heavy wind, swept through
the Cheaknmus valley.
The clocks Of the country will he
turned back one hour, under the proyi-
sons of the daylight saving law, Oct.
20, the last Sunday in October, ut =
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.
A marked increase in the produc-
tlon of wheat and the milling of flour
this year over last year is noted In
the report Just issued by the United
States Grain Corporation of New
York city. The total wheat receipts
from farms, In bushels, extending over
the period from June y to Sept 10 Of
this year amounted to 425,36D,W0. The
total receipts for the same period last
year amounted TO 3sf,2900p. The
production Of flour from June - TO
Sept. 10. this year, amounted TO 2s,-
$4,000 barrels, AS compared with "a
93l 900 for the same period last year.
The total stocks wheat, at all eleva-
,nua a,l ,,.stl. ~ tho rracauf ,f,ua