The Colorado statesman., 1920-09-04
FOREIGN


Major Johnstone. justice OF the
peace, was assasslnated at his home
In Londonderry by men who fired
through window The assassins
escaped.
Bolshevist officers taken prisoner by
the Poles say that the Polish army
will not meet serious resistance until
il reaches the line running through the
railroad points of wilma, Ida. Baran-
ovIchy and Lunlniets.
Japan has decided to subsldlze Jap
aneses steamship lines plying to South
America and also to Asiatic and Afri-
can ports, according to advices re-
ceived at Buenos Aires through diplo-
matte channels.
Dispatches from Constantinople re
port the massacre OF 400 Armenlans by
Kurds in Anatolin. The Kurds shot
the men, but the women and children
were locked in a church and burned to
death the dispatches. say.
NJ. Ramadana, rebel chief in the dis
trict of Mesureats, Tripoli, has been de-
feated and killed by government forces,
says a telegram from Tripoli. Two
thousand of the followers OF the rebel
leader also were killed or captured.
A municipal strike has been called
In Cardiff Wales, according to dis
patches received at London. The ceme-
terry workers are affected and the
families OF those dying have had to dig
graves for their dead.
Miss Marion G. Parsons, an Amer
lean Red Cross nurse Of Berkeley,
Calf, has been appointed by the
Czecho-Slovak Red Cross to be direc-
tor of the state school of nursing, ac-
ccrding TO advices. 1t was stated she
will remain in Prague for two years.
Great Britain's external debt on
March 31st, last, amounted to f1,2TT,-
SSS,000, according TO White paper re-
Gently published. OF this amount E1,-
O46, ,774,O00 is due to the United States,
including some small amounts borrow
ed from Continental countries which
have to be paid back in United States
dollars.
Andre Liesse. editor of the financial
journal Economists. published in Paris,
declared in an article that France will
be obliged to import 4,409, ,240,0O0
pounds of breadstuffs, and that the
United States has the largest available
quantity for that purpose. He remarks
France will be able to profit by the
fall in the Chicago wheat market.
GENERAL
Leslie Allen, negro, was shot and
killed near Virgilina, Va, by "a posse
of Halifax county citizens, following
charges that Allen had insuted two
small white girls at Buffalo Springs,
Va.
FOrty-two steamship companies and
freight brokers, including virtually all
the big transatlantic ines, have been
Indicted by the federal grand jury at
New York on charges of conspiracy
and restraint of trade in violation of
the Sherman antitrust law.
Announcement that the gunboat Sac
ramento had been ordered to La Ceiba,
Honduras, ready to protect American
interests If necessary, revealed that Of
ficlals have been watching with grow
ing concern revolutionary movements
developing in several Central American
countries.
Clarence Coombs, alternate pilot of
the Texas Wildcat" one of three
American entries in the international
airplane race, has sailed en- route for
Paris to assist Roland Rohlfs, former
holder of the worlds altitude record, in
"
aviation cup.
The marquis of Blanford and Lord
Ivor Churchill have been left $1,000
600 each by their grandfather, William
X. Vanderbilt, it became known when
a summary OF Mr.. Vanderbilt's will
Duchess of Marlborough. formerly Con-
suelo Vanderbilt.
Plans for making Honduras dry"
are being made by Gen. Lopez Cult
terez, president of the republic, ac-
cording to an announcement received
by DR. Eusebio Toledo, Honduran con-
sui general at New Orleans.
A misstep caused Mrs. Philomena
Mustaci to fall to her death at Chi
cago in the huge bread mixer in her
husbands bakery. The police worked
two hours extracting the body, near
ly every bone in which was broken.
A call for all italians and friends of
Italy" to celebrate "Fiume day." on
September 18th, anniversary of the oc-
cupation of Fiume by D'Annunzio and
his forces, was issued at New York by
Whitney Warren, newly appointed rep
resentative of the D'Annunzio govern
ment in the United states.
Knowing her death was only a mat
ter of hours because of burns received
in an oil explosion, Mrs. John File, II,
of Evansville, Ind, insisted upon
Caesarian operation in the hope of saw