, 1920-07-29
FOREIGN

anu buildings were destroyed
The German airship LEA, slightly
larger than the British dirigible R-34,
which last year made a transatlantic
voyage has been surrendered at the
Pullman airdrOme at London in ac-
cordance with the terms of the treaty
of Versailles.
An official statement has been is
sued declaring Germany's complete
neutrality in the situation arising from
hcstilities in progress between Russia
and Poland. The statement was signed
by President Ebert and Foreign Minis
ter Simons.
Peasant %scythemen of Modlin, re-
viving the traditions of the scythe-
men of KOsciuszko, who fought the
Russians in 1894, marched thru War
saw en- route to Poland's eastern from
tier to take a stand against a posi-
BILE invasion of the bolsheviki.
France will carry out her agree
ment with Great Britain to furnish
armed support to Poland in event eff
forts to effect a pacific solution OF
differences between Poland and soviet
Russia fail, Premier Millerand told
the Chamber of Deputies in Paris.
A number of Sim Fein employees of
Harland and Wolff's s%hipyards were
badly mauled at Belfast and several
were taken to the hospital in conse
quence of an attack by ~unionist work
ers, more han 5000 of whom held a
meeting and adopted a resolution to
boycott all Sim Fein workmen in the
yards.
A var office statement says an
agreement for the suspension of hos
tilities in the western part of trans
baikalia was signed July 10 between
the Japanese and the Yerkhne-U dinsk
government pending complttion of ne
government pending completion of ne
sian and Japanese committees in ST.
IBERIA.
Francisco Villa. the rebel leader, is
trying to surrender, but the govern
ment will not negotiate with him, ac-
cording to an official statement. More
than 5000 men are opposing villa in
the state of Chihuahua, the statement
says, and the federal forces are &C.
cupying all his supply bases and sur
rounding him.
There was a real "kick' in a
corpse" found by prohibition agents
in a hearse passing through Seymour,
a suburb of Greenwich, Conn. The
agents, undaunted by the figure of n
man, clothed in clerical robes, seated
beside the driver, halted the hearse
and pulled out the coffin. They found
the coffin filled with spirits-yes, 500
gallons of spirits. The driver and cler-
ical assistant were arrested.
GENERAL
Thre armed bandits held up the
cashier of the Borden Condensed Milk
Company today in front of the COM
pany's office on the West Side, in New
York and escaped with $4,000 in cash.
Announcement was made today of a
gift of approximately 100000 by ].
4. Wade of Cleveland to the Cleve-
land Museum Of Art. The interest on
the money will be used for the pur-
chase of works of art.
Andy Deuser, aged IL, of ~Indianapo-
lis, Is in the detention home, at his own
request, n his mother, Mrs. Rose
Deuser. and brother, Louis, 20, face
charges made by neighbors that the
boy had been chained to a post in the
barn n made to stand there for
more h fifteen hours as punishment
for running away. His chums re-
leased him by filing the chain.
Suddenly stricken nv appendicitis,
Herman Carlson, a coal passer on the
Stockholm, of the Swedish-American
line, vas rushed to an operating table
while the ship was stopped in mid
ocean for two hours. The liner drift
ed while DIR. Moritz Simon, the snip
surgeon, performed the operation.
Carlson was reported rapidly recover
ing when the steamer arrived in port
at New York.
The second death from sleeping sick
ness in Annapolis has been reported to
the state board of health Mt Balti-
more. The victim was Earl Gibson
Weber, Is years old, who succumbed
after two weeks illness.
The armies on the Feng Tai, Lang
Fang sector of the Tien Tsin railway
line of Gen. Hsu-Shu Cheng, former
resident commissioner of inner Mon
golla and one of the Anfu leaders are
reported to be d~isintegrating like the
forces to the southwark of the capital.
Ten thousand of his men. comprising
the Third division, under General
Sung-Tze-Yang. have advised In gov
eminent that they are ready to obey
the orders of the wal ministry.
Six hundred million dollars was
added to the pay envelope of the ma
tons 100000 railway workers in the
first award handed down by the new
United States railway labor board at
Chicago. Rejecting the demands OF
the organized rail unions for increases
totaling approximately one billion dol