The Dolores star., 1920-01-02
FOREIGN

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son in London. Princess Patricia was
married to Commander Alexander Rob
ert Maule Ramsey of the royal navy
in February.
Yves lie TrocQuer, under secretary of
state for liquidation Of stocks, told the
Chamber of Deputies III Paris that g.
SO.OOO,OOO francs would be realized
from the liquidation of French war
stocks and that l3.OOOUO.OO0 francs
would accrue from the liquidation of
American army supplies.
Premier Nitti of Italy, expressed the
opinion that from l2.0OO.0OO,0OO to l5.-
uoO,0OO,OOO lire would be subscribed to
the victory loan, the sale OF which be-
gins Jan. 9th. On his return from the
visit he is to make To Paris and Lon
don early in January Premier Nitti
will undertake speaking tour on be-
half of the loan.
The Bolsheviki captured fifteen
guns, 1000 horses and 300 men after
defeating the forces Of General Mann
ontoff and General Chenokoff in the
region Of Staroniensk, according to n
wireless dispatch received from Mos
COW. The dispatch adds: More than
thousand Cossacks were killed. in
Guiding General ChclnOkoff."
The rebels in Eastern Siberia. says
a Moscow dispatch. have completely
several all communication ON the
Amur line and HlagovieshrcheuSk has
been cut off The dispatch adds that
Galician troops. intended for the de
Tense of kiev, have revOltcd against
General Denikinc. the anti-BolShevik
leader in the South and attacked the
volunteer army in the rear
The University of London is planning
TO build an institution Of phonetics at
cost of S6OO,OOO. where seventy as
Sistants would be rnga grd in research
work on the 1000 languages of the
British empire. Tn. scheme. which
originated with Daniel Jones, head oi
the phonetic department Of the univer-
sity, calls for the expenditure of s.
5OO, 900
An epidemic of Influenza similar to
that which swept around the world last
year has broken ont in Japan, accord
ing to Toxic adviceS 10 the Nippon Jill.
japanese newspaper Of Honolulu. Re.
ports from different parts of Japan re-
ceived in Toxic, says the Nppu Jill
correspondent, states that the govern
ment has taken energetic measures to
block the spread of the epidemic.
Herr HuSzar, the Hungarian pre-
mier, stated in Budapest TO deputa-
tion representing those crippled during
the war, that Communism had cost Hun.
gary eighteen billion kronen (nominal.
ly about S3,6OO,OOO,OoU, according to
report received in Berlin. The pre-.
mier said that Rumanian invasion had
taken thirty-siX billion kronen more.
The national assembly now had to re.
store Hungary's finance from a des.
perate condition.
GENERAL
New York City is planning the cree
tion of fourteen piers of the skyscraJ..I
type in Jamaica bay. Murry Hubert
commissioner of docks, announced. The
new piers are expected to outrivul thos.
of Hamburg and Copenhagen and Other
European ports.
Sir Horace Plunkett, the Irish pub
liciSt, arrived in New York on III.
steamship Adriatic for business "trip
lie refused to comment on Premier
Lloyd Georges plan for dual parlia
ment for Ireland because he had no,
examined the proposition in detail.
John ID. Rockefeller gave 10 man.
kind Christmas present of 100000,
OoO-half to the General Education
Board to raise the salaries of colleg,
professors and half TO the Rockefeller
foundation to aid in its work of com
batting disease through improvement o.
medical education, public health ad
ministration and scientific research. l.
is estimated that Mr. Rockefeller'.
public gifts now approximate $3.50,
100000
Statistics obtained show that 1,72.
British girls married American dough
boys. of these only seventeen remain
to be sent TO join their husbands in the
United States.
New York boasts of a new school
boy tennis wonder in the person OF
'iIti si "'oi, Il., II years blu, Oh
the Dewitt Clinton High school. Play
ing in the semi-finals of the junior in
door national championships the youth
easily won his match and displayed
such powerful service and speed at
volleying that experts among the spec
tators were fairly dazzed
A bill pending in the Mexican Sen
ate proposing abrogation of the treaty
with China which permits immigration
of Asiatlcs into Mexico has met gen.
eral approval in the states of Sonora
and Sinaloa, according to the Excel
sior of Mexico City. The newspaper
says messages from Snaloa and So
ora, where many Asiatc colonies are
located, declare that the "nvasiOn of
Asiatcs causes degeneration of the