The Dolores star., 1919-10-10
FOREIGN


Interest on Russia's state liabilities
amounts annually TO approximately
S643, 100000, according to n 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 LuNem-
burg has been recalled
Brig Gen Edgar Jadwin of the
American mission in southern Russia,
who was reported To have been eN-
ecuted by the Bolsheviki, is well and
on his way home, according to dis
patch TO the War Department from
United States Minister Gibson ut War
saw
simultaneously with the renewal of
the offensive against the Bolsheviki
on the eastern front by the Kolchak
forces, General Yudenitch has begun
an advance toward Perrograd from
the ArChangel district, according TO
advices received by the Russian em-
bassy ut Washington.
The Chamber of Deputies mt Paris,
ratified the German peace treaty by
vote of 3T2 TO 80 The chamber then
took up the treaties between France
and the United States and France and
Great Britain. The Franco-American
and French-British treaties We're un-
nnimously ratified.
Germany has Il new escutCheOn.
from which the HOhenZollern arms
have been eliminated. II consists of Il
black one-headed eagle on golden vel
low field. The new" eagle, which has
shed its erstwhile imperial crown and
collar, is not rampant bird. and
would look sedate enough in it's sit
ting posture but for the color of its
beak, tongue and talons, which are red.
Art treasures valued at more than
S1OOOOO000 which belonged TO Gather
inc III of Russia, who died in 1896, have
been discovered by the Bolshevik com
mission charged with classifying the
property of the late Car Nicholas in
the winter palace and in the palace of
Tsarkoe Selo. The cases containing
these treasures had never been opened
since they We're sent to Catherine from
Rome. The find includes more than
900 paintings and sculptures by some
of the greatest French and Italian mas
ters. including TerpoIo. Rough!, Latour,
Lancret and Fragonard.
GENERAL
Herman Smith. Buffalo's feather
weight, outpointed Joe Leonard of New
York before the Queensbery Athletic
Club ut Buffalo.
The estate of Anna Held, the actress,
totaled S27S.26O, according to an ac-
counting filed by Charles +. Hanlon of
San Francisco, executor, with petit
ton asking that his duties as executor
be 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. f. j. Cox. wife of n
| Houston oil operator, and Pilot Harold
| Block, Seymour arrived in New York,
making the trip without incident.
Brand Whitlock, former minister to
! Belgium, assumed the rank of ambas-
sador TO that country when he pre-
sented the credentials to King Albert
| in the latters suite at the Waldorf
Astoria. This is the first time in his
tory, 1t is believe, that a ruling soy
ereign has received a foreign dipo-
mats credentials on the latter's OVID
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~five passengers was
held up for two days by the fire, which,
driven by asheavy wind, swept through
the Cheukamus valley.
The clocks of the country will be
turned back one hour, under the prOvi-
siOns of the daylight saving law, Oct.
20, the last Sunday in October, at
o'clock in the morning. The law, which
was passed in 1913 and repealed in the
summer Of this year. says that the
| NlDthS Sllhll Dt liI bt' loI olt
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-
ton 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 q to Sept. 10 of
this year amounted to 425,3G9,0O The
total receipts for the same period last
year amounted to 3S1 100000. The
production of flour from June p to
Sept. 19, this year, amounted to 2s,-
100000 barrels, as compared with "a,
931 900 for the same period last year.
The total stocks wheat, at all eleva-