, 1920-09-23
FOREIGN

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been reported officially from Korea
with 5000 deaths, in the present cpl
demic.
A number of the members of the diet
are planning to visit the United States
summer with a hope of improving
the relations between Japan and the
States.
The Chinese government has ar
ranged a short term $10,OO0,000 loan
to meet urgent demands for famine
relief in the Shantung, Chihll and
Shansi provinces.
The dominion bureau of statistics of
Canada has issued an estimate on the
Canadian crop; wheat, 2S9, 498,0O0
bushels oats, $50, 10000 bushels; bar
ley, 64,257 bushels; flax, 1000 BUSH
els.
Three companies of italian infantry
have seized a factory at Lucca, which
had been occupied by workmen and
have forced the men in the plant to
surrender 10000 bombs, according to
dispatches.
According to estimates by the jap
anese press, Japan will have 100 sub
marines by 1927, when 1t is expected
eight battleships and eight battle cruz
sers on the naval building program
will have been completed.
The soviet government Of Russia
has published figures claiming that
under the 1919 program the total Red
army strength, actual and potential,
was 4,750,000 men, and that this pro-
gram has been restored as a result of
the Polish campaign.
Thirty men were killed, scores
wounded and damage amounting to
$250,0OO was lone by the explosion of
dynamite in Callao bay at Lima, Peru.
Negligence in handling the explosive
is declared to have caused the acct
dent.
Baklanoff, a baritone of the Chica-
go Opera Company, arrested in Chica-
go last year for immortality, has been
refused an American passport wise
from the American passport bureau of
Paris. which acted on advice from
Washington. This bars Baklanoff
from the United States.
1t is officially announced that the
total killed in the recent earthquakes
In Italy was TIA. The mountainous
ION affected was thinly inhabited and
the destruction was limited to small
places. Normal life is being resumed.
The houses destroyed are being re-
placed by huts.
The Chinese foreign office notified
Prince N. A. Koudachef, minister of
Russia, in charge of the Russian
legation by appointment of the late
car, that in view of the nonrepre-
sentative status Of the Russian lega-
ton, voluntary cessation of function
sulate would be welcomed.
GENERAL
Liquor bandits in two raids ON ware
houses at Chicago, escaped with whis-
kies and rare wines worth $4,000. One
OF the band, which included five men,
was wearing a policeman's uniform.
Rural letter carriers purpose to start
a campaign among congressman and
United States senators for the enact.
ment Of legislation granting them an
allowance for maintenance Of equip
ment, it was learned at Indianapolis,
when the first annual convention Of
the National Federation of Rural Let
ter Carriers was convened. The
amount to be asked will be 5000 an
nually, 1t was said.
Robbery, jealousy and other ele-
ments entered into the brutal staying
of John Zelek, foreman of the stock
department in q large warehouse,
washroom in Chicago. He had been
beaten to death in a most savage man.
ner, a plank and a hammer being the
weapons. Scattered about the floor
near the body were a number of love
letters which the police are investigat-
Ing. They believe Zelek was muir
dered by a jealous rival.
Bodies of 1853 American soldiers
were brought home from st. Nazaire
and other points in France on the
transport Sherman.
A spread of infantile paralysis In the
vicinity of Boston, which, while not an
epidemic, yet constitutes n condition
that has caused some concern among
health officials, was announced by the
state department of health. A total of
ninety-seven cases in the state was re-
ported with the addition of fourteen
new cases in reports received. The
number of cases is the greatest In the
state since the epidemic of 1915.
Two suits of 100000 were filed
by the city of Chicago, on orders of
Mayor William Hale Thompson against
the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago
Daily News, respectively. The suits,
according to Corporation Counsel s. A.
Ettleson, allege that charges made by
these newspapers in the primary cam.
paign have injured Chicago financial
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