, 1920-05-06
FOREIGN.

acres of WOO pulp forests in SOUTH
ern Laborador to supply wood pulp
to n%ews-print manufacturing concerns
in England, it has been announced in
Ottawa.
Out of the millions of Britishers who
fought in the var only one soldier re-
mains unidentified. He is a private
who lost his memory through shell
shock, and no trace can be found of his
relatives. All the missing have been
accounted for.
British clergymen want the mar
riage fee doubled. A couple may now
be married for $1.75, but the preach
ers "a that inasmuch as the burial
rates have been doubled in the last
five years it is right that the mar
riage cost should advance accordingly.
British troops on the Rhine total ap-
proximately $4,000 according to a state
ment made in the House of Commons
by Winston Spencer Churchill, secre-
tary for war. French troops there
number $4,000, American 10000 and
Belgian 10000.
The Prussian government has adopt
ed the draft of a bill to abolish the
privileges of the nobility. according to
u report at Berlin. The abolition of
the rights to titles, such as royal
highness" and "illustrious' is included
In the provisions of the measure.
Five warships will be added to the
Chilean navy as a result of negotia-
lions between the Chilean and British
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cept the offer by Great Britain of n
dreadnought, three torpedo boat de-
stroyers of 1900 tons each and a trans
port.
The Allied ReparatiOn Commission
has refused Germany,s recent request
not to be deprived of its last Ships"
and pointed out that, although it has
been three months since the treaty be-
came effective, not a vessel has been
delivered n that the commissioners
cannot possibly consider further pro-
posals until a satisfactory quantity of
tonnage is surrendered.
The work of a modern Bluebeard
has been discovered at Tanta, fifty
four miles northwest of Cairo, Egypt.
Women enticed into a certain house
on the pretext of meeting a wealthy
admirer have been robbed of their
jewels and then murdered. After
wards their bodies were burned, except
for the heads, twenty of which were
found in the house.
Teleshore Gagnon was found guilty
at Montreal of having participated in
causing the death of his 14-year-old
daughter. Aurore, by torture. The jury
convicted him of manslaughter. His
wife, Marie Annie Houde, stepmother
Of the child; was previously convicted
of murder and is sentenced to die in
October. While there was evidence
that Gagnon was unnaturalIy cruel to-
ward his daughter, it was indicated
that he vas under pressure from the
stepmother.
GENERAL.
All available petroleum in the United
States will be exhausted in three
years at the present rate of consump-
tion, which is overlapping production
by more than 50,O0O,0O0 barrels annu-
ally, is the prediction of R. L. Welsh,
general counsel for the American Pc
tr0leum Institute.
The Supreme Court has set aside
the Oklahoma Supreme Court DEGREES
denying judgments to sixty-seven Choc-
taw n Chickasaw Indian citizens in
that state who sought a refund of
$4,000 collected by Love county off,
Gals as taxes on land allotted them
under a treaty.
The Yukon legislature adjourned
after passing eleven bills, one prohib-
iting the "a of intOxicants for bev-
erage purposes. Other legislation en-
acted included providing for the IL
censing of nonresident big game hunt
ers and fur traders. The export of
moose and caribou hides will be pro-
hibited to prevent slaughter Of these
animals.
Only twenty-three alleged extremists
finally have been held for deportation
at Ellis Island, out of 600 rounded up
In raids by the Department of Justice
last January, according to a statement
by Miss Rose Weiss, counsel for many
of them. Hearings in all their cases
had beer completed, she said.
Local clothing merchants at Biz
mingham, Ala, issued a challenge to
the Overall Club and the Patchem and
Wearem Club, woman's auxiliary, by
offering to sell all cotton garments at
cost. At the same time Frank Spain,
chairman of the Fair Price Board, an
nounced the merchants had agreed to
c~onfine their net profits to Is per cent
on mems and women's wear.
Capt. J. Allan Brookes of the Royal
Flying Corps of London, England. has
announced the completion of the
100000 United Anyways Corporation
at London. at the Old Colony Club Mt