The Colorado statesman., 1920-04-10
FOREIGN.

front are being regrouped and fresh
forces brought up, the Polish war Of
flee advised Major General Brynk, mil
!tary attache Of the Polish legation.
Polish successes are reported along
The Slutz river, whore II Bolshevlst at
lack has been repulsed General Lit
owskis forces captured 300 Bolshev-
lists, four guns and much ammunition
and other material.
Lieut.. Stanislaw Zebrowski OF the
Polish army, tried by courtmartial and
found guilty OF charge OF having mis-
appropriated 10000 marks belonging to
his regiment, has been sentenced TO be
shot at Warsaw.
Jews clsshed with Moslems at Jeru-
salem on Easter Sunday and 1888 cas-
uslties resulted, said news agency
dispatch from that city. Most OF the
casualties were slight. The military
is controlling the situation.
Helen Keller. the deaf, dumb and
blind prodigy, has had the announce
ment made IN Berlin that she has as
signed all her royalties and Income
from the sale of her books in Germany
for all time to the Association of
Homes for Blind German Soldiers.
The first aeroplane 10 rise from and
allght again on the deck Of a warship
was one of those aboard the Furious
while the British fleet was off Yigo
recently. Aeroplanes ascended from
the Furious during the war, but were
unable to land on the vessel again.
Famine conditions prevail in Slovak-
ia, according TO reports received in vi
emma. 1t is reported that people are
collapsing in the streets due to hun
ger, and that there have been hunger
riots in various districts. In Karschau
the populnce invaded the office of the
Czech food controller and dragged him
to the street and killed him.
Germany has delivered TO France,
in execution of the armIstlce terms,
28S3 locomotives, of which 691 have
been ceded by France TO the allied
powers. OF the 1886 locomotives re-
tanned by France, 15l are in need Of
extensive repairs, according to an of
ficial statement issued by Yves Le-
trocquer, minister of public works.
Members of the Jockey Club of
Paris, most exclusive of Its kind in
Europe, have resolved to boycott taxi
cabs owing to the extraordinary in
crease in taxi rates. Any member in
fringIng on this covenant" will be
fined 500. But this is one of innumer-
able instances showing what France
means to do to beat down the prices.
GENERAL.
Joe Stecher and Ed (Strangler)
Lewis, heavyweight wrestlers, have
been matched fora bout In the Sew
enty-first Regiment Armory at New
York on April 16.
Fighting Bob" Evans old battleship,
the Iowa, now condemned and out of
commission, is destined to play an I'M
portant part in the experiments of the
Navy Department in the control of
ships by wireless.
Edward O'Toole, sc years old, who
witnessed more electrocutiOns in Sing
Sing prison than any other employe
there, having been for nineteen years
IL hetDtG ilt btuth iuusti uVu a.
his home in Ossining, y. Y.
The national debt of Canada on Feb
ruary 2Sth, last, amounted to Sl,915.-
905, 1924, according to report made in
the House of Commons. The Domin-
ions gross debt amounted TO $3, 49,
O9S, 900 and its assets to 81 ,223, lO3O68.
Two children are dead as the result
nf hon
shocked ex-soldier employed by man
ufacturing chemist at Edinburg, Ill.
The veterans mind wanders some
times. He packed strychnine in cal
omel bottle. A cOroner's jury held him
blameless.
The torpedo boat destroyer Peary,
named in honor of the late Rear Ad-
miraI Peary, was launched at the
Cramps shipyard on the eleventh an
niversary of his discovery Of the North
Pole
Patrick Tyrrell, 90 years old, who
was one of the guards about President
Lincoln when the chief executive was
shot, is dead at Chicago. Mr.. Tyrrell
was connected with the secret service
for many years.
A delegation representing six asso-
Citations of war veterans of Canada
presented petition to Acting Premier
Foster for II bonus of $1,000 for every
man who served in France, $1,000 for
service in England, and $1,000 for
service in Canada. The petition had
100000 names.
With their heads badly crushed and
their throats cut five small children
of Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Cowart We're
found dead in tent, in which they
had been making IA temporary home
.l,.l1 .,,iIos, snnth Of ELK CITY Okla